Climate Criminals: Justice follows the Money!

Climate Criminals: Justice follows the Money! [Whitehorse Star 11 Oct. 2019]

Jailing climate criminals will be not be enough, the extinction rebellion will have to commandeer their bankster loot. Vote against the fossil-dinosaur establishment!

Prosecute particular Big Oil and Finance executives who knowingly [Exxon Mobile since the 70s] and intentionally committed crimes of ecocide, use citizen’s arrest and whatever lawful, constitutional means necessary!

 

The concept of unending growth on a finite earth is nonsense, of course, but dissolving it is necessary to seed, to leverage war economy level investments into a profitable, employment rich, renewable, green transition.

[A roll up your sleeves attitude is overdue everywhere, of the kind that is highlighted by the Fort McMurray originated, and now Canada-wide, Iron + Earth oil sands and trades workers for renewable energy.]

[Contrary] unending growth is a persistent kind of garbage also because it is anchored on the worst of religion like abstractions. 

And the quintessential status quo dogma in 45 years of neoliberal religion is the fairytale of compound interest, of infinite debt expansion intertwined with the projection of unlimited industrial growth.

While in reality, or mathematically, odious/predatory debt cannot be repaid and never is repaid.

It also means when Trudeau just so announced to relax the schedule for student debt repayments, it is not credible.

Because he already sold the spoils of the very same students’ destroyed future to a private interest controlled central bank system that is tied into international organized finance crime.

It is his smoke-and-mirrors pitch for a continuation of selling and reselling ultimately worthless student debt papers, along equally over leveraged real estate and carbon-pricing/tar & frack securities.

Papers of no more lasting value than war bonds of the Southern Confederacy or the Kaiserreich (with a current NATO expansionism clamouring to join the dustbin-of-history club of militarist usurpation).

Trudeau, as do Sheer and Bernier, aims to rob retired workers and pensioners and leave them without their income, perfectly aligned with American Empire special interests. 

Yes, U.S. based Hill + Knowlton Strategies advise American catholic bishops in their attack on women’s right to chose while also advising the ‘feminist’ Prime Minister. 

It is the very same war crime organization that fabricated the fiction of incubator babies supposedly killed 1990 in Kuwait City, gangsters who also tout that cigarettes are healthy and fracking is clean.

This Ottawa multi-party beaver-toothed franchise to the Chicago School of Economics means to defraud pension funds, by continuing to protect Wall Street and Bay Street trade of those toxic robber derivative papers.

We are talking about fleecing investment funds with managers that are often gullible enough to believe completely corrupt and bribed rating agencies, such as Moody’s or Standard and Poor’s. 

 

And all this from a Trudeau who as prime minister has frittered away his power that could have initiated a restoration of the Bank of Canada as a national bank.

He leaves for others to assemble a much overdue rescue operation from the post 2008-heist wreckage, as national and as international public banking vision.

The Bank of Canada as a national bank lent interest free to government until 1969, consequently and down the line private sector interest rates were low, loan sharking was illegal, and to this day is in muslim cultures and countries.

That is how we were able to defeat fascism, for a while, and pay back an enormous World War 2 debt, while making infrastructure investments towards rebuilding a world in rubble. Public banking works. 

Even with good intentions on a Green New Deal (GND), without a plan for restoring a publicly owned national bank, failure comes with mathematical certainty. 

Western neoliberal elites have a habit of claiming as theirs ancient Greek democratic roots.

But they conveniently fail to include how the classical period, ending after Alexander the Great, had come to flourish following the Athenian statesman Solon’s very modern policies of ending slavery, who also ripped up illegal, unpayable debt.

Such distortions in public and school education are not surprising as long as privately owned and controlled special interests of central banksters have a seat at the cabinet table of government.

We need to take back our Bank of Canada in order to have elbow room for a robust renewable initiative to swiftly resolve the clean, cheap electron backlog, then other meaningful steps can live up to their potential also. 

Yukon can still lose its historic and patriotic anti-frack fight in this federal election. Despite resource extraction being under territorial jurisdiction, as long as there is no national frack ban.

But we don’t even have a Yukon ban on fracking, just a shaky moratorium which is constantly under attack and vulnerable to bad decisions from Ottawa.  

In chilling hypocrisy the tired old deception of unconventional shale drilling without fracking was rolled out again during Thursday’s environmental all candidates forum in the Beringia Centre in Whitehorse.

Liberal and both conservative candidates were lost in a bottomless fossil pit while they reinvigorated or accommodated especially this underhanded frack card.

It also hides that a frozen narrative and much energy waste of unconventional extraction endangers energy security and produces structural unemployment, zero net revenue and no useful net energy output.

The unconventional disaster is reported by independent Oil & Gas analysts like Deborah Lawrence of Energy Policy Forum.

There are not enough proven reserves in the Yukon for a single oil or gas well, without fracking, according to science files at the Yukon Geological Survey (Petrel & Robertson 2012). 

Voters can bring forth electoral rebellion in pooling all Green Party/NDP votes behind the stronger of the two candidates in each riding, right across the country. 

If possible don’t vote early and “wait for the signs” (Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour), employ nature’s swarm intelligence, contemplate, discuss, look at polling if available, to decide.

Thus strategically electing members of parliament with an extinction rebellion mandate to form government. Grassroots-close government whose feet can be held to the fire of a fierce citizenry that demands finance reform, such as to restore public banking. 

Change starts with justice for the big shots, that is how one goes against (climate) warcrime and other organized crime.

Otherwise power has no legitimacy and renewable change, spearheaded by the clean, cheap electron market, remains politically paralyzed. 

Every inch of slack in radical reform is invaded by intense extremists of the People’s Party type who also succeed more broadly in re-racializing attitudes.

The way the climate emergency is accelerating and life support systems of ecology and international collaboration are destabilizing, sooner rather than later, there will be anyways national front governments or climate-war cabinets, all the same. 

Trying to catch up with resilience planning and ecological survival backlogs has become hopeless. The point is to become proactive and get way out in front of the problem. And before fascist extremists will do it for us and in their ways.  

Can we do a little better than Naomi Klein’s admirably eloquent and elegant but milk-toasty tipsiness of her latest two books on the extinction crises, perhaps?

On 10 Aug. 2019 on CBC’s the Current in conversation with Rosemary Barton, Elizabeth May cited the example of Winston Churchill and showed she has her priorities straight. 

“It will be a matter of working at the level of a war like footing and it is a very different way of looking at policy making."

“We have to have the equivalent of a war cabinet."

(Find more detail on strategic survival voting and electoral rebellion in the Star coloumn from 11/13 Sept., syndicated in online media such as yukonblogger).  

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'Green Democrats' in the Yukon have a 6 point lead over Liberals

The only available polling data for Yukon, 338canada.com , on 11 Oct. had the Grits at 31.2% and combined NDP-Green Party support at 37.1%. 

We, the citizens, can exercise electoral power by doing what the candidates may not get around to.

Lets swallow party pride for the good of the country, pool all NDP and Green Party votes behind the stronger of the two, throw out the (local) fossil cartel and elect a member of the house!  

All it takes is to lie low now and wait for voting day 21 Oct. when the dust may have settled as to who gets the strategic vote as Ms/Mr. Green Democrat. 

Nothing to lose, everything to win.

338canada.com , founded by the physics and astrophysics professor and computer modelling wiz Philippe J. Fournier, is quickly surpassing CBC poll tracker and other competitors. 338 Canada in the last Alberta election had predicted 94% of all seats correctly.

 

The Liberals are faltering or stagnating and the Green Democrat momentum is growing rapidly [donations welcome, paste or type into URL window: paypal.me/yukonblogger ].

Electoral reform to electoral Rebellion?

Electoral reform to electoral Rebellion? (Whitehorse Star 11 Sept 2019, by Anna Weiers and Peter Becker)

#MaySinghSwarm - direct community action to win seats and prime minister’s office 

Come election day, all Green Party supporters and all NDP supporters in their riding need to vote for the one candidate on the ballot, of the two, who is leading the race between the two. 

It works like this: In the riding where one is voting, closely watch the standing of the Green Party candidate. Also watch closely the polling of the NDP candidate. 

The Yukon, in our case. For others, this may be the riding of Red Deer - Lacombe or the riding of Red Deer - Mountain View, or the Northwest Territories federal riding. 

And on like that all across Canada. So that there would/could be enough Green Party seats combined with NDP seats to elect a Prime Minister, to form a coalition government that is green-transition and fair-minded for the well being of our country. 

Electoral Reform is back on the menu in the 2019 federal election, as electoral rebellion. 

The Liberal gov. mocked Canadian citizens with a tease for fair representation in 2016. 

True to his poverty-bound U.S. tar & frack-cartel bed-fellowship, Trudeau backstabbed electoral reform for a generation to come. 

The deception of it comes across as even more undemocratic on the issue than the Conservatives’ blunt “no” on improving representation.

Innovative use of swarm intelligence makes possible a logical and powerful statement of ecology, humbly submitting to nature’s law of survival as destiny. 

As a flock of birds, a school of fish or a herd of grazing animals quickly changes direction without command, but by creation’s invisible hand.

In each riding across the country, all Green Party and NDP patriots for ecological/economic/civic survival will take citizen initiative and simply vote for their one candidate in the lead.

If in doubt don’t vote early!

Like in the 3 Territories and other remote Northern ridings with poor opinion poll research, or any riding with an uncertain situation.

Wait for election day and a more clear polling or best understanding as to who has the strongest popular support: the Green Party candidate or NDP candidate.

It means all patriotic votes go to the one who leads, improving her chance to win the seat.

Within margins of error, the mathematical polling basis exists, say, for a Prime Minister May this time in the next House of Commons.

Mr. Trudeau; how do you like our kind of strategic vote which gives victory to citizens?

Finally righting the anti-democratic Liberal/Conservative idea of strategic voting for a supposed and elitist ‘lesser evil’. 

Which really is the full-blown evil of a Bagnell/Trudeau/Freeland/Scheer special interest club, with Yankee Doodle-Kenney waiting in the wings.

Grassroots strategic voting may be frustrating to some at first sight, nonetheless fair and equal.

Could be hard on the trailing candidate to come short in votes, short proportionally to the community support they had enjoyed.

However, purely “first past the post” elections, without civilizing components of proportional representation and preferential ballots, already are blood-sport without silver medals and second winners.

And patriots are prepared to pay a price to save our country Canada, our geography of water and land on earth.

As with other wars, the citizens’ extinction rebellion against the neoliberal, neo-aristocratic climate world war is not without casualties and sacrifice.

Part 2 observes neoliberal carbon-pricing in the context of green-washing a renewed Western imperialism and Nato-expansionism that sidetracks a Green New Deal (more also on yukonblogger , donations welcome, paste or type into URL window: paypal.me/yukonblogger ).

Electoral reform to electoral Rebellion? (part 2 by Anna Weiers and Peter Becker)

Part one of this two-part series shows how Canadians fight back with ecological strategic voting.

We are dealing with a streamlining of corrupt Liberal and Conservative positions into one totalitarian direction, so obvious that it takes some doing to hide it from the public eye.

What could be a better disguise for this neoliberal, anti-democratic coalition than to serve up a fraudulent carbon tax controversy, which at best, is a competition among fossil status quo accomplices.

In B.C., the charge for a litre of regular gas recently climbed above $ 1.70. Which is overpriced right out of the market five, six even seven-fold over the equivalent cost of refuelling electric trucks, cars and transit busses. 

The carbon-tax falsely advertises gas and diesel prices as low and as market-based, and even with room for increase.

This lie works against renewable infrastructure initiative and adds polluter rights on to trillions of dollars worldwide in oil subsidies annually, by review of the International Monetary Fund. 

A good example for the outcome of such manipulation, of such narrative fossil subsidies are the recent diesel transit bus procurements by Whitehorse city council.

Done in well-rehearsed alignment with the Liberal Yukon government’s expansion of frack-LNG and tar-diesel infrastructures, all propelled by carbon-pricing.

No matter how well-intentioned or how few cents per litre carbon pricing jacks up the fuel bill, the carbon-tax as gas/diesel sales pitch for fossil viability is part of the oil subsidy problem.

Such false advertising eventually will be subject to The Competition Act. 

And the destructive impact is so severe that fraudulent carbon-price talk may yet in its organized criminality (Interpol Alerts 2009, 2012, 2015), and retroactively so, assume a criminal status.

At fault are the Trudeau/Bagnell wussy-neoliberals with their good cop/bad cop, carbon-tax show.

It is also a gift of evil unity of wussy-neoliberals to their fossil buddies, the Conservative flatearth-neoliberals.

Nuances are different but meaningless in that both are deceptive in unison, in hiding the emission-increasing carbon tax design-purpose (more detail on yukonblogger).

Liberal and Conservative deviancies against humanity and human survival are “enemies of the people” (Rosa Luxemburg on the surfacing of war criminals in the context of the First World War).

Andrew Scheer’s flat earth-neos in substance clearly are aligned with Justin Trudeau’s wussy-neos (oily right wingers invented the carbon-tax, Preston Manning promotes it and Doug Ford cheerfully renames/continues carbon pricing). 

Carbon price make-belief works as long as Green Party and NDP behave as good sport, and are content to play along as carbon tax suckers heading for the dustbin of history.

We understand better by observing that every independent examination of always emission-increasing carbon pricing concludes with a renewable no to the racist carbon tax.

From the 2013 B.C. Auditor General’s report, the Indigenous Environmental Network report, the Canadian churches research arm KAIROS, to leading economists such as the University of Oxford’s Kate Raworth, to high-profile climate researchers such as the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and the Tyndall Centre’s Kevin Anderson.

A racist carbon tax, in partnership with a renewed Western colonialism, blames poor people and non-white, non-Western, Global South countries. 

In reality, they have a tiny carbon accumulation foot print and disproportionally little influence on infrastructure direction.

The carbon tax attacks the Kyoto principle of climate justice and backs it up with an attack on science. 

Carbon pricing exclusively references/validates corrupted snapshot impressions of current emission levels, thereby dismissing the climate science fact of greenhouse gas accumulation. 

The carbon-tax steals from people but not, as Conservatives falsely claim, purely in pocket change of fossil affordability. 

It robs a renewable economic future, or any future, from Canadians.

Just take a few steps, following a north star of a renewable no to the oily carbon tax!

Yes, the Litmus test for rooting out the carbon price version of climate denial disease becomes straightforward by way of two bedrock reform principles.

With a stroke of a pen, these two emergency measures can take charge overnight:

1 No more new (!) fossil infrastructures and usage are to be licensed, aided or otherwise furnished.

2 All new (!) energy capacity planning, usage and generating gear are to focus on the clean cheap electron (including conversion to ecological food procurement and production).

Nobody’s existing gas station or fossil extraction business is unfairly infringed upon. Policy details fall into place over time.

Renewable infrastructure initiative becomes immediate over short months and years and is rescued from meaningless out-of-sight accountability horizons of 2040, 2050 or even 2060.

Affordability and income-strengthening renewable frameworks, not carbon pricing, play a role for the success of rapid sustainable transition by climate leaders, from Denmark to Nicaragua and Scotland.

Similarly, the commitment towards a vibrant sustainable economy of the Green Party and NDP are credible enough to yet overcome some residual neoliberal carbon tax talk of their own. 

Unfortunately, provocation, infiltration, invasion, military encirclement/escalation, illegal blockades/sanctions and other regime-change acts of aggressive war are rampant and sidetrack a Green New Deal.

Against China, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti and other non-Westerners, which reminds of the racist arrogance towards the very same countries and regions by which European Powers slid towards the “Guns of August” in 1914 (Barbara Tuchman).

Carving out their unCanadian role of Trump poodles, jovial right-winger Bagnell’s, Trudeau’s, Scheer’s and Freeland’s dogma of military/oilygarchic domination over others, it is so dangerous. 

Short of reviving peaceful relations of reciprocity with other countries, there is no ecology, no economic future and no UN Security Council seat for Canada. 

And Bagnell’s years of experience in militarizing and demeaning human rights language are a big part of the problem. He does not recognize liberty when it comes to ecological rights and anti-colonial rights. 

His (Trudeau’s) carbon tax plan, backed by transatlantic neoliberals, has baked-in 3 °C or 4 °C of global average temp increase minimally, over pre-industrial levels, cooking life on earth as we know it.

Common sense in independent science further understands, it is do-or-die between currently 1 °C warming and the ultimate no-go-flag for a heat-up to 1.5 °C, the Paris target.

The strategic vote is for restoring peace and against NATO/free-trade expansion hardliner Mr. Bagnell, who is throwing Yukon young people’s right to a future under his neocolonial bus (more also on yukonblogger , donations welcome, paste or type into URL window: paypal.me/yukonblogger ).

Treason afoot in Canada, Wielding Weaponized Carbon Tax

Treason afoot in Canada, Wielding Weaponized Carbon Tax 1/3 (Whitehorse Star, 26 June 2019)

Part of Western Apocalypse Frame — through and beyond Paris 1919 - Paris 2015

Flat-earth neoliberal premiers, threaten to break up Canada with referendums, while wussy neoliberal leaders flounder in complicity. Why?

The wussy neoliberals’ response is so weak it can be understood as complicity. When war room operations are unfolding in Calgary with referendum plans on Alberta separation/federal equalization payments, and more to come.

The traitor poison is in the oiligarchic bed fellowship with Yankee Doodle-Kenney, by carbon-pricers like Frack-Horgan, Tar-Notley and Pipe-Trudeau (All are united in supporting extreme, unsustainable and anti-renewable foreign ownership levels).

Jason Kenney, who as head of the Canadian Tax Payers Federation, was officially on US gov. payroll for so many years, he might not remember anything else ( https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada ).

And, more than other phoney fossil disputes it is this good-cop/bad-cop routine attached to the GHG increasing carbon tax that disguises the oil-cartel fellow travellers, who are broadly the political elites in Canada.

Colourblind to party lines, be it by jailing wussy-neos or locking up flat earth-neos, this issue of criminal treasonous action in public office needs to be remedied soon to safeguard our country and constitution.

Criminality is not limited to letting the Canadian Tax Payer Federation run amok.

There are the Manning Centre, Alberta Institute, Fraser Institute, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, to name a few.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy and Fraser Institute in their names rollout the US practice of besmirching Canadian patriots while hiding treason behind those honourable names.

The whole lot act and are paid as de-facto foreign spies and operatives.

A Wikipedia entry summarizes accurately: 

“According to journalist Lee Fang, writing for The Intercept, the libertarian Atlas Network has ‘reshaped political power in country after country,’ operating as an extension of U.S. foreign policy, with Atlas-affiliated think tanks receiving funding from the United States Department of State and the National Endowment for Democracy”

The infiltration of Canadian democratic institutions by U.S. gov. agencies, arm’s length or otherwise, goes on for some time. 

Veteran Canadian diplomat and journalist Peter Dale Scott had fished an explosive cable out of a Wikileaks data dump years ago, pertaining to Harper’s win in 2006.

Mark Taliano wrote for huffingtonpost.ca on 11 Sept. 2014:

“The ‘party renovation’ referenced in the cable is the ‘renovation’ of Canada’s indigenous Progressive Conservative Party into a Republican-inspired Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) that is largely subservient to the U.S Empire south of the border.”

Here is the sticky wicket. The influence peddlers, rallying flat-earth crowds, propagandize and lobby on behalf of foreign interests underhandedly, which is in violation of our 1989 Lobbyists Registration Act. 

They do it as criminal traitors, by deceptively foregoing registration. 

There simply would be no talk of a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada without a relentless poisoning of our country by those stink-tanks, that damages our old friendship with the American people.

If there is no meaningful law enforcement in Canada, no wonder Canadians get into trouble violating similar laws elsewhere, for instance in China. 

Dec. 2018 Michael Kovrig, an agent of the International Crisis Group, was arrested in China ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-statement-kovrig-meng-1.4942301 ). 

ICG is a neoliberal propaganda tank peddling Western colonial interests in China, but not registered as lobbyist, breaking Chinese law.

The timing of Kovrig’s arrest suggests a response of Peking to the Huawe executive’s arrest in Vancouver. It also indicates Chinese leniency for letting Kovrig go so long freely about his apparent clandestine anti-Chinese operations. 

Lawlessness also on the international stage characterizes our neoliberal federal gov. The arrest of the Huawe executive Meng Wanzhou, accusing her of trading with Iran, was illegal according to the 2015 UN resolution 2231.

It forbids such sanctions enforcement against Iran, invalidating an extradition option to the U.S.

The Lester Pearson and Pierre Elliot Trudeau legacy of respecting international law and strengthening peace needs to to be restored for Canada to be trustworthy, to be functional on the world stage, crucial for the ecological survival crisis. 

(Part 2 provides a wider context for the ecological survival crisis by presenting a century long continuity of attacking international law with colonialism and racism. Part 3 brings it home to regional well being with two practical initiatives for community resilience.)

Treason afoot in Canada, Wielding Weaponized Carbon Tax 2/3 (Whitehorse Star, 28 June 2019)

Part of Western Apocalypse Frame — through and beyond Paris 1919 - Paris 2015

(Part 1 exposed foreign agency activities that use the false flag poison of the carbon-tax to attack liberty and unity in Canada.)

The centennial of 28 June 1919 is a good time to consider the crime of a continued Western racism by way of intensifying neoliberal colonialism. Paris 1919 through Paris 2015 and beyond, the Western apocalypse framework is active.

The film, Impossible Peace: The Time between World Wars, tells it.

Dr. Catriona Pennell, History Professor from the University of Exeter, speaks on Middle-East WW1 plotting carried forward to the Versailles treaty, spearheaded namely by then French Prime Minister Georges Clemencau.

Such as stabbing his Arab allies in the back with the secret 1916 French/British Sykes/Picot agreement to colonize into the future Syria, Jordan and Iraq:

“Hindsight is a luxury, but I really struggle sometimes to understand, how they possibly thought what they were doing was ever going to end well.”

The film tracked down specialists on the matter of colonizers wreaking havoc in arbitrating the Paris 1919 treaty, inserting early coffin nails into the Jan 1920 officiated League of Nations: 

“Historian Susan Pellison described the league’s mandate system as, a program perfectly tailored for the task of rehabilitating the imperial order at its moment of greatest disarray.”

Following armistice before even treaty negotiations began the Western allies had invaded their ally Russia, who had bled for them through three bitter years, frivolously causing the death of millions more in a starving country largely unorganized for modern warfare.

Colonizer pipe dreams of French, British and others at Versailles spited the world’s heartbeat in Paris 1919. In the voices of non-Westerners such as Prince Faisal and Ho Chi Minh it loudly and clearly had said: Decolonize!

Moral cynicism thereby also paving the road not just for Hitler, but ultimately an initially reluctant American empire with a now very risky endgame, dangerous also for Canadian freedom.

A rebirth of totalitarianism with Spanish Inquisition values that had been strategized by the stink tank of stink tanks, the neoliberal Chicago School of Economics.

Spilled over from Chicago and renewing a toxic Western legacy, tip of the sword for a green washing neo-colonialism is the racist carbon pricing (= carbon tax + carbon offset trade crimes), which is opposed by Non-Westerners.

Broad resistance is vocalized by the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Global Alliance against REDD, which is the Wall Street/World Bank’s carbon-pricing-club program, supposedly reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, leveraged by carbon taxes.

The Whitehorse Star coloumn from 17 June 2017 cited the evidence under the title: Break Climate Denial of Carbon Pricer – Flat-Earther Symbiosis (continuous quote, story also archived at yukonblogger).

“In its study's preface, Carbon Trading – How it Works and Why it Fails, the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation speaks for all scientists and economists who have actually examined climate - energy policies, including carbon pricing:

‘At a time when carbon trading is still being promoted as the central solution to climate change, we continue that it is, instead, part of the problem.’

‘Under the headline Taxation:

‘As a means for altering behaviour, carbon taxes have many of the same problems as carbon (off-set) trading.’

‘Matt McGrath, BBC News Science & Environment page, reported on the COP 20 Lima, Dec. 13, 2014:

‘A large group of developing nations known as the G77 objected [as they would in Paris and Marrakesh]. "[Antonio Marcondes, Brazil’s representative:] ... We stand behind the differentiation, we stand behind common but differentiated responsibilities, these are issues we hold very strong and these are definite red lines.’

The Kyoto principle of Differentiation towards climate justice is real. Carbon-tax advocates tend to single out the poor countries as climate culprits when it is the accumulation of GHG emissions from Western countries that launched the extinction crisis, according to science.

‘At Marrakesh COP 22 Nnimmo Bassey (Friends of the Earth International, Environmental Rights Action) addressed Western NGOs, referencing the Paris agreement as vehicle for carbon price profiteering towards increasing emissions.

The 2015 COP 21 Paris climate agreement never even mentions fossil fuels (hard to believe, I fact checked. COP stands for Conference of Parties that signed the 1992 UN Convention on Climate Change). 

Bassey reiterated the G-77's charismatic speaker from the 2009 COP Copenhagen, Stanislaus Lumumba Di-Aping:

‘... and I will say this to our colleagues from Western civil society  –  you have definitely sided with a small group of industrialists and their representatives and your representative branches. Nothing more than that. You have become an instrument of your governments."

In short, a free ride for the oil cartel along with blaming ordinary people, mostly non-Western non-white; With carbon-tax/price/offset-banksterism. Interpol warned already in 2013 that carbon-pricing is significantly and increasingly controlled by organized crime.

For the sake of surviving the extinction crisis a reality check is overdue for environmental NGOs and climate plans of political parties: 

International solidarity and climate action in the ecological survival crises without a country? 

Upper Canada 25 July 1814, in the decisive War of 1812 Battle at Lundy’s Lane, after a muggy night of relentless counter-attacks by British regulars/Canadian volunteers, bearing cold steel, some, who fought in the American army betraying Canada, had lost their nerve by the wee hours of morning.

They were first to hightail across the border. In the spirit of an emerging Canadian citizenship sentiment, traitors were to be hanged. That is why we have a country.

(Part 3 shows conflict lines to overcome for grassroots actors and candidates aiming towards regional well being with two practical initiatives for resilience.)

Treason afoot in Canada, Wielding Weaponized Carbon Tax 3/3 (Whitehorse Star, 1 July 2019)

Part of Western Apocalypse Frame — through and beyond Paris 1919 - Paris 2015

(Part 1 exposed foreign agency activities, aided by contempt for international law, that use the false flag poison of the carbon-tax to attack liberty and unity in Canada.)

Part 2 provided a wider context for the ecological survival crisis by reflecting on a century long Western continuity of attacking international law with colonialism and racism.)

Canadian citizens need to bring a dose of reality to neocolonial country club romantics at Yukoners Concerned about Oil and Gas, at Green Peace, at 350.org and the David Suzuki Foundation, to an emerging  Yukon University, naming a few of the friendly carbon-pricing green-washers.

The Western mind is more ill than meets the eye. During 2019 National Indigenous Peoples Day I paid attention once more.

There is a sacred and timeless tradition of First Peoples, shared by pre-christian European ways as well. When people meet in earnest conversation, or prayer perhaps, the word is passed around with the sun. 

Somehow a tuning fork is activated to make room for the voice of the heart. It is still remembered in the direction hour or minute hands of a watch turn.

During National Aboriginal Day celebrations at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre the  Dakhká Khwáan Dancers based out of Whitehorse shared an instruction for one of their dances with the audience: “We spin in the direction of the sun.”

After their performance was completed Marilyn Jensen, one of the founders of the group, reminisced to the crowd in a general sense: “You have to be careful with these dances, they are powerful.”

Whenever wherever indigenous people meet or the general public gathers and is facilitated by an indigenous person this respect is present for the direction of the sun.

Isolated from the world, the flat earth-neoliberals more so appeal to the silent majority fiction and don’t meet that much in an environment of talking circles and rather stick to a leader in front of crowd setup.

Over the course of some forty years I made the odd observation that wussy-neoliberals, be it in green-washer NGOs or Blair/Mulcair oriented new labour types in the NDP, love the empty appearance of public engagement.

These wussy-neos also have sure-fire approaches at their fingertips of turning silent the voice in the emotional heart space, poisoning conversation partly by forcing the speaking order upstream against the current of creation and against the direction earth moves around sun. 

Apologies, my memory is not perfect but I can’t remember when the alternative suggestion to pay homage to the rotational sense of creation was not met with hostility by some wussy-neo.   

Inspired by words of the great Indian writer Arundhati Roy it seems that wussy-neos sow by night so that flatearth-neos can reap by day. It is what it is and where the West is at.  

Wyatt Tremblay had it straight. 

The Words in the Wyatt’s World 17 June 2019 Yukon News cartoon read : “A Question ... If we declare a climate emergency, does that mean we’ll have to do something about it?”

At Whse city council the same day, refreshingly everybody seemed to get it, city councillors, city staff, resident delegates that spoke to councillor Steve Roddick’s climate emergency resolution. 

Except for mayor Dan Curtis who seemed much relieved to transition right back onto his morbid fossil track by calling to session a summary presentation of a Stantec study commissioned under his auspices.   

The officially as engineering consulting firm operating Stantec, on a practical level shows consistently a neoliberal ideology with strong pro-tar/frack fuels bias. 

Aligned with mayor Curtis’ point of view, the stink tank study laid out a transportation strategy for the Whitehorse Transit fleet that would bake in a 100% fossil fuel dependency through decades to come.

At hand was the City of Whitehorse Transit Master Plan, furnished by Stantec, released on April 10, 2018.

Dominant recommendations of the plan dismiss the clean cheap electron that is powering battery electric transit busses in many cities with subarctic conditions and read:

“Maintain the existing Diesel propulsion system in future procurements.”

“Cold weather makes electric buses impractical,” 

A bold-faced lie! Stantec was paid handsomely to know better.

Look to Winnipeg, to Alaskan towns, to Northern China, Moscow and towns in Siberia!

There battery electric buses operate in the extremest of winter conditions more robustly and more reliably, as well as fuel up five times cheaper than Mayor Dan Curtis’ recently procured climate bombs of expensive tar-diesel buses.

Following a quasi North Star of a Renewable No to the oily carbon-tax, the Litmus test for rooting out such climate denial disease becomes straightforward by way of two simple guidelines, that with a stroke of a pen take can take effect overnight.

Nobody’s gas station or fossil extraction business is unfairly infringed upon. Policy details fall into place over time, a renewable transition becomes rapid and is rescued from meaningless out of sight accountability horizons of 2040, 2050 or even 2060.

1 No more new (!) fossil infrastructures and usage are to be licensed, aided or otherwise furnished.

2 All new (!) energy capacities, usage and generating gear are to focus on the clean cheap electron.

Peter Becker, Whitehorse  

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Renewable No to Oily Carbon-Tax, Ms. Elizabeth May and Mr. Jagmeet Singh!

No to a carbon-tax, Ms. Elizabeth May and Mr. Jagmeet Singh! Part 1/2

Stop turning climate policy into a global war zone for the benefit of the World Bank’s ‘Carbon Pricing Club’

(Whitehorse Star 29 Mar. 2019 Open letter to Green Party and NDP leaders)

Concerned Canadians demand that you take initiative to remove from being in charge of climate policy, those who significantly caused the climate crisis, fossil/financial/chemical cartels that continue to escalate the neoliberal climate war!

We can’t get off the extinction track if you continue endorsing Big Oil-purposed and designed carbon-tax/carbon-trade/carbon-price, if you keep legitimizing their anti-renewable fox-in-the-henhouse plan!

Stop turning climate policy into a global war zone for the benefit of the World Bank’s “Carbon Pricing Club”!

Follow solidarity with working people, Global South and Indigenous Peoples in their renewable but resounding No to carbon-pricing!

As highlighted by economist Kate Raworth, Iron+Earth tar sands workers, climate scientists Vandana Shiva and Kevin Anderson, political leader Nnimmo Bassey and the Indigenous Environmental Network’s 2017 Carbon Pricing report!

Pay attention to a deep alignment between fracking and carbon-pricing!

A carbon tax is not, as often claimed, an alternative to carbon off-set speculator schemes.

Because it widely serves as a kickstarting and enabling component to carbon speculator markets (Indigenous Environmental Network Parbon-Pricing report P. 42).

March 4, 2016 in Whitehorse Star and yukonblogger: “Alberta Carbon Price Plan ambushes Clean Energy”. 

“Economists Dr. Lynne Chester and Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sidney, lived through the carbon-tax episode in Australia and were baffled by surprises.”

“In the very week the Julia Gillard government enacted the carbon tax, it rolled back the renewable energy framework.”

“In 2011, Chester and Rosewarne published an interesting paper examining financial markets that generate subsidy structures towards fossil resource cartel interests, funded by the taxpayer, under the title:” 

“What is the relationship between derivative markets and carbon prices?”

... More recently, Prime Minister Gillard announced an intention to introduce a carbon tax from mid 2012 to apply for three to five years until the implementation of a carbon trading scheme.”

Path of danger, such capitalizing of fracking and off-set derivative speculation siphons moneys away in order to deepen the renewable deficit in the industrial world towards another catastrophic banking-heist.

The carbon-tax is not a practical component to fuel taxes and not named a polluter penalty for a reason; it is none of those things.  

Not surprising, really, the carbon price language is legally owned, semantically finessed and purpose-designed by oil-cartel and Wall Street stink-tanks.

Who also love structural mass unemployment, predatory debt slavery aimed at public coffers and to destroy individual citizens’ well being, driven by privatized central banks, while hating the common good once underwritten by people-owned national banks.

Carbon pricers are more than neoliberal fanatics, perhaps a nuance different to gullible chemtrail believers, both lost in oil complicity. 

Carbon-pricing opened a campaign of racist dog whistling that shifted climate blame from fossil cartels to ordinary people, mostly non-Western, mostly non-white.

Carbon-tax leveraged colonialism in the Global South typically appears as land theft and rain forest slash-burning campaigns administered through a World Bank’s own internal group, the “Carbon-Pricing Club”. Big carbon budget for white people!

Racism so offensive that some time after the Paris climate conference in 2015 it went off-stage until, in April 2018, the club resurfaced under the new name of “High-Level Leadership Forum on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness”.

Particularly aggressive component is the neoliberal REDD carbon-pricing program which operates under the greenwashing false label of “Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation”. 

"Carbon markets in the Paris agreement – an early holiday gift” says a Dec. 17, 2015 blog posting, of some glee, by Carbon Pricing Clup Mandarin Vikram Widge, then head of Climate and Carbon Finance at the World Bank Group.

Carbon Pricing Club and Redd face a stiffening peoples resistance in the Global South spearheaded by the No REDD in Africa Network and Global Alliance against REDD.

From Johan Rockström, Bill McKibben, David Suzuki, James Hanson to Nicholas Stern who promotes climate destructive gas-fracking, carbon-pricing academics back up their own attack on the Kyoto principle of climate justice, with an attack on science. 

Carbon-pricing exclusively validates/navigates current emissions with a clear objective to increase emissions while thieving from poor countries and from ordinary people. 

Injustice breeds resentment and paralyzes collaboration, no accident.

 

Whereas peer-reviewed climate science is unequivocal: accumulated emissions, which are largely driven and controlled by western elites, cause the crisis, not at all levels at any point in time. 

Consequently, on a practical and logical level of how we got here, carbon-pricing climate science deniers equip and even create flat-earth climate deniers.

Disturbing but real, carbon-pricing wussy neoliberals supplement and enable their climate denial brethren in the flat-earth neoliberal camp.

Also by in a science discrediting, public deceiving fashion, conveying carbon-pricing policy as supposed part of atmospheric climate science.

Respect evidence in former B.C. Auditor General 2013 special report detailing methodical designs for disproportional carbon-tax returns to frackers and finance players!

Important, because fraudulent B.C. Carbon-Pricing became heralded template of Alberta and Canadian climate plans.

While the associated Pacific Carbon Trust off-set credits further subsidize Encana and other frackers plus exclude such major frack emitters from carbon accounting.

 

Recognize the toxicity of an increasing and high carbon-price with its powerful divestment incentive away from renewable infrastructure investment, as in Sweden!

Which has fallen hopelessly behind its neighbours and rivals Denmark/Scotland, which operate not on the basis of carbon-pricing but with a renewable energy framework!

Pay attention to the narrative of elite infrastructure decision-makers, from oil cartels to neoliberal Western governments, who use the carbon-pricing smoke screen to harm clean cheap electron opportunities!

Respect basic market economics of “price elasticity for demand”! 

Carbon-pricing violates this most basic rule of practical market policy.

Price nudging can be expected to change behaviour towards luxury products, but not staples such as potatoes, ground transportation needs and heating buildings.

In fact, the unfair economic pressure of the carbon tax against ordinary people very much aligns with the flat tax concept as introduced by Margaret Thatcher.

Under which a low income person pays the exact same flat amount, say a 1000 dollars annually, that a billionaire pays, all out modern aristocracy.

Such a clamp down in the fashion of an unfair carbon tax tends to have an inverse effect by shifting even more consumption to carbon-intense basics and gas guzzlers.

Not surprising as the carbon tax strain moves long term cost effective and renewable/sustainable upgrade investments further and further out of reach for ordinary people.

Carbon-pricing prevents climate mitigation, but its mind numbing cynicism also kills all important adaptive survival efforts.

Precisely because climate models, treaties and carbon-pricers have hopelessly understated the case, because we already are in a non linear acceleration scenario.

In the free fall section of omnicide, it is a good and hopeful time to fight back in a transformative way based on sound problem awareness, following the best courage of our ancestors, so they will not be ashamed to meet us.

Part two demonstrates how the clean cheap electron outcompeted the expensive, militaristic oil cartel ages ago, and how the anti renewable bias in the carbon-tax promotes polluter rights and opposes communities rights.

Peter Becker, Whitehorse

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A Renewable No to the Oily Carbon-Tax. Ms. May and Mr. Singh! Part 2/2

Part one showed how the racist carbon tax gives a free-frack-ride to the finance and oil cartel, blaming, endangering and impoverishing ordinary people, mostly non-Western, non-white.

Carbon pricing increases emissions in several more ways. Particularly the carbon tax marks a new turn of subsidies beyond externalizing fossil extraction caused cost of ecological and economic harms.

The carbon tax pushes into the Commons the actual core production cost of tar and frack extraction.

Yes, a pushing into the Commons of fossil processing and shipping cost, a carbon-tax bulldozer blazing trail for an accelerated increase of fossil subsidies, currently assessed at 5.3 trillion annually by the International Monetary Fund.

Reason being that tar and frack extraction generates no net revenue. Based on a diminishing net energy output of unconventional O & G, criminal carbon-pricing subsidies are sought.

Neoliberal propaganda platitudes claim the opposite of plain facts, that supposedly the carbon tax internalizes costs of fossil harm to society. 

Don’t be fooled by the carbon tax refund and rebate schedules and stick to the facts on the ground in B.C. and Alberta, from where best practices (best for neoliberal elites) are detailed and rolled out across the country.

Again, pay attention to the 1980s far right origin and neoliberal concept frame of the carbon-tax! 

Consequently flat-earth neoliberals, posing as conservatives, cannot be trusted either to oppose carbon pricing. 

Because their reasoning is phoney, artificially narrow and weak to the point that it can and will flip over night.

Doug Ford remade Ontario carbon pricing, and surprise surprise, as under Kathleen Wynne, Cap and Trade still caps not emissions but caps emission reductions.

Contrary to carbon-pricer propaganda the ozone hole and acid rain were counteracted with emission caps and the U.S. was least successful in trying off-sets.

Preston Manning is a leading, well-established carbon tax cheerleader.

Stephen Harper promoted the carbon tax when and where it counted, such as in his support of B.C. carbon pricing as launch of an unCanadian anti-renewable tar and frack expansion template.

Often overlooked is the position of Manitoba’s conservative government, with cutting edge green policies such as for 100% electric public transit, which represents in substance a renewable no to the carbon-tax.

Carbon-pricers consistently oppose the effective outlawing of criminal behaviour, such as to ban fracking, and oppose legislating communities’ rights to intact life support systems, such as clean water and green energy.

The oil cartel’s clawing into the fossil status quo is increasingly based on deceptive carbon-pricing propaganda, which falsely associates renewables with subsidies, falsely depicting them as expensive and fossil resources as supposedly competitive. 

Whereas renewable cost parities are decades and generations in the past, market-hostile carbon-pricers look to a fossiltopia future.

And searching in the wrong place these wussy neoliberals, de-facto climate deniers in bed with flat-Earth neos, consequently will never have to find anything humanly of meaning. 

Rachel Notley’s energy policy, as laid out in the 2016 Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, mocks Albertans’ very natural aspirations to better their common wealth by renaming the climate bomb of water polluting/job killing frack gas into “cleaner electrical supply”.

The feds’ Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change secures protectionism for fossil cartels and associated debt/poverty profiteers well into the second half of the century.

Carbon-pricer fossilism is hardening as ecological, democracy, energy scarcity and affordability crises are deepening.

Canadian veteran petroleum geologist David Hughes probably is the best known petroleum energy expert internationally.

However, nobody among the unpatriotic, political elites seems to get even the most basic of petroleum geology and energy economics. 

Do not ignore the signals of economic failure in the unconventional extraction that come from an empty North Dakota Legacy Fund and an empty Alberta Heritage Fund!

Compare that to a similar-size petroleum economy with accumulated savings of $1 trillion-plus in the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund from problematic but conventional crude reservoirs.

Realistically, Norwegians are not better or less corrupt people than Albertans, but they had an economically viable, conventional petroleum geology to work with. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and others had it all wrong.

Meaning Norwegian shallow off-shore shelf reservoirs actually could be emptied out more or less like a heating fuel tank at the side of a house. 

Which is different to “carpet bombing” (industry jargon) or frack pulverizing a rock geology to release micro natural gas bubbles, or digging/steaming up tar blobs with unaffordably insane processing requirements.

Whereas in a real economy the clean cheap electron, similar to the digital byte, approaches a marginal cost of zero, a rapid renewable transition is long overdue on all fronts.

North American Peak Oil occurred before 1970, Global Peak Oil around 2005, of conventional resources which is all that it counts.

There is now a cost of around one cent per kWh in major wind energy developments accordingt to the 2018 US Dep. of Energy report. 

At a cost level of over 10 cents per kWh, electric road and rail transportation still fuels up five times cheaper than equivalent combustion powered vehicles.

“Polluters pay” is typical neoliberal deception. All evidence suggests carbon-pricing makes citizens pay to subsidize polluters.

Carbon-pricing is a core dogma of neoliberal recruiting for complicity with fracking.

A no to the carbon-tax is not everything but it is a vital door opener for responsible policies.

“When you have foxes eating hens, Kumbaya is a recipe for slaughter (Anand Giridharadas, fmr. New York Times correspondent on Democracy Now Mar. 15, 2019)”

Wall Street/Bay Street aligned political and NGO elites apparently have forgotten the language of our country while turning into some sort of a beaver toothed franchise to the neoliberal Chicago School of Economics.

No excuse for you to dodge the question: Do you march with the people’s resilience and rapid green transition wave or with the philanthropic green-washers and apologetic NGO carbon-pricers in bed with the fossilized ecocidaires?

There is a force with great appetite for gobbling up Phoneys and Wussy-Neos. If you feed it, it will eat you; learn from the Notley-Trudeau-Liz Hanson experience! 

Especially wussies are eaten, who are perennial election losers. While for many people they represent no bigger an evil than the flat-Earthers, to some they appear even as lesser evil. 

Why, then, do Jason Kenney and Andrew Sheer have the wind at their backs?

They live closer to the earth, they don’t have and are not to betray the Notley/Trudeau type of civic, social and ecological aspirations. 

A solidly polled fact: on average ordinary people have better ethics than the elites in society, and logically don’t like neoliberal criminals of any persuasion to form government.

But without meaningful choice, a preference of some integrity favours values, like honesty, over oil-complicit carbon pricer policies and their deceptive sustainability cosmetics. 

A vacuum, an absence of the mentoring signature in a truly populist character force, along the lines of Jeremy Corbyn, FDR, Agnes Macphail or Tommy Douglas, produces opportunity for demonic, bigoted, reactionary character force. 

As a way of analogy: It is as if somewhat transparent career gangsters and mobsters with long criminal records win out over child molesters hiding behind suits, benefits packages and penthouse floors. 

Case in point, before flunking the 2016 election, a once hopeful but carbon-price compromised Yukon NDP caucus, in a serious case of double dealing, voted for fracking in Dec. 2015, while others were out Christmas shopping!

Fossil greenhouse gases will not go away overnight, but give not one inch further expansion to antidemocratic and market hostile polluter rights!  

Ms. May and Mr. Singh, take away the frack beast’s carbon-tax bone now!

Peter Becker, Whitehorse  

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