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🇺🇸🇨🇦 CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE under Mark Carney — Updated, with receipts 🧾 📍 Honda Alliston, ON → EV assembly and battery SUSPENDED — CR-V output moved to the U.S. 📍 Stellantis Brampton, ON → IDLED — Jeep Compass moved to Illinois, about 3,000 out, plant up for sale 📍...

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@MarkJCarney Fantastic appraisal Very well done The facts / data do not lie This is not managed decline It’s accelerated decline under Carney / libera de- industrialisation And move to dependence on China Carney’s global reset / diversification To China

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@MarkJCarney It’s hard to diversify to China when your bread and butter businesses with high paying jobs walk south of the border first. Thanks

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@MarkJCarney Agree Any business man knows you must protect all existing business to Give you the platform to diversify This is not diversification/ its surrender The liberal 10 year destruction of Canada … God be with you guys !

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John Nelsonvor 1 Tag

@MarkJCarney As an American of Swedish decent, I hope you guys do well out there too. I’ve concerned for years about what has been going on in the homeland.

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@MarkJCarney Wow That's a lot of jobs gone. For what ? Orange man bad....NWO ...DAVOS Elites in England writing our future We are to nieve to even question it ... Sad .

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Mikevor 1 Tag

@MarkJCarney We need to have the Boeing company withdrawal, Boeing of Canada manufacturing and jobs back in the United States

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🇺🇸🇨🇦 Look at Bombardier too. The piece the U.S. can actually pick up is not the whole company. It is the work already sitting here, plus the packages that fly south empty. Wings for the Global 7500 and 8000 are built in Red Oak, Texas. Flight-control parts are made in Moorpark, California, then finished in Texas. Wichita is the U.S. headquarters: defense mods, flight test, and service, with about 1,200 people and a U.S. Air Force contract near $465 million. Bombardier already has about 3,500 U.S. employees and spends roughly $2.5 billion a year with nearly 2,800 suppliers in 47 states. Engines and avionics are American. What is still north of the border is final assembly and the cabin. Globals are put together at the Pearson plant in Mississauga, then flown to Montreal for completion. Challengers are assembled and finished in the Montreal area. Rear fuselages come out of Queretaro. That is the movable work: completion first, then assembly if the U.S. market stays about 55% of sales. The Pearson line opened in 2024. It is not an idle Quebec plant waiting to be collected either. The U.S. should put the bit on that company too.

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Onelinervor 23 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Trump will crush him...

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Q+589vor 23 Stunden

@MarkJCarney I bet you the beta man next to Trump had the most embarracing time of his life, 47 nailed him to the wall. Trump broke MC vagina that they, just imagine the good people of Canada how they feel having a weak beta man running their beautiful country.

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@MarkJCarney All brought to you by the W.E.F. inserted Hunchback Prime Minister, Carney, the liberal party and the push to the One World Order .. I truly hope central and eastern Canada are happy with their magnificently stupid voting choices worked out for them.

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@MarkJCarney Carney is NOT the choice of the Canadian people and should be removed asap

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@MarkJCarney I support President Trump.

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@MarkJCarney Canadians will have to unite and fight for their freedom, they are approaching communism. That’s the plan to have a communist country next to United States. They are so wrong they wil lose big.

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Jackpeedvor 22 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Trump is right.

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Mike from Michiganvor 22 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Whenever Trump says, why are we doing this? What he's really doing is pointing out corruption!

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@MarkJCarney AND don’t think Canada is becoming the “NAFTA” 51st state. Go back to England and your King.! No LOYALISTS coming back here with their 3 rd world baggage.

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@MarkJCarney 100% agree with Trump. Time to stop subsidizing other countries let’s keep our wealth home . No more benefiting from us while our own people struggle with high bills and debts . US first . We should do the same with manufacturing in China(in progress) ,India , Vietnam etc.

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@MarkJCarney I dont want to protect canada. They have able body men. Let them do it

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Davidvor 20 Stunden

@MarkJCarney .@gator_gum any word? Wanna dispute these facts? Or are you just gonna blame Trump, as per usual Is this trumps fault, too? ⬇️ - you fucking cunt

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@MarkJCarney Problem with Canada, need to get rid of unelected Senate, get rid Governor General. Rideau Hall Governor Chenerals house sits on over 80 Acres of land in middle of Ottawa, worth Billions. See what unelected Senate costs for 1 year Scary

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Seanvor 19 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Watching Carney squirm is hilarious

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Jerry Coffeevor 1 Tag

@MarkJCarney and yet still no deal.. crazy eh!! if we’re not making ford cars in canada, why would anyone buy one? might as well buy chinese cars, much better quality at half the price ..

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🇺🇸🇨🇦 Canadians are not the customer that matters. About 90 percent of the vehicles built in Canada are shipped to the United States. Domestic sales are the leftover, not the business. A buyer switching to a Chinese car does not keep Brampton, Ingersoll, or Alliston open. Those plants were sized for the U.S. market. Canada does not have the volume to support the assembly footprint that sits there. That is why the work moves to the customer.

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@MarkJCarney trump will not allow those cars to be sold in the usa any more.. so where do you go from there

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John Nelsonvor 1 Tag

We don’t go anywhere, those businesses simply repatriate to the US due to the high costs of the tariffs. Auto tariffs are only 25% from the U.S. They go up to 50% on January 1st if no deal is made by then. 50% tariffs effectively shutdown most if not all auto manufacturing in a matter of weeks. None of those jobs will remain in Canada if that happens. This is what asset stripping looks like.

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@MarkJCarney at 25% tariffs they’re effectively shut down so what’s the deal? We are going to shut down your industry but we still want preferred access to oil, potash and rare earth? Is that the deal canada is supposed to sign? and be happy about?

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🇺🇸🇨🇦 No one is claiming Canada walks away happy. The tariffs and the product bans already took that off the table. The question is how long the job losses run before Ottawa treats them as the terms. Twenty-five percent is not a shutdown. It still leaves some transaction. Some production can keep selling into the United States while one of two things happens: Canada finds other buyers, or the plant moves south at the next retool. That window is about one to three years. Fifty percent tariffs is the other case. There is no business left to transact, only a relocation. Oil, potash, and rare earth are not a consolation prize attached to a dead auto sector. They are a separate issue with their own Canadian industry and jobs attached to them. The deal is an offer is it not required to provide happiness either. It is whether the plants that remain move on a schedule or in a panic. Again, “Elbows Up” logic implies they have everything ready to switch to another customer in a four weeks. The U.S. says we buy 90% of your autos already, let’s build them at home instead. Let’s see who wins this battle.

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@MarkJCarney TRUTOLD HIM STRAIGHT TO HIS FACE. IT'S AMERICA FIRST NOW

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Davevor 21 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Great job more job mirgating back to the USA.

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Thomas Lynchvor 19 Stunden

@MarkJCarney This is what Carney’s bosses at the WEF want. He’s following orders.

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The Formula Captainvor 21 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Trump has set this FOOL up Decently!

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@MarkJCarney holy fuck carney has fucked canada for life

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BourbonTherapyvor 1 Tag

@MarkJCarney While China win 😔

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James “BOjackson” Svor 20 Stunden

@MarkJCarney The coward globalist Mark Carney looks very weak here.

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T.J Miller ®️vor 21 Stunden

@MarkJCarney Climate Change Net Zero Carbon Tax Carney is a total disaster for working class Canadians. Sent from European blue bloods to strip whats left of the country down to the studs. #cdnpoli

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Starbreakervor 23 Stunden

@MarkJCarney She was quite smitten as she drew near to a real man.

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Arlenevor 1 Tag

@MarkJCarney Trump?

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John Nelsonvor 1 Tag

@MarkJCarney Canada’s economy is a ticking time bomb. Quite a bit of it is exposed for a U.S. transfer due to tariffs.

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@MarkJCarney They really treated their truck drivers like shit!!

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@MarkJCarney The Canadian retards that still support Liberals are so retarded they'll blame 12 years of their Party's total failure and complete destruction on 1 year of Trump. A naive people brainwashed into total retardation by state sponsored WEF globalist regime media. #cdnpoli

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@MarkJCarney Let them get friends like france

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@MarkJCarney You know exactly what this dick head is actually thinking… “fuck he’s so right… I think I lost this one” 🤣😂🤣😂

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There might also be a middle conclusion where the battery is nearly as good as they claim, but when you ramp up production, other problems arise, such as scrap, which has been the undoing of another company that recently tried screenprinting batteries. Who knows? But it sounds like we should find out soon. Within weeks, we should get independent verifications of the specs. Then the bikes get delivered within months. You can fake a presentation, but there are things you can’t fake.

