John Whaley

retired politician & farmer following life's events as they happen!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Fife residents & conservationists are campaigning to prevent plans for a giant AI data centre in rural Fife. It’s one of the world’s biggest AI data centres. It has been calculated that it would use the energy of more than 50% of Scotland's households. No one voted for this.

[John Lee Pettimore @JohnLeePettim13]

When I was 17 yrs old I took an old fishing tackle box filled it with some hand tools and went to every dealership and auto repair business, and told them I would work for free for two weeks, if they didnt like me they could fire me with no pay. It worked. I went from fixing cars to fixing some of the biggest equipment in the world. I retired at 57. Get a trade.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

This is what grocery shopping looks like in Canada right now.

Three packs of chicken breasts — but only because they were 30% off.
One pack of butter.
Four ears of corn.

$52.

He says he only buys meat when it’s 30% off or better… because that’s the only way he can afford to put protein on the table.

This isn’t normal.
This is what happens when you hammer farmers with carbon taxes, jack up transportation costs, and run the economy into the ground for over a decade.

Under Harper you could buy chicken without needing a clearance sticker.
Under Carney, even basic groceries require hunting for discounts just to survive.

They broke the country and then told us it’s fine.

Drop a 🍗 if you’re done pretending this is acceptable.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

The Chinese-owned dairy facility, Canada Royal Milk, appears to have taken its website offline today.

I wonder why.

[Ned Kuruc @NedKurucMP]

After a terrifying murder of a teenager in Stoney Creek, it's been revealed two of the men involved are refugee claimants.

The Liberal Minister isn’t doing anything to make sure that government departments will deport these non-citizens that commit serious crimes, like murder.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Allan Schoenborn stabbed and smothered his three children. Ages 5, 8, and 10.

In 2024 he told his psychiatrist the public should “lighten up” about what he did.

Yesterday, the B.C. Review Board granted him a conditional discharge.

The conditions?

-Be on good behaviour

-Don’t carry weapons

-Report any new relationships

That’s the bar for someone who killed three children.

[SandraCobena @SandraCobena_]

‼️🚨BREAKING: The Liberal Finance Minister tried to hide the cost of the sovereign wealth fund from Canadians at committee this morning.

What he didn't know is that his own department discreetly shared this data at another committee.

Is the Minister being contemptuous towards Canadians or is he just incompetent.

You decide....

#cdnpoli

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

This is an email I was expecting. ⬇️

Took less than 24 hours.

The Canadian Dairy Commission fully controlled by Dairy Farmers, a Crown corporation—not Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada—is demanding a correction based on a document in which the section detailing government funding and support was completely redacted. The redactions suggest that records related to government support do exist, but they have not been disclosed.

I have no intention of issuing a correction until I receive an unredacted version of the relevant information. Transparency should come before demands for retractions.

[DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY @DonaldBestCA]

Now that the tribunal's ruling is in, Detective Helen Grus and her counsel Bath-Sheba van den Berg are free to speak.

Ottawa had two or three sudden infant deaths in a typical year. In early 2022 Grus counted six. A seventh came that same week.

She took the numbers to the Chief of Police the same day. That is the job. Within weeks she was suspended, and the tribunal found her guilty of discreditable conduct.

Hear it in their words. Full @MBStronger interview linked below.

[Pete Sanford @PeteSanford]

THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH OF BOVAER HARMS: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ:

Environmental Risks of Bovaer (3‑NOP)

Bovaer’s active ingredient is 3‑nitrooxypropanol (3‑NOP).

It reduces methane by inhibiting an enzyme in the cow’s rumen.

But the environmental risks come from everything that happens after the cow eats it*.

Let’s break it down.

1. Manure Pathway Risks

Even though 3‑NOP breaks down inside the cow, its breakdown products do not disappear. They move into:

• manure
• slurry
• digestate
• soil
• water

This is the biggest environmental unknown.

Potential risks:

• Accumulation of metabolites in soil
• Impact on soil microbes (especially methanogens, nitrifiers, denitrifiers)
• Changes in nitrogen cycling
• Altered greenhouse‑gas emissions (N₂O, CO₂)
• Leaching into waterways

No long‑term, multi‑year field studies exist yet.

