VIDEO: Why you should KEEP ALL your physical media

Richard John "Rick" Beato is an American YouTuber, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has also lectured on music at universities. Beato owns and operates Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain GA. (Don't miss the Confederate Memorial Carving while you're there!)

Mr Beato is afraid that the media in which our history and culture is recorded is in danger of being loss, consigned to the "memory hole" envisioned by George Orwell in 1984. He argues that if the written, audio and visual works are not destroyed completely -- digital records being destroyed by a solar flare, for instance -- they may survive only in forms "corrected" according to the politics of the day. 

In this video, titled "Another Reason I F*cking Hate AI", Mr Beato describes how this "AI apocalypse" could happen. Indeed, he says, it's happening already!

Walt believe what Mr Beato is saying. Full disclosure: We don't use AI here, largely because we don't know how. But Ed. has been known to "revise" text in order to correct or otherwise "improve" it. The version you're reading may be V 2.0... or not!

Any book you've ever read, even the Holy Bible, can be changed using AI. If you don't preserve the original hard copy, how would you know? These days, when you see something on YouTube, you should assume that it's been created or edited... or censored, by AI. Don't believe me? Go to some of the episodes of Family Guy or South Park you can find on NetFlix or wherever. Do you find yourself saying, "Hey, that's not how it was when it was on TV!"? 

The lessons: Keep all your books, DVDs, CDs, tapes and vinyl. And back your stuff up. Make .pdf files of the printed material. (We recommend an 11 x 17 scanner) Digitise4 the video and audio tapes. Make copies of the CDs and DVDs. Get a large (4 TB or bigger) external hard drive. And remember, even a hard drive can be destroyed and/or will eventually fail. Govern yourselves accordingly!

VIDEO: Canada's REAL problem, in under 3 minutes

Dear Canadian readers, what you're about to read and hear is going to sting. 

Walt has a sort spot for Canada [in his head. Ed.] At the end of its first century of official existence (30/6/67), it was still a "not too bad" (as Canucks say) place to live. 1000s of Americans crossed the World's Longest Undefended BorderTM, not just to get out of the draft but because Canada was seen as quiet, peaceful, with good social services (especially health care) and without the extremes of wealth and poverty of the US of A.

But then, in the spring of 1968, Canada's Natural Governing Party (aka the Liberal Party) chose as its leader Pierre Elliot Trudeau, a socialist intellectual and great friend of Fidel Castro, who reigned as Prime Minister (later Empereor) from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984. Yes, the 1984 foreseen by George Orwell!

On his ascension to the throne the alleged father of Emperor Trudeau II [some say Fidel was Justin's real papa. Ed.], the Northern Magus* said, "You won't recognize Canada when I'm through with it. Too right, he was. And his "opening-up and reform" of the Great White North has been carried on, for most of the 42 years since he retired, by a succession of Liberal rulers chosen from the Laurentian elite, including Justin (aka Blackie McBlackface) and his successor, Marx Carney.

The sad thing is that Canadians -- old-stock Canadians -- don't seem to care. They, especially those living in the three big cities, keep electing the liberals, pinkos, and other loony leftists -- anybody whose name appears on a Liberal red election sign. 

The result is the Canuckistan that President Trump makes fun of today -- the same President Trump that Mr Carney, his toadies and the bought-and-paid-for media blame for all of Canada's self-inflicted problems. Yes, we have video, from Satire Squad HQ.

Thanks to the good folks at Blazing Cat Fur for showing Ed. where to find this. 

* The Northern Magus is a hagiography of PET, written by Richard Gwyn, one of his Laurentian sycophants.

Video games: Have you tried "the Pindia challenge"?

Agent 3 is usually so engrossed in watching airliner disaster porn that he doesn't have time for trivia like video games, but reports that he's been having fun with The Pindia Challenge. It's a game you can play on Google Maps -- no downloads or other software needed.

How to play: Put your cursor on any location in India -- anywhere at all -- zoom in and select "street view". The goal is to find an area completely free of trash, rubble, garbage or excrement. It’s almost impossible to win on the first try.

But surely (Walt hears you speculate) all of India can't be like this? I dunno. I've only been to Mumbai and Delhi, and I saw street scenes far worse than this. [We will not post photos of people -- women as well as men -- defecating on the ground beside rows of porta-potties. Ed.] Play the game and see what you find.

And then... tell me why we expect that when we allow migrants from places like this to come and live amongst us, they will behave any differently than they do at home.

Hyuge win for rightist Alternativ für Deutschland in German election

The big breakthrough for the Right which Walt has been predicting came on Sunday as voters in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt overwhelmingly chose the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) to run their government. Lifetime pct .988.

Their victory follows on, but surpasses, the AfD's best-ever result of six months ago. See "German elections: AfD rises to best result ever" WWW 26/2/26.

It's a historic victory for a once-ridiculed populist party that the lickspittle media routine call "extremist", "radical right" and "neo-Nazi". They're not laughing how. In fact the liberals and their press agents are soiling their shorts in terror! They're saying now that Sunday's win signifies a deep crisis of established politics in Germany and sends a message to right-wing populists around the world that the political tides are in their favour. What do you think of that, Frau Merkel?