Owen Gregorian

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🚨 Breaking Texas - Action Alert! Yasir Qadhi Responds – And Lets Texas Know: The Islamization of America Is “UNSTOPPABLE” 🚨 During what is supposed to be one of the holiest, most reflective periods in Islam—Ramadan—EPIC’s Yasir Qadhi took the stage not for peace, not for prayer, but to deliver what seems to be a political declaration of war. And his timing is no accident. Just weeks after our bombshell exposé exposed his ideological empire and blew the lid off the Sharia-style EPIC City project, Qadhi fired back—on camera, from the pulpit, under the dome of the East Plano Islamic Center—with a message aimed squarely at Texas officials, investigators, and concerned citizens: 🔊 “We are doing what we’re allowed to do… and we WILL continue to do so.” This was not a sermon. It was a defiant statement to Texans: You can’t stop us. For months, EPIC City crept forward—using shell LLCs, religious zoning tricks, and manipulation of local councils. RAIR exposed the truth. And the backlash was immediate: State investigations launched, criminal probes opened, and Texans started asking hard questions. But rather than backing down, Qadhi doubled down AGAIN. In his speech: ⚠️ He declared Muslims will not accept “second-class citizenship” ⚠️ He dismissed criticism of mosque developments as “racism” and “Islamophobia” ⚠️ He invoked Palestine as a rallying cry for Islamic defiance in America ⚠️ He replaced the biblical Jesus with the Islamic version, claiming: “We are the true followers of Jesus and Muhammad” 👉 These aren’t calls for justice—they’re weapons of deflection and dominance. Qadhi smears truth as hate, rebrands political control as civil rights, and uses emotionally charged terms like “Islamophobia” to shut down legitimate scrutiny. And his claim to “Jesus” isn’t about unity—it’s a theological hijacking. 👉 Let that sink in: Qadhi erased Christ’s divinity, denied the crucifixion, and elevated Muhammad above the Son of God—all while standing on American soil, under First Amendment protections. The Jesus he promotes isn’t the Savior of Christians, but a politicized tool of Sharia, stripped of the cross and reimagined to serve Islamic supremacy. 💥 This isn’t coexistence—it’s ideological conquest. Yasir Qadhi made it crystal clear: Islam will use America’s Constitution until it no longer needs it. Sharia is not a private belief system—it's a legal-political system incompatible with Western freedoms. And the movement behind EPIC City isn’t about faith—it’s about control. 📣 TEXANS: IT’S TIME TO SHOW UP. 📍 March 31, 2025 – A Public Town Hall on EPIC City will be held by Collin County Judge Chris Hill ⏰ The hearing was quietly scheduled during the workday—don’t let them shut you out 📍 Location: Collin County Courthouse Your voice matters. Your presence matters. 🔗 Read my full investigation, and see why this fight goes beyond zoning laws—it’s about the future of American sovereignty and religious freedom.

Amy Mek

391,233 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Mark Carney touched down in Victoria this week to unveil what the Liberal press calls a “bold” vision for Canada’s economy. But what Canadians actually got was a highly choreographed lecture—long on buzzwords, short on substance—from a man who’s spent more time in central bank boardrooms than in any place real Canadians live. He talked about housing, forestry, and tariffs, but what he was really selling was more Ottawa, more control, and more of the same Liberal rot that’s been strangling this country for the last decade. Carney stood in front of a prefab timber facility—symbolism so on-the-nose it could’ve come from a PMO PowerPoint—and made his pitch. To his right stood Jill McKnight. To his left? None other than Gregor Robertson, the man who helped transform Vancouver into the most unaffordable housing market on Earth. That’s the braintrust. That’s who’s going to solve the housing crisis now. The same people who created it. Carney wants to create a federal housing authority—Build Canada Homes—a $25 billion bureaucracy to build modular, mass timber housing across the country. He calls it “ambitious.” What it is, is a central planner’s fantasy. We’ve heard it before. Big public fund. Big promises. Bigger disaster. It ends the same every time: with consultants billing millions while shovels collect dust. While pitching his timber-driven housing revival, Carney took a jab at Pierre Poilievre—mocking his calls to cut taxes and red tape as “slogans.” As if letting Canadians keep more of their own money is beneath him. As if streamlining regulation is some unserious gimmick, instead of the only way to get anything built in this country. But here’s the joke: while Carney was sneering about tax cuts, the Liberal government quietly dropped the carbon tax on home heating to zero. The very tax they claimed was essential to saving the planet. The one they dragged provinces through court over. Now it’s gone—temporarily, politically—because they’re tanking in the polls. Not repealed. Not reformed. Just dialed down to win votes. And don’t worry, the industrial carbon tax? That’s still in place. That gets passed down to consumers in the form of higher prices on everything from fuel to food. Carney calls that “the better model.” When it came time to defend past comments about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, which he made during a fundraiser in Richmond last week—where he mocked the idea of sending Smith to negotiate with the U.S.—Carney brushed it off as “light-hearted.” As if belittling provinces fighting for their industries is all in good fun. As if economic decline is a joke. It would be funny if it weren’t so offensive. Alberta’s energy industry is on the line. Ontario’s manufacturing base is under siege. And this guy, who’s never run a province or balanced a budget outside of a spreadsheet, is cracking jokes like it’s a Netflix roast. And while the press didn’t push him on it in Victoria, Carney’s already gone on the record at another recent presser to say he won’t repeal Bill C-69—the single most destructive piece of legislation to Canada’s energy and infrastructure development. He says it’s the “right framework.” That’s all you need to know. He wants to unlock forestry, speed up housing, and expand construction—but he won’t touch the laws that actively prevent all of that. Carney says he wants to work with provinces. What he means is make them ask for permission. He says he wants to partner with industry. What he means is tax them, regulate them, and funnel the profits to climate consultants and think tanks in Ottawa. And as for being a new face? He’s surrounded by the same crew. Chrystia Freeland’s economic advisors. Marco Mendicino—the same guy who misled Parliament on national security. And Trudeau? He’s still in the background, backing this banker in a fresh suit to keep the Liberal regime on life support. Carney says this country needs leadership. What it needs is a clean break. He says he wants to bring people together. What he means is bring them to heel. The housing crisis. The affordability crisis. The productivity collapse. These weren’t accidents. These were decisions—made by the same machine that now wants you to believe its latest frontman is the solution. The Liberals burned the house down. Now they want your vote to hold the hose. If you can’t afford a home, if your energy bill is unbearable, if your job is gone—it’s because of the people still standing behind Mark Carney. If you vote Liberal, you’re not voting for change. You’re voting for decay. You’re voting to reward failure. Don’t fall for it. Vote blue. And let’s bring it home.

Dan Knight

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Stargate Trivia: Casting Stargate: Atlantis While SG-1 was my first love (We were together for seven years!), my time on Atlantis proved equally memorable. The show was possessed of a similar tone in its mix of high adventure and humor, yet proved distinct in its exploration of Ancient mythology and an unfamiliar galaxy as seen through the eyes of a new set of heroes. Atlantis offered a sense of wonder and camaraderie born of isolation and constant danger. Whereas team SG-1 could always go home at the conclusion of their adventures, the members of the Atlantis expedition (at least for those first few seasons) could only draw comfort from the city of Atlantis itself – and, of course, each other. It was unique and compelling yet, at the same time, comfortingly familiar. Nowhere is this more evident than in its opening theme, composed by the late Joel Goldsmith, which is, at turns fresh, haunting, stirring and, throughout, discernibly Stargate. Stargate: Atlantis wasn’t envisioned as a companion to Stargate: SG-1. It was intended to replace the long-running series. The only problem was, with eight seasons under its belt, SG-1 wasn’t quite done yet. And fans (and the network) weren’t done with it either. And so, instead of passing the torch and segueing to a new Stargate series, we ended up producing both. In retrospect, it was quite an achievement: 40 hours of television! Today's productions can barely manage a third that output, but Stargates SG-1 and Atlantis delivered two fantastic 40 episode seasons before SG-1 took it’s final bow. It wasn’t easy, but it was certainly made easier by all of the enormously talented individuals who made it happen, from the office staff and crew to the cast and my fellow writer/producers. Still, it was not without its challenges. Take casting, for instance. It may surprise you to know that, when it comes to producing a show, not everybody cares about costumes or set design or whether the script’s fifth act denouement is emotionally satisfying - but everybody, and I do mean EVERYBODY, has an opinion on casting. Studio and network execs, producers, hell, even your significant other peering over your shoulder as you screen the auditions on your home computer, will want to weigh in. Of course, the more voices in the mix the more likely there are to be disagreements. So it is with every production and Atlantis was no different. Different individuals envisioned these characters in very different ways and, as a result, consensus was only achieved after many auditions, calls-backs, heated discussions, and not-so-gentle reminders that our start date was fast-approaching and we really needed someone to say the lines on camera. The part of Carson Beckett was one of the first we cast. The other producers were in Rob’s office, screening the first batch of local auditions when Brad called me in and told me to check out the guy onscreen. I hadn’t imagined Beckett with a Scottish accent but, after watching Paul McGillion in the role, I couldn’t imagine him without one. He’d brought something unexpected to the part, something we all responded to. Elizabeth Weir was not an easy character to pull off. She had to be smart, confident and strong yet needed to exude a certain warmth and empathy we were looking for in the civilian leader of the expedition. When it came time to (re)casting the role, several established names were considered (One had her own hit genre show back in the day while another went on to break out on a hit show soon after), but it was Torri Higginson who managed to strike just the right balance and vault her name to the top of the list. The role of Teyla Emmagan was a tough one to cast. Like Weir, she needed to be a strong, empathetic leader. But she also required something even more important – quite literally, an other-worldly quality that made her unique. Some equally talented actresses auditioned for the role but, as good as they were, they were never quite able to achieve that gravitas Rachel pulled off with such grace and seeming ease. Former VJ Rainbow Sun Francks won the role of Lieutenant Ford on the strength of a great audition, preceded by an equally great audition with a funny hat. I recall Brad Wright on the phone with our casting agent, advising him to ensure there would be no hat worn in the callback for fear the network would fixate on it. There wasn't, they didn't, and Rainbow delivered. The role of John Sheppard was the second to last one cast. It came right down to the wire and there were several candidates in play. The character was originally envisioned as a good ole southern boy, so it only made sense that Ben Browder’s name was bandied about early. However, he was too busy shooting Peacekeeper Wars to warrant consideration. A number of other actors were considered (one went on to play the lead in a hugely popular show the following year while another made his mark as a handsome heart throb on another hugely popular medical series) but it was Joe Flanigan who won the part based on his ability to pull off the devil-may-care attitude Brad and Robert were looking for. We come to the final role cast, a character who, in many ways, embodied everything Atlantis was about: exploration, discovery, fun, humor, and seat-of-your-pants-Holy-Sh&%-how-the-hell-am-I-going-to-get-out-of-this-adventure. And, as I mentioned in a previous post, he almost didn’t make the trip to Pegasus. Originally, the casting call went out for a completely different character, an earnest young doctor who would lend the team much-needed medical support on their off-world ventures. Unfortunately, no one could agree on who that actor should be. If the casting of Sheppard went down to the wire, then the casting of this final role went a step past it. Finally, days away from production, Robert Cooper had an idea: Forget the doctor character. Why not use an established character from SG-1? How about Rodney McKay? The writers were on board, but some executives weren't weren’t sold on the idea. They found him annoying! Hell yeah, but he’d be sooo much fun to write for! Rob got on the phone and went to bat for Rodney, pointing out that the character had come a long way since first being introduced way back in SG-1’s 48 Hours. He’d evolved, going from annoying jerk to endearingly irritating. To this day, I’m convinced that they weren’t totally convinced but, with production poised to commence, they relented, I suppose figuring they could just replace the character somewhere down the line. No one, even those who loved the idea of having the endearingly irritating Rodney McKay on board could have predicted how hugely popular the character would become.

Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️

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Over the last decade, a consensus has grown on the Left and Right that the US needs to be more self-sufficient when it comes to manufacturing. During Covid, we discovered we didn’t make much of the equipment we needed to deal with a pandemic and were thus dependent on other nations, and so Congress passed and Trump signed the CARES Act in part to spend money to support domestic manufacturing of medical supplies. In 2022, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the CHIPS Act to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. out of the recognition that we had become dangerously dependent on foreign nations for microchips, which have become general-purpose technologies, necessary for national security, and upon which the AI revolution will be built. Where America had a $38 billion trade surplus in 1991 on advanced technology manufacturing, today it has a $299 billion deficit. Liberals and conservatives, Leftists and Rightists, have long shared a broad agreement that manufacturing and its knock-on industries are an essential source of employment for non-college-educated working-class people, and that the loss of manufacturing contributed to social fragmentation, family breakdown, and the drug addiction and death crisis. In a 2024 survey, Americans agreed ten to one that “we need a stronger manufacturing sector; 47% said America suffered from globalization, while 33% said it benefited. It is partly for that reason that Joe Biden, in perhaps the most bipartisan and non-ideological decision of his presidency, kept in place the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term as president. And yet both liberals and many conservatives are reacting with outrage as President Donald Trump puts in place precisely the trade tariffs needed to reduce our dangerous dependency on other nations and increase our manufacturing of the goods we need for national security, economic security, and societal wellbeing. The China tariffs, the CARES Act, and the CHIPS Act did not result in the return of much manufacturing, much less the rebalancing of trade. Total manufacturing jobsare 12.8 million in December 2019 and are 12.8 million today. The US still depends on China and other nations for active pharmaceutical ingredients, personal protective equipment, microchips, and critical minerals. Suffice to say, we are a very long way from a manufacturing renaissance sufficiently robust to revitalize the communities that have lost good, high-wage jobs to China and other competitors and even rivals internationally. The reason is clear. The average tariff level globally is 6.7% compared to America’s 2.7%. And simply subsidizing industries may not be enough for two major semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and TSMC, to produce domestically without tariffs. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump's escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)📷 Anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say Trump’s actions will destroy people’s retirement savings by crashing the stock market, and will undermine the comparative advantage of other nations producing products we shouldn’t. And, they say, our goal should not be to return manufacturing to the United States, except for a few exceptions, which Congress has already made. For centuries, economists have argued that some nations, such as poorer ones, are more suited to produce many products than richer ones. Americans making t-shirts at $20 per hour are less efficient than the Vietnamese making them for $3 per hour. And the US should not be trying to replace perfectly reasonable products to import, like aluminum from Canada, which we have no reason to ever go to war with, and which has access to cheap hydroelectricity to make it. Over half of American families have money in the stock market, and they will all suffer, anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say. The economic system we have had since World War II has worked to maximize win-win relationships that result in poorer nations climbing the development ladder with manufacturing and wealthier nations like the US focused on services. But it’s unwise to evaluate policies based on the short-term impact of the stock market. Anti-tariff voices grossly overstate the comparative advantage when it comes to manufacturing, and the postwar system, economically and militarily, is no longer in the interests of non-college-educated Americans, who are both more vulnerable and more numerous than the college-educated elite. There is no need to bring back a significant amount of low-skill and nonstrategic manufacturing like T-shirts, and Trump has not advocated that. America may need to bring back some low-skill jobs, such as manufacturing protective gear. But our priority should rightly be high-skill manufacturing, and CARES, CHIPS, and the Trump-Biden China were, obviously, not enough. It may be fine to rely on Canada for aluminum. But the tariffs against it and Mexico, as well as Trump’s stated desire to make it the 51st state, should be viewed as the president negotiating in preparation for upcoming trade talks between the three countries. While offshoring manufacturing policies benefited multinational corporations, bankers, and consumers, they often devastated communities built on manufacturing, mining, and manual labor. US companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs, fewer regulations, and subsidized exports. Economists calculate that just the so-called “China Shock,” that country’s entry into the World Trade Organization, alone cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs and had ripple effects across entire communities. The average manufacturing wage is $103,000 per year compared to $37,000 per year for the average service sector wage. And where a service sector job supports 2 to 3 jobs, a manufacturing job supports nine jobs. Continuing with a system that is fundamentally advantageous to a minority of the country and disadvantageous to a majority is not sustainable and unwise to prop up. Trump’s trade actions are part of a broader return to nationalism underway globally, and they can’t be understood on economic grounds alone. Regarding priorities, we should put the two-thirds of the country that is non-college educated working-class ahead of the 50% of the country who own stocks, for moral and democratic reasons. America is deeply divided. While there are many proximate reasons for this, including geographic sorting, cable TV, and social media, the underlying reasons are economic. The gulf between the educated elites and the non-educated working class has grown dangerously large. Many critics of the tariffs are well-intentioned. They are right to worry that they could come with significant economic costs and disruption. The concern of many of them is genuinely for the working class and poor, who higher prices for imported goods would most harm. However, many American elites today identify more with their global counterparts than their fellow Americans. And that’s a huge problem. In his study of 21 civilizations, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee found that civilizations collapse not simply from external invasion but from internal decay, precisely when their elites stop identifying with the people. “Civilizations die from suicide,” he famously wrote, “not murder.” Civilizations all depend on their elites, Toynbee noted, or the people he called the “creative minority.” But rising success creates decadence, complacency, and eventually contempt toward their people, and they start to identify with elites in other nations. This is all a natural outgrowth of trade, cosmopolitanism, and snobbery. It starts to view the ordinary people as “deplorables.” At this point, the elite lose their creativity and become simply the “dominant minority,” one that rules no longer by example but rather by manipulation or force. Toynbee could be describing America in the 21st Century. College-educated elites look down on the American working class and identify with other professional and managerial elites in Europe and other nations. They sympathize less with the low-skilled American citizen born here and more with the low-skilled foreign migrant here illegally. Such elites are more concerned with tariffs' impact on their stock portfolio and the cost of their gadgets than they are with the downward pressure illegal migrants put on wages or with how nations manipulate their currency to retain manufacturing. Toynbee said that, at this stage of development, a nation’s elites become “parasites or renegades,” alienated and contemptuous toward the culture that produced them. Civilizations at this late stage are morally hollow and thus fragile and prone to abuses of power, like censorship, lawfare, and the weaponization of government agencies. And these civilizations disparage their traditions in ways that the American elites have disparaged America’s founding and its history as essentially evil, due to the unavoidable tragedy of indigenous genocide and slavery, even though a civil war that killed over 600,000 people was fought to end it. But Toynbee didn’t believe that civilizational collapse was inevitable; some societies can snap back.... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

