while local private businesses in Canada are being eviscerated, the fattest and most indolent public sector in Canada - Canadian federal government - rewards itself.
I worked in Ottawa federal govt for a couple of years in late 1970s. Every building had book store so that employees would have something to read in the afternoons.
Largest section of federal phone book was Indian Affairs, which had thousands of employees who didn't seem to do anything useful. Since then, department has more than doubled in size and become less useful.
one of oddities of present COVID debate is the sycophancy of COVID "science" commentators - Nathan Stall, David Fisman etc - to federal govt which has little responsibility other than the vaccine drought up to April and opening airports to new variants, while slagging province.
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an extremely interesting graphic. I first became interested in climate from a smart "deep-time" geologist whose view was that we are still in a geological Ice Age and that climate zealots were merely a noxious variety of Creationist.
2/ not shown on this graphic is the development of continental-scale North American ice sheet in the Pleistocene. Abe-Ouchi 2013 convincingly explained NoAmer ice sheet as further CO2 starvation. twitter.com/search?q=abe-o…
3/ Abe-Ouchi showed convincing explanation of 100 kyr Pleistocene cycle as interaction of NoAmer isostatic subsidence and Milankovich cycles. In Little Ice Age, there was incipient neoglaciation in the areas which had been centers of ice sheet spreading in LGM
I've commented several times that SIA Brian Auten, who's been under radar, had unique role in burying Danchenko evidence and puffs to Steele. Look what Strzok and Page said in October about Brian [Auten?].
2/ "if this thing ever gets FOIA'd, there are going to be some tough questions asked and a great deal of those will be related to Brian having a scope way outside the boundaries of logic."
3/ "[Auten] is one of the worst offenders of the rabbit holes and conspiracy theories. This guy traveled with that guy, who put down 3rd guy as his visa sponsor. 3rd guy lives near a navy base, therefore..."
a German writer has examined and translated radio traffic leading up to landing of Ryanair flight at Minsk. Based on this article, it appears that US/NATO fabricated allegations that Belarus forced plane to land in Minsk. anti-spiegel.ru/2021/alle-jahr… anti-spiegel.ru/2021/komplette…
2/ in saying this, I have no knowledge or information on who sent email threat to airports or what their motive was. But there doesn't seem to be ANY evidence that Belarus threatened to send MIGs to force airplane down, as alleged in many stories.
3/ it is, of course, possible that Belarus sent email to airports to induce the flight to land at Minsk, but, to my knowledge, no proof of that has been adduced so far. Maybe we'll find out more.
savage commentary in WSJ today about the "grifters" and the dossier archive.is/vpkcP. But even this editorial under-states and mis-identifies the much more serious issue in relation to the dossier which Meier neglected and even misdirected away from.
archive.is/vpkcP Editorialist Holman Jenkins recognizes the flimsiness of Steele's supposed "network", but it's worse than he says. "Millian's role" wasn't "inflated"; it was fabricated. Neither Steele nor Danchenko ever met or had contact with Millian. Meier ignored this
3/ the most alarming allegations of collusion, set out in their most gory detail in Report 95 (which was delivered less than a week after Wikileaks drop as intel porn fulfilling Dem fantasies) were based on supposed "network". They were fabricated in Beltway and/or UK.
Michael Shellenberger reminds us of the Peter Gleick wire and computer fraud and document forgery that was ignored by Democrat prosecutors since Gleick had Democrat privilege,
2/ Gleick was not only a criminal, but a dumb criminal. @stevenmosher spotted him as author of the forgery because the name of the vain and idiotic Gleick was placed prominently in the forged document. Mosher and I are friends; we were in regular communication as Gleick was outed
1/ @BarryMeier's exemplar Steele dossier incident - both in book and Isikoff interview - was the Michael Cohen in Prague incident, rather than the memos attributed to "Millian" that were relied on in ICA and Page FISA.
2/ it prompted me to reflect a little on Steele reports on Cohen incident, which I haven't thought much about, since Cohen visit to Prague was disproved early on, tho McClatchy later published allegation of Cohen phone being pinged in Prague. mcclatchydc.com/news/investiga…
3/ Cohen's name is first mentioned in Steele memos on three consecutive days in October (18, 19, 20), then again in the non-DNC memo on Dec 13.