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[Zeitgeist]

7 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Green Energy is getting cheaper and it's definitely coming.

Evidence?  That means costs per kilowatt hour and system construction and operation compared to other sources.  I do think and have said many times that all roofs in new builds should incorporate solar systems, and where possible, geothermal heating, deep-water cooling, and wind power.  However, our capacitors (battery storage) must also improve.  Changing the building code would immediately make much of this tech commonplace. That should be Trudeau’s central climate policy, not carbon taxes.  He’s too gutless and and ignorant.  I’m still waiting for the ban on blind bidding to help lower home prices.  Dumb and ineffectual government…

Edited November 4, 2021 by Zeitgeist

[Michael Hardner]

14 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Evidence?  That means costs per kilowatt hour and system construction and operation compared to other sources.  I do think and have said many times that all roofs in new builds should incorporate solar systems, and where possible, geothermal heating, deep-water cooling, and wind power.  However, our capacitors (battery storage) must also improve.  Changing the building code would immediately make much of this tech commonplace. That should be Trudeau’s central climate policy, not carbon taxes.  He’s too gutless and and ignorant.  I’m still waiting for the ban on blind bidding to help lower home prices.  Dumb and ineffectual government…

It is improving...  Battery Storage graph from the Financial Times also:

 

These things will cut emissions and that's part of it..

[Zeitgeist]

9 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

It is improving...  Battery Storage graph from the Financial Times also:

 

These things will cut emissions and that's part of it..

Look into the costs of the energy production systems taking into account actual energy production.  The only way the costs can come down somewhat is through regulation (building code) and engine/motor/battery specifications.  Mass production will reduce unit cost, but it’s unlikely that green power will provide enough juice for our manufacturing, heating, and electric vehicles.  The trick is to boost hydro and nuclear (though those have GG emissions problems with concrete production, at least initially) and incorporate green power in standard building materials such as solar shingles, but they’ll need to be mandated by codes and regulations.  Carbon taxes on fuel are mostly expensive fake action, like “Drive Clean.”

We also need high speed rail and much better electric commuter rail options.  

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by Zeitgeist

[Queenmandy85]

2 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

The government bought the MSM here with taxpayer dollars, so they have a lot of control over public opinion. That's not enough though, so they have to get control over social media as well. 

You are wrong to think that just because you give something to someone, that will show any gratitude. When the government gave the vote to women, women voted out the government. Giving a subsidy to a local newspaper has no bearing on their reporting. Journalists see their role as challenging politicians. Trudeau with Tofino-gate and SNC, O'Toole and the vaccine, Singh and the Air India bombers, Kenney and his rant against his own equalization formula. The Crown owns CBC but is held at arms length from editorial policy. 

 

[Michael Hardner]

14 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:

1. Giving a subsidy to a local newspaper has no bearing on their reporting.
2. Journalists see their role as challenging politicians.
3. Trudeau with Tofino-gate and SNC, O'Toole and the vaccine, Singh and the Air India bombers, Kenney and his rant against his own equalization formula. The Crown owns CBC but is held at arms length from editorial policy. 

 

1. Trudeau bailed out Conservative newspapers, and they went after him harder than ever.
2. Good ones, yes.  Real ones.
3. I would like them to develop better online engagement...

[WestCanMan]

25 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:

Giving a subsidy to a local newspaper has no bearing on their reporting. Journalists see their role as challenging politicians. 

Duffygate happened in 2012. It was over $90K that the Conservatives paid back themselves. 3 years later, in 2015, CTV and CBC were still giving Trudeau and Mulcair primetime during the "news" hour and calling Duffygate 'an election issue'. After the election was over it was finally determined that Duffy wasn't even guilty of anything. That was 3 full years of primetime blabbering about $90K and a non-crime. 

The SNC Lavalin scandal happened in 2019 and it wasn't getting any coverage during the election that same year. Our media also portrayed it as solely "an overseas affair", but there was court-documented proof that SNC was bribing Canadians in order to secure government contracts back home. CBC had even reported on it at the time, but they left that info out when they were discussing Trudeau's scandal. In 2021, only two years later, SNC was a distant memory. In real terms, SNC was a bigger scandal by orders of magnitude, and Trudeau was even found guilty of an ethics breach. But the MSM ignored it, and obedient Canadians just lapped up CTV's anti-Conservative propaganda. 

The MSM did huge damage control for Trudeau on the blackface issue, which broke right before the 2019 election. I tuned in one night to see how CTV was managing the issue, they had 7 fake "undecided voters" (one of them was a muslim woman, and muslims were all instructed to vote Liberal by a government-funded "Muslim Voting Guide"); 'surprisingly', they all said that it was no big deal. Fake polling data that they were pimping said that Trudeau's support hadn't changed a bit. Case closed.