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The Carney Files: Exposing the new globalist golden boy, Mark Carney From his connections to Epstein associates, his role at Brookfield Asset Management, and the World Economic Forum, Canadians have a lot to learn about globalist golden boy, Mark Carney. The fix is in. Canada’s next prime minister was just anointed behind closed doors in a questionable leadership race. Trudeau's usefulness has run its course. He's not cute anymore. The elites have moved on, and they’ve chosen their new golden boy: Mark Carney. That’s why we’re launching The Carney Files — your one-stop shop for everything the establishment and the legacy media don’t want you to know about the next to sit on the Liberal throne. Because while the mainstream press is polishing their puff pieces, we’re doing what they refuse to — exposing the real Mark Carney. And trust me, there’s a lot to expose. This isn’t just some mild-mannered banker turned politician. Carney was the man whispering in Trudeau's ear for the last five years. All those things the Liberals did to us? That was him — lockdowns; tax hikes; overspending; electric vehicle mandates. Carney is Trudeau 2.0, but more dangerous. He’s the handpicked globalist successor to Trudeau, a man whose loyalties don’t lie with Canada, but with the unelected power brokers who pull the strings from Davos at the World Economic Forum, and the UN. Remember? He's a self-described European, with three citizenships. We’re talking about a man who has spent his entire career pushing the very policies that have gutted the middle class — from his time at the Bank of Canada, to his role at the Bank of England, to his non-stop advocacy for extreme carbon taxation under the guise of “climate action.” And let’s not forget his cozy connections to some very unsavory characters. Does Ghislaine Maxwell ring a bell? Oh yeah, Carney's got tangential ties to her, too. The very same woman who helped Jeffrey Epstein run one of the most disgusting criminal operations in modern history. But good luck hearing that on CBC or CTV. They won’t touch it. Too busy protecting their next meal ticket. And then there’s his manifesto, Values — a book that reads less like a personal philosophy and more like an instruction manual for a globalist coup. In it, Carney lays out his plan for a so-called “moral economy,” where unelected bureaucrats, not free markets, dictate how you live, how you work, and how much you pay for basic necessities. It’s a carbon tax fever dream wrapped in Orwellian doublespeak. But wait, there’s more. Carney has his own major conflicts of interest — the kind the legacy media would be all over if he had a Conservative label next to his name. Let’s talk about Brookfield Asset Management. Carney was vice-chair at Brookfield, a global investment giant that made a fortune off green energy subsidies — while conveniently opposing pipelines in Canada. But here’s the kicker: while Carney was telling Canadians that oil and gas was a dead industry, Brookfield was busy funding pipelines in the Middle East. That’s right — Carney had no problem helping bankroll fossil fuel expansion overseas while helping crush Canadian energy jobs at home. And it doesn’t end there. Carney also played games with Brookfield’s head office relocation timeline, shifting narratives about when and why they moved their corporate headquarters to the United States. One minute, it’s staying in Canada. The next, it’s heading south. And yet, this is the guy who wants to dictate our economy? Who wants to tell us what industries are “moral” and which ones need to be shut down? He tells us he's about saving Canadian jobs while moving them to the U.S. The hypocrisy is astounding. And here’s where it gets even worse — Carney is already willing to mislead Canadians to avoid accountability. He knows he can’t handle real scrutiny, so instead of answering tough questions, he simply shuts out the only people willing to ask them. Independent journalists are being barred from his events, blocked from getting credentials, and denied access to ask the real questions that the legacy media refuses to touch. Because let’s face it — Carney doesn’t want to be challenged. He doesn’t want to be asked about his WEF loyalties, his conflicts of interest, or his blatant hypocrisy. He wants a coronation, not an election. And the establishment media? They’re more than happy to help him get one. But here’s the thing. None of this is a secret. The information is out there, but the media refuses to touch it. Why? Because Pierre Poilievre has promised to defund them, and they’re terrified. Terrified that Canadians might actually learn the truth about the Liberal Party’s latest Frankenstein experiment before it’s too late. So, if you want to know who really runs this country — who’s pulling the strings, who’s writing the playbook, and who’s about to step in as Trudeau’s heir — then you won’t want to miss this campaign. Because this isn’t just about another Liberal leader. This is about the survival of Canada as we know it. And if we don’t fight back now, we might not get another chance.

Rebel News

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Liberals spent $300M to axe the fax, and it failed Nearly $300 million of federal money went into a national e-prescribing service that most Canadian doctors and pharmacies never used, and now Canadians will pay twice to try to get to the bottom of where their hard-earned tax dollars went — and what went wrong with the program. PrescribeIT was launched in 2017 by Canada Health Infoway, a federally funded non-profit, as a secure national system so prescribers could send prescriptions from their electronic medical records straight into pharmacy software. At the time, the Liberal promise was simple: axe the fax, but in 2026, the fax machine is still humming. The initial pitch was fewer forgeries, fewer transcription errors, better opioid tracking, and support for virtual care. Telus Health was the main vendor and received about $98 million of the contract, yet official estimates put usage below 5% of all Canadian prescriptions. A 20-cent-per-prescription fee on pharmacies was introduced in 2025, which made adoption of the system even worse. Provinces refused to take on ongoing operating costs and Infoway shut the service down on May 29, 2026, saying it would shift to an “open-standards” approach instead of running a central network. Total federal spending on the project has been reported in the $250–298 million range over roughly a decade, with the original 2016 announcement earmarking about $40 million. Infoway CEO Michael Green was dismissed effective immediately on April 29, after a House of Commons health committee appearance on April 21. He was pressed on low uptake, spending, and his compensation — nearly a staggering $900,000 a year. He could barely attest to any of it. Infoway has taken more than $2 billion from taxpayers since 2001. Its chief financial officer, David Fast, got the job through a non-competitive process as a former colleague of Green. Conservative MPs, including health critic Dan Mazier and MP Matt Strauss, have pushed the committee for contracts, payments to Telus, performance documents, and related records. They are pushing for records to be made public, so Canadians can see exactly how the money was spent and why adoption failed. The response from Maggie Chi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, has been to filibuster — stretching debate, running the clock, and using closed-door discussions to delay accountability. Key documents, including the full Telus Health agreements covering the $98 million vendor relationship, have still not been produced. On June 18, Ottawa announced it would audit Infoway and Health Minister Marjorie Michel’s office promised a “multiphase review,” an independent third-party audit, then a broader look at governance, operations, and compensation. The government had already frozen $50 million in funding until Infoway cooperated and now, two months later, a request for proposal (RFP) has officially appeared on Merx. On August 26, Canada posted the RFP seeking a contractor to audit contribution funding provided to Infoway. The work is expected to run until December 31, 2026. The team required: one partner/managing director, one project manager, one senior auditor, one auditor, and one junior auditor. Canadians have an announcement in June, and a tender in late August. Findings, perhaps, by sometime next year. Conservatives have said the quiet part out loud: Infoway gets the funding of a government body and almost none of the scrutiny. Access-to-information rules that bind Health Canada do not bind this non-profit the same way. Telus Health built what it called a “world-class highway,” but basically no one drove on it. Patients, instead, still wait at the counter for paper and doctors still fax. Canadians are told they have a world-class public healthcare system while they wait endlessly in emergency rooms and hunt for a family doctor. The Liberals couldn’t axe the fax, but they have no trouble axing the taxpayers’ wallet. If the government is serious about accountability, the next audit should not stop at a federally funded non-profit, but perhaps should start with Health Canada itself. REPORT by Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦:

