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Here’s Hoping the Canadian Civil War Spreads Everywhere
Here’s Ayn Rand’s answer to the claim that evil IS all-powerful: “Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality—and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan—so throughout the world and throughout men’s history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values—the impotence of death. I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win—and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was “No.”” [from Galt’s Speech in Atlas Shrugged]”
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Trudeau screams about the “illegal actions” of truckers. What about the illegal actions of a totalitarian government? It’s like a thief calling his victims “criminal” for demanding their money back.
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Giving any government “emergency powers” based upon the government’s subjective definition of “emergency” is a blank check for unlimited, unprecedented and totalitarian dictatorship. Example? Canada, right now.
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If Trudeau fires on the truckers, will Biden rush to defend them as he claims to defend the Ukraine?
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In a lawless regime, is Hillary Clinton’s proven guilt of any significance? The criminals will not prosecute a fellow criminal.
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“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” Trudeau responded [in a video uncovered from 2014]. “Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and saying ‘We need to go greenest fastest, we need to start, you know, investing in solar.’”
“There is a flexibility that I know [former Conservative Prime Minister] Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted, that I find quite interesting,” he continued.
The resurfaced video of Trudeau’s admiration of Xi Jinping’s government, who took the reigns of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, comes as his government is currently cracking down on peaceful protests against Chinese coronavirus-related civil rights violations, using tools many are comparing to “martial law.” [Breitbart News]
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Biden and Trudeau: The Free World is no Longer Trudeau
Health officials announced Monday that they had detected a strain of bird flu in Kentucky and Virginia after the destruction of around 30,000 turkeys on an Indiana farm, according to The Hill.
But the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has noted that no human cases have been detected so far. [NEWSMAX 2-14-22]
OMG. LOCK EVERYTHING DOWN. LOCK EVERYONE UP. CONCOCT A POTION, CALL IT A VACCINE, SAY IT’S “SCIENCE”, STARVE OR SHAME ANYONE WHO WON’T TAKE IT, PAY THE MANUFACTURERS A TRILLION DOLLARS AND IMPOSE NO LIABILITY ON ANY OF THEM FOR ANY FAILURES OR DEATHS THAT OCCUR. MAKE ALL PEOPLE, INCLUDING CHILDREN, WEAR MASKS FOREVER, AND ELIMINATE ALL INDIVIDUAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS PERMANENTLY.
Oh, wait. None of that could ever happen. It was all a dream. It could NEVER happen in America.
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If borders do not matter, why is the Ukraine-Russia border so important to Biden?
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Biden needs a war to look like a President. Biden will never look like a President.
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Biden the Chihuahua screeching at a bemused Putin … or Justin Trudeau threatening to turn all of Canada into Tiananmen Square: Which one is the bigger story?
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Canada’s Trudeau and Leftists on MSNBC prefer world totalitarianism rather than allowing one person, even for 5 minutes, NOT to wear a mask.
It’s beyond sick, beyond insane — even beyond evil. Unspeakable and unprecedented.
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“Evil, not value, is an absence and a negation, evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.” — Ayn Rand
Good guys of the world, unite. THIS is your adversary. How unspeakably, embarrassingly pathetic! If your predecessors could defeat royal tyrants, Hitlers, Stalins, and terrorists, surely you can defeat these pathetic, metaphysically impotent moral mutants. We are with you. Go get them.
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Emergencies Act in Canada will expand powers of Canadian banks to freeze account, halt funds
Financial institutions will be allowed to share information with police in bid to curb protests
[2 headlines from today]
It can’t happen here, you say? It’s already happening up there, in Canada. Canada is now literally a dictatorship. I tried to tell you back in March 2020 that forced mask wearing was never about disease. Now, 2 years later, freedom has been obliterated in Canada. Will the USA be next?
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Canceling Joe
Joe Rogan is amazing.
Five years ago, I left Fox to start Stossel TV. I left because I was frustrated by live TV. Guests talked so much but said little.
I now produce videos like the ones I used to do on “20/20.” I like having a month or more to do research and then more time to edit the video into a short clip that explains complicated things but is also fun to watch.
This edited model succeeded. Our short videos average 2 million views.
People are busy. They don’t want to sit through hours of live discussion.
But then Joe Rogan proved me wrong.
He talks to people, not for an hour, but often for three hours. Yet 11 million people stay to listen. Eleven million!
How does he do it? He had no journalism training. He acted on a sitcom and hosted the reality show “Fear Factor.” I happen to be a mixed martial arts fan, so I did notice that Rogan was the best commentator at UFC events.