Speaking in Magdeburg, Alice Weidel, co-leader of the federal AfD, told the meeja, "I'm feeling so excited and I'm so proud of our team here in Saxony-Anhalt. We have a huge responsibility, not only in Saxony-Anhalt, but in Germany overall."

The AfD promises to improve relations with Russia, ban Pride flags in schools and create separate classrooms for refugee children. And it gets better! They're calling for "remigration" -- the mass deportation of people bogus refugees, asylum-seekers and other illegal aliens who invaded the Fatherland once the floodgates were opened by former Chancellor Angela Merkel. 

The AfD's Saxony-Anhalt chairman, Martin Reichardt, said, "No one who is honest, and no one who is accepting our laws and no one who is not illegal in Germany has to be scared because of our party."

One German who is shit scared is soon-to-be ex-Chancellor Friedrich "Fred" Merz. He warned that the triumph of the AfD in the Saxony-Anhalt election means his government "cannot simply move past as if nothing happened," as he accepted "the most severe election defeat in years, indeed in decades."

Herr Merz admitted Germany still needs "fundamental reforms", and defended his liberal-ish government's track record. Our of the other side of his mouth, he rejected any talks of giving up and resigning from his lofty post.

Meanwhile, triumphant AfD leaders celebrated "a dream result", which they said showed the growing appetite for change in German politics. What puzzles me is how the forces of One Worldism can continue to suppress a similar appetite for change in the politics France, the Disunited Kingdom and Canada. Surely the people of those countries must wake up some day!

Seen today on the Bee: Gloria Steinem, RIP?

So, farewell then, Gloria Steinem. You won't be missed, at least not by anybody Walt knows. And that includes lots of Real Women, easily distinguishable from the Wimmin whose role model and champion MS Steinem was. Here's what the good Christian satirists at the Babylon Bee posted.

  

Powerful: Gloria Steinem Refuses

To Allow Satan To Hold Door To Hell Open For Her

Click here to read the article.

Your Sikhs today: One (only) takes the fall in "largest superlab in Canadian history" bust

Nearly two years ago, the RCMP (aka Mounties) made a big production out of announcing the dismantling of "the largest fentanyl and methamphetamine lab in Canadian history." Yes, we have video.

You would think, wouldn't you, that the busting of a criminal enterprise of this magnitude would result in some arrests, convictions and maybe even deportations of those involved. So far, however, not one single, solitary person has been charged with producing, manufacturing, or distributing fentanyl or any other drug produced in that huge operation. And it doesn't look as if anyone will ever be charged. 

In the video, released on Hallowe'en of 2024, RCMP Assistant Commissioner David Teboul called the drug factory, located near Falkland BC, the "largest and most sophisticated illicit fentanyl and meth facility ever found in Canada." 54 kg of finished fentanyl were seized, along with 390 kg of methamphetamine, 35 kg of cocaine, 15 kg of MDMA and six kg of cannabis, plus tonnes of precursor chemicals, 89 firearms, explosives, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armour and $500,000 in cash. 

Obviously the work of more than one man. However, only one man has been charged with anything. Who was he? Step forward Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa, aged 32, of Surrey BC -- the British Columbia counterpart of Brampton ON. Mr Singh Randhawa named as the sole suspect following the highly publicized RCMP announcement, and remains to this day the only person charged in connection with the investigation. 

But get this! The charges the Sikh miscreant he pled guilty to earlier this week arose from a different aspect of the investigation! All he went down for was attempting to export 310 kg of methamphetamine to the Philippines.

According to an agreed statement of facts read in BC Supreme Court, Mr Singh Randhawa admitted making several trips to a Richmond BC shipping company, Manila Cargo Express, between September and October of 2024, with boxes containing methamphetamine destined for the Philippines. Police intercepted 19 boxes before they left Canada, while another 12 boxes were transported to the shipping company on various dates in October. 

Mr Singh Randhawa also pled guilty to possessing methamphetamine, fentanyl, carfentanil, cocaine and MDMA for the purpose of trafficking, as well as firearms-related offences. For some reason, though, the agreed statement of facts made no mention of the Falkland superlab, the precursor tonnage or the 54 kg of finished fentanyl. Don'tcha wanna know why?

The presiding judge put sentencing into the new year so Mr Singh could stay in pretrial custody and see his family and friends over Diwali or whatever holidays Sikhs celebrate. Next year he will likely be sentenced to less than six months, so that he will not face deportation. After all, diversity is Canuckistan's strength!

Renaming everything "America" or "American"? Not gonna happen

In the wake of President's Trump's widely mocked attempts to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, the Net has been inundated with memes like this.

Very funny, Doctor Jones. Very funny!" But let's get real here. Everyone knows that Canada Dry is the No. 1 brand of ginger ale in the US of A, and has been so since the daze of Prohibition because that's what you mix with Crown Royal or Canadian Club. [That's if you're an American with no taste. Canucks drink it neat or on the rocks. Ed.] And so it will always be.

What everyone, including the creator of this meme, do not know is there are already brands of ginger ale called "America Dry" and "American Dry".

America Dry has been around since at least the 1950s. Walt remembers its bottle cap -- silver with three blue stars and "America Dry" in red in the same font as that on the can. American ginger ale was but a pale imitation of the real thing...like American beer.

Quote of the day: W.C. Fields is alleged to have said, "They told me to drink Canada Dry. I tried, but it was closed on Sundays."