I don't want to jump to conclusions, but at first glance, it looks like typical Junk News Industry BS. It's fast and convenient, but has zero nutritional value. You would get more nutrients by eating your newspaper, instead of reading it.
It was published on Dec 14, 2022. A Google search, using the keywords "Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID," did not come up as I expected. I expected to see page after page of that headline quoted as the Junk News industry jumped on anything that would inflate the COVID-19 body count. It didn't.
That puzzles me because it's exactly the kind of headline I would expect convenience news to jump on with great enthusiasm to stoke the panicdemic narrative. These reports would, of course, be accompanied by photos of body bags stacked outside of morgues, intubated patients in ICUs, and forlorn-looking puppies waiting for their masters to come home, along with the photo of the bereaved family at the UK National Covid Memorial Wall.
Maybe they just don't want people thinking about excess mortality at all?
The report opens with,
"We will never know exactly how many people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed: too many deaths around the world still go unrecorded. Statistical analyses suggest, however, that in 2021, COVID-19 overtook coronary heart disease to become the world’s leading cause of death. This conclusion comes not from official COVID-19 records, but from estimates of excess mortality: that is, deaths that exceed the levels that are expected."
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That line sends my BS meter into the red zone. Clever BS, but BS just the same.
It looks like what they are trying to do is bundle the estimated, or observed, excess deaths into the COVID-19 body count.
Some of us have been noting, and screaming about, the alarming increase in mortality rates for some time now. However, those in the "anti-science, racist, misogynist, and people with inappropriate views," and "conspiracy theory" groups have been pointing to the economic devastation wrought by lockdowns, free government party money, and last, but not least, possibly the experimental vaccines as the likely force driving excess mortality.
Blaming the alarming phenomenon of excess deaths, since 2020, on COVID-19 is just too stupid to be stupid, therefore, my preliminary BS analysis gives this report 5 turds.
One final malodorous whopper deserves noting.
"These extra deaths also include those related indirectly to the pandemic, such as from illnesses that health-care systems might have been able to treat if it weren’t for COVID-19-related disruption."
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Let's not forget that the "COVID-19 related disruption," was ALL CAUSED by the knee-jerk, jackboot medicine responses of most governments (A.K.A. lockdowns), NOT BY THE FUCKING VIRUS!
Ironically, I got into a fight with a Tim Horton's manager in the dream I was having just before I woke up this morning. I was the only guy at the cash when I ordered a coffee from the manager. Then he started fucking around, going around talking to people and making weird adjustments around the store. After waiting an hour, I started to complain. So the guy started accusing me of sabotaging construction equipment in his parking lot, which was ridiculous because I never sabotage construction equipment in Tim Horton’s parking lots.
I decided to look for another person to take my order. Ended up walking down some crowded hallway when the manager got in my face and started attacking me. The guy was a useless fighter. Using some of my old judo training, I knocked him over a couple of times, but he kept coming back. Then he tried to kick me, so I used some Jiujitsu on him, grabbing his calf and kicking him in the nuts while he was spreadeagled.
Who do these fucking Tim Horton's managers think they are?
I looked out the window this morning to a depressing sight.
Fucking snow.
It's really starting now.
I have always been puzzled by the way Canadian thought influencers enthusiastically jumped on the "Keep Canada Cold" bandwagon in response to the #ClimateScam.
First and foremost in my mind was, why the hell should Canadians be concerned about supposed global warming? We must suffer this miserable, messy, expensive, gloomy, dark, and depressing period for about six months of every year.
I don't know about you, but I HATE winter. If it were possible, I would go into hibernation every December, until at least April. If I could afford it, I would spend every Canadian winter in Florida.
There is a very good reason why MOST of the Canadian population lives as far south as possible.
Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Southern Ontario was more like Florida. Would you complain? I sure as shit wouldn't. Those who enjoy winter sports can move to Ellesmere Island, along with the contrarian whack-jobs who pretend they enjoy the winter freeze, just because most people don't.
Every day I see those obnoxious federal Liberals bloviating on Twitter about their heroic efforts to grease as many palms as possible with the next generation's dollars, ostensibly in pursuit of this insane "Keep Canada Cold" agenda.