The WE scandal: WE was doing events at Trudeau's request for gobs of gov't money, they were making gag-worthy propaganda for their Hitler Youth Camps, and they paid Trudeau's mom like an elite public speaker at those events, but because she was a 'guest speaker', and not on the books as an employee like Morneau's daughter (who made less in her entire time at WE than Marg the ho made per diem), Trudeau skated while Morneau fell on his sword. In the end, CTV/CBC let Trudeau describe it as a case of "I merely forgot to recuse myself from the obvious decision to select WE for the $900M contract" and they sealed the issue forever. 

The MSM here couldn't possibly have done more for Trudeau. 

[Infidel Dog]

42 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

1. Trudeau bailed out Conservative newspapers, and they went after him harder than ever.

Conservative Newspapers? In Canada that's almost an oxymoron.

I hope you're not talking about the National Post. There may still be a couple of conservative columnists that post there from time to time but they're token. The general editorial policy has flipped. Now it's Liberal to Prog.

Token might apply to small news stories that might appear critical also. Any critique of Trudeau in Tofino only happened after Rebel found a story that kept them honest even though the first reaction of the fed paid press was to attack them for daring to notice an actual native protest to Trudeau's hopeful photo-op.

There are a couple of actual conservative media organizations (Rebel, True North...Ok maybe the Toronto Sun) but with the possible exception of the Sun they aren't government financed. There are also some independents.

On the larger issues, Climate Catastrophism, taxes, energy, immigration, America and so on Canadian media is in the Liberal tank.

[Michael Hardner]

Weird we WERE talking about the newspaper bailot, then it switched to CTV (started by Conservatives by the way) and an anecdotal summary of media bias with no cites.

And yet it was the Globe and Mail that broke the SNC Lavalin story, after which the Liberals got knocked down to minority status, never yet to recover.  I hear people say that Global is in the Liberals' pocket but they broke videos of Trudeau in black/brown face and also evading the first Truth and Reconciliation day.
 
Damn media. Doing so much for Trudeau.

[Infidel Dog]

Oh right...Robert Fife from the G & M. Forgot about him.

Yeah he's the exception that proves the rule. He can't be bought. Go Bob, with the old-time investigative journalist.

Not a lot of Bob Fifes around though.

Edited November 4, 2021 by Infidel Dog

[WestCanMan]

3 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Weird we WERE talking about the newspaper bailot, then it switched to CTV (started by Conservatives by the way) and an anecdotal summary of media bias with no cites.

And yet it was the Globe and Mail that broke the SNC Lavalin story, after which the Liberals got knocked down to minority status, never yet to recover.  I hear people say that Global is in the Liberals' pocket but they broke videos of Trudeau in black/brown face and also evading the first Truth and Reconciliation day.
 
Damn media. Doing so much for Trudeau.

It wasn't just a newspaper bailout, Trudeau also gave the CBC a $675M raise within a month of becoming PM.

No one knows where the $61M went just before the election. The PM says that he can give tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to any media outlets that he wants to, in complete secrecy, and our media thought that was just fine. 

Globe had no choice but break the SNC story, it wouldn't have remained secret forever.

Minority gov't? The PM s an entirely corrupt and divisive loser but he keeps getting elected because his scandals are considered to be OK by our MSM. They put in 100X as much effort covering the Duffygate non-scandal and the collusion witch-hunt in the US than they did all of Trudeau's actual scandals put together, and they only covered Trudeau's scandals with damage control in mind.

[Michael Hardner]

24 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

It wasn't just a newspaper bailout, Trudeau also gave the CBC a $675M raise within a month of becoming PM.

No one knows where the $61M went just before the election. 

You're saying Trudeau bought off the CBC too?!?

 

Wait... How much?? ?

[WestCanMan]

14 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

You're saying Trudeau bought off the CBC too?!?

 

Wait... How much?? ?

That's a weird question, and by weird I mean stupid. 

[Michael Hardner]

2 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

That's a weird question, and by weird I mean stupid. 

"Buying off media" generally refers to the new media fund, not funding for the CBC. 
You're welcome.

[OftenWrong]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

"Buying off media" generally refers to the new media fund, not funding for the CBC. 
You're welcome.

I thought I read that CBC got the biggest share of a 600M dollar handout. 

That’s not a duck-walk, you know. A hundred mill here or there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.

Edited November 5, 2021 by OftenWrong

[Michael Hardner]

6 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

I thought I read that CBC got the biggest share of a 600M dollar handout. 

That’s not a duck-walk, you know. A hundred mill here or there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.

It's the CPF - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Periodical_Fund

No CBC Mentioned

[OftenWrong]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

It's the CPF - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Periodical_Fund

No CBC Mentioned

Oh right CBC is already fully funded by the government. This handout is for everyone else. Fully state run journalism.

...

”Look over there!”

[myata]

What's crazy, bizarre, weird we are opening an entirely new chapter here let's call it "mass experimentation (on children) for social engineering". Exaggeration, really? What are the benefits to the children? What are the benefits for the society in general, given that significant reduction in transmission lasts only a month or so, according to published results?

And total silence. And, business as usual. Is anyone asking questions? Is there any discussion? Wow, wow! What you find out and come to understand with one silly tiny thing that knows only how to change and multiply but does it expertly.

And so, supreme priests waved their hand in their all-knowing "travel from Wuhan" wisdom. Muzak drumming, bandwagon screeching to full speed. Just like the pharaohs some thousands years back. Just like nothing changed. Wow.

[OftenWrong]

52 minutes ago, myata said:

What's crazy, bizarre, weird we are opening an entirely new chapter here let's call it "mass experimentation (on children) for social engineering". Exaggeration, really? What are the benefits to the children? What are the benefits for the society in general, given that significant reduction in transmission lasts only a month or so, according to published results?

And total silence. And, business as usual. Is anyone asking questions? Is there any discussion? Wow, wow! What you find out and come to understand with one silly tiny thing that knows only how to change and multiply but does it expertly.

And so, supreme priests waved their hand in their all-knowing "travel from Wuhan" wisdom. Muzak drumming, bandwagon screeching to full speed. Just like the pharaohs some thousands years back. Just like nothing changed. Wow.

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does not mind.

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has no memory.

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the Almighty Server.

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[WestCanMan]

7 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

"Buying off media" generally refers to the new media fund, not funding for the CBC. 
You're welcome.

Buying off media just refers to giving them $1.4 billion for favourable coverage: it's not rocket science.

Honestly, wtf would Trudeau have to do to make you wonder about his integrity? If he raped and murdered some elementary school girls right in front of you, would you still protect his dreamy public persona? 

[WestCanMan]

5 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

It's the CPF - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Periodical_Fund

No CBC Mentioned

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/liberals-pledge-675-million-in-cbc-funding/article29354285/

My link is old, but at least the title is still there. 

[WestCanMan]

In total (that I know of) Trudeau gave the CBC $675M, "select" media outlets $600M, and top secret news outlets $61M (just before the 2021 election "to ensure proper election coverage" lol).

[Michael Hardner]

2 hours ago, myata said:

What's crazy, bizarre, weird we are opening an entirely new chapter here let's call it "mass experimentation (on children) for social engineering". Exaggeration, really? What are the benefits to the children? What are the benefits for the society in general, given that significant reduction in transmission lasts only a month or so, according to published results?

And total silence. And, business as usual. Is anyone asking questions? Is there any discussion? Wow, wow! What you find out and come to understand with one silly tiny thing that knows only how to change and multiply but does it expertly.

And so, supreme priests waved their hand in their all-knowing "travel from Wuhan" wisdom. Muzak drumming, bandwagon screeching to full speed. Just like the pharaohs some thousands years back. Just like nothing changed. Wow.

The total silence may be because people are turning their phones upside down to see if this post makes any sense reading it that way.  

[WestCanMan]

3 hours ago, OftenWrong said:

Oh right CBC is already fully funded by the government. This handout is for everyone else. Fully state run journalism.

...

”Look over there!”

And now the CBC is planning to remove the comments section from the articles that they post, because there's too much accurate fact-checking in the comments.

[Michael Hardner]

4 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

1. Buying off media just refers to giving them $1.4 billion for favourable coverage: it's not rocket science.

2. Honestly, wtf would Trudeau have to do to make you wonder about his integrity?

3. If he raped and murdered some elementary school girls right in front of you, would you still protect his dreamy public persona? 

1. How's that working for them ?
2. I have no doubts about his integrity.  I'm certain he has none.  If you have doubts then what is it about him that makes you think he has some ?
3. You seem to think I like Trudeau.  Please take that as evidence that you're bad at logic.

[WestCanMan]

1 minute ago, Michael Hardner said:

The total silence may be because people are turning their phones upside down to see if this post makes any sense reading it that way.  

Compared to covid it was linear, accurate, and will stand the test of time.