As in any war, there are innocent casualties. Actions to correct flagrant and long-standing abuses are long overdue and the view from high above the shock and awe bombing is gratifying. However, on the ground it looks a lot different to many who were just living their lives and following the rules as best they could.
This message came in on an agricultural list that I read.
" As a now retired USDA employee, and seeing reports from both the news and former colleagues, what I understand is happening with some of the conservation programs and essentially all of the employees within their probationary period is:
" Payments to individual farmers for work completed under conservation contracts that were funded under Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, such as EQIP, have been "paused." The explanation was this is to allow the new Secretary of Agriculture time to review the contracts and decide if they are acceptable or not. I don't know the basis for USDA deciding that a contract it signed with an individual farmer is not valid, if the farmer or rancher did what they agreed to do in the contract. In the meantime farmers have outstanding bills to pay for work done, or don't know if they should go ahead and start work they promised to do, which by the way failure to complete work they agreed to do is itself a contract violation.
" Apparently ALL employees still within their probationary period (one year for my old agency) have been given termination notices for reason of "poor performance." That's important because even if within the probationary period, there is supposed to be a reason for the termination, not just because the agency feels like it. Some people have posted regulatory references about this, though i haven't read them. It seems to be happening at all departments of the government.
New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government
"...There is overwhelming evidence that the machinery of the Cuban Government has been progressively organized around… a fundamental hatred of the United States,” the report stated. “Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history —from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses— can be linked, in some way, shape, or form to Cuban influence.”
The report doesn’t just hand-wave. It names names. It details how the Venceremos Brigade and other “revolutionary tourism” programs have funneled thousands of American activists to Havana for ideological (and sometimes literal) weapons training.
The Venceremos Brigade has brought 10,000 American activists to Cuba since 1969. This is because nothing says “I am fighting for the oppressed working class” quite ...
Now there is a plan! Of course dumb Canadians will not have the courage to vote with their brains, instead of their propagandized feelings of fear.
Canada’s economy is stalling badly.
We just endured the worst decade for real GDP growth per person since the Great Depression.
Over the past ten years, real GDP per capita limped along at an average of just 0.6% annually.
And Bloomberg’s consensus forecast for 2026? A paltry 0.7%.
Why does GDP matter?
Because family disposable income follows GDP like a shadow. Anemic economic growth resulting from lower investment means stagnant wages. Period.
The Liberals and fake Conservatives won't fix this.
The People's Party has a comprehensive plan to unleash private investment, supercharge productivity, and put more money back into your pocket:
Make the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance (ACCA) permanent – Let businesses write off capital investments rapidly and skyrocket cash flow.
End Corporate Welfare – Zero subsidies. Zero bailouts. Zero regional ...