But hosting three hours of serious talk with intellectuals like physicist Brian Cox or mathematician Roger Penrose without the visual gimmicks that make TV bearable is very different.
So, I started listening to Rogan’s podcasts. Suddenly, I found myself spending an hour, sometimes three, with Rogan and his guests. I learned more than I learn watching TV news.
I don’t really know how Rogan does it. Maybe it’s because he’s a good listener who asks good questions. He remembers what he learned from past interviews and uses those ideas when he questions other guests. He somehow makes three educational hours fun.
Now Rogan is being criticized for broadcasting “misinformation.”
He sometimes has anti-vaxxers on his show who claim COVID-19 vaccines are harmful. Rogan himself didn’t get vaccinated. He believes his natural immunity (he and his family had COVID-19) is enough protection. If he got COVID-19 again, he thinks it wouldn’t hurt him much because he’s fit, takes vitamins, etc.
I’m skeptical. I’m about to get my fourth dose of vaccine.
But I still like hearing Rogan question anti-vaxxers and other people with unusual ideas. I learn from his show.
But other people say, “Rogan must be stopped. He kills people by broadcasting ‘misinformation.'” Also, “He’s racist because he said the N-word.”
Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and some other musicians who I bet have never listened to Rogan pulled their music from Spotify, the service that carries his podcast.
They and others demand Spotify drop his show.
Spotify hasn’t.
And Rogan, unlike many people attacked by the mob, didn’t hide.
He did what all of us should do if we’re attacked for something we say: fight back with more speech.
He quickly (without TV cosmetics — looks like he shot it in his backyard) released a video on Instagram, pointing out, “Many of the things that we thought of as misinformation just a short while ago are now accepted as fact. … If you said, ‘I don’t think cloth masks work,’ you would be banned from social media. Now that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said, ‘I think it’s possible that COVID-19 came from a lab,’ you’d be banned from many social media platforms. Now that’s on the cover of Newsweek.”
Rogan is right. The smug arbiters of truth versus misinformation are often wrong.
Then Rogan faced another controversy. A video of him using the N-word was circulated. Rogan apologized but again fought back with more speech. He said he never called anyone the N-word; he’d only said it when others said it.
“I was quoting a Lenny Bruce bit,” said Rogan. “Or a Paul Mooney bit. Or I was talking about how Quentin Tarantino used it repeatedly in ‘Pulp Fiction.'”
Rogan’s a comedian who’s done thousands of shows and hundreds of podcasts. Of course he’ll make mistakes and offend some people. So what? He corrects his mistakes.
Let Rogan speak.
John Stossel
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The Primary Goal Should be Joy and Happiness
A visitor to my website writes that he has fallen in love with a woman who is fourteen years his senior. He tells me that he generally goes for people his own age, but that he’s never felt so good about any relationship. He asks if this is wrong.
First of all, congratulations! Second, my primary definition of a “wrong” relationship is one that leads to unhappiness for either or both parties. Tolerating or inflicting physical or mental abuse is wrong. Staying with someone only out of nostalgia or pity is also wrong. According to my ethical perspective, genuine happiness is never wrong. It sounds like you’re happy, and I trust your partner is as well. What could be wrong with that?
A relationship with an age difference (within legal boundaries, of course) ought to be approached like any other. Is there compatibility? Are there common values? Are there enough differences to make it interesting but not so many as to make sustained companionship impossible? Of course, there are unique aspects as well. For example, the younger person has less life experience, and the wider the age difference, the greater that challenge can be.
As in any relationship, there has to be intellectual compatibility. But mental abilities and life experience are not the same. An older person may respect how bright the younger person is, in spite of the lack of experience. People who are happy in such relationships don’t see the age difference as a challenge. The younger partner likes being with someone who has experience and wisdom; the older partner enjoys the younger partner’s youth and vigor. Issues related to age are not nearly as significant as a real connection and the ability to sustain it over time.
The late actor Tony Randall married a younger woman after his wife of many years died. He had children with the younger woman, something he and his first wife never did. I’m sure it was hard on his younger wife and kids to lose him. But would it have been better if he had never remarried, spending his final years lonely and sad? Would his widow be better off never having loved him? I say no, because I always vote for happiness above knee-jerk responses based on emotion and bias.
The most important factor is to be honest, not only with the other person but also with yourself. Can you honestly say that you would rather be with him or her than anyone else? At the end of the day, do you look forward to being with your partner? If so, then something is working, and you’re fortunate, no matter what the age difference.
Of course there are relationships that fail because of age issues. Needs and basic values can sometimes change between one’s early years and later in life. Yet, my experience has shown that it’s more the presence of extreme youth that creates the problem, rather than the age difference. The same thing applies when two young people marry, only to realize that one or both of them chose to marry too soon.