Rebel News

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Really devastating lines of questioning from @SenJamesLankford.... Lankford: “There are a lot of issues and a lot of questions that have come up, and hopefully, some day in the future, we’ll be able to get all this clarity and pull it together. More than a million Americans that died of COVID. You know it well. You were tracking the number every single day. Those affected and those that died from the earliest days. There are a lot of lessons that we have to learn from this that we should put into history to be able to determine what happens in the future, how do we respond in the future, how do we deal with something like this again. It was uncharted territory for everyone. But I will tell you countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind a screen because we couldn’t get access to them. Children couldn’t get to school. People missed their prom or graduation ceremonies. There were lots of things that happened that dramatically changed the future of the country. The mental health issues that we have continued to deal with from the isolation have been profound. Even something as simple as children that wore masks or around adults wearing masks for all that time are slower in learning language now because they couldn’t watch someone’s lips moving, and so they’re slower in that. Amazingly enough, churches and places of worship were forced to be closed down. There were even churches that met with the pastor, preached in the parking lot, and the congregants all met in their cars with windows up, and police came and scattered them and said, you can’t be here. The simple act of social distancing became an issue, as everyone guessed, what’s the right distance to be away from someone else? Literacy rates have declined. All these things are results, not to mention the loss of lives and the health experiences that have been out there for many Americans. So, there are legitimate questions. I wanted to be able to raise some of those, to be able to walk through some of this, because it has been very, very challenging. As we’ve gone through some of your — your notes and your diary and other things that are out there, we’re trying to be able to pull bits and pieces of things to be able to learn lessons. On May 6, 2020, you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield,’ as you know well, was then the director of CDC, ‘about the fact that greater than 1 million children worldwide have missed their measles vaccination because of the shutdown.’ You stated, ‘this is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone, there would be far, far, far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than coronavirus deaths among children. I need to bring this up to the TF” — the task force. Did you ever have an opportunity to bring up the potential of measles deaths among children and an infection rate going around the world from measles, based on the fact that so many children would not get their measles vaccine because of the shutdown?” Dr. Fauci: “I’m sorry, Senator, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” Lankford: “That is your right to do. One of the big issues is really coming up is on the lab issue. This was greatly discussed about whether this came from a lab or whether this came from nature. There are obvious issues and differences between the two — to be able to know this, you had a lot of conversation on this. Scientists around the world were — were in conversation on this. There are different statements that you even made in your private notes and your public notes on it. In January the 26th of 2020, this is before we had our even our first tragic death of coronavirus in the United States, you wrote, ‘it now appears using EPI data that the genomic data in the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market,’ which was the big rumor that was out there — was this wet market in China. ‘We know the market was not the source. It was the amplifier.’ On January the 31st, you wrote about a phone call. You wrote the people on the phone, on the phone, ‘felt the mutations around the fur-and-cleavage site of the spike protein could not have occurred naturally, since it would require an evolutionary jump that they found nowhere in bat isolates. They bring up the possibility this could have been deliberately inserted in either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab, the former being the most likely. February the 1st, same year, 2020 — this is again still before our first death, “there was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion. Ron said he was.’ – ‘he was sure that this could occur naturally, and we should not waste our time and divert our efforts to pursue this. This is expected of him since he was the original gain-of-function person with Yoshi. Also, Christian was withdrawn. The rest felt deliberate insertion was possible, and given the fact that Doctor Shi Zhengli at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in gain of function in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human AC-2 receptor. We could not let this go. That’s a remarkable statement for February the 1st of 2020, when there hadn’t even been the first death here. But we knew something was moving. You knew well that something was moving. You identified February the 1st, before any of us had ever heard of the Wuhan lab, not only the Wuhan lab in the conversation, but literally the scientists that you named in your own notes, the lead scientist that was there. It’s interesting to me on that. And the questions I was going to ask you was just your background and knowledge about the Wuhan lab and Doctor Shi and, and all the details. I’m aware of where you have been on trying to be able to plead your Fifth Amendment right, which is your right to be able to do. But I also want to be able to find out some facts to be able to help us for the future on this. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in May of 2020 put out a classified document that has only been recently unclassified on this — that had this statement: ‘We assess all the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory=modified coronavirus, specifically a coronavirus adapted to recognize human cell receptors, were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in mid-to-late 2019. Now, the question that I have for you is this is May the 27th of 2020. This is the report that most people will see is this. I have — I have clearance, I serve on the Intelligence Committee. I’ve actually read this complete document unredacted. My concern is we’re you given the ability to see this document unredacted, based on your position, were you able to see this and to be able to get this information, I could I could see it, and I know what’s here. Everybody else just has their conclusion at the beginning of it. Not this. My question to you was going to be, did you have access — because it’s important for the future that people in your position do have access to this kind of information and insight? Is there any way you could answer that question? Were you able to give access to this data?” Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” Lankford: “You wrote on January the 26th of 2020, we should be allowed to send our CDC epidemiologists to China to work with them, so you could — So they could see the data firsthand. You — you also wrote in February 12th, 2020 that you had great concerns about the World Health Organization because they Depends greatly on China and, as you stated, often bows to them. Now, this is a really important issue that we’ve got to resolve for the future. It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists, it’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in. They cleaned up the wet market. They cleaned up the other areas. They wouldn’t allow you to get access to — all the other scientists are there, including their health records, what happened to them, or even all the sequencing that they had done in advance for the future of our research and our cooperation with any scientists around the world? I think it’s really important that we resolve, if we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you. If things go sideways, we’ve got to have access to all information in all places. You were noting not only that China was affecting the World Health Organization and that China was bending them to their will, and so, the World Health Organization was putting out data that you saw, at least at that point, as being, from a Chinese perspective, covering up what was going on. But you also noted we weren’t able to get access to all this information. We’ve got to be able to figure this out for the future, to be able to make sure that research that is done, we have access to all information if something goes sideways at some point, which clearly it did at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And that being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world, yet they were doing this very dangerous research. What can we gain and what advice would you give us to say in a future setting, We’ve got to make sure that we actually get information from people, and we can be guaranteed that we’re going to get that insight. Yes, sir.” Fauci: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”

Curtis Houck

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Mark Carney, the unelected banker-turned-savior of the Liberal Party, stood on a stage at Durham College on April 19 and did what professional economic grifters do best—he smiled politely, gestured at some numbers, and attempted to sell Canadians on a $130 billion illusion. He called it a “costed platform.” What it really was, was a pitch deck for national decline—a warmed-over slab of recycled Trudeauism, backed by deficit delusion and framed as “bold leadership.” And yes, the numbers are real. Terrifyingly real. The Liberal platform promises $130 billion in new spending over four years, while running deficits of $62.3 billion this year, $59.9 billion next year, and still sitting at $48 billion in the red by 2028. To balance all of this out? A magical $28 billion in “unspecified cuts.” Not outlined. Not itemized. Just floated in the air like a promise from a door-to-door vacuum salesman. Carney, in his perfectly rehearsed banker tone, assures us it’s not spending. No, it’s “investment.” Which is hilarious, because that’s exactly what Justin Trudeau said when he kicked off a decade of reckless spending, capital flight, and housing inflation. Carney has simply pulled off the Liberal magic trick of rebranding debt as growth. But this isn’t just fiscal mismanagement. This is coordinated, high-level dishonesty. Let’s be clear: Mark Carney is not new to any of this. He isn’t some white knight riding in to clean up Trudeau’s mess. He is the mess. He was Trudeau’s economic consigliere. He sat in the backrooms when they passed Bill C-69, which throttled Canada’s energy sector. He championed ESG, oversaw the implosion of GFANZ (his climate finance alliance), and helped drive $500 billion in investment out of this country. Now he’s back—wearing a new title, making the same promises, using the same playbook. Only this time, he’s brought a spreadsheet. In one breath, Carney says we need to “diversify trade.” In the next, he’s counting on $20 billion in one-time countertariff revenues to prop up his platform. In one paragraph, he says Canada will be “fiscally responsible.” In the next, he admits the deficit will nearly double this year. He claims he’ll spend 2% of GDP on defense—but not until 2029, because, of course, there’s no urgency when you’re protected by the American military umbrella you secretly resent. And his housing plan? If you thought things couldn’t get worse than Justin Trudeau’s housing disaster, buckle up. Carney’s solution is modular housing—yes, government-subsidized, prefabricated micro-boxes dropped onto federally controlled land. Mark Carney will never live in modular housing. His children will never live in modular housing. But for you, the taxpayer? That’s the future he envisions—managed housing, managed economy, managed speech, managed life. He’s not here to lift Canadians up. He’s here to lock them down—into a permanent, bureaucratically engineered middle class, dependent on state subsidies and grateful for whatever dignity Ottawa hasn’t yet taxed away. And when asked how he’ll find the $28 billion in cuts needed to make this plan remotely plausible, his answer was priceless: “Technology, attrition, and a review of consultant contracts.” Translation: “We don’t know.” And here’s where the grift goes full throttle—the accounting scam. Carney is trying to redefine the deficit by splitting it into two categories: “operating” and “capital”—a little trick borrowed from UK public finance to confuse voters and dodge political accountability. It’s not something Canada has ever used in federal budget reporting, and there’s a reason for that: it’s misleading by design. Here’s how it works: Carney claims that by 2028, the government will run an “operating surplus.” Sounds responsible, right? Like the books are balanced? Wrong. Because even while he’s claiming an “operating surplus,” the federal government will still be running a $48 billion deficit overall. That’s real debt—borrowed money the country doesn’t have. So how does he square the circle? Simple: he relabels infrastructure and program spending as “capital investment”, pushes it off to the side, and tells you the main budget is in good shape. But guess what? You still owe the money. The debt still grows. And interest payments still stack up. It’s like maxing out your credit card, then saying “no problem—I only overspent on long-term purchases, not day-to-day expenses.” Try that line with your bank. Let me know how it goes. This isn’t honest budgeting. It’s spreadsheet manipulation by a guy who knows how to massage the optics while the house burns down. And let’s not forget who we’re talking about here. This is the man who moved his financial headquarters to New York while lecturing Canadians about economic sovereignty. This is the guy with a Cayman Islands tax haven, who built his fortune offshore and now wants to manage your budget while shielding his own. This is the architect of GFANZ—the so-called climate finance alliance—that imploded under his leadership. The same alliance that saw JPMorgan, Citigroup, and the Big Six Canadian banks bail because Carney couldn’t keep the cartel together without running afoul of antitrust laws. This is the same man mentioned in Marco Mendicino’s Emergencies Act texts—the man who said, Move the tanks on the protesters. That’s right. He wasn’t calling for dialogue. He wasn’t calling for democracy. He was calling for force—on peaceful Canadians exercising their rights. That’s who this is. A man who smiles like a diplomat and governs like a tyrant. So let’s drop the fantasy. Mark Carney isn’t here to save you. He’s not here to build a country. He’s not here to restore prosperity. He’s here to finish what Justin Trudeau started—with less flair and even less accountability. This election is your moment. Not just to vote against failed leadership—but to vote for something better. Vote for Canadian workers. Vote for Canadian resources. Vote for Canadian sovereignty. Vote Canada First.