The millions of Canadians that have been sucked in by this con is simply mind-boggling. Such mass stupidity is not natural. It has to be programmed. That's where government controlled public schools, along with a thoroughly corrupt Junk News media, leftist and "woke" political activists, Marxist university professors, and a very large portion of an apathetic population come in. The common objective of all of these pushers and followers is the destruction of consumer-driven (I.E. democratic,) free market capitalism, in favour of authoritarian collectivist economic, social, and speech control, led by brazen charlatans like Justin Trudeau.
Project Veritas exposes the corruption at CNN.
As the corrupt Canadian Junk News industry pivots from its wall-to-wall COVID-19 panic porn into climate porn, few Canadians even perceive the psychological manipulation. This year, much of the hocus-pocus focus has been on the costs of climate change, with the implication that, if we revert to a pre-industrial way of life with bicycles and windmills, even though it's really hard to ride bicycles in snow, and wind turbines don't work when covered in ice, we will be altruistically saving Bangladesh from any more floods. And it will be even worse than that, because burning wood for warmth will be banned, and there just ain't a lot of bugs to eat in Canada during the winter. Wouldn't it be easier if Bangladesh just built some dikes, even though they might have to wait awhile for the wind and solar-powered earth movers and bulldozers to hit the market?
I made two Google searches just now.
For the first, I used these keywords, "estimated cost of climate change in Canada."
There were plenty of results.
But when I Googled. "What is the cost of winter on the Canadian economy?" I got nothing. Zip. Zip. Zilch. Either no one is asking that question, or the corrupt Google search engine is not enthusiastic about providing those answers.
So, I had to broaden my search, starting with the question of how many Canadian climate refugees there are every winter. It is reported to be 300,000 to 376,000.
My next question is, how much does this cost the Canadian economy?
According to this site, Canadian climate refugees spend about $3,500 per month. It is unclear whether that figure in $CDN or $US. I will assume it's in $CDN. Using the lower estimate of 300,000 Canadian climate refugees, that works out to a cost of about $1 billion per year due to Canada's ongoing climate sameness crisis. That's just a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $25 billion climate change supposedly costs Canada.
But there are other costs resulting from winter.
snow plowing
snow shovelling
shovels
ice salt
vehicle boosts
rust damage from ice and salt
injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces
vehicular accidents caused by climate-related road conditions
money wasted on warm winter clothing and footwear
the growing cost of home and commercial heating
heart attacks caused by snow shovelling
people falling through thin ice
people freezing to death
depression and loneliness resulting from climate-related isolation
drownings and floods during the spring thaw
snowballs being thrown at cars
waiting for buses in the freezing cold
unused unused <sic> bicycle lanes
people getting splashed with slush
wet and ruined footwear
people walking on the roads because of unshovelled snow
climbing over snowbanks and getting your pants and feet all soaked
increased misery for homeless people
While road salt is great at melting through snow and ice, it is also harmful to our environment — here’s how alternatives could help achieve the same result pic.twitter.com/mbD68z8fMv
Canadian winters are dangerous and expensive. If one word could sum up Canadian winters, it would be "yuk!"
Liberal voters bite their fingernails, wave their hands, and pull their hair out worrying about some imagined future climate crisis when this country experiences a climate crisis every single year.
Think about it. Even if you're naive enough to believe that a bunch of political wind-bags have the magical ability to thermostatically control the climate, why in the fuck would you vote for them when they promise to keep Canada cold?
We need a new political party in this country. One that buys into the CO2 hoax, but instead of subsidizing wind and solar, offer incentives to all Canadians to purchase and operate their own CO2 generators. And farmers will be told to feed beans, Chinese food, lots of salad with Catalina dressing, and chicken wings to their cows. (It will "create jobs" and all that BS.)
I know what I am going to do. On the assumption that these charlatans are actually right about CO2 warming the planet, I am going to buy a commercial CO2 generator and run it in my backyard, 24/7. Maybe I'll buy two. And then, perhaps, I will be Prime Minister one day.
Someone post the link to this video in the comments section. I haven't had a chance to view it, yet, but will include it here in case anyone is interested.
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Wind collapse in cold UK this morning.
Essentially banned coal is providing 50% more electricity than wind -- not including coal from the interconnectors with the Netherlands.
Taxi drivers are now mining coal! I wonder if Uber will come up with an app for that?
"Some coal storage facilities have had to shop from supermarkets."
People are resorting to burning garbage.
And, of course, by-law enforcement is now involved,
"The city, meanwhile, is sending patrols to check on the places they know are popular with miners." (will Uber miners be exempt?)
"We are also spending more money on the sand we use to fill in the holes."
If this were just another Monty Python skit, it would be piss-pants funny, but it's the reality of what happens when governments create crises to "prevent" crises. JUST like they did with COVID.
It's all just another example of the unintended consequences of expecting politicians to come up with "solutions."
Climate idiocy-caused energy crisis revives illegal backyard coal mining in Poland:
"Coal is as little as a meter below the surface in fields, recreation areas and even gardens. Four men can unearth a ton per hour & make $220 each for half a day’s work."https://t.co/kwgy8wmR8Q
In the following essay, I reported that I had not received a refund from GiveSendGo. This was incorrect. Upon check through my credit card statements, I was able to confirn that I had received a refund on March 26, 2022. My apologies to GiveSendGo for this disinformation.
At first, I embedded this video at the bottom of this rant. Then I decided, it's so good that it belongs at the top. Brand used to irritate me, but lately, he has been bang on.
From before.
I noticed that the Russell Brand clip was, inexplicably, spliced out of the Tucker stream, so I googled it and found his rant from three weeks ago. This might be the one.
Maybe it was because I was in the cab business that I could see what was coming so easily. It started around 25 years ago when the credit card companies prevented me from buying good-tasting American cigarettes from Switzerland. I had read about how the U.S. government was strong-arming credit card companies to stop processing internet tobacco sales. When it happened to me, I knew why.
It started with tobacco, but how much of a fool do you have to be to have thought it would end there? Now it's plastic bags, meat, and road space. Oh! And I almost forgot about the lockdowns, masks, and vaccinations.
All were incremental steps toward transferring, even the most basic human choices, to government officials.
They even prescribed the number of guests you could have over for Christmas. Do you remember that? Or has it gone down the same memory hole that has been replaced by, "No one ever said that the vaccines would stop infections and prevent transmission!" Like pre-2020 vaccines did.
Then there was the push toward computerizing taxicab dispatch, along with GPS tracking. Followed by the mandatory cameras. I felt each turn of the screw.
It's like assembling a jig-saw puzzle. A very easy one. The final picture is crystal clear.
Add a dash of authoritarian collectivism, our dominant political fashion, and you don't even have to do any work. The pieces all fall nicely into place.
Then there was the problem I had getting a sticker when I bought an ex taxi Crown Vic, because my insurance policy was not showing up on the IBC COMPUTER! Even though I had bona fide coverage AND a fucking pink slip.
The IBC link is gone? I wonder what that is about? Try this one.
I argued with the girl behind the counter and even got angry with her, until she pointed out that she had no control of the situation. Until the policy showed up in the database, the printer would NOT spit out the permit.
At which point, I envisioned myself arguing with the order taker at a McDonald's restaurant, trying to explain to me that there was no way she could process my order for a quarter pounder with cheese combo, because I had already exceeded my monthly beef quota. "It's to save the planet," she would cheerfully remind me.
I'm hearing that a lot lately when I ask for a bag in the grocery checkout line.
Finally, there was the freezing of the GoFundMe account for the trucker convoy. I had not made a donation, but when the devious fuckers froze the trucker's account, I searched for another platform and found GiveSendGo. I sent them $10 U.S.
That too was frozen, and as of today, it still hasn't been refunded.
And, yes, that sleazy c*nt of a liberal leftist "thought influencer," Dean Blundell, published the hacked list of all the GiveSendGo donors on his website.
His sleazy act, which he deleted a short while later, did not displease me. It was a gift. It was a public demonstration of just how low these leftists will go to crush those who oppose them. And since the Dean Blundells of the world are now deeply entrenched in all of the power centers, do you still think Biden won the 2020 election?
Keep in mind the fact that most voters don't know what the fuck they are doing, and that the political machinery know this, and uses it, to frame its message.
So, yes, Central Bank Digital Currencies represent a grave threat to that remnant of the population who still value their privacy, and their freedom.
One thing I am also finding strange, is how Statistics Canada seems to be dragging their feet now in presenting the charts for all-cause mortality in Canada. Their charts have not been updated since July, 2022. I don't recall them being so slow in the past. I have been particiularly interested in the mortality stats, since the COVID response, for people in the 0 to 44 year age bracket.
