Tuesday, February 11, 2020

For a Tuesday

Quickly now ...




From the most morally and politically corrupt government ever re-elected:

The Department of Canadian heritage, which is run by the Liberal Member of Parliment Steven Guilbeault, is paying journalists to write stories on climate change, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

When launching the Local Journalism Initiative in 2019, the then Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said that “our government is committed to ensuring Canadians everywhere continue to have access to accurate, diverse and relevant news.”

Despite this, these state-funded subsidies have gone towards writing stories on climate change. The Canadian News Media Association, for example, was paid $14.4 million last year.

As well as this, the Yukon-based publication The Narwhal received a subsidy after writing, “It seems like British Columbia is always on fire… The Narwhal tracks government commitments to climate change and separates the wheat from the chaff.”

The Narwhal then went on to publish stories like ““Meet The Alberta Climate Activists Who Say They’re Not Scared Of Jason Kenney.”

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First, we learned that Barton has multiple investments tied to the financial interests of China’s large state owned corporations.

Then, we watched as Barton said that detained Canadian Citizen Huseyin Celil isn’t a Canadian Citizen, echoing the Chinese Communist Party line and going against Canadian Law.

Now, we learn that when Barton was CEO of McKinsey, a firm heavily tied the Chinese Communist State, he lead the company on a retreat in China, which happened just 4 miles away from Concentration Camps where China is holding hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims.

Why does that sound familiar?

Oh, yeah:
“[Duranty] was of course not only the greatest liar among the journalists in Moscow, but he is the greatest liar of any journalist I have ever met in 50 years of journalism,” said British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who was one of the few who honestly reported on the famine in Ukraine.

“We used to wonder whether in fact that the authorities has some kind of hold over him because he so utterly played their game. But it didn’t worry The New York Times who featured his reports,” said Muggeridge in the video further below.

Muggeridge said Duranty’s reporting on the famine in the Ukraine was “particularly disgraceful” because he denied its existence.

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Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said today he won't rule out deferring a decision on the proposed Teck Frontier oilsands mine.

Not that Alberta wants a hand-out or anything but it's not like the Politburo House of Commons cares.

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It's just money:
Canada’s entire submarine fleet spent last year in dry dock at a cost to taxpayers of $325.5 million, according to accounts. The Department of National Defence by 2021 will spend more on refits and repairs than it cost to buy the fleet: “Invaluable.”

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If Justin can tell a veteran and his fake leg that he is glad to sue veterans, what makes these guys think that Justin will stand up to his Chinese bosses?:
Canada’s military wants Justin Trudeau to ban Huawei Technologies Co. from the nation’s fifth-generation wireless networks, according to the Globe and Mail.

Senior military officials including Canada’s top soldier have told the government they believe allowing the Chinese company a role in 5G would threaten national security, the newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed official familiar with the matter.



Speaking of Justin's Chinese bosses:
“I think it’s true that a lot is still unknown and our scientists, Chinese scientists, American scientists, scientists of other countries are doing their best to learn more about the virus, but it’s very harmful,” Cui responded. “It’s very dangerous to stir up suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people. For one thing, this will create panic. Another thing that it will fend up racial discrimination, xenophobia, all these things, that will really harm our joint efforts to combat the virus.”

Then just say honestly that you did not smuggle or engineer viruses that are still killing thousands in your country.


Don't worry. China's North American lap dog is already to help its masters:

A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts led by a Canadian epidemiologist is on its way to Beijing to investigate China’s coronavirus it was announced Sunday, the same day China raised the death toll from its outbreak to 811, surpassing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic.

Because they've done a bag-up job so far. 

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 Just like parkas, huh?:

Trudeau said Canada has already responded to China's request for medical equipment, including face masks and other protective gear, as the infection rate and death toll from the virus continues to climb.
 
"We are going to continue to work with them to ensure that they have the resources to contain this virus," he told a news conference near the end of his three-day visit to Ethiopia.

"We recognize it is a difficult and uncertain time for them and for everyone around the world but as an international community we do have to continue to work together and we're there to help."



But no help for Alberta:

The spreading coronavirus outbreak will hit Canada’s already struggling energy industry, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Monday, just as Ottawa is set to decide the fate of a major new oil sands project. 

