Thank you to Eva Kurilova for finding this resolution. There is hope that we can have a return to sanity here in Alberta.
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A Puff of Absurdity: Kearl Lake Outbreak
I’m sometimes spurred on by the idea that it’s possible for average people to put things together in a way that might have an effect. I read Michelle McNamara’s excellent true crime book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark a few years ago, and I keep thinking about it. Significant useful theories about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Oxford Union Hosts Ben Shapiro on the Conflict in the Middle East
Sorry for the incovenience of having to go to youtube to watch the happenings at the Oxford Union. It was quite a raucous affair. Compare and contrast with the lecture at Cambridge where students as opposed to radicals came out and a productive mostly civil debate and conversation resulted. The
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Greenwash, Lithium & Eco-Fascism
Proved: Greenwash Is Ecoterrorism, Eco-Fascism – and High-Tech, Neo-Feudal “Green” Imperialism Indigenous cultures in the “lithium triangle” of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia are being robbed, subjugated, poisoned and plundered, to make Teslas and cell phones. Corporate-state violence is the continuing norm, in response. Welcome to “Green” Imperialism. Cell phones, tablets,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Supporting Atrocities
This is an excellent 7 minute video explaining WHY the U.S. and U.K. and other wealthy nations so strongly support Israel’s current atrocities. No spoilers. Just watch it! (h/t Adlie)
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: BLOWBACK – And Collapse
JFK, MLK, The CIA – And The Collapse Of The West Yes, the evidence is clear: the CIA killed JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X. They are the goons of the corporate-state oligarchy. What did you think they do? Defend freedom and democracy? Were you born yesterday? (Read, Killing Hope,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Nothing New
Studies coming out now keep repeating what we already know. Covid was at first thought to be a respiratory illness, but we know it makes its home in the bloodstream giving it access to affect “cardiovascular, respiratory, neuropsychiatric, gastrointestinal, reproductive, and musculoskeletal systems,” with persistent manifestations that can impact all
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Collapse Of The West: Chapter One: The Global Tectonic Shift
By J. Todd Ring Preface: I wrote this essay in January of 2020, then the covid crisis hit, and it was shelved for over a year. The macro-scale patterns have not changed fundamentally since then, although the slow-motion collapse of the US, and the West more broadly, has accelerated. I
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: War Crimes Upon War Crimes
What’s worse than bombing a hospital? Bombing a refugee camp, turning it into a death camp. The excuse: There was apparently a Hamas commander there. So if the first devastating blast killed him as the IDF claimed, why the followup attacks on refugees and emergency workers there? Hitting a refugee
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Yup, It’s Still Airborne
The much publicized 60 Minutes episode on Covid ran last night. Lots of accolades on social media, but I wasn’t impressed. We’re just happy for scraps at this point. The segment ran in two parts. The main part, at 13 minutes, was all about cleaning air in buildings. As they
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – On Missing People Posters
This just nails what the post modern Left has become. Deplatforming and deliberately not dealing with facts.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid Affects Children! Who Knew??
It’s big news suddenly that Covid causes longterm damage to blood vessels in kids. This was known back in December 2020. Nothing has been suddenly revealed. I’ve been saying that Covid leave microclots in the bloodstream that can travel anywhere in the body. I haven’t just said it on this little
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Politicization of Masks
If political leaders on the left feel like they can’t talk about the importance of N95s to prevent viruses, then points go to the far right, who started this anti-mask rhetoric. I asked, “What’s the NDP’s position on bringing back masks in schools, healthcare facilities, and public transportation during this
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: For all the Fierce Raindrops: Lessons that Should Have Been Learned
Changing minds on big issues takes a long time and the work never ends. Anti-drinking and driving groups appeared in the early 1980s, like MADD, typically made up of survivors or relatives of victims who saw first hand that something must be done to prevent so many disabilities and deaths.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: We are Afraid
That was a headline in Forbes yesterday, followed by: “Scientists Issue New Warning as World Enters ‘Uncharted Climate Territory.’” The Forbes article summarize an article from BioScience: “The 2023 State of the Climate Report: Entering Uncharted Territory,” a follow-up on a 2020 report co-signed by over 15,000 scientists from 163 countries that called on government
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Housing and Value(s)
Here’s a little story about the house at the end of my street. About 30 years ago, it was a bit of a grow-op, with vicious guard dogs, one that actually ate the leg off the neighbour’s family dog! When I’d walk down the street with my kids, we’d always
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The West is in Trouble – Gad Saad and Bret Weinstein
Two views on the current state of the West. Both share a fairly grim tone. We need to as nations of the West turn things around. The classical liberal* principles that our societies were founded on need to be restored and refreshed in their primacy of how we exist as
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: War And The Spineless Ontario NDP
Terrible. Stiles caved to pressure from an Apartheid government currently engaged in acts of genocide during a war escalated by a terrorist attack by Hamas. Stiles doesn’t want an MPP willing to speak out against a foreign government openly waging an asymmetrical war in response to a terrorist attack. Having
Continue readingThings Are Good: A New Guide to Science Advocacy
Scientists used to think that sharing the facts and evidence of an issue was enough to sway policy makers and the general public. Unfortunately, with many issues facing us today there are vested interests looking to derail civil discourse around topics like climate change and vaccines. Today Evidence for Democracy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Does Sanity have to Come from the Right? – Banning Incorrect Terminology
I spent a fair amount of time poking fun at the US right-wing here on DWR. But as of late is that very same right wing that is standing up and fighting for the rights, boundaries, and safety of women. The noisy befuddled activist Left has taken over the discourse
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