UPDATED FROM May 12/22 & January 20/23 posts
BBC News: Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News, has acknowledged some of the network’s stars endorsed false claims the 2020 election was stolen.
Tucker Carlson in a moment of rare transparency
Court Painter in moment of reflection said every successful painting requires bones…
Supermassive black hole seen at the center of our galaxy
Astronomers on May12/22 unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole that roils the center of our galaxy, its gravity so powerful that it bends space and time and forms a glowing ring of light with eternal darkness at the core.
Meanwhile on a related story….Supermassive black hole seen at the center of our common sense
Excerpted from
THE BREACH journalism for transformation
Paris Marx | Paris Marx is a socialist writer and host of the left-wing tech podcast Tech Won’t Save Us. May 10/22
Supernomial snake oil
‘Even though 90 per cent of Canadians have heard of Bitcoin, a mere five per cent have bought in, according to a recent Bank of Canada study. Bitcoin owners in Canada tend to be “young, educated men with high household income and low financial literacy”—not the people currently excluded by the financial system. Meanwhile, despite the claims of all its benefits, the same study found half of cryptocurrency owners reported being victims of “negative events” like price crashes, scams, and data breaches.
Time and again, technology has been wrapped in the promise of freedom. And time and again, it has delivered surveillance, deregulation, and major profits for tech companies at the expense of the working class. Even its promise of a libertarian freedom from state control—whatever you think of it—fails to be realized in practice. Pierre Poilievre’s use of Bitcoin as part of a pitch for extreme right-wing populism shouldn’t fool anyone. It’s part of a political program that will ultimately further serve the wealthy while promising to do the opposite.
We’re watching Poilievre push right-wing economic fantasies that promise easy solutions to complex and highly political problems. As the current frontrunner for the Conservative leadership, he’s also selling a vision of private money where the Bank of Canada will be banned from introducing digital currencies to ensure private companies can develop cryptocurrencies that compete with the Canadian dollar. But as the US treasury secretary recently noted, governments didn’t always control their national currencies, and the system of competing currencies that preceded centralized governance was defined by “immense disorder.”
Placing our faith in the crypto industry won’t solve any of the serious challenges facing Canadians today. Instead, increasing the number of people who engage with speculative financial products that are compared to Ponzi schemes by critics and supporters alike will only increase the risk of a devastating crash.
The left does need a response to rising cost of living, the housing crisis, and the problems with the banking system—but it must entail the decommodification of essential services, major investments in public housing, and a massive expansion of public banking to counter the stranglehold of the Big Five banks. Without such an alternative, people frustrated with rising inequality are left to Poilievre’s Bitcoin fantasies.’
Click link for The Tyee article
In interviews, three former and current UCP senior political staffers told The Tyee how the premier’s office instructed staffers to delete emails, use personal phones to conduct government business, and communicate through Slack and WhatsApp channels that are regularly wiped. “The directive would come from the premier’s office staff during regular weekly and daily meetings, reminding everyone to ensure that they’re up to date on their ‘records management,’” one former senior staffer said.
“‘Records management’ was code for deleting emails.” Another senior staffer said they understood the unwritten directive was to “delete everything, to have no records” so that nobody could get any of our information.”
Sean Holman, a University of Victoria journalism professor and FOIP expert, said he was disappointed but not shocked by the Kenney government’s attitude toward freedom of information.
“This is part and parcel of an overall trend, both in Alberta and across Canada, as governments have become more secretive, less open — and by extension, less democratic,” he said.
“What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you move your lips in a particular way?”
Conservatives accuse Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of ‘dropping an F-bomb’ in House
The remark was not picked up by the microphone on the livestream of the proceedings
Excerpt from May 4/22 article:
“OTTAWA — Much has been made of the political legacy Justin Trudeau has to live up to as he follows in the footsteps of his father, a former prime minister.
On Wednesday, he invoked one of Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s most memorable quips when asked whether he had uttered unparliamentary language.
