Vatican repudiates Doctrine of Discovery

Vincent J. Curtis

31 Mar 23

It is a point of theology is that not even God can change history.  But the Vatican thinks it can, and repudiated the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery” at the behest, in part, of native groups in Canada.

The doctrine of discovery is said to be contain in a series of five papal bulls issued in 1452, 1456, 1481, 1493, and 1514.  In none of them is there a statement declaring such a doctrine; it is inferred.  As I explain elsewhere (Aug 1, 2022 of this blog), what such a doctrine amounts to is a No Claim Jumping proposal among the Christin powers of Europe.  If one of the Christian powers discovered something in the New World, it was theirs to develop; no other European power could jump in and try to exploit the discovery.  That is why, in the history of North America, there was a New Spain, a NewFoundLand, a New France, and a New England.  The obvious aim of the proposal was to prevent war among the European powers.

Despite the excuse making by the Vatican, it was well-known that North America had people on it; and the papal bull of 1493 strongly encouraged King Ferdinand of Spain to spread the Christian faith in Spain’s new discoveries.

There are echoes of this “hands off” policy in the political development of Upper Canada.  British authorities purchased land from the Indians found in possession of it, and the Mississaugas of the Credit sold land to the British beginning in 1781; and it was only on land that the British had purchased was the common law enforced.  (Chief Joseph Brant owned slaves long after slavery by whites had been abolished in Upper Canada.)  With respect to foreign powers, British North America was sovereign British territory, but with respect to the Indians within that territory, matters between British authorities and Indians bands were sorted out by agreement.  The British did not rely on a right of conquest to settle British North America with respect to the Indians.

The Indians of Canada have convinced themselves that by getting this “Doctrine of Discovery” repudiated by the Vatican, that will open the door to getting Canada declared legally illegitimate.  Such a determination would further open the door to financial compensation and to power-sharing arrangements broader than that of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Prime Minister Trudeau perfidiously accepted on behalf of his government.

Repudiating this alleged “Doctrine of Discovery” is a farce from beginning to end.  What the doctrine amounts to is not what the Indians think it is, and a tired, harassed, sick, old man, staring eternity in the face, consented to a statement allegedly repudiating something that either doesn’t exist or is misunderstood – not that at a remove of 500 years a statement of repudiation changes anything.  It’s like the Vatican consenting to an annulment after both parties, who never married in the first place, are dead.

But with this repudiation, start to look for aboriginal groups in Canada to claim that Canadian occupation of its territory is illegitimate, and aboriginals should be given money and power in compensation.

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A scoffer’s observations

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Mar 23

RE: False claim on climate.  Letter to the editor by Grant Linney.  The Hamilton Spectator 30 Mar 23.

The Spectator’s climate scold again lectures us for not believing in the cult, and he waves around cherry-picked alleged datums in support of his beliefs.  Permit this scoffer the following observations:

‘Globally, floods and extreme rainfall are now four times more common than in 1980.’  The source being Munch Re tells you that it’s the amount they insure that gone up that much, not world-wide rainfall, because world-wide extremes of rainfall average out.  Sea levels would be falling if occurrences of extreme rainfall were rising dramatically all around the globe.  Periods of drought and flood are decade-cyclical, and when making short term observations, much depends on where you start the cycle. (California and Australia are examples of extremes of flooding and drought being the ordinary condition of climate.)

Why did Grant Linney pick London, Ontario, of all places, for “number of heat days,” when warming is a global phenomenon?  As RealClimateScience.com data and analysis show, the most numerous hottest days in North America occurred in 1921, 1931, 1934, 1936, and 1954, and number of extremely hot days in a year have tended to fall off both in extremity of temperature and number of days since then.  Linney offers no real data, only scary predictions, as usual.

The hottest years on record since 1880 occurred in the 1930s, not since 2002.  Satellite temperature data shows that the temperature of today is the same as it was in 2005, despite higher CO2.  The El Nino and La Nina phenomenon play a role in climate that Linney will not admit.

