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| Two more shopping days until the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre |
A Hong Kong museum commemorating China’s deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests closed Wednesday three days after opening as the ruling Communist Party tries to stamp out the last traces of public discussion of the event.
Hong Kong was the last place on Chinese soil where the party’s attack on protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square was commemorated with candlelight vigils and other events. But authorities have banned public ceremonies for the second year amid a campaign by Beijing to crush pro-democracy activism in the territory.
Organizers of the June 4 Museum said it closed after authorities investigated whether it had licenses to conduct public exhibitions. The Hong Kong Alliance of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China said it wanted to protect staff and visitors while the group sought legal advice.
Remember - the "basic dictatorship" that Justin admires (whom Canadians voted for) is responsible for this atrocity.
Maybe China will "Chernobyl" itself:
An “artificial sun” nuclear reactor in China set a new world record by operating at 120 million°C (215 °F) for 101 seconds, reports the country’s state media. It also hit a peak temperature of 160 million°C (288 million°F) — more than 10 times hotter than the sun’s core.
The latest development comes as fusion researchers at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) pursue a virtually never-ending supply of carbon-free energy.
(Sidebar: so why is Canada importing Chinese-made junk?)
If it's as well-built as an Iranian warship, the Chinese may wish to move very far away.
It's as if Poland heard about Chinese espionage and the troubles both Australia and Canada have had and decided that it could do without that particular bother:
Two men accused of spying for China went on trial Tuesday in Warsaw — a Chinese citizen who is a former sales director of Huawei in Poland and a Polish cybersecurity expert.
The men, Weijing Wang and Piotr Durbajlo, have both pleaded not guilty.
At the start of Tuesday's session in Poland's capital, a prosecutor requested that the trial be held in secret because of the classified nature of some of the evidence.
Defense lawyers objected, saying the nature of the charges requires that the proceedings be transparent. Both Wang, speaking in fluent Polish, and Durbajlo said they wanted an open trial. But after a brief recess, the three-judge panel announced the proceedings would be held behind closed doors, citing state interests, and journalists were told to leave.
Wang and Durbajlo were arrested by Polish authorities in January 2019 and accused of spying for China under the cover of seeking business deals for Chinese technology company Huawei.
North Korea has done something interesting here:
North Korea's ruling party has amended its rules to create a de facto second-in-command under leader Kim Jong Un as he looks to revamp domestic politics, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
Citing an unidentified source familiar with North Korea, the agency said the holder of the new post of "first secretary" would chair meetings on behalf of Kim Jong Un.
Kim cemented his power at a congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in January, when he was elected its general secretary, taking a title last held by his late father, Kim Jong Il.
Now Kim wants a greater role in government for the party, as compared to the more-military centred administration of his father, the news agency added.
Is Kim Jong-Un expecting to be unseated?
Russian authorities are cracking down on dissent before a crucial parliamentary election in September, in what a leading Kremlin critic on Tuesday described as an attempt to sideline opponents.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian tycoon who moved to London after spending a decade in prison in Russia on charges widely seen as political revenge for challenging President Vladimir Putin’s rule, said the latest moves against opposition activists reflected the authorities’ concern about the waning popularity of the main Kremlin-directed party, United Russia.
Khodorkovsky told The Associated Press in an interview over Zoom that the upcoming election is a “theatrical performance, in which any candidates that the government isn’t happy with will simply not be allowed to run.” He said that the authorities are increasing repression to stifle any critical voices before the Sept. 19 parliamentary election, including activists of the Open Russian movement that he financed.
If one had read the Bible, one would know that the Israelis had been in that region since forever and that now it is a modern democracy with universal suffrage.The "colonial" garbage might work for a pair of shoes and people who don't know their own history but not for everything else:
If we actually look at cause-and-effect we can see that Israel built a fence not out of any racist agenda, but because terrorists were blowing themselves up in the Second Intifada. Terrorists were blowing themselves up — ironically? — because they wanted to displace the current inhabitants and settle (or re-settle, as they see it) the land. Similarly, Israel put in checkpoints in the West Bank in the early 2000s, not because it wants to prevent freedom of movement, but because it needs to make sure no bombs or knives are being brought in. As for this latest conflict?
Israel launched airstrikes in Gaza because Hamas sent a barrage of rockets into Israel — 4,000 at last count. Hamas started sending rockets into Israel, at least in part, because of an Israeli Supreme Court case over a decades-long property dispute that could see several Palestinian families evicted from their east Jerusalem homes for not paying rent.
In other words, the fraught Israel-Palestine relationship has specific causes — it’s not simply that Israel is a settler-colonial state that’s hell-bent on ethnic cleansing the land.
Also:
“I stand with Palestine and condemn the unthinkable airstrikes in Gaza. End Apartheid!” Atwin wrote on May 11.
The tweet followed one a day earlier by Green MP Paul Manly, who said that the removal of Palestinian families from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah “is ethnic cleansing.”
Noah Zatzman, a senior adviser to Paul, expressed solidarity with Israel in a May 14 social media post that accused many politicians, including unspecified Green MPs, of discrimination and antisemitism.
“We will work to defeat you and bring in progressive climate champions who are antifa and pro LGBT and pro indigenous sovereignty and Zionists!!!!!” he said in the post, which he told The Canadian Press was meant as a response to the Green MPs as well as the broader issue.
Only in Canada can a party like this still sit.
This is not news. This happened a few days ago. Why is being reported now?:
Conservative MP Rachael Harder said the amendment would ensure that when Canadians go online, “we’re going to have the freedom to explore based on our desires as audience members rather than being dictated to by a government-designed algorithm.” Harder argued it would protect content posted by individuals from getting “bumped up or bumped down” or being classified according to how Canadian it is.
Following an amendment proposed by the Liberals, the current version of the bill says the only power the CRTC has over social media content is to force platforms to implement discoverability of posts from Canadian creators – that is, to force platforms like YouTube to recommend Canadian content to users. Critics have said that is still a violation of free expression, and Harder argued at committee Monday that it is a violation of charter rights.
But the Liberals and other opposition parties didn’t agree, voting against the amendment Monday. Bloc Québécois MP Martin Champoux said he was satisfied the amendments that have been put forward after the social media exemption was removed to limit the CRTC’s powers are enough to ensure freedom of expression.
Does one see what happens when the government makes all news agencies its mouthpieces?
Saying "debunked" means never having to walk back on its obvious propaganda:
The Washington Post quietly walked back its claims regarding the theory that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The paper in February 2020 published an article claiming the idea was a “conspiracy theory” that had been “debunked.” The article attacked Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who called for an investigation into the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
“We don’t know where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that,” Cotton said during an appearance on Fox News. “We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China’s only biosafety level four super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.”
But The Post alleged the theory the lab was involved was debunked, quoting a political science professor and a professor of chemical biology to support the claim.
“There’s absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered,” Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, was quoted as saying. “The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded.”
The headline for the article was changed in recent days, from “Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked” to “Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.”
In addition, The Post added a correction.
When you think of COVID screw-up, think of Canada:
Controversial government rules requiring air travellers arriving in Canada to book a non-refundable stay at a government-authorized quarantine hotel are under legal fire and judicial scrutiny at a trial challenging the constitutionality of the COVID-19 control measures.
Four separate challenges are being heard together by Paul Crampton, Chief Justice of the Federal Court, who started the trial’s opening day, featuring 10,000 pages of documents, on the 50th anniversary of the court’s founding.
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Anyone who experiences a severe adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine will be eligible for compensation under the program by submitting a claim that answers the following questions:
- Were you vaccinated in Canada?
- Which province or territory did the vaccination occur?
- Was the date of the vaccination on or after December 8, 2020
- Is the injury serious and permanent or has it resulted in death?
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), financial support will also be available to the dependents of those who have died after receiving a vaccination. That support may include income replacement, payment for injuries, death benefits including funeral expenses, and other eligible costs, such as uncovered medical expenses.
The amount of financial support provided will be determined on a case-by-case basis, but compensation will be retroactive from the date of the injury or death.
How many people who cannot get this flu shot or in its mixed entirety would fit that description?
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Always look on the sunny side of life:
Auditor General Karen Hogan yesterday said she didn’t want to dwell on “why things were as bad as they were” at the Public Health Agency prior to Covid. Members of the Commons public accounts committee faulted Hogan for what one MP called a “very timid” exoneration of the Agency in a pandemic that killed more than 25,000 Canadians: “I focused on continuous improvement.”
Well, if you knew where these bodies were, what were you waiting for?:
“It is a great open secret that our children lie on the properties of the former schools,” said Sol Mamakwa, an Indigenous member of the Ontario legislature. Jocelyn Formsma, executive director of the National Association of Friendship Centres, said in a statement that the Kamloops discovery is “a shock to us all, but unfortunately, not a surprise to many.”
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