On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Lest We Be Trained to Forget Anew

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:58:39 GMT

An essay by Dr. Jonathan Howard: "The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced it all from their laptops. "

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/116333-2/

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What To Do Next

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:10:28 GMT

Rachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...

I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.

Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.

I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.

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Timothy Snyder: On Anticipatory Obedience

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:57:48 GMT

Interesting timing, in light of the behaviour of Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos this last couple of days...and also the fact that I just bought my copy of Prof. Snyder's On Freedom.

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Transit Disaster 2024?

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:49:21 GMT

I think we're going to have a Problem despite our attention to the details in recent years:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bus-route-changes-ottawa-1.7018834

The networking to counter this plan is already underway, partly because we were already talking amongst ourselves and with city council. This is a good thing. We need to keep building on this.

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Responsibility for the State of the World

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:46:10 GMT

Yesterday morning, I was shopping partly for health, partly for job-search tools. On the way home, I found a couple of pro-fascist "newspapers" in a local bus shelter. I tore them up and dumped the remains in the next recycle bin I could get to. The ink and paper can be recovered, after all, and put to better usages.

#20Lessons

#TimothyDSnyder

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I don't think it's over yet...

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:44:38 GMT

...though things in Centretown and the Parliamentary Precinct seem to have gone quiet enough for the night.

We've had at least one reporter ducking beer-can tosses. (A reporter I actually got to say "hello" to once.)

We've had a helicopter violating federal no-fly zones. (Whose pilot ought to be losing their license and soon, over this.)

We've had Confederate, Trumpist and Nazi flags carried by "protestors" alongside the Gadsden flag in the core.

We've had people jumping up and down on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

We've had the statue of Terry Fox on Wellington Street repeatedly desecrated today.

We've had His Trumpness endorsing those bad actors at his latest Nuremberg Stunt tonight.

I've had enough.

I had to pass within breathing distance of several people who looked very much like they were lining up at Blair Station to board the O-Train to join the "fun" downtown, and I was not able to keep my cool about it. Fortunately, we all had other places to be and quickly. (I'm hearing that the Confederation Line was having issues again today, so they might not have gotten there.)

This has not been the best day, despite my staying clear of the epicentre of the mess.

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Several Kinds of Chills

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:52:44 GMT

This is a bit of a muddle. I apologise for that right now.

In downtown Ottawa, we're trying to deal with two messes at once. It's not the first time for our city, not since the original Euro-settlement on top of Algonquin lands in the 1820's.

The extreme cold warning is nothing new. Nor are protests in general. Not for Ottawa the city or Ottawa AKA "shorthand for the federal government". This particular protest feels like part of the ongoing war against multi-ethnic, democratic civil society in some respects.

Sidebar: Justin Ling interviewed by Matt Galloway about some of the roots of the "Freedom Convoy" over here:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-jan-28-2022-1.6331041

And, Ling also details those issues more directly here:

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1487112260636053509

I worry for friends whose homes and jobs are in downtown Ottawa. And, for the wider world. But that's not new either.

Organized racism is still afoot, as many of you already know far better by more direct and horrific ways than I. So are people who define civilisation as being exemplified by the ability to force others to live as you demand, whether motivated by bigotry or something else.

There's more ground to cover, I'm sure...

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Grieving For Smaller Things and Fed Up About a Big Thing

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:16:09 GMT

I've lost the Roma Barber Shop on Elgin Street, a place I've gotten haircuts at since moving to Ottawa in 1985. I found that out yesterday when I went over from Perfect Books to reassure the Costanza brothers that I hadn't forgotten them. The shop windows were already papered over.

I'm about to lose the Nutrition Company at Gloucester Centre unless the Husseinis can find a buyer before end of March. Bateson House, the furniture shop at Place d'Orléans Mall, is having their closing sale.

One of my nieces and nephews survived COVID-19, with help from the vaccines. Other friendly acquaintances have died of COVID before any vaccine could be delivered to them. Still others have died of the side effects of the Pandemic combining with other medical issues that they were either already dealing with or unaware that they had to deal with.

I'm not about to give up democracy to the fascists.

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An Open Complaint to Air Miles and Metro Grocery Stores

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:57:35 GMT

I'll get to Remembrance next post.

Right now...I see that the Metro grocery chain wants me to switch from web site to cellphone app to get my Air Miles points offers.

I object to that. Too many people and organizations get to track too much of what I do with my cell phone as it is now. So I'm digging in my heels on this one.

