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Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by David Climenhaga

David Climenhaga — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:19:01 +0000

In reply to Highwood Hippie. Hippie: Sometimes a history lesson can also be therapeutic, I suppose, like the one Germany received in the fall of 1945. For some reason today I didn't feel like using your initials. DJC

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Highwood Hippie

Highwood Hippie — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:59:19 +0000

“It’s obvious that the society they dream of building in Alberta would be a racist, misogynistic, Christian nationalist dystopia.” Take Back Alberta. Which really means take Alberta back to a whites only society that never existed in reality. Delusional. I’m not sure if the separatists need a history lesson or therapy. Maybe both.

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Murphy

Murphy — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:45:18 +0000

The election of the Nazis in Saxony-Anhalt perhaps bears further analysis in the context of Derpberta separation and the US Empire. Contrary to the usual massive deluge of lies from the US imperialist academic and media complex, capitalists love them some Nazis if the alternative is in any way economic democracy. It’s a funny thing that in the Empire which had slavery until it barely won a war against itself, and continues to this day to destroy the descendants of the people living here when the first European banker’s emissaries arrived, folks like to throw around the term “conspiracy theory” as a descriptor for any analysis that points out the absurd and perverse nature of the imperialist, colonialist and capitalist system. After the destruction of the German and Russian empires during the Great War For Civilization to End All Wars, the resulting states attempted a signifcant mingling of their “comparative advantages”, to coin the phrase of the vile Clintonian rip-off propagandists. Walter Rathenau managed to cobble together the beginnings of a mutually-beneficial economic and security arrangement with Germany and the Soviet Union. The unfortunate Mr. Rathenau met his end rapidly thereafter, ostensibly at the hands of the proto-Nazis of Konsul, an endearingly psychotic band of racist German military men. The murder was chalked up to antisemitism, and that was the end of that. Konsul, however, had very curious links to the same fianancial apparatus that also happened to be supporting the IRA in Great Britain’s original colony. British financiers. As things progressed, the Nazis came to power in Germany and the German population was sicced on the Soviets, resulting in the deaths of perhaps 27 million Soviet citizens, and the eventual incorporation of the German state into the US Empire. Like outlaw motorcycle gangs, the German Nazis, the Italian Fascists and the Japanese imperialists patched over to the CIA. The folks living in the eastern part of Germany were on the receiving end of the wrath of the Red Army, resulting in significant and horrific atrocities against the population. This resulted in, among other things, mass suicides in at least a dozen German population centres. Cult members gonna be cult members. However, in the end, the Soviets got a hold of themselves and built a functioning socialist state in East Germany. Their cars weren’t great, but they didn’t have mass starvation and murder squads like those found in the far-flung reaches of the US empire, like Haiti or Guatemala or Indonesia or El Salvador or Iraq or Congo, a lot of the rest of the countries that constituted the Free World after 1945. And subsequent to the rejoining of all the German folks under the CIA in 1989, a lot of people who grew up in the GDR didn’t really cotton to plutocratic kleptocracy. But as we all know, liberal/progressive bourgeois folks will take a hardcore Nazi any day over a socialist. So now you get Nazis in Saxony crowing about their love for Russia, and as the Ukrainian CIA project falls apart, it can all be blamed on Drumpf’s griftocracy and the Nazis. Worked pretty well in 1945, no reason it can’t work again. Which brings us to the grifter-yokels in Derpberta. It’s not an accident that far-right superstitious mouth-breathers constitute the opposition to the liberal/prog corporatist agenda in this province.

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Donkeyoke

Donkeyoke — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:31:41 +0000

It is getting more and more difficult to see “re-education” camps imposed on dissident populations by totalitarian governments as the evil they are usually portrayed as. While the dictates of totalitarian governments should never be seen as justified, we are still left with the question of how does a society deal with citizens whose motivations to rebellion are ipso facto irrational? Writing articles about it, while well-intentioned, is clearly not sufficient.

