The Paradox and Absurdities of Carbon-Fretting and Rewilding

Herschel Smith · 28 Jan 2024 · 4 Comments

The Bureau of Land Management is planning a truly boneheaded move, angering some conservationists over the affects to herd populations and migration routes.  From Field & Stream. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released a draft plan outlining potential solar energy development in the West. The proposal is an update of the BLM’s 2012 Western Solar Plan. It adds five new states—Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming—to a list of 11 western states already earmarked…… [read more]

“We Told You, We’re Not Leaving Until The Mandates Get Dropped!”

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

He’s determined.  And this is fun to watch.

Using Malleable And Evolving Tactics In The Quest For Canadian Liberty (Freedom Convoy Tactics Analysis)

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

The Canadian government is fighting back the only way they can, i.e., sending in the cops to arrest, tow and imprison people).  It has been all over the news this weekend.  Some locations are standing firm.

Others are in a bit more trouble.  When the cops arrest the main actors and tow their trucks, there isn’t much that can be done about it.  Or is there?

At Coutts, they have changed tactics up a bit.  I’m not sure what this was about, but I’m guessing that a way around the roadway was being planned by the government, and the farmers figured out a way to circumvent those plans.  The farmers and tractors have supplemented (or in some cases fully supplanted) the truckers.  Everyone needs sleep and has to go home at some point.

And this brings me to the analysis.  At the Ambassador Bridge, after the arrests and truckers finally leaving, the line of protestors formed in a different location, while still blocking access.

The tactics are going to have to be malleable and evolving.  When one trucker drives away, he should be replaced by another.  When one protester leaves, another should come along to take his or her place.  When arrests begin happening, reform the line elsewhere.  When more arrests occur, truckers can jam up traffic by moving slowly or “strategically” running out of fuel right beside another trucker to which that also happens.  When the truckers tire, the farmers can take their place.

It looks like much of this is already happening.

This can be done, but it will require determination and evolution of tactics, techniques and procedures.

Speech by Canadian Army Major Stephen Chledowski

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Warning up front.  I have absolutely no way to independently verify he is who he says he is.

If he is, he has just sacrificed his career to say these things.  He’ll be gone from the military very soon.

Watch it before YT takes it down, which I suspect would be very soon.

UPDATE: Via WiscoDave.

Yep, as I suspected and said.

A Canadian Army officer in New Brunswick is under investigation after calling for other military members and police to rise up over vaccination and pandemic restrictions.

Maj. Stephen Chledowski spoke in uniform in a seven-minute video Thursday, describing government actions during the pandemic as tyranny. He goes on to describe vaccination for COVID-19 as “genocide.”

Daniel Le Bouthillier, the head of media relations for the Canadian Forces, confirmed in an email that Chledowski is an active member of the military based at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown.

“We are investigating the incident and will be taking appropriate action,” Le Bouthillier said in the statement without specifying what that action may be.

He’ll lose his career.  He’s a brave guy.  My respect to him for truth-telling.

Trucker Blockades And Convoys

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Updates everywhere.

Are liberal MPs really turning on “Big Hair?”  We’ll see.

What Ambassador Bridge looks like today.

Ottawa police threaten immediate arrest.  Good globalists, they are.

Governor Gremlin [uh … I mean Gretchen] Whitmer is worried, and demands that the blockade be stopped.

The Canadian Trucker protest has spread outside of Ottawa and has now traveled to the largest border crossing in North America, which carries a tad bit more than a quarter of all trade between the two countries. For the past three or four days, the Ambassador Bridge which connects Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, has experienced bottlenecks and even closed due to the trucker protests. The protests have also slowed traffic at Port Huron. Michigan, and Sarnia, Windsor, crossing at the Blue Water Bridge, a bit up the road (about 70 miles) on I-94 East.

She’s worried about shutdowns of auto manufacturing.  She should be.  That problem won’t go away, no matter how much she screeches.

Finally, it seems that the U.S. trucker revolt will be a rallyA rally?

The following day, March 6, the truckers will launch their enormous convoy to Washington, DC, bringing our movement from DC to CA and back again—with a stop in Indianapolis along the convoy’s journey east. It’s gonna be epic. I hope you can join us in SoCal that weekend.

Um … what?  A rally?  You may as well invite laughter without the imposition of embargoes.  I guess this will be up to the Canadians then.

Another Canadian Blockade at Milk River

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Via NC Renegades.

It’s also my understanding that arrests have been made, and that Alberta provincial head Jason Kenney only feigned a positive response to the truckers.

Holding a press conference to make his announcement [Full Video Here], premier Kenney said, “We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal, and so Alberta will move on. But we’ll do so carefully, we’ll do so prudently, we will do so only if it does not threaten the capacity of our healthcare system.” Kenney then outlined some softening to the covid restrictions.

Provincial rules that require students to wear masks in Alberta schools will end on Monday, and children under 12 won’t have to wear masks anywhere starting then.

Kenney stated a provincial work-from-home order will expire on March 1, along with the provincial mask mandate.  At the same time, the limits on social gatherings and students being permitted to be in non-socially distanced proximity with other students in schools will be removed.

However, while Premier Kenny said the vaccine passports called ‘Restriction Exemption Program’ (REP) would be eliminated at midnight tonight, the QR codes check-in gates would continue; vaccine requirements will remain; vaccine discrimination can continue by private businesses with government support; govt healthcare workers must still be vaccinated or get fired; entertainment venues would be allowed to sell food & drinks again (but customers must be seated); and rules on closing times, alcohol service times, table capacity in restaurants, and social distancing would remain in place.

