They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Is the LNG industry a rigged game?

DIVEST FROM FASCISTS #5 The piece👇looks at how much Canada’s biggest public pension funds (the ‘Maple Eight’) have invested in the US, despite the Trump regime’s threats against 🇨🇦, the gross corruption + breakdown of law, and the fascist-friendly role of many leading US firms + CEOs. Diversify fast!

Well put. Not exactly the firm we in 🇨🇦 want to be bankrolling with our pensions or government contracts.

Exactamente! Recommend following @razomwestand.bsky.social and @creacleanair.bsky.social for regular analysis of fascist Russia’s fossil exports.

Agreed! And every word about Europe here is also exactly true for Canada. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

Scandalous. Meanwhile: “Hundreds of Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed by Russia's all-out war, and hundreds of sports facilities have been destroyed by Russian missile and drone attacks.” #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Resuming our thread about the new court case challenging the Canada Pension Plan’s awful approach to climate risk, here’s a helpful new post 👇 from @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social BCI, AIMCo and other big pension investment managers in 🇨🇦 would be wise to take note!

To learn more about Drax (seriously, were they trying to choose a comically-villainous name?), check out the @ember-energy.org report👇 Drax power plant is the biggest single CO2e source in 🇬🇧 - 13.3M tonnes (more than the next 4 emitters combined). Sure glad we cut down all that BC old-growth! 3/x

…And here’s more ⬇️ from @stand.earth about how Drax runs a preposterous greenwashing scheme that destroys BC old-growth 🌲🌲🌲. The year is 2025, the 🌍 is on fire, and 🇬🇧 taxpayers are PAYING mega ££ to torch 🇨🇦 forests, spew massive GHGs, AND worsen air quality in Yorkshire. Well done, everyone! 2/x

The utter lunacy at every climate-wrecking step of this scandalous business model is hard to overstate: killing old-growth🌲 in BC, trucking them to plants, turning them into pellets, shipping them half-way around the 🌍, then 🔥 them. All subsidized by 🇬🇧 taxpayers. @stand.earth @tzeporah.bsky.social

Now comes news that 🇬🇧 MPs are questioning the farcical sustainability claims that are used to justify Drax’s huge taxpayer subsidies. Experts believe “the company had continued to source 250-year-old trees from some of Canada’s oldest forests via the Burns Lake pellet plant...“ @stand.earth 4/x

Further to the @desmog.com article above, here’s an example of the awful ways CPP Investment Board thinks it’s acceptable to invest our pensions!

Check out this great @desmog.com piece underlining the CPP Investment Board‘s moral bankruptcy - it’s investing BILLION$ of OUR pensions in climate arson, fascist-friendly firms, and AI garbage. *NB: as we note in next post ⬇️ one of those evil firms is the Gestapo’s favourite, Palantir.

EXACTLY. Too many Canadians don’t realize fascist Russia is at war with Canada and the other remaining democracies too. (Example👇) And the Trump regime is allied with the Kremlin. We should act accordingly - with way more support for Ukraine and way tougher sanctions on Moscow. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

FIFA is a disgrace - exceptionally gifted at siding with the oppressors against the oppressed.

Unfortunately, we are in for lots more fossil adverts when the World Cup is here - one of FIFA’s key partners is 🇸🇦Aramco, the world‘s biggest oil firm (mostly owned by a petro-dictatorship). For this, FIFA recently won the Inaugural ​ @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social "Football Climate Impact Prize"👇

The EU and NATO need to bypass Hungary. Ukraine would be a MUCH better member of both organizations. Hoping upcoming elections send evil Orban packing.

And sadly, many public sector pension fund managers in 🇨🇦 believe in those outdated, misleading models - investing BILLION$ in climate arson and basing their long-term solvency on the assumption that climate change will have a MILD(!) economic impact. And as if we‘ll have a normal 🌏 to retire on.

Indeed. And there may well be another similarity with Brexit - it starts with ‘R’ and ends with ‘ussia’.

Outrageous indeed. And besides doubling down on climate arson, CPP Investment Board is cool with the Gestapo’s favourite firm, Palantir, and other fascist-friendly firms. (As are BCI and other pension fund investment managers in Canada.)

Hey 🦋 friends! It’s been 4 years since fascist Russia launched a full-scale, genocidal invasion of our democratic ally Ukraine. Please read + share widely the message👇from @b4ukraine.org describing key steps to stop Moscow’s war machine, strengthen Ukraine, and reach a just peace. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇨🇦

Your SPECIAL DAILY REMINDER - 4 years since fascist 🇷🇺 launched its full-scale invasion of our ally 🇺🇦 - that #FossilFuelsFundFascists !!! Time for EU countries to stop buying Russian oil + gas and bankrolling the Kremlin!!! (And please make sure to follow @razomwestand.bsky.social👇)

Your daily reminder that many countries - including EU members - continue bankrolling the Kremlin and its brutal imperialist war against our ally Ukraine. As @razomwestand.bsky.social notes, over the past 4 years this = €1 TRILLION in revenue for fascist Russia. Shameful. #fossilfuelsfundfascists

Indeed. And hard to understand.

Thanks @kateytomatey.bsky.social ! And good reminder about that report - must go through it again. Btw, if you haven’t seen, here’s a growing thread👇about one of the firms in question, Palantir, used by ICE + the IDF. BCI, CPPIB, and other pension fund investment managers in 🇨🇦 have big $$ invested.

Hey 🦋 antI-fascists! Four years into Ukraine’s resistance against fascist Russia’s full-scale invasion, it’s vitally important that we redouble support for our ally! Ukrainians are defending us all. Here are some small examples👇of ways you can help - there are many others! 🇺🇦🇨🇦 #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Super important reality-check here about what we - and our leaders - see on social media. 👇

High-fives all around in both the Kremlin and Mar-a-Lago as Smith + the Alberta separatist 5th columnists undermine Canada. The ‘U’ in UCP stands for ‘Useful Idiots”.

"We have been hearing that Ukrainian attacks to Novorossiysk affected some of the American investments which are being performed through Kazakhstan. And we have heard from Department of State that we should refrain from, you know, attacking American interests,"

💔🇺🇦 Four years of war. My city - Odesa

🇬🇪🇺🇦 The Ukrainian anthem performed in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia.

If anyone was curious about what Elon Musk and his DOGE needed all of the personal data of everyone, that they were stealing/ transfering to goodness knows where, this 👇 might be one of their use of personal data :(

When allies become enemies, you must plan for the worst

FK PALANTIR

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 10: Demand your pension fund divests from Kremlin-friendly firms. As documented by orgs like @b4ukraine.org + @globalwitness.org many odious Western firms still do business in/with 🇷🇺, thus fuelling its war on 🇺🇦. Examples held by BC public sector pensions👇.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 9: Beware of 🇷🇺 propagandists + Kremlin shills. Informative threads from @vatniksoup.bsky.social profile Putin apologists, including academics, politicians, and media grifters. Some of these “vatniks” are from 🇨🇦, like J Peterson, D Lascaris, and A Maté.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 8: Keep informed about the state of the war. Daily updates, analysis, and maps by @thestudyofwar.bsky.social offer clear-eyed perspective, highlight 🇺🇦‘s tenacity (and 🇷🇺‘s mendacity), and underline the importance of sustaining serious Western military aid.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 7: Wage information warfare vs. Russia - join the North Atlantic Fella Organization and become a #fella! NAFO and the fellas have won many glorious battles fighting 🇷🇺 BS and disinformation, while raising $$ for 🇺🇦 defenders. “You pronounced this nonsense!”

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 6: Support a total embargo on 🇷🇺 fossil fuels, and follow @razomwestand.bsky.social - an NGO working to end fossil dependency that funds authoritarian regimes, accelerate 🇺🇦’s transition to renewable energy, and build a peaceful, climate-safe future for all.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 5: Show your support + raise awareness daily. Founded by a Canadian in 2022, @saintjavelin.bsky.social is a social enterprise offering t-shirts, hats, hoodies, and much else. Mostly made in 🇺🇦, there are many great designs, like the iconic Saint Javelin.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 4: Boycott + denounce the many fascist-friendly foreign firms propping up Putin. @b4ukraine.org has great info about this - its’s a global coalition of civil society organizations working to block access to the economic resources behind Russian aggression.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 3: Learn about Ukrainian history! The Making of Modern Ukraine lectures by @timothysnyder.bsky.social (on YouTube + podcast) charts 🇺🇦‘s evolution from ancient times - it long predates 🇷🇺 - to now, and is a helpful antidote to Russo-centric false narratives.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 2: Donate $ to humanitarian aid + defence. At the official 🇺🇦 site @u24.gov.ua (sponsors = Mark Hamill, Barbara Streisand, Timothy Snyder, etc.) you can support everything from rebuilding schools, to de-mining, to buying ambulances, to funding armed drones.

Things You Can Do To Support Ukraine🇺🇦 Idea 1: Read, share and subscribe to Ukraine-based media, like the @kyivindependent.com Co-founded by a group of journalists in late 2021, it’s a great source of reporting + investigations about 🇺🇦, its fight for survival, and related European + global issues.

Hey 🦋 antI-fascists! Four years into Ukraine’s resistance against fascist Russia’s full-scale invasion, it’s vitally important that we redouble support for our ally! Ukrainians are defending us all. Here are some small examples👇of ways you can help - there are many others! 🇺🇦🇨🇦 #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Very understandable feeling! If we draws lessons from Finland, Ukraine and other countries with experience living next to an aggressive neighbour, there are so many ways we can all contribute to making Canada more resilient. (Earlier in that same thread, there are lots of articles and resources👇).

Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists !!! “Putin’s war on Ukraine – and hybrid Russian threats across Europe – can only be stopped by choking off Moscow’s fossil fuel revenues.” @razomwestand.bsky.social

Trump has killed Americans.

Exactly. And all the aggressively stupid rhetoric in the NSS about Europe (and interfering there), was implicitly about Canada. There’s no time to lose - Canada needs to become a porcupine as fast as possible, drawing lessons from the Nordics and others.