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by TENET

TENET — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:24:45 +0000

Separation is such a no brainer but we need to reinforce our trenches, especially if yo live near Bubbleville as I do. So soldier on and hope common sense will prevail. May they never bring on our own 9/11…

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Abs

Abs — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:57:41 +0000

Speaking of myths, I was going to say something about Medusa. Nah.

I can’t wait to hear how the separatists and the separatists within the UCP will explain this coming winter of high inflation. Things should be getting really intense by the time they have their second vote on secession in late winter 2027.

There are a few things driving the coming hardships. There’s the US war with Iran that has shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Oil tankers are being bombed by both the US and Iran. The Houthis have taken control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Saudi Arabian oil tankers are not welcome in the Red Sea. The east-west pipeline in Saudi Arabia also appears to have been attacked.

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As oil prices rise, so does everything else, including the cost for transporting food and other goods. Farmers in Alberta are speaking out about the high cost of diesel fuel during harvest. That doesn’t include costs that will be passed on to consumers for getting those crops to market and then out to grocery stores. Some experts predict a recession or worse.

Who benefits from high oil prices? Not ordinary Albertans. Don’t listen to experts. Believe your own bank account come spring.

Alberta was promised another oil pipeline by the federal government. It’s years away. If the federal government becomes a foreign government, kiss that pipeline goodbye. Oil already flowing through a pipeline might not flow freely through a foreign country (B.C. would be in Canada, unless KLF can pry that away, too). 54-40 or fight.

Would the US carry through on the supposed promise to give the separatists a $500-billion revolving line of credit, with so many financial problems of their own, including an extra $1-trillion in vote buying? In this myth, the US would expect nothing in return, not even the oil they so desperately need right now. Pull the other one. It has bells on it.

There’s a gap of two weeks and one day between Alberta’s referendum and the US midterm elections. A lot could happen in that time. Will there be mid-term elections? Will the US decide to take our oil? It’s Manifest Destiny.

Wait and see. Better yet, send a message to the US that we won’t stand idly by while they plunder and pillage Alberta. Vote to stay in Canada. Stop believing in separatist fairy tales. Believe in Canada.

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Middle Dave

Middle Dave — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:55:04 +0000

Great column DJC. When one lays out researched facts and actual cost analysis, it’s not really a compelling argument is it? Hence the strategy to focus on emotional triggers (FREEDOM!!!) and mythical grievances (Trudeau Sr. departed this mortal coil coming up on 26 years now, and hasn’t been PM for 42 years, Jr. stepped down over 20 months ago). Just like self described Christians and their knowledge of the bible, how many indignant next generation seppies actually know and understand the National Energy Program (NEP) from the 1980’s (hint, some of its aims such as energy independence and Canadian ownership/control seem somewhat relevant today). The NEP was never fully implemented and also largely repealed by 1985, but seppies keep beating that dead horse 40+ years later. Also, open carry?? Seriously??

With the Oct. 19 referendum approaching, the observation of an earlier commentator about the UCP’s combination of malice and incompetence is on clear display. Incomplete ballot packages being mailed out, incorrect instructions (just cross it out, trust us), changing deadlines, a shortage of workers (while we want to be maîtres chez nous, please send us your election personnel), hand counting of ballots within 48 hours, and what are expected to be massive lineups (but only in urban areas). It’s almost enough to make a benevolent Premier throw out the whole mess and schedule a binding referendum this Spring, ironically when the next provincial election was originally scheduled. Utopia or dystopia, which to believe?

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Cool Xenu 86 19

Cool Xenu 86 19 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:41:25 +0000

Alberta voters never let facts interfere with their feels.

