WestCanMan

There's video of something happening that's placed right in your lap and all you can say amounts to "I don't see it." You can find that video from several other sources if you prefer but it all points to the exact same thing. You can see the Ottawa buildings in the background when Csaba Vizi is getting beaten. You can see Csaba Vizi get down on his knees in front of the police. He says it was him. Therefor, that's a video of the Ottawa police beating Csaba Vizi. From the gov't's side, no one is explaining who the police beat up or why. Their official explanation is "no one got beat up by police at all", but Vizi wasn't even the only one. That obviously makes them liars. Just because you're telling the same lie as our gov't doesn't make you any less of a liar than they are. That's why you're considered a liar and a worthless propagandist dude. The fact that you can make some snotty insults doesn't actually give you credibility either.

So after all of this time that's the best you could come up with? You just found one article which strokes your confirmation bias and you're gonna stop there? Like I said, that's pathetic. https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-this-is-what-the-collapse-of-democracy-looks-like You don't have to take Tucker's word for it. Look at the video from 7:20 - 7:55 to see him surrendering and then go back to 6:15 to see the beating. You can see Csaba himself interviewed about it later in the video. There's no room to deny that it happened, and Vizi wasn't the only person beaten like that.

Re: the article: https://www.canadaland.com/canada-does-not-want-to-see-itself-this-way/ Reporters from the CBC, The Globe and Mail, Global News and others were in pissing match with the NYT about whether or not police in Ottawa arrested protesters at gunpoint. A NYT reporter claimed to have witnessed it in person, our Canadian broadcasters rushed to condemn the piece as a complete fabrication because the police brutality and totalitarian tactics are obviously unflattering to our PM. That's just a sample of the vitriol from our MSM, who somehow stood by their bizarre claim that they were aware of every single arrest made at the protests, and that anything that they didn't see, didn't happen. It was a clear case of "We control the narrative here, go back to the USA!" It turns out that our lackeys were the liars and the NYT was telling the truth this time, Arrests definitely were made at gunpoint, by the Ottawa Police's own admission. Whether or not there was a legitimate reason for the police to use guns is anyone's guess.

All that I ever 'proved' is that you're a liar and a propagandist. If you don't believe me, google this Csaba Vizi beaten by police and try to tell me that it's all lies again.

That's your style, and I get it, but I'm not wired like that. My main beef with someone here is that they just blatantly lied directly to me on too many occasions for me to just ignore it. It's one thing for someone to insist on saying something like "Trump doesn't have a video of every second of his life in the two years leading up to the election, so it's entirely possible that he did collude with Russia, we just don't have the evidence", because there can almost never be absolute proof of the negative. But for someone to say "CBC didn't show me footage of the police beating Csaba Vizi and I refuse to believe it happened." is just a refusal to look at proof of the positive, which is undeniable. When someone chooses to go with that kind of a narrative it's just an F-U and I won't forget it.

Blah, blah, blah. FYI just because a person is loyal to the crown, they've pledged their allegiance to the monarchy, they're leal servants of the crown, they've sworn fealty to the crown, whatever you want to call it, doesn't mean that they also have to support every other level of government between them and the monarch. That's an absolute fact that has been well understood by everyone in every monarchy since the beginning of time. If an Earl or Duke supports some other royal family than the one in power, and you live in their territory, how can you be loyal to both the Earl and the King? If you're loyal to Queen Elizabeth and you feel like Trudeau is a traitor you can't be loyal to both. I'm absolutely not loyal to the government of Canada at all, I just live here. There's literally nothing that I'd do right now that was for the gov't of this country unless it suited my own interests as well. I wouldn't even give the LPOC the steam off my crap if they were all dying of thirst. I'd literally die before I lifted a finger to protect this country and there was a time when I pledged my life to protect it.

What specific fraud are you talking about? I haven't heard anything about Conrad Black for years now, so if something big happened then I'm unaware of it.

I don't normally blame conservatives for going soft on some issues that the media will completely flame them for, but Charest isn't one of those conservatives. He's just a liberal who's counting on the MSM to install him as the conservative leader imo. Amen. I think that the world would benefit from seeing a hard-working, intelligent, smart, conservative black woman like Dr Lewis elected as a conservative leader but Pierre is just better right now IMO.

I know exactly what fealty and loyalty mean EF. Believe me, there's not a word in your vocabulary that I couldn't help you understand, but FYI loyalties/fealties/allegiances can be mutually exclusive. If you don't get it then you don't understand the concept of loyalty at all, which makes a lot of sense. Try to wrap your head around this saying: "A friend to all is a friend to none." Do you get it? Because I'm pretty sure that you don't. I'm pretty sure that your cognitive abilities don't extent far enough for you to realize that actually makes sense. "Duh, but being fwends wif evwewun iz awsum!"

Of course you do. You literally posted here that there's "no evidence that the police in Canada held people down and then beat them up". That's literally the saddest and most pathetic form of media obedience imaginable. That's like saying "I can see the videos of this happening with my own eyes, but CTV and CBC don't want me to see it, therefor I do not." It's actually crazy, alarming, bizarre, and a whole bunch of other things all at the same time. If they can make you believe that something didn't happen when you can see it with your own eyes then what makes you think that they're not hiding other things from you that you should know? Does SNC Lavalin have a court documented history of bribing Canadians politicians/bureaucrats to get government contracts? Well CBC didn't say so, so I guess not, right Ex-Flyer? You'll never know because you choose t have your head in the sand. Gross.

