Mid-Week Post

 

Ten more shopping days until Halloween ...

 

The most corrupt government ever re-elected is hoping that a third time's a charm.

More to come.

Justin's b!#ch has promised to support the snowboard instructor while pretending to have scruples:

NDP Leader ⁦@theJagmeetSingh⁩ says that he will not vote for the Conservative motion to continue to ask questions. Simultaneously announces that ⁦@JustinTrudeau⁩ can do anything he wants and the NDP will back the Liberals. pic.twitter.com/ZjnBDg7oe1

— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) October 21, 2020

A litany of Justin's scandals and other embarrassing events so far:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday disclosed he collected more than $1.3 million in speaking fees from private sponsors over a six-year period from 2006 to 2012. Cabinet released the records to preempt Conservative calls for wider disclosure of records: ‘That would paralyze the government.’

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The Trudeau Liberals awarded Former Liberal MP Frank Baylis' medical firm a contract for $237 million without calls for bids, and overpaid $10,000 per ventilator.

The Montreal-based Baylis Medical Company Inc. was gifted the federal contract to purchase 10,000 ventilators. Additionally, the ventilators had never been "approved in any jurisdiction to date," a Department of Health memo revealed.

In total, the Trudeau government spent as much as $100,000,000 more than needed, as prices for Baylis' unapproved ventilators tower those of approved competitor Medtronic, reports Journal de Quebec.

 

(Sidebar: do you remember Frank Baylis?)

But Justin is not alone in his incompetence and corruption:

Two-thirds of projects approved for funding by Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna’s department lacked mandatory checklists for “due diligence”, says an internal audit. Reviewers cited serious “control failures”.

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The Department of National Defence nearly tripled a budget to hire current and former reporters to coach officers on “media techniques”, say Access To Information records. Journalists were paid $750 a day to conduct fake interviews with employees: “There were exercises on how to hold a scrum.”

 

The Cultural Revolution, the forced abortions and infanticide, the Tienanmen Square massacre, Tibet, Falun Gong, the forced repatriation of North Korean defectors - none of these things was trendy enough to signal virtue on:

The Parliamentary subcommittee on International Human Rights has officially accused China of genocide against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.

This China:

Facebook has been using Chinese methods of censorship to control what comes to the top of millions of feeds—and what doesn't. Many of those employed by Facebook are Chinese nationals, on H-1B visas.

An investigation led by Sohrab Ahmari, the op-ed editor at the New York Post, uncovered evidence that a wide range of Facebook practices and resources are designed to influence the social platform by means of what a former Facebook insider called "Hate Speech Engineering."

These methods, some of which are taken directly from Chinese political influences, are subtle enough to curve the direction of user content without being noticed, but sophisticated enough to filter through extremely large and complicated sets of online data. It's what a former Facebook insider described as an incredibly complex and technical process.

 

Also - this is what other countries should be doing: 

Japan’s military has agreed to create a framework for protecting Australian Defense Force assets as the two countries forge stronger bilateral ties amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific.

Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi announced the transition on Oct. 19 in a joint statement with Australian Defense Minister Linda Reynolds, who visited Tokyo for bilateral discussions with her counterpart.

“Australia is our ‘Special Strategic Partner’ in the region, and Japan Ministry of Defense, and Self-Defense Forces are going to deepen our bilateral defense cooperation and exchanges to uphold and reinforce the Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” Kishi said.

 

Sadly, South Korea's Moon-Jae-In won't. 

What? We have enough Canadian flag patches, right?:

The European Union decided to remove Canada, Tunisia and Georgia from its list of countries whose residents should be allowed to visit the bloc amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to an EU official familiar with the matter.

 

I don't care how much money Doug Ford returned. He threw Tania Granic Allen under the bus and praised notorious autistic child-hater Kathleen Wynne.

His name is mud.

The RCMP is a organ of the state. If it wouldn't protect shooting victims, why would it remove vandals or anyone else?:

The head of the RCMP failed to address complaints about the force’s response to violence against Indigenous lobster fisheries in southwestern Nova Scotia.

I know everyone is super-keen on Pope Francis' theological faux pas but he cannot change doctrine.

So there's that:

This view is most commonly to be found among Eastern Orthodox and some Catholic traditionalists. Everything has always been taught exactly as it was taught from the beginning, with no changes to the doctrine or changes to the presentation of the doctrine. All future declarations, such as council statements, must simply re-declare what was taught before.  

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Those expecting changes to the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion, same sex-marriage and women priests were probably disappointed by the publication last week of Pope Francis's first apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of the Gospel," in which he affirms the unchangeable nature of those and other doctrines.

 

I suppose His Holiness forgot about that.