 February 15, 2025Michael James is a widely published journalist who lives in New York. He posted the following on Facebook and I think it is worth repeating. OK, HELLO WORLD…For most of my adult life, I worked as a journalist in this country and credibly, factually, told the public thousands of stories at the Detroit News, New York Daily News and as head writer for a TV show on ESPN. None of the stories I have ever written is more important than the one I am writing now.If you will indulge me a lack of brevity this one time, I will explain.It begins with the three times I realized that the safety and security we so prize here in the United States of America is an illusion. It’s not and never was true. It doesn’t exist. We only believed it did. The first time I realized it was in the aftermath of 9/11. After I witnessed the World Trade Center towers crumble before my eyes little more than a mile from my New York City apartment, authorities posted police with automatic weapons and huge American flags at the entrance to every bridge and tunnel in the city.We felt safe seeing those images, but each time I ventured through those tunnels and over those bridges, I had a question:”What’s stopping that truck in front of me from being laden down with fertilizer and explosives? Who knows what’s in the trunk of every car in front and back of me?”We weren’t safe at all. Terrorists just didn’t decide to blow us all to hell. The second time I realized there is no such thing as safety and security came when Donald Trump promised building a wall at the Southern border to keep illegals out.I thought, “Mexicans are renowned for building tunnels from Mexico directly to homes on the U.S. side in Texas and California to smuggle in people and drugs. How can a wall prevent that?”A wall could not make us safe at all. We only believed it could. The third time I realized safety and security is an illusion was on January 6th, 2021, when Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters overran the United States Capitol – the seat of power of the US government – injuring law enforcement officers and defacing the offices of cowering, terrified duly elected lawmakers. The ease with which they penetrated our most sacred symbols of the rule of law and order in America showed me that if this could be done by only a few thousand mostly-unarmed citizens, there really is no such thing as safety and security in this country. We only believed there was. The final time I realized there is no safety and security in the United States of America has come in the last three weeks, or rather, since Donald Trump returned to The White House. Under the guise of weeding out corruption and with South African-born Elon Musk as the tip of the spear, Donald Trump and his Republican confederates have turned every facet of American government upside down, installed inexperienced and unqualified loyalists in positions of power in every sector of government and thrown thousands of hard-working Americans – many of whom voted for him – out into the streets. While stunned, outnumbered Democrats were frozen to inaction, Trump, through executive order, made laws, changed laws and ignored orders from courts to stop in his tracks. While those of us who opposed him screamed that his actions and those of Elon Musk were tantamount to creating a fascist government and a dictatorship, we were only partially right. See, people, Trump’s dictatorship has already begun. It is HERE. It is NOW. For those who don’t believe this is true, what we all missed while focusing on the flood of executive orders and bizarre musings of taking over the Gaza Strip, annexing Canada as the 51st state against their will, purchasing Greenland to rename it Red, White and Blueland and taking over the Panama Canal is this: Trump was merely testing the waters to see how much power and authority he truly had. The final step in his plan will be to ignore any and all court challenges aimed at stopping him. What should be clear to you now is that there was really only one barrier to Donald Trump taking over this country and remaking it in his image: The fact that the only thing that has kept our democracy in place since it was written in 1787 is a piece of paper called the U.S. constitution. That constitution only works if our politicians RESPECT the power within, the rule of law. Donald Trump clearly does not respect the constitution as have all other United States presidents before him. Worse, without respect for the Constitution and our laws, THERE IS NO AUTHORITY LEFT TO STOP HIM. There is no police force who can reign Trump in. There is no military to reign Trump in. There are no lawmakers or judges to reign Trump in. And soon, as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer declared recently during a speech at Miami Dade College, Donald Trump will refuse to comply with all orders of the court – and his takeover will be complete – for there is no authority remaining to police him. Like Sotomayer, the American Bar Association just released a statement declaring that, “Trump is not following the rule of law.”Now, the reason why the ABA sounds like a kid screaming, “Charlie hit me!” is because they’ve reached the conclusion that there is nothing they can do about Trump not following the rule of law. This has never happened before in the history of this country, but it IS happening now. Hey, America, hey World, you can call it a monarchy, or fascism or a totalitarian government or a dictatorship, but whatever you call it, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are the law of the land now. Don’t believe me? The 1,500 January 6th rioters who were tried and convicted in federal courts?Trump freed them. On Day 1. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was brought up on corruption charges after a decade-long investigation?He cozied up to Trump, who order his Department of Justice to drop the charges. If that’s not enough, I think Donald Trump has one more trick up his sleeve, as I predict he is being lobbied at this very moment to grant clemency to an old friend who has been accused of pedophilia, drugging and raping male and female victims, physically assaulting others and possibly sanctioning numerous murders over the past 30 years. So what, pray tell, will you say when Donald Trump pardons Sean Diddy Combs? The lyrics to that song you sang in grade school has changed, folks: This land is NOT your land. This land is NOT my land. NOT from California. NOT to the New York Islands. NOT from the Redwood Forest NOR to the Gulf of America waters This land belongs to Trump and E. In less than a month back in office, all of the checks and balances have been removed. Republicans control the house and the senate. Every cabinet pick Trump proposes will be confirmed. No decision he makes, whether it’s instructing the Treasury Department to stop making the penny or bringing back the plastic straw, is being denied. While his supporters cheer his every move, they have yet to see the cost cuts Elon Musk and his team of hackers make under cover of darkness are hurting American farmers, American workers and those in the poorest red states in the country who voted for him. For them, and us, it’s already too late to realize it’s too late. If you saw Musk recently in the oval office with his young son holding court while Trump sat idly by, you should have realized the richest man in the world controls the supposed most powerful man in the world. Only Elon Musk is holding Elon Musk accountable and Trump – who is likely paying Musk back for whatever he did to help him take the 2024 election – is allowing it to happen. As you read these words, it is likely that Elon Musk has already had his hackers place back doors into every major computer system across the US government, which gives him the power to shut down any program he chooses at any time on an app while sitting in the driver’s seat of his Tesla. For those in the back or in the nosebleed section or under a rock, let me say it again: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are the law of the land. Today. Right now. The United States of America is no longer a democracy. We are now a dictatorship. In closing, let me say that I don’t believe in presenting problems without offering solutions. There IS something we can do to fight this takeover and resist this bloodless coup that has stripped away the sense of freedom we have known all of our lives – but it will require of us a resolve and action most of us have never known or shown. It will require us to unite, fight, stand up, risk our lives and our liberty – because one thing dictators have never fully understood is that THE PEOPLE truly are the power. Think of it this way: if we don’t want the price of an automobile in America to be $50,000, well, if nobody buys those cars, there won’t be a $50,000 car in America. With that in mind, should Elon Musk and Donald Trump try to dump hundreds of thousands of federal employees out into the streets, simply refuse to leave. If forced from your offices, show up to work en masse the next day – and every day after – and make sure NOBODY goes into those offices. If Trump’s new Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth makes a demand of the 3.5 million workers he now oversees, what can he possibly do if they disobey in the name of American democracy? The same goes for new national security director Tulsi Gabbard, who has never worked in security or run a department of ANY kind. The same goes for new Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, new Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – or any other Trump appointee. None of these figureheads – not even Trump himself – can do anything without our complicity. Lastly, this battle is only just beginning. You must protect your physical and mental well-being. You don’t have the time or energy to fight meaningless squabbles on social media against Trump’s MAGA sycophants who believe every narrative they sell. No matter if they are friends or family or casual acquaintances on social media, SILENCE THEIR VOICES and influence. Block, snooze, delete or ignore them.For me, the purge begins TODAY! I’d love to tell the people going away that it isn’t personal, but their blind belief system is a direct threat to me, my friends, family, neighbors, fellow Americans, Canadians, Palestinians, and, well, you get the picture trust what your eyes and ears are telling you. Hope that they will catch up and join our fight against this power virus threatening our country and the world. Lastly, remember the words of philosopher Bertrand Russell, who said roughly this of how fascism begins: “First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent. “If you’ve gotten this far, it’s because you’re not a fool. We got here because all of our lives we believed in that concept devised by our founding fathers of “We The People.” Well, the only way out from under the megalomania of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their collaborators is to make every day January 6th.If you feel so moved, please share my post. If not, please act in some way. We need all hands on deck.If we want our democracy back, starting today, starting now, we must BE THE PEOPLE. |
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The Incredible perfidy of a Canadian Minister
The Honourable Steven Guilbeault
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
MP for Laurier – ST Marie
19th December 2024
From Blacklock’s Reporter
“Climate change targets will cost Canadian electrical utilities about two thirds of a trillion dollars,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said yesterday. Guilbeault in a legal notice said the country had no choice but to stop burning fossil fuels for electricity.