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Getting Back to the Real Worlds

Sun, 31 May 2020 02:09:29 GMT

Night of contrasts: as white supremacists are trying to frame honest protestors across the USA for looting and vandalism, we also had the Crew Dragon launch today and the 2020 Nebula Awards are being handed out via streaming video. Surreal. Hope, fear and anger all at once in my heart and mind right now.

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Skipping the Crew Dragon launch today

Sat, 30 May 2020 18:26:55 GMT

james_davis_nicoll summed up the logic for my doing that. For skipping the coverage of what might otherwise be a milestone of human space exploration and space commerce.

In a better time and place, I might not consider doing this. But this is the time and place we're in.

Shutting up and getting out of the way here.

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PANDEMIC: Items of Concern

Sun, 03 May 2020 16:10:09 GMT

We've got mystery-money buying astroturf protests by bad people in bad faith:

https://pressprogress.ca/meet-the-strange-and-mysterious-group-organizing-anti-lockdown-protests-across-canada/

Also, a hundred thousand people still stuck at sea. The crews aboard the Mein Schiff 3 are far from alone here:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/30/no-end-in-sight-100000-crew-on-cruise-ships-stranded-at-sea-coronavirus

Pompeo's providing cover - as expected, no matter how little sense it makes - for DT-45's accusations against the government of mainland China...and I do not trust this, no matter how little I also trust the Xi regime in Beijing either:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/may/03/coronavirus-us-latest-updates-donald-trump-anthony-fauci-nancy-pelosi-deaths?page=with:block-5eaed0f28f082b32fdd6c794#block-5eaed0f28f082b32fdd6c794

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PHOTOS: From the 2017 Ottawa Science March

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:49:52 GMT

First time I'd seen a Max Planck quote at an activists' march on Parliament Hill.

Here's another one I liked from that march.

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On the Safety of Refugees

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:53:06 GMT

I worry for the world's refugees. Particularly now, when the pressure to ignore them is stronger than it was.

Refugees don't have a choice. Ever. Even in the time of pandemic.

http://gwynnedyer.com/2020/migrants-a-glimpse-of-the-future/

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Hong Kong: the Defence Continues

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:00:10 GMT

“It is very likely they are going to abolish the freedom of assembly. So we are asking people to come out because it may be the last time that we are going to have a peaceful and lawful protest in Hong Kong.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/hong-kong-protests-against-police-continue-in-third-day-of-unrest

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Things I Don't Look Forward To

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:56:22 GMT

This convoy coming to Ottawa this week is one of them.

They not only want to make things worse for my lungs - whether they believe it or not doesn't matter to me and my doctor - some of them are looking for excuses to target their preferred minority scapegoat too. With people like Kennedy, Ford, and Dugin singing praises of their like, that makes me more than a little antsy for the safety of a lot of us in Canada.

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Brexit, Trump, Putin: Resisting All Three

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 01:33:36 GMT

I believe this to be true. I suspect the same goes for most of my friendlist here. Which is why I'm going to leave this linkage out in the open where other users can see it too.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu

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Truth vs. Bullhorns

Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:49:40 GMT

The idea that DT-45's bullhorn will always overwhelm the truth as told by anyone else is one that offends me. So, for some reason, I find myself putting these two links on the same weblog posting...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nato-brussels-trudeau-trump-1.4746424

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/14/the-death-of-truth-how-we-gave-up-on-facts-and-ended-up-with-trump

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Someone Else's Thoughts on Protests

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:57:04 GMT

Good morning, and good luck.

As we consider how to spend what we can of today that's not set aside for anything else on this International Women's Day, here's an opinion piece filed with CBC News by Rosemary Westwood for our shared consideration:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/protests-change-minds-1.4009285

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Things That Help Me

Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:16:42 GMT

Yesterday, there was a bunch of protests against M-103, a motion by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid of Mississauga targeting Islamophobia as a Problem to be studied and solved to whatever degree possible (along with other forms of bigotry) in several cities across Canada.

What brings me continued hope for the future of Canada is that in every case, opposing rallies were organized and fielded in defence of M-103.

Calgary.
Edmonton.
Regina and Saskatoon.
Winnipeg.
Toronto.
Montréal and Ville de Québec.

I haven't heard of the like in Ottawa-Gatineau, and I don't know whether to be hopeful or worried about that. If you know of similar events elsewhere in Canada, I'd be glad of links to the reports.

Again: counter-protests against bigotry? Cause for hope.

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