Tag: Carbon Cult
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Is Elon more efficient than SS?
This 1962 educational film about Social Security is a nicely produced story, by educational film standards anyway. It tells about SS by following a young reporter who visits the administration with her grandpa, to see how SS works for young people and old people. At one point the film mentions that modern computers enable SSA…
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Shared Lie on coal
This item by Ruan Steyn, an energy realist, is a sharp surprise and a strong reminder that coal is FAR from dead, even in the US. The reminder is needed because everyone on both sides tells us that coal is gone. The Gaian side loves the lie and the pro-energy side (INCLUDING ME) hates the…
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Easy to see, hard to see
Random thought that seems pretty good at the moment. Our main problem now is not monopolies on selling, it’s monopolies on buying. (Yes, I know it’s called a monopsony, but that’s an Economist Word and I won’t use it.) A monopoly on buying is unfamiliar because most people don’t experience it. It only affects the…
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Canada keeps doing the right thing
New PM Mark Carney is enacting some changes immediately to aid Canada’s industry and consumers. He’s repealing the destructive Carbon Tax. Carney is a pure bankster and WEFoid, and he strongly supported the Carbon nonsense before, but now he’s getting rid of it. Commentators point out that Carney won’t necessarily be in office for long;…
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Judge doing his job for once!
JUDGE Alsup of the District Court in Calif has summarily ordered the Elon administration to retract its firing of all federal workers. Alsup is the only JUDGE. He knows the law and applies the law, no matter which side wins. JUDGE Alsup blocked Green loonies when they broke the law, and he blocks Elon when…
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Don’t spoil a good thing
A grammarian type on Substack is complaining that da yoots are calling LP records “vinyls”. I used to worry about such things because I’m a natural proofreader, and I used to “correct” people. I finally learned to stop. “Correction” is ALWAYS counterproductive. It doesn’t work and it only irritates the pig. You can’t apply logic…
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What would it be like?
This 1959 union film focused on plumbers and pipefitters who were training to build the pipes for nuclear reactors. Atomic power was the clean future, the reliable source of non-polluting electricity. The National Assn of Manufacturers films from that era shared the atomic dream, with more emphasis on profits and less on wages. The shared…
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ASTONISHING!
The supremes did the right thing for goddamn once! The city of San Francisco, heartland of Gaian loonies, has been carefully following the original rules for controlling sewer outflows into the ocean. The original 1972 environmental rules are mostly good, mostly restriction of truly nasty stuff like lead and sulfur dioxide. The crazy shit came…
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Thanks to weather gods and weather bureau
Speaking of dissipating clouds, we’ve been getting BLESSEDLY NICE WEATHER for a couple weeks now, after a supercold and nasty month. Clear skies, lows around 30, highs in the 50s. Thanks, weather gods! The local weather bureau shows a neat animation of satellite views. You can see the broad snowcover on most of the western…
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Populism for others
Trump is doing good POPULIST things for other countries, but so far not doing anything new for this country. He forced Canada and Mexico to become populist, to start serving their OWN interests instead of serving Bezos and Fink. Both countries are abandoning the Gaian demonic religion in order to give JOBS and PROFITS to…
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Brutalist typography
This 1970s film is teaching journalism students about proper design. It’s unapologetically brutalist, in the same denaturing spirit as Corbusier in architecture or Cage in music. Remove all beauty. Remove all decorations. Remove all variation and improvisation. Only stark colorless rectangles are allowed. Replace it with squared-off type masses… Short words, short sentences and short…
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Long overdue
In previous item I noted that CKWX in Vancouver was using a British Anglia truck for its remote broadcasts in 1953. Canada was still close to the Commonwealth. In 1965 the first “free trade” treaty began the process of dismantling Canadian sovereignty and pulling Canada away from the Sovereign. Here’s the CKWX truck in 1966:…
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Utter lunacy
Our “city” “government” has been unspeakably corrupt and incompetent for at least 30 years. It steadfastly refuses to take care of real problems, instead pouring money and effort into bizarre insane symbolic hypershit that nobody needs or wants except the alleged “council” and so-called alleged “mayor”. Latest example, quoted in full: = = = =…
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Following the Cuban model?
Canada seems to be picking up the old Cuba/Persia/Russia attitude. When the US empire sanctions you, DEVELOP YOUR OWN SKILLS so the US monster will have less leverage and less damage. Canada’s officials seem to recognize that Trump is the most unpredictable disaster in the world, so they aren’t counting on his reprieve. Instead, they’re…
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Amazingly good
Trudeau’s response to Trump’s pointless lunacy is pretty damn good. He starts with a history of Canada and US working on the same side in wars and crises. He actually understated Canada’s WW2 contribution, since Canada started fighting a year earlier. Then he talks about the shared economy, missing the earlier period when Canada was…
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