Wikipedia defines gaslighting as follows:
Opinion
GOVERNMENT GASLIGHTING
“is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.
It may evoke changes in them such as cognitive dissonance or low self-esteem, rendering the victim additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation.
Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s beliefs.”
Psychologist Bryant Welch (in his 2008 book State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind) stated the following:
“To say gaslighting was started by the Bushes, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Fox News, or any other extant group is not simply wrong, it also misses an important point. Gaslighting comes directly from blending modern communications, marketing, and advertising techniques with long-standing methods of propaganda.
They were simply waiting to be discovered by those with sufficient ambition and psychological makeup to use them.”
Climate Change
On Dec 9/20, the United Nations produced the Emissions Gap Report 2020.
The document outlines the need to reduce global emissions in order to ensure that earth’s temperature does not increase by 3 degrees Celsius in order to overt climate catastrophe. 2030 is the date of no return according to the UN.
An AP News article (dated June 29, 1989) stated the following from Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program:
“Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
“Governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.”
The United Nations has been stating that the world is going to end for the past 30+ years if drastic action isn’t taken immediately.
Do you believe that Liberal Party’s plan to increase the Carbon Tax over the next 10 years will save the planet?
Or is this merely a wealth distribution tax that shifts income from rural residents to those living in urban centres?
Clean Drinking Water
The Liberal government made a promise in their 2015 election campaign to end all long-term drinking water advisories on First Nations before March 2021.
On December 2, 2020, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller advised that the government would not meet this promise.
A new timeline for completion has not been given.
A recent report from Cooperation Canada highlighted the need for the government to increase foreign aid spending.
This goes beyond the billions already given on an annual basis and additional funds earmarked for COVID-19 support.
Is the government of Canada really interested in ending the long-term drinking water advisories or are these promises merely publicity stunts?
War on Small Business
Effective December 13, 2020, thousands of Alberta small businesses were again forced to close their doors as a result of new government imposed COVID-19 health restrictions.
These closures come despite the government’s lack of detail to support such closures, most notably, the compete failure of the track and trace system in the province.
Additionally, the closures come two weeks after Premier Kenney apologized for arbitrary lockdowns in March.
Where is the evidence that points to barbershops, massage therapists, gyms and other now restricted businesses as being the main driving factor of COVID-19?
Are the closures truly warranted or are small business owners being gaslighted by their own government?
COVID-19 Vaccines
Canadians have, for the most part, accepted restrictions on their personal freedoms in the name of the greater good throughout 2020.
The underlying belief in March was that we gain an understanding of the virus, find treatments or a vaccine and go on to live our normal lives again.
Recent articles suggest that light at the end of the lockdown tunnel may not be as close as we thought.
This is highlighted in an article by CBC that suggests that vaccines alone will not be enough to end pandemic measures quickly.
Given that we are nearly a year into this pandemic now, why hasn’t the government pushed all of its resources to long-term care facilities?
Why after the most vulnerable are vaccinated, could the general population, who are not largely impacted by this virus, unable to return to a normal life?
Why do the goal posts keep moving?
Either the health measures (including vaccines) work or they don’t. Right?
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By David Blackmon
Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum held a joint appearance in south Louisiana Thursday to tout the restart of the growth of America’s liquefied natural gas(LNG) industry.
The event celebrated the kickoff of a planned $18 billion expansion of the existing Plaquemines Parrish LNG export facility operated by Venture Global. It also served to symbolize the end of what was frankly one of the dumbest policy actions ever invoked by executive order – then-President Joe Biden’s “pause” on permitting for new LNG export infrastructure.
Reversed by President Donald Trump on day 1 of his second term in office, Biden invoked the year-long pause in January 2024 on the flimsiest of pretenses, a preposterous claim by anti-natural gas activist researchers that US LNG emissions exceed those of coal-fired power plants. Worse, that claim was not made in findings of a peer-reviewed scientific study, but in an early “preview” of a study that fell apart on close inspection.
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The unpleasant task of defending this dumb policy action fell largely on the shoulders of Biden’s hapless Energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, who assured the attendees of the annual CERAWeek conference in Houston in March 2024 that the “pause” would be “in the rearview mirror” when they met again in 2025. That prediction turned out to be accurate, but not due to any action taken by her or Biden. Instead, Granholm did her best to hype the Department of Energy’s(DOE) own study when it was released in November, making claims about its findings in a letter leaked to The New York Times the day before that turned out to not be accurate.
Even more concerning, Democrat nominee Kamala Harris consistently supported the pause and concerns increased throughout the campaign that, if elected, she would most likely move to turn the pause into permanent policy, thus ending America’s dominant position in the global LNG export business. But voters had different ideas, choosing instead to elect Trump for a second time in November, bringing his plans for American Energy Dominance along with him.
Burgum, who chairs Trump’s newly-created American Energy Dominance Council in which Wright also participates, told workers and executives assembled for Thursday’s event that, “One of our pathways to energy dominance is just unleashing the incredible resources that we have in this country: getting the red tape, getting the federal government off the back of the worker, off the back of companies.”
In an interview from the Venture Global site with Will Cain on Fox News, Wright, pointing to an LNG tanker behind him, said, “In less than 24 hours it’ll be loaded and sailing back to Germany; 100,000 homes in Europe can be heated and supplied with gas for a full year just in that one tanker behind us. This is unleashing American energy to the benefit of Americans and to the benefit of our friends and allies abroad. This is the way to peace.”
And so, Biden’s absurd pause comes to a richly-deserved end. Again, this entire fake controversy had zero basis in fact or real science. That’s how close America came to losing what has been one of its major growth industries of the last decade.
It is almost unimaginable that this could have happened in the United States of America, with its supposed system of checks and balances. But, as Elon Musk’s DOGE operation is revealing on a daily basis, so much of Biden’s administration appears to have been built on a foundation of a complex web of scams and money laundering schemes, with his energy and climate policies playing a leading role. This LNG pause episode almost pales in comparison to some of the multi-billion-dollar grants handed out by both DOE and the EPA in the administration’s final months.
But it’s all in Granholm’s imagined rearview mirror now, as is Granholm herself. America’s LNG industry is back, poised for rapid expansion and ready to resume its place as the dominant player in the global market.
Elections do matter.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.
Quick Hit:
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Friday that the Department of Agriculture has canceled a $600,000 federal grant intended for a study on menstrual cycles in transgender men. Rollins declared the decision part of broader efforts to end what she called “insanity” and restore common sense in government spending.
Key Details:
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The grant description outlined the study’s focus on menstruation, stating that most women experience around 450 menstrual cycles over their lifetime, while also emphasizing that “transgender men and people with masculine gender identities, intersex and non-binary persons may also menstruate.”
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Researchers aimed to explore concerns related to menstruation, including the potential use of natural fibers, such as hemp, in feminine hygiene products.
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The American Principles Project, a conservative nonprofit, first identified the study as part of a broader review of more than 340 federally funded grants during the Biden administration, which amounted to over $128 million.
🚨CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”
Keep sending us tips. THANK YOU, @approject! The insanity is ending and the restoration of America is underway. 🇺🇸💪❤️ https://t.co/7S53WQ3CP3
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) March 8, 2025
Diving Deeper:
The Department of Agriculture’s decision to revoke the $600,000 grant marks another rollback of Biden-era initiatives under the new administration. The study, awarded to Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College, was originally slated to continue through April 2027, focusing on menstruation-related concerns, including the development of eco-friendly hygiene products.
A description of the study noted that menstruation typically begins around age 12 and continues until menopause, averaging around 450 cycles in a lifetime. The grant documentation also stated that menstruation is not limited to biological women, arguing that transgender men and other gender identities may also experience it.
Rollins took to social media platform X to confirm the cancellation, writing, “CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study ‘menstrual cycles in transgender men.’” She credited the American Principles Project for uncovering the grant and added, “Keep sending us tips. THANK YOU, @approject! The insanity is ending and the restoration of America is underway.”
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