Atheist standing up for individual rights, small government, low taxes and Pragmatic Nationalism. I'm proud to be a human, socialists all seem to be ashamed.
St. Catharines Ontario, Canada
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Butch Atkinson retweeted
There exists a better way to govern, but your local despot isn't willing to give up his turn at the trough to make it happen.
Decentralization is an institutional technology for producing better governance, and history proves it.
Switzerland offers the clearest running experiment. The Swiss canton system, which predates the 1848 federal constitution by centuries, gave each canton genuine fiscal and legal autonomy. Cantons compete. Appenzell Innerrhoden ran its affairs differently from Zurich, and both had to live with the consequences of their own choices. Tax policy, spending, local regulation: all accountable to populations small enough to hold officials personally responsible. When a canton governor failed, residents noticed immediately. Exit was real and cheap. Cross the border, pay lower taxes, keep your capital. That threat disciplines governments in a way that no constitutional clause ever manages.
Pre-unification Germany made the same point, often uncomfortably for German nationalists. The patchwork of hundreds of principalities, free cities, and minor kingdoms that made up the Holy Roman Empire and later the German Confederation produced fierce jurisdictional competition. Hamburg grew wealthy as a free city because it kept commercial law light and bureaucratic interference minimal. Frankfurt became the financial center of continental Europe for the same reason. Bismarck's 1871 unification consolidated power upward and, within a generation, Berlin was micromanaging what Hamburg had run perfectly well on its own.
Smaller jurisdictions cannot hide fiscal failure behind monetary expansion or transfers from distant taxpayers. A canton that overspends runs visibly short. A German principality that harassed merchants watched them relocate. The feedback loop is tight and fast. Large centralized states break that loop. Washington, Brussels, and Berlin all collect taxes from populations too dispersed and too diverse to coordinate effective pushback. The spending continues, and the bureaucracy expands, insulated from consequence.
You end up paying the price of centralization every time a uniform federal regulation destroys a local arrangement that worked. The canton system worked because Appenzell could not impose its preferences on Zurich.
Brussels hasn't learned that lesson yet, and Europeans are paying the tuition.
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Today Turks celebrate the "founder" of their pseudo-nation, Mustafa Kemal. Let's remember that Muslim Turks, under the command of Mustafa Kemal, sold the bones of the murdered Christians to bleach sugar and tobacco.
After the genocide and expulsion of the Greeks from Asia Minor (1923), ships loaded with the remains of Greeks and Armenians sailed on their way to Western Europe.
Turkey sold the bones of the dead. Industries used them to bleach sugar and tobacco. They ground them into fertilizer.
At least 400 tons. More than 50,000 dead.
Thousands of men, women, and children fell into the hands of the Kemalist army and the irregulars. Women were raped in groups. Men were tortured without limit.
Entire villages that stayed behind, hoping their Turkish neighbors would show mercy, were executed.
The hostages were driven on death marches across thousands of kilometers. Barefoot. Nearly naked. Beaten by villagers along the way. Many died of thirst in the ravines of Magnesia. Those ravines supplied the bones Kemal later sold.
The survivors were sent to labor battalions. They rebuilt the infrastructure of the new Turkish state under conditions designed to finish them.
We do not forget. We never forget the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus & Asia Minor by the Muslim Turks. The genocide was orchestrated by Mustafa Kemal & the Young Turks, & it was racially and religiously motivated in order to create their pseudo-nation 100 years ago. They butchered, tortured, raped, burnt and starved to death through the death marches millions of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians.
The true barbarian is the one who turns the dead into raw material and then lectures the living about civilization.
- Homer Pavlos
Pictures:
1. Cargo of Human Bones. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18902, 27 December 1924
2. Yarn of a Cargo of Human Bones: The New York Times (Dec 23, 1924.
3. Midi Newspaper,Cargaison funebre (A Mournful Load). Dec 24, [1924].
4. Brandon Daily Sun, 28 April 1924.
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Education should give a child the tools to judge a claim by evidence, whoever makes it.
Butch Atkinson retweeted
I've been reading the Epstein files.
What’s inside them is horror and evil beyond language.
Pedophilia.
Rape.
Cannibalism.
CSA.
Kidnapping.
Trafficking.
Children spoken about as food.
Code words like pizza.
Photographs of molds taken from real children’s body parts used as decorations.
The elite.
The parties.
The auctions.
Major corporations involved.
Businesses woven into everyday American life, including the company nearly every school uses for student photos.
This was protected.
Investigations obstructed.
Evidence buried or destroyed.
Sweetheart deals granted.
Victims silenced with threats, NDAs, settlements, and intimidation.
This was financed and laundered through shell companies and complex money trails.
It was international.
