Last Week Today Episode 173 Show Notes for Tuesday, November 4th, 2024
The US Election, Khalistan & Why Former BC Premier Called Trudeau “an Idiot,” World Bank also Missing 40% of Massive Green Fund, Service Ontario Employees in “Massive Car Theft Ring” & Old Cherries!
The US Election
Our top story tonight is all about Tuesday’s US presidential election.
It’s widely considered to be the most consequential election in living memory, on both sides of the political divide.
Freedom Forum takes the perspective that the most reasonable outcome is an initial Trump landslide cresting on Tuesday night before turning into a substantial but far more modest Republican win later in the week.
Intentional malfeasance explains much of the expected pattern. The fraudulent votes are added to the totals after the initial results are known.
The overall landscape has much in common with the 1876 US election, which as outlined in the February 4th, 2024 The History Guy on YouTube post, “‘Your Fraudulency:’ The 1876 election,” was considered to be the most contested election in US history.
More recent news stories like the October 29th, 2024 Cryptogon post “As the Vote Fraud Video’s Begin to Emerge,” and its October 30th, 2024 follow-on post, “Here We Go Again” are listing stories from other news outlets covering overt examples of modern day election interference.
These include:
The ongoing use of mostly untraceable mail-in ballots, which can be harvested in bulk by third parties and used by those third parties to vote for their favored candidates.
The refusal to clean up voter registration lists by removing the dead and those who’ve moved, which encourages third parties with voter registration lists to vote in bulk for their favored candidates using the votes of the dead and those who are registered to vote multiple times in multiple jurisdictions.
The lack of any requirement in some jurisdictions to show any form of identification before voting, a practice which allows undocumented aliens and pretty much anyone else with a voter list to vote multiple times in multiple jurisdictions.
The ongoing, well documented problems with computers configured to count votes which are hackable and often not backed up by hard copy and individual paper votes.
Legacy media is also running stories attempting to debunk the corruption narrative favored by new media outlets and Republican party candidates in favor of corruption narratives favored by the legacy media and the Democratic party.
Examples include the November 3rd, BBC post, “Whirlwind of misinformation sows distrust ahead of US election day,” the November 5th, 2024 the Guardian post, “US security agencies warn of Russian election disinformation blitz in swing states,” and the November 4th, 2024 Washington Post article, “Trump escalates false claims of Fraud, setting stage to cry foul if he looses.”
It’s worth noting that, at least according to books like the 2015, “Votescam: The Stealing of America (Forbidden Bookshelf),”and the 2019, “Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics: 1776-1963,” stealing elections is as American as apple pie and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.
Even Joe Rogan is stepping up to the plate, according to the November 4th, 2024 Zero Hedge post, “'A Coordinated Effort' To Rig States - Rogan Exposes Democrats' Plan To Destroy American Democracy...”
But the legacy media still seems to be controlling the election narrative, at least amongst those without the skills to access new media outlets online. An example of this narrative is the November 4th, 2024 The Guardian on YouTube post, “The key moments of the US election campaign in three minutes.”
The biggest Republican political triumph in the last days of the campaign is the collection of “A” list movers and shakers republican candidate Donald Trump has managed to win over to his team.
In a campaign ad released initially on Instagram on November 4th, “Team Trump,” uses testimonials weaved together from Republican politician and political commentator Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attorney Nicole Shanahan, Republican VP candidate JD Vance, American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and billionaire industrialist Elon Musk to paint an optimistic picture of a future America restored to greatness by the power of its people.
It’s overt propaganda, but it’s still great.
It’s also an ad diametrically opposed to the Democratic narrative of the Republican candidate as a desperate authoritarian loner willing to destroy democracy to feed his personal ego.
The Republican ad doesn’t once suggest that the US electorate should curl up and go back to sleep after the election.
There will always be a lot of work to do if only because this government seems to be promising only to govern, not to rule and the people must always watch over government to insure that it governs effectively and within the constraints set by the US Constitution.
On the other hand, there’s disconcerting suggestions of disunity amongst the broader electorate.
The November 4th, 2024 Zero Hedge post, “Washington Activates National Guard, Oregon "Standing Ready", Heading Into Election Day,” and the October 29th, 2024 International Crisis Group post, “Risks of Violence around the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: A Primer,” are examples of this.
But its worth noting that organization like the Brussels, Belgium based Crisis Group, “an independent organization working to prevent wars and shape policies that will build a more peaceful world,” make money off governments using their fears of catastrophe.
What’s really going to happen after the election results come in? Stay tuned.
Also in the News this Week
Khalistan & Why Former BC Premier Called Justin Trudeau “an Idiot.”
Also in the news this week, a former NDP premier of British Columbia, who was also once a federal cabinet minister under Liberal PM Paul Martin, has publicly called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “an idiot.”