“What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you move your lips in a particular way?” the current prime minister told reporters on his way out of the House of Commons.
It hearkens back to 1971, when Pierre Trudeau was accused of “mouthing a four-letter obscenity” at the opposition benches.
The elder Trudeau had denied saying anything. When pressed by reporters, he replied: “What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say fuddle-duddle or something like that?”
On Wednesday, his son had the reference ready.
Conservatives had accused him of “dropping an F-bomb,” with MP John Barlow telling the House “it was not fuddle-duddle.”
The remark was not picked up by the microphone on the livestream of the proceedings. Deputy Speaker Chris d’Entremont said he did not hear what was said.
Even the Tories have not yet been clear about what they heard, although Opposition House leader John Brassard maintains about a dozen of his colleagues heard it. They’ve formally asked the Speaker to review Hansard and determine whether unparliamentary language was used.”
However, the dozen Tories each came up with the separate letter they heard and when combined definitely spelled out fuddle duddle …once again leaving the Great Dominion befuddled!.
That being said, ‘Justin Trudeau like his father will suffer dire consequences from his profane utterance ‘, yelled the Tories in unison!
Protestors in front of US Supreme Court Building
Mary Margaret O’Hara
EXCERPT:
Who, who, who do you talk to?
Who do you talk to?
Who do you talk to?
When your body’s in trouble
The body’s in trouble
The body’s in trouble
When your body’s in trouble, who?
Court Painter made his presence known at the Met Gala tonight. It was enough to make a guilded hayseed swoon!
The race is officially on. As of Friday afternoon, at least six candidates had filed their signatures and big bucks to appear on the final ballot in hopes of being picked the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
William Shakespeare
Court Painter rests his brush to provide guidance on the most pickable.
Tamara Lich has been awarded The George Jonas Freedom Award for her part in organizing the Freedom Convoy truckers protest that drew international attention for occupying Ottawa’s downtown core in February
The Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) will present the award to Lich on June 16 at a ceremony in Toronto. (click link for info)
National Post columnist Rex Murphy is slated to be the keynote speaker.
George Jonas (1935-2016) was a renowned Canadian author, poet and columnist who wrote on the importance of freedoms. The award recognizes and honours one individual each year who has contributed significantly to advancing and preserving freedom in Canada.
For leading the convoy, Tamara Lich was charged on Feb. 17 with mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police and obstructing police. The allegations have not been proven in court.
Chicken Little is an example of a folktale that makes light of paranoia and mass hysteria. It is reported to be Elon Musk’s favourite tale of inspiration for the recent controversial purchase of Twitter
There are several Western versions of the story, of which Chicken Little is the best-known and concerns a chick that believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. The chick decides to tell the king and, on its journey, meets other animals (mostly other fowl) which join it in the quest. After this point, there are many endings. In the most familiar, a fox invites them to its lair and then eats them all. Alternatively, the last one, usually Cocky Lockey, survives long enough to warn the chick, who escapes. In others all are rescued and finally speak to the king.
In most retellings, the animals have rhyming names, commonly Chicken Licken or Chicken Little, Henny Penny or Hen-Len, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky or Ducky Daddles, Drakey Lakey, Goosey Loosey or Goosey Poosey, Gander Lander, Turkey Lurkey and Foxy Loxy or Foxy Woxy and most recently Musky Dusky.
Because of deep pockets and financial clout , Elon has inspired and inserted a new character Musky Dusky into the tale, dispensing freedom of speechifying to all the most fowl in the recent Chicken Little version while training a little blue bird to do his bidding!
Musky Dusky is a Tweet Freak Oligarch whose Twitter handle is Musky Dusky @muskydusky
Special thanks to Cara H for reminding CP of Chicken Little
Editors note: The article was submitted by Court Painter’s Press Attache A Hardon MacKay claiming it to be a product inspired from a period of sterling literary style whereas the word and it’s combinations therein were untouched by the GPT3-Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 autoregressive that AI’s algorithms foist upon the modern page.
