Sunday Post

Poland has not forgotten its Russian neighbour:

Now, the Washington Post reports Russia is preparing to send 100,000 troops to the very edge of NATO territory, read Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and the like, for exercises scheduled to last several months.

Who can fault the average man or woman in Poland for feeling uneasy?

Granted, NATO, with Canada playing a small but valuable role, has been active in the region since April, 2014.

But in reality, that has been more a rattling of pocketknives.

It's time for Poland to nuclearise.




"Industry"? That is an understatement:

Through tens of thousands of private hearings, this is how Canada has assigned dollar figures for the abuse of former students at residential schools. The assessments are part of the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history, indeed, one of largest in the world.

But if justice takes time, a decade and 38,000 claimants later, the assessment process for the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement has yet to wrap up, and may take until 2023. That’s left some claimants in painful, years-long limbo. And the cost, originally estimated at $960 million, is so far more than triple that amount, with an added $700 million in administration fees alone – including payments to lawyers who have been allowed to charge both the government and the victims they represent.

How did such a dramatic miscalculation happen?

“It’s absolutely ridiculous. This became an industry for everyone involved, including for government,” said Steven Cooper, a lawyer who helped negotiate the settlement and represented survivors.

This is  a hydra. Cut off one head and another will grow in its place to collect money.



 
There is one in every corner:

Man says Nazis were socialist, gets schooled by history writer

  

Despite this, the populist nationalists that support the likes of Donald Trump, regualarly take the oportunity to remind modern day liberal or left-leaning critics of white-supremacists and neo-nazis that 'Socialism' was included in the Nazi party name. 

Hitler's party positioned as a left-wing organisation based on his rhetoric, rather than his actions, espoused in the 1920s and 1930s to disenfranchised workers frustrated with what they perceived as a two-tier society. 

Neither left or right wing want to be known as the side of the political spectrum that Hitler was on, and both sides would argue he was on the other, politically speaking.

One such incident occurred recently on Twitter.

Yes, about that (from the comments):

"Why We Are Socialist" by Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels:
"We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland!

"Why We Are Socialist" by Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels:

"We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland! …

We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism!

We are against Marxism, but for true socialism!

We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature!

We are for the National Socialist German Workers Party"

Nope, no socialism there.

 

Don't let facts get in the way of a good narrative, some say. 




A lot of things upset the Muslims:

Authorities in Egypt have reportedly closed down a 1,300-member church in the Minya governorate and are preventing Christians from worshiping at another church in the area, according to a report.

Morningstar News, a donor-funded news agency that reports on persecuted Christians worldwide, reported that the Virgin Mary and St. Paula Church in Kedwan village was shut down last month by authorities based on the claim that local Muslims objected to the church.

Capitulation is what Europeans do.


Case in point:

Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers flooded the heart of Barcelona on Saturday shouting “I’m not afraid” — a public rejection of violence following extremist attacks that killed 15 people, Spain’s deadliest in more than a decade.

And that useless gesture is in aid of what? Is it backed up with raids, tighter borders, surveillance on known Islamist hate-mongers?

I wouldn't think so.

Islamists aren't afraid of Europeans. That is why they attack them with virtual impunity. Either Europeans can start getting a clue or they can get used to being road pizza.


Also:

London police arrested a second man Sunday in connection with a suspect who drove up to a police van not far from Buckingham Palace then reached for a 4-foot (1.2-meter) sword, an incident detectives called a terrorism attempt.

Scotland Yard said three officers were slightly injured when they confronted the 26-year-old man who allegedly drove at the police van then stopped in a restricted area outside the gates of Queen Elizabeth II's London residence Friday night.

The driver reached for the sword in his car and repeatedly shouted "Allahu akbar!" ("God is great" in Arabic) during the incident, police said. The officers used tear gas to incapacitate the man and arrested him at the scene.

Damn Scottish separatists! 

But ... but ... his family made him into a terrorist!

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr returns to court this week to ask that his bail conditions be eased, including allowing him unfettered contact with his controversial older sister, more freedom to move around Canada, and unrestricted internet access.

In support of his request, Khadr notes the conditions originally imposed two years ago were necessary as a graduated integration plan following his 13 years in American and Canadian custody.

No issues have arisen since his release and the various restrictions have been revised several times — most recently in May last year, he says.

Currently, Khadr, 30, can only have contact with his sister Zaynab if one of his lawyers or bail supervisor is present. The condition is no longer necessary, he says.

As has been said several times, he is an unrepentant terrorist. 

Oh, Pastor Lim ... :

Toronto-area Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim says holding Canadian citizenship was the reason he wasn't executed or tortured during his more than two years of detention in North Korea.

