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.
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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.
About Journalism, Blogging, Truth, and Democracies
Mainstream journalist’s conceits are becoming more patently ridiculous. That is, that they constitute a ‘fifth estate’, that they are somehow important to democracy, that we actually live in a democracy.
Trumped Up
It is mere speculation to talk about how all this would work in a real democracy. There are no real democracies, at least not national democracies, in the modern world. The empire crushes any attempt to launch one.
The Lights Have Gone Out Again
The monuments need to be torn down. They are really monuments to Canada’s shame. All these wars were wars of empire which we should have wanted nothing to do with.
Inquiring into Covid Inquiries
The worst thing about covid inquiries is that they tend to promote the idea that the pandemic is something which happened in the past. The full effects of covid are yet to be felt. The coming era may come to be called, “the covid age”.