As for fire season being longer: burn acreage in North America is down 90 percent from the 1930s, but as I’ve shown elsewhere forest fires cannot be used to measure global warming.

The science and the data can’t support the climate change scare, and even if you believe the global warming nonsense, you can’t deny that no heroic effort by Canada will offset what’s happening in India and China.  Linney, the climate change expert and scold, simply ignores Indian and China and scolds Canadians for not doing enough.

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Budget 2023

Vincent J. Curtis

29 Mar 23

Canada’s pathetic Minister of Finance showed in her budget of 2023 that Canadian finances continue to be badly mismanaged.  Wild swings between forecasts and actuals make you wonder if those in Ottawa know what they’re doing.  The only certain thing is that spending will go up, a lot.

Last year, Freeland projected roughly $455 billion in expenditures, and a deficit of $52.8 billion.  After many months of oil prices over $100 per barrel, Freeland projected last November that the deficit would come in around $36.4 billion due to those windfall tax revenues.  It actually came in at $43 billion; at least she dropped the pretense of numbers after the decimal point.  Freeland was only off by $1.5 billion per month between November and March!

This year, Freeland is increasing spending to $491 billion, an jump of 8 percent over last year, higher than inflation, and she expects a deficit of $40.1 billion.  If the Liberals had held spending constant for one year, they’d balance the budget, like nearly all the provinces now have.  I don’t believe Freeland’s projections for future deficits, given her track record.

The inflation we now suffer is a Canadian problem, made in Canada because of reckless spending and irresponsible financing by the Bank of Canada during the COVID craziness.  Spending increases more than the rate of inflation and continued deficit spending don’t solve the inflation problem, and Bank of Canada measures to reduce inflation will only throw the economy into recession.

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Tuesday foolishness

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Mar 23.

RE: What we can learn from the happiest countries. Op-ed by Alan Josepha freelance financial and political writer.  The Hamilton Spectator 28 Mar 23.

RE: Student protest should cause Mac to reconsider divestment.  Op-ed by Ameil Joseph, an associate professor in the school of social work at McMaster University.

Which fool named A. Joseph to tackle first?  Let’s go with learning from happiness.

What do Finland, Denmark, and Iceland have in common?  They’re all racially homogenous, being all white - northern European in fact; each country speaks only one language in the same accent; each population largely professes the same religion, namely Lutheranism; and they’re all prosperous.  Each country is also small, geographically and in population.  When you introduce differences among people and allow those differences to grow and fester, that’s when you develop an unhappy population.  When you take away their prosperity, you take away their hope, and this too gives rise to unhappiness.  There’s nothing Canada can learn from these countries because differences among Canadians in language, race, culture, and religion are ineradicable and a permanent feature of Canadian existence.  Canada can never be as happy as these countries, until a war in Europe erupts.

Ameil Joseph is pandering to students in his advocacy of foolish investment practices.  In the first place, I would expect university students of this generation to be smart enough to see through the climate hoax.  The data and the science simply aren’t there, despite the huffing and puffing of alleged experts looking for their next research grant.  If you think life can go on without oil and gas, then try living it even for a day.  You can’t.  And Mac, by heroic measures, isn’t going to save the planet from climate disaster – if you believe that garbage.

A newspaper that writes that it can be charmed by a senile, incontinent liar like Joe Biden is going to publish stuff that serious minds scoff at.

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Long day.  Wrote the first draft of a 2100 word article on The Assault Rifle.  More on that later.

The Greenbelt: Digging up new facts

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Mar 23

RE: Missing the story on Indigenous rights.  Op-ed by Paul Racher.  The Hamilton Spectator 27 Mar 23.  This is novel effort to derail, or at least to discredit, the opening of “greenbelt” lands to housing development.  The writer invokes alleged aboriginal rights issues.

Burlington archeologist Paul Racher thinks he’s dug up new facts to stop encroachment on the Greenbelt; but all he’s found are lumps of fool’s gold.

Between 1792 and 1818, the British Crown purchased from the Mississaugas of the Credit the lands associated with the greenbelt.  There was no treaty; it was a land purchase.  The purchases were to separate peacefully European settlers from Indians, and this separation was strictly adhered to and enforced by both sides.  There was no agreement which allowed armed Indians to traipse through British lands allegedly on the hunt for game.

There may be treaties over land acquisitions which admit to residual aboriginal rights, but the greenbelt area hasn’t one.  There is no “duty to consult,” for if I sell my land to Mr. Racher, I don’t have a residual right to grow and harvest vegetables in my old garden.

When Mr. Racher says, “When greenbelt land is opened for housing development those lands will no longer be available to the First Nations for the traditional uses that were promised them,” he’s gone off the rails.  The First Nation we’re speaking of is the Mississaugas of the Credit, with whom a final settlement payment of $145 million was made in 2010.  By Racher’s reasoning the past growth of Hamilton, Burlington, and Toronto denied the Mississauga “traditional use,” which, to be specific, was hunting beaver for the fur trade, now exhausted.  This argument that development is forbidden because it denies the Mississaugas traditional use of the land they sold to the British Crown is untenable.

It’s a novel argument by Mr. Racher to try to halt development of McGuinty’s Sop to his environmentalists by invoking mysterious, vague aboriginal issues; but when you pull back the curtain and look at the specifics, the argument falls apart.  The story of Indigenous rights was missed because there isn’t one.

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Investors with a Black Hand

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Mar 23

RE: Mac protestors push for divestment.  Op-ed by “McMaster Divestment Porject”  The Hamilton Spectator 23 Mar 23.

As a preliminary, I find it bad practice that the Spectator would publish an anonymous op-ed.  The group calls itself the “McMaster Divestment Project,” but I would call them the “Black Hand Investment Advisors”.  As stock pickers, they suck.  The grandmother of oil companies, ExxonMobile, increased in stock price by over seventy percent in the last five years while paying a good dividend; and XOM is precisely the company the Black Hand Investment Group want McMaster to divest itself of.

I wouldn’t put the money into pot stocks, as that sector, once considered an investment darling, has all but collapsed.  I observe that Black Hand complains Mac doesn’t hold enough stock in fossil fuel companies - because a few million dollars’ worth, “does not afford any leverage.”

The point of investing is to make money, but I don’t expect the children gluing themselves to things on the Mac campus, or depriving themselves of food because they’re starved for attention, to understand that.  What I expect of university students is awareness, critical thinking, and an eagerness to learn - none of which is apparent in the Manifesto of the Black Hand Investment Advisors.

Mac Admin does well to ignore children involved in mischief.

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The things they ought to know include the failure of the climate cultists to come though on ANY of their disaster forecasts going back to 1989.  Back then, our last chance to save the world was in 2000.  Never mind Arctic sea ice is still around, or the fact that satellite data shows no warming since 2005.  They ought at least to try to refute the Twitter postings of Steve Milloy and Tony Heller, but they don’t.  They ought to know that, if you believe more CO2 equals disaster for the planet that no heroic effort by Canada will do anything because of what’s going on in India and China.

That they know none of this tells me the aim of their project isn’t to save the world, it’s to cripple Western civilization.

Left wing anti-Semitism

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Mar 23

RE: NDP has steep learning curve on antisemitism.  Op-ed by Torstar columnist Martin Regg Cohn.  The Hamilton Spectator 21 Mar 23.

Martin Regg Cohn goes nowhere near far enough in his description of anti-Semitism in the NDP.  Anti-Semitism runs a mile wide through the entire political Left.

In an interview with Italian journalist Orrana Fallaci, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, a life-long socialist, expressed shock to find that the political Left of Europe had turned anti-Semitic in the wake of Israel’s stunning victory in the Six Day War of 1967.  Suddenly, Israel was the powerful aggressor, and Palestinians, who had been living placidly under Jordanian and Egyptian rule, became refugees deserving of pity and support.

In America, the Black-Jewish alliance, so vital to success of the civil rights movement, fell apart in the 1970s, and an estranged David Horowitz turned from committed Communist to conservative crusader.  At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a boilerplate resolution, previously accepted, affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was shouted down by the floor, but declared adopted anyway by the Chairman.  Former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin was so notoriously anti-Semitic that it called attention to his general misanthropy.  The BDS movement betrays its Left-wing appeal as it is collectivist in action, and conservatives are not collectivists.

The Jews, in general, have leaned to the political Left since the dawn of socialism and the rise of religious indifference, and it’s surprising that there is such deep, widespread anti-Semitism polluting the moralistic Left.

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It’s amazing to hear Donald Trump be called an anti-Semite by people who don’t give a damn about Israel or the state of the Jews in America.

Climate panic

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Mar 23

RE: World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report offers up stark warning.  AP story by Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans.  The Hamilton Spectator 21 mar 23.

The climate-change industry must be in a panic as their claims of impending calamity are rapidly becoming ever more shrill.  The themes that ‘the end is nigh!’ and ‘we don’t have time to discuss it!’ has been the staple of climate rhetoric since 1989. (Another is, ‘how dare you question me!’)

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, what’s a good anti-capitalist to do except find fault with the triumphant West?  The aim was to destroy the basis of the West’s economic prosperity, namely its energy systems; and having made nuclear power and new hydro dam construction politically untenable, carbon became the target. (Kyoto, 1995, passem)

The anti-capitalists had friends in the United Nations and the WEF, as One World Government was their aim; hence the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, because agreements between governments tended to defeat changes in national policy occasioned by democratic elections and conservative governments.  The bureaucrats and the experts were all behind the international commitments made by the previous government, and so resisted policy changes of the new, democratically elected national government.

The farmers’ revolt in The Netherlands has the World Government faction in a panic, because if The Netherlands drops their fertilizer ban despite EU and UN pressure, then their strategy may collapse.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is utterly unqualified to pronounce on “climate change,” and ought to be embarrassed to speak so incautiously the words he’s asked to parrot.  The science and the data aren’t there, and India and China aren’t paying attention anyway.

Stop worrying, it’s all a scam.

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The Hockey Stick graph, which made global warming palpable for many people, and famous; was exposed as a scam by two Canadians, Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.  The Hockey Stick paper by Michael Mann was shown to be so rife with error that it ought to have been withdrawn, but that would have forced Mann to lose his Ph.D. and his teaching job at UPenn, since both were based on that paper.  Lots of embarrassment all round, and might have caused the global warming scam to collapse, so it wasn’t allowed to happen - too many other people had interests in maintaining it.  Nevertheless, nobody takes the Hockey Stick grap seriously anymore, and Global Warming was changed to Climate Change.

I’ve posted on my Twitter feed a six minute video of Michael Crichton exposing the Hocey Stick graph put together by Tony Heller of RealClimateScience.com.  Mark Steyn, who is being sued by Michael Mann, has plenty of material undermining Mann’s work, and the entire climate scam altogether.

My first published piece on climate was in 1996 on the Kyoto Treaty, pointing out that environmentalists, by banning fossil fuels, had necessitated the re-introduction of nuclear power, and missed the fact that global warming on earth had to be due to a greater energy output of the sun.  This was long before I’d heard of Willie Soon; it’s obvious on thermodynamic grounds.

Misdirecting investment into EVs

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Mar 23.

RE: Ready to leap into an electric vehicle?  Op-ed by opinion writer Susan Koswan.  The Hamilton Spectator 17 Mar 23.

