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What do Trump and Trudeau share in common? Dictator Envy

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3 years ago

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They really should know better, but both former President Trump and current Prime Minister Trudeau have expressed admiration for modern dictatorships.  In their own ways Trump and Trudeau have envied the leaders of China and Russia.  Trump likes how people sit up straight and pay attention when the leader speaks.  He fails to acknowledge that people very much feel forced under intimidation to do so.  This isn’t a sign of respect, but a sign of how fearful people are when they know not sitting up straight enough or clapping long and loud enough could mean the end of their career or something worse.

For his part Trudeau is now world famous for expressing his admiration for China’s Communist Dictatorship.  In a single sentence, way back in 2013, Canada’s Prime Minister revealed his incredibly childish and ignorant view of history and how the world works. While admiring how fast countries like China are capable of taking on huge tasks, he completely ignores the millions of livelihoods that can be crushed in accomplishing the task, and EVEN IF the task is successful in the end.

There is a difference between Trump and Trudeau.  One of the two continues to operate in a way that future authoritarians will be able to admire.

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Leaders talk about their “admiration” for dictatorships. It’s a “utopian dream,” says historian Johan Norberg. They think: “if … someone at the top could … point us in a certain direction, everything would go well.” That’s childish. “If government is big enough to give you anything” Norberg explains, “it’s big enough to take everything away from you.”

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Climate Change Myths Part 2: Wildfires, Drought, Rising Sea Level, and Coral Reefs

Published on April 26, 2025

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More climate change myths need debunking. There’s so much the alarmists get wrong!

Linnea Lueken of the Heartland Institute helps us reveal the data that disproves claims of: worsening drought, worsening wildfires, catastrophic sea level rise and a dying Great Barrier Reef.

You might be surprised by what’s true and what’s not.

Here is a list of the sources used in the video:

Global area in severe meteorological drought has not increased over the last 100 years: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Drought in the U.S. is not worse today: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicator…

U.S. Wildfires Have Declined: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

100 million people live below sea level: https://archive.is/t3B2y#selection-91…

U.S. Sea Level Rise is currently rising at a pace 1.2 inches per decade since 1993: https://sealevel.colorado.edu/

Great Barrier Reef coral coverage hit a record high in 2024: https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-gr…

 

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Climate Change Myths Part 1: Polar Bears, Arctic Ice, and Food Shortages

Published on April 17, 2025

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Climate zealots tell us the end is near. It’s the era of “global BOILING!” says the UN Secretary General. Climate alarmists say the Arctic will soon be ice-free and cities will be underwater! But what do the facts say?

The facts say that the climate change fanatics’ catastrophic claims are wrong.

In this video and the next, we’ll debunk 7 myths about climate change.

First up: melting ice, polar bear extinction, and climate change famines.

Here are the sources for this video:

No new record low summer ice extent observed since 2012. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…

Satellite data show average annual sea ice volume largely stable since 2010: https://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-c…

Total arctic ice mass: http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projec…

Polar Bear Estimates 1993-today: https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/wp-content/…

1981: https://portals.iucn.org/library/site…

1960s: https://www.google.com/books/edition/…

Global agricultural output: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ag…

NASA Greening study: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-faci…

Malnutrition deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ma…

Coffee production: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare

 

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Libertarian journalist John Stossel created Stossel TV to explain liberty and free markets to young people.

Prior to Stossel TV he hosted a show on Fox Business and co-anchored ABC’s primetime newsmagazine show, 20/20.

Stossel’s economic programs have been adapted into teaching kits by a non-profit organization, “Stossel in the Classroom.” High school teachers in American public schools now use the videos to help educate their students on economics and economic freedom. They are seen by more than 12 million students every year.

Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Other honors include the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award.

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