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Revolution in Ontario!

A breaking story is coming at this hour from the city of Toronto in the Canadian Province of Ontario. It seems that some kind of coup or revolution has occurred against the government of this province.

The Covid Lords, five years on

While the response to covid has been dismal for five years, I believe we will be done with it five years from now. The generation now in its infancy may be the last to suffer infection during their lives from any form of airborne illness.

African Breakout

Many African nations have become fairly wealthy by per capita GDP. But they have trouble using this wealth to further develop their economies and increase the well being of their citizens.

Trump Trumped in Ukraine

Like the rest of the American elite, he thinks he can start and stop wars at will. A certain political theorist long ago had an axiom against that idea. It is translated something like; “a war may begin when you will, but will not end when you choose”.

Annexation Nation

With Trump, the rules in place since 1945 are over. Canada is going to have to adjust quickly. However, Canada is very unprepared to do so. Canada, for most of its history, has been stuck in a protective but restricting situation. It remains in a state of arrested development.

About Voting Reform

Our entire system is unfair, but not in the way FVC people imagine. It is unfair to everyone except our oligarchy, which it gives maximum opportunity to protect their interests.

Trumped

There are very simple reasons why all this will fail spectacularly. The USA no longer has the economic weight Trump and friends think it does, Also, their economic theories do not work and will drive what is left of that economy into the ground, very fast.

An Old Dog Died

A short fiction story about making life better Aunt Clem was kneeling down, seeding her vegetable patch, when Stel drove up to her shack. Stel got out of her car and looked about the low ridge the shack stood on. The grass had sprung up green and shiny after the

Hell Bent in Ontario

In this is a simple and profound lesson about how societies really work. People with ideologically right wing ideas and attitudes are generally more stupid than the rest. However, they are very aggressive.

If I became Prime Minister of Canada

Asking someone what they would do as Prime Minister is a pretty good clarifying question. It reveals the respondent’s basic mentality. It shows the actual knowledge level, capacity to think, and focus on reality, not what is acceptable.

Social Basic Income

These shills use a Judas Goat technique to draw people who are interested in these ideas toward their idea of a BI. They find the parade and get in front of it. Yet these ideas, like BI itself, are building blocks for a post capitalist, post Billionaires economy.

Little Prince Justin is Going Away

Here is the real problem with Canadian government, as it is exemplarized by the Trudeau administration. Our institutions were never very well thought out. We have only weak, limited, caretaker type government.

Billionaire’s Basic Income

A Universal Basic Income is an income paid to everyone without conditions, and adequate to cover basic costs of living. Its real purpose is to simplify the problems of managing a complex, technological political economy, so as to comport fairness with efficiency.

2025 predictions and postdictions

The year 2020  marked the end of the post world war two era. This  was the period of relative peace and stability which came out of the  settlement of 1945.  That settlement has now broken down and we are in a new interregnum until  a  new stability can be established.