West Kelowna Forest Fire: In and Out of Control

Update: WTF - The fire jumped the lake. That's the city centre. There is no way the government should have let the fire get that close to town. Kelowna is on a lake. The water bombers can fill up right there. The fact that they let this happen goes way beyond criminal culpability. A deranged agenda is revealed. This is something we're going to have to talk about. Kelowna isn't a NDP riding. Neither was Lytton. That's no reason to let it burn.

2nd Update: I'm told the fire did not jump the lake and that the threat has subsided. Good news. The NDP government seems more concerned about people obeying evacuation orders after the threat has subsided when they were the ones that created to problem by letting the fire get out of hand without having water bombers fill up on the lake. Another manufactured emergency.

I did a video/podcast about the Kelowna and Hawaii fires because something needs to be said.

Castanet is reporting that "The McDougall Creek wildfire has knocked out power for close to 4,000 West Kelowna homes Thursday night. According to BC Hydro, power has been knocked out for homes along Westside Road, north of Highway 97, and down through the Lakeview Heights area. The rapidly growing wildfire has forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 properties Thursday, as it grows northeast along Okanagan Lake. Westside Road was closed to traffic earlier Thursday evening."

"Central Okanagan Emergency Operations has issued new evacuation orders for all properties on Westside Road from Traders Cover to Nahun. The evacuation alert zone has also expanded north to Killiney Beach. Westside Road evacuees are being asked to evacuate northward on Westside Road towards Vernon where the city has opened an Emergency Support Services (ESS) reception centre at Kal Tire Place (3445 43rd Avenue, Vernon, BC). An interactive map of evacuation zones is here." That includes Bear Creek Campgrounds which is right on the lake.

Walking on the Sun

The Three Stooges Silly Saga Continues

Larry Amero's sentencing trial continued in Vancouver Supreme court today. Not that anyone cares. His co accused Dean the hit man Wiwchar was also on the list for a Case Management Conference. That's not a sentencing, that would imply new charges. I remember his trial was split off from Larry and Robby's trial. He and Robby were already convicted of murdering Johnny Raposo in Toronto. Robby referred to Dean as his best hitter and Robby worked for Larry Amero. They shared a penthouse suite together right before they were arrested. Larry was the patch holder not Robby. The Three Stooges immortalized as such throughout eternity. What a shameful disgrace. They all could have should have would have done something a lot better. Anything.

Cody Rae Haevischer was on the court list today. His trial still has Jamie Bacon, Mathew Johnston and Michael Le on the list. Despite the fact that that trial was separated, Mathew Johnson is supposedly dead, not, and Jamie Bacon is in Witness Protection. Michael Le testifed against Mathew Johnston in an earlier trial. If everyone flips, there's no one left to convict.

Jamie Bacon was also scheduled in court for "something" else. What do you think the odds are that everything in that one is covered under a publication ban. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.

Even the guy Jamie Bacon hired to kill DK flipped and testified against Porky.

Supervised drug consumption site worker charged with obstructing justice in fatal shooting of Toronto mother

CBC is reporting that "Two more people have been charged in connection with their alleged role in an east-end shooting that killed a mother of two back in July. In a news release issued Tuesday, Toronto police said 20-year-old Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim has been charged with manslaughter, robbery and failing to comply with the terms of his probation in the death of Karolina Huebner-Makurat. He was scheduled to appear in court today."

"Ibrahim is the second person charged who police allege was directly involved with the killing, following Damian Hudson, who was charged with second-degree murder last month. Pickering woman Khalila Zara Mohammed, 23, was also arrested and charged with accessory after the fact to an indictable offence and obstructing justice in connection with the case, police said Tuesday. She was also scheduled to appear in court Tuesday."

"In a statement sent to CBC News, South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) CEO Jason Altenberg and interim Board Chair Emily Hill said they were distressed to learn that a person charged with accessory after the fact and obstruction of justice in connection with the shooting had been working at the site's consumption and treatment centre since 2021. The centre later confirmed Mohammed worked there."

The Toronto mother was killed by a stray bullet while walking past a safe injection site. Now we hear an employee at the safe injection site has been charged with obstruction of justice. Harm promotion increases crime and addiction. The Portugal model made drug treatment mandatory. That's why it was successful. We don't even make that an option. In BC drug dealers sell drugs at treatment centres. If you want drug treatment you have to leave BC.

Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along

Zero Hedge is reporting that "In April of last year, the ruling Taliban government announced the prohibition of poppy farming, citing both their strong religious beliefs and the extremely harmful social costs that heroin and other opioids – derived from the sap of the poppy plant – have wrought across Afghanistan. It has not been all bluster."

"New research from geospatial data company Alcis suggests that poppy production has already plummeted by around 80% since last year. Indeed, satellite imagery shows that in Helmand Province, the area that produces more than half of the crop, poppy production has dropped by a staggering 99%. Just 12 months ago, poppy fields were dominant. But Alcis estimates that there are now less than 1,000 hectares of poppy growing in Helmand. Instead, farmers are planting wheat, helping stave off the worst of a famine that U.S. sanctions helped create."

The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA

Tucker Carlson interviews RFK

Ep. 16 RFK Jr. explains Ukraine, bio-labs, and who killed his uncle pic.twitter.com/RMr5VZVqSM

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 14, 2023

Extremism: The Two Faces of Crazy

Let's pause and reiterate the obvious. There are a lot of crazy things happening in the world that the fake news is actively promoting and misrepresenting. However, extremists exist of both sides of every issue. I always strive to shun extremism and balance the extremes.

Today a co worker showed me a headline on his phone claiming that Irish farmers were protesting the unnecessary slaughter of 200,000 cows to meet climate emission quotas. That is bat sh*t crazy and it has absolutely nothing to do with climate change. Fake Environmentalism has an ulterior motive that is indeed mental. Plants and trees need CO2 to survive. Net Zero means all the plants and tress die then in turn all human and animal life along with it. So there is a real modern threat to our freedom like never before.

Having said that I would also like to point out that I am not an anti Vaxxer. I am anti RNA genetic vaccines and anything the World Economic Forum promotes. Their agenda is malicious and is criminally insane. True North is reporting that the Mainstream Media is smearing Pierre Poilievre and are mocking his opposition to the WEF calling it a conspiracy theory. That bogus claim is crazy. Nothing the WEF promotes is good. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

Likewise the Fake News were mocking people for having any concerns whatsoever about the adverse reactions to the Covid RNA vaccines. Now we know, their mocking those people is crazy. The concerns with genetic RNA vaccines are indeed very real as is their censorship and misrepresentation of the data and the real science.

Nevertheless, extremists exist on both side of any issue. Recently I mentioned that I decided to get the shingles vaccine and a commenter started to mock me and take that position completely out of context and started making ridiculous and offensive assumptions. Some people just like to ague because they have no life. That's not me. There are a whole lot of other things I rather be doing than argue with an idiot. Anything.

I said you sound like a flat earther and they said that claim was spin when in reality it was not. They were indeed a flat earther and started spamming me with crazy arguments supporting the flat earth theory. Then they started mocking me for believe that NASA is real. OK hold the door.

Some people believe the moon landing was faked. I do not but how far do you really want to go with that? You're now claiming that NASA is fake. What do you mean by that? Every space probe and satellite they have ever launched is fake? That is completely crazy. We've seen space shuttles launch and return to earth. Are you saying Elon Musk's communication satellites that orbit the earth are also fake? That isn't just insane, it's a mental disorder that denies evidence based research to rationalize their false premise: that the earth is flat when it is obviously not.

I've talked about this before and that's all I'm going to say on the matter. My point is that mocking me for choosing to take the shingles vaccine is complete hypocrisy. The whole point of the freedom movement is the freedom to choose. Tamara Lich is not vaccinated but Chris Barber is. The freedom to choose is something we all should be able to agree on and I don't want help from a spook on the issue because the flat earther is not malicious but the spook is.

Wind Therapy on a Motorcycle

In the Florian Knights documentary they mentioned the term wind therapy. Evidently they didn't coin the phrase. When you Google the term a few memes and articles come up. Nevertheless, they mentione dit and they did an interesting study on it. The whole point of the documentary was to discuss the use of motorcycle riding to help firefighters del with PTSD from on the job trauma.

When I first heard them say that I laughed and thought if you want to benefit from wind therapy then you can't have a huge fairing in front of you blocking all the wind. Everyone has their own style and i'm not going to diss someone for their style. When I was young I knew a chef that rode a shovel head. I had a virago which was a cruiser built by Yamaha.

He used to quietly say to me go park that around back will ya so no one sees it. He was a really good guy and somewhat of a mentor for me growing up. I ran into him years later after the rode down to Sturgis. He said Sturgis was a real Sodom and Gomorrah but everyone there was very friendly and polite. I thought to myself, you rode all the way to Sturgis on an old shovel head. Of course they were polite to you. They respected what you did.

I commented on how all the new Harleys have big huge fairings and saddlebags now they look like Goldwings. Then he said Oh but they're very comfortable. I get it, they are especially in the rain but so is a car. Yet riding in car defeats the purpose of wind therapy.

I'm not saying riding in the rain on the freeway without a face shield is pleasant because it's not/. As soon as you get over 80 KM on a bike the rain on your face feels like needles. Some guys like full face helmets, I don't but in the rain I wear a face shield. That's way more comfortable.

I also recognize the touring Harleys are much more comfortable a high speeds on the freeway. Without a fairing at high speeds the wind bounces you all over the road. The big fairings are much more aerodynamic and the heavy Harleys are very stable but that's not my thing. Just like loud pipes aren't my thing. Everybody has their own style.

Some guys like sports bikes. I don't. I like cruisers. Yet I admit the sports bikes blow past me at high speeds on the sea to sky highway. Leaning over the bike with you knee out if a completely different feel. On a cruiser you steer with your hips. Some guys like two strokes. I don't. I like V twins. Two stokes are ind an irritating. They sound like lawn mowers. They are fat but they aren't soothing. Their power base is are high rpm. The top end is where their speed kicks in. V twins have torque. They're power is at lower rpm. It's a different sound and a different feel.

Robert Pirsig, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, rode a 1966 Honda super Hawk. It didn't have a fairing. Ted Simon, the author of Jupiter's Travels rode a 500 cc Triumph Tiger on his first trip around the world. That didn't have a fairing either. His BMW R80 GS which he rode on his second trip around the world at age 69 had a very small fairing. A lot of guys ride BMWs. They're much more vertical and have very square steel saddlebags.

I met a guy from Bellingham in the campsite at Lac La Hache on a BMW who just came back from a road trip to Alaska and was on his way home. BMWs are great motorcycles. Everyone has their own style. The hard saddlebags are much more durable than the leather ones.

The thing I noticed about the wind therapy on my test run is that it's real. It has a physical effect on your body. In the Florian Knights documentary they hooked the guys up to ECGs and monitored their brain response as they rode their motorcycles. Not surprisingly, they discovered that as the rode outside distractions began to disappear as they started to focus on the road ahead. I see a lot of guys on the big Harleys that look like Gold wings have a radio bult into their dash inside their cave fairing and have the music cranked. That's their thing. That's not my thing. For me, music when you've riding is a distraction. When I ride I like to focus.

Riding motorcycles helps process trauma because the past is in the past. You leave it behind you in the dust and you focus on the road ahead. On my trip I really got used to the riding camping, riding camping cycle. I didn't want to come home yet. The long weekend kind of changed that but it totally worked out. I had two weeks off. I wanted to go when the weather was nice. Taking a short break in the middle allowed me to repair my motorcycle and resume after the crowds died down. It also resulted in better weather. I just wanted to relax and enjoy the sights. .

Highly Suspicious Fire in Hawaii

Update: Rebel News is sending a team in to investigate the matter

Strange statements made about the Hawaii fire

OK let's back this up a bit. I just got back from a road trip yesterday and people were sending me all kinds of links to the fire in Hawaii. So let's calmly and rationally have a look. Obviously the fire was real. High winds during a fire is very dangerous. Reuters is reporting that "Nearly 85% of U.S. wildfires are caused by humans, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Natural causes include lightning and volcanic activity. In Hawaii, less than 1% of fires are due to natural causes, according to Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization. The Hawaiian Islands have six active volcanoes, including one on Maui."

Obviously the fire was real as were the high winds that fanned the flames so to speak. In BC we are very familiar with the annual risk of forest fires. We have a lot of forests here filled with evergreen trees like cedar, fir, pine and hemlock. Anyone who has been camping knows. if you put once of those green branches on a campfire, it will instantly ignite and burst into flames.

That's why every summer we are under high risk for forest fires. This year hasn't been abnormally bad for us. We've had much worse yet this year Alberta and Nova Scotia have had some large forest fires. Whether it's arson or human negligence it's hard to tell. During the ANTIFA riots in the US we all saw video footage of arsonists in California.

Deliberately starting a forest fire is criminally insane. Pretty much every summer now we have campfire bans yet we still manage to have forest fires. Most campfire are pretty contained. Sadly, throwing a cigarette buy out of the window of a moving car can easily ignite dry grass and start a fire. Something so simple and so easily avoidable.

In Hawaii they have palm trees which are awesome. However, they're not all bunched in together don't have highly flammable branches reaching out next to each other. We don't know the cause of the fire in Hawaii yet but from the pictures we see a whole neighborhood burned to the ground.

It kind of looks similar to the Lytton fire. To my understanding that was caused by brakes on a train that ran right through the town. I filmed Lytton on my road trip to the Bowron Lakes.

In BC we have a lot of wood framed houses close together. If a fire breaks out and is not quickly contained it can easily spread to other houses. That's kind of what it looks like happened in Hawaii. It's going to take some time to sift through the data and process it. I'm still basking in the splendor of my road trip and will make two new posts. One discussing wind therapy, the about balancing the extremes as my mandate evolves.

Sky News posted some pictures of the fire. When you take a look at the leaves on the palm trees in this picture, that would imply the gale winds were blowing towards the ocean now inland. That would explain why the whole island didn't burn to the ground. It would also help us pinpoint the start of the fire. This video on Newsweek shows the geographical location of the area that burned. The shape of the mountains around it matches the shape of the image of the fire burning.

This picture from Metro UK is suspicious. I'm not doubting the validity of the picture. I'm questioning why the fire had sporadic hot spots separated from each other. Forest fires can jump a river if the winds are strong enough but this fire jumped complete neighborhoods. That might imply more than one starting point which would also imply arson.

Bowron Lakes to Desolation Sound Road Trip

I just got back from the second part of my road trip. I went up the Fraser Canyon through Hells Gate to Lake la Hache then on the the Bowron Lakes between Wells and Barkerville. It was awesome. Then I came back down through Pemberton and Brandywine Falls along the Sea to Sky Highway to Horseshoe Bay. All the campsites were full for the long weekend and my luggage rack broke so i came home for a pit stop to do some repairs then resumed my journey up the Sunshine coast to Powel river, Lund and Desolation Sound. It was very inspiring.

It's going to take me a while to put all the video clips together but I've already started on a new channel in preparation for my road trip to Alaska. The new channel is called Zen and the Art of Civil Liberty. I'll add more to that channel as I start putting some of the video clips together. I got called in to work a day early so it will take me a while them there's a good started already posted.

I really liked Wells, Barkerville and the Bowron Lakes. I had never been. I didn't canoe the whole circuit but I hiked the first portage and rented a canoe for a day trip on Bowron Lake which is the last lake in the circuit. So I documented the beginning and the end of the canoe circuit. Now that's on my bucket list too. I wanted to compare it to the Powel Lake canoe trip circuit. The Powel lake one is also awesome but it's a lot more rugged. You can't wheel the portages on a dolly you have to carry the canoe old school. On the Bowron lakes circuit you just wheel them on a dolly.

I got a chance to visit Savory Island and rented a scooter believe it or not. I had a blast.

The next day I went on a zodiac tour of Desolation sound and saw all the secret camping spots there for kayakers. That is definitely something I'm going to do.

Tomorrow Larry Amero's sentencing resumes and I just don't care. He's nobody to me. I'll just wait until the post the judgement on the court's website. Larry Amero is just a rich kid who consistently made bad choices based on selfishness and greed. Now he's finally going to have to start facing the consequences of his choices like the rest of us.

My road trip was about turning the page and moving forward. I went through Hells Gate leaving Finian's Inferno behind me only to discover new sights in Finian's Paradise. When I got back from the first part I wrote a post about Wind Therapy which they mentioned in that Florian Knights documentary. I found it highly relevant. I'm all Zenned out and am at complete peace.