'Chain Gang' Tim Hudak Gets Crushed - Good Riddance!!

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Chapter 7

It is with great relief that the Oracle of Ottawa can report to his worldwide readership that you will not be seeing OPP officers standing shotgun over chain gangs at the side of our roads, highways and controlled access freeways, if you happen to be visiting Ontario anytime into the far far future. That threat and a whole lot of others fell by the wayside on Thursday last of this week.

'Chain Gang' Tim - Campaign to oblivion...

 It was the 2014 Ontario Provincial Election that settled it all, once and for all, for most of our lifetimes. For any corporate whores that were hoping that Ontario was soon to become a Right To Work Province like some third world southern American State, you can catch the next flight to Mexico. That was a another winger dream that also died last thursday for the next couple of decades at least.

As the Christian Fundamentalists in their shiny patent black leather shoes pack to go back to the winger think tanks that they came from in the United States, they have all come to the same conclusion; the right wing revolution will never catch on in Canada. These Canadians are just too smart to buy the think tank wrecking crew bullshit. As far as the minions of the 'Harper Government' are concerned, the on loan wingers will not be returning any calls from now on.

The one great lesson that the Oracle of Ottawa learned from this election is that the right wing wingers cannot take their own bullshit at all. The well funded trade unions in Ontario went right for the conservative style attack ads full bore, and it worked perfectly. It soon appeared that 'Chain Gang' Tim couldn't take as well as he tried to give. The big union bosses easily out spent the corporate whores. Like the Liberal gas plants it was money well wasted.  
 

 
The other great lesson is that the corporate whore pollsters are so corrupt and for the right wing that they are all but useless. They actually thought that the people of Ontario were stupid enough to vote the way that the flawed polls indicated. The people of Ontario simply stopped talking to them. And when the dust settled on Thursday night last, the pollsters were more humiliated than 'Chain Gang' Tim! It was high and wonderful comedy that the Oracle of Ottawa enjoyed very much.

It was a room of less then fifty supporters that were outnumbered by the media that greeted the defeated 'Chain Gang' Tim as he came to deliver his resignation speech. The Oracle of Ottawa was wagging for hours after that. As the Oracle of Ottawa was driving down many Ontario roads the next day, that were chain gang free, he listened to the right wing talking heads writhing in winger agony on the AM radio talk shows. It is only about another year to wait and it will be the turn of the 'Harper Government'... The Oracle of Ottawa id greatly looking forward to that...  

Goodluck (!?) Jonathan

Politics is frequently associated today with self-seeking behaviour, hypocrisy and 'public relations' activity geared to selling particular policy packages.
David Held, Models Of Democracy, Third Edition, p.259

It is with wondrous dread that the Oracle of Ottawa continues to hear about certain school girl kidnappings in the third world state of Nigeria. The Oracle of Ottawa is also amazed at how much one can learn from just watching. How does a guy that comes from a family of canoe builders end up being President of Nigeria? This also begs an even bigger question; how does a canoe builder and / or a president of a third world country end up with a net worth of damn near two million U.S. dollars? That is a hell of a lot of canoes!

Goodluck - Setting the price...

Since the Oracle of Ottawa is not owned by big media or any nation state, he feels it his public duty to promulgate his wise and penetrating observations as a public service to his world wide readership. The Oracle of Ottawa deeply respects his Dear Readers. Why did Goodluck Jonathan wait for over two weeks before doing anything about the recently suffered acts of terrorism? What information becomes rapidly apparent from observing the facts?

The first fact of revelation from the good President's silence is that none of the abducted girls were of Goodluck Jonathan's tribe! As one can easily find out today, the great president of Nigeria, at the time of this writing, of course, is a member of the Ijaw ethnic group. This ethnic group of course contains very many tribes and / or clans to numerous to mention.  

And of course, for those of us who know of such things, Africa is not run like North America or the European Union, is it? No business is conducted, much less completed, with out someone of the driving tribe getting his palms and off shore bank accounts greased. Is the Oracle of Ottawa right or is he right? It seems readily clear and most striking to the Oracle of Ottawa that someone in Nigeria is presently selling of the rights to girls schools of other numerous ethnic groups like burger franchises are sold here in the free world!

It may come as a surprise to my Dear Readers that Nigeria and Canada have a few things in common. Nigeria is a lot like the Department of Transportation in one of Canada's Atlantic provinces. At every election all the staffs change at the Department of Transportation! It should all become clear when you discover that good old Goodluck is up for reelection in 2015.

The second fact of revelation is that nothing slows down the political opposition at campaign time as the personal loss of a daughter. A most unfortunate and untimely tragedy. But the Oracle of Ottawa strongly suspects that certain daughters will "escape" (or not), if certain fathers reevaluate their immediate political futures. Such is the politics of a third world tribal country.

Of course Dear Readers you will hear of much bravado of the greatest and most powerful nation states of the world today sending high end secretive "aid" to catch the bad ass terrorists. Well all the Oracle of Ottawa can recommend is don't hold your breath. Our nation states are balls deep into the corruption of said above mentioned third world country.(s)  They are fishing for the big billion dollar contracts for their home companies, that just happen to be major campaign contributors of most all civilized western countries.

The Oracle of Ottawa can only suggest that the solution to this most pressing problem is up to the people of Nigeria, and most unfortunately it will not be solved at the ballot box, but rather in the old fashioned way; the street.

Rob Ford Correctly Predicts Bloodbath

Some systems have no equilibrium states, while others have many. These matters depend upon the nature of the system.
John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p. 457

Unfortunately though, it appears that it is all going to be Rob Ford's blood! Some days  you just can't prepare yourself for the events that are fated to unfold. It was all just breaking on the old vulgar media of television around lunchtime. The Oracle of Ottawa was needless to say, totally floored. The Oracle of Ottawa was sure that the powerful friends of Rob Ford had made that embarrassing tape vanish forever. To find a deleted file on a hard drive is somewhat akin to finding a needle in a haystack, especially if you know anything about file allocation tables and such like. Someone must have really wanted the mayors hide very badly.

