Notices by Alison Creekside (alisoncreekside@mstdn.ca)

A reminder, as a #Boeing whistleblower is found dead in his car, that the US Senate Armed Services Committee found Boeing & Lockheed Martin planes to be full of "fake shitty Chinese parts" bought on the open market after being "salvaged by Chinese scrap merchants" in 2011.
The US Senate Armed Services Committee also 'discovered' exactly this same Chinese fake parts racket in Boeing & Lockheed Martin planes back in 2005, and again in 2008

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8876656/US-weapons-full-of-fake-Chinese-parts.html

From artist hani abbas in Switzerland:
#Gaza #FreePalestine

@LALegault Twitter:
People are posting screenshots of the near identical headlines across print media : "A man set himself on fire " that don't mention why.

Trudeau Government Authorized $28.5 Million Of New Military Exports To Israel Since October
in spite of the fact Global Affairs and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are legally obligated to consider the risks below during its export and brokering permit assessment process:
https://www.readthemaple.com/trudeau-government-authorized-28-million-of-new-military-exports-to-israel-since-october/

Six Canadian public pension funds have invested in fighter jets and armoured bulldozers being used by Israel in #Gaza amidst an ‘unfolding #genocide '
https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-pension-funds-invested-israeli-apartheid/

The official state of Israel account has posted this video, saying it is facilitating aid into #gaza .
A short clip at the end of the video, claiming to show tents and shelter for Gazans, was actually filmed in March 2022, showing tents in Moldova for Ukrainian refugees.
from disinfo debunker @Shayan86 at the BBC

A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government to trick people into believing in #ClimateChange has pleaded guilty to starting 14 fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/quebec-man-who-blamed-wildfires-on-government-pleads-guilty-to-setting-14-fires/article_bd630c03-e083-5174-8fd9-ead0586c7925.html

Pillaged from BlueSky:
"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital."

27 minutes into the new year & Canada's 100 highest-paid CEOs have already earned the average worker's annual salary, according to a report from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) carried on CBC.

CBC then cuts to Fraser Institute dude who says reports like this are "apples & oranges" because they fail to include other forms of average worker employee compensation like flexible hours. 🤣 #eattherich

Retired Premier Brian Pallister is now the only one left of "The Resistance" of 2018 who hasn't been busted by or is currently under investigation by the RCMP or disgraced by an internal audit.

Only 8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Meanwhile, another 37% of people live in some type of “flawed democracy” like the US.

The State of Democracy Around the World
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-democracy-around-the-world-2023/

Prof. Julia Steinberger reports
that for 3 full days the EU parliament hosted thousands of scientists, activists and policy-makers charting a future beyond growth, but says every single journalist there she spoke to said, "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
She is asking people to spread the word about this.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1659429887751405569.html
#degrowth #beyondgrowth

Aliens out for a walk at Battery Park, Ontario on Boxing Day
Blizzard photos of lamp posts by Ralph T.T. Yeung #Photography
https://www.rttyeung.com/updates/holiday-blizzard