Morneau told a business audience in Calgary that prices for crude – one of Canada’s major exports – had dipped by 15% on lower demand since the outbreak started in China. Calgary, the energy capital of Canada, has been hard hit by low prices and limited pipeline capacity.

The death toll from the epidemic surpassed 900 on Sunday, all but two in mainland China. 

“Certainly we are paying very close attention in Ottawa … we know the impact is real and it’s going to be felt across the country, but perhaps even more so here in the oil and gas sector,” said Morneau.

Alberta and neighboring Saskatchewan account for more than 90% of Canada’s oil production.
“Alberta’s economy was one of the weakest regional economies last year … We were expecting a significant upturn this year to about 2% growth, but that outlook is at risk now if oil prices continue to fall,” said Sal Guatieri, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.

“Just when it looked like investment might be coming back to the oil patch this renewed downturn in oil prices could stem the inflow of capital into the sector,” Guatieri said.



Like North Korea hasn't suffered enough:
The current coronavirus emergency is demonstrating how decrepit North Korean infrastructure and public services have become. At the moment North Koreans are hungrier from lack of food, colder from lack of fuel and more frequently without electricity because over a decade of sanctions have cut maintenance on power plants and distribution systems. Since the early 1990s, when Russia halted decades of economic aid, the government has had to cut back on most public welfare spending. The only exception to all these cuts was the capital; Pyongyang. As a result, the capital and the rest of the country now seem like two different countries. The capital looks very different, with lots of visibly recent construction. The electric supply is the most regular in the country as are supplies of fuel for heating. There are more food and consumer goods available. At the moment the most critical difference is that Pyongyang has a medical system that could handle a coronavirus outbreak. The rest of North Korea would quickly exhaust medical resources and coronavirus victims who would have otherwise survived the virus would be dead. This would mean a lot more popular anger at the Kim dynasty and possibly more disorder than the security forces can handle. 

Aware of that risk, the government has taken extraordinary measures to keep coronavirus out of the country. So far the official position is that there have been no confirmed cases in North Korea much less any deaths. Suspected coronavirus victims in the capital are effectively quarantined but in the rest of the country, local officials are on their own with orders to cope as best they can and not report any people coming down with coronavirus or dying from it. Coronavirus symptoms are similar enough to influenza and other similar diseases that can, up to a point, to be blamed for coronavirus infections and deaths. But if the number of people stricken and then dying reaches unusual levels the local population will do the math and realize they have been lied to and abandoned by their government. North Korea leaders are hoping that does not happen because if it does it will have a major crisis on its hands and few resources with which to handle it. 

The border with China has been closed for over three weeks and that means bulk imports of food and fuel are not arriving. These are legal imports that China is the major supplier of. North Korea cannot afford to maintain much in the way of food or fuel reserves and what reserves do exist are for the military, in case there is a war or other national emergency. These supplies may already have been released to provincial security forces (soldiers and police) but they won’t last long if the Chines border remains closed. 

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But reports have filtered out about Kim’s subjects falling prey to coronavirus despite the country’s decision to seal its 880-mile border with China, most of it along the Yalu River into the Yellow Sea to the west, and its 11-mile border with Russia where the Tumen River flows into the Pacific.

Among the first to report fatalities in North Korea, the Seoul-based website Daily NK said five people had died in the critical northwestern city of Sinuiju, on the Yalu River across road and rail bridges from Dandong, which is the largest Chinese city in the region and a key point for commerce with North Korea despite sanctions.

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I believe cow-catchers are in order:
Ontario commuters scrambled to make last-minute changes to their travel plans on Sunday as protesters continued their blockade of two crucial VIA Rail routes, part of a demonstration against a natural gas pipeline being built more than 4,000 kilometres away.

VIA Rail said 18 of its trains were cancelled Sunday, affecting service between Toronto and Montreal, as well as Toronto and Ottawa in both directions. Canadian National Railway traffic was also blocked along the corridor east of Toronto.



I won't reprint anything now about Omar Khadr's appearance at Dalhousie University and the support he received. I will say now, however, that no donor should ever consider giving that university any more money ever again.

 

#DefundDalhousie




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