Rob Ford - Starting to feel the heat?

The timing of the announcement proves that there is a God, and he has a very long and pointy finger, attached to a very long arm. The irony of the timing of the event is just too much for the Oracle of Ottawa to enjoy at all once. What with the Senate expense scandal here in Ottawa and the start of the Conservative Party convention out in Calgary today, it was just too much irony for the Oracle to absorb all at once. And the real strangeness is that all the events are connected in many more ways than one, if you ponder it all in the big picture.

 
It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that the conservative trifecta will never be achieved. It will be very fortunate indeed if the present conservative forces in power at the time of this writing make it to their next election dates. It was only two years ago that they all but seemed invincible to gods and mere men...brace yourself Dear Reader, this is just the beginning, there is so much more to come.

Andrew Feinstein - The Shadow World

The arms industry and its powerful political friends have forged a parallel political universe that largely insulates itself against the influence or judgement of others by invoking national security. This is the shadow world.
Andrew Feinstein, The Shadow World, p. xxvii

The Oracle of Ottawa has some good news and some bad news. First, the good news; the world that we now live in is not so bad, the bad news is that it is all so much worse than you could possibly imagine. Andrew Feinstein was once an elected MP in the new South Africa, until he ran into the full force of  the shadow world. The Oracle of Ottawa was very fortunate to capture a hard cover first American edition out of a remainder bin for a very good price at his local Chapters store in Ottawa.

The currency of the Shadow World...

The book is very attractively designed, and printed to the highest standards, as is to be expected by Farrar, Straus And Giroux out of New York. It is of a very comfortable octavo size, with the posh, bright clay paper, that gives it that comforting weight in hand . The typographic design is the highest contemporary example of what remains of American craftsmanship.

What immediately engaged the Oracle of Ottawa was not so much all the details of the arms deals, but rather all the dirt and detail on how it is all brought off. How everyone in the decision chain is tracked, filed, cataloged and ultimately corrupted. The Oracle of Ottawa found this very interesting indeed. The Shadow World is a lot like a bag of Frito Lay potato chips, bet you can't read just one page! And that fact that Andrew Feinstein can write like Tom Clancy, and yet relate an even better story that is all true, cited and referenced is to the Oracle of Ottawa one hell of a feat.

Once the Oracle of Ottawa got right into it, a cold realization came upon him. This is not just a book about the shadow world arms trade, it is really an unofficial New World Order playbook! The Oracle of Ottawa was shocked and very appalled  at all the names of the great and good that popped up over and over in the text. Not to give anything away the Oracle will relate a few things that were found most interesting.

page xxviii - how the bank of American Presidents in Washington D.C. was used to send the 9/11 bombers their monthly allowance from a princess in the Royal Saudi family. (9/11 truthers will love this book...)

page 53 - how the Roman Catholic Church through the auspices of the Vatican Bank, accepted cash money, hand delivered by a Saudi Prince to throw an election in Italy.

page 205 - the name of a once very important Canadian MP and figure skater who is up to his neck in the shadow world.

page 223 - why Olaf Palme was really murdered.

page 264 - a most interesting story about Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands otherwise known as the co-founder of the Bilderberg Group! Yes Dear Reader, the shadow world is a strange house of many twisted rooms.

page 283 - the very weird and scary fingerprints of the Carlyle Group in and around the shadow world.

page 505 - how Pat Robertson was a good buddy of a certain third world dictator who lobbied for his interests in America in a hoped for return of a gold mine concession in Liberia! Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!

 All in, the Oracle of Ottawa couldn't put this book down. And it is a keeper at arms length for future reference. It has also occurred to the Oracle of Ottawa that Andrew Feinstein might not only have one hell of a good book, but rather, he may have given birth to a whole new juicy franchise! Could it be that Andrew Feinstein is the founder of the Jane's of New World Order dirt and filth? The Oracle of Ottawa can hardly wait for the next updated installment!  

Arthur Porter IV - The Other Shoe To Drop

Criticism, as I see it, is really the shaping of a central tradition of recreation.
Northrop Frye, On Education, p. 150

It was wondrous strange to the Oracle of Ottawa to hear of the arrest of Arthur Porter IV while in Panama, Panama, while doing his "laundry". It seems to be a rather strange thing to be doing when you claim have Type IV lung cancer! Does that even sound rational? If you had Type IV (inoperable) cancer would you be traveling over 1000 miles to do your banking?  Or anyone else's? I mean, just asking.

Arthur Porter IV - I can do anything for you...

 But such is the ways and means of the international T-shirt middleman class. With their bullshit stories of exotic descent and endless quest, just what the idiots in power today love to hear. People of the ilk and likes of Arthur Porter know exactly what those in power want to hear. They have been doing it for centuries if you are curious enough to look into it. If the vulgar media were on it, they would be asking his Daddie; Arthur Porter III, who by incredible chance seems to also live in Ottawa! I mean who knew?

It seems that the shit is all coming in on the 'Harper Government' like a tidal wave. This is of course the results of continually going for the bigger shovel, instead of stopping the excavation of their death hole. Ho! Ho! And talk about commitment to their fuck ups! At the time of this writing the Oracle of Ottawa discovered that SIRC still has the fallen doctors bio page up on its web site! Just like nothing ever happened. And the same with regards to his appointment to Canada's Privy Council! Yes Dear Reader, you can certainly see that the 'Harper Government' is on top of it all, aren't they? 

The only thing that remains is to watch it all unfold. It is the Province of Quebec that has started it all, and looks like they will get it all in and done. And as everyone knows, the 'Harper Government' has made it very clear and more than once, that they don't need Quebec at all! Well, we shall see, won't we?  The Oracle of Ottawa has discovered the rumor that the good doctor in question was on a diplomatic mission with the required passport, and may try to claim diplomatic immunity! One must have all the cloaks up when setting up the offshore repository's of today's active elected public politicians. But that only means that the grasping wife will be like dog meat in a riot. Ya, she will roll.

Now lets suppose that the good doctor is removed to Quebec, what ever stories do you think he has to tell to save his fat lumpy ass? The Oracle of Ottawa strongly suspects that it will put the Charbonneau Commission to complete shame. It was mentioned in the vulgar media this evening, at the time of this writing, that the Prime Minister is simply not himself lately, as observed at the end of session "garden party"  for the media. Poor thing. It is the Oracle of Ottawa's fondest hope this summer will be the longest summer in the now horizon shortened life of the useless 'Harper Government'.  

Where O Where Is Ole Steve Harper?

Other peoples nightmares are not billable time, and morning will come soon enough.
Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 46

Surely it was the water? After scurrying across the tundra like a rat to South America at the first breaking of his downfall scandal, his most grey eminence of the 'Harper Government' has not yet fully recovered to face the music in the House. Could it be jet lag, or the realization that there is actually no defense? And what is that disinformation in the vulgar media that states the Prime Minister never makes Question periods on Monday? He always makes Question Period on Monday's! It is the Fridays that he never shows up. The Oracle of Ottawa knows this because he watches them all.

Steve Vader readies for the high jump...

 Why it seems like only yesterday that the right wing revolution was set to take over all of Canada for all time, well, according to Preston Manning anyway. Then there was the cocky picnic video at Ford Fest in Toronto, where by the Conservative hat trick was boasted to be soon accomplished. And then from there it all started to gradually go down hill, slowly at first, but then with a great and sickening increase in speed, that was hardly measurable. 

The underhanded dirty tricks squad out of the Prime Ministers Office could seem to lay anyone to waste, who provided any question or even the hint of opposition. But unforeseen, people in central Canada get wise to this very quickly, a very strong and potent backlash literally created itself. Soon things started to go wrong.

The highly detailed Senate destruction plan was all so carefully planned. The right and certain people were appointed with the full knowledge and assistance that would make certain their screw ups. But some how the pesky low life has proven to be a very nasty opponent at the end of the day. It is all pretty humiliating at the height of your power, to realize that a spud headed skidmark is going to bring you to total destruction.

And then things get even worse, you find out that your good friends in Toronto are in reality nothing but a bunch of drug dealing crack smoking thugs, that have left a long paper and video trail. And then when you think it can't get any more worse, an old screw up that you thought for sure had buried out of the way is picked up in Panama, doing some laundry at the local banks. For a man with terminal lung cancer, Mr. Porter is sure looking pretty good...  

'Harper Government' - Halcyon Days Pissed Away

We are in for some fast weeks in the passing lane.
Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p.147

What ever could the bond underwriters and credit raters think of Canada and Toronto now? Can we really think that we will get that same AAA credit rating after the events of these days in May? Would you loan money to a city run by a crackhead? Would you buy a bond issue of a nation state that is run by a cabinet that contains grade school drop-outs and takes it's orders from agents of secret societies?

'Harper Government' - Just about...

 Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government' thought it would all be such an easy walk through the garden. After all, Canadians don't really care about such things. Why the leftist elites couldn't care less. Well Dear Reader, if you saw the zoo that was called Question period today, the 'Harper Government' can disavow themselves of such delusions in the future.  The diehard talking heads pandering for the 'Harper Government' just can't seem to talk this one down. The harder they pedal, the worse the said and assorted scandals get. Like the Oracle of Ottawa has observed in previous postings, it is all like watching a herd of sheep crossing a mine field. And the world looks on with a horrid fascination, that they cannot wrench their gaze from.

The Oracle of Ottawa wonders what Preston Manning thinks of his Canadian right wing revolution now? The lights at the Preston Manning Center For Democracy must be burning late into the evening, with the feverish running of focus groups ordered by the high priests of conservative purity out of Duck's Ass, Alberta. The operating theater has been shut down that provided the new conservative candidates with their lobotomies, until further notice.  It all started out with such promise. The strong conservative majority was stolen, nothing lay in the way to converting Canada into a right wing police state, the Bilderberg Group goal of goals. What could go wrong?

It has been said by many writers more awesome than the Oracle of Ottawa that all revolutions eat their own. In Canada we are only just past the entre, and the knuckle draggers are all starting to check out their neighbours. Guys like Jason Kenny, John Baird, and James Moore must be starting to get nervous. In their present bulky nervous states, they would look great on a platter with garnish and an apple in their mouths. 
But at the end of the day you can always blame the party whip, The Oracle of Ottawa gives him thirty days max.

'Harper Government' - Goes Rogue

He has the instincts of a dung beetle. No living politician can match his talent for soiling himself in public.
Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 228

You know when Steve Harper is lying. His hands appear above his waist. Although the Oracle of Ottawa is not a spin doctor or fart catcher, he does know enough about the communication skills to know that what the erstwhile Prime Minister said today in his low rent South American news conference was the worst possible course to take. At the rate he is going there will shortly be no more candidates to put under the bus. And of course there will be no more exploitable candidates coming forward in this lifetime.

Relax - The Senate will always be here...

Meanwhile back in Ottawa during Question Period today, John Baird was crushed and humiliated by the young Justin Trudeau, when he provided and tabled to the Conservative government, documents that they claimed they did not know existed! And the sad thing is they were not lying on this one. The piss and vinegar of the so called pit bull John Baird is just about at the breaking point. He is finally realizing that he is the fall guy. The Prime Minister took all his western buddies on the plane and left the easterners to spin in the dark. The voice of the bum boy minister is falling to the lowest register, the Liberals will be in for the final kill every day from now on.

John Baird - hapless fall boy....

The media has been spurned and dissed one too many times by the knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, social darwinist skid marks. That old Troskyite Terry Milewski is just putting the nuts to the 'Harper Government' and the Oracle of Ottawa is certainly enjoying seeing his tax dollars at work.  And to see them twist in the light, is totally beyond words of description. Yes, today the 'Harper Government' was fed to the wolves, and the wolves puked...