Dan Knight

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#new Clancy Defense Attorney Asked Internet Blogger For Help Making Lindsay Look Innocent,Turtleboy Says Fast Fact: Kevin Reddington reportedly asked Aidan Kearney (Turtleboy) for help on the Lindsay Clancy case in July 2023, according to Turtleboy's website and social media posts Critics say it is a major ethical violation to enlist the help of a social media blogger to help create a perception of innocence about a client that Reddington was (and still is) representing. In messages shared by Kearney, Reddington praised Kearney because he 'created' Karen Read's innocence. Karen Read is the woman who was accused of klling her police officer boyfriend, but claimed she was being framed by his friends, who were also cops and the ones she claims actually k*lled him. Karen Read was acquitted of second-degree m*rder and manslaughter. 🔶On July 22, 2023 - Reddington was already on the Clancy case, and also representing Jennifer McCabe in the Read case. (McCabe was the woman that Read claims was trying to frame her) 🔶Screenshots show a Messenger account labeled Kevin Reddington writing to Kearney late at night. 🔶The message praised Kearney for being a great investigative reporter, while saying they started off on the wrong foot. 🔶The account then asked Kearney to help with the Clancy case. Other messages in the same thread detailed how Kearney created “more than reasonable doubt” for Karen Read. Kearney replied the next morning saying he was already on the Clancy case and said Patrick Clancy was the strongest person he had seen, “followed by Karen Read.” Kearney posted the messages on his website in September of 2023 under the title: 🔶"Reddington thought Read was innocent and “could use my help defending his client, Lindsay Clancy.” Critics say this is an ethical violation for a defense attorney to enlist the help of an online blogger - who was already facing legal trouble for jury intimidation - to sway public opinion about a client he is representing. So what is the jury intimidation? Well it stems from the Karen Read case. Oct. 11, 2023 – Kearney was: ➡️Arrested on multiple counts of witness intimidation / conspiracy tied to witnesses in the Karen Read trial. ➡️He was indicted Dec. 2023 - 8 counts of witness intimidation, 3 counts of conspiracy, and 5 counts of picketing a witness ➡️He Pleaded not guilty, and a trial set for December of this year. 2. He was arrested in late December when: ➡️His ex-girlfriend Lindsey Gaetani alleged he attacked her and threatened to release nude photos of her after she was summoned to a grand jury about him. ➡️He was charged with domestic assault and battery and witness intimidation. ➡️Bail on the Read case was revoked. He did about 60 days in the Norfolk County jail. ➡️Oct. 22, 2025: Charges dropped after the special prosecutor quit, and no replacement was appointed. This was not an acquittal; just a lucky break for Kearney 3. In 2024 – he was: ➡️Charged with violating an abuse-prevention order. ➡️June 12, 2025: Judge Michael Pomarole found him not guilty after a two-day bench trial. The one-year RO was not extended in Jan. 2025. 4. May 13, 2025 - third indictment Two more witness intimidation counts after he stopped at D&E Pizza and caused a scene. ➡️Pleaded not guilty. This is part of the remaining pending charges. 5. July 2026 - Atlantic County, New Jersey indictment (sealed) ➡️His lawyer Mark Bederow said NJ indicted him on a civilian complaint from a woman who contacted him about humiliating John O’Keefe’s brother. Some claim that Reddington knew Kearney's methods and wanted him to impact the jury pool in the Clancy case as well - however there is no proof of that. 🔶Another message Kearney posted is one from the Reddington account that said he believed Karen Read was innocent –to which Kearney posted with this comment: 🔶“Kevin Reddington messaged me a month or so ago to tell me thta [sic] he believes Karen Read is innocent, which by default means that his client Jennifer McCabe was involved in covering up John O'Keefe's m*rder.” Which is also very interesting. Reddington has not admitted that the messages were sent by him, but he hasn't denied it either. 🔶In April 2023 (about three months before the friendly message exchange) Reddington left a public comment on Turtleboy’s Facebook page calling him “turd boy” and saying he wanted to “dance” with him in court. They later shook hands in a courthouse, according to Kearney. In the Clancy case Reddington took aim at the lone holdout juror himself when he thanked “these jurors”. Minus one.” He said the other 11 had been “robbed by one man, for whatever his agenda was,” who “stole seven weeks” from people who “were so attentive, so beautiful, so wonderful.” Then: “I hope that guy can sleep well at night.” He accused the juror of being a bigot, gender--doxxed him and tried to get the judge to reveal his identity by holding an open court questioning. Leading many to claim jury intimidation is part of Reddington’s MO – which is why he reached out to Kearney in the first place. He saw what Kearney did for Karen Read, and he wanted him do the same thing for Clancy – again, this is a claim and not a proven fact. Jonathan Turley called Reddington’s attack on the juror “utterly reprehensible” and said Reddington “put a target on the back of a juror who committed the unpardonable sin of not being convinced by his arguments.” And now, after all this mess, the local NBC Boston report releasing searchable data about the holdout juror, the doxxing of that juror via photos, name, and details about his personal life - Judge Sullivan – in the Clancy case, has extended the lock down on the jury list indefinitely. Sullivan was petitioned by a juror to keep the list sealed, and ruled there is credible fear for the jurors. What do you think? Should a defense attorney be able to enlist the help of an online blogger to 'create' an innocent view of his client before the jury is even selected? #ChristinaAguayoNews

Christina Aguayo

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🔌⚡Let's start with the obvious: OUR NJ ELECTRIC BILLS ARE OBSCENE. In Governor Mikie Sherrill's mammoth $60.7B budget address, she briefly referenced natural gas and nuclear energy. The rest of the speech followed the "green energy" fairy tale trajectory of her predecessor, with an emphasis on investing in solar energy and battery storage. Here’s the problem: solar and battery storage are SUPPLEMENTS, not primary power sources. Solar works when the sun's out, but the grid needs power 24/7. This may shock and surprise some, but NJ is not Texas so any comparison is completely invalid. And batteries don’t generate electricity; they store excess solar for a few hours and cost billions to build. Most store 2–4 hours of power, next generation shoots for 6–10 hours. A 24-hour battery grid is still theoretical. Here is a comparison of power reliability rates: Solar — about 8% Offshore wind — 40–50% Natural gas — 80%+ Nuclear — up to 95% Meanwhile, PJM (the regional grid operator) warned us that by 2030, the region could lose about 40 gigawatts of reliable power generation (while replacing less than half of it).Since March, there has at least been some movement on the nuclear front in NJ, but on natural gas? Mostly lip service so far. We keep hearing about storage, batteries and demand management. Great story. Where's the generation? NJ ALREADY lost $175M on the Ørsted offshore wind gamble & despite the collapse of several major projects, Trenton continues pushing to revive offshore wind, fighting federal action in court to shut it down. The kicker is that even at full capacity, that project too would have delivered well under 20 gigawatts upon completion — less than half the power NJ actually needs. So how'd we end up here in the first place? NJ used to be an energy EXPORTER. Well, Trenton Democrats shuttered reliable power before replacements existed, so now NJ IMPORTS 35–40% of our electricity from states in our regional grid. The Dems pat themselves on the back for being “green,” while importing electricity from PA generated with much-needed fossil fuels, including coal. It gets more surreal. The same Dems assign blame to (and threaten to leave) PJM. We're importing power and acting like we hold the cards. WE DON'T (just ask Pennsylvania). And "green"? Grid batteries use lithium, cobalt, nickel and other mined minerals, produced through massive industrial extraction & chemical processing. They're ridiculously expensive to build and a disposal nightmare. Is this what they call environmentally-friendly “green energy”? Now look at the budget shell game. The budget highlights spending tied to the Clean Energy Fund ($700M a year) and RGGI (roughly $80–100M annually). Those funds don’t come from Trenton. They come from YOU — surcharges you already pay for, built into your electric bill (don't forget! Over the years, billions of dollars have been diverted out of the Clean Energy Fund to plug other holes in the state budget.) THE GAME IN THE NUTSHELL: Raise your rates. Collect the money through RGGI and Clean Energy Fund charges. Hand a sliver back as a “utility credit.” Smile big at the press conference with your climate activist crew. As the Governor & Majority party celebrate "clean energy" budget spending, understand that most of it is just recycling money you've paid in your electric bill. This budget STILL gambles on “green energy.” With your wallet. SIDEBAR: During the campaign, Mikie Sherrill promised to "freeze electric rates." Fun fact: as Governor, her Executive Order didn’t freeze anything. It "urged" the Board of Public Utilities to "consider" taking action. A far cry from freezing rates, which is not a function of any NJ Governor.