"If I'm just Korean, maybe they kill me," Lim said during an interview with CBC's Rosemary Barton on Saturday. "I'm Canadian so they cannot, because they cannot kill the foreigners."

Yes, about that:

On December 28, 2014, a North Korean soldier (believed to be a deserter) crossed the border into China and killed four Chinese civilians in Nanping village, in the city of Helong in China’s Jilin province.

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The North Koreans also tried to kill Park Chung-hee’s successor, Chun Doo-hwan, by planting a bomb during a South Korean state visit to Rangoon, Burma. The bomb was planted at the mausoleum of Aung San, Burma’s murdered leader who happens to be the father of Aung San Suu Kyi. The explosion killed 21 people, including three members of the South Korean cabinet. Chun survived because his car was late. (If you work on Korean peninsula issues at all, sooner or later, you’ll go to a nice event hosted by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and meet its president, a lovely man named Hahm Chaibong. His father was among those killed in the Rangoon bombing.)

**

A woman linked to the destruction of a South Korean airliner with 115 people aboard confessed on television today that she is a Communist North Korean agent and said she planted a bomb on the plane.

The North Koreans have no compunction killing Koreans or otherwise. The good pastor was kept alive as a bargaining chip.

Did he think that he didn't need outside help?


Also:

South Korea is poised to complete the installment of a US missile shield next week, officials said Friday, despite unabated controversy over the Moon Jae-in government’s flip-flopping on the timing of the deployment.

Did you or any of your Liberal friend disabuse them of such notions, Mr. Dubourg?

Emmanuel Dubourg says he’s seen social media posts falsely claiming Canada has a special residency program for Haitians and that Canadian officials are in the United States to facilitate their entry.

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The federal government is transparently lying to potential asylum seekers by saying there are "no advantages" to coming across the border illegally, the Canadian Council for Refugees says.

Emmanuel Dubourg, the Liberal MP who was sent to Miami to discourage Haitians from travelling to Canada to claim asylum, told reporters Friday that he has been telling them "there is no advantage" to coming to the country irregularly. ...

But Janet Dench, the executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, told HuffPost Canada that Ottawa's plan seems "like a strange strategy, because it is so obviously false."

"The reason that people come irregularly is because that is the way to avoid the Safe Third Country Agreement. I don't understand on what basis you could say you don't have an advantage by doing it. I mean, the advantage is you can make a claim [while] you would be immediately found not eligible if you presented yourself at a point of entry," she said.

No, I didn't think you did.

After all ... : 

“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada,” he tweeted. 

Election in 2019.

Scratch a Liberal ...:

Sen. Denise Batters was minutes from boarding a flight home when she noticed two-day old Twitter posts that said she was only in the upper chamber because her husband killed himself. ...

Since the Trudeau government’s election in 2015, Batters has become a vocal critic of Liberal policy on medical assistance in dying and towards the Senate itself.

In late June, a former federal NDP candidate in Saskatchewan posted on the senator’s Facebook page that she was “only sitting in the Red Chamber because her husband, the MP, committed suicide.” The date was June 27. It was the first time the senator had heard or seen anyone aim those type of comments at her. ...

On Wednesday night, she was minutes away from boarding a flight from Toronto to Saskatchewan when she went on Twitter and by chance came across two tweets posted on Monday. A Twitter user with the handle @swancoole tweeted that Harper appointed her to the Senate in 2013 only because her husband killed himself and taxpayers are now supplying her life insurance.

The tweets appeared to be in response to online criticisms the senator levelled against the Liberals for paying a new consul-general, one the party recruited who was also a former candidate, more than a female recruited to a similar position.

When parents of autistic children stood on the side of the streets in Ontario to protest Wynne's appalling treatment of them, one motorist honked and said that he would still support the Liberals despite what they've done.

And that is a Liberal voter in a nutshell - a heartless tribalist.

People like him are the problem.

Also - as long as she has the unions, she will never lose:

The last nine of months of polling that have landed in Kathleen Wynne’s lap, and were obtained by The Canadian Press through a Freedom of Information request, suggest improving public opinion fortunes for a now somewhat less unpopular Liberal government.

The polling conducted by the Gandalf Group — headed by the man leading the Liberals’ 2018 re-election bid — found large support for the government’s plan for a $15 minimum wage, general support for carbon pricing, if not necessarily the specifics, and even improving assessments of the hydro file, over which the government has been consistently hammered.

And:

A new petition calls on Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi to respond to the Jewish community’s complaints and concerns about hate crime and hate speech.

This Yasir Naqvi:

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), formerly known as the Council of American Islamic Relations-Canada (CAIR-CAN), hosted a community picnic on Saturday, July 6th at the Dovercourt Community Centre ”“ and before a crowd of over 300, re-affirmed its mission to foster civic engagement in the Muslim community. ...

MPP Yasir Naqvi was on hand to reiterate the importance of NCCM as a national voice in the three key areas of media relations, human rights, and political advocacy.

Nope.


Aaaannnddd:

Days after families were sent scrambling following the abrupt closure of an Islamic high school in Scarborough, some of the affected students came together on Friday to protest.
With less than two weeks before the start of the school year, the Islamic Foundation School (IFS) announced it would be shutting down the grades 9 to 12 classes due to low enrolment as well as administrative and financial issues. The elementary school classes will not be affected. 
The union representing teachers says it was given no prior notice of closure and will take legal action.

Nearly 150 students are now in need of finding another place to continue their studies. 

Yeah, that's a shame.

I suppose racism is acceptable when leftists do it:

Counterprotesters crowded around him at an anti-illegal immigration rally in Southern California.

R.C. Maxwell, an African-American supporter of President Donald Trump, was voicing his views on immigration, saying that he had grown up in the black community and “I’ve seen problems with illegal immigrants.”

“There’s a problem with illegal immigration; I speak out against that,” Maxwell shouted Sunday night during the “America First!” rally held in Laguna Beach. “That doesn’t make me a Nazi.”

Then the crowd got loud.

“You’re a traitor!” one hollered.

“People want you in chains, dude,” another person called out.

“I know they do,” Maxwell said.

Another said: “If you want to keep the peace, you should leave.”

Video showed a man emerge from the crowd and throw a punch – then Maxwell hit the ground. The scene turned into chaos as others tried to make him stop, and someone asked, “Where’s the cops?”

The man, who was heard screaming and cursing, was later identified by police as 20-year-old Richard Losey, of Lancaster, Ohio.

Losey was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of misdemeanour battery with a hate crime enhancement, Laguna Beach police said this week in a statement.

But prosecutors have since said “there is not enough evidence” to charge Losey with a hate crime, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“Political motivation is not an area covered under hate crimes in the penal code,” Susan Kang Schroeder, chief of staff for the Orange County district attorney, said in a statement, according to the newspaper.

California law defines a hate crime as “a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of one or more of the following actual or perceived characteristics of the victim:

– Disability
– Gender
– Nationality
– Race or ethnicity
– Religion
– Sexual orientation

– Association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics”
Authorities said in a statement that the victim was “sucker-punched” as he was “peacefully speaking with a group of people.”

Losey had fled by the time police had arrived at the scene, authorities said, but video of the incident was shared widely on social media. Authorities said that after the victim contacted police Monday to report an assault by a counterprotester, police were able to identify the suspect.

When he was arrested, Losey was attempting to buy a bus pass for home. Police believe he was trying to flee the state to avoid prosecution.

 

What appalling creatures leftists are. 

Also - a list of offensive things that will be erased from Canadian memories soon enough. We were always at war with Eurasia.

Because Rex Murphy:

We should all guard against neo-Nazism. But we should equally guard against a near twin, Black Bloc, which dips into every protest with fondness for fists and semi-riot. This latter element we have seen both more frequently and more numerously than — to end on a high note — the other bunch of losers who spent much of their protest hiding out in a parking garage. Which should we worry about more I wonder?

Screw you, Iceland!

A 17-year-old boy with Down syndrome is a hero in Italy after saving a little girl from drowning.

Valerio Catoia and his family were at Sabaudia Beach on July 12 when two girls ages 10 and 14 were literally swept out to sea. They were no match for the powerful undercurrent that relentlessly rushed them farther out by the second. They screamed for help.

"The little one started to go down but then re-emerged," the Republic reported. Valerio "instinctively" dived after her instantly.

Valerio's father also heard the girls crying out and immediately went into action. Ahead of lifeguards trying to help, the two heroes reached the girls struggling to stay afloat.  

While the father assisted the older girl, Valerio reached the younger girl, cradled her, and swam her safely to the shore.

News of the rescue spread and Valerio quickly became a national hero. Italian citizens not only accepted the Down syndrome teen, they championed him all the more for overcoming his disability.

This is probably creating shock-waves in trigonometry circles:

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proved that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics that could change how we calculate today. The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in southern Iraq by Edgar Banks, an American archaeologist and diplomat, who was the inspiration for the Indiana Jones films.

And now, amazing dogs:

Swansea Jack is a legend in Wales, where he lived with his owner, William Thomas, near the River Tawe. It’s here that the black retriever’s superhero reputation began when he jumped into the river to save a drowning boy. A few weeks later, he did it again. And then again. And again. All told, it’s believed that Jack saved a total of 27 people during his lifetime.

Good boy.

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