Your first week of Easter glut of posty goodness!
After months of over-stepping its advisory role (a role it hasn't even the right to assume) and doing battle for China, the only country with the economic fortitude to do anything about it has withdrawn funding:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting criticism from other countries and medical experts as the global death toll mounted.
Trump, who has reacted angrily to attacks on his administration’s response to the worst epidemic in a century, has become increasingly hostile towards the WHO.
The Geneva-based organization had promoted China’s “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak than otherwise would have occurred, Trump said.
The United States is the biggest overall donor to the WHO, contributing more than $400 million in 2019, roughly 15 per cent of its budget.
The WHO is obviously very upset:
“The United States of America has been a long-standing and generous friend of the WHO, and we hope it will continue to be so,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference. “We regret the decision of the president of the United States to order a halt in the funding to the WHO.”
(Sidebar: ... says the man who hid three cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia.)
Justin plays "moron in the headlights" when asked about the WHO:
When asked about false information released from the WHO on behalf of China and if the WHO has done a good job, Trudeau said that Canada needs to "base ourselves on science and experts," saying that there will be "many reflections" in the coming years on which institutions to trust moving forward.Trudeau said those reflections would continue in the future, especially as Conservative voices continue to point fingers at the lack of credibility in the WHO.
As of this writing, no one has stepped up to replace the US as a major donor of the WHO.
Ladies and gentlemen, the WHO:
Justin's cuckoo clock impression carries on:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the partial shutdown of Canada has to last weeks more to get COVID-19 under control, using his strongest warning yet against loosening economic restrictions too soon as he unveiled expanded help for hard-hit workers.
Oooh, a strong warning from his cottage hideaway! I'm scared!
We don't have a partial shutdown. We have an entire one.
We are also living on borrowed money that will destroy Canada's economy to such an extent that the Great Depression will pale in comparison:
Policy-makers already have set up a half-dozen emergency programs aimed at pushing cash into financial markets, including the weekly purchase of at least $5 billion of federal government bonds. In the “coming weeks,” the central bank announced it also will start buying up to $50 billion in provincial debt, and up to $10 billion of investment-grade corporate bonds. Both will be firsts for the Bank of Canada.
**
In his morning address to the nation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced expanded eligibility rules for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and a plan to top up pay for some essential workers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.When do you plan on re-paying that?
The CERB will become available to Canadians who have exhausted their employment insurance (EI) benefits since Jan. 1, seasonal workers who can’t find work because of COVID-19, and those who earn up to $1,000 a month, the prime minister said.
Also - what signal? "Screw you!" That's the signal:
The Department of Employment yesterday said it is still issuing permits to temporary foreign workers though Canadian unemployment is forecast to reach a forty-year high. “Why?” one MP told a hearing of the Commons health committee: ‘What signal does that send to people without a job?’
Meanwhile, priorities:
The federal government is considering introducing legislation to make it an offence to knowingly spread misinformation that could harm people, says Privy Council President Dominic LeBlanc.
(Sidebar: like "Tam said the risk to Canadians is still considered low. Even so, airports in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver will begin displaying electronic messages on screens asking any travellers from Wuhan who present flu-like symptoms to notify a border services agent.")
**
Cabinet yesterday enacted new regulations allowing police to ticket cross-border scofflaws up to a thousand dollars – $100 for children – for ignoring quarantine orders. Ticketing would save the cost of prosecutions under the Criminal Code: ‘It reduces pressure on the courts.’
**
The Trudeau government craves a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
They undoubtedly figure if they can show themselves to be playing along with the phony narrative about COVID-19 being spun by the Chinese government with the help of the UN’s World Health Organization, they will win brownie points for their Security Council bid against Norway and Ireland.
There is almost no doubt the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) covered up the medical catastrophe it had on its hands for more than a month. Then, once it admitted it had a problem on Dec. 31 of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) let China deal with it on its own for a further three weeks before finally pressing for international teams to entire Hubei province and help contain the spread.
