Canadian Convulsions > Canada's culturally suicidal immigration/asylum policies

 

A graph like the one below can only be made through deliberate policies. Stupid policies, but deliberate. This is why we have a housing crisis in Canada among many other various and sundry crises.

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What will 4 more years of Kamala look like? Let's ask Canada. At Trudeau's Nov 2015 election, Foreign NPRs made up:

- 2.1% of Canada (750,000 NPRs)

Upon reelection in Sept 2021:

- 3.4% of Canada (1,305,000)

Today, 3 years post-reelection?

- 7.3% of Canada (3,002,000)

33% of Canada's total population is foreign born now, including other immigration statuses -- this was under 24% when Trudeau took office. With this, Canadians are increasingly suffering the economic decline & social upheaval that historically came with enemy occupation after losing a shooting war. Will Canada survive its 8+ years of Kamala-Trudeau immigration policy? Perhaps as a loosely affiliated economic zone. Can the USA survive 8 years of Kamala-Trudeau immigration policy? Just look North.

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European Gas Crisis Spreads to Kazakhstan - Government Quits, State of Emergency, 8 Killed

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Kazakhstan declares state of emergency in several cities

as ongoing fuel price protests erupt

Fuel price increase that kicked in on Jan. 1 sparked tensions,

but autocracy has long stifled dissent

Thomson Reuters · 

Posted: Jan 05, 2022 9:27 AM ET

A view shows a burning police car during a protest following the Kazakh authorities' decision to lift price caps on liquefied petroleum gas in Almaty early Wednesday. (Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)

Kazakhstan declared emergencies in the capital, main city and provinces on Wednesday after demonstrators stormed and torched public buildings, the worst unrest for more than a decade in a tightly controlled country that promotes an image of stability.

The cabinet resigned but that failed to quell the anger of the demonstrators, who have taken to the streets in response to a fuel price increase from the start of the new year.

An Instagram live stream by a Kazakh blogger showed a fire blazing in the office of the Almaty mayor, with apparent gunshots audible nearby. Videos posted online also showed the nearby prosecutor's office burning.

Earlier on Wednesday, Reuters journalists saw thousands of protesters pressing toward Almaty city centre, some of them on a large truck. Security forces, in helmets and riot shields, fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades.

The city's police chief said Almaty was under attack by "extremists and radicals," who had beaten up 500 civilians and ransacked hundreds of businesses.

This image grab from video shows protesters near an administrative building during a rally over a hike in energy prices in Almaty. Protesters stormed the mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest city. (AFP/Getty Images)

A presidential decree announced a two-week state of emergency and nighttime curfew in the capital Nur-Sultan, citing "a serious and direct security threat to citizens." States of emergency were also declared in Almaty and in western Mangistau province, where the protests first emerged in recent days.

Authorities appeared to have shut the country off the internet as the unrest spread. Netblocks, a site that monitors global internet connectivity, said the country was "in the midst of a nation-scale internet blackout."

Government resigns

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government's resignation on Wednesday following the protests, which have spread from the provinces to main cities since price caps on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) were lifted on New Year's Day.

Speaking to the acting cabinet, Tokayev ordered the price hikes reversed and new caps placed on the cost of other fuels.

The government said the regulated price was causing losses for producers and needed to be liberalized, but Tokayev acknowledged the move had been botched.

The unrest is the biggest test yet of Tokayev, 68, who took power in 2019 as hand-picked successor to Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former Communist Party boss who had become the longest-serving ruler in the former Soviet Union by the time he stepped down. Nazarbayev, 81, still retains substantial authority as head of the ruling party and chairman of the security council.

Kazakhstan's reputation for political stability under three decades of one-man rule by former leader Nazarbayev helped it attract hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investment in its oil and metals industries, but the pandemic has led to economic pressures, as elsewhere.

Tokayev said on Wednesday he had taken over as head of the country's Security Council and promised to act with "maximum toughness."

Scores of injuries

Atameken, Kazakhstan's business lobby group, said its members were reporting attacks on banks, stores and restaurants.

The city health department said 190 people had sought medical help, including 137 police. City authorities urged residents to stay home.

The interior ministry said government buildings were also attacked in the southern cities of Shymkent and Taraz overnight, with 95 police wounded in clashes. Police have detained more than 200 people.

A video posted online showed police using a water cannon and stun grenades against protesters in front of the mayor's office in Aktobe, capital of another western province.

The size of the crowd in Almaty late Tuesday is shown. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades in a bid to break up an unprecedented thousands-strong march, with injuries to protesters and police reported. (Ruslan Pryanikov/AFP/Getty Images)

Kazakhstan has been grappling with rising price pressures. Inflation was closing in on nine per cent year-on-year late last year — its highest level in more than five years — forcing the central bank to raise interest rates to 9.75 per cent.

Some analysts said the protests pointed to more deep-rooted issues.

"I think there is an underlying undercurrent of frustrations in Kazakhstan over the lack of democracy," said Tim Ash, emerging market strategist at BlueBay Asset Management.

