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I Would Love To Live To 2376 To See, But I’m Afraid My Telomeres Would Object
Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canada’s six largest oil and gas companies, has removed all content from its web page ahead of approval of a bill that would force firms to prove their environmental claims.
“How can you prove the future?” a statement from the Pathways Alliance defending the move reads. “We say our efforts will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our critics say our efforts will achieve net-zero by 2376. The only way to know for sure is to live long enough to see. But is that good enough for this government? Obviously not. That’s why we chose oblivion.”
The defence also takes issue with the term “greenwashing” (a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization’s products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly). The statement reads: “That’s not a conspiracy against the environment – it’s something we gargle with in the morning in order to make our breath minty fresh!”
SOURCE: Earth Worst! Journal
[http://www.earthworstjournal.org/article.php?id=543]
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“I’m Not A Parasite,” Mendicino Responded, “I Was Born In Toronto.”
Video shows that a man wearing a red “Save Canada” hat spit on MP and former public safety minister Marco Mendicino as other protesters shouted “You’re a disgrace,” and “You’re a parasite.”
According to Save Canada, everything that happened at the protest was free speech. Even the spitting? “It came out of somebody’s mouth, didn’t it?”
SOURCE: Ottawa Stunned
[http://www.canoodle.com/NewsStand/OttawaStunned/News/2024/06/22/509727.html]
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Nutty With A Bitter Aftertaste
So, I bought a two-four of Freedom2o, a bottled water that claimed to be “anti-woke.” I was ready. To me, Evian tasted of political oppression and the Deep State. Aquafina tasted like social oppression and the one per cent. Canadian Springs tasted of exorbitant politeness and a need to be liked. Not even loved, just liked. Tap water, of course, had long tasted of social and economic failure.
I was ready for Freedom2o. I took a sip. It tasted like water. I took a gulp. It tasted like a mouthful of water. I drank the entire bottle. By the end, I was well hydrated, but I could only sense a slight aftertaste that I couldn’t quite place until I remembered that I paid $39 for 24 bottles.
It was the taste of exploitation.
SOURCE: Bob’s Penultimate Conspiracy Page
[http://www.ignorebobatyourperil.com/conspiracy2384.html]
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Rebel Without A Cause…Or A Conscience
Rebel News has admitted that it owns a cube van that has been projecting anti-Muslim ads on city streets. “We didn’t write their ad. We didn’t produce it,” stated Rebel News founder and well-known paskudnik Ezra Levant. “Just because we drive a truck around the city playing the ad over and over in no way means that we have any moral responsibility for the consequences.”
When a reporter pointed out that there would be no consequences to take moral responsibility for if Rebel News didn’t drive a truck around the city playing the ad over and over again, Levant stared at her blankly for several seconds. Eventually, he shouted, “Free speech!” and frantically ran out of the room.
SOURCE: Festerin’ Report
[http://www.ax2grindnet.com/festerinreport/web/feature222222222222-2222.html]
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He Believes That Parents Talk To Their Children About Social Media? How Delightfully Innocent Of Hi – Oh, Wait, He’s Just Saying What The Industry Has Pressured Him To Say, Isn’t He?
“I don’t think that when a parent is talking to their kids about social media, that it’s helpful if I tell them that there’s problems or dangers with it. I’m not particularly moved by the idea of doing that.”
– Health Minister Mark Holland arguing against the federal government mandating social media platforms to employ labels warning that they could pose dangers to young people
SOURCE: No Comment Quotes
[http://thesepeopleareinsane.psy/update.toshtml]
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In Times Of Diminished Expectations, Even Mutual Appreciation Has Consequences
Donald Sutherland, an acting legend who appeared in classic movies over seven decades, including M*A*S*H, Klute, Ordinary People, Don’t Look Now, Bethune and The Hunger Games, has died at the age of 88. While the cause of his death was not revealed, I like to think it was because he was heartbroken over the fact that
Anouk Aimee, star of such classic European films as La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, as well as American films such as Pret-a-Porter, has died at the age of 92. While the cause of her death was not revealed, I like to think it was because she was heartbroken over the impending news that
Donald Sutherland, an acting legend who appeared in classic movies over seven decades…
SOURCE: Obits ‘R Us
[http://www.king.ids.net/~bdlm/obits_r_us.html]
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Headline Refuses To Get Involved Because It Likes Being On Social Media
looking out for #1) Trustees at Toronto’s public school board accepted a strategy aimed at combating hate that includes anti-Palestinian racism in its definition of discrimination. Some in the Jewish community fear this will fuel antisemitism. How could this fuel antisemitism?
a) anti-racism is a zero sum game: efforts to fight Islamophobia will take attention and energy away from fighting antisemitism
b) some people consider supporting a genocide in Gaza to be Islamophobic – I know, crazy, right? – and giving that position any traction is antisemitic
c) this question is antisemitic
2 kill for) Which members of the Jewish community, exactly, are making this argument?
a) those who think that screaming curses at the anti-Zionist encampment at the University of Toronto is the height of sophisticated intellectual discourse
b) those who think that having to walk around a stretch of lawn instead of walking through it was how the Nazis started
c) Ezra Levant (thinking optional)
SOURCE: Les Pages aux Folles
[http://www.lespagesauxfolles.ca]
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