Susan Koswan could have saved herself a lot of bother with a few simple considerations.  The first consideration is that Canada contributes only 1.5 percent of world CO2 emissions, and no heroic effort by Canada will save the world from CO2.  If the United States spent $50 Trillion to become “net-zero” by 2050, that also would be unavailing because of what is happening in India and China, never mind what will come in Latin America and Africa.

The second consideration is: where is Canada going to get the electrical energy to replace the chemical energy stored in 40.2 billion litres of gasoline?  The only source is to be found in massive, new construction of nuclear power generation.  You can’t san “wind and solar” because behind every windmill and solar panel is a natural gas turbine ready to power up when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.

Koswan’s plan to revolutionize the transportation sector is all downside: massive new taxes to provide subsides and massive increases in central government power; the enrichment of China at our expense; more inflation and vast impoverishment through the misdirection of Canadian economic resources.

The bright side is that the climate cultists have it all wrong, and by setting impossible goals it will make us recoil even from the attempt at meeting them..

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Poole’s pathetic prediction

Vincent J. Curtis

15 Mar 23

RE: The dark art of greenwashing. Op-ed by Wayne Poole.  The Hamilton Spectator 15 Mar 23.

The arts of advertising and salesmanship have been known and practiced for hundreds of thousands of years.  Greenwashing is another example of applied psychology hijacking the latest popular fad, namely, The Climate!

But Poole’s own attempt at applied psychology fails when he says, “If we continue to choose profit over our climate our fate is sealed, and we become dead men walking.”  To this example of Marxian drivel, John Maynard Keynes would respond that “in the long run, we’re all dead.”

Luckily, things are not as lugubrious as Poole would have us believe.  Steve Milloy of Junkscience.com reported today that official NOAA data shows the global temperature anomaly today is the same as it was in January, 2005; meaning that all the climate panic-mongering hasn’t been based on actual facts.  Just like the various officially induced panics on COVID, they’re created to scare us into doing something.

The satellite data shows that the earth is hardly warming at all.  More emissions don’t contribute to warming because greenhouse effect of those emissions is already maxed out.

The entire world is not equally crazy.  The Chinese Communists have figure out this profit thing, and that’s why they’re building their future on coal.  Paying close attention to market economics, the Chinese expect to dominate the world, not become dead men walking.

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"Give me more money!" Scientists say.

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Mar 23

RE: Floods, droughts worsen with warming. AP story by Isabella O’Malley.  The Hamilton Spectator 14 Mar 23.

You don’t have to be a scientist to see through the nonsense in this story; all it takes is logical thinking.

Let’s start with the claim that floods and droughts are worsening with global warming.  As Steve Milloy of Junkscience.com has been pointing out, NASA-NOAA’s own satellites show that the global average temperature is the same today as it was eight years and five months ago; so there is no warming.  Hence, what the workers claim to be seeing isn’t due to global warming.

The second point is that what the workers claim their satellites are allegedly telling them are, in fact, inferences the workers are making themselves.  The satellites provide data, and the workers interpret that data.  That things are allegedly getting worse is inferred by comparison of recent data with past data; but since this program is only twenty years old, the workers lack the more serious perspective of a hundred years or more of data.  With only 20 years, they can’t tell the difference between an irreversible trend and a cycle; and after hundreds of thousands of years, everything is a cycle.

Finally, the conclusion that the worsening of flooding and droughts is due to “the burning of fossil fuels” is obviously far-fetched and unscientific.  The leap from “the burning of fossil fuels” to anthropogenic global warming is itself a hypothesis in dire want of proof – let that be realized.  It should be read as a plea for next year’s research grant.

The workers cast incense upon the altar of climate change, and, having demonstrated their loyalty, earnestly expect that they be given more grant money.

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Sucking, Blowing, Thawing, and Shirking

Vincent J. Curtis

12 Mar 23

RE: Clairmont: Focus on the long game.  Spectator editorial 11 Mar 23.

When it comes to sucking and blowing at the same time, it’s hard to beat a Spectator editorial writer.  In this case, we get both complaining about the winter that won’t end and global warming.  Apparently, when the earth’s atmosphere warms, freeze-thaw cycles in Hamilton will become more frequent, leading to faster erosion of the face of the escarpment.

Freeze-thaw cycles have been a feature of Hamilton’s weather for as far back as there are records.  How a warming climate will make them more frequent is a meteorological mystery; but having cast incense upon the altar of climate change, let’s get down to brass tacks.

The retaining wall of the Clairmont has reached the end of its service life.  When it was built fifty years ago, it was known to have a finite service life, because erosion of the escarpment face was well-known even then.  The wall was not maintained as designed, and parts of it began to fail a decade ago.  None of this is a cosmic mystery, and there is no need to invoke the god of Climate Change before getting to work replacing it.  The work will require scaling of the loose rock, removal of accumulated debris, and finally replacement of the barrier wall.

The powers that be need to stop contemplating the inner meaning of escarpment erosion, shirking their responsibilities, and get on with the business of putting in another fifty year fix.

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The Indo-Pacific Strategy: an Analysis

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Nov 22

When analyzing Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, it is useful to keep two terms in mind: boondoggle and tacking.  Boondoggle is a good Canadian word that refers to something on which lots of money will be spent, the usefulness of which is questionable, but which is dear to the heart of the government, its friends, or to the senior bureaucracy.  Tacking means to attach an unpopular measure to a popular one to hoist the unpopular measure into law.  Let’s now turn to The Strategy.

The Strategy contains five Strategic Objectives.  In terms of dollars spent, the Objectives are, in order of importance: building a sustainable and green future ($902.7m); promote peace, resilience, security ($720.3m); invest in and connect with people ($261.7m); expand trade, investment, and supply chain resilience ($244.4m); and be an active and engaged partner ($137.6m).  Verdant jungle mustn’t be “green” enough.

The total to be spent over five years is under $2.3b.  The business of employing armed forces falls second in priority, and accounts for less than a quarter of the total expenditure.

The military expenditure component is entitled “enhance defense presence and contribution,” The operational part of $720.3m boils down to the addition of a third frigate to the Pacific theatre and participation in sabre rattling exercises.  The budget under this head totals $492.9m over five years, and it includes a project to launch a regional women, peace, and security initiative - an exercise in exporting Canadian cultural values.

Other military-ish projects include security partnerships and capacity building, cyber security and digital technology diplomacy.

Nothing in The Strategy is aimed to defeat China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative; rather it is intended to counter somewhat China’s intimidating militarization of islands in the South China Sea.  Militarizing these otherwise uninhabited islands enables China to interdict strategic sea lanes, and the sea bed around them may have significant petroleum deposits.  China intends to overawe with the threat of force where the power of money is unavailing.  How would a military address this conundrum of fighting the power of money?

A military can more easily deal with physical military assets: aircraft, ships, and supporting infrastructure.  Sea power is essential for rapidly isolating these islands and preventing resupply.  Command of the sea can turn these islands into hostages to fortune.  Once isolated, their combat capability can be reduced by missile attack at leisure.  Other overseas assets, such as international ports and airfields around the globe, can also be made hostages to fortune.

How can Canada contribute meaningfully to military deterrence in the South China Sea?  Canada needs to acquire ships, submarines, and aircraft suitable for long-range operation in the Pacific.  If we had Type 26 frigates in service, with their 7,000 nmi range and Tomahawk cruise missiles, that would add significantly to sea power, and could menace land targets from long range.  Nuclear powered submarines would have the range to operate freely in the Pacific, and would contribute to the isolation of outposts supplied by sea.  They would also enable under ice sovereignty patrols in the Arctic Ocean.  Deep interdiction, land based aircraft would help seize control of the air.

