The anti-authoritarian grassroots left and right are uniting – at last, as I’ve been urging for decades; and which is absolutely necessary, if we are to halt and reverse our current trajectory toward globalist corporate-fascism. Listen carefully to the interview with Russell Brand, from the libertarian left, talking with Tucker
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: A Sinking Ship On Fire: The Dismal State Of A Civilization (sic) In Slow Motion Collapse
(Written this morning as an open letter to a fine independent journalist) Patrick, I found you on 21st Century Wire and was very impressed. Before I listen to this TNT talk on Rumble, and get a glimpse of your focus now, or foci, I want to say what comes to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Manifestos – Tyler Thier
He who commits violence first loses moral authority and legitimacy in society. We are entering a period where the provocateurs on both the Left and Right will be doing all they can to make the other side resort to force and violence. We, in our fight to save our culture,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Harm Reduction Versus Rehabilitation – The B.C / Alberta Approaches.
I was a strong proponent of the Harm Reduction strategy until more data has come out about its effectiveness and benefits for society versus other methods. There might be a case for Harm Reduction, but as currently implemented in BC it is a like a 4 legged stool that is
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Socialism, Capitalism, Corporatism, & The Future Of Humanity: Ideology vs Reality
A few thoughts on the recent, very thoughtful and interesting discourse and debate, between Professors Brookes and Wolff, linked in the video below: To Professor Wolff:Bravo – brilliant crystalization. To Professor Brookes:Great respect for your human decency and moral sentiment of basic justice and compassion, certainly, but are you not
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: From The Past
It’s January 27th, 2022, but you’re reading this in the future. I’m writing this after my intended bed time, having just helped a friend learn how to purchase an NFT. I guess you’ll know how that turned out. It was a pretty standard day working from home. The dog got
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Climate Memes
I know weather is different from climate, but it feels like April outside today. All the snow’s melting (at least we got some snow after a very green Christmas), and I started peeling off layers as I walked. Leon Simons (the “gentleman” climate scientist, not the Snowfall character) created the meme above. When
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fossil Fuel Companies’ New Evil Strategy
There’s an effort underway by Conservatives and Fossil Fuel companies to suggest that fossil fuels are “sustainable”. This is an attempt to rebrand fossil fuels as non-harmful, when the reality is they’re causing much of the world’s pollution and breakdown in our climate. There are some ad agencies pledging to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian Liberal Party Ineptly Pressing the Fear Button
The Liberal Party of Canada is extinction bursting on the fear button. They quote one of the grifters on their payroll in attempt to smear the opposition. Maybe quoting a male that is rabidly misogynistic for your attack ad isn’t a keen strategy? But of course, throwing Canadian women
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: We Need Policy Based on Evidence, not Vibes
Survival of the fittest doesn’t mean the strongest survive, it means whomever can best adapt to the conditions of life will survive. Adapting doesn’t mean tolerating what’s happening and ignoring it; it means changing when the conditions of life change. So, in a pandemic, it means changing the way we live
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anything I Disagree with is “Far Right” – Douglas Murray
We need to be able identify thought terminating cliches and deal with them appropriately. We need to encourage not suppress speech in society.
Continue readingIn This Corner: Whither the Alberta NDP?
During the provincial election of 2015, Rachel Notley was everywhere. Literally. The party – which, going into the election, had just four seats – was desperate. Their candidates were so unknown, so unprepared, that election signs would have given you the impression that Rachel Notley was running in your constituency
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Our Fragile Democracy
The Financial Times posted a video with Margaret Atwood discussing democracy. It’s just 6 minutes, and the illustrations (from Jamie Macdonald) really add to it. She asks if democracy is fragile or resilient, and points out that we might find out as more climate change effects hit closer to home. I
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moms For Liberty – Let’s Bring Back Discernment in Public School Libraries.
This is a frustrating clip to watch. The host is constantly talking over the guest as she tries to respond to the attempted ‘gotcha’ questions being posed. I think we need to be clear here. There is no need to “Experts” to weigh in on keeping sexually explicit and pornographic
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Oh, Canada: A Funeral Dirge – And A Prayer
Travelling the world recently again, I am struck by the staggering ignorance among the great majority of people in the world, as to what Canada is like today. All of them, with rare exceptions, seem to think this is 1974. They think of Canada as a rich, First World country,
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Senate Committee Hearing Addressing Long Covid
It’s a funny disconnect between Twitter and everywhere else. Yesterday everyone I know online was glued to the Senate hearings. If you weren’t one of them, here’s the gist: You can watch the whole thing here. These are just the highlights that stood out to me. Long Covid patients, parents
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Trump Hysteria
Trump did little good in his first term as US President, and much that was bad – but he didn’t turn the US into a fascist police state: Cheney, Obama and Biden did that. I am no Trump supporter, but the establishment political elite of the two dominant US parties
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Renaissance, Resistance & Revolution
In terms of social movements, the Left is dead, for the time being, at least in the formerly industrialized, formerly “leading”, “developed”, First World nations of the (North-) West. The reason it is dead, is because it has been seduced into supporting authoritarianism, and has thereby been co-opted by the
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