In the Globalist, Uwe Bott writes (October 14):
Last night, I woke up bathed in sweat. Suddenly, it had dawned on me who really is behind this mess in Washington. Canada! As I lay awake, all pieces of the giant puzzle quickly fell into place.
Not only has our neighbor to the North long been jealous of us: we’re bigger, larger, stronger, richer. Canadians are also fundamentally annoyed by the swagger of America. It runs counter to all that Canadians stand for: modesty and tolerance.
Long-range thinkers, the Canadians came up with a plan during the days of the Nixon administration, the period when the United States had reached its previous height of unpopularity.
The Canadian plan was evil and ingenious at the same time. Incapable of outperforming our military or economy, they resolved that they would destroy the United States from within.
At the time, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) believed that the planting of a highly skilled, left-wing operator in the U.S. political system would do the trick.
Naturally, Canada’s then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, hailing from the French-speaking(!) province of Quebec, had a more devious plan. How about growing a Canadian infiltrator with some U.S. roots from the ground up?
That person would be trained to create a right-wing movement in the U.S. so radical and monomaniacal that it would put the entire United States in jeopardy. Completely enfeebled, the American Republic would then be ripe for a Canadian coup d’état.
And so it was that, on a cold December night in 1970, just two days before Christmas Eve, agents of the CSIS, duly instructed by their prime minister, shuffled into a hospital in Calgary.
There, an American woman and her Cuban husband were expecting their son, Ted Cruz. In borrowing the little baby’s last name the Canadians called it “Operation Cruz Missile”.
This is child’s play when we consider other Canadian subtle forms of universal domination. After our very own William Schatner owns the skies for Canada from the deck of the Enterprise.
This is really wonderful. But alas, there’s more truth to this than you may know: part of the intransigence of our loony right is the desire to ship Canadian shale-derived oil down the entire length of the US, for trans shipment by sea (from a Gulf of Mexico port) probably to China. The much feared Keystone XL Gas pipe line, heavily pushed, as you will probably know, by the Canadian government, and fiendishly and energetically pushed by Koch Brothers Industries [no relation to our Eric !!!!!], which stands to make billions of dollars if the pipeline goes through. How many readers of this blog have followed this? A slew of distinguished scientists say that allowing the pipe line and its massive amount of shale oil to be dug will be the tipping point for climate change.
Now here’s the point: one of the things this Washington shut-down was meant to do was to force Obama to agree to allow the pipeline. It was one of the “conditions” for re-opening the government, and it is sure to come up again at the next debt ceiling talks.
So in fact, Canadians can find some genuine culpability when they look in the mirror, if they so desire.
Perhaps someone can let me know if there is any Canadian opposition to the XL Pipeline, as it is known? We really could use your help!
Eric, I may have been hanging around too many photography forums, but I think you need to add a “like” button we can click below posts. I would like to “like” the above post.
Styra,
Well I too enjoy a good detective yarn, I prefer those that have a thread of credibility. There is no credible link between Keystone and a “tipping point” in climate change, nor between the government shutdown and approving the Keystone Pipeline. (Adding it to laundry list of conditions does not count.) Keystone has bilateral support and bilateral opposition. Alberta needs it to get new supplies to market at full price. Shipping by rail far too environmentally sensitive, especially since accident in Quebec. Keystone transported oil from Alberta is exponentially cleaner than the coal that generates the largest share of US fossil generated electricity. Big question is economic viability of pipeline if (and this is still big if) shale gas drives the price of oil and gas down radically.
From aboard the Norwegian Epic, 480 Miles due south west of Azores in the mid-Atlantic.
Henry
The biggest question is how oil companies propose to clean up the bitumen or chemical diluents carried in the pipelines if they are spilled on land, into rivers, or the ocean. So far oil companies have not answered this question because they have no answer. This is why there is such fierce opposition to the pipelines in British Columbia, even if it turns out the opposition is a strong minority, with a majority of working British Columbians voting for the jobs the pipelines bring. As a reminder, one result of the explosion in Quebec was increasing focus on what chemicals exactly are being mixed with the bitumen in the rail cars. It also has forced people to consider how many more dangerous chemicals are carried on the routinely double-stacked long chains of rail cars moving through narrow British Columbia passes and mountains, or through towns and cities across Canada. .Alberta may “need” passage for its oil; that doesn’t mean it has an automatic right to it.
I will add a small postscript - we have not even addressed the issue of the billions of litres of water contaminated and unreclaimed as part of the fracking process to retrieve shale oil. (And I nominate ‘fracking’ as the ugliest new noun/verb in the English language.)
I apologise for not knowing who Henry Lotin is, but I must take issue with his statement that “There is no credible link between Keystone and a “tipping point” in climate change,” A long list of environmental scientists make that claim, not I. I assume they know the meaning of what they are saying. As for whether Keystone was in back of the minds of the Shutter-downers, I can’t say, but Keystone certainly showed up immediately as one of the conditions for re-opening the US government. Why it “doesn’t count” when added to the laundry list of conditions escapes me.