"Young, internet-savvy Kazakhs, especially in Almaty, likely want similar freedoms as Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans, Kyrgyz and Armenians, who have also vented their frustrations over the years with authoritarian regimes."

European and international election observers continually condemned the legitimacy of presidential elections in Kazakhstan under Nazarbayev, who regularly won with over 95 per cent of the vote. Voting irregularities and detentions of government opponents were also noted in the 2019 vote, which Tokayev won with a more modest 71 per cent total.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Kazakhstan could solve its own problems and it was important that no one interfered from the outside, RIA news agency reported.

Russia's foreign ministry said it was closely monitoring the situation in its southern neighbour and counting on the "soonest possible normalization."

"We advocate the peaceful resolution of all problems within the constitutional and legal framework and dialogue, rather than through street riots and the violation of laws," it said.

The Latest > Eight police and military killed, over 300 injured in Wednesday’s violence so far, the Kazakh interior ministry says

Ozzone 4-1 > Does this present crisis push you away from The Lord, out of worship with Jesus?

 

Coronavirus: Some Provoking Thoughts

I hope to do a series on COVID-19

Today's piece is a quick and dirty history

and, also, some thoughts on global warming and governments

In the months after 911, I told our pastor that something had changed in 'the Heavenlies', and the world will never be the same again. That was followed by several plagues, SARS, the Bird Flu, etc., and by an increase in mostly Islamic terrorism. 

In 2008, we had that incredible stock market crash and serious depression. In 2011, the Arab Spring, and the beginning of the Syrian proxy war which is not over yet. In 2015, the consequences of the Syrian war and the rape of African countries by European colonialists came home to roost as millions of migrants made their way into Europe. 

In 2020, came COVID-19! It actually started in China sometime in 2019, but they managed to keep it hidden until a courageous doctor, now deceased, managed to announce it to the world around New Years. By then it had taken hold in Hubei Province and the bodies were beginning to pile up. China appeared to take very drastic action, which, in retrospect, should have come months earlier.

About the same time, doctors in Lombardy region, in northern Italy, began to notice people were dying from a strange form of Pneumonia. It was soon realized that that new type of Pneumonia which was how the Coronavirus claimed most of its victims.

It has now spread to most countries in the world. Some countries, like Canada, are somewhat prepared for it, because of SARS, while others are not the least bit prepared, like Italy and Iran.

In Hubei Province, 60 million people were locked down for nearly three months. Just yesterday, India locked down 1.3 billion people, one 6th of the population of the earth. Shelter-in-place orders are happening across Europe's most populated countries, with increasing penalties for those idiots who flagrantly ignore those orders. 

Cruise ships are being grounded, those that can find a port to take them in. Container ship traffic will be reduced significantly, if it hasn't already, as many factories making frivolous things for which the market is dwindling, are shut down. Large ships make a lot of pollution!

Airlines around the world are laying off most of their staff, some, all of their staff, as airports everywhere are closing, even to some domestic traffic. That's a lot of airplanes that are not flying.

Many businesses are shutting down, and most are likely to in the next little while. Videos from cities in most countries show empty streets during 'rush hours'. Boeing closed its Washington State production plants putting about 40,000 people out of work. That's a lot of commuters who are not commuting. 

Globally, probably close to a billion commuters are out of work or working from home, but not commuting. Taxi companies are laying off staff. 

In less than 3 months, Coronavirus has done more to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere than any climate change heroics could do in 15 years. And it will continue for at least another couple months - much longer in countries where it is just arriving.

Wuhan has had its movement restrictions loosened just today. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel. How long that tunnel is we don't really know because of China's secrecy at the beginning. But certainly, it can be measured in months. We may not get completely rid of COVID-19 for a few years, if ever, but its dramatic effects will reduce greatly after some months, especially in countries with good health-care systems and sensible governments. I greatly fear for those countries where there is much crowding and poor health-care. This emergency will lead to draconian measures that might never be removed even after the virus is. 

A crisis is the most dangerous time

in the governance of any country

In Canada, Trudeau has embedded clauses that gives him and his Finance Minister sweeping powers to tax, to borrow, to spend without consulting parliament, in an emergency measures bill. The purpose is not to help Canadians, but to allow Trudeau to continue to govern with his minority without fear of being overthrown by a finance bill in the House of Commons. The clause was not for a few weeks or months, but for 21 months. This is playing politics at a time of crisis and is shameful.

Trudeau hasn't done a terrible job at managing this crisis until now, especially compared to some. Except that he has sunk Canada so deeply into debt that we have no budgetary room to handle this crisis. I have been warning us about this for years. Now, he will be borrowing at least 100 billion dollars over the next few months which means another generation of Canadians will be living off a fraction of their taxes as much of our tax money will go to pay interest on a more than $1 trillion debt. I can't see where the next three generations of Canadians will be able to pay this down, and, God-forbid, another crisis in a few years, or a few decades, and we will completely crash.

Politics trumps humanity

One good thing Trudeau and his Finance Minister could do to help a rapidly crumbling economy is to remove the carbon tax he so recently installed. Atmospheric carbon should be dramatically reduced this year, and if our climate 'scientists' are right, that should result in a significant drop in global temperatures sometime over the next several years. 

