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Stephen Walker he, him

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Bluesky 1,722,263 Disabled Old Man. Politically active. Still reads SF with the right glasses I believe the Climate is changing and support Women's Choice I won't follow back if you have no posts. I Block Cultists, and people that DM me

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · Apr 21

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

I have seen a lot of people looking at glass. Unfortunately they are mostly the Raw Milk idiots. There is a whole discussion on using aluminum or steel containers for milk. I can't think of a faster way to kill a lot of people. Metal leaches into milk because milk carries a lot of bacteria

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

The big problem with glass is that it breaks and with milk in glass, it was easy to tamper with the milk

After the Tylenol murders in 1982 people demanded that products be tamper resistant

With big box stores, it's easy to tamper with food and there are monsters that think that it's fun to do it

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

And centralized processing and packaging

All of which reduce the cost of food relative to income

Sure a loaf of bread was 10 cents, but your hourly wage was $1.25

People were happy not to pay the cost of meat from a butcher vs meat from a big store

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

But, food actually cost a higher portion of you earnings than it does now. Because plastic is inexpensive, durable enough for transport and a lot lighter than glass

When the butcher cut your meat and wrapped it in paper, that was a huge added cost

Our cheap food is because of big box stores

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

We could go back to glass bottles and have labels only on the caps

If you look at old glass bottle, they had the dairy name moulded into the glass and the paper cap told you the product

Old coke and beer bottles were the same, except for the metal cap

Meat and produce were wrapped in paper

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of stuff that could be recycled is contaminated with labels that aren't easily removable.

Unless you are willing to treat recycling as a cost, you have to realize that recycling is a low margin business and labels eliminate any possible profit

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 4h

When "recycling" is exporting your pollution, you increase world wide pollution because the "profitable" way to "recycle" is to dump the pollution into the ocean

We have to recycle our own waste. That way we control the emissions from processing it

We have to minimize labelling

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 6h

And it has to be on a world wide basis. We already see the economic inequity where one nation tries to reduce pollution while another nation maximizes economic gain with uncontrolled pollution

We've also seen what happens when a nation exports it's pollution

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 6h

11. What people don't want to admit is that the only path to no pollution is no building stuff, no processing anything, no travel

They don't want to admit it because there can't be civilization and no pollution

What people need to admit is that the environment has to be managed

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 10h

If you are stationed at many bases, you stay on base because the civilians are not friendly

If you go off base, you go in a group

So, even inside the Military its Us vs Them because there is a lot of Racism

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics

A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.

www.cnn.com

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 10h

Which part of Graham Platner is a NAZI is difficult to understand?

There is a whole WHITE SUPREMACIST sub culture in the US Military that is the result of people spitting on serving members and other examples of their hatred of anything military

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics

www.cnn.com

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 13h

At this point only a Traitor to Canada would buy the F35 from the USA

The F35 program needs to be cancelled along with any US military presence in Canada

Trump's America is an enemy of Canada

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 13h

Donald Trump, as I have repeatably pointed out, uses fake outrage as a bargaining tool

Trump wants all vehicles built in the USA and Canada to provide Steel and Aluminum at a loss to build them

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

ANALYSIS | Why did Trump scrap trade talks with Canada? Ontario's anti-tariff ad can't be the only reason | CBC News

Donald Trump's initial public reaction to Ontario's anti-tariffs TV ad gave absolutely no indication that it had triggered him so much that he would later kick the legs out from under the negotiating ...

www.cbc.ca

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 14h

10. There is a lot of Job Deletion going on under the Trump Administration and not much Job Creation

Since Billionaires don't pay their fair share of Income Taxes, the US Government is not going to get the amount of Income Taxes that has been forecast. Unemployed people can't pay Income Taxes

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 14h

9. There are over 2 million civilians that work for the US Federal Government. That number doesn't include The Post Office, The Military or the Agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)

What happens when a substantial portion of them are added to other unemployed?

www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

www.congress.gov

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

It will be only another generation before children ask "what was a steelworker?" "Mom, what is a farmer? I thought that we got all of our food from Agrobots"

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Category:Closed installations of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

7. The shipyards have all been converted to condos and townhouses on ocean front property

Steel Mills sit unused waiting to be converted into condos

US Naval Bases world wide are being closed. The reduction in size of the Navy makes the bases unneeded

All of those jobs are gone

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

6. The USA and Canada have made it impossible to have heavy industry

Canada cannot even build ferries and has to import them. The USA doesn't build the replacement warships that the US Navy needs. In fact, the USA doesn't have the shipyards to perform essential maintenance on their aging fleet

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

5. Especially when other nations don't have the environmental restrictions that you have

This is why China has so much of the metals market world wide

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

What is not generally known is that China, during the past 40 years, has created a vice-like grip on the mining, refining and production of global metals.

It is not just nickel, lithium, graphite and cobalt — the materials essential for battery production and the renewable energy age — where it holds the rest of the world in its palm.

It is also the world's biggest producer of steel, dominates aluminium smelting and production, and has an outsized influence on copper.

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

4. This is why Alberta has a boom or bust economy. No form of environmental remediation is enough for the environmentalists when extracting or processing oil, metals and other products from the Earth. World prices have to be extremely high to make it worthwhile and that doesn't happen often

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 15h

3. Mark Carney is finding out that Environmental Regulation is expensive for the companies that extract oil, metals and other products from the Earth. Especially when there are tariffs and restrictions that make that extraction unprofitable

The jobs created in extraction and processing are gone

Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 20h

Or, do you sell it to the Americans at a 30% discount? Do you discount your steel and aluminum so that your American customer pays the same price they paid before the Trump Administration put their tariffs on it?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | Will Mark Carney deliver on the climate values he preached as a central banker? | CBC News

Mark Carney spent a decade as one of the most credible voices on climate action and the economy. Now as prime minister, he is scrapping emissions reductions policies, backing LNG projects and talking ...

www.cbc.ca

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 20h

1. Mark Carney has found that trying to run a country and telling people what they have to do are 2 very different things

Especially when the nation that Canada does 86% of it's trade with decides to slap tariffs and restrictions on that trade

Do you sell Oil to China at the going World Price?

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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 21h

Trump has added 2 Trillion to the US National Debt in 10 months. Where did it all go? It didn't go into Health Care, It didn't go into SNAP, It didn't go into SSDI, It didn't go into SSI

So who's offshore bank account has it gone into?

Tim @timjvalentine.bsky.social · 21h

Doge was the real Ponzi Scheme....

Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayeragolf.bsky.social · 1d

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