The Type 26 frigate has become too expensive to acquire.  However, an Arleigh Burke class missile cruiser has nearly the same dimensions and displacement as a Type 26 frigate, are much cheaper to acquire, and could be had in numbers before the end of the decade.

By deep interdiction aircraft, I mean the F-15X Super Eagle.  The F-35 is not an air superiority fighter as the F-15 is, and its combat range is half that of the F-15.  There is another kind of aircraft with 2,900 gallon internal fuel capacity, that can reach 70,000 feet, fly at close to Mach 3, and carry guided missiles; but that aircraft is oh so 1950s!

The Strategy for countering China’s militarization of the South China Sea seems to be taking a classic military response and tacking on to it four times its weight in boondoggles.

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Nazi sympathizers in Poilivre's CPC

 

A Nazi condemns Trudeau.

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Mar 23

RE: No punishment for Tory MPs.

Christine Anderson is the “far-right, white supremacist, anti-immigrant” Member of the European Parliament, that belongs to the “fascist” German AfD Party, and she is the one who met with three CPC MP backbenchers under attack in the media.  Anderson’s real crime is that she was a vocal supporter of the Freedom Convoy, and condemned the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the seizure of bank accounts as violations of human rights.  She was in Canada to celebrate the anniversary of the Convoy, and was honoured at the event.

In April, 2022, Prime Minister Trudeau addressed the European Parliament under Article 195 of the convention.  Anderson objected, and before he spoke Anderson said the following:

“It would have been more appropriate if Mr. Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, to have addressed this House according to Article 144, an Article which was specifically designed to debate violations of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, which is clearly the case with Mr. Trudeau.  Then again, a Prime Minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing its own citizens as terrorists just to get him to stand up to subversive concepts of democracy should not be allowed to speak in this House at all.  Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy.  Please spare us your presence.”

This doesn’t sound like the words of a Nazi, but no matter.  What passed between Trudeau and Anderson has thus far gone unreported in Canadian media.  Trudeau’s court eunuchs in the mainstream media report only that three CPC backbenchers met with an awful Nazi, which means those CPC members must be Nazis sympathizers themselves, and that the CPC secretly contains Nazi sympathizers is now out in the open.

It must hurt to have to report that even Nazis find repugnant Trudeau’s violator of human rights, and are disgusted by his admiration of the Chinese Communists.

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Media like trout to bait

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Mar 23

RE: Climate change threatens Canadian security, prosperity.  CP story by Jim Bronskill.  The Hamilton Spectator 6 Mar 23.

A two year old CSIS assessment is released, and the media immediately report its obsolete contents instead of questioning the motivation for the release.  The report claims that parts of Canada important to Liberal party success will sink beneath the waves and Canadian prosperity and security will be lost if climate change skeptics get elected instead of the Liberals.

CSIS gave its Minister, Marco “Mendacity” Mendicino, what he wanted to hear, and that’s the takeaway.  CSIS can do little more than review the climate change literature and speculate, since it has no in-house expertise on climate.  There is no data that sea levels are rising, for all the tide gauges around the world show no rise, and the IPCC AR6 report speculates that something like six inches to a foot rise is possible.  To claim that “significant” parts of B.C. and Atlantic Canada will be lost is straight-up fear mongering not intended for public review by the guy who wrote those words; but those words were just too juicy not to be released for their revival effect on sagging Liberal fortunes.  The disappearance of Arctic sea ice has been forecasted for over a hundred years, and has yet to happen, and the Northwest Passage is not going to open any time soon.

The other concerns expressed by CSIS is sheer speculation; guesswork about extremes that might be prepared for.  But the effect on Canadian prosperity by global warming can only be good.  We would have a longer agricultural growing season, require less energy to heat our homes in winter, and the St. Lawrence Seaway would be open year round.  All to the good.