It also appears today that one Senator Mike "The Puffster" Duffy has regrouped, and  you can see his counter attack forming between the words. The little spud head knows that the  box containing his Order of Canada is nailed and double welded shut for ever.   The Oracle of Ottawa wonders late into the night what dirty goods he possibly has on the 'Harper Government' that he can get it to contort on command. The Oracle of Ottawa is sure that it is enough to bring down the 'Harper Government' dead.

How is that the Senate of Canada has existed since 1867, with barley a blip in over a century and as soon as the hick 'Harper Government' gets its sticky hands on the levers of power, the whole place explodes in scandal? But what can you expect when you appoint a high school drop out, sad victim as the Leader of The Government in The Senate? As the Oracle of Ottawa has stated many times in this blog, the best way to improve the Senate is to appoint the best people you can possibly find to it!

But to all Canadians that care about such things,they know that when the young Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister, the proper high property values will again return to the Chamber of Sober Second Thought.  

'Harper Government' - Type IV - Terminal

Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about.
Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III, p. 1-1

Tonight Ottawa is a stinking roiling mess of shocked silence. You know it is worse than bad when in today's Question Period, John Baird, the bum boy of Foreign Affairs, was asking what time it was near the end of Question Period! Yes indeed, the sweat of the erstwhile Straussian, was dripping through the fat of his worthless body. Much to the Oracle of Ottawas surprise, Steve Harper did not stick around to hear the music play. He and his closet cronies scrambled to the jet that would remove them to somewhere in South America like a pack of rats scurrying across the tundra.

The very quantum fabric is rent..

 Although the talking heads of the old vulgar media are playing this as a crisis, you ain't heard nothing yet Dear Reader. At some point the connection of the Prime Ministers Office to the Bilderberg Group is going to come out. When that finally drops, it will be a royal scandal. When all the red meat, grass roots, conservatives find out that the 'Harper Government' is just a mere puppet for a secret society, that will be a scandal. Many old hands in Ottawa tonight are wondering about the present forward motion of Preston Manning's right wing revolution. It seems that the remainder of the Laurentian consensus has more life than the right wing wacko politico's thought.

But the saddest and yet most enjoyable events of the day were watching the shocked reactions of the green as grass conservatives, that thought Steve was better than all that, react. Some of them are just about sick to death. Wait for it. They are now discovering that their whole lives and political careers are nothing but a joke and a lie. The Oracle of Ottawa loves watching hicks hit the wall at a hundred miles an hour, and noting the splatter pattern.

In the near future you will soon see that some faces will be absent, and will not return. The names will shock you Dear Reader. The friends will desert, no one will come. Who could have imagined that the whole thing would be brought down by a spud headed skidmark from Prince Edward Island? Soon Marjory LeBreton will again be a high school drop out housewife in Barfhaven, free to spend less and live better at the local Wal-Mart, were she and John Baird will have coffee, with Little Polly Poilievre, Well at least on the days when they don't have certain appearances to make....

The 'Harper Government' Will Fall !?

To draw a line is the primary step in incorporating energy in form.
Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry, p. 97

The Victoria Day long weekend in Canada is usually a very quiet and unremarkable affair. It is the unofficial, official start of the Canadian gear down from winter to summer, and all the relief that it brings. But not this year Dear Reader. It all started to go all rather nuts on Friday morning just past, when the Oracle of Ottawa was awoken by the name of Toronto's mayor and the words video, crack and smoking! The Oracle of Ottawa thought this is it! The Oracle has really slipped his clutch plates for sure this time! The Oracle of Ottawa immediately rose out of bed and dragged his significant other to the radio and had her confirm that what he just heard was indeed true! This was at 9:00 A.M..

'Harper Government' - The pig is in the tunnel folks...

 The Oracle of Ottawa then proceeded to breakfast of a coffee and two cigarettes and his book that was on top of the pile; "in reading". Still reeling from the wake up call, the Oracle of Ottawa than turned on the vulgar media and selected the CTV news channel and was stunned by more revelations of the Puffster Mike Duffy, and how the axe was just hanging over the vertically challenged  Ms. Wallin! The Oracle of Ottawa at this point became somewhat dizzy, and repaired to the kitchen for more coffee and a few more bolstering smokes to calm his nerves. As the smoke took hold and the Oracle having bolstered himself against the kitchen counter, the earth began to move!! It all lasted for over thirty seconds! A gentle but powerful swaying motion, that set off a wonderful symphony of creaking and tinkling, that sounded as music from God.

This was at 9:45A.M. exactly, and the Oracle of Ottawa again turned on the vulgar media and was soon informed that there was indeed a 5.2 Richter earthquake measured in Ottawa from Shawville, Quebec all the way down to Ohio in the United States! The evil of the 'Harper Government' has so twisted the very quantum fabric that the earth itself moved to balance the evil forces! If this weirdness keeps up Dear Reader, by Tuesday morning the Oracle of Ottawa expects a pillar of salt at the intersection of Wellington Street at Bank Street!

While out of the fortified bunker on the usual Friday beer and lotto ticket run the Oracle of Ottawa noticed the vulgar media newspaper headlines. Kathleen Wynne had fired the head of the Ontario Lottery Commission! And it must have been the right move, since the whole board followed the ousted huckster out the door like rats being chased on the tundra. Could it be that there will be no Casino in downtown Ottawa after all? Upon returning home, the Oracle of Ottawa closed up and continued to be reeled by the revelations of the old style vulgar media, and enjoyed every moment.

All of Saturday the Oracle of Ottawa was in a happy state of shock, knowing full well that once the shit starts to roll down hill it will continue ever faster until something stops it. It was Sunday morning that the major axe fell, when the Oracle of Ottawa heard with shock that Nigel S. Wright was also thrown under the bus. At this point we are through the looking glass now folks, any thing could happen and probably will.

On this Sunday after noon the Oracle of Ottawa was on his way to Arnprior to visit a very important man, as per usual routine. The Oracle of Ottawa of course had CBC's Cross Country Check Up on, and was amazed that Rex Murphy had his old self back on, and was doing a hell of a job. The knuckle dragging Tory Conservatives were in total outrage! The Oracle of Ottawa could not believe his ears. Any thing could happen now! Then the Oracle of Ottawa realized that come Tuesday the very 'Harper Government' could fall in a vote of non confidence.

