Just in: Canada won´t murder mental patients (yet)

 

Some kind of good news...

Canada postpones assisted suicide for the mentally ill

The suicide of Faust

 

A rather scary Ecosophia thread on Faustian civilization, suicide (both individual and collective), COVID and really bad dreams. What if our "Faustian" civilization *wants* to destroy itself, if it can´t conquer the world? 

There is a disturbing logic in all this, to be honest. Maybe on the downward arch of a civilization, material factors become less important as driving forces, people instead getting increasingly more irrational and frankly *insane*? That would explain a lot of things...

Note, however, that it´s not just the elite groups and their hangers-on who are losing it. The alternative scene surely isn´t immune from that kind of stuff, either!  

Ecosophia thread

If you can´t beat them, join them

 

An atheist pastor?! Oookay...

In Canada. In California, the lady would probably be a wiccan priestess instead! 

Mistakes were made, but not by my pet Nazi

 

Still wonder about this one. How on earth could the Canadian parliament honor a Nazi war veteran "by mistake"? And these people are supposed to be our betters, somehow. 

Either IQ levels around Ottawa have dropped lately with at least one standard deviation, or the whole thing was a "trial balloon" that failed (with the Speaker becoming the fall guy). 

After all, there *are* far right nationalists fighting on the Ukrainian side in the present war. Also, I assume there are many Ukrainian-Canadians. Important voting bloc?

Perhaps the low IQ was underestimating the wrath of the Jewish lobby bloc, LOL.   

Cancel Canada Day?

 

I´m pro-Ukrainian, as you know, but I admit that this pro-Russian (?) meme commenting the recent fracas in Canada over a certain Waffen SS veteran is quite funny. Besides, the liberals and leftists who support Ukraine do have a "Nazi problem" of sorts! 

Must be difficult attacking the far right at home, while supporting it abroad. Or maybe not really, since some censorship and double-think can always take care of the problem... 

Heed the words of the sweet lord, oh, ye of little faith

 

"If you reject me, I will make you incarnate as a microfossil in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt of Northern Quebec, and it will take at least 3.77 billion years until you get another shot at it somewhere in Tompkins Square Park!!!" 

Oh, Weird Canada

 

An entertaining YouTube clip about Canadian Forteana. Some of it was known to me before, such as Ogopogo and the Raëlians, but even your favorite blogger never heard of Brother XII or prairie oysters before. Nor did I know that "Oh, Canada" was originally written in French!

The most entertaining conspiracy theory mentioned in the clip is the claim that Justin Trudeau is the secret love child of Fidel Castro! Well, Justin *does* look like Fidel when the Commendante was younger, so who knows...

Also mentions Trotsky´s brief contretemps in Canada during World War I. 

Escape velocity

 

What´s going on with Jordan Peterson? From Joe Rogan Show. 

Dödsängeln

Men vad fan...

Modejätte gjorde reklam för självmord

Kanada föreslår handikappade att begå självmord

Gruppvåldtagen 17-årig flicka fick laglig hjälp att begå självmord

MAID for you

Even Vice admits that this could be a stunt, but what´s a sick joke today might turn out to be real tomorrow. Note that the Canadian "MAID" program (medically assisted suicide) will be expanded next year to cover people with mental illness! 

This Man is So Anxious About the Climate, He Wants Medically Assisted Suicide

Limits to sanity

Richard Carrier goes full "crazy cornucopian" here. Hydrogen economy, everything-run-on-nuclear-power, Dyson spheres...you get the picture. Oh, and we can turn Saskatchewan into a bread basket if climate change progresses! Wtf???  

Is Society Going to Collapse in 20 Years?

Cancel Canada

End it already, I say. 

Canadians support repression against "the unvaccinated"

Wrong church, you morons

Wrong church, you morons. Can´t the Antifas do *anything* right? 

Coptic Orthodox Church burned down in Canada

Burn, baby, burn!

For once, I kind of agree with Justin Trudeau... 

Justin Trudeau says anger "fully understandable" as churches burn down 

Revelation on the road to Montreal: How the Spartacist League discovered the right of nations to self-determination

”Spartacist” is the publication of the so-called International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), a network of small revolutionary groups centered on the U.S. Spartacist League (SL). The Spartacists are notorious on the far left for their pro-Stalinism (despite being Trotskyists), sectarianism, and general kookery. They have also been frequently accused of First World chauvinism, anti-immigration racism and pro-imperialism. In issue no 65 of ”Spartacist”, dated Summer 2017, the group reprints a conference resolution titled ”The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra”. The issue itself has the title ”The Fight for Leninism on the National Question”. The resolution supposedly reverses the erstwhile chauvinist course of the organization.

Or does it *really*? The traditional Spartacist position on the national question is that ”interpenetrated peoples” can´t demand self-determination under capitalism. The examples usually given were Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland. In practice, the Spartacists defended the national rights of the Jews in Palestine and the Protestants in Ireland beneath a cover of ra-ra-revolutionary verbiage. It´s *not* clear from ”Spartacist no 65” whether they have revised their understanding of these conflicts. Nor is it clear whether the SL has repudiated its opposition to open borders or its de facto pro-British stance during the Falkland-Malvinas War.

What is clear is that the SL has changed its understanding of many other national conflicts, but these don´t involve ”interpenetrated peoples” as usually defined. Still, it does represent a break with the traditional line of this particular tendency. Thus, the SL now supports independence for Quebec and a privileged position for the French language in that province. Their previous position is condemned as Anglo-chauvinist. (Strictly speaking, the Spartacists began calling for Quebecois independence already in 1995, but mostly to get rid of the national question from the Canadian agenda altogether, in effect a position of kicking Quebec out so Anglo workers could go on with more important ”class struggle” issues.) The Spartacist League now also calls for the independence of Catalonia, the Basque countries and Corsica. Further, they propose the partition of Belgium into three or four new republics.

Only a few Third World issues are commented upon. Apparently, the Spartacist tendency used to oppose the independence of Guadaloupe, a French colony in the Caribbean with nominal status as a French departement. This position was reversed by the conference. Curiously, the Spartacist take on Puerto Rico used to be the exact opposite: this U.S. dependency should be *forced* to become independent regardless of whether the inhabitants like it or not! Here, the international conference took the eminently sensible position that the Puerto Ricans themselves should decide on their exact relation to the United States – many Puerto Ricans, in fact, demand statehood (i.e. they want the island to become the 51st U.S. state).As for Syria, the SL upholds the (bizarre) position of military support to the Islamic State terrorists against the Kurds – the Kurds, it seems, are still Turds. If the Albanians are still goat-fuckers is, alas, never explained…

Why did the ”International Communist League” suddenly change some of its long-standing positions in this manner? I suspect the reason is a power struggle within the tendency between a certain Comrade Coelho and an old guard of entrenched petty apparatchiks at the Spartacist HQ in New York City. Spartacist founder-leader James Robertson has apparently left his semi-retirement and joined forces with Coelho, who thus carried the day. The new ICL executive committee is said to be 70% non-American and the goal is to make the entire organization 70% ethnic minority. In their fight against the old-timers, Jim & Coelho had the support of non-Anglophone sections in Quebec, Greece, Mexico and elsewhere. Since the Spartacist League and their co-thinkers don´t really *do* much, I strongly suspect that the entire change of line is really the reflection of a change of guard within an increasingly irrelevant sect. Those who liked the old line better can join two old splits from the SL, the Bolshevik Tendency and the Internationalist Group, which both uphold the right of English-speakers to carry out their business in Anglais even in Montreal, Acadia and (perhaps) Paris.