Yet More

Huawei has ties to Chinese state security. Any attempt to curb or remove it could only results in a far more secure telecommunications system and a financial blow to the company:

The Trump administration’s decision to block American companies from providing software and components to Huawei will not actually make the U.S. more secure, according to a majority of experts surveyed by The Post.

The Commerce Department imposed that ban last month as part of a broad government effort to punish Huawei over concerns it’s helping the Chinese government spy on U.S. companies. But cybersecurity experts worry the ban will hurt U.S. tech companies more than it hurts the Chinese telecom giant — and will diminish U.S. influence over the security of new technologies.

(Sidebar: but what about all of those other countries who banned Huawei? Is their influence waning, too?)

“Not only does this hurt the immediate bottom line of U.S. companies, it will simply lead to Huawei turning elsewhere for its supply needs to the long-term detriment of our technology sector,” said Tor Ekeland, an attorney who specializes in defending hackers.

And ...?




So much for that plan:

The genetic mutation that a Chinese researcher claimed he used on a human embryo to create HIV-resistant twins may be linked to a shorter lifespan, according to new research.

The findings from scientists at University of California Berkeley, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, will likely intensify criticism that the researcher carried out an experiment on humans long before the science was ready.

In November, Shenzhen-based scientist He Jiankui said he had edited the CCR5 gene of the unborn twins to create a mutation that also can occur naturally. The naturally formed mutations, relatively common among northern Europeans, protect against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

But a new analysis of more than 400,000 genomes and health records in the UK Biobank found that people with copies of a similar mutation from both parents had a significantly higher death rate between ages 41 and 78 than those with one or no copies. The mutation, the Berkeley researchers found, is associated with a 21% increase in mortality later in life.

A group plans on suing the federal government after the latter deemed that camps for children were just not abortion-friendly:

A legal group says it’s suing the federal government over its denial of a Canada summer jobs grant to bible camps in Ontario and Nova Scotia.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says it will back an action on behalf of Bible Centered Ministries International, which runs a camp near Omemee, Ont., west of Peterborough, and another in Cooks Brook, northeast of Halifax.

The federal Department of Human Resources and Social Development declined comment on the camps’ specific application, but says in an email that the department refuses applications if the organization’s activities “work to undermine or restrict” a woman’s right to abortion.

It says applicants were given the opportunity to provide added information on their projects and “needed to demonstrate that they didn’t include ineligible activities.”

A news release signed by John Carpay, the leader of the Justice Centre, says Mount Traber Bible Camp and Mill Stream Bible Camp have received the job grant money for over a decade, but Service Canada rejected its most recent applications on May 2, and there isn’t a clear indication of why.

Carpay says his group will ask the court for a declaration that the minister’s decisions were unreasonable, and unreasonably interfere with the camps’ rights to religious freedom.

Also:

Trudeau’s obsession with abortion puzzles many Canadians. It’s as if he never discusses the subject with anyone other than a cadre of radical feminists for whom belief in women’s right to abortion whenever and for whatever reason is the litmus test for any claim whatsoever to human decency. It’s as if he doesn’t know it has been almost 30 years since the Supreme Court decision in R. vs. Morgentaler directed Parliament to enact legislation that protected “fetal rights at some point.”

Is he even aware that abortion regulation is the norm amongst all other democracies? France protects unborn children after 12 weeks’ gestation, with exceptions for mothers’ life endangerment and severe, incurable disease in the fetus. Spain bans abortion after 12 weeks, with fetal impairment exception up to 22 weeks. Germany has a 12-week window, provided the woman receives counselling three days before the procedure. Likewise in many other European and Scandinavian countries. These nations are not ultra-conservative redoubts. They are amongst the most politically liberal countries in the world. Canada is the outlier.

Like all liberals, he sees that women are more accessible after abortions. And it mollifies that sad, childless activists who live for nothing else.


And - people often forget that birth control is a stepping stone for abortion and that eugenicists pushed for it:

Historians in Canada have tended to focus on eugenics legislation and coerced sterilization, rather than other aspects of the law or why such laws came to be, Koester said. Most have, understandably, focused on Alberta, where nearly 3,000 supposedly “unfit” people were surgically sterilized between 1928 and 1972.

Somewhat related: 

The fate of Missouri‘s only abortion clinic will be at stake on Tuesday when a St. Louis judge hears arguments in Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit aimed at forcing state health officials to renew the facility’s licence to perform the procedure.

 Yes, about that: 

On May 29, Republican Governor Mike Parson warned that the clinic’s “apparent disregard for the law, their failure to complete complication records, and the accuracy of medical records are all serious concerns” right now.

Among other things, the DHSS said in a press release that same day, there was "at least one incident in which patient safety was gravely compromised" as well as "failed surgical abortions in which patients remained pregnant," “quality control and communication with a contracted pathology lab,” and “failure to obtain informed consent."

And now, more remarkable finds at Angkor Wat:

For many years, historians placed the collapse of the Angkor civilization in 1431, when Angkor’s capital city was sacked by the Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya and abandoned. The idea that the Angkorian capital was abandoned also played a part in the 19th-century colonial interpretation of Angkor as a civilization forgotten by the Cambodians and left to decay in the jungle. Many tourists still come to Angkor Wat with an outdated romanticized notion of a deserted ruin emerging from the mysterious jungle.

But scholars have long argued against this interpretation, and archaeological evidence is shedding even more light on the decline of the Angkorian civilization. The process was much longer and more complex than previously imagined; Angkor’s collapse may be better described as a transformation.

By looking at the events associated with this one particular temple, archaeologists like me are able to see a microcosm of some of the broader regional transformations that took place across Angkor.