The Oracle of Ottawa hopes that it is Elizabeth May and / or Charlie Angus that get to do the honors! With the Prime Minister planning not to be in the House on Tuesday, due to his planned presence at some South American trade conference, with the usual retinue of sock puppet cabinet fart catchers and sock puppet back benchers, the numbers would be totally in the Oppositions favor! The wreckage is every where and piling up very fast. (And we still haven't got through the Bilderberg Group revelations yet...)At 3:00 P.M. the CBC radio complained that no one from the Conservative Party of Canada could be reached in any manner of communication. Get your voting suit ready Dear Reader, the Just Society of Justin Trudeau will indeed be coming sooner, much sooner than later. Just as the Oracle of Ottawa called it...     

Justin Trudeau Clears His Head

Tyranny is the co-operation of parasite and host; no tyrant maintains himself by force, but by trading on his victims fears. 
Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry, p. 60

It seems that in light of a storm of recent events, contrary to Conservative Party of Canada attack ads, that stated  that the young Justin Trudeau was in way over his head, the youngster can certainly claim that his head is way above the water line as of late, compared to the shit wave that has and is now swamping the imperial shit majesty of the 'Harper Government'.

Justin Trudeau - Well above the waterline...

 It was at lunch time today that the Oracle of Ottawa first heard of the shocking new revelations concerning one Senator Mike 'The Puffster' Duffy. It seems that he didn't pay back the $90,000 he claimed as bogus housing expenses, it has now been revealed that one Nigel Wright, once right bower at Onex Corporation and now at the Prime Ministers Office as Chief of Staff, cut the paltry sum from his own pocket to aid the Puffster in his time of need. Of course Steve Harper, of the 'Harper Government' knew nothing of the matter. Of course. The Senate ethics commissioner  has of a sudden taken great interest in the matter, due to that pesky rule that states that when a Senator receives a gift or gratuity greater than $500.00 a report of the said circumstances must be filed with the said ethics commissioner. It seemsthat, at the time of this writing, that the Senate ethics commissioner is still waiting.

Senator Mike Duffy - Flush twice...

 Then there is that matter of that shocking by(e) election result out in Labrador, where one 'Harper Government' cabinet minister got his dirty corrupt ass kicked all the way back to his Igloo, no doubt never to return to the Canadian political scene. It seemed the visits of the young Justin Trudeau wet more than enough panties, to throw the result to the Liberals favor. Even most of the men sheepishly admitted that the aura of the young next one made them feel somewhat tingly also, and that it was good, since they now had something in common with the wife again!  

 But perhaps the greatest disaster to hit the 'Harper Government' of late is the untimely demise of one of its most important ideological fathers and creator of the Canada's swing to the right forever. The sudden departure of Senator Doug Finley came to the Oracle of Ottawa as a great sign that there truly is a God, and he never voted Conservative. One can only guess how long Minister Dianne Finley will be able to carry on by herself, making her own decisions, the Oracle of Ottawa gives her 90 days max. The human resources minister that couldn't run a three man muster to a four man shitter will be gone like she never even happened.
 

Mean while somewhere in Ottawa at this very moment, Mrs. Trudeau is no doubt already going through the color swatches and fabric catalogs, preparing for the soon to happen massive renovation at 24 Sussex Drive when the next government of the Just Society takes office for the next twenty years....  

Toronto Pandas Arrive - Chinese Conquest Complete

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
SunTzu, The Art Of  War, Chapter 3

Can you think of any better symbol of China than the Panda? A fat, dozy, stunned, stupid animal, that has long since past it's evolutionary best before date tens of thousands of years ago. An animal that can't really be removed from its original environment without it dropping dead. At first glance, it appears sooo cute, but once you do it and get over it, you realize that under the fur it is just like all china men, a barbaric peasant.

How the hell is this 'cute'??

 And you know when the Chinese Peasants Republic grant you the dubious honor of being allowed to babysit a pair of these worthless animals, they all but have you up the ass, and that you are essentially a Chinese vassal state. That seems to be just fine with the useless 'Harper Government'. There was the chromed domed useless eminence, in the person of Steve Harper there to greet these sluggish slut bears in person! What a joke! Meanwhile last summer, he couldn't show up at the airport in Ottawa to greet Angella Merkel, the President of Germany! Who the Oracle of Ottawa would rather do business with any day before wasting my time with Chinese peasants. Not hating, just saying...

And did you get a load of that peasant Chinese ambassador to Canada! What a vulgar lowlife piece of shit! Millions of dollars are being spent to have this useless lowlife shit in my once nice clean country. And the 'Harper Government' actually spent the last couple of years all but begging for the dubious honor of hosting the Chinese peasant slug bears. Just let the damn things go extinct and get it all over with.

Of course in return we should give the Chinese a similar gift shouldn't we? The Oracle of Ottawa was thinking three pairs of breeding Canadian Beavers! The Chinese could just leave them any where back in the woods most anywhere in China, and they will soon have a beaver for every zoo in China and the rest of Asia! Do you see the esential difference between Canada and China? Panda bear - beaver, got it? In the interest of economy, two doses of 9cc's of Smith and Wesson should be applied to each Panda and then reduce the carcass' to a rug and then return them to China to save on the shipping....

Roman Catholics - This Thing Of Ours

Indeed, there are some very dumb things in the Bible and quite a few you would not want your children to read.
Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder, p. 8

When you read the later letters of Paul when he was a prisoner in Rome, you can get from the words within the words, that Paul is beginning to realize that there exists other powers within the power of civil society.  Many modern people today would be utterly shocked to discover that there existed in Roman times certain "organizations" that today would be called organized crime. This goes pretty far in explaining some of the many emperors weird actions, as recorded by Edward Gibbon and a host of others.

