Mid-Week Post

 

Your middle-of-the-week end of September ...

 

The two candidates from last night's shouting match in Cleveland:

1. He said that he never called military personnel "stupid bastards." But he did say it ...
2.  Biden said he didn't support the Green New Deal, instead backing something call The Biden Plan, but part of that plan is support for the Green New Deal. 
3.  Biden said that Kellyanne Conway stated that Trump preferred violence in American cities, because it was better for his campaign. That's a stark misrepresentation of what Conway said. Conway was quoting a restaurant owner who asked protestors "Are you trying to get Donald Trump re-elected?" She said that people know Trump is dedicated to public safety.
4. Biden lied about his son, saying that Hunter Biden did nothing wrong despite evidence that continues to emerge.  
5. Biden said that Trump said "there were good people on both sides" of the Charlottesville protests. But the truth is that Trump called out the white supremacists, who he "condemned totally," and the far leftist extremists like Antifa. 

 

The moderator of that shouting match, Chris Wallace, had the audacity to ask Trump if he would condemn white supremacists. For all of Trump's missed opportunities to address Biden's various lies and errors, he did not dignify that absurd and inflammatory question with a response. Such questions are baiting and are hardly likely to be believed by people who spatter out utter codswallop instead of examining Trump's four years in office and pin-pointing some actual deficiencies in the administration.

 

Speaking of Trump:

From January 1, 2020 to September 28, 2020, we counted that Donald Trump attended 1,055 different scheduled engagements, while Trudeau attended only 548.  

 

Trump is busy managing the world's most important economy.

Justin is busy trying to destroy Canada's economy.

But don't take my word for it: 

The Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday that the federal debt will eclipse $1.45 trillion by the year's end, with projections showing that figure will increase to $1.6 trillion by 2021.

"Should parliamentarians support extending temporary measures or introduce new response measures, program spending could rise significantly above the Budget Office's baseline projection," said an Economic and Fiscal Outlook for September 2020, according to Blacklock's Reporter. 

 

(Sidebar: ahem ...)

But wait! There's more!:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will commit an additional $400 million in development and humanitarian spending to combat COVID-19.

Trudeau says the new money will go to trusted partners that are fighting COVID-19 around the world.

 

What money is Justin throwing around?

He is throwing around borrowed money instead of leaving it in Canada without a thought for the sole purpose for which he occupies his dad's former office. 

And he is such a cheap b@$#@rd that he haggled over the cost of a flight (that taxpayers had to dish out for, one might add) to see his pill-popping mother babble in front of an audience.

 

This is the same country where 26.97 million CERB applicants have been processed:

It is a country that will see heating costs rise to sixty percent under the government's rushed and forced Clean Fuel Standard.

It is a country that cannot monitor banks' compounding of interest on borrowers, the benefits its former finance minister and other members of Parliament received. 

Hell, it let disgraced MP Joe Peschisolido write a little apology note for his connections to Chinese organised crime. 

Canadians truly do get the governments they deserve.

 

(Merci)

In 2015, veterans launched an anti-Harper campaign during the election.

In 2020, they are currently reaping what was sown:

Disabled veterans typically wait years for benefits the government claims to process in sixteen weeks, new data confirm. Figures follow an admission by Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay that “we’re behind the eight ball”.

 

Also:

— EXCLUSIVE —

Trudeau planned to use MILITARY to monitor tweets critical of #COVID19 pandemic response@SheilaGunnReid has the government documents to prove it

VIDEO: https://t.co/zv6ftrX2rN

MORE at https://t.co/xfpaT3gc5K#cdnpoli #FireTrudeau

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) September 15, 2020

 

I would say a group masquerading as a charity that gave money to the prime minister and his family is a BIG deal:

Cabinet last night narrowly averted a snap vote of the House affairs committee mandating more disclosure of We Charity documents. One Liberal MP accused opposition parties of conspiring to “dig up some dirt”: “You’re going after what you see as some scandal that’s going to make things incredibly bad for the government. I get it.”

The dirt, my good man, was already unearthed.

The government already looks bad and everyone knows it.

Why, I'm stunned:

More than four in ten employers hiring migrant workers fail surprise inspections, says the labour department. The finding follows a 2017 audit that faulted the department for failing to conduct spot inspections under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program: “Most enforcement activities consisted of reviewing documents.”

 

 

Why is she still in this country?:

A lawyer for Canada’s attorney general accused the defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou of trying to turn her extradition hearing into a trial Tuesday.

Crown prosecutor Robert Frater urged Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes of the B.C. Supreme Court to “cut off at the knees” defence arguments that he said have no chance of success.

