PowerWise's "Allard-Johnson Communications" Commenter: Holocaust a "controversial…theory", PM a "Doochebag"

Readers of my blog may have read my post, yesterday, about the PowerWise.ca website, and a “tip” which the site left up on its home pages: a tip that suggested ending all immigration to Canada, so that said would-be immigrants will not increase their carbon footprint. In response to my post, I received a couple of comments. One of which was particularly interesting.

First, some background. My blog software has a spam feature. First-time posters cannot post until I have approved them. Whenever a first-time poster submits a comment, my blog software sends me an e-mail asking whether or not I want to approve the comment. Today I got one such e-mail, from a person lacking the testicular fortitude to use his own name (he tendered the name “guy incognito”). The submitted comment read as follows: Read more

Hate Speech Complaint Time? Suzuki's Powerwise.ca Site Promotes Anti-immigration

Look now, and you’ll find yet another piece of evidence that the current green movement is still just the old, German, Völkisch movement; a movement still motivated by a fear that there aren’t enough resources for everyone; a movement that, so motivated, seeks to reduce the earth’s population. The Völkisch movement got a bit of an historical black eye when supporting Hitler’s approach of murdering millions of Jews, and seizing the land occupied by non-German Europeans and Asians so as to make lebesraum for the Aryan “race” of blue-eyed, Volkswagen-driving blond-haired ubermen. So today’s Volkisch movement has replaced the swastika with a sunflower, masked its red nature in the colour “green”, and changed its approach: instead of eliminating all but the Germans, eliminate Germans too, by making it too expensive to procreate (or to produce anything, for that matter) in an industrialized country, no matter what your genetic make-up. Read more

Trudeaupia: Free Health Care for Extraterrestrials?

On the National Post’s blog, columnist Jonathan Kay reports that Justin Trudeau – son of the now-deceased former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (a father of Canada’s Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) – shared with a questioner his opinion on whether Canada’s Charter would protect extraterrestrials, were they to (exist and) land in Canada. In a nutshell, he said that the Charter would apply if the alien first became a Canadian citizen. His response betrayed an ignorance of the Charter, given that several of its provisions apply even to those lacking Canadian citizenship. Read more

Consent, Coercion & Legal Tender: Understanding Money & Banking, Part 6

Late last night I released Part 6 of my Understanding Money & Banking video series. Titled “Consent, Coercion & Legal Tender“, it deals only with currency (as opposed to credit). In particular it focusses one of the key differences between paper bank notes and gold/silver coins: the source of the value of each. Read more

Just the Tax Ma'am

The National Post’s Colby Cosh today wrote a column in which he takes for granted the idea that wealth needs to be redistributed to save the environment from…well…something, and plunges into discussing which is better: a cap and trade system, or a carbon tax.

I replied as follows: Read more

Not Published: My Letter to the Editor of the Toronto Star

Early yesterday morning, I submitted the following letter to the Editor of the Toronto Star, in response to this editorial concerning the Ontario-Quebec proposal for an inter-provincial carbon cap-and-trade system. Although The Star has published my letters, and an op-ed, before, this letter did not get published in today’s paper. One possible reason is the length of the letter (it was a little longer than some of my others, though not long by the measure of other letters published daily in the Star). Can you think of any other reasons it was not published? Read more

Could Ontario Follow Massachussets' Bid to End Income Tax?

On May 22, 2008, the Western Standard reported that the Center for Small Government, for the second time since 2002, is trying to introduce a ballot initiative to end income taxation in the State of Massachussets. In 2002, 45 percent of the state voted to scrap the state’s income tax. With the figures for early 2008 show similar levels of support, the collectivists – this time – are spending big money to fight the elimination of taxation.

In the comments to the Western Standard story, Anonymous noted that Massachusset’s state revenue would drop only 39% were the income tax to be scrapped. He/she asked others to do the math for Canada and its provinces. I posted the following, in reply: Read more

Defending Multiculturalism for Dummies

On the popular video sharing site YouTube, a philosophical vlogger who goes by the handle qtronman (and who is a member of the YouTube Objectivists Group) has started a video debate by condemning Multiculturalism as unjust. In his video, he makes it clear that, by “Multiculturalism”, he is not referring to experiencing cultural customs, foods etc, and that he embraces the idea of learning things of value that people have contributed to human knowledge, wherever they might live etc. He says that, instead, “Multiculturalism, again, says that you cannot judge other cultures”, and he argues that Multiculturalism leads to injustice because it is an assault on values and valuation. Read more

The Paul McKeever Blog, v.2

It’s been a couple of days, but my new blog site is up, and running. Your thoughts, criticisms, and comments about it are most welcome. It will be tweaked a bit for the next couple of days or weeks but, otherwise, the final format of this design is starting to gel.

Do have a look, will you?

Cheers,

Paul

My Blog is in the Midst of a Face-lift Operation

If things are looking a bit weird on this blog, fear not. My blog is being given a major overhaul and, until that is completed, it might not be obvious that you are looking at my blog…but you are. Things should look a lot better by the end of the weekend…hopefully, better than ever.

Cheers,

Paul

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