“Climate change is a growing threat to Canada and the world,” said a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement issued by Guilbeault. “We are already seeing the costs.”
Well, Minister, when are you going to face the truth and stop selling these lies to help promote another international hoax?
I have asked you to define net zero and you clearly cannot.
I have asked you how we will get our oxygen to breathe and stay alive if you manage this absurd goal? Again, you have no idea.
I have asked you where you will get all the new hydro from, and you have no idea.
I have asked you how you will get thousands, if not millions, of miles of new hydro lines all over the country to transmit your 100% electricity mode and how you will protect them from winter damage or summer heat, and you have absolutely no idea.
I have asked you how you are going to electrify the railroads across the country, whether it will be by overhead lines or a third rail? And how you will protect either from the Canadian winters? Again, you have no idea.
All this is bad enough but you still claim the climate changes we are seeing are man made, which any REAL scientist will tell you is false.
The climate on this planet has changed many, many times over the span of the millions of years since it was created, and human behaviour had absolutely nothing to do with it then and it does not now. Pollution yes, climate change NO.
Your job is not to spread fake news and asinine ideas to deal with that fake news, but instead to find ways to deal with what is coming as surely as the sun will rise in the morning, and to help the world (Canadians too) to figure out how to survive what is coming. At least it is a gradual change.
If you cannot do this then at least concentrate on the environment side of your job and do something about the poisoning of our land, water and sky. That you can do something about instead of simply ignoring it.
From the Maple
by Jeremy Appel
December 10, 2024
In the final year of its third term, the Liberal government has a series of significant climate policies in the works aimed at getting Canada to net zero by 2050.
When he announced the emissions cap framework, Guilbeault explicitly raised the prospect of a Poilievre government bringing down not only that specific measure, but the entire edifice of the Liberals’ climate policy.
“It’s not just the cap that is at risk,” said Guilbeault in December 2023. “The Conservative Party of Canada (and) Pierre Poilievre don’t seem to be willing or able or capable to understand that pollution kills people in Canada.”
This is what prompted my last request, but you too seem to have forgotten that the environment is your port folio as well and that the environment is dangerous because of all the toxic chemicals you are allowing to be put into our waters, land and air, while you are only interested in depleting the life giving CO2.
(Perhaps you could also advise Mr. Van Koeverden, who definitely understands water very well, that CO2 is actually a plant food not a conservative disinformation hoax as I heard him say in the House of Ill Repute. By the way I am the only one in 4 generations who does not have a university degree in one form of botany or another.)
If this government falls your legacy will be one of dishonest failure and I don’t think you want that.
Have a great Christmas break and please come back with some real ideas instead of following the ignorant crowd.
Jeremy Arney
Oral Questions in Canadian House of Ill Repute
I follow QP on CPAC and as a result see and then read the following day in Hansard some of the most blatant untruths from a PM who actually in my opinion should not even be a teacher in any subject at any level at any school.
For example, 23rd October 2024. I have not included the questions just the lies, and a comment or two:
1434…..”That being said, we will always defend the fundamental freedoms of all Canadians. That includes children, who have the right to be educated in a way that is consistent with our values as Quebeckers and Canadians.”
Always defend fundamental freedoms of anyone in Canada? Hah!
“We will continue to be there to fight climate change”
The Millions of years of climate changes are not affected by the pathetic efforts of humans to reduce CO2, the life giving gas.
“Parliamentary Budget Officer have indicated that lowering inflation has made it easier on Canadians,”
reducing inflation does not reduce prices, it simply slows their rate of increase.
……”quite frankly, none of them have any issue with a member on their front bench dining with a neo-Nazi”.
Meanwhile one has to question his relationship with the Jewish Neo-Nazi ex-president of Ukraine whom he visits frequently all over the world at taxpayers’ expense, and of course pays him large amounts of Canadian taxpayers’ money to buy houses all over the warm world.
“Parliamentary Budget Officer is that the Canada carbon rebate puts more money in the pockets of Canadian families than it costs them in the federal price on pollution. That is exactly what the Leader of the Opposition wants to cut. He wants to cut affordability for Canadians. He wants to cut the fight against climate change. That is not how we build a strong future.”
