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October 04, 2024

Twenty years later, the Alberta Report is Back!

Western Standard New Media Corp. returns the iconic (and iconoclastic) Alberta Report to publication today
https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/twenty-years-later-the-alberta-report-is-back/58220

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10 hours ago
The President keeps running rings around his enemies

Carney is so far offside (to use a hockey metaphor) he is not even on the ice, and he has no clue what the game is or where the puck is.

Here's just an excerpt from today's C and C


Consider how brilliant and audacious this strategy was. Trump isn’t bothering to reform the UN. He’s not even pulling the US out of the main body, where we need to stay on the Security Council to make sure nothing goes sideways. (And it’s easier to kill the UN from inside anyway.)

Instead, Trump said, “I’ll just make a new United Nations.”

🔥 The implications are staggering. Trump stands poised to kill the UN softly. For just one example, imagine if the US, from its position on the Security Council, simply vetoes all ‘peacekeeping’ missions unless they are routed through his new Board of Peace. The argument makes itself— UN peacekeeping missions usually fail, the UN is too often deadlocked in voting paralysis, and it is fantastically expensive compared to what it actually accomplishes. So, ...

16 hours ago

Kate Harrison "And I think that the message that we got from the prime minister yesterday looks a little bit strange compared to the situation we have now

https://x.com/cbcwatcher/status/2014109221734777147?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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15 hours ago
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