If you’re pursuing a relationship with an age disparity, and it bothers you, then try to figure out why. Are you happy with your partner, but dislike the idea of the age difference? Do you worry about what others think, even though you’re happy? Those are wrong reasons to hesitate.
If the age difference is bothering you because you genuinely feel frustration over a lack of compatibility, then that’s a valid reason for pause. But, above all, don’t let bias or baseless prejudice stand in the way of your happiness. Love and joy must be the primary goal.
Michael J. Hurd
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Serious Unaddressed Issues
The attention given to the growing public resistance to “vaccine” mandates and to the “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” allegedly to happen at any moment, has left equally serious problems without attention.
Two unattended very serious problems are the continuing research in weaponizing viruses and making them contagious that is financed by Fauci at NIH and by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the absence of medical research about how to help those whose health is damaged by the mRNA vaccines.
Under the Biological Weapons Convention, this research is banned. Fauci gets around the law by claiming that the research is not for biowarfare purpose, but to anticipate viruses that might emerge in nature so that we will be prepared to combat them. Francis Boyle who wrote the implementing legislation for the US says that gain of function research, which gave the Covid virus its contagious feature, is a violation of the law.
As DARPA has so many scientists employed in the illegal research, usually protected under “national security” claims, no one has been brave enough to do anything about it. Indeed, it is difficult to do anything when governments refuse to obey their own laws.
As the banned research continues, we are faced with another virus escape or intentional release in service to a secret agenda, such as more control over populations or reduction in population. It is encouraging that people are resisting the counterproductive “vaccine” mandates. We need even stronger protests against the illegal biowarfare research.
The vaccine adverse reporting systems in the US, UK, and EU show that the mRNA vaccines have killed tens of thousands of people and badly injured hundreds of thousands. These numbers are only a fraction of the deaths and injuries as it is known that the deaths and injuries are vastly underreported.
The medical establishment, which is allied with pharmaceutical companies, endorsed mandated vaccination by an untested substance inappropriately given emergency use authorization. To protect its own credibility, the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge that the injuries and deaths are vaccine related. They falsely claim that adverse reactions are rare, and they classify the deaths and injuries as Covid cases. Since the medical establishment is too corrupt to acknowledge the massive mistake, the medical establishment is not interested in how to cleanse the body of the toxic elements in the vaccines or how to help those trusting and fearful souls who were stampeded into being injected with an untested concoction that has proved to be dangerous.
Considering the enormous effort required just to resist illegal and unconstitutional mandates and the enormous resistance to the protests by the nazified governments in Canada, Austria, Germany, France, Australia, and elsewhere, what chances do the people have of mounting an effort sufficient to stop the illegal biowarfare research? How large and ongoing a protest will it take to force a corrupt medical establishment to pour resources into finding ways to help the vaccine-injured?
Assuming the people can defeat the vaccine mandates, will they have the energy and the realization to take on the unaddressed business of the ongoing illegal biowarfare research and the absence of help for the vaccine-injured?
To be free is a never-ending battle. Governments are motivated to accumulate power and resources. Into these activities is where governments put their energy. Over the course of my lifetime I have watched all government–state, local, and federal, as well as Property Owners Associations, become less accountable. In the end trust between the people and government wears away, and government governs by deceit, force and terror.
Biden’s Incredible Weakness may Start WWIII
Joe Biden’s Incredible Weakness May Start World War III
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Joe Biden and Putin spoke Saturday, but “Putin has already indicated he’s not interested in dialogue,” said Fred Fleitz, the vice chairman of the America First Policy Institute and the former chief of staff for the National Security Council. “He has a very low regard for Joe Biden. He and his officials have mocked Biden as being incompetent, too old on many occasions.”
Amazing. Fleitz is the spokesmen for conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters. Until the last few years, Republicans were on the side of military interventions, while Democrats were generally on the opposite side. Now it’s all reversed. Biden is about to get the United States into a dangerous conflict with Russia — for what purpose? — while Republicans say we should limit our military interventions to strict self-defense. How times have changed.
Joe Biden is perceived as weak because he’s actually weak. We saw this situation most acutely during the Jimmy Carter years, more than 40 years ago. The Biden weakness is far more extreme. Jimmy Carter treaded carefully — incompetently, but carefully — and while he seemed foolish he didn’t seem like a buffoon, as Biden always has been. And Jimmy Carter did not suffer from dementia, as Biden clearly does.
Most leftists don’t grasp how dangerous this situation might be. Biden could actually start World War III, especially if China decides to get involved.
