Mid-afternoon visit from a woodpecker

In a pig's eye

Have a great 2025! And I promise to be nicer in 2025.

For example, I won't put up any images of pig's heads on a stick, after this one.

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— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) January 4, 2025

Dr. Jordan Peterson and Pierre Poilievre in conversation

Thanks to Dr. @jordanbpeterson for taking the time to talk with me about restoring Canada’s promise.

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— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 3, 2025

The Liberals are something else, and that 'something' is Kakistocracy

Yes. What we worked so hard to build as a nation is gone because Liberal de-Enterprise took power from Canadians.

Yes, we lose our health care, and our cities will be patrolled by U.S. military, and our governments will be shut down, and our resources will no longer fund our way of life.

We are an illusion as a country anyway. The weather makes it impossible to keep the illusion alive. One crop per year, 7 months frozen, Canadian populations huddle close to the U.S. border, as close as possible. A few huddle around Maple trees gather syrup for trade. A few run pipes deep underground to get oil for a real economy in the U.S.. All the prattle about how great it is, not really, unless you're tough enough to play hockey, and lucky enough to avoid the Lawyer criminals scuttling down the streets, diverting ambulances. This isn't a fuck you Canada. It's a statement imploring pragmatism about what's happening here. If India has a reverse of population, as China has, as the whole world has, believe me, Canada won't be the first choice of any immigrants anywhere in the world.

Why? Mainly because the Liberal Party back room boys (and girls) are criminals, who put a gaping hole in the treasury for themselves, while we get the Two Randys, and Rainbow Trudeau, and Bungy Guilbeault, and our money disappears, and our resources are locked in, and our energy is slipped out the back door.

Meanwhile the criminals made the drugs flow, the hospitals fail, the organs available, and made people lose political choice; there is no election, there is no Opposition, there is nothing but other countries laughing, and threatening to walk in and take over.

 Why did this happen? Because Liberals fell to criminals. Could there be another reason? Not one as obvious as this. Because people in power put Trudeau in office.

It becomes obvious to the world the Prime Minister is an unwelcome presence in a government in Canada which has no moral compass, and no legitimate place in governance.  These Liberals haven't won an election since 2015. 

Here we are with a foot in the door of 2025, and the Liberals are somehow running government.  That is something else. A collective criminals, low-lifes, and incompetent people cling to power by any means possible.  

Why have Canadians fallen to the criminals? Lawyer criminals  graduate law school to be better criminals provide a rotten untenable foundation atop which they put a drama teacher in charge of Canada. 

What motivates criminals? Greed. More than power, they want to own everything, and having a dead-from-the-neck up Prime Minister opens the taxpayer's vault to the criminal syndicate stealing power. Owning everything is actually possible when you have a whole National Treasury at your disposal.

That's what this federal government amounts to. A mob of greedy criminals and their associates is called a Kakistocracy. You're living it. Look it up. It's ugly. You know it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

These criminals have been destroying as much as they can for decades, because they are greedy. And I see what they have done.  I see them. I see their face. I see their deeds. I see their greed. 

And they are Liberals. They are federal Liberals. And they are criminals. And while they may never serve a day in prison for their murder, theft, and endless injustice, they do not belong in government any further. 

These people need to be extinguished from political power. Canada needs honest government restored, now. 

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— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) December 24, 2024

Hold on. This is the kakistocracy I am talking about. This is the perfect example of it. This form of institutional criminal minded thinking is like, a pandemic. It's like a real pandemic. Not a mask wearing old people dying make cripples stand in line phony vaccine pandemic. This is people making a living off causing you severe pain, deficit, and set-back. Like a lawyer who studied law to be a better criminal. If you know one, they're dangerous.

It's a cruel world when that's what you make it. This happens to be a lefty specialty (making it a cruel world).

This was not my position at all times. It is a position I have been taken to by long term observation and a small amount of intense investigation, and a certain amount of rumination and luck upon making discoveries.

Everybody is wearing a mask, of course. The psychopath who won't leave power no matter how much it pains the world is wearing a mask. And so is the criminal behind him pulling the strings to make him say and do the stupidest psychopathic crap imaginable.

Anyway. Liberals don't run a pathocracy as much as I have believed since the previous decade. It was in about 2020 to be exact when I became convinced that a form of governance called pathocracy had taken control of a few western governments. I have changed my mind. The form of government we have encountered under the guise of leftist policies, is called: HANG ON TO YOUR HATS "A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens" These are three types: the WORST, and the LEAST QUALIFIED, and MOST UNSCRUPULOUS citizens. That can include a lot of fraternities, to go along with the other gutter sniping, back stabbing, evidence diverting ne'erdowells fighting for power, because it's profitable and you don't need brains.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2024

Considering you are confronting an entity known as kakistocracy, yes, expect a fight. Kakistocracy - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy…… As the President encountered twice during the election, there are dangerous minds lurking in the background of a government run by criminals. This is why I suspect Democrats could disappear as a political entity due to the criminal constituency running the party. Enough investigations revealing a criminal brand would end the party permanently, as it would be outlawed like the Nazi Party is outlawed in Germany. And I firmly believe they have taken control of government levers in Canada as well. It appears to be a government which cannot be removed from office. Is that criminal enough? Pretty sure it is. I think they are obsolete in a world where change demands brains. And government needs brains enough to change to keep up with this new age of technological change, and advance.

A REVIEW OF THIS YEAR'S JOHN WICK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

Roll film:

"That 'Fucking Nobody' . . . is John Wick." (Sheesh the guy drives worse than I do) He said they saw John Wick kill three men in a bar one night, with a pencil, and bury them in his basement (like John Wayne Gacy); It was a long night. Included sledgehammering. Ya sledgehammering does make it a long night, even for John, uh, Wick. "And you steal his car and kill his fucking dog." Yeah. No kidding. Killing the dog was overkill, and a sorry assed Russian bad guy move. "Son. you need a cleaner. May I suggest a lawyer I know with impeccable credentials? Not just credentials. Reputation." John Wick is gonna get ya. Fuck yer cleaner. John Wick just killed 10 or 20 Russian lawyers and frat boys. Nasty business suit wearing commercial law practicing Russian fucking lawyers. Maybe Ukrainian. I don't know for sure. Fuck he's shooting them and strangling them and stabbing them. John Wick. Sharp as a cue ball and just as dangerous. "Wick's at the Continental." John Wick hasn't been in the local speakeasy for 5 years. That's not the word on the street. Just the chick behind the bar. An entire company of former KGB is waiting at a snazzy nightclub for John Wick, and this plot is moving faster than an Elon Musk Falcon 9 Russian kid should be wearing an armored fucking bathing suit. But the kid just doesn't get it. "You stole my car you killed my dog I break your neck." At least two dozen men have died for this 5 month old beagle puppy. And this is far from over. It's like a grudge of some kind. Ya know. Like the kind I hold. Anyway, this whole Russian / Ukrainian mob scene has to start over by the end of this movie. No doubt about it. Talk about dragging shit out. Crazy. Absolutely fucking psycho. Just shot a guy point-blank in the face, number 50. This guy is a McDavid AND a Draisaitl all wrapped up in one shooter. But he isn't much of a hit with the dance crowd. How the Ukrainian lawyer's son keeps escaping is the pull. John Wick approaches the hotel clerk with a large gapping hole in his side, and of course the rule is, "Nothing to see here, all witnesses please exit stage left." Gapping holes slight impediments. Yes, plural. Those Ukrainian mobsters don't stop shooting if you're still breathing. And the fuckers hire your sister to take you down. The filthy animals. (Home Alone) A surprise twist has the Russian Church operating as a money laundering front in the downtown of, where is this, Edmonton? Yah. Edmonton. John Wick just killed a dozen people in the Church. I presume they are bad guys. And Lawyers. A couple of priests. Okay he left and burned all the cash in his wake. This puts him in hot water with the Treasury Department. But they're Liberals in charge so the money's worth nothing. We must be nearing 200 bodies. This is Shakespearean, Churchillian, Stalinist, and Nazi, all rolled into one. Wick is taken down. It's not over (I am aware of sequels). Did John Wick want to be captured? "Do you know what was in that vault?"

"The remains of tampered witnesses?"

"Don't get smart with me, John, I am not a purchased judge." But John Wick escapes. The ability of the Russians to sustain a defense is kind of unRussian in this movie. It's like John Wick is some kind of foreign Rasputin and immune from Russian/Ukrainian/unscrupulous lawyer death wishes. (Note: No Jewish mobsters are harmed in the conduct of this review, until now.) John Wick is closing in on the puppy killer / car thief. There must be more to this rage than a puppy or a Bondo Ford from the Sixties. I know the back story is his wife is dead. The puppy didn't replace her. The puppy was new. It was a puppy. At the end, the belligerent-sister-like chick is still dogging John Wick, as persistent as her promiscuity and John Wick's herpes. He stick a knife in his leg. I didn't see who did it. Nobody did. But Merry Fucking Christmas there's a knife stuck in his leg. John Wick got an upgrade from the shitty Mustang out of an insurance settlement. This horrific driver is back behind the wheel. "What's fucking wrong with this guy?"

Took long enough. Is there a doctor in the house? One with a couch and a good ear for personality disorder? It's like this show has sequels inside the show. Sequels of killing sprees. In the end, actual end, John Wick broke into a pound and got another dog. There are no more bad Ukrainian lawyer mobsters left in Edmonton. Citizen X neither confirms nor denies these are the contents of the movie John Wick.

Population rates in decline is a world problem, not one just for Japan

The population story of now: "THE COVID-19 BABY BUMP - National Bureau of Economic Research says, The 2021 baby bump is the first major reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which suggests the pandemic led …"  

We’ve Had a COVID Baby Boom. Will It Last? | BU Today | Boston University

The declining birthrates in the U.S. are happening elsewhere in the world, practically everywhere except parts of Africa.   What this means is people will become more valuable. 

It means wars stop and migrations become trickles.   Countries need people to stay to support their societies.  

It means declining productivity. Fewer people to construct houses, maintain power infrastructure, do the heavy lifting.

It is a serious problem, a way larger concern than climate change. It is a way larger concern than what form of energy we are using.  

No place in the world will be immune from the sudden deficiency in numbers of people.

The population story of now: "THE COVID-19 BABY BUMP - National Bureau of Economic Research says, The 2021 baby bump is the first major reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which suggests the… https://t.co/KC42FtxJv2

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) December 22, 2024

A Short History of Fiat Currency Failures:

It looks familiar.

America is headed for disaster, with no money for anything, unless the government overspending is addressed https://t.co/a75jYDaTMd

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2024

What other times have currencies collapsed? Historically speaking? This is a fundamental question. Allow me to do a google search. There are two with which I am totally familiar. The German mark of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s saw run away inflation, when it so happened to cost a couple of wheelbarrows worth of marks to buy a loaf of bread. The other currency collapse was in South Vietnam during the end of occupation by the French and the arrival of Americans to defend democracy in the world by reducing the population of Vietnam. Two currencies collapsed. The piaster, and the US dollar. Nobody saw it, but the result was the so-called oil crisis, when the price went from $2USD per barrel to $40USD a barrel. That sound like a currency collapse to anybody else? Anyway. They are ugly events. Currency games.

9 Currencies That Have Collapsed https://hardmoneyhistory.com/history-of-fiat-currency-failures/ 

 The point is, history is something often seen to be repeating. Is it going to happen now? Is currency collapsing? A world currency of considerable dominance since post-World War II, for idiots that is 1945. 

 I suspect a guy like Elon Musk can arrive on a scene and stop entropy in a nation, and a world. Let's say it's been done. Churchill stopped Hitler. That is an example. 

 Can Elon Musk single handedly stop a runaway train? Like Superman, or Spiderman when it's a urban transportation train. Good question. I feel like answering it. Yes. He can. Because he can add things like trillions, and subtract them. So we're gonna see a miracle. Like a movie. 

 AS SEEN ON TWITTER:

A Short History of Fiat Currency Failures: 9 Currencies That Have Collapsed https://t.co/lUklIqjEVU

The point is, history is something often seen to be repeating.

Is it going to happen now? Is currency collapsing? A world currency of considerable dominance since post-World War… https://t.co/8dcEooiLoo

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) December 20, 2024

The consensus in Canadian journalism is Trudeau is delusional

The main corp of daily journalists and pundits in Canada are now of a single mind about Trudeau; they say, he is fraught with psychopathic traits and delusions.

They don't say he's surrounded by sycophants but those are the only people hanging around psychopaths.

Sycophants… https://t.co/AbpTKN2GZF

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) December 19, 2024

BC Salmon Farmers Concerned About Fiscal Update:

Reckless Policy Decisions Compound an Expected Dire Fiscal Forecast 

Liǧʷiłdaxʷ TERRITORY/CAMPBELL RIVER, BC -- December 16, 2004 -- The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA), representing thousands of workers across British Columbia, is deeply concerned about the grim picture painted by the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Freeland from the Trudeau government today. 

The government's reckless actions exacerbate our ballooning debt and stagnant economy as Canadians face rising living costs, higher food prices, and a weakening Canadian dollar. The estimated $9 billion taxpayer-funded cost of phasing out the BC salmon farming sector is another example of costly political gimmicks over sound economic policy. 

Despite clear scientific evidence, the decision to ban current marine net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia by 2029 is driven by political motivations rather than long-term, responsible planning. This policy ignores the real-world consequences for thousands of workers, First Nation communities, and the broader economy.  

Less Work, More Foreplay, For Japanese

Driverless vehicle future terrifies people

Citizen X

@MackMcColl222]

It's true. People cannot see the automobile for what it is. A conveyance. People see it as an extension of the arms and legs. An automobile becomes an organic feature on their body when they climb in behind the wheel. The ego becomes deeply entwined with the automobile. It is a deeply personal ego attachment. 

 Not all people see the automobile in this light. Kids whose parents died in car accidents might not have the same ego attachment. I must confess, I have had my leg ripped up by an Oldsmobile 98. And I have had my pelvis crushed by a runaway front left wheel of a 4X4. My ego attachment to the automobile is scant. I could care less if I ever saw another automobile as long as I live, even though, I own one. 

 If the whole schmear of automobiles disappeared, to be replaced by less malign forms of transport, including self-driving cars, I would see it as cause for celebration. In Canada, says Google, "In 2021, the number of motor vehicle fatalities was 1,768; up 1.3% from 2020 (1,746). The number of serious injuries increased to 8,185 in 2021; up 4% from 2020 (7,868)." (Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics: 2021 https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/statistics-data/canadian-motor-vehicle-traffic-collision-statistics-2021…)

The Unauthorized Story of Trudeau-Singh Coalition Government

"Fake Programs By Fake People": The Unauthorized Story of the Trudeau-Singh Government's Legacy of Promising Everything and Delivering Nothing.

A 🧵.

From "free dental care" to "affordable housing" to "$10/day childcare" the legacy of the Trudeau gov't will be one of fakeness. pic.twitter.com/n5RIDbFx2C

— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) December 13, 2024

Mowachaht/Muchalaht Title Declared to B.C. Court

 Notice of Claim

"The. . . First Nation has Aboriginal title to its lands and that B.C.'s Forest Act and Land Act will no longer apply to Mowachaht/Muchalaht lands once title is declared." Vancouver Island First Nation whose ancestors met explorer Capt. Cook in 1776, only to see the disappearance of land, resources, and sovereignty, sues province of British Columbia

       Citizen X 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/vancouver-island-first-nation-whose-ex-chief-met-capt-cook-files-claim-against-b-c/ar-AA1vLaGz?ocid=socialshare

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Firewood CMTs an Anthropological Oddity

In the days prior to the Industrial Revolution First Nations built canoes to travel the extensive waterways of the Pacific coast. Each dugout canoe was manufactured out of a single cedar tree and these dugout war canoes were designed for ocean voyages of long duration.

 Sometimes during these journeys canoeists ran afoul of the weather. The water on the Inside Passage is a reasonably constant 6 or 7 degrees Celsius but the weather varies and rainfall is a potential threat all year long, especially from October to March. Dealing with these wet conditions called for planning, which included the invention of the 'firewood CMT,' a form of culturally modified tree (CMT) found on remote islands and inlets of the Pacific Coast of Canada.

 "Knowledge of the history of forest use is crucial for understanding the development of forests, which in turn helps to understand how societies react to forest development," said Rikard Andersson, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. "Culturally modified trees (CMTs), recorded in the western U.S. (and Canada), northern Scandinavia, and south-eastern Australia, are features that can be dated precisely, and they bear witness to unique events of human activity."

 David Garrick is a Canadian anthropologist with specific expertise in CMTs in west coast rainforests. "These artefacts define the First Nations communities in a practical way. They had camps all over the place, often at the mouth of a river. If they were taking a three-day voyage by canoe and it started raining they would pull out of the water, but how would you start a fire?"

David Garrick and his son Aki gaze at Johnstone Strait

 An essential CMT would be found ashore where they could and often did make land and find the firewood CMT, each site containing a dry source of wood. The travelers would find a small cavern dug above the roots inside a massive cedar tree trunk. "They would peel shreds of the dry cedar found inside the hollowed trunk and they would ignite a fire inside the tree."

 These firewood CMTs were commonplace, "There's one found at every encampment." Garrick has studied these peculiar modifications from Banks Island all the way to Kitkatla. He and others have found abundant evidence of a kindling source that provided instant fire to travelers. For the past three decades David Garrick concentrated on the study of humans interacting in forests  on the Pacific Coast.

 He found a perfect place to do CMT research on Hanson Island, about 15 km south west of Alert Bay, B.C.. He set up the Earth Embassy in the heights of the 4 sq. km. island and he worked under the auspices of the Yukusem Heritage Society (composed of four First Nations from the Broughton Archipelago and Johnstone Strait).

 "If you keep the ecosystem intact it becomes a living laboratory and a living museum, and a living classroom." For further study, "We have a post-secondary learning opportunities in the area. We have trails into all kinds of nooks and crannies on Hanson Island."

 Garrick's laboratory on Hanson Island has been a welcome presence in the First Nations of coastal B.C. because his research provides a good history lesson about cedar usage in the culture and economy of the people. For instance a 'core-popped' cedar tree looks like a traumatic injury to those who pass by, but core-popping was no problem to First Nations, instead, it was a marker of time, "What happened to the cedar tree core was caused by a memorable event like a potlatch."

 First Nation forest use went into a state of chaos for a period after contact with Europeans and the anthropology is specific about describing the trauma, "After epidemics reduced the population of Indigenous people, you see the sickness of the people reflected in the cedar peelings. Suddenly there are one-tenth the number of people available to peel cedar tree bark or cultivate and harvest other plants in the cedar groves."

 Garrick's work will continue on Hanson Island where he equipped others to teach everyone from small groups of First Nation students to the First Nation CMT researchers who identify the evidence of occupation and prior use in traditional territories. He maintained beautiful gardens at the Earth Embassy and he had members of the multi-nation Society trained to cut and maintains trails to the instructive cedar groves that will stand in perpetuity on Hanson Island.

David Garrick and Mack McColl cross Hanson Island summer 2008