The evocatively titled November 3rd, 2024 National Post story, “'Trudeau, sociologically and politically, is an idiot': Ujjal Dosanjh on why PM is to blame for Sikh extremism in Canada,” quotes former BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh as blaming Trudeau for allowing the largest Sikh diaspora in the world to be co-opted by the Khalistanis separatist movement to the point where it has become a domestic and international Canadian problem.
The National Post story seems to have come out only the day before protests led by advocates for an independent Khalistan erupted outside of two Brampton based Hindu temples.
As outlined in the November 4th, 2024 India Today post, “Canadian cop suspended for attending pro-Khalistan protest outside Hindu temple,” Harinder Sohi, a Sergeant of the Peel Regional Police, “was suspended by authorities after a video of him participating in a pro-Khalistan protest outside a Hindu temple in Brampton went viral on social media.”
According to the India Today post,
The development comes amid the ongoing uproar over the attack on the Hindu Sabha temple, also in Brampton, by Khalistani elements on Sunday. Protestors carrying Khalistani flags clashed with people at the temple and also disrupted a consular event co-organized by the temple authorities and the Indian Consulate.
Videos circulating on social media showed fist fights and people striking each other with flagpoles on what appeared to be the grounds surrounding the temple.
Three people who attended the Sunday protests at the Hindu Sabha temple have been arrested, according to Canadian authorities, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has posted on social media platform “X” saying, “We expect the Canadian government to ensure justice and uphold the rule of law.”
The Khalistan movement is an independence movement seeking to create a separate homeland for Sikhs by carving out the ethno‐religious sovereign state of Khalistan from Indian territory, according to Wikipedia. Former BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh blames Trudeau and the Liberals for the situations boiling over into Canada.
And that’s not even the strangest Canadian political story this week. According to this recent Toronto Sun social media post, there’s far worse going on.
World Bank also Missing 40% of Massive Green Fund
The Liberal Party of Canada isn’t the only organization grappling with a massive procurement scandal involving funding earmarked for “green projects.”
According to the October 17th, 2024 Oxfam International post, “Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds,” up to $41Bln US dollars, is missing:
…nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington DC.
A more recent, November 3rd, 2024 Daily Hodl post, “World Bank Has Allegedly Lost Track of $24,000,000,000 As Insider Warns Banks’ Records ‘Routinely Made Up’: Report,” drops the amount missing but notes that accounting records are “routinely made up” to hide losses. “
Later in the Hodl post, they revise their figures again:
Somewhere between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate financing – potentially 40% of all the funds sent to the World Bank for climate change initiatives – has gone missing due to poor record-keeping practices, reports the international aid organization Oxfam.
The October 23rd, 2024 New York Post article, “World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24B in funds fighting climate change: ‘Could be twice or 10 times more’,” suggests strongly that the amount of missing money could actually be 10 times higher than what Oxfam is reporting and no one is really sure where the money went or what it was used for.
Now might be a good time to mention our October 15th, 2024 Last Week Today story “House of Commons Remains “Paralyzed” over SDTC Fraud,” which notes how a shuttered Canadian government agency, with a billion dollar budget seems to have lost up to 40% of the total and how the Liberal government doesn’t want anyone looking into the matter.
Maybe climate change really is a scam, just not the scam we thought.
Service Ontario Employees in “Massive Car Theft Ring.”
Multiple Service Ontario employees are allegedly part of massive car theft ring.
As outlined in the November 1st, 2024 Canadian Press post, “Service Ontario employees allegedly part of massive car theft ring,” Toronto police are claiming that dozens of people, including Service Ontario provincial government employees from across the Greater Toronto Area, have been arrested in an ongoing investigation into auto theft and fraudulent vehicle identification numbers.
The government employees allegedly filed fake or fraudulent VIN numbers so that stolen cars could be resold to new owners.
As outlined in the November 1st, 2024 CBC News post [2Capture16], “Toronto police link Service Ontario staff to fake VIN scheme as Ontario proposes penalties for auto fraud,” the Doug Ford provincial government is proposing new and harsher penalties for this type of crime.
It’s almost as if they know in advance what was going to happen.
Back in the heyday of Russian and Chinese communism, the only real news you could get from the controlled local media was about the successful campaigns of the Communist party to weed out bureaucratic corruption.
Those stories were very similar to the car theft ring story cycle were currently going through. As outlined in the May 24th, 2024 CHCH News on YouTube post, “Canada announces ‘National Action Plan’ on auto theft,” the current Canadian initiative even began with a government pronouncement, as did the old communist campaigns.
So are we currently living in a communist utopia without really being aware of it?
Perhaps comrade, perhaps.
Old Cherries
And finally tonight, here’s the November 3rd, 2024 Mongo Minds on Bitchute post, “Fresh Fruit Found Hundreds of Years Later.”
It’s an interesting story about the 250 year old skillset required to preserve fruits over long periods.
It’s also a reminder that we may need to redevelop a similar skillset to survive the upcoming challenges expected over the next few years.
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