Mark F

so the NDP are communists? they want the state to own everything? boy is that silly.

looked tired to me. played and travelled a lot in a week. can only ask so much from these guys.

a wild card in canada might be Quebec, they seem to vote for whatever party seems to be ready to something for them. smart, and maybe saves the rest of us now and again. uninformed opinion, just my impression.

no. just read a book on that, definitely a major humanitarian disaster. cannibalism. orlando figes. "a peopls tragedy". lenin had zero regard for human life. french revolution ? the terror? Robespierre? nope. I think younhave been reading chris hedges articles maybe?

Trump..... is an example one of the many reasons for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Not just A Trumpmproblem, Nixon wanted to nuke Vietnam. that is some crazy ****. not aware of a revolution or civil war with violence that improved anything. 1920 russia,iran, egypt. zimbabwe, angola, vietnam, agree, the goings on in the US are bizarre and disturbing.

easy to see why his nickname is husler. I will be listening. good for him.

Canadian ( B.C.)/Norwegian company "Bergen, Norway and Vancouver, Canada, February 17, 2021 — Corvus Energy is proud to announce that it has reached an agreement with Seaspan Ferries Corporation, of Delta, British Columbia, Canada, for the first delivery of Corvus’ Blue Whale ESS, to be installed onboard one of their cargo ferries. Blue Whale is a new large-scale energy storage system (ESS)—a groundbreaking battery system designed for large ships with high zero-emission energy demand, such as cruise ships, large Ro-Pax and Ro-Ro ferries, and cargo ships. Its unique rack-free design of stacking modular blocks provides the industry’s highest volumetric battery room energy density and, consequently, maximizes a ship owner’s passenger or payload opportunities. For its inaugural field trial, the Blue Whale battery system will be installed on board Seaspan Reliant, a roll-on/roll-off drop-trailer cargo ferry built in 2016 that sails the Salish Sea, with service between B.C.’s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island."

you forgot number 3, massive increases of national debt. these apply in Canada as well. if your goal is take say, 28 billion from the public, and give it to a few people, it has been a success

maybe hydrogen. also fast charging. but battery tech is changing quite fast. There is a short haul airline in BC that is swithcing the fleet to electric. one in service now, and it saves money over ice, which is the main reason for the change.

the indigenous canadians in B.C. jumped to the front of the q for covid vaccination. they are still discriminated against but in some ways get preferential treatment.

also LONDON (Reuters) - Volvo’s entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of automakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the end of this decade. reuters ten years. tipping point might be a lot earlier than oil companies hope. at this point, basing a Provincial economy on fosssil fuels is negligence. correct!

what you get when you bow to big business and ignore all else. "Texas has been a laboratory for Republicans to test their ideas of governance and leadership — and they failed miserably to protect Texans from catastrophe. In 1999, when then-Gov. George W. Bush signed into law an energy deregulation bill pushed by his largest corporate backer, Enron, they promised cheap, reliable energy. It turns out that Texans received neither — as recent weeks have demonstrated, without investments in excess capacity and winterization, the energy supply was not reliable. It also turns out that, according to a Wall Street Journal study, it wasn't cheap either. Since the implementation of deregulation, Texans have paid $28 billion more for energy than if they had bought it from traditional utilities. " salon

looks like Biden learned from the Obama mistakes and backtracking. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/01/huge-huge-deal-biden-issues-public-statement-support-alabama-amazon-workers-fighting ""I made it clear when I was running that my administration's policy would be to support unions organizing and the right to collectively bargain," the president says in a two-minute video posted to TwitterSunday night. "I'm keeping that promise." "We haven't had this aggressive and positive of a statement from a president of the United States on behalf of workers in decades," Faiz Shakir, former presidential campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and founder of More Perfect Union, told the Washington Post. "It is monumental that you have a president sending a message to workers across the country that if you take the courageous step to start to unionize you will have allies in the administration, the NLRB, and the Labor Department. It means a lot." In the new video—released after the president faced pressure to vocally support the Bessemer effort—Biden says that "you should all remember that the National Labor Relations Act didn't just say that unions are allowed to exist. It said that we should encourage unions."

who dat

non sports radio got hit years ago, with clear channel taking over local stations in usa, and iheart radio. hard to compete with internet. and profit the only business goal.

