It’s a funny disconnect between Twitter and everywhere else. Yesterday everyone I know online was glued to the Senate hearings. If you weren’t one of them, here’s the gist: You can watch the whole thing here. These are just the highlights that stood out to me. Long Covid patients, parents
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Trump Hysteria
Trump did little good in his first term as US President, and much that was bad – but he didn’t turn the US into a fascist police state: Cheney, Obama and Biden did that. I am no Trump supporter, but the establishment political elite of the two dominant US parties
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Renaissance, Resistance & Revolution
In terms of social movements, the Left is dead, for the time being, at least in the formerly industrialized, formerly “leading”, “developed”, First World nations of the (North-) West. The reason it is dead, is because it has been seduced into supporting authoritarianism, and has thereby been co-opted by the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Teachers Prepared To Strike For Smaller Class Sizes
In recent years, many teachers are dealing with 40 kids, in unsafe classrooms, while the Sask Party Education Minister posts about a mining company on the day the strike is announced. Why did he talk about this mining company? He’s boasting about the corruption his government is getting away with,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Best Prime Minister We Never Had
There are few politicians that I gush over, but Ed Broadbent is one of them. We lost one of the good ones. I don’t like him because he’s NDP – there are others in that party who wouldn’t get my vote – but because he’s principled. I’m even a member
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Taxonomy of Cancel Culture – Luke C. Sheahan
Cancel Culture is a term that is is now common parlance, but what exactly is it and what are the conditions that foster such a blight on our society and social systems? Many of the actions of the activist-Left (or woke) when they attempt to cancel a person in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ICBM’s – The Nuclear Question
The very real threat of nuclear war hasn’t been on the radar since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Yet the capacity for self-annihilation remains. Consider the question raised by Daniel Ellsberg: “When I say that there is a step that could reduce the risk of nuclear war significantly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cognitive Frames for Defining What Government Is – Richard Morrison
While reading Richer Morrison’s essay called Self-Defeating Environmental Activism this particular paragraph caught my eye ( I recommend reading the entire essay). “I call this unconstrained in part as a reference to the distinction the economist Thomas Sowell advanced, of a constrained vs. unconstrained view of society and government. The
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Global Tectonic Shift: The Rise Of China & The Collapse Of The West
To more deeply understand China’s rise, and the decline of the West, see my essay, The Failure Of Propaganda & The Resort To Fascism, which traces the history of the last 60 years. But I will summarize this global tectonic shift, or major parts of it, here. Hold onto your
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Political Philosophy & The Future Of Humanity – In A Nutshell
I will be brief. Fuller elaborations I have already made elsewhere. Here is the gist. Excellent talk, this is, in the video linked below, but incorrect here: “Nobody in the West is presenting an alternative.” I did. See my books, Enlightened Democracy, and, The People vs The Elite. Also, China’s
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: McKinsey’s Effect on Public Health
Almost two years ago, the Canadian government published a Covid response plan that they appear to be largely ignoring. The 3rd edition of the guide was published in March 2022, and it appears to be the most recent edition. They outline the “worst case scenario,” and it’s pretty much what
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Can We Get Some Leadership Here?
Hopefully more people will start paying attention to the dangers of Covid and wear a simple N95 to protect themselves and others now that JN.1 seems to be in the news more. But leadership would help. The concern with JN.1 is that the “variant appears to have an increased affinity
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Is Canada Okay?
Dr. Mike Moffatt explained the six economic problems Canadians should worry about. He starts with red tape stopping things that would benefit us, a lack of state capacity, overlapping jurisdictions that allow things to slip through or remain undone, use of temporary foreign workers, risk aversion, and demographics. Below is all from
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Covid is Finally a Concern!
Maria Van Kerkhove, of the World Health Organization, is worried about Covid. If she’s worried, then the shit has really hit the fan. Van Kerkhove is well known to have said, over and over, that Covid-19 is not airborne so masks aren’t necessary despite it being known to be airborne by January 2020.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On the Fog of Covid
There’s nothing normal about our lives right now. Simple precautions could change the rate of illness, disability, or death, but that would mean leaders opening themselves to lawsuits if they admit any error. The term “fog of war” refers to how much is unknown and unknowable – the uncertainty of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Douglas Murray & Cenk Uygur – On the Hamas/Israel Conflict
Douglas Murray has a hard rule about public debates. He will treat you with respect – until you cross the line of politeness and decency. Then, the gloves come off. Very close to a master class is put on by Cenk Uygur on how not to hold your own in
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The 21st Century Crisis Of Civilization
This is a reading list, not an article. I cannot repeat myself endlessly! Quality over quantity. Excellent discussion here in the video below, but the discussion has a glaring avoidance of the political dimension. Such one-sided approaches are frankly doomed to failure, at least now, at this time in history,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Argentina: Neoliberalism In Drag As Freedom
The new president of Argentina calls himself a libertarian, but he is a right-wing libertarian. (The distinction is crucial.) That means, essentially, neo-liberalism on steroids, unchecked and unleashed. Either he is ignorant or a liar, because Pinochet tried that plan in 1973 (see The Shock Doctrine), after he was installed
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