Stories of the mafia in the Western World are a sure key to success. Witness the enduring popularity of the movie(s) Godfather, and the television series Sopranos. Most of the frameworks for such organizations, we are told originate in Sicily. And Sicily is an ancient place, as you will notice if you have ever been any where near the place, on the ground, so to speak. So many visitors have been through in the course of history, that the locals soon realized that they had to take care of themselves, and once that starts, it is all but impossible to eradicate.  

So one should not be too surprised that the Roman Catholic Church has an organizational chart that is very similar to an American crime family. The only difference is that in Rome the scale of the whole thing is just about beyond comprehension. At the top you have the boss of bosses, the Pope, the capo di tutti capi, plain and simple. Under the Pope is the cardinals, or rather the Godfathers of all the other families. Under them are the Bishops, or the Caporegimes. And of course under them are the soldiers, the made men, the parish priests. You as a member of the church are an associate.

Thinking back to childhood, being in a parish is a lot like being in a crew, you got called in by the boss at least once a week, and you brought the envelope, to make sure there was something to kick upstairs, so to speak. One wonders how long it is going to take Pope Francis to figure out that he is the new boss of bosses?    

Yes - All You Have Is Less...

I pass away. yet I complain, and no one hears my voice.
William Blake, The Book Of Thel, Part II,  line 4

Well dear reader, it is all in and all but done. And the great 'Harper Government' is not letting anyone down, is it? The great legacy of the 'Harper Government'; the legacy of less is well on its way. Now you have less unemployment insurance, less retirement time, less choices to sell your crop(s). Less opportunity to compete in the free market to sell your labour, the only thing that most Canadians have to offer. Canada has a less bright spot in the world. And the only thing that the young have to look forward to, that is certain, is less.

Welcome your new masters...

It was the year of the omnibus crime bill, the omnibus budgets and it should not be surprising that the newest and most popular word that was introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary  this year was "omnishambles"! The irony of it all is simply breathtaking isn't it? Then just before the high holiday of this Christian Nation the 'Harper Government' announced the sell-out of Canada to our new Chinese masters. The details of which are still a secret. Right on cue, the first horde of orthodontically  challenged Chinese peasants landed in British Columbia at a coal mine. The Oracle of Ottawa predicts that by 2015 TFW's (Temporary Foreign Workers) will be doing one in ten jobs in the Canadian economy. By 2020 it will be at least one in five jobs.

It was wondrous weird that as soon as the CNOOC deal was approved, Air Canada announced the opening of its new "budget" airline Rouge Air! The Oracle of Ottawa calls it Air Canada's Red Flag! It took a while to explain to my significant other that this was not an airline that she could travel on. With a busted union staff contract, and over 85 seats added from the Airbus, this is not something that your average Caucasian can board to take that cheap trip to Asia! With 85 seats added that means that the galley and the crew sleeping quarters is gone! Air Rouge or Rouge Air is simply a TFW air freight train. It was part of the China Canada foreign investment protection act! Since the details of this act are secret, prove the Oracle of Ottawa wrong!

It also appeared to the Oracle of Ottawa that the promise of a hands - off economy did not appeal very strongly to the people of Ottawa. The cheap Chinese shit was still piled high and unsold at the all the malls in Ottawa. Perhaps the "reinvented government" of the City of Ottawa had a lot to do with this also, in that there was no intense snow removal at all this year, no doubt due to the fact that the snow happened on statutory holidays that would have entailed time and a half and or double time and a half. You can't buy that Chinese shit if you can't get to the Malls can you? The Oracle of Ottawa is certain that the corporate over - whores will realize a mistake in their strategy, or not!  

As the Oracle of Ottawa has mentioned many times before in this humble blog, not even the basest animal in nature ever shits in it's own nest! Well this year proved that the present 'Harper Government' is certainly not your average animal! Ho! Ho! Bill C-377 will no doubt pass in the Senate. Then we will get the Right To Work legislation right after. At least the blue collar types will always be able to get at least minimum wage. The young and upcoming white collar types have nothing to look forward to but one unpaid internship after another. Paid for by their parents. House and home mortgaged to help junior get that starting job that will at least pay the interest on his or her student loans... Entrepren - whore - ship, great isn't it?

"The horrors (whores?) of your experience... LOL....

Jason Kenney - Minister Of Indentured Scab Labour

Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the readers fancy.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, p. xi

Well dear reader, the Oracle of Ottawa now knows what one of the secret agreements is that the Prime Minister would not discuss in the House of Commons today concerning the CNOOC deal takeover of NEXEN Oil. And that seems to be that the Peoples Republic of China can now and forever send in whole armies of orthodonticaly challenged Chinese coolie peasants, who just happen to be working for another Chinese state owned corporation!  The case that the CBC ran with on tonight's National concerned HD Coal sending their hordes to Canada as temporary foreign workers! Why these guys might make minimum wage when they finally pay off all hands that have be greased! (a couple of years from now?, never?)

Coming soon to a town near you?

 What other deals, that must remain secret, have been struck by the Peoples Republic of China and the 'Harper Government'? When ever there is a strike at the post office or an airline in Ontario are we to be buried under by cheap coolie labour provided by the Chinese governments extensive prisoner inventory? The questions are being asked by Canadian Labour Leaders as the Oracle of Ottawa writes and no doubt will continue for a very long time.

And the eternally unloved and greasy Jason Kenney will remain forever unloved after the fiasco that he has unleashed today. And will no doubt necessitate very much investigation of all the worlds off shore money laundry spots, which will surely commence and never cease once the NDP take power easily when the 'Harper Government' falls any time soon.

As the Oracle of Ottawa has stated before in this blog, on more than one occasion, there is no labour shortage of any kind in Canada. There is only a shortage of decent employers that are willing to pay the correct and decent wage. But there is no shortage of skilled trades. The Oracle of Ottawa will readily admit that there is a shortage of skilled trades that will work for minimum wage. This is mostly due to skilled trades men being more intelligent than your average Conservative Party Minister! But it is a free market, isn't it? Isn't it?

Awhile back when the 'Harper Government' achieved power by fraud, many people told the Oracle of Ottawa that I was out of my little mind, and that I was fear mongering! Well the Oracle of Ottawa got it all correct! And he had it all correct from day one to now. The only thing the Oracle of Ottawa missed was the severity. This is all becoming much worse then even what the Oracle of Ottawa dreamed in some of his worst nightmares.

If memory serves the Oracle of Ottawa correctly, the last time we had slave coolie Chinese labour in Canada was back in the days of MacDonald, when he was having the Canadian Pacific Railway built! But when you look back on it all with an objective eye, it was the only way that Van Horn could get the work done And pay the graft to Sir John and the Conservative Party of the day!  Isn't it amazing how history keeps repeating itself ?

It is amazing what a back door hotel room ricer fantasy can cost you, isn't it?

The Symbolism of Christian "Yvette" Paradis

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear...
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay XIX, Of Empire

As a politician,  you know the future does not bode well when the "corruption allegations" part of your Wikipedia article takes up over 60% of the whole article! Such is the case of the 'Harper Government's present Minister of Industry,  otherwise known as Christian "Yvette" Paradis. For a guy of a mere 38 years and a very good education you really got to wonder where this is all going to end up. I am sure the Universities of Sherbrooke and Laval are very proud of that Wikipedia article of one of their most illustrious alumni. Perhaps that ethics thing is not such an English thing after all...

"The Front Row" - Left to Right: Baird, Clement, Paradis, Harper

And the fact that this little Maurice Duplessis clone sits at the right hand of Steve of the 'Harper Government' certainly sends information to this humble blogger! Why the little greasy shit even looks like Duplessis! Check it out, it is freaking eerie! And he has a very thin skin also. If you watch Question Period of November 28th, 2012, you will soon learn what the Oracle of Ottawa means. I believe it was Charlie Angus that really flustered him when he worked into a question that the Prime Minister lets him play minister while he designates some youngster from Calgary in the PMO to make the real decisions! The Oracle of Ottawa caught that! "Yvette" was livid in little pepsi rage. Go NDP!

This little Jean - Guy is in so far over his head it is utterly painful, but not un-enjoyable, to watch. When he stands to his seat to answer a question he assumes the hand posture that he learned in 'Harper Government' boot camp media training. He looks like a house wife peddling cheap Chinese cookware in a mall in Gaspe!
And then there is that Corruption Commission going on in Montreal right now that is really digging in, in the Province of Quebec at this present time. Names are coming up, that one would have never suspected, and they are being arrested and detained. Hold on my fellow Leftie Canadians, anything could happen, and no doubt probably will.   

"Yvette" can't seem to keep his hands out of the cookie jar...Note; the Minister also has his own sleeping bag, food and pop gun if you would like to invite him to your place to a talk "business"...

Dalton McGuinty Done In By PPP

It is true that space is only in my head; but empirically my head is in space.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Will And Idea, Volume II, p. 184

Not even the Oracle of Ottawa got a sniff of this one coming. But there you go. But it is obvious to the Oracle of Ottawa that it was the Private Public Partnerships that did him in. The corporate whores can under no circumstances ever be allowed into the hen-house of government as pals. And the events of the very recent past are total proof of this. Andrea Horvath, for crying out loud, take note! 

Dalton McGuinty - done in by PPP

The Oracle of Ottawa stated his sneak'in suspicions around the time of the onset of the electric smart meters. Something that was not needed and will never pay for them selves. But before that and now it was a hell of  run for the mighty Dalton. He ended up being the sixth longest serving premier in Ontario history. Tim Hudak will never touch that, not even in his wildest dreams! But Andrea Horvath could beat that, if she acts like a cross between Hurricane Hazel and Joseph Stalin! And that is the way you have to conduct government. The corporate whores are never to be trusted. You must have them and keep them on there knees begging, or else you will be another Dalton.

Now the Oracle is free of the ties of the past. He can now vote for the NDP and like it. I figure that Andrea Horvath is the Hurricane Hazel of Ontario, and damn it that is what we really really need. If an old women of 91 years can get elected 12 times in a row and make politics look easy, it must be then as easy as that. The Oracle of Ottawa can only hope that some one has learned a lesson from this sad debacle....

Meanwhile in the corporate bunker - somewhere in downtown Toronto, the corporate over whores are not taking the news very well....

City of Ottawa - State of The Burg(h)ers

I affect not reserves, which I do not feel. 
Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, No. 1

The Oracle of Ottawa has recently become more and more befuddled at the actions of Gentleman Jim the mayor and his merry band of burg(h)ers. The vulgar media coverage of the great mans latest obsession to score Ottawa its very own gambling house just boggles the ordinary mind. And his obsession that it has to be "downtown" in Ottawa, which is the federal capital of Canada, is all rather appearing  to resemble salient behavior. Yet like a dog chasing a hubcap, he just pushes on. His first light bulb of an idea, to have said new casino in the old train station, which is now known as the Ottawa Conference Center was shot down in flames by the National Capital Commission, as was the brilliant idea to build it in the new disposable building recently completed at Rideau Center.

Gentleman Jim beckons to the Lead Nugget Casino....

 It has not crossed the little hay seeds mind that any Casino in downtown Ottawa would be less than two miles away from the very posh Casino already in operation in Gatineau Quebec! The befuddled mayor fails to realize that Ottawa has been beat to the gambling dollar punch by several years by the Frenchmen. And any Casino built in Ottawa, that will certainly look like a McDonalds burger joint,  certainly won't endear the spoiled rotten low rollers of Ottawa!

Let us put all these recent events into perspective dear reader. The mayor and council of the City of Ottawa want to build a new Casino, posher than the one in Quebec, very close by. The City of Ottawa is going to build an insane "light rail" system and subway for a mere 1.5 billion dollars, starting anytime soon. We are screwed into a public -private partnership in Landsdowne Park that is ready over budget... In the meantime people are driving their cars into massive "sink holes" that was actually the failure of a structure that hadn't been looked at in God Knows how long! The people of Ottawa cannot even afford to get their garbage picked up once a week! Those poor souls living the burbs are terrified at when the next overloaded garbage truck is going to collide with another garbage truck or just end up in the living room! All in an attempt by City HR to make all the Garbage truck drivers, better truck drivers and better garbage men, with two or more routes a day! You can do it if you TRY!!!  Well it appears not.... The small town cheap hypocrisy is simply astounding, and will prove soon enough to be utterly fatal.