The other concerns expressed in the CSIS report are simply wild: loss of biodiversity and loss of habitat will cause more human-wildlife interaction leading to transmission of diseases to humans (shades of COVID!); desertification of arable land, as if Canada didn’t possess about 20 percent of the world’s free water and the science of irrigation were forgotten; and then shrinkage of fresh water resources.  This is all wild speculation, the blind misleading the blind, that takes no account of possible remediation engineering, but it is exactly what CSIS’s dimwitted Minister wants to hear, for he thinks he has something to throw at those climate skeptics in the CPC.

I don’t believe that CP just happened to find this CSIS report in a random FOIA request.  I’ll bet they got tipped off by the Minister’s office to ask for this; so, technically, it not a leak.  But it continues the climate change narrative untroubled by any contrary news stories, and CP couldn’t wonder about why their good fortune came to be.

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Dog ate climate cultist's homework

Checking Dave Carson’s work

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Mar 23

RE: We need low emission steel manufacturing now! OP-ed by Dave Carson.  The Hamilton Spectator 3 Mar 23.

“Show me your work” is indeed a good admonition, so let’s check Dave Carson’s work.  First, is there a climate crisis? Second, can Canada by her own heroic efforts solve it?  The answer to both questions is NO!!

As Steve Malloy of Junckscience.com has been pointing out, by NASA-NOAA’s own satellite data, global temperatures are the same today as they were eight years ago.  There is no climate crisis in spite of rising CO2 levels.

Can Canada by her own effort solve the climate crisis?  For the sake of argument, let’s say there is one and it’s caused by CO2.  It was pointed out in a recent U.S. Senate hearing, if the United States spent $50 trillion to become net-zero by 2050, it would have no impact unless China and India cooperated.  Well, India and China are lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by electrification with cheap, coal-fired generation, and are not going to cooperate.  Canada, Hamilton, Dofasco?

It’s fair to say that forcing ArcelorMittal to make steel with “green hydrogen” isn’t worth spit in the ocean; all it will do is make Hamilton made steel non-competitive on the world market.

Dave Carson hasn’t done his homework!

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Torstar attacks Black immigrant

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Mar 23

RE: Haldimand-Norfolk MP under fire for meeting with extremist politician.  J.P. Antonacci.  The Hamilton Spectator 2 Mar 23.

Neither the editors nor the writer of this hit piece on Dr. Leslyn Lewis, MP, have ever met with, or listened to the views of, the member of the European Parliament at the center of this faux controversy, and consequently have no personal experience or knowledge on which to judge whether Christine Anderson is an “extremist” or “far-right” at all, whatever these calumnious labels mean today.

To be anti-immigrant in Europe is not the same thing as to be anti-immigrant in Canada.  When, in Ireland, the name “Mohammed” becomes more popular as a boy’s name than “Patrick” you have to wonder at the future of European civilization.  The admission of large numbers of Muslim men, but not women, into ancient European cultures has been followed by incredible upsurges in sexual and violent crimes, against both sexes, in hitherto peaceful societies, and has naturally disturbed the tranquility of many people who vote in European elections.

If the editor had scrupled to listen to the interview Anderson gave to Rebel News reporter David Menzies, they might have come to a more sympathetic understanding of Anderson’s views.

But no; prejudice, handy labels, and laziness prevailed over the hard work of uncovering the truth.

And so we see fail to be mentioned in the story that those criticizing Dr. Lewis, MP, for meeting Christine Anderson, MEP are Liberal party hacks who see an opportunity for inflicting anonymous harm, and their fellow-travelling hacks of the mainstream media.  The story mentions that Lewis was also criticized for questioning in November, 2021, the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, but failed to say that she proved to be absolugtely right, and that the health officials who criticized her were dead wrong in their assertions, beliefs, and perhaps their hopes.

All in all, another contemptible example of gutter journalism practiced by Torstar to support the Liberal party and to distract attention from its scandals and its crimes.

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