Right now, the carbon tax is useless as only essential workers and truck-drivers are driving. We should be encouraging these heroes, not punishing them for their heroics.

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Relentless Dark Talk About Climate Change is Harming Kids

DAVID STAPLES, EDMONTON JOURNAL

A girl wears face paint as schoolchildren take part in a student climate protest on March 15, 2019 in London, England.

 JACK TAYLOR / GETTY IMAGES, FILE

Canadian parents were put on the spot by their children this week.

You see, climate change is the hot subject at schools across the country. Teen activist Greta Thunberg is in the news. Children were asked to take part in Thunberg’s Global Climate Strike.

This led to kids asking difficult questions of their parents: Is it OK to miss school to protest? Is climate change real? Is there anything we can do about it?

When I was asked these questions by my own daughter, I answered carefully, partly because I wanted her to make up her own mind, but also because I wanted to avoid the relentlessly dark talk about climate change, talk that is harming our kids.

It is nothing less than child abuse

This phenomenon is so pronounced that a new term has developed to describe the psychological impact on people: eco-anxiety.

As Psychology Today describes it: “Eco-anxiety is a fairly recent psychological disorder afflicting an increasing number of individuals who worry about the environmental crisis.”

It doesn't help that virtually every day a new report comes out spelling doom and disaster. Nor does it help that climate alarmists including left wing governments and media are targeting children with their message of terror. It's hyperbole beyond all reason or sanity and it is terrifying our children. It is nothing less than child abuse.

It’s not just adults gripped by eco-anxiety, it’s children, in large part because many adults are describing to them a future ripped apart by climatic catastrophes. Thunberg herself spoke of this dark vision in her speech Monday to the United Nations Climate Action Summit: “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction …”

Psychologist Christine Korol, who specializes in treating anxiety disorders at the Vancouver Anxiety Centre, says her teen daughter recently came home from school with news that a teacher had advised her students not to ever have children because of coming ecological catastrophe.

Little wonder then that Korol has had many parents coming to her for advice on how to help their anxious kids. Korol says this anxiety can take the form of despair, helplessness, and obsession about recycling or not burning fossil fuels.

One way to cope is to take action, such as making a YouTube video on the issue or participating in the Global Climate Strike, Korol says. “That’s a great way of coping so I hope that mitigates some of the anxiety, if they feel like they’re taking action.”

There is no climate change crises

and there is no need for alarm

To answer my own daughter, I told her I was no expert on climate science, but that the scientific consensus right now is that climate change is real and that the world is getting warmer.

That said — and I stressed this point — there is no climate change crises and there is no need for alarm.

I know this statement will astonish some folks, especially our many climate alarmists. But the world’s smartest and wisest thinkers and leaders have devised a great solution to climate change — converting to a safe, reliable source of abundant carbon-free energy, nuclear power.

Right now we are grossly under-estimating our ability to handle climate change. Yes, it’s going to take time and money to fully develop a nuclear economy. It’s also going to take political will, as many influential leaders such as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, 65, and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, 70, have antiquated ideas and are fiercely opposed to nuclear power.

The fact is that our new 21st century nuclear reactors have never had major safety issues. They can power electrical grids, rapidly cut carbon emissions and become a source of cheap energy that raises hundreds of millions more people out of poverty.

Nuclear power is not only carbon-free, but one small nuclear plant creates a massive amount of power, says nuclear engineer Mark Schneider, a leading U.S. expert on nuclear power. This gives nuclear the lowest carbon and green footprint of any form of energy production.

It’s also reliable. It’s not dependent on windy days and sunny skies to work.

And because it’s scrutinized so closely, it’s got the best record for safety.

Nuclear already drives prosperous, low-carbon economies in France and Sweden. And nuclear is no pipe dream in Canada. Reactors have safely supplied two-thirds of the power for Ontario’s electrical grid for many decades.

The good news is that nuclear energy is strongly backed by industrialists like Bill Gates, environmental activists like Micheal Shellenberger and by both Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, two parties that will likely get about 75 per cent of the votes in the coming election.

I can’t think of a more hopeful message for our children.

All we have to do now is convince anxious and alarmist adults to get over their fears and to quit scaring children, especially about nuclear energy.

Burning fossil fuels caused global warming. But fossil thinking is the only thing preventing us from stopping it.

It has yet to be proven how much of a contribution fossil fuels make to climate change. It may be substantial, or it may not be that significant. Climate change alarmists are very secretive with their computer models as opposed to putting them out for scientific scrutiny by their peers as good, ethical science would require.

There is some disagreement about whether or not domesticated feed animals contribute more to climate change than fossil fuels. Certainly, deforestation is a significant contributor as well. 

But unbiased scientists know that CO2 and global warming are not closely linked through history. 

Also, there is a global political movement behind this alarmism. It is not science-driven as we are led to believe, but the politics is driving the science and anyone with scientific evidence that counters or mitigates the panic is quickly silenced.