Dawn Fantasia

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Stargate Trivia: Casting Stargate: Atlantis While SG-1 was my first love (We were together for seven years!), my time on Atlantis proved equally memorable. The show was possessed of a similar tone in its mix of high adventure and humor, yet proved distinct in its exploration of Ancient mythology and an unfamiliar galaxy as seen through the eyes of a new set of heroes. Atlantis offered a sense of wonder and camaraderie born of isolation and constant danger. Whereas team SG-1 could always go home at the conclusion of their adventures, the members of the Atlantis expedition (at least for those first few seasons) could only draw comfort from the city of Atlantis itself – and, of course, each other. It was unique and compelling yet, at the same time, comfortingly familiar. Nowhere is this more evident than in its opening theme, composed by the late Joel Goldsmith, which is, at turns fresh, haunting, stirring and, throughout, discernibly Stargate. Stargate: Atlantis wasn’t originally planned as a companion to Stargate: SG-1. It was intended to replace the long-running series. The only problem was, with eight seasons under its belt, SG-1 wasn’t quite done yet. And fans (and the network) weren’t done with it either. And so, instead of passing the torch and segueing to a new Stargate series, we ended up producing both. In retrospect, it was quite an achievement: 40 hours of television in a year! Today's productions can barely manage a quarter that output, but Stargates SG-1 and Atlantis delivered two fantastic 40 episode seasons before SG-1 took its final bow. It wasn’t easy, but it was certainly made easier by all of the enormously talented individuals who made it happen, from the office staff and crew to the cast and my fellow writer/producers. Still, it was not without its challenges. Take casting, for instance. It may surprise you to know that, when it comes to producing a show, not everybody cares about costumes or set design or whether the script’s fifth act denouement is emotionally satisfying - but everybody, and I do mean EVERYBODY, has an opinion on casting. Studio and network execs, producers, hell, even your significant other peering over your shoulder as you screen the auditions on your laptop, will want to weigh in. Of course, the more voices in the mix the more likely there are to be disagreements. So it is with every production and Atlantis was no different. Various individuals envisioned these characters in various ways and, as a result, consensus was only achieved after many auditions, calls-backs, heated discussions, and not-so-gentle reminders that our start date was fast-approaching and we really needed someone to say the lines on camera. The part of Carson Beckett was one of the first we cast. The other producers were in Rob’s office, screening the first batch of local auditions when Brad called me in and told me to check out the guy onscreen. I hadn’t imagined Beckett with a Scottish accent but, after watching Paul McGillion (Paul McGillion) in the role, I couldn’t imagine him without one. He’d brought something unexpected to the part, something we all responded to. Elizabeth Weir was not an easy character to pull off. She had to be smart, confident and strong yet needed to exude a certain warmth and empathy we were looking for in the civilian leader of the expedition. When it came time to (re)casting the role, several established names were considered (One had her own hit genre show back in the day while another went on to break out on a hit show soon after), but it was Torri Higginson (torri higginson 🌻 🇺🇦 🕊) who managed to strike just the right balance and vault her name to the top of the list. The role of Teyla Emmagan was a tough one to cast. Like Weir, she needed to be a strong, empathetic leader. But she also required something even more important – quite literally, an other-worldly quality that made her unique. Some equally talented actresses auditioned for the role but, as good as they were, they were never quite able to achieve that gravitas Rachel Luttrell (Rachel Luttrell) pulled off with such grace and seeming ease. Former VJ Rainbow Sun Francks (Rainbow Sun Francks) won the role of Lieutenant Ford on the strength of a great audition, preceded by an equally great audition with a funny hat. I recall Brad Wright on the phone with our casting agent, advising him to ensure there would be no hat worn in the callback for fear the network would fixate on it. There wasn't, they didn't, and Rainbow delivered. The role of John Sheppard was the second to last one cast. It came right down to the wire and there were several candidates in play. The character was originally conceived as a good ole southern boy, so it only made sense that Ben Browder’s name was bandied about early. However, he was too busy shooting Peacekeeper Wars to warrant consideration. A number of other actors were considered (one went on to play the lead in a hugely popular show the following year while another made his mark as a handsome heart throb on another hugely popular medical series) but it was Joe Flanigan (Joe Flanigan) who won the part based on his ability to pull off the devil-may-care attitude Brad and Robert were looking for. We come to the final role cast, a character who, in many ways, embodied everything Atlantis was about: exploration, discovery, fun, humor, and seat-of-your-pants-Holy-Sh&%-how-the-hell-am-I-going-to-get-out-of-this-adventure. And he almost didn’t make the trip to Pegasus. Originally, the casting call went out for a completely different character, an earnest young doctor who would lend the team much-needed medical support on their off-world ventures. Unfortunately, no one could agree on an actor to fill that role. If the casting of Sheppard went down to the wire, then the casting of this final part went a step past it. Finally, days away from production, Robert Cooper had an idea: Forget the doctor character. Why not use an established character from SG-1? How about Rodney McKay played by David Hewlett (David "Stargate Genius Leader" Hewlett)? The writers were on board, but some executives weren't weren’t sold on the idea. They found him annoying! I mean, hell yeah, but he’d be sooo much fun to write for! Rob got on the phone and went to bat for Rodney, pointing out that the character had come a long way since first being introduced way back in SG-1’s 48 Hours. He’d evolved, going from annoying jerk to endearingly irritating. To this day, I’m convinced that they weren’t totally convinced but, with production poised to commence, they relented, I suppose figuring they could just replace the character somewhere down the line. No one, even those who loved the idea of having the endearingly irritating Rodney McKay on board could have predicted how hugely popular the character would become. How do you think we did?

Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️

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I've never heard Elon Musk be so bullish on Tesla ⚡️ here's my video analysis of the $TSLA Q4 2024 earnings call: -Robotaxi launch in Austin, June 2025 -California & other states launch robotaxi late 2025 -Cybercab in 2026 -Optimus V1 in 2025, 1K/month production line -Optimus V2 in 2026, 10K/month production line -2026 good year for Tesla, 2027/28 insanely good & more!! Timestamps- 0:00 Intro 0:44 Elon Opening Remarks 13:29 SAY Retail Questions 22:37 Analyst Questions 25:04 Gali Final Thoughts/Rant also here are my notes I typed during the conference call if you're interested! (may be errors) Tesla Q4 2024 Earnings Call Notes INTRO- ELON OPENING REMARKS -Q4 set record, delivered cars at rate of almost 2M cars/year -Model Y best-selling vehicle of any kind on earth (elon focused and talking quickly) -10Xing on autonomy, not doubling -many investments made this year that will bear immense fruit in the future, for AI -see a path for Tesla to the worlds most valuable company by far, worth more than the next 5 companies combined, difficult but achievable path -overwhelmingly due to autonomous vehicles and autonomous robots -setting up for an epic 2026, and ridiculously good 2027 and 2028 -meeting FSD now is like meeting a toddler -human intuition is linear, we’re seeing exponential progress -#1 recommendation is try it -typical passenger car has 10 hours of use out of 168, when its autonomous, itll be used for 55 hours a week … can deliver packages in the middle of thenight, or supply restaurants, all hours of the day or night. 5X increase in utility -more on self driving, continued improvements in safety numbers, much safer to use FSD -V14 will be another big step from V13 -launched CORTEX training cluster at Giga Austin, big step for FSD, continue to invest in training needs -Optimus training needs are about 10X what’s needed for the car -cost of training is dropping dramatically over time -Optimus has potential to be north of $10T in revenue, can put a lot training compute into that situation, even pumping $500B into it would be a good deal -future very different from the past, incredible inflection point in human history -proof is in the pudding -launching in June this year in Austin, already have cars moving autonomously in Fremont, thousands of cars per day driving, soon in Austin then elsewhere in the world -toe in the water at first to make sure everything is cool, but we have a general solution for autonomy , then put a few more toes, then a foot. Safety of the general public and those in the car as the top priority -with regard to Optimus, making insane revenue projections that sound insane, i realize that. But i think they will prove to be accurate -several thousand bots made this year, they will be doing useful things by the end of this year, im confidence, production design one at the tesla factories, then will learn for production design two -ramp optimus production faster than anything has ever launched, doesn’t take very many years before we’er making 100M of these things per year , 500% growth per year -tried using all these suppliers to get it to build Optimus, but nothing worked, had to build it internally from first principles, the hand is increibdle -long term Optimus will be the value of the company -back to Energy,/earth, -energy storage is a big deal, becoming more important, enables far greater energy output to the grid than is currently possible. -grid has no storage, designed for peak storage, lots of waste -once you have grid energy storage, the potential of the grid is unlocked, at least double -this will drive demand of battery packs as to as much as we can possibly make -shanghai factory starting operation, starting another factory -cant shoot our selves in the foot, battery capacity can only go into storage or mobility, so always making that tradeoff -demand for total Gigawatt hours for batteries, transportation or stationary will grow in a very big way over time 2025 a pivotal year for tesla, launch of full self driving, biggest year in tesla history, maybe even bigger than first car or model s, 3 or y … probably most important year in tesla’s history I don’t even know who is in 2nd place in real world AI, would need a telescope to see them SAY QUESTIONS -FSD Unsupervised launched in California this year as well -most likely release it in many regions of the US by the end of this year -40K people day everyday no mention, some scrapes a shin with autonomous car its headlines news -need to use insane amounts of caution -discussions about licensing FSD? Yes -best way to know to work with us, bbuy a car and take it apart -only worth very high volume cars/production partners -tesla engineering very focused on getting it to roll out for tesla first -soon will be obvious that if you don’t have FSD you’re dead as an OEM -is Optimus design locked? -Optimus is not design locked, constantly iterating, best robotics engineers in the world, and other ingredients, battery pack, charging, great electronics, great communications, great connectivity, real world AI, then you need to scale that production to real world levels -prototypes are easy production is hard -thijs year close loop with using optimus internally at tesla, would could obviously use a few thousand robots for the most boring annoying tasks at the company -with production version 2, launches sometime next year, would like beginning, might be middle though, -production line will be doing 10K units per month capacity for v2, first line designing is for roughly 1,000 units per month, then next line will be for 100,000 units per month -could start delivering them late next year, will go so fast, will ramp like crazy, demand will not be a problem, even at a high price, once were above 1M units per year, production costs of optimus will be less than $20,000 -if you compare complexity of optimus to complexity of a car, its much less than a car -price of optimus will be set buy market demand -Semi ramping next year, TCO no brainer, like optimus, will be massive demand, will meaningfully contribute to tesla’s revenue at scale -tesla semi with autonomy, is incredibly valuable -we actually have a shortage of truck drivers here in the US -will HW3 owners need a hardware update, got 12.6 which is like a baby v13, have’t given up on it, releases will trail HW4 releases … “honest answer” is were going to have to upgrade for those who have bought full self driving, will be painful and difficult and we’ll get it done “Happy not many people bought FSD” -solar roof, given up on ramping it? -lots of customer interest despite premium, making easier to install, focused on growth through certified installers, many been installing for many years -supply product to the roofing industry -it’s a premium product like S/X -combined with Tesla powerwall you can be self sufficient for several days ANALYST QUETIONS -robotaxis in Austin and several other cities this year, and next year all over america -america innovates, europe regulates, to release FSD in europe, have to go through massive paperwork through netherlands, then presents to EU in may, some big country committee, nothing we can do to make it happen sooner. -can’t do training in china with video training, publicly available videos in china are being run through the tesla system to be used for training, bus lanes are complicated and a big challenge -tesla can keep manufacturing even if geopolitical tensions rise to very high levels -Pierre question on June in Austin, -can i try unsupervised myself, or will it be the Tesla fleet? -it will be the Tesla fleet testing it, that’s the toe in the water, scrutinizing everything -autonomous ride hailing for money in june -probably next year for you to put your car on network -trump removing EV incentives? -all transport will go electric, can’t be stopped, even planes, will be like stopping the steam engine or combustion engine -only thing holding back EVs was range, and thats a solved problem -right now solving battery production, not demand, big battery retooling for model y coming up, short term impact on output