Black isn't exactly protected because his papers don't toe the line to the same extent that other sycophant media outlets do. That's why he can't get away with the same things that Pelosi, Biden, Trudeau, CTV, CBC et al do.

It doesn't mean that at all dude. History is chock full of examples where the line of command from a sovereign down to their subjects was full of traitors to whom loyalty would be treason. Loyalty to Caesar and Brutus became mutually exclusive at a certain point, do you get it?

For starters I don't believe you were a CWO because I have good reason not to believe anything you say - you're the guy who told us that you don't believe that Csaba Vizi was beaten by police after surrendering on his knees. It's impossible for you to not know that now if you bothered to look into it so - you're a total liar, period. One other thing specific to this claim - if you even know what CWO means then you'd be mentioning specific military bases for some reason which I'm not gonna tell you. The only thing that lends even the slightest credibility to your sad story (sad because it's unfathomable that our armed forces are in such bad shape that you'd get promoted that high) is the fact that you're the ultimate 'yes man'. You don't think for yourself and it's completely beyond your scope to question anything that you hear.

Stop calling it that.

Real estate has always a great investment, as far as a principle residence is concerned. There's no other investment where people have put in relatively small amounts of money and gotten so much out of it. If you buy $50K worth of stocks and they go up by 100% you made $50K, and if you're renting then you still have to pay rent. If you put $50K on a $750K home and it doubles you made $750K. Since the 1950s homes in the lower mainland of BC have doubled every ten years. Everybody keeps saying that it can't happen again and it always does. The vast majority of wealth accumulated by average Canadians is from real estate. I agree that investing in Canada isn't such a rock-solid proposition anymore though. If the gov't can randomly freeze people's bank accounts and take away their jobs, what's next?

Blah, blah, blah. You're just a civvie now so kiss it.

May you be half an hour in heaven before the devil knows you're dead. No memories at all?

From the article: What if the same standard was applied to Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc? Digital currency is for the birds. We talked to our financial advisor the other day and he said that a lot of people are buying silver and gold now, to hold personally. We know a few people doing that ourselves. That's what drug dealers used to do when they were afraid of having their accounts seized. They'd bury gold because it doesn't rust or anything. Crazy times.

I always had my doubts about crypto-currency, but we all just all found out that digital currency = no currency for dissidents in the modern era. The people who had their accounts frozen here weren't even remotely close to being considered terrorists or violent criminals, they were just reasonable people supporting a reasonable & peaceful protest. To say that the government's attacks on Canadians went too far is a gross understatement.

If I was unconscious for hours while my shipmates thought I was dead they'd probably all be drunk by the time I woke up lol.

I know that the Russians won't use that against Ukraine for this war, but if America thinks that they're gonna gain one inch of Russian soil or back them out of Ukraine without getting tactically nuked they're idiots. I hate the way that all of their propaganda points to war with Russia right now. It reminds me of WWII when they were saying that all Japanese pilots wear glasses an inch thick.

Gross. A guy on my sister the ship, the Saskatchewan, lost half of his foot in a 3'50 gun mounting while I was on the Qu'Appelle. He tried to catch some Zs during a fire-ex and when the gun pointed straight up, and the breech end came down below the deck level, his foot got chopped in there. In the end it was probably more embarrassing than painful for him. The pain lasted a few weeks, but he has been explaining how it happened since the late '80s.

For the purpose of this topic, there are two kinds of people imo: those who served in actual combat in combat roles and people who didn't. A guy like Tom Clancy may have more knowledge about all the different weapon systems and combat units in the world than ten average soldiers from different countries combined, but you could never compare his knowledge of combat to someone who actually served in it. I have a lot of knowledge of cold war naval combat capabilities but zero understand of what it's like to be in a war.I'd never try to tell an actual veteran of naval combat what's what. "No plan survives first contact with the enemy" and imo "No one should disrespect a true vet". If AG says something about combat, I just believe him. I defer to your knowledge of the army as well. It's just normal. The closest that I ever came to understanding "combat" [and it was really far from it] was in basic training when we were in a bunker spotting the places where people hit the targets, just over our heads, with the FN. It was a real eye-opener hearing the bullets smash through paper, but sounding like a piece of wood being snapped. Delusions of feeling heroic instantly melt away. I dunno if I was hearing the sound barrier being broken or the noise of the bullets going through the paper, but I instantly knew that I wanted no piece of it.

Here's an interesting article from Reuters about the world's largest explosions: https://graphics.reuters.com/LEBANON-SECURITY/BLAST/yzdpxnmqbpx/ It says that the Beirut blast was 3x as large as a MOAB explosion would be. The Beirut blast is shown here:

There are, or at least were, W54s with less than 44kilotons. TBH, there's not much that you need more than 44kt for, aside from destroying a whole city and rendering it uninhabitable. That's a lot of boom.