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Murphy

Murphy — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:22:04 +0000

Always many fibs to go around. Brexit is not an appropriate model, and if one compared the economies in Germany and the UK since 2019, the Germans went off a cliff. This is of course because Germany is a vassal of the United States Empire and for over one hundred years everything inhumanly possible has been done to prevent the economic and security integration of Germany with Russia. Despite the typically absurd claims regarding the Ukrainian participation in the destruction of Nordstream, that particular environmental catastrophe was beyond the shadow of a doubt a US operation to force the hand of the Germans. It dovetails with the US aims in their energy war, creating a market for their fracked LNG and forcing the Germans to move plants to the US or elsewhere as their economy is dismantled. That’s the reward for staying in the EU, which is an instrument of US imperialist control on the continent. The Alberta situation is much more akin to that of Katanga. Folks ought to remember that that little set-to resulted in the murder of the head of the democratically-elected leader of the Congo, with the assistance of the magnificent personnel of the Canadian army, who, due to their handiness with the French language, helped to hunt down Patrice Lumumba so that the Belgians could shoot him. (Typical for the period, the South Africans were up to their eyeballs in that particular imbroglio, but it was all driven by the inestimable Allen Dulles.) The head of the UN was likewise assassinated as a function of the struggle, and it was a significant contributing factor in the execution of the sitting US president at the time. If the Province were to secede from Canada, for all of the above-mentioned reasons it would not be a viable economic entity, and would be rolled into the US in very short order. This would be in line with the US policies formulated prior to the 2001 terror attacks which unleashed the currently enjoyed economic and geopolitical era. The US is not going to permit an “independent” Derpberta to export significant quantities of tar to China, so the superstitious grifter-yokels are dead in the water with that particular fantasy. As always, one need only to look at the US disposition toward hydrocarbon-producing regions across the globe. Saudi Arabia has been owned outright by the US MIC since Roosevelt bought the House of Saud at Bitter Lake not long before he went to hell. The US failed to hold Russia after taking it over in 1991 and has subjected the state to all manner of assault for the last three decades since it was commandeered by an atavistic right-wing nationalist program. Canada is next on the list. But Honest Uncle Sam would never hamstring his best ol’ buddy! After Canada comes China, the Final Boss whose economy was curiously pertinent to the Great Plague of 2020 that killed most people on earth, and whom the Carny Banker claims is the greatest threat on earth to Canadian national security. Then come Iraq and Iran, both subject to coups and military assaults by the US and vassals like Canada. The slave-holding UAE, great friend to the Carny Banker and the society closest in nature to “Canadian values”, apparently. Rounding out the top ten are Brazil, another country under unrelenting CIA attack and home-base of the charming poultryphile Bolsonaro (look it up), and Kuwait, a fake country created by the British literally to take control of oil away from any kind of Iraqi state. Meanwhile, the Carny Banker is meeting with Krusty the Korrupt Klown of Kiev to ensure the Canadian taxpayer’s ongoing commitment to the destruction of the Ukrainian male population and the continued “extension” of the Russian state as per the recommendations of the Rand Corporation. Carny was in Banff, holding court with the real owners of the earth, with no actualy representation of the tens of millions of Canadians who actually work for a living. Canadian capitalists want to have their cake and eat it too, as always, (a desire that has always prevented the recommended social program of letting everyone else eat it), so they want to peddle their wares, such as they are, to China and other parts of Asia while continuing to suckle at the teat of the still-vast US economy. This is at odds with the total integration of the Canadian intelligence, military and finance apparatus with the US structure. Welcome to the Republic of Boreal Katanga!

Comment on The lies Alberta separatists tell: A Top Ten List by Jaundiced Eye

Jaundiced Eye — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:53:16 +0000

Personally, I believe a core group of the seppies are aiming for 51st statehood. The rest of the crowd holding pitchforks and torches are merely useful idiots as far as this core group is concerned. Without a doubt these core 51st staters have studied the tenants of propaganda. Goebbels would be proud of their efforts.

Is Smith is thinking of it all as a win/win? If the referendum dies out she is still the Premier, if not, she will become Trump’s proconsul.

As an aside, there is a certain irony of Smith happily taking a grab ankle approach when dealing with Trump but when dealing with our own government in Ottawa she spits venom and resorts to extortion.