In what I’d hoped would be the final installment of a three-part series (part I and II here) detailing the separatist speaking event held in Brooks on May 17, I feel a final analysis to help pull them all together is warranted.
I don’t understand why alberta is disregarding their momentum with green energy. They are leading the pack in lots of ways. Even saudi is preparing for peak oil demand. China’s needs are dropping - and that is a massive market.
So sad that the climate emergency sirens have stopped blaring as ice caps melt and coral reefs die and the amazon disappears. You can’t eat and breathe that goddamned crypto.
Hope with all my heart that the trump regime and its enablers get everything they deserve.
Is anyone out there talking about a future drop in demand?
I highly recommend looking at Markham Hislop's reporting, especially at his Energi Media youtube channel. He strongly challenges the view that oil demand will continue to grow until (at least) 2050, which is accepted as gospel by Saudi Arabia and the Alberta oil patch.
Good synopsis of events. As you say, a bunch of hooey! Being an ex-Albertan and with most of my family thinking they would be better off separated, I just don’t think they have thought this all through.
They seem to think that having oil is their big trump card (pun intended)! They really need to stick their collective thumbs in the air and see which way the wind is blowing!
My parents (long passed) had similar thoughts back in the 50s and 60s. They were largely influenced by all the big oil executives from the U.S. living in the oil patch.
I think that mentality has become increasingly prevalent and ingrained in those Albertans thinking with their pocket books and not their brains.
For the record, BREXIT was a neoconservative use of Facebook data, by a company called Cambridge Analytica, of which Steve Bannon was one of the higher-ups in the company. The person who figured out how to use the personality quiz data from Facebook to predict voting preferences was Christopher Wiley, a Canadian from Victoria, British Columbia. He regrets what he did.
What Cambridge Analytica did was microtarget voters. Literally personalized messages/lies that would resonate with individual voters.
Do NOT take individualized personalized messaging lightly. It is why Trump is the current president. The same kind of voter manipulation can easily
Thanks for the low down. The speakers sound like they are dead from the _as up. CPP. There will be no negotiation
of CCP. The rules are clearly laid out. Your benefits are calculated based on your salary and years of contributory service. This applies to all workers that have paid in regardless of nationality. Any suggestion to the contrary is absurd. Ask yourself, if 10,000 Italians who worked in Canada banded together and asked for “their” portion would they get it? No. They get their monthly cheque mailed to them.
They want to be the 51st state? Why would the US entertain that. Alberta has one buyer for oil. And they discount it by 10%. How does that translate into statehood? If they don’t give you statehood what will you do. You have already established how stupid you are. They know it and so does everyone else. You’re not going to move it through BC. Are you going to threaten to sell it on the home shopping channel?
If AB under conservative leadership has proven anything, it’s that they are fiscally challenged. Look at how they spend money on health care. Look how well they have managed the heritage trust fund. Farming ??? That’s rich. Your only market will be the States. And they will buy from you when their own farmers and ranchers are starving. My goodness.
Even though AB has demonstrated they can’t manage a provincial govt in a fiscally sound way, they are now going to be in charge of their own monetary policy. I doubt if the treasury branch can manage. You’ll have to use the US dollar and somehow convince the rest of the world you are sovereign.
All the separatists are doing is destabilizing investment in Canada. Investments that would help all Canadians, including AB. As a Canadian, I would kindly ask that These separatist buffoons leave Canada and move to the States. Hopefully you can find some way to identify yourselves. Rather than buying off the Indigenous your “territory” can be returned to treaty holders.
PS. Hopefully when you seek asylum in the States you won’t be taken to El Salvador. After all you won’t have a Canadian passport, just a laughable story on how oppressed you are. You and the South African white farmers that is.
Waves……of…….stupid……….drowning……..my brain turning to muuuuuuuusssssssstuuuuuuuuppppiiid.
My god Dierdre, how did you hold your lunch down with that exposure to mondo cray moonbat barmy imbecility!
What blows my mind these twerps think O&G is pulling the cart in this province. It’s not. Only 6% of Alberta workers work in O&G. O&G pays 9% of the federal income taxes paid from Alberta-based payees. This is straight from Alberta Labour and StatsCan.
Yet these Wexit dorks and the UCP would have Albertans believe O&G makes all the money, has everybody working for them and the entire Alberta Treasury belongs to them to keep ‘em fat n happy and on easy street forever.
Every time Preston Manning or one of his water boys sneer on about Laurentian elites, I hear a confession of a deluded smug political swine angling to self appoint themselves to the Bow Slope Elite intent on running Alberta for themselves. And hey, Preston comes from a political dynasty going back to 1934 - do Albertans really want that soft handed smiler and his disciples running Alberta as a separate state?
Yikes! You need to put a warning sign on that Facebook link!
How you sat through that is beyond me but thank you for doing so and summarizing for weaker souls like me.
