Court Painter recommends this video conversation to any thoughtful viewer interested in a profoundly insightful analysis of the past,current and future state of U.S. democracy, grounded and informed by history and lived experience.
Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of Letters from an American, joins Scott Galloway , academic, author and entrepreneur to explore how authoritarianism takes hold – not through coups, but within democratic systems. They discuss how the Republican Party masterfully rebranded itself as the party of patriotism, masculinity, and individualism, while Democrats failed to counter the narrative. Plus, they touch on national service, economic inequality, and the role of “love” in rebuilding a fractured America.
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Court Painter & portrait of Scott Galloway
Court Painter & portrait of Heather Cox Richardson
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House Monday for dinner, he came bearing what has become the ultimate host gift for President Donald Trump: a letter nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Before the meal was served, however, Netanyahu was quick to burnish Trump’s peace-making abilities, even as negotiators were still finalizing details of a ceasefire deal.
“He’s forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other,” Netanyahu said as he reached over the table to present Trump with his document. “So, I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee; it’s nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved, and you should get it.”
“Thank you very much. This I didn’t know. Wow,” Trump responded, seemingly touched. “Coming from you, in particular, this is very meaningful. Thank you very much, Bibi.”
Alberta Premier Smith transforming snakes into pipelines
CBC NEWS November 24/25
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental laws and offer political support to a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast, CBC News has learned.
The deal is set to be formally announced at a joint Carney-Smith news conference in Calgary on Thursday,November 27/25.
What could possibly go wrong?
Premier Smith & Prime Minister Carney forgetting something?
British Columbia Premier David Eby says he told Prime Minister Mark Carney “how unacceptable” it was for Alberta and Saskatchewan to talk with the federal government about a potential pipeline without input from his province. The pipeline fight escalated after Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe revealed he is involved in Alberta’s negotiations with Ottawa about a potential oil pipeline across northern B.C., which would mean allowing oil tankers to ply the waters off B.C.’s north coast, where they are currently banned.
Prime Minister Carney and pipeline knot
Eby says such treatment would not happen to any other province, adding that he expects Ottawa to include B.C. and Coastal First Nations as full participants in any future talks.
BC Premier Eby & Alberta Premier Smith
By the way some fun facts…
Carbon Release: Fossil fuels are concentrated forms of carbon, stored underground for millions of years. When we burn them for energy, heat, and transportation, this carbon rapidly combines with oxygen to form CO₂.
The Greenhouse Effect: These released CO₂ gases accumulate in the atmosphere, acting like a blanket around the Earth.
Planetary Warming: This blanket traps heat that would otherwise escape into space, causing the planet’s average temperature to rise—a process known as global warming.
Also
A predicted peak oil global decrease in demand for fossil fuels & Alberta oil sands bitumen;
the absence of a proponent with a costed business plan for pipelines;
the vulnerability of public tax dollars tied to such investments;
alternatives, such as rail, to ship bitumen to northern tidewater could become more viable ;
falling oil prices driven by Saudi Arabia;
increased global electrification overtaking fossil fuels—particularly in the Global South—led by China.
the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia tidewater presently is operating at under capacity.
the existing jurisdictional legal, indigenous, and environmental permissions process remains in question.
Court Painter & Portrait of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Court Painter & Portrait of Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe
Court Painter & Portrait of Prime Minister Mark Carney
Just in: To add more potential Fossil Fuel to a Burning Planet : news from Newfoundland
ST. JOHN’S — Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservative Premier Tony Wakeham says he is heading to Ottawa later today (November 25) with demands for Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Wakeham told a St. John’s business conference he wants Carney to designate Bay du Nord — a proposed offshore oil development by Equinor — as a major project of national interest.
The premier declared that Newfoundland and Labrador is “back in the oil business,” adding that the previous provincial government was reluctant to champion the industry.
The less discerning of you might consider this post rather silly ; however, it must be noted that the tale it recounts was a harbinger of The Donald’s infatuation with tariffs related to the Great Dominion !
A Tariff Tale of the Smuggler & The Snitch
“There was a story two days ago in a major newspaper talking about people living in Canada coming into the United States and smuggling things back into Canada because the tariffs are so massive. The tariffs to get common items back into Canada are so high that they have to smuggle ’em in. They buy shoes and they wear them,” he said. They scuff ’em up, they make ’em sound old or look old. No, we’re treated horribly.”
From DJT remarks of June 19.2018:
Donald the Snitch, just blew the whistle on Court Painter’s secret side hustle—smuggling freshly purchased varieties of brand spanking new shoes of all kinds in Sweetgrass Montana,which before loading in his conveyances he “pre scuffed’ real good to assure an undetected smooth passage through the Coutts Alberta customs .
Thanks to Donald the Snitch, Court Painter the Smuggler is now out of the shoe business,shoeless and barefoot back in the studio!
Court Painter seen at the height of his tariff avoiding petty criminal career!
‘I’m not giving up on the immediate years, but the focus on politics, economics, and law are all destined to fail because they are based around humans. They’re designed to guide humans, but we’ve left out the foundation of our existence, which is nature, clean air, pure water, rich soil, food, and sunlight. That’s the foundation of the way we live and, when we construct legal, economic and political systems, they have to be built around protecting those very things, but they’re not.’
‘Economic growth, which is the driving force of politics and business, is what determines our fate.’
