When I tell someone that the Endangered Species Act (in every country) is the most powerful law of the land outside the cities, I watch their eyes go blank. They have no comeback, because they know nothing about it. Most feel deeply that species must be protected, and most - not counting hysteric activists - suspect that we are destroying biodiversity. This is not the case. This is blatant propaganda that rains down on us ceaselessly. In fact, wherever humans
As it stands lawfare from the environmental junta, eats up billions of tax dollars every year which should and could be better spent. The lawfare is funded by the richest people on earth, usually, I hate to say, the most witless women in those families, searching for the feeling of benevolence and significance. Rich, cruel, stupid and profoundly malignant.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/if-this-is-the-sixth-great-extinction
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........