(Sidebar: oh, they sat on that information for six whole days.)
**
Despite repeatedly urging Canadians to stay home for Easter amid the coronavirus pandemic, even if it meant not seeing their families, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending the decision to go see his.
Because hiding in a cottage is hard work.
Also - scum:
Over 100 politicians, world leaders and academics have banded together to sign an open letter condemning the Communist Party of China (CCP) for covering up the coronavirus crisis in its early stages.
The letter, published in English and Chinese, was released on April 14 by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) and included the signatures of MPs from the UK, Australia, and Estonia.
No sitting Canadian MP signed the letter, though former Minister of Justice and Attorney General Irwin Cotler was included as a signatory.
The bribed press has its work cut out for it:
The context of course is far different. Elizabeth May was also on the plane. Liberal cabinet minister Carla Qualtrough was also on the plane.
The headline mentions none of that.
The headline also fails to mention that the flight was in fact chartered by the federal government itself.
Finally, the headline is clearly an attempt to distract from the real hypocrisy here. After all, Scheer was travelling for his job – a vote on the essential emergency financial support legislation in Parliament. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau acted in very hypocritical fashion, by telling Canadians not to travel to see family over the Easter weekend, and then doing exactly that, travelling to visit his family at Harrington Lake.
As noted by Anthony Furey, not only was Trudeau’s trip hypocritical, it may have technically illegal ...
**
Here is the clip
the CBC didn't want you to see. pic.twitter.com/MyubxOuByV
—
pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) April
14, 2020
Nothing says "rube" like a Canadian:
Next time a fan
of @JustinTrudeau
tells me that followers of @realDonaldTrump
are stupid rubes who will believe anything, I will show them the tweets
I’ve received from Trudeau supporters over the past two days regarding
his cottage visit. They will defend and believe
anything.
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) April
15, 2020
If one can defend Trudeau's abuse of women and his racism, one can defend anything the snowboard instructor could do.
Oh, the fresh hell:
The Public Health Agency is downplaying the full impact of the pandemic with a resulting threat of needless deaths and economic turmoil, the Commons health committee was told yesterday. An epidemiologist testified federal forecasts severely underestimate the infection rate in an inevitable second wave due this summer: ‘It will take over a year.’
**
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) says the conditions in which its staff are working in long-term care homes are “unfathomable” during the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
The association said in a statement Wednesday that long-term care homes pre-COVID-19 were already understaffed, but now they are in “crisis” mode.
While Canadians are happily hiding in their homes, South Korea has some work to do and it's doing it:
Parliamentary elections in South Korea, which took place amid a global COVID-19 pandemic, turned out to be a referndum on the Moon Jae-in administration’s response to the virus.
The government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak dominated campaign talk, with usually popular issues -- such as the approach toward North Korea, the slowing economy, prosecution and election reforms and corruption scandals -- nearly gone missing. And the marked slowdown in the virus’ spread in recent weeks aided President Moon and his party.
On the campaign trail, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea asked for voters’ support to win the coronavirus “war” while the opposition United Future Party struggled to shift attention toward the country’s sluggish economy and corruption scandals involving Moon’s aides.
**
Despite the continuing coronavirus outbreak, South Korean citizens flocked to the polls for Wednesday’s general election, pushing the turnout rate to the highest in years.
Nearly 66 percent of the country’s 43 million registered voters had cast their ballot as of 6 p.m., when balloting was still underway for voters quarantined over COVID-19. The turnout was the highest in a general election since 2000.
**
A former North Korean diplomat who settled down here four years ago is set to win a National Assembly seat, becoming the first-ever defector to be directly elected as lawmaker in South Korea.
Exit polls and early returns in Wednesday’s general election put Thae Ku-min of the main opposition United Future Party comfortably ahead of rival Kim Sung-gon, a four-term lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam-gu constituency.
The final results were expected early Thursday morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment