Canada Passes Bill Forcing Streaming Services To Broadcast More Canadian Content

By William Teach June 22, 2022 – 10:30 am

This is very, very silly, and shows that elected legislators really having nothing better to do than just meddle in everything. To attempt to control everything

Canada passes bill to compel local content on streaming platforms

Canada’s lower house of the parliament passed legislation on Tuesday that would bring online streaming platforms under the stewardship of the country’s broadcast regulator and compel firms like Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify to offer more local content.

The bill, brought by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, cleared the House of Commons by 208 votes to 117, with support from the opposition New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois.

The government says the legislation would ensure that online streaming services promote Canadian music and stories and support local jobs. Critics say it was rushed to a vote and concerns raised about the bill, such as the potential impact on independent content creators, were not addressed.

The devil is in the details, so, how much is “more local content”? Services like Spotify, Pandora, iHeart Radio, give you the option to listen to just about whatever you want. If I want to listen to Rush, Triumph, April Wine, Kittie (heavy metal band), or others, I can. Would The Band be Canadian enough? How much in terms of local content is made for TV shows and movies? I have no idea with this, perhaps Canadians could answer. I’m sure they have TV shows, lots of cool shows had come from Canada, like Kids In The Hall. SCTV had lots of Canadians. A lot of TV shows are actually filmed in Canada, especially Vancouver, because it’s cheaper than making them here in the States. A lot of shows on the Syfy channel are Canadian productions.

If you subscribe to Youtube TV, I’m sure they give you the local Canadian channels, right? How much content does The Government want?

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, who introduced the bill in February, says the changes are meant for commercial programs streamed online and would not apply to individual Canadians.

In other words, he got a burr in his buns for some reason, and wants Government to have a lot of control over streaming services, and, if it goes to far, those services will either a) charge more, or b) stop broadcasting in Canada. Government is just very silly.

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Who’s Up For The Navy Holding Climate Cult War Games?

By William Teach June 22, 2022 – 7:00 am

Will they be flying their climate action flags, to go with their use of proper pronouns to create safe spaces?

Navy Holding Climate Change Wargame

The Navy next week will host an open-source table-top wargame to experiment with how climate change could affect a future conflict, a service official said today.

The half-day exercise will feature individuals from Capitol Hill, the Defense Department, the defense industry, think tanks and academia, Navy assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment Meredith Berger told reporters during a Defense Writers Group breakfast.

The hell? Sounds more like something a civilian should be doing. Well, sounds like a job which should be eliminated, since it has little to nothing to do with beating the ever-lovin’ shite out of enemies.

The purpose of the June 29 exercise is “to come together and really think about and experience what it means to operate in a climate-impacted environment,” Berger said.

“We’re going to create the right level of stress in a very responsible way to see that it is hard to make these choices and there [are] unanticipated consequences and there’re costs and impacts and all sorts of intervening circumstances that we need to think about from each other’s perspectives,” she added.

How about they practice “twisting his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time” when it comes to our enemies? This sounds more like a corporate board, not the U.S. Military

Berger, who is also now the Navy’s chief sustainability officer, said her role includes working with the Navy’s assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition on how to incorporate climate efficiency into requirements for new platforms. She pointed to an April memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks that called for the Defense Department to make energy efficiency a priority when developing new acquisition programs or updating old ones.

Good grief! There’s a lot of dead weight who offers zero ability to win a war that needs to be cut.

Each military service now has a chief sustainability officer in an effort to follow President Joe Biden’s executive order on sustainability, Berger said. That position is held by each service’s civilian head for energy, installations and environment.

This is getting worse as I go through it.

“SIOP is an opportunity for us to make sure that we are taking every opportunity to increase and include energy efficiency, climate resilience. So this is a place where we are, as I mentioned, building to higher flood plains,” she said.

We are so screwed if China decides to start a war.

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Target CEO Says Biden Gas Tax Holiday Would Spike Demand

By William Teach June 22, 2022 – 6:45 am

Would it, though?

(Yahoo Finance) Target (TGT) CEO Brian Cornell isn’t convinced that a potential federal gas tax holiday, an idea floated by President Biden on Monday, is a real solution to the elevated gas prices facing drivers across America.

“We have a classic supply and demand challenge,” Cornell said at an event held by The Economic Club of New York. “And in all due respect to a gas holiday, it’s only going to fuel the demand. It’s doing nothing to increase supply. So that’s a temporary, almost a mini stimulus, but it’s time to fundamentally change the supply and demand curves for fuel and transportation.”

The proposal, which would require congressional approval, could save consumers as much as 18.4 cents per gallon. The national average for a gallon of gas currently hovers just below $5 per gallon, according to AAA.

Stewart Glickman, energy equity analyst at CFRA Research, recently echoed that sentiment.

“If we’re going to get U.S. gasoline prices to fall, it’s probably not going to be a supply-driven solution,” Glickman told Yahoo Finance. “The solution here, unfortunately, is probably a recession that kills demand and reduces scarcity of supply.”

Would saving a whopping 18.4 cents create that much more demand? Would it incent people to travel more? To head to the beach or the mountains for the weekend? He’s right though that it is a temporary gimmick (my word), and does nothing to change supply. The problem with a recession is that it still doesn’t fix the issue unless the government gives approval for new refineries. Biden and his Comrades won’t be able to to force people into EVs, because a) people won’t have the money for them, and b) there still won’t be enough energy production to charge them.

And you don’t fix a problem made way worse by stimulus with more stimulus. Biden doesn’t want to fix the problem, otherwise he’d be looking at emergency authorization for more refineries. He wants there to be paid to instituted his climate cult policies.

Quick Update: here’s his supposed big plan

Biden to call on Congress to approve 3-month gas tax holiday

President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to pass legislation creating a federal tax holiday on gas and diesel fuel for three months in an effort to lower prices for consumers at the pump, according to senior administration officials.

The pause would trim 18 cents off each gallon of gas and 24 cents for diesel at a time when the summer driving season is getting underway. The legislation would cost an estimated $10 billion, a senior administration official told reporters on a call.

Now, put into numbers exactly how much this will really help Americans. It won’t be a lot, and, it doesn’t last.

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It’s Show Your Stripes Of Climate Doom Day Or Something

By William Teach June 21, 2022 – 3:00 pm

It’s another day for climate cultists to climavirtue signal while making almost no changes in their own lives

#ShowYourStripes Day seeks to spread climate change awareness

The recent temperatures in Minnesota have felt like late August, but Tuesday marks the official start to summer.

It’s the summer solstice, so you’ll see plenty of sun as it’s the longest day of the year. You might also see striped charts online Tuesday.

Extreme heat like we’re experiencing now is only becoming more common. When it comes to summer temperatures since 1970, almost everyone across the United States has seen a couple to a few degrees of warming each summer.

That’s what happens during a Holocene warm period.

This has prompted #ShowYourStripes Day, which coincides with the summer solstice. It’s meant to spread awareness of the human influence on climate change by showing visualizations of the long-term rise in global temperatures.

The cult has been doing the spreading awareness thing for over 30 years. Yet, 99.9% of them are still driving/taking fossil fueled cars, flying, eating meat, using air conditioning, and so forth.

Of course there had to be a mask. One that doesn’t fit well, and has gaps that will let in COVID, the flu, and colds. If the material made any difference to start with.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 21, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is the logo of the cheating Astros, who should have lost the title, you might just be a Dodgers fan

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on how the whole seizing Russian yachts is going

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U.S. Navy Is Super Excited To Teach About Pronouns And Create Safe Spaces

By William Teach June 21, 2022 – 10:30 am

The Navy has one job: protect the U.S. from our enemies, and anything that doesn’t help the mission hurts the mission. This whole going Woke crap hurts the mission, and you can bet our enemies are laughing their asses off

From the article

The Navy is training its members to create a “safe space” by using proper gender pronouns in a new instructional video modeled after a children’s show.

“Hi! My name is Jony, and I use he/him pronouns,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center engineer Jony Rozon, who sports a rainbow-colored t-shirt, states in the video’s opening.

The official training video is meant to emphasize “the importance of using correct pronouns as well as polite etiquette when you may not be sure of someone’s pronouns,” according to the Navy, which late last month published the video online. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service touts the video as an “official U.S. Navy video” posted by Air Force staff sergeant John Vannucci.

The video is the latest bid by the military to foster a more sensitive environment for its members and staff. The Army mandates similar gender identity training and trains officers on when to offer subordinates gender-transition surgery, the Washington Free Beacon reported in March. These programs are part of a larger push by the Biden administration to make the military more welcoming to transgender individuals.

What happens when the instructors and superiors start screaming at the members? Will they cry? Will they complain to HR, which will then demote the instructors and superiors, or even see them charged and booted?

The nearly four-minute Navy video emphasizes how members can create “a safe space” for their colleagues by using “inclusive language” that signals they are “allies” who “accept everybody.” Service members must take these steps to ensure they do not “misgender someone.” The Navy also warns staff against pressuring an individual to disclose his or her gender pronouns, saying that colleagues may still be in “the process of discovery” and not yet ready to provide this information.

It’s very simple: if you have penis, you’re a him. If you have vagina, you’re female. That’s it. Does anyone really trust military personnel who are vested in their pronouns?

The hosts go on to discuss how Navy members can create “a safe space for everybody” through the use of proper gender pronouns.

“Instead of saying something like ‘Hey guys,’ you can say, ‘Hey everyone,’ or ‘Hey team,'” Rozon says.

How about “maggots”? Can the opposing country’s forces complain to HR if they’re called bad names, if they are misgendered? We are doomed.

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Washington Post Wants To Regulate “Carbon” As A Toxic Substance Or Something

By William Teach June 21, 2022 – 7:15 am

Well, let’s start with the carbon footprint of the Washington Post, what say? It’s not like plants need CO2, right? From the wacko mind of Eugene Robinson

To stop climate change, regulate carbon as a toxic substance

Because of human activity, there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 4 million years. We have increased the concentration of that heat-trapping gas by a full 50 percent since the Industrial Revolution. And last year’s carbon emissions of 36.3 billion tons set a new record.

There’s your status report on the battle against climate change: By any scientific measurement, we’re losing.

Yet we have to find a way to snatch an acceptable victory from the closing jaws of defeat, because the consequences of runaway climate change are no longer theoretical. Yellowstone National Park is closed, following unprecedented torrential rainfall that washed out roads and perhaps permanently altered the landscape. Western states are suffering through a mega-drought that has made the nation’s biggest reservoirs look like drained bathtubs; water rationing is inevitable. Around the world, deadly summer heat waves have arrived early, in the spring. Sea-level rise is evident in video clips of beachside homes crumbling into the surf.

Rain happens. There’s always something going on. Don’t build houses in areas where the islands shift. Barrier islands do that. Droughts happen.

“We should have started taking action decades ago. That’s the best time,” James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate experts and the former head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told me last week. “The second-best time is now.”

Hansen is among a group of scientists who are trying a novel approach to force our government to act more boldly. On Thursday, they filed an official petition with the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to require the EPA to regulate carbon under existing legislation, the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Let’s start by applying this to all the news outlets and Elites who pimp this stuff but don’t walk the talk.

By law, the EPA has 90 days to respond with a determination as to whether carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases pose “an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment” under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was signed into law in 1976 and updated in 2016.

Well, you know how this is going to end, considering that the EPA has been infested with hardcore doomsday cultists

Deciding that carbon dioxide is a toxic substance as defined by law would only be a first step. The EPA would have to formulate and implement rules that could, for example, impose a fee on carbon emissions — and also require companies to remove carbon from the atmosphere they have already expelled.

And then there would be tons of lawsuits, which the EPA would most likely lose. These people are just nuts.

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Bummer: Even Democrats Blame Biden For Inflation

By William Teach June 21, 2022 – 7:00 am

Look, again, I’ll honestly say it is not all Biden’s fault. The original fault starts with China for screwing around with coronaviruses. Oh, and people like Anthony Fauci and the NIH for funding gain of function research. However, Biden’s policies and threats of policies, along with the intention from him and his people have made things way worse

From the article

How did this happen? And does President Biden deserve the blame? June’s monthly online I&I/TIPP Poll sought to answer those questions, asking 1,310 adults across the country the following question: “In general, how responsible are President Biden’s policies for causing the current inflation?”

The answers to the poll, which was taken from June 8-10 and has a margin of error of +/-2.8 percentage points, couldn’t be less comforting for Biden and the Democratic Party.

Of those responding, 64% said Biden was “responsible,” choosing either “very responsible” (38%) or “somewhat responsible” (26%). Just 25% answered “not responsible”, with 17% saying “not very responsible” but a far-smaller 8% saying “not at all responsible.” “Not sure” was 10%.

But most surprising of all, Democrats have thrown in the towel on Biden’s economic leadership, with 53% blaming Biden’s policies for inflation vs. 39% saying they weren’t responsible.

22% of the Democrats say Biden is “very responsible.” For independents, 35% says the same, with another 28% saying “somewhat responsible.”

Indeed, of all the major demographic groupings followed by the I&I/TIPP Poll, just one was below 50% overall: self-described “liberals.” All the other groups, including blacks (61%), Hispanics (61%), men (68%), women (61%), along with every income group, every age group, and every education group, all felt Biden’s policies caused the current inflation mess.

It’s hard to imagine a more sweeping repudiation of a president’s economic policies.

Well, hey, it’s not like the people who were upset about Mean Tweets weren’t warned about the damage Biden would do, right?

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Climate Doom: Germany Looks To Re-Open Coal Plants, American Warmists Call For Nationalizing Oil Industry

By William Teach June 20, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Didn’t the climate cultists tell us that renewables would provide abundant clean, green energy at an affordable price?

Germany Plans Coal U-Turn, Gas Funding to Offset Russian Cut

unintended consequencesGermany is stepping up efforts to respond to a cut in Russian gas supplies by reviving coal plants and providing financing to secure gas for the winter, an effort that would cost about 15 billion euros ($15.8 billion) at current prices.

The package of measures was announced days after Moscow slashed deliveries on its main gas link to Europe, hitting supplies to Germany and creating a knock-on effect for France, Austria and the Czech Republic. Austria responded to reduced flows by reviving a dormant coal power station.

Bringing back plants burning the heavily polluting fossil fuel is the latest sign of how Europe’s climate fight is taking a back seat as governments seek to hedge against energy shortfalls provoked by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Stephan Haufe, a spokesman for Germany’s economy ministry, said Monday at a regular news conference that despite the latest policy reversal the ruling coalition in Berlin is still standing by a pledge to aim for a complete exit from coal by 2030.

Sure thing, Sparky. This “green” stuff looks great, right up to something in the Real World intrudes with the cold, dead Mackerel of reality. Then they need to go to reliable, affordable, dependable energy.

He also said Germany will respect limits set out in the European Union’s emissions certificates program. The European Commission’s energy spokesman, Tim McPhie, told reporters in Brussels on Monday that member states that resort to greater use of coal to secure energy supplies in the short term must respect the bloc’s binding climate goal for this decade.

“We know that the energy mix and the plans of member states will adjust slightly because we are in an unexpected situation where we’ve decided to end our dependency on Russian fossil fuels,” McPhie said.

There’s always something unexpected in practice, vs theory.

And here’s the Modern Socialists at The New Republic

Biden Wrote a Stern Letter to Oil Refiners. His Government Should Take Over the Industry Instead.
A National Refining Company could lower gas prices without giving up on climate targets.

In its quest to find someone to blame for high gas prices, the White House has zeroed in on a new villain: oil refiners. In a letter this week—as gas prices reached $5 per gallon—Biden called “high refinery profit margins” unacceptable, pledging to use “all reasonable and appropriate federal government tools” to bring more refined products to market and lower prices at the pump. That language doesn’t suggest that he’s considering having the government take over refining, but this would, in fact, be entirely reasonable and appropriate—and more effective than any measures he’s considering.

Socialists/Marxists/Democrats hate when you call them that, and then they recommend nationalizing industries. Go figure. Because it would be entirely reasonable and appropriate for the federal government to nationalize it, right? Because the government is oh-so responsible with money and federal agencies, right? What could possibly go wrong? How’s the nationalization of industries in Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela worked out? Heck, an oil rich country like Venezuela is a disaster.

There’s too much to unpack in the rest of the screed, but, basically, they want to nationalize all the refineries, particularly those shut down since the pandemic started. That would be so easy without the people who know what the hell is going on, right? And wouldn’t create any lawsuits, right? And then they could sell the gas at a loss until things get back to normal, then close them again as people are forced into EVs they cannot afford.

Even a publicly-owned refinery company wouldn’t solve broader problems like sourcing tools and steel or finding enough workers that are trained to run such facilities. That work would likely be contracted out to existing crews; refineries could be run in partnership with industry. Getting a shuttered refinery up and running would still take several months. But having the state hold the keys also means it wouldn’t have an obligation to return fat profits to shareholders—either now or in the coming decades as refineries should be shutting down. “There’s no way that the energy transition in the oil and gas industry happens at a reasonable rate without greater state intervention,” Brew added.

Strange, these people keep saying they are not authoritarians.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area built on a hillside to avoid sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on how to create “white supremacy” in 7 easy steps.

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