Continued Disdain by the PM for Canadians. I Think the Feeling is Reciprocated.

 

We are into a new week now, and one wonders if this week will see the manifestations of corruption and disdain for Canadians by our Right Honourable Prime Minister exceeding last week’s. Hardly likely because last week’s was excessive. In the past seven days, we had the revelation that the reason the ArriveCan app cost 54 million dollars to build instead of an expected quarter million is that Liberal contractors were awarded the work and then sub-contracted out the tasks to companies that don’t exist or which exist but which did no work for the money paid to them. These are called ghost contractors. Another way that the Liberal government was very liberal with what they bled from taxpayers in favor of their influential friends.

Further, last week our supposedly woke government (a term nowadays used to style people so unaware of reality that we may as well say they are asleep) proscribed prayers and mentions of God from Remembrance Day services. It’s like Trudeau and his accomplices know their days are numbered and want to destroy as much as they can while they can.

There was also was move last week by the Liberal government to choke the life from an RCMP investigation of the PM in regards to his conduct in what has become known as the SNC Lavalin scandal.

Honestly, a cabinet formed by people selected randomly from the residents of the street on which I live would be more useful to the nation than the one that currently is falling through the floor in opinion polls. Speaking of polls, the PM, bless his heart, announced this past week that he will bring relief to the Atlantic provinces from his ill-conceived carbon tax by removing it from heating oil. The other provinces, which wouldn’t vote for him no matter what he does, can whistle in the wind. More corruption. More erosion of what should be solid character.

Could the PM be Right?

 

Recently, Prime Minister Trudeau has maintained that the consensus of nations is wrong: Hamas did not destroy that hospital in Gaza and take 500 lives; Israel did it. After eight years of broken promises, numerous vanity projects (including lately an $8 million barn: see https://nationalpost.com/news/ncc-paid-8-million-to-replace-barn-rideau-hall), fear-mongering, virtue signaling, hiding the truth, an amazing string of scandals, avoiding direct answers to simple questions (which Liberals may think is rather clever of their leader, but which magnifies the general stench of his reputation), and all-around ineptitude, now that Trudeau has declared Israel guilty, it would be easy --- even natural --- to conclude that if he said it, the opposite must be true. Yet, I’m starting to think he may have called it correctly this time. Even a stopped clock tells time correctly twice a day.

The missile seemed to have hit during a missile attack upon Israel, a circumstance that created the sense that an errant missile accidentally exploded by the hospital. President Biden said they need to learn to shoot straight. The damage inflicted by the explosion over the hospital parking lot is outside what Hamas has previously been able to project, and so far as I know, it is very unlike the damage caused by those other missiles that were falling at the same time. It simply does not seem like Hamas’ weapon. Put that with the observation that Israel holds to the doctrine of collection punishment (Palestinians should be punished for being part of a people that support Hamas, which I find to be contrary to the Tanakh, as the Jewish Bible is called), and with Israel’s targeting churches and mosques, and it isn’t a stretch to think that Trudeau may actually be right.

Israel has been threatening to invade Gaza, and yet they have not done so. Part of the problem is that the Israeli military is mainly reservists. Even though Israel has called up over 300,000 of them, people don’t leave their regular jobs and suddenly know how to conduct meter by meter guerilla warfare in an urban area. It takes time to convert their thinking into the killing mode and to teach them basics. Even something simple such as not reflexively reloading a gun when it runs out of ammo, but first seeking the protection of cover so as not to die while reloading, has to be taught and made to be a habit. This takes drills --- doing it over and over until it is reflexive. Even with training, Israeli casualties would be alarming if they launch a ground invasion. Hamas has the cover of ruins Israel has made. Hamas also has the protection of tunnels 200 feet underground. Of course, Israel has thermal weapons that can clear tunnels, but many will die trying to access the openings.

Moreover, an Israeli invasion would result in huge numbers of civilian deaths, easy when Gaza has no military. Even Hamas are civilians. The world --- most of it --- will unite against Israel. The goodwill built with Egypt (Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ran for election with Israeli money, plus Egypt ran Gaza from 1947 to 1973 and is sick of the Palestinians, plus Hamas assassinated Anwar Sadat), with Saudi Arabia (the Abraham accord), with Jordan (sort of a client state of Israel) and many nations further away, will be shattered.

I think Bibi Netanyahu is posturing with threats of invasion. He wants to look strong to avoid losing office so he doesn’t have to face criminal charges. He’s kicking the can down the road.

It is my hope that Palestinians will finally get their own state where they can be first class citizens. Hopefully, emotions will cool --- a big task since what Hamas did on October 7 was medieval and inexcusable --- and Israel will come to see the need for a separate nation for the Palestinians. The need is there. Many people of my age were born in a Palestinian ghetto and have never left it. I am not blaming Israel. It’s a tough problem they have faced, similar to what whites in South Africa faced and tried to resolve with the apartheid policy. There are no simple answers, but there is the least of the evils, which I think is a Palestinian homeland.

Bill Gates Distancing Himself from Climate Activism

 

I have always been suspicious of climate activism, and I see that now, Bill Gates, who seemed to be a convert, is now backing away. (See https://events-c.mp.paradigmpressgroup.com/z/9d39lxvrd?uid=9e15420b-cc79-4aae-9b8c-869b8a88d3a8&txnid=f1b5d0a4-b78f-4911-8c51-3e3b40ec1adf&mid=d00a7aa7-0cc1-4499-be90-41a9e8b42306&utid=9e15420b-cc79-4aae-9b8c-869b8a88d3a8-000054003495&bsft_ek=2023-10-02T14%3A45%3A45Z&pk=2692b0b80d4b10423477bcdc272b227d&utm_campaign=AWN_ALERT_10.02.23_%285_Links%29&vid2=9912cd5854231664a05108f3b511d5eb167b9d2b4bc2bc3eef1620c0b587b5ccdef7e7e6ec5779ae2e6e5986e54ed2f6&bsft_mime_type=html&bsft_tv=2&bsft_lx=7).

I am glad to see it. Climate models don’t even backtest correctly, so what is their utility as predictive tools? There are just too many variables and not enough computing power for there to be reliably effective predictive climate software. 

How many decades has it been since climate alarmists first warned us that the world is done for in 10 years? And they have been consistent in that warning decade after decade.  Unhappily, their errors have been politicized and weaponized by elected scoundrels who arrogantly think they know how to fix this fake issue. Yes, climate is changing, as it always has, but there is nothing man can do to stop it. The appropriate response is to adapt rather than to misallocate resources, thereby impoverishing people, to in a pointless and harmful effort to fix the unfixable.