United Nations:

Is it time to re-think the United Nations idea? It's a concept that has lasted far longer than its predecessor, The League of Nations.

It was the horrors of World War I that spawned the League. That lasted about 20 years before the island Nation of Japan gave it the middle finger, making its decisions inconsequential. 

Suddenly, the world was ready for another slugfest. Japan's Tojo, Italy's Mussolini and Germany's Hitler were poised to change the world each to their own specifications. 

The United Nations was spawned at the end of World War II when the horror of massive human exterminations was still a raw wound in people's minds. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

And it was. The time was ripe for a lasting peace. No more killings. No more scanning the daily casualty lists to see if some father, brother or neighbor fighting at the front was still alive.

That worked more or less for over 70 years, but it appears time to review what is happening once again. Is the UN still performing a useful function in a world that has changed so much since 1945?

It is uncertain if we've reached that point now, but we do have to look at the evidence. Urban crime spinning out of control, young people joining the jihadis overseas, going to fight over fuzzily-defined third-world causes. 

There is a dispersed war going on in otherwise civilized societies as people go about killing each other almost casually on a daily basis. With what's going on, it won't be long before we won't need a war to improve our perspective.

Fractured into countless gangs each promoting special causes, our (otherwise) civilized societies appear to have lost their ability to recognize what's right, what's wrong and the concept of innocence until proven guilty. That concept has been replaced by ill-conceived human rights legislation that's cleverly designed to lead straight to litigation.

Displaying very limited success in promoting international peace, the UN is now engaged in promoting causes through the media. These appear to be designed to relieve successful societies of personal wealth in support of third-world causes. Third world beneficiaries appear to have grown used to such charity and show signs of feeling entitled to it. 

The UN's recent announcement to the effect that we are the final generation before world collapse due to climate change is fear-mongering at its worst. Clearly, it is designed to stampede taxpayers in successful societies to accept limitless taxation chasing carbon dioxide, a vital component of our atmosphere. 

The UN has taken to promoting loosely-defined theoretical disasters such as global warming and climate change. Global warming was too easy to disprove, so it morphed into climate change, an on-going natural planetary function that is probably totally unresponsive to human activity.

US President Trump appears to be aware of the intent of this kind of propaganda. Ditto the Chinese. Nor does India seem to be a terribly enthusiastic participant.

Among the developed nations, the most compliant with the UN's propaganda machine appears to be Justin Trudeau's Canada. Our leader does not hesitate to commit us to contribute, albeit unwillingly, increasing slices of our personal revenue. 

That's not charity. That's extortion.

So, does the UN still serve the purpose it was intended for away back when the idea that war was hell was still fresh in our minds? 

Maybe not, but who is going to tell them? Who has the guts and the political clout to do it? Is it going to be Donald Trump? Xi Jinping? Vladimir Putin? Angela Merkel? Or some other leader from the developed nations who's grown tired of playing Santa Claus with the money of all those who get up and go to work in the morning?

Maybe our own great leader??  

Naah. To him, the UN is hallowed ground.

Year of the Witch:

Throughout our mostly rural history, witches have been credited with such foul deeds as causing cows to stop lactating, hens to stop laying, vegetable gardens to wilt and crops to fail. 

And, most important of all, they were credited with undoing other people's mistakes, such as extramarital pregnancies. 

Our modern witches have added time travel. These are attempts to go back in time to re-do some of their personal childhood blunders at the expense of their male playmates. The destruction of grown men's reputations seems not to bother them at all. 

Not just any men's reputations. So far, it's been men of wealth and/or prominence. They now have the skills and the means to employ our media, both news and social, to destroy their victims without the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

And all this without wands, broomsticks and cast iron cauldrons. It's the new magic made easy with the help of media hype and liberal social attitudes.

The year 2018 has a good chance to go down in history as The Year of the Witch.

Carbon Ripoffs:

Financial whiz-kids in the liberal media are now warning Ontarians how much money the Ford administration is going to lose in not going along with the carbon tax.

They compare Kathleen Wynne's projected carbon tax to what Justin Trudeau decreed and warn Ontarians how much they are going to lose because of Doug Ford's stubborn refusal to go along with it.

Since neither Liberal assault plan on carbon dioxide has a chance to have any effect on the environment in any significant way, let's just forget about carbon taxes and leave the money in the taxpayers' pockets.

Less money for Ontario's politicians to spend, more money in the pockets of Ontarians. Only the Liberal media can put a negative spin on that.

Ford is for reducing the size of governments, not increasing them while picking the pockets of working people to pay for it. 

Let's not try to make it look as though he's the idiot.

Avoiding Reality:

Come October 17, Canadians bent on avoiding reality will be able to add still another tool to their equipment, courtesy of Justin Trudeau. 

Smoking weed and munching on hash brownies will no longer be viewed as substance abuse. Stoners will be able to join young Trudeau in viewing the world through a reality-altering smokescreen.

Climate Question:

That Paris Accord thing appears to be a political construct based on media hype and alarmist theory. Canadian politicians ought to view it with great suspicion, especially since our good trading neighbors to the south remain unconvinced.

Sticking to our half-hearted political commitments on the accord just to earn brownie points with all those drones at the UN would seem less than brilliant if Canadian industry is to remain compatible with US industry. 

There is strong evidence that Donald Trump is unimpressed with that accord. He appears not about ready to hamstring the US market with its implementation. Going along with those commitments in Canada would handicap us with a load of ridiculous emissions taxes based on climate change propaganda.

And it's not just big industry that will be made to pay up. It will hit every living Canadian right in the wallet as the supply sector is forced to adjust prices to cover costs of absolutely everything we need to buy.

The Americans are lucky they have Donald Trump to speak for them. Who, other than Doug Ford, is going to speak for Canadians?