In your defence, I listened to two speakers each day over three days, so that helped 😏
I don’t understand why alberta is disregarding their momentum with green energy. They are leading the pack in lots of ways. Even saudi is preparing for peak oil demand. China’s needs are dropping - and that is a massive market.
So sad that the climate emergency sirens have stopped blaring as ice caps melt and coral reefs die and the amazon disappears. You can’t eat and breathe that goddamned crypto.
Hope with all my heart that the trump regime and its enablers get everything they deserve.
Is anyone out there talking about a future drop in demand?
I highly recommend looking at Markham Hislop's reporting, especially at his Energi Media youtube channel. He strongly challenges the view that oil demand will continue to grow until (at least) 2050, which is accepted as gospel by Saudi Arabia and the Alberta oil patch.
Thanks dale
Will check it out
Good synopsis of events. As you say, a bunch of hooey! Being an ex-Albertan and with most of my family thinking they would be better off separated, I just don’t think they have thought this all through.
They seem to think that having oil is their big trump card (pun intended)! They really need to stick their collective thumbs in the air and see which way the wind is blowing!
My parents (long passed) had similar thoughts back in the 50s and 60s. They were largely influenced by all the big oil executives from the U.S. living in the oil patch.
I think that mentality has become increasingly prevalent and ingrained in those Albertans thinking with their pocket books and not their brains.
Do like what you say though!
Many thanks!
OMFG. Torturous to read their words!
For the record, BREXIT was a neoconservative use of Facebook data, by a company called Cambridge Analytica, of which Steve Bannon was one of the higher-ups in the company. The person who figured out how to use the personality quiz data from Facebook to predict voting preferences was Christopher Wiley, a Canadian from Victoria, British Columbia. He regrets what he did.
What Cambridge Analytica did was microtarget voters. Literally personalized messages/lies that would resonate with individual voters.
Do NOT take individualized personalized messaging lightly. It is why Trump is the current president. The same kind of voter manipulation can easily
happen in Alberta.
Thanks for the low down. The speakers sound like they are dead from the _as up. CPP. There will be no negotiation
of CCP. The rules are clearly laid out. Your benefits are calculated based on your salary and years of contributory service. This applies to all workers that have paid in regardless of nationality. Any suggestion to the contrary is absurd. Ask yourself, if 10,000 Italians who worked in Canada banded together and asked for “their” portion would they get it? No. They get their monthly cheque mailed to them.
They want to be the 51st state? Why would the US entertain that. Alberta has one buyer for oil. And they discount it by 10%. How does that translate into statehood? If they don’t give you statehood what will you do. You have already established how stupid you are. They know it and so does everyone else. You’re not going to move it through BC. Are you going to threaten to sell it on the home shopping channel?
If AB under conservative leadership has proven anything, it’s that they are fiscally challenged. Look at how they spend money on health care. Look how well they have managed the heritage trust fund. Farming ??? That’s rich. Your only market will be the States. And they will buy from you when their own farmers and ranchers are starving. My goodness.
Even though AB has demonstrated they can’t manage a provincial govt in a fiscally sound way, they are now going to be in charge of their own monetary policy. I doubt if the treasury branch can manage. You’ll have to use the US dollar and somehow convince the rest of the world you are sovereign.
All the separatists are doing is destabilizing investment in Canada. Investments that would help all Canadians, including AB. As a Canadian, I would kindly ask that These separatist buffoons leave Canada and move to the States. Hopefully you can find some way to identify yourselves. Rather than buying off the Indigenous your “territory” can be returned to treaty holders.
PS. Hopefully when you seek asylum in the States you won’t be taken to El Salvador. After all you won’t have a Canadian passport, just a laughable story on how oppressed you are. You and the South African white farmers that is.
I feel stupider for having read all this idiotic horseshit. But I appreciate you enduring it live so that I didn’t have to.
Waves……of…….stupid……….drowning……..my brain turning to muuuuuuuusssssssstuuuuuuuuppppiiid.
My god Dierdre, how did you hold your lunch down with that exposure to mondo cray moonbat barmy imbecility!
What blows my mind these twerps think O&G is pulling the cart in this province. It’s not. Only 6% of Alberta workers work in O&G. O&G pays 9% of the federal income taxes paid from Alberta-based payees. This is straight from Alberta Labour and StatsCan.
Yet these Wexit dorks and the UCP would have Albertans believe O&G makes all the money, has everybody working for them and the entire Alberta Treasury belongs to them to keep ‘em fat n happy and on easy street forever.
Every time Preston Manning or one of his water boys sneer on about Laurentian elites, I hear a confession of a deluded smug political swine angling to self appoint themselves to the Bow Slope Elite intent on running Alberta for themselves. And hey, Preston comes from a political dynasty going back to 1934 - do Albertans really want that soft handed smiler and his disciples running Alberta as a separate state?