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Watch the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. This mission is scheduled to lift off at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC), Dec. 25, 2021, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre.

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Sen. Joe Manchin delivered a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. The conservative Democrat from West Virginia said he can no longer support the Build Back Better social spending plan, nor would he be in favor of changing filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation.

“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t.“I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there. … This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do.”

Build Back Better was the centerpiece of Biden’s domestic plans. Included in the bill were proposals to improve health care, fix immigration, help Americans with child care costs, and address climate change.

UPDATED on December 17/2022 from December 13/2020 post & December 18/2021 post

Seems Elon continues to deserve the award every year.What an uber achiever !

In the tradition of grifter capitalism another capitalist grifter leverages the state socialist policies for predatory grifter capitalist outcomes and makes the cover of Time magazine as a reward or something like that…(still working with the algorithm to get it more precise)

Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift https://newrepublic.com/article/160500/elon-musks-big-government-grift

It’s entirely possible that this carnival barker of a CEO will continue finding crafty ways to extract tax breaks and favorable contracts from government entities for the rest of his career. But we should be alive to the ways in which Musk’s reputation is built on a faulty foundation of borrowed money and worker exploitation. To Musk, the government is only useful in helping to enrich him, and he otherwise expects it to stay the hell out of his way. The problem is that he is now powerful and rich enough to get his wish. For all his supposed brilliance in developing electric vehicles and rockets, this may be his greatest talent: grifting the government. In doing so, he’s creating a roadmap for reform, if politicians care to notice. Jacob Silverman  @SilvermanJacob

Court Painter comes through again with public service images in aid of society’s desire for a simple two step guide to assist with decision making in health, art investing, severe weather events and fool proof pastry recipes.

“Collect data sets and play the percentages !

Press Attache A Hardon MacKay expressed some hesitation with releasing these images …”it is more complicated and not so simple or common sensical in our pandemic informed digital times”, he sputtered. Court Painter however insists non mathematicians do not have to be Rockette dancers to figure how to follow the simple two step…Collect data sets and play the percentages!

UPDATE from July 2020 post

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New video from Gidimt’en Checkpoint detailing the raid on Jocey, Chief Woos’s daughter’s Cabin, House of Skïy ze’on November 19/21

RCMP invaded Coyote Camp and the House of Skïy ze’. Jocey and Jay were living in the cabin that Chief Woos, Joceys’ father, blessed and gave to her. 

Coastal GasLink later undertook to burn & bulldoze the cabin to the ground

OPINION

There is no doubt the RCMP is a failed institution

By ROSE LEMAY       DECEMBER 6, 2021 The Hill Times

Indigenous peoples can’t even gather together to voice their demands for better treatment, without getting an alarmed response from the federal government and the RCMP.

OTTAWA—It must be nice to not to fear the national police. It must be reassuring to have a level of trust in them. That trust is misplaced in the RCMP.

Journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano were arrested along with Sleydo’ and others working to protect the land against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline. The RCMP tracked the two journalists in their active investigations’ database, and destroyed their equipment, according to The Narwhal. Not to mention that the details around use of force by police at Wet’suwet’en to arrest citizens is alarming as it sounds too much like states with issues with, well, police brutality. Tanks, sniper rifles, chainsaws, full tactical gear as if they were going to war.

Indigenous peoples can’t even gather together to voice their demands for better treatment, without getting an alarmed response from the federal government.  Let’s ask the Government Operations Centre just how many times it has been activated for Indigenous demonstrations. Sorry, Indigenous protests, let’s use that ‘correct’ term. Wow, we are that scary, eh.

Imagine this. There was talk of building a new bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau at Kettle Island, very close to Manor Park. Imagine if the Manor Park neighbourhood were divided on the issue of building a highway—some supported it and some did not. Imagine if some families demonstrated against the bridge building. Imagine if the police stormed that demonstration in tanks, with sniper rifles that use five-inch long bullets, carrying chain saws to break down any barriers to arrest those Canadians. Imagine if the police blocked cellphones and WiFi to ensure they could do their evil without anybody knowing.

Alarming? Yes, it’s alarming for so many reasons. Because it would be called a demonstration if it happened in Rockcliffe, not a blockade. Because there would be tens of national and international media outlets covering it. Because it would be called an illegal action. The harsh truth is that nesting barn swallows can stop a bridge development in Ottawa (Jockvale Bridge), but First Nations can be brutally taken down when they try to protect their lands.

It seems journalists are now at risk of illegal arrest by the RCMP almost as much as Indigenous peoples. Indigenous journalists should have lawyers on speed dial.  When journalists sharing truth are seen as a national risk by the RCMP, every Canadian should be worried.

Canada is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Article 26 asserts that “all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law.”  Indigenous peoples don’t receive the same treatment when they demonstrate, as do other Canadians. Canada is a signatory to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which targets racial discrimination under law as well as to guard against discriminatory effects of the law. Indigenous peoples don’t receive the same treatment by the RCMP as non-Indigenous Canadians.

Then there’s the sexual harassment within the RCMP.  The 2017 Report into Workplace Harassment in the RCMP says the organization is unable to address the issues—it is a failed institution.

When Global Affairs Canada hosted the Global Conference for Media Freedom in 2019 that led to the Global Pledge on Media Freedom, one wonders if the federal department realized the issue in its own backyard.

When Indigenous peoples are seen as a risk just for speaking up together, democracy is at risk. Let’s be frank here. The RCMP is a failed institution on many fronts, so much so that Canadians should be worried.  We are now all at risk.

Rose LeMay is Tlingit from the West Coast and the CEO of the Indigenous Reconciliation Group. She writes twice a month about Indigenous inclusion and reconciliation. In Tlingit worldview, the stories are the knowledge system, sometimes told through myth and sometimes contradicting the myths told by others. But always with at least some truth.

Premier Jason Kenney seems to have David Suzuki living in his head and it gets his dander up!

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SOURCE Following excerpts from Nov 24 2021 article :  Max Fawcett — National Observer

Jason Kenney tweeted that “this incitement to violence by David Suzuki is dangerous, and should be condemned universally. In Canada, we resolve our differences peacefully and democratically, not with threats of terrorism or acts of violence.”

Oddly, that doesn’t seem to apply to one of Kenney’s biggest supporters.

W. Brett Wilson, a former “dragon” on CBC’s Dragons’ Den and current climate change skeptic who got a shoutout from the premier at last weekend’s UCP convention in Calgary, has repeatedly threatened environmental activists with hanging for “treason.” He tweeted that Ecojustice, a Canadian environmental law charity with an office in Alberta, should “watch your back.” And when given an opportunity to clarify whether his comments about hangings and treason were just a bad joke, Wilson doubled down. “I didn’t joke,” he tweeted. “I was serious about hanging foreign-funded protesters — undermining our nation — for treason.” 

So far, neither Kenney nor his environment minister has publicly criticized Wilson for his comments, much less tabled a resolution in the legislature calling for him to be condemned as they have for Suzuki. Funny, that.

There’s both the obvious hypocrisy here and a bit of irony, given Suzuki and Wilson have an awful lot in common. Both can be self-aggrandizing and arrogant blowhards who at times seem more interested in hearing their own voices than using them for good. Both have large followings and a devoted core of supporters, and both have the ability to make news simply by opening their mouths.

And while Wilson remains a member of the petro-conservative inner circle in Alberta, Suzuki is its original bête noire