Gali

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📍You may have already heard: The latest Roy Morgan poll was released today, and the results are nothing short of damning for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon — his government is faltering, big time. Significantly, National has slumped further to just 29%, while Labour surges to 34% and the Greens to 13.5%. Together with Te Pati Māori, on these numbers the Opposition now commands 50% support – enough to secure a parliamentary majority albeit a super slim one, if an election were held today. Meanwhile, the governing bloc of National, ACT, and NZ First has tumbled to its lowest level this year, sitting on just 46.5%. These numbers tell a story of buyers’ remorse entrenching itself among even the most loyal centre-right voters, who are clearly beginning to question whether Luxon and his government are up to the task of leading the country. Here’s the breakdown of today’s poll: 📊 Party Vote Results •Labour: 34% (+3) •Greens: 13.5% (+2) •Te Pāti Māori: 2.5% (-1) •National: 29% (-2) •ACT: 10.5% (–) •NZ First: 7% (-2.5) What is particularly striking is that the coalition’s strategy of relentlessly attacking the Opposition by blaming Labour for the ongoing economic malaise is clearly backfiring. Despite constant rhetoric about inheriting a mess, voters have clearly moved on. They want results, not spin. While the economy continues to stagnate, and confidence remains weak, according to this poll younger voters – particularly women – are deserting Luxon in droves. Lest we forget, this is a government that campaigned on competence, stability, and economic credibility, but less than two years in, the numbers show that perception has all but evaporated. The Opposition’s slim but clear lead is evidence that the public no longer trusts Luxon’s government to deliver. Today’s latest embarrassment — an announcement of an announcement — only underlined that weakness. Luxon staged a hyped-up announcement this morning about Amazon’s new data centres, largely presenting it as proof of his government’s economic achievements – only to be reminded that the investment was actually secured under Labour back in 2021. Labour leader Chris Hipkins wasn’t having any of it though, putting out a press release today labelling Luxon “the FIGJAM Prime Minister” — “F_ck I’m good, just ask me!” Turns out Luxon’s biggest economic achievement so far is recycling Labour announcements and calling it leadership. For Luxon, the danger is existential. His government increasingly looks less like a competent administration and more like a coalition of inept idiots scrambling for excuses. This poll showing National’s slide, NZ First’s collapse, and ACT’s stagnation all point to voters’ growing disillusionment. Unless Luxon can turn around the perception that his government is weak, reactive, and obsessed with spin over substance, he is on track to make history and the man who led New Zealand’s first one-term government since 1975. Here’s 1News Benedict Collins with today’s announcement of an announcement. #nzpol #FIGJAM

Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿

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Since taking office, President Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change, unleashed fossil fuel production, cut climate subsidies that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and chosen as his Secretary of Energy an oilman who helped create the fracking revolution. Given that Democrats have spent the last 20 years describing climate change as an “existential threat” and making climate policy their highest priority under Biden, one would expect there to be significant protests and other actions by progressives. And yet we’ve seen no significant climate change protests since Trump took office two months ago. No Greta Thunberg marches — she’s moved on to Palestine. No drumbeat from the news media. No Extinction Rebellion activists blocking traffic in DC. “Climate emergency” was not among the words chosen by Democrats in Congress to put on the little placards they held up during Trump’s address to Congress earlier this month. In fact, to the extent there have been protests by Democrats, they have been against the world’s most pioneering electric car manufacturer, Tesla, and have nothing to do with climate change. It’s true that many Democrats still care deeply about climate change and the issue may come back in the future. Where just 23% of Republicans view climate change as a serious threat to the country, 78% of Democrats do. “Executive orders are for show,” says political scientist and climate policy expert, The Honest Broker , on a new podcast for Public, “legislation is for real. And there doesn't seem to be any legislative strategy accompanying anything Trump is doing. As far as pulling out of Paris, we've done this dance before. Trump pulled out to Paris, and then Biden went back in.” And the media and Democrats routinely tie every natural disaster, such as the recent fires in LA, to climate change, even though there’s no good science supporting such connections, in most instances. “Every day there's some extreme weather somewhere,” said Pielke, who is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, “and so it is a perfectly made issue for sustaining some degree of attention.” But the partisan polarization over climate change, and the ease with which Trump and Biden can put the US in and out of the Paris agreement, all underscore the overall low level of concern with climate change in comparison to more pressing issues like inflation, migration, and even seemingly fringe issues like transgenderism. “The climate movement is a product of North America and Northern Europe,” said Pielke. “The ‘climate first’ voter is a tiny slice of the political landscape, even though they occupy a lot of attention and time on social media, in universities, and until recently, in the global financial sector. They made a lot of noise, but there weren't a lot of them around to begin with. The climate is just not that important to very many people around the world. People will say it's important. But give them a list of topics and it routinely comes in 17th, 18th, 19th, out of 20.” And now Pielke predicts that climate change could go the way of past environmental scares. “One story for the future of the climate discourse and climate change is that it's not going to go away, but it's going to fade from the center of public view like overpopulation did.” Why did climate change emerge as an issue of concern and then fade? “There's a pretty well-known economist named Anthony Downs who wrote a famous paper called the Issue Attention Cycle,” said Pielke. “It’s like a bell curve. You discover there's a potential problem, there's a lot of excitement, and ‘We’ve got to do something about it!’ Everybody gets on the bandwagon. Then you realize, ‘Oh my gosh, this is difficult! This is challenging!’ And then your attention goes to somewhere else and it's back down. And really climate change is following the Downs’ Issue Attention Cycle perfectly.” Pielke notes that the rate at which economies decarbonize, or reduce the amount of carbon dioxide per unit of GDP, is unchanged. “For the foreseeable future, we will continue to decarbonize the economy no matter what countries say about their climate commitments or whether there's a Viktor Orban or a Donald Trump in office. Decarbonization is much more powerful, it seems, than the politics of the climate. The Paris agreement hasn't really done anything to alter the trajectory of global decarbonization….Climate policy does a lot of things, but reducing carbon dioxide emissions is not one of those things...” Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and listen to the full podcast!

Michael Shellenberger

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