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Ford’s Fizzling Fantasy

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Ontario’s Premier Ford’s legacy has come down to building pipelines!  He was off to Washington to make a deal with the American felon when the tariff terror began! Buck-a-beer – beer for one dollar must be the greatest secret in Ontario history! Homes in Ontario’s Green Belt is the scandalous rejection of environmental stewardship and accountability! Opting out of the Federal Constitution twice shows at least a little desperation! He sheltered behind secrecy from giving evidence at the inquiry into the Freedom Convoy! This is Premier Ford of Ontario’s legacy. “Business makes people free and successful” must be his motto, while poverty still stalks Ontario’s streets. Ford was willing to privatize Health Care and impose fees for services. Can we say he likes the USA’s version of oppressive health care services on the basis of all the moves he has made to whittle away the equity of Canada’s Health Care Law? It is a certainty that entrepreneurs and corporation with sizeable US dollar accounts are his friends and favourite partners. His pops are well-timed, occuring just when people are looking at political options to counter the conservative robot. Non-progressive politicians are fizzling like candles in a light drizzle. Maybe a new generation of the great Sir John A will save Ontario from American domnation only to lose it to ruthless exploitation of the environment. The pops are few, the cracks even fewer, and the fizzle of all the Fords of the world is all too obvious.

Ontarians have lost their way just like the people of the United States and have voted for a man who was essentially a shopkeeper with a penchant for rosy handouts to everyone, tax breaks for the corporate world, and massive projects without the protection of the environment. Remember Ford’s “Ontario is open for business”? That what a province is now. A shop. No wonder. The greatest surprise is in store for Canadians when they learn the extent to which American investment and American residency in Canada have affected their education, health, personal safety, and wealth as a result of provincial premiers bending over like loyal servants of the USA and lovers of the Yankee dollar. The amber waves of grain are sending a fetid aroma across the border and Canadians may have to endure it for a little while. I hear no crack, a few pops, but mostly fizzle.

Howling like a wolf and barking up the wrong tree

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new “comprehensive review” that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college.

A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the federal government to make sure the school is following civil rights laws, the administration announced Monday. The government also will examine $8.7 billion in grant commitments to Harvard and its affiliates.

April 1st, 2025

The felonious occupant of the White House, oblivious to the centrality of religious education to early American independence and  stability, takes aim at Harvard.  He does not know that the Pilgrims established the environment in which neither Jesus nor Moses were the dictators of society’s norms at Harvard.  It is also clear that the hordes of evangelicals, who are pretending to support the state of Israel, do not give a rat’s backside about EVERYONE’S right to exist,  much less the right to participate in the quest for improved prosperity, more mature unions and guarantees of security.

All who think that American power will bring the globe to harmony and peace are dining on delicious tidbits from a table of wasted dreams and rejected nutrients.  Since the felon of Mar a Lago confesses that he likes illiterate and rich people a deadlier combination cannot help but lead to more greatness like a civil war, Jim Crow, rampant disease and a failed State.

Good luck dismantling the scaffolding while the tower is under construction.  Huff and puff, ye moguls of law, moronic excellence and greed.  Little Piggy’s house will stand.  He’s always stood for mercy, justice and humility.

Canada will not turn right

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Pierre Pollievre, political activist, is so MAGA and of such meagre great whiteness gravitas that he is willing to call Canadians poor so he can win an election.  Many Canadians are in the shape they are in because of Conservative governments pandering to business and the American dollar.  The fortunes of Canadians with a Conservative government will sink into atrocities for which we will not hear even an “oops”.  Pierre and his name-calling predecessors can manipulate the polls and even win an election, but right wing and separatist politics are yesterday like donkey-carts in Gaza.  Promises to reduce crime is Wonderland Wickedness.  Canadians are not that poor as to turn right headlong into the traffic jam of miscarried justice and insensitive social policies. There is no thinking behind conservative ridicule, only hunger for right wing and quasi-religious values.  There is no right turn in here.

Destroying the evidence

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Whether is it a religious authority or a civic authority the practice of destroying the evidence is well-known. The Judean puppet king, Herod, turned his ire against the followers of Christ, and had James executed.

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. Acts 12:1

He killed James the brother of John with the sword, Acts 12:2

and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. Acts 12:3

Roman power allied to local authority

Peter was in custody, guarded by sixteen Roman soldiers. When he could not be found the day after his imprisonment, the obvious triumph of divine power, and specificaly, Messianic prerogative, was too obvious to be allowed to spread. Sixteen men knew that they it was not due to their lack of military diligence that Peter was awol. The rapid spread of the narrative of the Church as told to them by Peter and the complete ignorance of the soldiers constituted a massive commendation of Peter’s God.

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

Acts 12:4

Peter’s testimony and Herod’s folly

Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:18

Peter was free and thought what he had experienced was vision, and even when the believers saw him standing before them he gestured to them to not be loud about it. Had he not done so the believers may have started loud shouts of praise. Having told the church what had happened Peter asked them to tell James and the other apostles what had happened, then he departed to another undiaclosed place.

Herod, ever aware of his public image, ordered a search for Peter, then he examined the soldiers. Remember, two soldiers had Peter between them, and the other 14 would have been stationed along the way from the cell to the prison’s outer gate(s). The answers they gave to Herod were such that he ordered them killed.

And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.

Acts 12:19

Violence and murder are the signs of love lost. Let us not put it past the alliances of our times to try to silence the voice of gladness. The campaign to empower the state with so-called religious powers will fail to recognize the common decency of neighbourly love, and in doing so will trample on the divine standard and commit murder. This will not be a new thing. Paul is an exmple of homicidal intents towards the followers of Christ.

Criminal and sinful heroes dominate

Worms of their own creation are eating out the vital organs of life in the western democracies. All that is left of the autocracies and religious republics are whited tombs. The hollowed out jurisprudence and the corruption of law and order in the service of the rich and infleuntial are the proper allies of the skeletons of the innocent people who have fallen by the sword. Crowds cheering on obvious immorality and idolizing violent overthrow of government can never be synonymous with Christian doctrine or practice. The politcal spin and religious silence are proceeding exactly as predicted. Christian nation, like templar Judaism and levitical Christianity, are desolations. The elect know the facts; they are not sucked in by the drama which the media wants to pass off as truth.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matt 23:27-28

Goodbye wooly-eyed patriots

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Crime rises in places where the crime-busters and their governing authorities are committing crimes in plain sight. In some jurisdictions we find the criminals boldly proclaiming their right to pervert justice, pledging publicly to “double down”, “triple down” and “quadruple down” in their infamous intentions. The failure to connect the dots is the biggest dereliction of duty in decades by the people as an important bloc in the democratic powerhouse.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12

Forget small time crooks, mentally unstable people! Crime is big business these days, often run from the executive mansions in some countries. States like Israel, today’s criminal state in the spotlight, and most of her neighbours are being exposed as wool-deployers, with their activities fostered by religious zealots and so-called patriots.

Unrestrained wickedness! Abraham averts his eyes

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The corruption and shamelessness of leaders in the Middle East are about to be placarded across the globe. Think of how many people were aware of the thefts and innocent killings in Jerusalem during the days of the Davidide Kings, when God became so incensed at the violation of the basic benchmarks of humanity – love justice, love mercy and walk humbly – that he decided to empty the land of Canaan of Abraham’s descendants; then think of how many people will be aware of what is happening today November 2023 in that same land. Of course it’s unprecedented and unique, because the powers that seem to be able to ensure the victory of either side of the conflict has a basic tenet, namely, no negotiation with terrorists, are supporting a deal with an entity practically everyone on the planet has to regard as inhumane and capable of utter depravity.

“He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8, NASB)

The right to be right even when convicted by the authorized entities

“Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”” (Genesis 34:30, NASB)

I suppose there is no shame involved when the guardians of democracy and justice are negotiating with the country that openly houses the leadership of Hamas. I suppose too that Palestinian lives only have value when hostage-taking is involved. Israel-Jacob is incensed and Abraham, everybody’s pop, cannot look!

Mourning as Goliath flexes, and the world was wakes

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October 24, 2023

Just over two weeks ago a horrific homicidal plot played out in Israel.  The pretzel factory went into full swing in Canada and the United States, and people who hate the Jewish people are out in the open pretending to be on the side of the Palestinian people.  People who cared about nothing but White European colonialism are pretending to weep with the Jewish people.  Canada and the United States, with their own atrocities unresolved are insisting that citizens twist themselves into pretzels to condemn terrorist Hamas and justify Israel’s right to defend itself. Fifty-six years of oppressing the Palestinian people is enough evidence to elicit a balanced statement of support.  Make no mistake.  Israel has been turning into a fascist state with the major powers looking the other way and with the United Nations resolutions stymied by veto. I mourn with the people of Israel over their loss at the hands of brutal homicidal maniacs, and I condemn the Jewish state that has blamed the victims of its terrorism and occupation for fighting back.

A lamentation is heard

Governments expect people to weep on cue for Jewish lives, pledge support to a state that rejoices in brutal oppression, but I do not need a government to tell me what I see on the ground in Israel, in the West Bank or in East Jerusalem. The theft of land and the bloodshed of innocent people continues, and needs to be addressed. I have been weeping for a long time, long before Sabra and Shatila. 

People who can proudly and repeatedly hide their crimes behind a United Nations veto are far from noble.

Dr. E.E. Joseph

I expect nothing more than hypocritical years and prayers for Jerusalem’s peace from Christians who have built their faith on an emotional trip to the holy land.  They never hear the lament of Palestinian mothers.  I am not surprised that Canadian cities have put their police forces on heightened vigilance. There are no doubt many people in the world who think that there are very fine people on both sides of the fence when Jew-haters and Jew-lovers are under the spotlight. There are no fine terrorists, no fine brutal and hateful occupiers of other people’s lands.

Accordion-playing liar

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Squeezing out another deluge of lies

As soon as those soiled hands take the accordion playing position you know lies are streaming out of the hollow recesses of the republican mind.  A similar phenomenon is on display when a preacher keeps trying to impress his audience with “I believe…”.  People have been known to believe absolute balderdash and only the gullible and cult-prone are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to hear what their spiritual leaders (or peers!) believe. Teachers ought to teach what they know, and preachers or to preach the revelation that convinces them. Belief is not knowledge.

Accordion player

The accordion-playing hands may be an imitation of a great prophet parting a large body of water, or it may be an attempt to show clean hands, as a person does when praying.  In either case this accordion player has neither clean hands nor water parting powers.  If you have the time you should close your eyes and start fact checking the Duke of Doodoo as soon as you see the hands begin to play the invisible accordion.