Leftists are not worried about World War III. They’re far, far more concerned that somebody — somewhere, even one person — might not be wearing a mask.
I call this insanity merged with unspeakable evil, and evasion.
China and Russia are much more of a threat when the United States is weak than when the United States is strong, and means what it says. Putin clearly knows — like the rest of us know — that Biden has thrown its most independent and freedom-loving soldiers out of the military, because of the vax mandates. Putin also knows — like the rest of us — that the U.S. military is more concerned with promoting the transgendered and appearing woke in a way that leftist activists who could never operate a gun approve of. If you don’t think this looks like weakness to Putin and China, you’re out of your mind. If you don’t think they’re going to exploit this obvious weakness at some point by doing whatever the hell they want (something they never would have done during Trump’s presidency, or even Obama’s), then you’re beyond naive.
Everything Biden did has escalated this conflict and brought it to the point where (according to the evidence available) the Russians WILL invade Ukraine — because they can.
It’s power for its own sake. Putin is doing to Biden precisely what Biden has done to America: Exercise power for its own sake, because he can get away with it. In a way, there’s a perverse form of justice in it all. But everyone else will suffer, and thousands or even millions could end up dying because of it.
Dictatorship begets dictatorship. It’s not a good time for the world, especially when the United States has an inept dictatorship competing with the far more seasoned and experienced dictatorships of Russia and China.
Thank you, Joe Biden, for creating all this disaster. Thank you, Biden voters, for your ignorance and malfeasance which placed your neurotic desire to remove President Trump’s brash style and replace it with something like the Biblical end of days. I hold each and every one of you responsible for your errors and evasions. Whatever bad happens, you will be the ones who deserve it all.
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Since Washington Wants War So Badly Why Doesn’t Washington Simply Attack Russia
Washington keeps on adding fuel to what it says is a Ukrainian crisis. Washington puppet Jens Stoltenberg, the nominal secretary-general of NATO, says NATO is considering a larger and permanent Black Sea presence. The Black Sea is to Russia what the Mediterranean Sea was to the Romans–mare nostrum, “our sea.” Stoltenberg’s announcement is akin to Russia announcing that Russia is considering establishing a “Chesapeake Bay Battle Group.” Stoltenberg added that NATO is planning to establish battle groups in Romania and in other countries around the Black Sea. Why such dangerous provocative actions at a time of such high tension? Why is Washington pouring gasoline on a fire?
Even I did not suspect this level of Washington irresponsibility. As if this isn’t enough, Stoltenberg declared the Black Sea to be of strategic importance for NATO, and the White House national security advisor said the buildup of forces on Russia’s borders are necessary for future contingencies whether or not Russia invades Ukraine.
I was mistaken to think that Washington took seriously Russia’s warning that she was not going to tolerate any more military buildup on her borders. Washington did not hear, or if Washington did hear is nevertheless determined to provoke a war. This stance presents Russia with only two choices–fight or surrender. Is there any hope that the peoples of the West can realize the insanity of their leaders and stop the march to war? I think not. They cannot even stop their own governments’ war against them. In the Western world democracy is a hoax.
At this time Russia holds all the cards. Will she wait, seeking solace in talks and negotiations, until Washington/NATO are better prepared?
Addendum: Is war upon us? The British armed forces minister James Heappey said today that all British troops are being removed from Ukraine “over the course of the weekend” as a Russian invasion is expected. The British soldiers have been training Ukrainians in the use of Western weapons for an attack on the Donbass republics. Washington believes that such an attack would result in Russian intervention, which can be labeled a “Russian invasion.”
Meanwhile the Kremlin remains mired in negotiations:
MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Deputy chief of the Russian presidential staff Dmitry Kozak has said that Russia’s partners in the Normandy Quartet (Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France) tend to procrastinate on negotiations on a settlement of the intra-Ukrainian conflict – in strict accordance with the instructions they have received from the United States.
“For some reason, our counterparts think that time plays into their hands and that they should drag their feet in the negotiations,” Kozak told the media on Friday following Thursday’s meeting of the Normandy Quartet’s political advisers, which ended inconclusively.
“Moreover, from our friends in a NATO country, we have received a document – an instruction from the US Department of State to all NATO countries regarding the way they should conduct negotiations with Russia concerning the settlement of the conflict and the implementation of the Minsk Accords. It is an instruction on how to stall all negotiations.” https://tass.com/politics/1401971
See: https://sputniknews.com/20220212/lavrov-tells-blinken-propaganda-about-russian-aggression-against-ukraine-has-provocative-purposes-1092963955.html
Update: US pulls its troops out of Ukraine in anticipation of Russian invasion. Having provoked war the superpower runs away.