“You’re being asked to turn this into a U.S. trial and our submission is you have to stand firm against that,” Frater said.

 

 

Obeisance, thy name is the Liberal Party:

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has apologized to Black and Indigenous Nova Scotians for systemic racism in the province’s justice system.

This Stephen McNeil:

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is making no apologies as he heads to China on Friday, a trip that comes as Chinese officials are overseeing a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and authorities continue to detain two Canadians.

** 

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is criticizing a new border measure imposed by China that requires Canadian lobster exporters to assume liability for COVID-19 in order to get their product into the country.

 

(Sidebar: f--- you, Stephen.)  

 

This China: 

The Ontario government has reversed a planned flag raising that would have taken place on Wednesday.

They were planning to fly the flag of Communist China, coinciding with China’s ‘national day.’

The insane plan caused a massive backlash, with Canadians noting how crazy it is to fly the flag of a foreign country on a Canadian government building, particularly the flag of a country that has kidnapped Canadians.

Pathetically, even in announcing the cancellation of the flag raising, the Ontario Legislature tried casting it as a health move:

“In light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases and the recommendations by Public Health authorities to be more vigilant than ever, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario has decided to cancel all flag-raising ceremonies until further notice.”

Conservative MP Michael Chong had earlier slammed the decision to fly the Chinese flag:

“I don’t think any order of government in Canada should be flying the flag of the People’s Republic of China while two Canadian citizens are wrongfully imprisoned in China. When governments fly a foreign flag it sends a certain signal,” said Chong.

 

Moral cowardice and intellectual dissonance. 

Where would Canada be without it? 

 

Not-DB Cooper's Letter to Trump

In 1978, Bulgarian ambassador, Georgi Markov, was assassinated with a poison-pellet ejected from an umbrella.

In the world of spy-craft,  it was a cunning and diabolical form of assassination.

 

Compare that to what this moron fumbled up:

The return address on the envelope says the sender is “FRS”, presumably the initials for the way the letter was signed off: “Free Rebel Spirit”.

The return address is written as “1050 Lib. Av., S Hub.QC, J3Y 0T6, Canada.”

J3Y 0T6 is a legitimate postal code for St.-Hubert, the Montreal suburb where the RCMP searched an apartment last week, wearing hazmat suits, and where, court was told Monday, officers seized a pestle and mortar that tested positive for ricin.

It is a postal code that includes units of the same apartment property that was searched, although the apartment is on Boulevard Vauquelin. And 1050 is the street number for the apartment complex. ...

The envelope is postmarked in Quebec and bears a stamp showing it was received at the U.S. postal sorting facility on Sept. 17.

The letter did not make it to the White House, where it was addressed to, nor to Trump. Instead, it was examined and found to be suspicious by U.S. Secret Service the next day.

As police were investigating the letter, a woman arrived at the Peace Bridge border crossing between Fort Erie, Ont., and Buffalo, N.Y., on Sept. 20, and told U.S. border guards she was wanted by the FBI for the ricin letters, U.S. authorities said.

Pascale Cécile Véronique Ferrier, 53, of St-Hubert, Que., was arrested on the spot. She had a gun tucked in her waistband and a knife in her pocket, prosecutors allege.

In a backpack, border guards found a semi-automatic handgun loaded with seven rounds of ammunition, a knife and a backpack stuffed with 294 bullets, a stun gun, pepper spray, a collapsible baton and a fake Texas driver’s licence.

Although Ferrier is a dual citizen of Canada and France, where she was born, she had only her Canadian passport with her at the border, court heard.

 

It's like she wanted to get caught.

 

But Didn't the Resident Morons Disallow Rapid Testing?

So why allow it now?

 

To wit:

Health Minister Patty Hajdu said today that Health Canada is not yet satisfied with any of the options it has been reviewing for rapid COVID-19 testing devices — and they will not be deployed across the country until regulators are sure they will meet a certain standard.

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two antigen testing devices months ago — tests that can deliver results in less than 15 minutes — Health Canada is not ready to put its stamp of approval on such tests, Hajdu told reporters at the Liberal cabinet retreat in Ottawa.

She dismissed past U.S. approvals for such devices, saying Canada would rely on its own data.

 

(Sidebar: ... said the graphics designer.)

 

Hubris?

Either the Liberals have the numbers to defeat such a challenge or they really are as stupid as they look:

Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez says proposed legislation for new COVID-19 aid programs will be a matter of confidence in the minority Liberal government.

The move appears to dare the opposition parties to bring the government down as the pandemic surges across the country.

The risk of that happening is low, given NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has already said his party will vote for the bill because the Liberals agreed to increase benefit payments and expand eligibility for paid sick leave.

