Iran, Taliban led Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and …
the United States of America. 
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Trump and The AI Accord
This is going to be a very short entry. President Donald J. Trump announced today his confidence that his AI Accord would take care of all of our concerns about AI’s potential destruction of humanity.
This Accord is approved by Mark Zuckerberg as he, the man who co-developed Facebook as a way to identify all the hot chicks on campus, downplayed concerns about runaway AI.
So, a conflicted felon, unabashed liar, tax dodger and person convicted of sexual assault, AND a Harvard Alpha Epsilon Pi frat boy approve of the tech company self policed AI Accord. What could possibly go wrong?
We are living in very dangerous times. The way I see it.
The Letter to The Editor They Didn’t Publish
Letter to The Editor: Election Sign Pollution
“The municipal election in Caledon is still a month away, and already the lawns, plaza boulevards and roadsides are being infested with an overabundance of election signs. Of particular discussion in my Ward 5 in the Bolton area, is why a Councillor candidate from Ward 6 has his signs all over every possible high visibility public space he can find in Ward 5, in fact all over Caledon. And why are those signs always in an unholy trinity of signs with a Mayoral candidate and a Councillor candidate for Ward 5?
The answer is twofold. All three share the same over zealous campaign manager, famed for pounding in signs wherever there’s a greenspace or fence or high visibility street corner. Secondly, name recognition. When you go to the polling booth, rushed and uniformed, the name you have seen most often on the streets can sway a tired mind to check off the most easily recognized name. It worked for “The Gang of Five” in the last election. Hopefully, it will not work for the “Three Amigos” this time around.”
Skid Crease, Caledon”
On the 20th of September 2026, I wrote and sent this letter to the local Editor of our only print newspaper, the Caledon Citizen. I sent it in response to neighbours complaining about the walls of election signs that were beginning to dominate the Bolton landscape and every highway and byway through town and country in Caledon. Three in particular stood out. An interesting trio of signs from candidates: Mario Russo for Mayor of Caledon, Tony Caputo for Councillor, Ward 5, and most unusual was Cosimo Napoli for Ward 6,
People were asking, “Why is a Ward 6 candidate filling up the landscape with election signs in Ward 5? And why are the very large Russo, Caputo and Napoli signs always grouped together?” Note that signs for Tony Rosa would have joined that trio had he not been acclaimed, The answers are simple. First, to paraphrase the satirical “Eat shit, ten million flies can’t be wrong” poster: “Vote for ME! Ten million election signs can’t be wrong.”
Feel free to share – election day is coming soon, and we are sleepwalking into a real nightmare if a pro-development. anti-farmer, rape the greenspaces council is elected.
The way I see it.
Skid Crease, Caledon
“I was ready to jump in, and they emptied the pool.”
Every once in a while we all listen in on a conversation that just grabs our attention and leaves us with food for thought. Recently I overheard a discussion that did just that. Before I begin, ponder if you had grown up with bibliophobia – the fear of reading – then suddenly challenge yourself to read a book a week in order to conquer your fear. You go to the library, and it is closed. In fact, your society has chosen to condemn literacy and burn the books!
Back to the conversation. It was among a group of women discussing what appeared to be a difficult situation – mother attempting to end a marriage and protect her children. She described to the others a moment when, as a young girl, she had gone to a community outdoor swimming pool with friends. They had a high platform diving pad that was the big challenge for kids to jump or adults to dive from the platform – a true test of courage,
The woman said she clearly remembered as a child climbing the staircase to the tower, curling her toes over the edge of the platform … and then backing away and descending the ladder to the ground. It caught my attention because I had done exactly the same thing in the 1950’s at the Olympic outdoor pool in North York. The one metre and three metre springboards were no problem – my Dad had been a champion high school swim team diver in Windsor, and had taught me well.
But the concrete unforgiving edge of the five metre diving platform was a challenge I backed away from several times. The day I summoned the courage to take the jump, my Dad was watching from the pool deck. From his cheers and warm hug after, you’d think I had just done a swan dive off the cliffs of Acapulco. But what if, on the day I had made the decision to jump, that had emptied the pool?
Back to the present day discussion I overheard. The woman in question sounded like she had laboured long and hard about the decision to leave her partner – she sounded concerned about his reaction, concerned about her children’s safety. Having finally made the decision, she got blindsided by legal small print. She had been to lawyers several times to fill out the appropriate papers, had met her deadlines, and then was told her day to serve papers had been delayed, There was another form needed, and then another. And then the lawyers went on vacation.
And there she was, standing on the edge of the diving platform, finally confident In herself to take the jump … and they had emptied the pool.
Read the books before they burn the libraries, take the plunge before they empty the pool, and when it’s time to get out of Dodge, pack your bags and go and don’t look back. A cautionary tale, the way I see it.
Skid Crease, Caledon
Ecclesiastical Crime
The term “Ecclesiastical Crime” originally referred to the buying and selling of Church offices, or personal salvation, and covered violations like heresy and schism by church officials. Today, it is specifically used for misappropriation of donation monies. A recent study by the Princeton Theological Seminary estimated that over $62 billion USA dollars are stolen from churches, para churches and secular organizations all over the world. These donations by “Christian” believers alone are lost through a web of money-laundering, embezzlement, and fraud. It is equally widespread among Churches, Synagogues, Temples, Mandirs and other cult compounds.
Often a church or para-church will set up an arms-length secular charity that will collect donations for “community care” programs like homelessness, If the private business is also offering pastoral care and spiritual guidance to their customers, you know that a para-church is involved. Donated funds can disappear anywhere – private purchases, political donations, bribery schemes, the possibilities are endless. While making donors feel all warm and fuzzy about their charitable donations that are supposed to assist local support services and global relief initiatives, the monies collected are rarely accounted for properly.
According to the data assembled by my research assistant Claire Ayigh, the collection plate is most frequently tipped into pockets that “support the personal luxury, private business ventures and lifestyle inflation of the internal perpetrators, as well as complex cover-ups to hide the thefts from auditors.” If there is a religious component involved, these “scam churches or institutional ‘pulpit predators’ exploit the mercy, empathy, and deep faith of their parishioners by weaponizing sacred concepts to extract wealth, compliance and unquestioning devotion.”
The recent case uncovered by the police in an operation called Project Great One, led to fraud charges against the pastor of the Vaughan/Woodbridge branch of The Miracle Arena for All Nations (MAFAN) whose leader, (and Honorary Doctor of Divinity) Prophet Kofi Danso, stated that Pastor Issac Oppong has now been dismissed from the para-church.
In a time of great financial insecurity, societal upheaval, and global chaos, it becomes much easier to prey on the kindness of a community. To quote the Hunger Games President Snow, “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” And like fear, hope can paralyze us into inaction. We hope, and hope that’s enough. Pierce Brown, wrote in his science fiction series the Red Rising Saga, “Hope is an opiate, not a plan.”
We need a really, really good plan to get safely out of this current age of madness. So let’s be very careful about where we put our energies and our empathies and our donations for community care and global relief. The scam artists smell blood in the water and they are circling.
It’s time to get our feet back on solid ground. The way I see it.
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NOTE: Prophet Kofi Danso’s honorary doctoral degree in divinity was awarded by the Canadian Christian Theological Seminary in Calgary, Alberta.