So the Coutts truckers pulled back into place and resumed the blockade.  Good.  Kenney has been told that the truckers are stupid.  This is good too.  There’s no more serious weakness that underestimating the resolve and smarts of your opponents.

In this following video, one trucker says that his “son has disowned him.”  Well, I believe we all have a volition and that we’re responsible for our own actions, and that no one can really control another man’s thoughts.

But this kid has been trained in the public schools his whole life (I would imagine) and then perhaps in state-run colleges.  His thinking is wrongheaded.  Unless his father did something truly sinful like abuse his mother, and that hasn’t been charged, he is in no position to disown anyone.  He’s got it exactly backwards.  Maybe he will grow up one day.

In the mean time, this is video from Milk River.  The movement grows.

Ottawa Police Ordered to Return Fuel – Returns Fuel Contaminated – Freedom Convoy 2022

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Left in the comments to this post by a reader.

So this is good.  It’s good because it once again demonstrates that the police are on the side of the globalists and will always and forever serve their globalist masters, and it will serve to convince the people that the police are not on their side.

This is actually extremely bad for the police.  Assuming, that is, the judge doesn’t hold them in contempt, in which case it goes from bad to worse.

The Party In Ottawa

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Little boy “big hair” would have you believe this is just a few malcontents pulling this off.  But a few malcontents couldn’t pull of something like this.  It’s grass roots, required little planning, and includes virtually all walks of life (except for the police, who will do the bidding of the globalists).

This is called swarm behavior.  I hear retired generals, aspiring Lt. Colonels and pretend-scholars discuss swarm behavior all the time.  They have no idea what swarm behavior means.

It’s taken from the behavior of things like bees, where subtle signals between insects inform them of circumstances, share intelligence, and illicit innate behaviors as if a symphonic masterpiece was being performed without direction.  It could be chemical or pheromone signals to attack or move the hive, it could be a single bee performing a “waggle dance” to tell other bees where food is or where a potential new hive could be, or many other things. Swarm behavior has nothing to do with lots of people or insects crowding around. Generals and Lt. Colonels are mostly idiots, as are most “scholars” of warfare.

In this case, the swarm occurred because signals were seen and heard, people watched, and people responded the way their heart told them to. That tells you something about their heart, what they’ve endured the last couple of years, and just how much they’re willing to tolerate. There is no leader to speak of. This is the workers deciding when they’ve had enough.

Food is everywhere, horns are still honking (in spite of the court order to stop it), and the court order to return fuel to the truckers has added to their stores to extend the stay.

So far, life is good.  Big hair is scared.  He cannot turn this off. There is no spigot to close or switch to flip. The parliament is scared.  The globalists are scared.  They’ve lost control.  Control is everything to them.

Via WRSA.

Here’s How You End The Protests

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Zero Hedge.

We are on day eight of this occupation. Our city is under siege. What we’re seeing is bigger than just a City of Ottawa problem. This is a nationwide insurrection. This is madness. We need a concrete plan to put an end to this,” said the chair of the board, Ottawa City Council member Diane Deans, at the beginning of the nearly two-hour-long virtual discussion.

So the answer is given to her.

Protest organizer Benjamin Dichter says people who are unhappy about the honking should be contacting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ask him to lift COVID-19 mandates.

“To anybody who is annoyed, we apologize. Please call Justin Trudeau, his office, and get these mandates lifted, and we’re out of here,” Dichter said at a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 6.

Trudeau has refused to meet with the protesters.

Oh, you mean give up our power?  That’s what it’ll take? Um … no.  We want somebody to go in and shoot people.

Or something else, mind you, like wet operations, or agent provocateurs.  Canada has an intelligence service, doesn’t it?  At some point, Trudeau will turn his dark hats against the people with false flag events.  Watch for it.

Meanwhile, WRSA has some advice for the protesters in light of that fact.

Little Boy Big Hair, Justin Trudeau, Waxes Girly About The Protests

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Listen to the awful, meandering, girlish, effeminate, overly dramatic cry fit Justin Trudeau displays in this video, in juxtaposition with what’s really happening. My God, how did that little girl get elected?

Also watch this.

Does it seem like what Trudeau said to you?  No, not unless you’re a statist and communist and want to maintain power at all costs. But he doesn’t mind telling lies about other people.

Speaking of which, the Ottawa Police Chief wants to invoke military action to try to stop it.  He’s a totalitarian and doesn’t care if you know it.

But he has an address too.

The Horses Have Arrived!

BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago

Here is a cross stitch my wife did for me before we were married.  It embodies what I was – a horseman, trainer, and outdoorsman.  I actually looked like that at one time, and I could make horses dance a jig for me.  I could make a horse trust me enough to go anywhere.

So, if these are good Cowboys and they intend to stay, they will either need to have stalls and cover for the horses, or horse blankets, and plenty of horse “sweet-feed,” clothing, tents, food and heat.  We’ll see how long they stay, but every addition is a good thing, even if temporary.

What I would so like to happen, and in fact would pray for, oh so earnestly pray for, beg for, plead for, is a Candian cop to walk up to one of those guys and start yelling, and a horse do what horses do when they feel threatened – put a hoof in his face, while it was all captured on video.

If you’ve never had a horse hoof put into your body from one of those massive thighs, you’re missing something special.  But maybe not.  Maybe they’ll just drop a turd beside a police cruiser.

I repeat myself.  Where is the American trucker convoy, and where are the American protesters?  They’re having a party in the Toronto.  What are we doing?


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