2. Soil Microbiome Disruption

3‑NOP targets methanogenic archaea.

But soil is full of:

• methanogens
• nitrifiers
• denitrifiers
• fungi
• bacteria

If Bovaer metabolites suppress or alter these communities, the consequences could include:

• reduced soil fertility
• altered carbon sequestration
• increased nitrous oxide emissions
• reduced microbial diversity

This is a classic “non‑target organism” risk.

3. Slurry Storage & Anaerobic Digestion Risks

Most dairy farms store slurry in:

• lagoons
• pits
• tanks
• anaerobic digesters

If Bovaer metabolites affect microbial activity in these systems, risks include:

• reduced biogas yield
• altered methane production
• build‑up of intermediate compounds
• changes in slurry stability

Anaerobic digesters rely on methanogens — the exact organisms Bovaer is designed to inhibit.

This is a major unknown.

4. Water Contamination Pathway

If Bovaer metabolites enter water via:

• runoff
• leaching
• spreading slurry on wet ground

…they may affect:

• aquatic microbes
• algae
• sediment chemistry
• methane‑cycling organisms

Freshwater ecosystems are extremely sensitive to chemical disruption.

5. Air Emissions Trade‑Offs

Bovaer reduces methane — but environmental science warns of pollution swapping:

Reducing one gas can increase another.

Possible trade‑offs:
• Lower CH₄
• Higher N₂O (300× more potent than CO₂)
• Higher ammonia emissions
• Changes in VOCs

If nitrogen cycling is altered, N₂O could rise — wiping out methane gains.

6. Biodiversity Impacts

If soil or water microbial communities shift, knock‑on effects include:

• reduced earthworm populations
• altered plant growth
• changes in root‑microbe symbiosis
• reduced insect biodiversity
• altered decomposition rates

Microbial disruption cascades upward through ecosystems.

7. Cumulative Impact Risk

This is the biggest scientific gap.

If Bovaer is used:

• daily
• in millions of cows
• across entire countries
• for decades

…then the environmental load of its metabolites becomes chronic, not incidental.

Cumulative risks include:

• long‑term soil accumulation
• multi‑year shifts in microbial ecology
• regional water‑quality changes
• altered greenhouse‑gas profiles
• ecosystem‑level effects

No country has yet conducted a cumulative environmental impact assessment.

8. Regulatory Blind Spot

Regulators approved Bovaer based on:

• Short Trials
• Controlled Conditions
• Limited Soil Studies
• ZERO Multi‑Year Field Data
• No Cumulative Modelling

This is normal for feed additives — but unusual for something intended for global, daily, mass‑scale use.

It’s the same regulatory gap that caused problems with:

• Neonicotinoids
• PFAS
• Glyphosate
• Microplastics

All were approved before long‑term environmental effects were understood.

Summary: The 5 Real Environmental Risks

• Soil microbiome disruption
• Slurry & anaerobic digestion interference
• Water contamination pathways
• Pollution swapping (N₂O increase)
• Cumulative, long‑term ecosystem effects

RISKS TO FARM WORKERS OF SERIOUS INJURY:

Farmworkers handling Bovaer are warned to treat it like a dangerous lab chemical, not a harmless feed additive. The powder can burn the skin, damage the eyes, and irritate the lungs, which is why workers must suit up in chemical‑resistant gloves, full protective clothing, sealed goggles or a face shield, and sometimes even a respirator if dust is present. One careless breath, one splash, one moment without proper PPE — and the consequences can be immediate and severe. It’s a stark reminder that if something requires this level of protection to handle, it raises serious questions about its place anywhere near the food chain.

THE BOTTOM LINE: PROFIT OVER SAFETY:

20 BILLION PROFITS YEARLY

Behind the polished sustainability slogans lies a staggering financial engine: the Bovaer trademark holders stand to extract tens of billions in annual global profit if the additive becomes standard across the world’s 1.5 billion cattle. Every cow becomes a tiny revenue stream, every farm a captive customer, and every country a new frontier of monetisation. The scale is so vast that the real prize isn’t methane reduction at all — it’s the creation of a permanent, worldwide dependency on a patented chemical that must be bought day after day, year after year. When a single feed additive can generate profits on the scale of a pharmaceutical empire, you start to see why the marketing feels so urgent, and why the push for adoption never stops.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium

African Migrants are out in force at the home of the EU destroying anything & everything in public they can.

Who knows why.

Remember if you object to this happening in your home town or city - you are a ‘Far Right Racist’.

[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

The world just built a machine that drinks clean water like a river.

And nobody is talking about what that actually means.

🚨 🚨 🚨 AI DATA CENTERS WILL CONSUME ENOUGH CLEAN WATER TO SUPPLY 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE BY 2030 — PER A UNITED NATIONS REPORT 🚨 🚨 🚨

A United Nations report just put a number on it. Not a vague warning. Not a projection buried in a footnote. A hard figure: AI data centers will consume enough freshwater to supply 1.3 billion people annually by 2030. That is not a typo. One sector. One cooling system. 1.3 BILLION people's worth of water.

THE WEAPON:
→ Global data center water consumption: 560 billion liters per year right now
→ Projected consumption by 2030: 1,200 billion liters (IEA)
→ US AI data centers alone: 17 billion gallons consumed in 2023
→ US projection by 2028: 38–73 billion gallons annually
→ Single large facility withdrawal: up to 5 million gallons per day — the daily need of a city of 50,000 people
→ Evaporative cooling rate: ~80% of withdrawn water evaporates and is NEVER returned
→ Per-query footprint: every 100-word AI prompt consumes roughly one 16.9 oz bottle of water
→ Indirect footprint: electricity generation adds another 60% on top of direct consumption

THE TARGET:
→ Phoenix region alone: data center water use projected to rise 870% — from 385 million to 3.7 billion gallons per year
→ Google's Council Bluffs facility: 3.9 million gallons withdrawn daily, on average
→ Hyperscale facilities expected to account for half of all future US AI water consumption

THE MATH:
→ 2021 US data center baseline: 163.7 billion gallons annually
→ Five years of AI acceleration later: 300%+ growth for key operators
→ By 2030: one sector's cooling needs rival or exceed the municipal water supply of entire countries
→ 1.3 billion people. That is the population of Africa. That is more than the entire Western Hemisphere.

Read that again.

💀 There are currently 2 billion people on Earth without reliable access to clean water
💀 AI infrastructure is being built fastest in water-stressed regions — Phoenix, the American Southwest, the Middle East
💀 Once evaporated, that water does not come back — it is not recycled, it is not returned to the aquifer, it is gone

⚠️ The world is already withdrawing freshwater faster than it is being replenished
⚠️ Agriculture uses 70–80% of global freshwater — AI is now the fastest-growing new competitor for what remains
⚠️ This is not a future problem. 560 billion liters are being consumed right now, today, this year.

They're showing you the AI boom.

They're NOT showing you what is being drained to power it — the aquifers that took thousands of years to fill, the rivers already running low, the municipal systems already competing with server farms for the same water table.

You don't build a machine that evaporates 80% of everything it drinks in a water-stressed world and call it progress. You don't scale that machine by 300% in five years and assume the water will keep showing up. You do that when you have decided, consciously or not, that the output is worth more than the resource that keeps 8 billion people alive.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11]

There are countless grown adults who don't understand that the red stuff oozing out of their steak is not blood.

The red is actually myoglobin reacting to air. Myoglobin is a protein that is stored in muscles and helps oxygenate them.

When you cut into a fresh steak and expose it to air, the myoglobin binds with oxygen and turns into oxymyoglobin, which is bright red.

It's not blood so stop with the rare-anoia!

The blood is drained from the animal during slaughter. If you do see any trace of blood, it will be spotty and blackish purple.

As a butcher, I commonly see these blood spots on the knuckle and occasionally tenderloin and top round but it’s minimal.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"95% of Gluten Free Foods contained GLYPHOSATE & 2,4-D an ingredient in AGENT ORANGE."
~Zen Honeycutt

The 660 MILLION people who avoid Gluten & purchase 'Gluten Free' food products are being scammed & harmed.

Test results reported by Moms Across America...

Top 5 Most Contaminated with Glyphosate- Gluten-Free Foods Tested:
1)Banza Cavatappi pasta
2)Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose flour
3)Flax4Life chocolate brownies
4)Pamela's Figgies and Jammies mission fig cookies
5)Kind Kids Chewy Chocolate Chip bars

Top 5 Most Contaminated with Pesticides - Gluten Free Food Tested:
1)King Arthur Measure for Measure, Certified Gluten-Free Flour
2)Milton’s sea salt crackers
3)Simple Mills Brownie mix
4)Pamela's gluten-free flour mix
5)Go Macro berry granola bar

Products That Should Be Legally Recalled:
4 out of 46 samples, namely Simple Mills Brownie mix (31.7), Made Good Soft Baked Double Chocolate cookies (56.1), Trader Joe's Almost Everything Bagels (269.8), and Simple Mills almond flour crackers (59.4), had levels above the FDA allowable 20 ppm of gluten and should legally be recalled.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

The bread price-fixing scandal cost Canadians an estimated $5 billion. Most of us are receiving about $50, at most. If that $5 billion were distributed evenly across Canada's population, the amount would be roughly $125 per Canadian.

Apparently, somewhere along the way, about $75 per person went missing.

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

The PBO report shows the size of the federal debt climbing to $1.66-trillion by 2030-31, compared with the government’s spring update estimate of $1.629-trillion.

The federal debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to reach 42.5 per cent by 2030-31, up from 40.7 per cent in 2024-25, according to the PBO.

Previous Liberal budgets under former prime minister Justin Trudeau had pledged to reduce the size of the federal debt-to-GDP ratio over time. Instead, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the government has adopted two other fiscal anchors: reducing the size of the deficit-to-GDP ratio over time and balancing operating spending with revenues by 2028-29.

[The Really Big Show @TheRlyBigShow]

Canada was in a per-capita recession for years.

The headline GDP number hid it.

Record immigration propped up the total.

Canada added people faster than Victorian London in 2023.

3.2% population growth.

The GDP number went up.

The per-capita number went down.

Who benefited from the immigration surge?

Tim Hortons.

A&W.

Rogers Communications.

Conestoga College.

Liberal-connected consultants.

The Laurentian elite.

Who paid for it?

24,000 children at a food bank today.

11% of Canadians below the poverty line.

437,000 young Canadians unemployed in 2025, up 57% in three years.

The few got cheap labour.

The many got the bill.

And the Liberal Party stood in the House and said it was working.

Economics is now confirming it was never working.

It was just hidden.

Jim and Iain have been ringing this cowbell for years.

Do you think stagflation is coming next?

[Bruce McGonigal @bruce_mcgonigal]

🤥FACT CHECKED AS FALSE : Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne again claims Canada will be the 2nd fastest growing economy in the G7.

Canada is the only G20 nation in a recession & could place dead last in G20 growth, according to the BMO forecast.

Scotia Bank & the incomplete PBO both agree, Canada is not forecast to be anywhere close to the 2nd fastest growing economy in the G7.

The PBO data didn't have the updated data showing Canada is in a recession, in the economic model they used. So you can expect the PBO forecast to be downgraded further, in the weeks ahead.

The government stands up and blatantly lies to Canadians because they can. There is never a consequence for them lying.

[Sheila Gunn Reid @SheilaGunnReid]

North Dakota produces roughly CAD$141,679 in economic output per person, compared to approximately CAD$71,708 in Alberta. Personal income is also substantially higher, at roughly CAD$90,662 per person compared to Alberta's approximately CAD$61,200.

That's what we could have without an anti-oil federal government.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

With a straight face, Mark Carney says that his government AI strategy will protect your privacy...and you children:

"The first is trust, we will protect your data, your privacy and your children."

Huh?!

The Liberals have Bills that literally do the opposite of this and want backdoor access to our data, infringing on our privacy.