I have yet to get an answer to my question: “What is the point of paying more in rebates than is collected in the tax being rebated?” I will ignore the comment of Climate change as that is a hoax on par with the Covid-19 hoax. I have yet to receive even one penny rebate for the carbon tax I pay, but maybe that’s because I am an old man living in BC.
“a situation not dissimilar to many advanced democracies around the world”.
Ok Trudeau, I challenge you to name me one real democracy, never mind an advanced one, in the world? Iceland maybe?
“Mr. Speaker, our government will always defend the fundamental rights of all Canadians. It is a principle that drives us as a party, but also drives us as a country.
We are very concerned about the children who are going through unacceptable and painful experiences at school. That is why we expect the Government of Quebec to address this. In the meantime, we will always defend the fundamental freedoms of all Canadians.”
Once again fundamental freedoms of Canadians are not something this Government acknowledges as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was shredded a few years ago in order to coerce toxic and untested jabs into peoples’ arms.
“We will always stand up for cultural diversity and coexistence at home, and we will defend the rights, freedoms and protection of children every step of the way.”
See above comment.
“The Bank of Canada just reduced interest rates, because inflation is now down to low inflation once again. We are managing this country responsibly.”
Repeating: , reducing inflation does not reduce prices, it simply slows their rate of increase.
“He is offering to take away the Canada carbon rebate, which is putting more money in their pockets and fighting climate change successfully while it grows the economy”.
But climate change is still taking place at a rate even slower than an almost dead snail unaffected by the CO2 which he wants to remove from the atmosphere thereby killing life on earth. Perhaps if pollution was tackled instead of CO2 there would be great benefit to the earth; but no, if pesticides, GMO seeds, toxic fertilizers (Agen Orange) mining spills, industrial waste into rivers and seas etc., were tackled then there would be an improvement. It would also give the earth a chance to remake soil to replace that which has been turned into inarable dirt.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8dF0agJEk
“Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, the global community is shocked. This week, Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir called for Gaza to be emptied of Palestinians. He also called for expanding illegal settlements in Gaza. In fact, his colleague Minister Smotrich said that starving civilians is justified. It is shameful.
Enough is enough. What will it take for the Prime Minister to impose severe sanctions on Netanyahu and his extremist ministers?
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, the violence in the Middle East needs to end. It cannot continue to see civilians killed, innocents wiped out and communities destroyed. We need to make sure there is a ceasefire in Gaza and in Lebanon. We need to see the path once again toward a two-state solution where a peaceful Israel lives alongside a peaceful Palestinian state. That is Canada’s position. (BS)
That continues to be what we fight for every single day to bring a global consensus together to protect lives, to get humanitarian aid in, to release hostages and to end this conflict once and for all”
. So why are we still saying Israel has the right to defend itself when very clearly, they are making war not only on Gaza, the West Bank but also now Lebanon which is the opposite of defense.? Why are we still offering unwavering support and providing arms to a country that has no interest in anything we think or say, but loves what we do in giving them the means to continue their slaughter? The answer I think lies in the fact that the Zionist lobby has even more control over our government than does the WEF and that is saying something.
“Mr. Speaker, as a former teacher, I can say how essential it is to protect our children, as well as the values of openness and freedom that we uphold. This is our responsibility as a country”.
Openness and Freedom eh? Both promised in 2015 but as usual from this PM, meaningless promises.
So I think you s can see why an old man is disgusted, disillusioned, and often depressed by the goings on in Ottawa, yet I have hope that eventually sense will prevail.
Canadian Government Hypocrisy
The Honourable Melanie Joly
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
WEF Devotee
MP for Ahuntsic-Cartierville
15 April 2024
I have been trying to find anything that either Trudeau or you said about the Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, and I regret that I could not find even a single word, never mind one of condemnation. Perhaps you both have your heads so buried in the sand that you did not even notice such a deliberate attack against an embassy.
It would be charitable to think so, but I know I am mistaken in that thought.
As a watcher on CPAC I saw you today in your asinine talk to the press gallery about the middle east, really an Iranian rant.
