ToddR's blog

25 Mar 2020

Do what what the state says or be cut off. This is the totalitarian message the mayor of Los Angeles delivered. Listen to his delivery style, very measured and calculated, a careful cadence steeped in drama and using emotionally charged words. He even invoked the spectre of the recent fires. This speech is a great example of propaganda. To be sure, he may even believe what he is saying, may really believe he's acting in the best interest but that changes…

24 Mar 2020

For the first time in a long time, the pace of our existence has changed. Many of the circumstances surrounding our recent collective experience are new; very few folks are still with us who would have had even conceptually similar experiences, most have passed on. Further, due to advancements in technology, similar past experiences are not really possible anymore; digital data and information delivery changed the old playing field completely and there is no going…

23 Mar 2020

If I never hear the terms 'social distancing' and 'self isolating' again I will daisy push a happy camper. This desire has nothing to do with wanting life back to normal, that ship has forever sailed, welcome to a whole new show, but rather the ease with which folks are normalizing these ideas and negatively judging, or worse, anyone who does not jump on this bandwagon. The phrases have been made trendy and fashionable, gross. It's also important to note that this type of embrace is only happening because the lights are still on and potable water is still running. Change either of those two dynamics . .

22 Mar 2020

This is a collection of stuff that caught my eye and that I want to keep an eye on. For the most part, stuff here has not been fact checked yet most likely due to lack of time. If stuff turns out to be dragon dung, I'll remove it, if not, I'll also remove it but it will be posted elsewhere on the site. Bottom line: this is an unvetted collection bucket of info.

22 Mar 2020

Based on many comments, memes and posts I've seen on social media over the last few weeks, one would get the impression that humans have never been exposed to a virus before. My personal most disliked ones are those that outline a potential trail of infection from one person to another usually ending up with the text painting the 'perpetrator' as a bad person while at the same time exposing the virtues of 'self isolation' or 'social distancing'. Ridiculous at best, misinformed fear mongering is more like it.

10 Mar 2020

"Wikipedia is generally thought of as an open, transparent, and mostly reliable online encyclopedia. Yet upon closer inspection, this turns out not to be the case.

In fact, the English Wikipedia with its 9 billion worldwide page views per month is governed by just 500 active administrators, whose real identity in many cases remains unknown."

28 Feb 2020

Closer to home, Canada has a host of issues of its own to deal with. The one I'd like to look at this morning is the ongoing pipeline issue with the Wet’suwet’en Nation and the supportive protests and blockades all across the country. Interestingly, this is actually an easy one to solve but because of government action past and present, the problem is much larger than it needs to be.

29 Jul 2019

Twitter today provides us with a little insight into how the political system functions while at the same time showing us how broken the entire concept is.

26 Jul 2019

From 2012 but the issues persist. In the context of societal change, monetary system reform is a must as no other changes in any other areas of our society will have any real effect with the status quo in place.

"Economists around the world are struggling to break free of the clutches of the financial crisis. But a twelve-year-old Canadian knows what needs to be done. Victoria Grant took the Internet by storm overnight, after a video of her slamming Canada's banks for robbing the people went viral. RT talks to internet sensation Victoria Grant and her mother Marcia…

19 Feb 2019

The princesses of the social justice warrior crowd are busy today lighting up the Interwebs, meaning Twitter, raining down all sorts of outrage and destruction on the head of John Wayne. Yeah, you read that right: the SJW Internet mob has now set their sights firmly on a 40 year old corpse. An almost 50 year old interview with Playboy magazine (yes, apparently some really did read it for the articles ) in which The Dukester's clearly evident racism came shining on through is currently making the…

15 Feb 2019

By refusing service to a particular individual(s) or group, one risks cutting off a possibly large revenue stream and thereby adversely affecting the bottom line. Another possible consequence would be an enterprising entrepreneur setting up shop down the street catering to all and thereby capturing the rejected business as well as potentially capturing many more of the first shop's remaining customers.

30 Jul 2017

Pretty shabby reporting Huffpost:

a) CDN$ is up only because USD$ has been dropping. Zero reflection on our economic activity.

b) The majority of Canada's current economic activity is debt fuelled and utterly unsustainable. Crash inevitable.

c) What was the result of the last dot com boom?

d) Silence doubters? 2 seconds with your favourite search engine will clearly show what a load of BS this statement is.

Article not worth the pixels its printed on . . .…

06 Jul 2017

Let's see how this tweet matures.

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04 Jun 2017

Madam, kindly go jump in a lake (another phrase first came to mind but I'm trying to be polite). I would like to point out that while you perhaps slept through history class there are lots of us out here who were awake for at least some of it. One thing I do know: successful terrorism predates the Internet by, well, I'll phrase it so you can understand: lots and lots.

31 May 2017

Dear Bill Morneau, I see you are on the attendee list for the Bilderberg meetings this year. I wonder if you are aware that these meetings are in secret with no press coverage allowed. Many who try to provide coverage are harassed and jailed.

Not sure about the rest of Canada, however, personally, your meeting in an official capacity with other governmental, banking and corporate types, in secret, with no accountability is tantamount to treason. Funny how others who do this are labelled agitators & terrorists and you call yourselves esteemed politicians &…