The Liberals and NDP together have a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit expired on the weekend. The benefit was introduced in the spring to provide up to $500 a week to Canadians who lost their jobs because of COVID-19.

The new bill seeks to replace the CERB with a revamped employment insurance system, and three separate benefits for self-employed and gig workers, parents and caregivers, and people who are sick.

 

Interesting.

Why, then, did the Liberals shut down a debate on coronavirus spending? 

Why Are We Trading With China?

Who would raise a flag for this?

 

Oh, nothing. Just the Ontario government celebrating a genocidal Communist dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/YNc1c8VOc5

— 𝚆𝚊𝚢𝚗𝚎 𝙺. 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛 (@waynekspear) September 29, 2020

 

This China:

A broker for Red Cross China facilitated the hoarding of COVID-19 supplies for Chinese government officials who then sold them for profit, and Red Cross China officials were involved, says a man who was roped into the scheme.

Jiang Pengyong, the General Manager of Shenzhen Jipingyong Tech Company, has come forward to reveal the scheme after being sued in China for contract fraud.

The allegation is the latest scandal to dog China’s Red Cross in recent years. In early February, the Canadian government donated 16 tonnes of protective equipment to China via Red Cross China. The move was heavily criticized by Conservative members of Parliament since Canada’s front line health workers were faced with protective equipment shortages once the pandemic arrived in Canada shortly after.

Canada’s donation, announced by Global Affairs on Feb. 9, was facilitated by the Canadian Red Cross, which provided the supplies to Red Cross China.

Around that time, Red Cross China had come under heavy public criticism as many hospitals in China remained without critical supplies despite huge volumes of donations.

** 

Chinese diplomats have for years worked behind the scenes to pressure state and local officials into adopting policies friendly to Beijing.

But this issue has only recently gained national attention as the Trump administration raises the alarm on the communist regime’s influence activities across the country.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in a Sept. 23 speech at the Wisconsin state capitol that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) covert influence operations targeting state and local politicians have been “in full swing for years” and “increasing in intensity.”

He cited one example of a Californian state senator who in 2017 sought to introduce a measure denouncing the CCP’s persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong. The Chinese consulate in San Francisco then initiated a campaign to scuttle the resolution, writing letters of protest to the state legislature.

“Unfortunately, the California state Senate bowed to the CCP pressure campaign and shelved the proposed bill,” Pompeo said.

** 

According to UCA News, a textbook used in a state-run university completely fabricates part of the Gospel of John, falsely stating that Jesus stoned a woman to death for committing adultery.

** 

I know that it is about some kind of seminar here in Rome about religious freedom. Now, Mr. Pompeo is a convinced believer and in the recent pronouncement he came out very strongly to defend religious freedom for everybody, especially in China; and so I hope he may achieve something because really religious freedom is so important. It’s really worthwhile that he goes around the world to preach that. 

**

Mei-ming has lain this way for 10 days now: tied up in urine-soaked blankets, scabs of dried mucus growing across her eyes, her face shrinking to a skull, malnutrition slowly shrivelling her two-year old body. The orphanage staff call her room the "dying room", and they have abandoned here for the very same reasons her parents abandoned her shortly after she was born. She is a girl. 

When Mei-ming dies four days later, it will be of sheer neglect. Afterward, the orphanage will deny she ever existed. She will be just another invisible victim of the collision between China's one-child policy and its traditional preference for male heirs. She is one of perhaps 15 million female babies who have disappeared from China's demographics since the one-child-per-family policy was introduced in 1979. ...

In one, a dozen or so baby girls sit on bamboo benches in the middle of a courtyard. Their wrists and ankles are tied to the armrests and legs of the bench. A row of plastic buckets is lined up beneath holes in their seats to catch their urine and excrement. The children will not be moved again until night, when they will be lifted out and tied to their beds. 

"They had no stimulation, nothing to play with, no one to touch them," says Blewett. In one scene, a handicapped older boy walks up to one of the girls tied to a bench and begins head-butting her relentlessly. The girl doesn't move or make a sound. Such is the lack of stimulation for the children that few of them will ever learn to speak. An endless rocking is the only exercise, the only stimulation, the only pleasure in their lives.

An official of the orphanage tells Blewett that last year, the orphanage had some 400 inmates. They were kept five to a bed in one airless room. The summer temperatures soared to around 100 degrees. In a couple of weeks, 20 percent of the babies died. "If 80 children died last summer, there should be 320 left," Blewett says to one of the assistants, "but there don't appear to be more than a couple of dozen children here. Where are the others?" The girl replies; "They disappear. If I ask where they go, I am just told they die. That's all. I am afraid to ask any more." 

Brutal neglect is the common theme of many of the orphanage scenes. In one sequence, a lame child sits on a bench near the orphanage pharmacy. It is full of medicines, but none of the staff can be bothered to administer them. The child rocks listlessly back and forth. The camera focuses on her vacant face, trails down her skinny body, and settles on her leg. It is swollen with gangrene. The worst orphanage, the home of Mei-ming, was in Guangdong, one of the richest provinces in China. 

When the documentary team arrived, there were no children to be seen or heard. Then from under one of the blankets laid over a cot. there was the sound of crying. Lifting the blanket and unwrapping a tied bundle of cloth, Blewett found a baby girl. The last layer of her swaddling was a plastic bag filled with urine and feces. The next cot was the same, and the next and the next. Many of the children had deep lesions where the string they were tied with had cut into their bodies. One child, described by staff as "normal," was suffering from vitamin B and C deficiencies, acute liver failure, and severe impetigo on her scalp. All the non-handicapped children were girls.

**

Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls are trafficked and sold into the sex trade in China where they are forced to endure systemic rape, sexual slavery and cybersex trafficking, according to a new report.

The investigation, by the Korea Future Initiative, has uncovered new and disturbing patterns of horrific sexual abuse perpetrated against trafficked North Korean women and girls in mainland China. It found women are also being subject to sex trafficking, sexual abuse, prostitution and forced marriage there.

“Pushed from their homeland by a patriarchal regime that survives through the imposition of tyranny, poverty, and oppression, North Korean women and girls are passed through the hands of traffickers, brokers, and criminal organisations,” the report says. “Before being pulled into China’s sex trade, where they are exploited and used by men until their bodies are depleted.”

 

О, моё!

This must be embarrassing:

 

And the Rest of It

Oh, any old lie will do:

So. I finally read the NYT Trump tax story because I wanted to see what line was being reported for taxes owed and I came across this about the $750 in 2016 and 2017. Per the NYT own story, Trump actually paid to the US Treasury $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017. pic.twitter.com/ltnlMG0mKW

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 28, 2020

 

It's an election year! Just let it go!

Attack his practising Catholic pick for the Supreme Court instead.

 

(Merci)

 

 

A real country would have turfed Meng Wanzhou ages ago:

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is back in a Vancouver court Monday, where her lawyers are arguing the United States omitted or misstated facts to Canadian officials ahead of her arrest.

Meng is wanted on fraud charges in the United States, which she and Huawei have denied.

 

 

Does Moon really believe that North Korea is desperately contrite for the death of a South Korean national?:

 

#MoonJaeIn reveals his 9/8 #LoveLetter to #KimJongUn: "I express my respect to the Chairman of the State Council for your strong commitment to respect for life" (국무위원장의 생명존중에 대한 강력한 의지에 경의를 표한다). #Farcehttps://t.co/r64c9jmF3H

— Sung-Yoon Lee (@SungYoonLee1) September 25, 2020

 

I guess not.

 

 

Armenia and Azerbaijan battle over disputed regions: 

Armenia and Azerbaijani forces kept fighting Monday over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh after hostilities broke out the day before, with both sides blaming each other for resuming the deadly attacks that reportedly also wounded scores of people.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry claimed that Armenian forces started shelling the town of Tartar on Monday morning, while Armenian officials said the fighting continued throughout the night and Baku resumed “offensive actions” in the morning.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told the Interfax news agency Monday that over 550 Armenian troops have been “destroyed (including those wounded)”, a claim that Armenian officials denied.

 

 

For some reason, parents don't want teachers to terrify their children:

A schoolteacher whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black said he was prevented from teaching at a French kindergarten after a parent complained he scared their child.

But the teacher, Sylvain Helaine, 35, still teaches children from the age of six up, and said that, after an initial shock when they see him for the first time, his pupils see past his appearance.

 

Yes, they see an attention-seeking freak. 

Climate Barbie is a dog-hating b!#ch and a clueless creature.

Prove me wrong:

Trudeau Minister Catherine McKenna—who is currently in hot water after video surfaced of her attending a cockfight and eating dog meat in Indonesia—has yet to apologize or even respond to The Post Millennial's request for comment.

McKenna was told to apologize by prominent animal rights activist and federal party leader Liz White, who called into question McKenna's morals and ethics over the matter. ...

The video of McKenna was filmed in 1995 on the Indonesian island of Flores, where street dog is often eaten. The Indonesian dog meat trade is also blamed by locals for stealing neighbourhood pets, and the trade itself is seen as a factor in the country's abnormally high rate of rabies, ranking among the top five in Asia.

 

This video would only make Climate Barbie salivate: