I have not commented much here on the political climate anymore but the current total cluster fk both provincial and federal can hardly be let go by without sharing my disgust for most, if not all of both the incumbent and aspiring lot. The honest candidate who speaks the truth and does not promise all kinds of things that he cannot deliver has little chance of getting elected and even less in having any real impact upon upon decisions made on our behalf.
The most egregious of the lot is Doug Fraud who decided to call an unneeded election when he already held a majority in the middle of the worst winter Ontario has seen in some years and so many folks have difficulty getting out of their driveways let alone to the voting location. Unfortunately it matters little who you vote for locally but what party they support, for it seems that a few at the top of whatever party gets in run the show..... its not as bad as the new dictatorship emerging south of the border just yet but beware those that once they are elected think they are god!
Moving on, across Canada we have a change in the current leader and ultimately in all probability a general election where it will once again be more about the party and leader thereof than the local candidate. For a while there we had a minority government with two parties at least trying to work together for the good of the country but that collaboration recently crashed, again at the worst possible time, we may never know what lead to the break up but it sure was not the right time to add more turmoil to our governance.
It was good to see our leaders across the country all largely singing the same tune in support of our economy even though one premier was more interesting in selling her oil than showing a common front to he of the slash and burn regime next door. Given our close relationship with the U.S. of Eh and the massive changes already taking place down there by executive decree its going to be a tough few years both here, there and indeed world wide.
Buckle up folks, we are not quite to the point of building our bomb shelters just yet but it might be a good idea to stock up the pantry.....
Sunday, February 23, 2025
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Who do you believe?
The BBC issued a February report that found “significant inaccuracies” with news summaries generated from artificial intelligence (AI) engines including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI.
“The answers produced by the AI assistants contained significant inaccuracies and distorted content from the BBC,” the outlet wrote in their report.
Their findings found 51 percent of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues, including a failure to differentiate between fact and opinion.
Nineteen percent of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors – incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates, while 13 percent of the quotes sourced from BBC articles were either altered from the original source or not present in the article cited.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5138279-bbc-report-ai-summaries-inaccurate/
But don't worry you can always rely on King Trumph to give you a accurate synopsis!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
Democracy is indeed Under Fire …... from all directions!
Friday, November 8, 2024
History repeats itself?
This was first published on this blog back in 2020 and is unfortunately even more relevant today with the news coming out of the U.S this week, Hang on to your hats folks!
“Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amusement, that people refused to take him seriously, and as one action after another met with amazing success, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. It was inconceivable that such a thing could actually happen in our modern civilization. A madman had become the leader. Having classified him in this way you might think that all we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane individual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. ….......
Focusing on the individual’s madness begs the question as to the sanity of society that created him as its spokesman and leader, that a reciprocal relationship exists between the leader and the people who spawned him. Removing such a leader is simply removing the overt manifestation of the disease. Focusing on the madman does not take us very far in understanding those who support him. “
The above is not a Psychological Analysis of Donald Trump but from a World War II report, “A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler,” for the Office of Strategic Services of the United States Government as brought to my attention by a long dissection of the American mindset by blogger Canadian Dimension
I will not pretend to be a great scholar or for that matter consumed with our southern neighbors current cluster fk but one cannot help but be concerned with where the country just south of us is headed given our close proximity both physical and economically. I can only say that from what news reports that highlight Trumps past and present unrestrained verbiage the above clip from an article about a former dictator who started in an elected official and in a short time took over government and eliminated any who opposed him that the parallels are scary..
Given the constant removal of qualified individuals from influential government positions to be replaced with Trump supporters the parallels are so obvious and troubling that the American electorate had best be praying that this smooth talking self promoting liar is removed from power in short order. I wish the American people the best of luck getting him to actually hand over the reigns of power and not further destroy what little democracy left in their country by fighting the results in the courts for months and possibly years to come.
Enough said......
America, what have you done?
You chose fascism over democracy.
You chose hate over hope, oligarchs over experts, patriarchy over equality.
You chose repression, theocracy, violence.
You chose anger, lies, insults, threats.
You chose a felon over a prosecutor.
You chose a dictator over the rule of law.
You chose Putin and his puppet.
Why?
https://ianchadwick.com/blog/america-what-have-you-done/
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