An Israeli attack on an Iranian embassy in Damascus killing 16 people inside it, (and blowing out the windows of our embassy) is not even worth a mention by you or this government even though it is contrary to all international laws. But a display of rockets aimed at military targets and meant to test the defense system of Israel and cost them quite a chunk of change and which killed NOBODY caused you all to lose your twisted minds.
You and Trudeau do not speak for Canadians, you speak on behalf of the Jewish lobby in Canada and the WEF. Thus, we are tarred with a brush of your choosing not ours.
This unwavering support of the most obnoxious people in the world is unworthy of Canada, and I am sure it only happens because of your terror of the Jewish lobby here.
You announced that you are flying to Italy tonight and I hope you make it very clear that you do not represent the people of Canada, but you can speak for the Canadian Jewish Lobby.
The governmental reaction to this mess sickens me and I cannot condone it, agree with it or support it.
Jeremy Arney
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless and corrupt.” Mahatma Ghandi
The unelected “WHO” and it’s ridiculous attempt to take over the world.
The Honourable Melanie Joly Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Honourable Arif Virani Attorney General and Justice Minister
The Honourable Anita Anand Treasury Board
The Honourable Mark Holland Minister of Health
The Honourable Pascale St-Orange Minister of Canadian Heritage
5th April 2024
Ladies and gentlemen,
As members of the cabinet of the current Canadian government, you must be aware that the 77th World Health Assembly is set to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, May 27-June 1.
The subject is all about the WHO’s International Health Treaty that is supposed to be binding under international law. Quite apart from the obvious fact that international law is not being abided by at this time by multiple partners (including Canada), to have an unelected privately owned entity try to assume dominion over the world is somewhat ridiculous even by this Canadian Government’s standards.
The basic agreement has some logic to it as to possible “recommended” actions promoted by real scientist and doctors, but the amendments or regulations, just as in every piece of Canadian law, are very much against the people of any country foolish enough to sign, since they change the entire concept of the law or in this case treaty, instead setting up mandates..
From :
(So much more reliable than the Canadian mainstream propaganda outlets)
“If you don’t pay attention to anything else, you must pay attention to Article 18 of the IHR amendments,” Lindley said.
According to Article 18 of the proposed IHR amendments, “Recommendations issued by WHO to States Parties with respect to persons may include the following advice”:
- Review proof of medical examination and any laboratory analysis.
- Require medical examinations.
- Review proof of vaccination or other prophylaxis.
- Require vaccination or other prophylaxis.
- Place suspect persons under public health observation.
- Implement quarantine or other health measures for suspect persons.
- Implement isolation and treatment where necessary of affected persons.
- Implement tracing of contacts of suspect or affected persons.
- Refuse entry of suspect and affected persons.
- Refuse entry of unaffected persons to affected areas.
- Implement exit screening and/or restrictions on persons from affected areas.
“Even more troubling,” Roguski said, are proposed amendments to Annex 6 which “empower the WHO to be the sole authority empowered to determine which ‘vaccines’ or other prophylaxis would be deemed to be acceptable for international travel.”
So where is Canada going to stand on this?
With the WHO (and WEF) or with the Canadian people whose almost ruined healthcare system will be destroyed by such a “treaty”.
The eagerness, willingness and false earnestness the Prime Minister showed in creating fear – almost panic – among Canadians ever day for months over a fake event but to his eventual financial gain (through his family foundation and Aquitas) should have taught us something, but apparently not. Fear, hate speech and coercion were the order of the day, and we are being asked to go there again but next time by the WHO.
We will have fewer doctors as many of those who submitted the covid plandemic orders because their provincial professional colleges coerced them to, may well object to another unelected overseas entity telling them what they can and cannot do or say. Nurses and health practitioners of all stripes may well join in because their oath is also “to do no harm” and then we will truly see people die off here in Canada. It is to be regretted that Canadian politicians pledge an oath to a foreign king rather than the people of Canada who they are supposed to represent.
What about those Canadian people? Do we fit into this picture in your vision at all?
We do not have Democracy in Canada,
We have no Rule of Law in Canada,
We do not have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada that is recognized by this government.
Are you willing to give away our sovereignty as well?
Once again, I state that I do not agree with or give my consent to the government of Canada giving these sovereign rights to an unelected, privately sponsored international entity (WHO), and I have no intention of submitting to it’s current or future dictates.
“ I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind ”― John G. Diefenbaker (The 13th prime minister of Canada)
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