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Why Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Are So Dangerous

There is a new push in Canada, as well as other countries under the direction of organizations like the IMF and WEF, to implement Central Bank Digital Currencies(CBDCs). CBDCs are a digital dollar that would be fully under the control of central banks and governments.

There are some very obvious dangers of a CBDC system and some not so obvious ones. If Canada were to implement CBDCs it would eventually put an end to cash transactions, and along with it the ability to perform any transaction anonymously. Think of a woman inside an abusive marriage, she would have no way to store money to use that her husband would not be able to track in some way, so escaping him would be made exponentially more difficult.

Trudeau Flew Over 50,000km In The Past Seven Weeks To Talk Carbon Emissions

An investigation by the National Post revealed that of the 127,147 km Trudeau has flown since last June, 50,680 km of his travel took place in the last seven weeks alone. As the outlet notes, the total distance – in terms of burning jet fuel – is the equivalent of travelling around the world three times.

Accused Of Terrorism, Non-Citizen Mohamed Slahi Sues Canada For $35 Million

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is not a Canadian citizen. According to media reports, he spent a total of two months living on Canadian soil. A citizen of the African nation of Mauritania, Slahi has a history of involvement with radical organizations, including connections with Al Qaeda.

Slahi’s cousin and former brother-in-law is Mahfouz Ould al-Walid. Previous to the September 11 attacks in the United States, Al-Walid was a spiritual adviser to Osama bin Laden. In 1999, Slahi spent several months in Montreal, Canada. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) put Slahi under surveillance for several weeks, but did not find grounds to arrest him. Mohammed Slahi left Canada on January 21, 2000, returning to his home country Mauritania.

Now, he wants $35 Million Dollars from the government of Canada. In his statement of claim, Slahi wrote “Canada’s sharing of flawed intelligence sparked a vicious echo chamber.”

As Speculation Grows That Rash of Food Facility Fires Are Intentional, Here’s a List to See for Yourself

There have been more fires and other major accidents at food processing facilities in the last few weeks than in the previous decade. The odds of it all being a coincidence seem infinitesimal.

Energy Myths Are Triggering a New Dark Age in Europe

Europe has an energy crisis. Factories are halting operations in the face of soaring energy prices; families are paying 50% more for heating (or opting to freeze in their homes), and Europe as a whole continues to destabilize its political position by making itself dependent on Russia for natural gas.

Europe shows what happens when you adopt policies based on false ideas—myths about energy that all but guarantee high prices, power blackouts, and a crashing economy.

Why Democrats Oppose Pro-Grooming Disney Paying Its ‘Fair Share’

Now that Disney has devolved into a fascist, left-wing company aggressively pursuing the sexual grooming of small children, the groomer-enablers in the Democrat party love Disney more than their phony “fair share” principle.

The Democrat party has no principles. The only morality on the left is whatever helps them achieve their goal of unencumbered power over the rest of us.

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The larger message of the appalling Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial

I’ve been assiduously ignoring coverage about the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial. The headlines I’ve seen tell me that it’s incredibly sordid and I’m not sufficiently interested in either of these two people to care about the details. However, to the extent I’ve become aware of some of what went on in their home, it seems worthwhile pointing out that Hollywood is a deeply dysfunctional place that has way too much sway over our culture and, worse, over our children.

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“This Is Not the Country We Were Enjoying Before”: The Persecution of Christians, March 2022

“[M]y father went inside the room and picked up a bottle of acid and began spraying it on us while the group started shouting, ‘Allah Akbar [Allah is the greatest], you deserve death'”… The following day, while all three family members were still hspitalized, Muslim relatives set their home ablaze. — Morning Star News, March 22, 2022 – Uganda.

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Looking Back: Al-Qaeda’s Unexpected Attack Against the Central Intelligence Agency

For a decade, an elite team of military and intelligence agents operated in secret around the world with one clear intention: to track down and kill Osama bin Laden. As the investigation into Bin Laden’s whereabouts progressed, it came to a critical and unexpected conclusion. The so-called “informant” assisting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials was an Al-Qaeda ally.

Due to this, Al-Qaeda achieved possibly its greatest success ever against the CIA and its Jordanian partner service on December 30, 2009. Seven CIA officers and one Jordanian officer were killed when a triple agent blew himself up at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a U.S. military base in Khost, Afghanistan.

So, who is the suicide bomber?

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The daily battle to keep people alive as fentanyl ravages San Francisco’s Tenderloin

It’s 9am in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district and sleeping bodies line the sidewalks as Felanie Castro sets out on her route in Glide Memorial church’s harm reduction van.

Along Ellis Street, hungry people queue up for the church’s daily breakfast of buns, hard-boiled eggs and plastic-wrapped muffins. Down the block, a fire department truck, part of a city response team, awaits the day’s first drug overdose call.

This neighborhood and the adjoining South of Market (SoMa) district have become ground zero in an opioid overdose crisis that is killing thousands of California residents, including many experiencing homelessness. In the past two years, more than 1,300 people have died of overdoses in San Francisco, a rise driven by the emergence of fentanyl, a super-potent synthetic opioid that’s 50 times stronger than heroin. Nearly half of those deaths have occurred in these two hard-hit neighborhoods alone.

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Ukraine now has more tanks on the battlefield than Russia

Kyiv’s arsenal boosted by Soviet-era T-72 tanks from European Nato allies – and they could prove crucial on the flat terrain of the Donbas

Thanks to European resupplies, Ukraine’s military now has more tanks on the battlefield than Russia does, according to the Pentagon.

Two months into the war, the delivery of Soviet-era T-72 tanks to Kyiv from the Czech Republic and other European Nato allies has effectively eroded Russia’s advantage, experts have claimed.

“Right now, the Ukrainians have more tanks in Ukraine than the Russians do, and they certainly have the purview to use them,” an unnamed senior US defence official told reporters on Thursday.

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After 53 Earth Days, Society Still Hasn’t Collapsed

The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”

Cassandra in Greek mythology was the Trojan priestess who was cursed to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. Ideological environmentalism features a cohort of reverse Cassandras: They make false prophecies that are widely believed. Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 classic, The Population Bomb, prophesied, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” Ehrlich continues to predict imminent overpopulation doom.

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Crimes against history: mapping the destruction of Ukraine’s culture

US-based lab documents destruction of churches and theatres

Satellite scrutiny of Ukraine is not just focused on military hardware. Thousands of miles away from the fighting, an international group of archaeologists, historians and technicians are quietly coordinating another high-stakes monitoring effort: the tracking of the mounting losses to Ukraine’s cultural landscape.

Now an impact summary, released this month from their lab at a museum in the US state of Virginia, has revealed the bleak truth.

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Islamists are playing a cynical game in Jerusalem

Anti-Israel activists are deliberately provoking conflict at a holy site.

The violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian rioters at Jerusalem’s holy sites erupted over Easter and flared up once again on Friday.

These ‘riots’ have been routinely portrayed as religiously motivated. But this portrait is misleading. Although those involved often use a religious idiom, harnessing the language and symbolism of religion, these holy-site conflicts are entirely political.

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The West’s Goals in Ukraine

In a speech delivered, or stumbled through, in Poland on March 26, Joe Biden declared that Russia was in need of regime change, a sentiment echoed throughout the Western media. Many commentators and media talking-heads agreed that “regime change” is and should be a fundamental goal of Western policy towards Russia. One or two went so far as to argue that this is the reason for the West’s effort to prolong the war by continuing to pour arms into the Ukraine—rather than call for an immediate ceasefire, as is the normal procedure in modern wars. One such commentator has been Niall Ferguson, who has cautioned Western leaders that the desired regime change will almost certainly not be materializing in the foreseeable future. Writing in Bloomberg News, Ferguson concludes that the Biden administration “is making a colossal mistake thinking that it can protract the war in Ukraine, bleed Russia dry, topple Putin and signal to China to keep its hands off Taiwan.” But is regime change the primary goal at all?

h/t John

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FUREY: Digital IDs just the beginning — Canadians need to think hard about these issues

Saskatchewan announced a few weeks ago that they were nixing the planned rollout of their digital ID program due to privacy concerns and are happy to instead watch as other provinces act as guinea pigs.

Could this be the start of a backlash, or at least a slowdown, that brings greater scrutiny of an endeavour that up until now has gone ahead largely out of the public eye?

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Derek H. Burney: Is the West fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian?

The longer the war in Ukraine lasts, the more atrocities against civilians are exposed, and the murkier the prospects for victory and peace become. Western publics remain staunchly supportive of Ukraine’s valiant efforts, but they can become inured to the graphic depictions of gruesome savagery, such as the newly discovered mass grave that could hold as many as 9,000 bodies near the devastated city of Mariupol. Attention spans are inevitably domestic. The pivotal question now, however, is whether the U.S. and NATO will marshal a more muscular response to Russia’s massively superior firepower.

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