Multiple countries.
Multiple jurisdictions.
Not one island. Not one network.
Recruitment pipelines where children were groomed, coerced, and forced to recruit other children.
Abuse discussed casually.
Suffering treated like logistics.
Blackmail.
Documentation used as leverage.
Powerful people insulated by proximity to politics, royalty, and intelligence-adjacent circles.
Out of thousands of children referenced, named, or implied, only around thirty are accounted for.
The rest are missing.
Erased.
Unanswered.
People joking about what they’ve done.
Joking about what they plan to do next.
This is not conspiracy.
This is documentation.
I do not know how one could witness what happened on Epstein Island and not turn away. This is the kind of evil that makes hell seem embarrassed. No deity, no devil, no myth feels sufficient to hold it.
What is in these files is so grotesque, so deliberate, so organized, that every single party involved must be held accountable. Not some. Not a few. All of them.
Your politics do not matter here. Democrats and Republicans are named. Celebrities and CEOs are named. Corporations are named. Defending any of them over the safety of children is complicity. We must stand together, united beyond party, fame, or wealth, to end this evil and protect every child.
WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH!!!!
This is also your reminder, if you read them, to take breaks. Step away when your body tells you to. Drink water. Ground yourself. You are allowed to protect your nervous system while demanding justice. Reset is not complacency. It is survival.
WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH!!!
Butch Atkinson retweeted
So far this week in GTA
There has been stabbings ,shootings, house burned from Diwali
An infant killed in collision with a semi
Arrests for human trafficking
Wanted bulletins for rape
And a sting operation for child luring
Do not become immune to these atrocities
This is not how Canada should be !
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Bullshit.
About 6 peoplekind will qualify for it.
…unless the Carney post national state overrides its own rules & turn it into another CERB fiasco where they write-off tens or hundreds of thousands fraudulent claims a few years from now.
More Liberal money laundering.
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Maxime Bernier was intentionally kicked out of the debates in 21' and 25' specifically because he was going to draw attention to mass immigration.
Don't let Pierre of the hook with his call for a "real debate" on the issue.
Maxime Bernier has accepted Pierres debate offer for an "Actual debate" on mass immigration. @MaximeBernier vs @PierrePoilievre
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Told my boys the story of Jeremy Mackenzie today for rememberence day.
Im grateful to all who serve(d) but Jeremy especially for being the target of state frame job relating to truckers/coutts and never coming close to flinching/quitting..
If we got out of NATO, allotted that money to Jeremy as Minister of Defense Canada would be a respectable military(for our size) in a few years.
This requires a number of assumptions but if I dont dream I cant be proud to be Canadian atm.
#RemembranceDay2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgcCm…
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Denmark actually did the math on mass migration, and the results are brutal
Their Ministry of Finance counted every tax paid and every public expense for every resident, broken down by where they came from and how old they are
Immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey cost the state about $11,000 PER PERSON every single year. Western immigrants pay in about $7,800 more than they take
The first group is a net cost at EVERY age of their life
"The economy needs migration" is one of the biggest lies ever sold to the West
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Peace River dams were fine for decades until some Chug realized hydro profits exist. Now the delta is “sacred,” the fish are traumatized, and the Chief Lysol drinker needs a new truck.
Alberta First Nation claims B.C. hydroelectric projects violate treaty rights ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
Butch Atkinson retweeted
People fail to understand that the interest we pay on our federal public debt ( $60 Billion) is a direct transfer of wealth or theft from Canadian workers to the wealthy owners of our Banks.
A similar amount is also transferred/stolen via the provincial public debts.
Carney was put in place to ensure this system remains in place for Canadian Banks.
$60.2 BILLION. That’s how much the federal government will spend on debt interest this year. More than the entire $57.4-billion Canada Health Transfer to the provinces. And it’s growing fast.
Apparently, Canadians are supposed to believe the latest federal budget is a model of fiscal discipline and economic growth.
That’s the subject of my weekly @financialpost column, published today, examining what was promised versus what Canadians are actually getting.
The inspiration came from a friend who bid on a 2-week getaway at a charity auction. Spectacular pictures. The reality? A run-down property & no hot water.
What he bought wasn’t as advertised. Neither is this budget.
Let’s start with taxation.
The government announced “the most ambitious tax simplification effort in decades.” A bit of an oversell, with more measures apparently coming in the spring.
The budget then concedes that “deeper reforms will take time and sustained effort.” Huh? What does that mean?
Some of the simplification measures are welcome, including higher tax reporting thresholds and longer objection deadlines.
But simplification isn’t comprehensive tax reform. Much of the rest of the budget actually adds complexity.
Consider the new Canada Growth Incentive, a capital gains exemption of up to $15 million. Sounds great, right?