Yes, we will get that shit hole casino, it won't be downtown though. The Oracle of Ottawa has realized just today where it will in the end, be situated. Due to the inability to attract retailers to the Landsdowne Live site, and the utterly laughable suggestion that any one will shell out fifty million dollars to get their name on a certain train wreck, which has as about as much of chance of happening as Gentleman Jim catching AIDS. Oh yeah.. About as much chance of being hit by lightning... Gentleman Jim's  Lead Nugget Casino will be the feature attraction!! The people of the Glebe will no doubt be thrilled!

The year is 2016. The site is Landsdowne Live, Gentleman Jim's Lead Nugget Casino beckons, can you feel the ambiance??

The Symbolism Of Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz

The totalitarian state can never be become completely invulnerable or stamp out critical thought altogether. It may appear all-powerful, as it dominates all aspects of life, but is also weak insomuch as any crack in the ideological monolith is a threat to its existence.
Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents Of Marxism, Volume III, p. 860

The Oracle of Ottawa had intended to write this bit much earlier. But I had trouble finding out which high school Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz graduated from. So dear reader you can also readily understand why I cannot find any record of even undergraduate University education. Why it seems clear that the Minister is the second dumbest hay seed yokel to ever be a Minister of State in the history of Canada! It would seem that Jethro Bodine had more "book learning", since we all know that that Jethro got to the astounding heights of the sixth grade...

Gerry - The Ditz....

We all know the history of recent events. The venerable Canadian Wheat Board is all but toast. The august Minister in the mere presence of the great man Gerry "The Ditz" Ritz laughed off the threatened coming and present events, such as Canada's loss of control of its food supply to shady foreign interests, as raised in many statements in the House of Commons, by individuals of the Opposition, that as a class,  were on average ten times smarter and more informed then the present Minister. The Minister easily pushed aside all criticism, it was really easy, he did not even understand the questions!

Now of course the harsh reality of our dark future is upon us. The largest Canadian Agriculture business in Canada, Viterra, is now a target of a hostile take-over by one megalithic and somewhat shady Glencore! The real interesting bit here is that Glencore is the rebirth of the creature created by one Marc Rich. And real further interesting bit is the successor one Ivan Glasenberg.How ironic is that dear reader? It also seems that this offshore based entity has past problems with bribery of government officials from Africa to the heart of the European Union! Now that is real brass. If you are a western grain farmer, the Oracle of Ottawa strongly suggests that you don't read down all the links, it will really ruin your day and make you very upset...

Perhaps it is time to send in the "double naught" spies from CSIS and get to the real bottom of this before it too late....
 

Signalling At Ottawa Public Library

In the process of experimentation there are endless opportunities for error, and the free search for truth therefore involves friction and waste.
L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism, p. 59

Could you imagine the uproar in the City of Walmart, er, ah, the City of Ottawa if a person with a graduate degree in Library Science was promoted to the position of Chief Urban Planner for the City of Ottawa!? Why all the land rapers and soulless corporate house flipping whores would be in a totally catatonic state. But when a want'a be failed urban planner (?) gets set up as the replacement for the retiring Head Librarian of the the venerable Ottawa Public Library, well you just get the contractor spin doctors out and put the story into the Sunday edition of the skanky Ottawa Citizen! Nobody reads the Ottawa Citizen, especially on Sunday... You only buy the Ottawa Citizen for the TV guide... (and the cat box and bird cage....)

A library is not a "business"...

 For the first time since the utterly disastrous amalgamation of the City of Ottawa the new head of the Ottawa Public Library will not be a librarian! One can only surmise which office that this decision came from. But the signal it sends is wrought with doom if you are a fan of the Ottawa Public Library. And when you hear the expression that the Ottawa Public Library is a "business", well you can conclude that the decision came down from the Prime Ministers Office, not the mayors office. And as you may have have noticed anything that is named McDonald is getting a pretty free ride today.

Ottawa Public Library - Main Branch
Future site of Bayshore Phase III?

Did you know dear reader that the Ottawa Public Library is the largest French-English library in North America? Did you know that it is the second largest public library in Canada? The only larger public library is  in the City of Toronto! With an annual budget of over 50 million dollars, don't you think the incompetent powers that presently are could get a search on for a posh "Cadillac" Head Librarian? Why the Oracle of Ottawa has a pretty good picture of the successful candidate already! Let us take a break from the spiral to the bottom and shoot high... Lets see... Undergraduate degree from a prestigious College at Oxford, you know, a Rhodes Scholar.  The University of Oxford has books! Over 11 million of them! And a very large percentage of them are all but priceless. One hears that the Oxford library science program is world class. A side degree in the "Greats" and /or philosophy would be utterly perfect also. Why not? The stature and presence of the second largest public library in Canada deserves a Head Librarian with a doctorate in library science. I mean really...

Now dear reader, we all know what a job like this should pay. I figure the starting salary should be about $125,000 per year to start. And then there are the language requirements. Ottawa, even in the 'Harper Government' era,  is a very cosmopolitan city, don't you know! Why the Oracle of Ottawa figures that the new Head Librarian of the Ottawa Public Library should be able to speak the big four languages of the Western Civilized World, don't you? That of course means English, French, German, and Spanish. A bonus should be offered and payed if the new Head Librarian could speak the core languages of the Classical World also, those being of course Greek and Latin. The Oracle of Ottawa deeply regrets that all pass arts degree trots from Cartoon U need not apply....

Books are sacred. A Library is not a "business". It does not market and sell products for the purpose of "profit". Go back to the drawing board and start the open selection process for a proper and posh Head Librarian. Chop chop, of you go little people....