The mainstream media referred to Mick Wallace as eccentric but listen to this video. He is confronting war profiteering. People who profit from war. RFK made a video about the same topic. There's nothing eccentric about what he is saying in that video. Everything he says in it makes sense.
He also talks about Western Liberalism and the militarization of the EU. He even claimed that some members of the Garda are involved in drug dealing. Garda is their local police.
Today I want to talk about three Irish politicians with similar views Clare Daly, Mick Wallace and Catherine Connolly. Since they are similar but unique I'll post about them individually. Let's start with Clare Daly. She became famous when her eloquent dissent of Butcher Biden went viral over the war in the Ukraine.
First of all, Clare and Mick are wearing free Julian Assange T-shirts. That's something we agree on. Tulsi Gabbard said she would pardon Julian Assange when she ran for the leadership of the Democrat party. Something that Trump discussed but failed to do. Edward Snowden's name also comes up who became a fugitive for reporting illegal activity.
Clare Daly refers to herself as "Independent. Socialist. Former Member of European Parliament." She is anti war, pro Palestine and anti American Imperialism. So let's talk about that.
Let's start with American Imperialism. The purpose of the American revolution was to break off from England and form a free Republic. The purpose of the American revolution was not to become a super power actively involved with colonialism.
Yet that is exactly what Trump 2.0 has become. The term provide for the common defense meant to support liberation not invade and conquer sovereign states. This opens the conversation about far left and far right.
Clare Daly calls herself a socialist. Yet she speaks out passionately about issues I agree with. It brings me back to James Connolly and my time with CUPW, the Canadian Postal Union. I was a letter carrier for Canada Post and became actively involved with the Union.
I ultimately lost my job at Canada Post for Union activity opposing the privatization of Canada Post. Historically Canadain Postal workers were represented by two different Unions. Internal workers were represented by CUPW while external workers or letter carriers were represented by LCUC.
There was a forced merger between the two unions and since CUPW had more members, they won the vote. Yet it wasn't a merger it was a hostile take over because the two different unions both had very different ideologies.
LCUC was a Business union like the Teamsters while CUPW was a socialist union with a whole list of political objectives. I started working for Canada Post after the forced merger and jokingly said my mother, CUPW, was a Communist while my father, LCUC, was a Capitalist.
I met many people in CUPW who called themselves Communists which completely shocked and baffled me. Their definition of Communism was very different than mine. I had one coworker say that he thought I was a Communist for the same reason I thought he wasn't - we both believed in democracy and free speech. That claim took me a long time to understand.
To make a long story short it brings us to James Connolly. When I was in West Belfast back in the /80's a friend gave me a pin. I read the name out loud - James Connolly. She smiled and with a twinkle in her eye said he was a Rebel. He was a Communist.
I cherished the gift and was determined to learn more about this Rebel. James Connolly was one of the signers of the Irish Proclamation and was executed for signing it after the Easter uprising. That landmark document was the Irish version of the Declaration of Independence declaring it's separation from British occupation and defined their ideal of a free Republic.
James Connolly signed that document which protected civil liberty by law. Yet he was a Communist which historically crushed civil liberty at every opportunity.
I'm going to stop there and state Clare Daly is that kind of Communist. Although I don't agree with all of her positions I do agree with many of them and since the mainstream media has become so tainted, I think it's important to hear other voices.
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— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) March 21, 2026
The Historical Arms Collectors Society is hosting a gun show in Chilliwack this weekend. I have to work but it looks interesting. A lot of antiques and military history on display.
When voters see Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump completely flip on their most important election promises many are left heartbroken and disillusioned. They all lie, cheat and steal. It's hopeless. It's not hopeless. That's why they lie, cheat and steal.
They have to con you to get away with it. That's why Americans pledge allegiance to the flag and swear an oath to defend the Constitution. Ideals can't be bought. People can. Yet a rich man's vote is worth the same as a poor man's vote. That's why they spend so much time and energy lying to you.
Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't betray MAGA. Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard did. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene still believe in the same principles Trump said he would endorse but didn't in his second term.
This life lesson has taught us that blind devotion to anything is blind. There is good and bad in every political party. That's why we have to recognize and denounce when our party says and does things that are wrong just like when the other party does. As Abraham Lincoln said, stand with any man as long as he stands right, but part with him when he goes wrong.
No two people agree on every issue. Likewise no two people disagree on every issue. We can always find common ground. Things that we can agree on. Many motivational speakers declare that it's not how many times you get knocked down in a fight but how many times you get up. If you give up, you lose.
I keep referring to politics like a pendulum that swings from left to right. Jean Chrétien was horrible with money but so was Stephen Harper. They just spent taxpayer's money on different things. Just like Trump. Trump was supposed to reduce the debt. He did not. He spent more than any leftist Liberal.
Yet Jean Chrétien was right for not participating in the unlawful invasion of Iraq based on a lie. Just like Mark Carney is right for not assisting in the provoked oil war with Iran. Pierre Poilievre would. That concerns me. He sells the liberation lie. MEK are a terrorist cult that helped Saddam Hussein gas Iranians with chemical weapons. Saving Iranians is a lie.
That makes Pierre Poilievre a Neo Con like Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper didn't do everything wrong. Getting rid of the long gun registry was a good thing. But he did do a lot of bad things. He raised taxes (GST) and wasted tax dollars on corrupt things (Insider trading Jets). He raised the age of retirement then spent that money in other areas. I rather spend money on seniors and health care than SNC Lavalin.
Rand Paul would balance the budget and stop the oil wars. That would save North America. If we don't stop this out of control reckless spending we will all become slaves. That's why we can't give up. We need to keep trying and keep speaking out.
Religious Balance
Finding balance in religion seems even more difficult but it's really common sense. The Freedom of religion means exactly that. Adapting a state religion is a violation of the US Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights.
Religious persecution is always tied to lies and defamation. People scour social media for examples of extremism to justify their extreme response to that extremism.
Christ confronted hypocrisy. He said the religious leaders at the time were liars, hypocrites and extortionists. He even went so far as to call them children of the Devil because their actions or their fruits were evil. Christ's chastizement could apply to any religion or person that says one thing and does another.
When I see the far right religious extremism in Israel or anywhere else for that matter, I see delusional animals twisting religion into something evil. That's what Christ confronted.
Videos of young Jews in West bank spitting on and bullying Gentiles. They look like animals. They don't look Godly. Sexually assaulting prisoners is a defiant violation of Judaism. Back in the day they would be stoned for doing that. Now a corrupt court lets them off which only empowers their evil acts.
So when we see all this religious extremism we see bad people taking good intentions and twisting them to rationalize evil. Christ said by their fruits ye shall know them. One of the duties of the Levites was to read out the cursings of disobedience to the commandments. Those cursings are frighteningly extreme.
That's why you can't take one scripture out of context like Netanyahu does. Netanyahu said God will bless those that help Israel and curse those that fight Israel. He is delusional. That's only in righteousness. If they keep the commandments which he clearly is not. The Bible says if Israel breaks it's covenant God will take the curses of their enemies and place those curses on Israel seven fold. (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24 & 28) Again that is extreme.
Muslims and Christians get along just fine in Gaza and in Bethlehem. My hijab wearing Muslim neighbours named one of their younger sons Jesus. The Neo Cons want to divide us with lies and fill us with hate. It's important to see through the lies and not cave in to the hate.
Balancing religion really isn't difficult. It's common sense. As Robert M. Pirsig said, we don't need anyone to tell us what is good and evil. We can all see it for ourselves.
RT correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman wounded in Israeli attack in southern Lebanon. This is a video of the attack during a live interview.
French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead in her home in Marseille back in 2024 while working on a documentary exposing the Israeli genocide of Gaza.
Global is reporting that "Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the war in Iran underscores the need for a new pipeline connecting her province’s oil reserves to the West Coast."
OK hold on for one second. There already is a pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver. In fact, taxpayers are already twinning that pipeline. Does she want a third pipeline?
Danielle Smith is really determined to turn Alberta into a welfare state. We want Canadian taxpayers to build pipelines for us so we can make money. Private companies used to build pipelines with their money as an investment. Kinder Morgan ran the project until they bailed when they saw political opposition so Justin Trudeau bought it with tax dollars.
Yet we still keep getting shafted at the pumps in Metro Vancouver. In fact, people are saying the Iran war could mean billions for Alberta and trillions for Saudi. Why is that?
It's because when you cut supply the price of oil spikes and Saudi makes more money. So will Alberta at the expense of tax paying consumers. Danielle Smith is seizing the opportunity to make even more money from federal tax dollars.
When you read the headline you're left thinking maybe she means a third pipeline will help reduce the cost of gas at the pump for Metro Vancouver consumers but that's not what she's talking about. She's talking about selling more oil to China.
That will have zero effect on lowering the price of gas at the pumps for Vancouver. The problem with the price of gas at the pump in Vancouver is the fact that we send the unrefined oil from Alberta to Washington State who refine it and sell it back to us at a profit. That's the problem we face.
That is why we have the highest gas prices in all of Canada. So before we build a third, fourth or fifth pipeline in BC we need to build a refinery to ease the burden for tax paying consumers who are shareholders in the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The other day I filled up in Langley at 204.9. Today it was 207.9. That is Donald Trump's manufactured emergency that not only caters to his puppet master Neo Con Netanyahu, but to his bffs in Saudi that gave him the luxury jet and convinced Trump to flip on domestic production in exchange for $2 billion in Jared Kushner's hedge fund.
Which forces us to ask why is Danielle Smith really taking trips to Saudi on a private jet? Saudi see Alberta as a competitor. In his first term Donald Trump got America off their dependence on Saudi oil and Joe Biden got them back on it. Trump was going to fix that in his second term but all the Saudi bribes prevented him from doing it. Now tax paying consumers are suffering because of it. Is Danielle Smith taking trips to Saudi to sell out Albertans like Donald Trump did?
Or is she just selling out Canadian consumers by agreeing to Saudi's terms of reducing domestic production to keep the prices high while she sells all the surplus to China since Stephen Harper sold our oil rights to China years ago.
There are a lot of dirty deals going on here and we need to shed the light on them. Before we build a third pipeline to China we need to build a refinery in BC. That is what we need to do.
If you ship refined oil to China it will require less ships and you'll make more money. You'll send more oil on fewer ships and reduce transportation costs. That means more profit.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) March 17, 2026
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this… pic.twitter.com/prtu86DpEr
The trending meme states: "We won. We're winning. Send help." Iran is a much smaller country than the US. If the US and Israel can't handle Iran without help, what on earth are they going to do when Russia or China say enough is enough and confront the bullies after all their money is spent picking on little guys? Pride cometh before the fall and great shall be the fall thereof. The pride cycle continues so it does.“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” pic.twitter.com/54oyObd0DM
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) March 18, 2026