Except it only applies to newly issued shares held directly, excludes numerous industries and may trigger alternative minimum tax. Existing business owners get no relief on what they’ve already built. And there’s no draft legislation.
Then there’s the Canada Creative Credit. @MarkJCarney announced artists wouldn’t pay tax on up to $45,000 of creative income. Except that includes the basic personal amount everyone already receives, the credit is non-refundable, and eligibility is restricted.
I told Carney I’m now a taxation artist. Apparently, I may need to rethink my creative qualifications.
And then there are the fiscal numbers.
The spring update estimated a $66.9-billion deficit for 2025-26, even though that fiscal year had ended. Last week’s budget revised it to $39.3 billion. A $27.6-billion forecasting miss on a year that was already over!
Meanwhile, the government claims it will balance its “day-to-day operating budget” by 2027-28. That partly relies on classifying forgone tax revenue from the productivity mega deduction as capital. Remove that classification and the operating deficit is $5.6 billion.
That’s not fiscal discipline. It’s deceptive accounting.
The overall deficit is projected at $62.3 billion this year, with no balanced budget anywhere in the forecast.
My friend can laugh about his disappointing vacation. Canadians shouldn’t be laughing about this budget.
We’re paying for a trip we never agreed to take, financed with money we haven’t earned yet. And the bills will keep arriving long after the glossy pictures fade.
financialpost.com/personal-f…
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Canada let him go, Mexico arrested him & turned him over to the USA.
But Carney claims the USA is a huge security threat to Canada 🤡🇨🇦
A fugitive wanted for the Toronto airport gold heist has been arrested in Mexico's resort hotspot after fleeing Canada when released on bail. My latest
nationalpost.com/news/toront…
Butch Atkinson retweeted
Well, well, well... Vesper's been busy. Look what he's gone and done now! 🔥
He's been digging into places most people wouldn't even think to look, and DSX just got a whole lot more powerful.
Oh, this is going to be interesting! 👀🍿
Good work, Vesper! 🏆🔥
Butch Atkinson retweeted
The Prime Minister Is the Security Threat
Why Carney Must Resign
He said it on camera.
The security risks of the partnership are "much much much less than the security risks, for example, of the United States."
Read that again. The Prime Minister of Canada just told you China is the safe bet and America is the threat.
That is not a slip. That is not a misquote. That is the man telling you exactly how he sees the world. And how he sees the world is a danger to this country.
A Prime Minister has one job above all the others. Know who the enemy is. Know who your friends are. Don't mix them up.
Carney has them backwards. And that makes him the security threat.
Look at the record. This is not one comment. This is a pattern.
Not long ago, Carney himself called China one of Canada's biggest security threats. Then he got the job, flew to Beijing, sat down with Xi Jinping, and signed a "strategic partnership" with them. He cut the tariff on Chinese electric vehicles from 100% down to 6%. He came home and told us the deal "sets us up well for the new world order."
His words. Not mine.
The same China that locked up two Canadians — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — and held them hostage for over a thousand days. The same China our own foreign interference inquiry named our most persistent threat. The same China running police stations on Canadian soil — at least eighteen of them that we know of — while the RCMP investigated and laid no charges.
That is the country Carney calls safe. That is the country he calls a partner.
And America? The country that has stood next to us for a century. The country that buys three-quarters of everything we sell. The country whose soldiers have fought beside ours. That is the country he now points at and calls the risk.
His own military has even modelled what a US invasion would look like. Not a Chinese invasion. An American one. That is how upside down this has become. The government is war-gaming the ally and doing business with the adversary.
You don't have to like everything America does. I don't. But there is a difference between a neighbour you argue with and a regime that jails your people, steals your technology, and runs secret police stations in your cities. A Prime Minister who can't tell the difference is not fit to hold the job.
This is what a security threat actually looks like. It doesn't always come in a uniform. Sometimes it comes in a suit, standing at a podium, telling you the danger is your oldest friend while he opens the door to the people who mean you harm.
Every day he stays, the door opens wider. More deals. More access. More of our critical minerals, our technology, our sovereignty handed over to a regime that has never once acted in Canada's interest. And every day, the country that actually defends this continent gets treated like the enemy.
He was never elected to do this. He was selected. And now he's using the job to turn Canada away from its friends and toward its adversaries, in broad daylight, on camera, in his own words.
That is not leadership. That is not a policy disagreement. That is a Prime Minister who has become a serious security threat to his own country.
Resign.
Not at the next election. Not when it's convenient. Now.
Canada cannot afford a Prime Minister who thinks China is safe and America is the enemy. The job is to protect this country. He is doing the opposite. And the only fix is for him to go.