#no bottom.

surprised me. https://journalistsresource.org/environment/energy-prices-manufacturing-employment/ The study’s findings include: Areas of the U.S. with weaker union protections, lower energy prices and more lax air pollution regulations see a higher concentration of energy-intensive industries. While energy prices play a role in the choice of sites for some manufacturing industries, such prices are only a significant factor in a limited number of industries. If places such as California and the northeastern United States, where emissions reduction targets have also been legislated, introduce a $15 per ton cap-and-trade program, job losses on the order of 0.1% to 1.1% could be expected. Overall, the study’s researchers found that the effect of electricity price on where manufacturers choose to locate was “modest.”

"In a stunning announcement, GM says it will stop making all diesel and gas-powered cars and trucks. Its goal is to be carbon neutral by 2040 so to that end it will stop all diesel and gas-powered production by 2035. That’s it. No more Duramax Silverados. No more V8 Corvettes. In fact; no more internal combustion anything." https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/general-motors-plans-to-exclusively-offer-electric-vehicles-by-2035.html

speaking of terrorists... lets see what Joe does with this. WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a U.S.-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday that could escalate pressure on the Biden administration to hold the kingdom accountable for a murder that drew bipartisan and international outrage. yahoo cause if their wealth and oil, saudi has gotten a free pass on its links and funding of terror . many of the madrasas that preach jihad get money from the arabian peninsula. with oil heading for the back burner, maybe that changes. lets see an international warrant formthe arrest of salman.

dem dont have to worry about alienating gop voters, so that excuse is out. I think the power elite world wide, protect each other. if somebody intheir group gets jailed, maybe they all have to worry. most of them have baggage. who got charged for torture in Iraq? lydie england, lowest level enlisted person. some very high ups got promoted. only place where there is any consequence for corruption is Africa.

need to find out if trump interfered with police response. charge him withnthat if he did.

have a look back on this thread and see some of the nonsense posted ...eg "myth...co2 is a pollutant" anyway, "London — UK government-funded tests have concluded successfully on a solid-state battery system that is cobalt-free and costs under half that of comparable lithium-ion technology, project participants told S&P Global Platts Feb. 24." https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/metals/022421-uk-cobalt-free-solid-state-battery-technology-claims-major-cost-efficiencies cascade of renewables aus The growth in low marginal cost wind and solar generation will see generators with more expensive fuel costs, like coal and gas, pushed out of the market due to the National Electricity Market’s merit order effect. “They will be displaced because wind and solar have no fuel cost and typically bid into the market with prices close to zero,” IEEFA analyst Johanna Bowyer said. “We predict that gas power station output will fall by 78% and coal output by 28% by 2025 compared to 2018 levels.” wow. https://reneweconomy.com.au/tidal-wave-of-new-wind-and-solar-will-force-early-coal-plant-closures/

disturbing report from the Lancet, about America. well worth reading. https://www.salon.com/2021/02/24/the-gops-ayn-rand-death-cult-trumps-party-is-literally-killing-the-american-people/ "In addition, since 1980 public policies have reduced Americans' lifespans by 3.4 years as compared to the other "advanced" countries in the G7 (with data included through to 2018). America's public health problems considerably predate Trump's tenure in office — but his regime made them much worse. As exhaustively documented by public health experts and other social scientists, across a range of policies such as gun violence, tax policy, the environment, access to health care, education, voting rights and the size and strength of the social safety net more generally, Republican policies over the last several decades have resulted in the deaths of many more Americans, compared to the policies advocated by Democrats." both parties oppose universal public healthcare. this is just cruel. america maybe really is on the down side of the hill.

the power elites are not accountable. thats why trump,will at worst get a small fine example 2007 financial fraud world economic collapse: " Only one banker in the United States served jail time as a result of the crisis, Kareem Serageldin, a banker at Credit Suisse who was sentenced to 30 months in jail and returned $25.6 million in compensation for manipulating bond prices to hide $1 billion of losses.[53][50] No individuals in the United Kingdom were convicted as a result of the crisis.[54][55] Goldman Sachs paid $550 million to settle fraud charges after allegedly anticipating the crisis and selling toxic investments to its clients.[56]" wiki the sainted Obama let them walk. and now, is part of the group.

dolt. Eric Trump. Fox . “I think every single day, Biden makes people miss Donald Trump more,” said Mr Trump. “When you see some of these policies that are literally destroying jobs, that are destroying industries, that are causing Texas to freeze, that are cutting off our power to our energy grids and all these other nonsensical policies.”