Mid-Week Post

 

Your mid-week struggle against evil ... 

And, boy, do we have a lot of it:

The Taliban hung four dead bodies in a public square in western Afghanistan, according to local witnesses, in a sign that the group is returning to some of its harsh punishments of the past.

 

(Sidebar: did anyone expect them to do anything different?)

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Six months after Kevin Omar Mohamed‘s prison sentence for terrorism came to an end, the RCMP’s Toronto O-INSET national security team decided to check up on him.

What they found set off alarms.

Not only was he violating his probation by using a smartphone, he’d downloaded al-Qaeda literature, manuals on bombs and poisons, and a tract justifying the killing of women and children, according to allegations filed in court.

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The families of more than two dozen Canadians held at prisons and camps for ISIS detainees in Syria have filed a case in the Federal Court accusing the government of failing to bring them home.

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World Health Organization (WHO) staff were among 83 aid workers who sexually abused women and girls while tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report finds.

The abuses, which included nine allegations of rape, were committed by both national and international workers between 2018 and 2020.

The report comes after more than 50 local women reported sexual abuse.

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BREAKING: In a 218-211 vote, the Democrat-controlled House just passed the most extreme abortion law in American history.

It would codify the "right" to kill preborn children through all 9 months in all 50 states.

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 24, 2021

 

(Sidebar: being pro-abortion is a mentally illness but don't take my word for it.)

 

And this is before we get to the Liberal Party's evil:

Lobbyists representing the bailout press endorse cabinet censorship of the internet. News Media Canada called itself the nation’s “most precious guardian” of free speech but proposed the Department of Canadian Heritage extend censorship to critics who use legal but hurtful words against media: “The news publishing industry remains under threat from the unregulated and unchecked social media.”

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On Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about why his government hasn’t banned Huawei, and if it plans to.

“We’ve actually seen that many Canadian telecommunications companies, if not all of them, have started to remove Huawei from their networks and are moving forward in ways that don’t involve them as a company,” Trudeau said.

“We continue to weigh and look at the different options, but we will no doubt be making announcements within the comings weeks.”

 

You mean say "yes" to Huawei, you little sh--. 

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“A few hours ago I spoke with the Governor General and confirmed for her that it is my intention of forming the next government,” Trudeau said.

 

Chrystia is still around to stink things up, too.

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Amid the jubilation surrounding the release of two Canadians from Chinese prisons, Robert Schellenberg might well be wondering: “What about me?”

 

Yeah, what about you, Robert? 

Anyone with a skill is valuable.

Don't tell that to the government, though:

Skilled trades are stigmatized in Canada, says internal research by the Department of Employment. A survey of teenagers and young adults found many considered the work too hard, boring and “not as respected” as other jobs while acknowledging trades paid better than many university degrees: “It’s a chronic situation.”

 

 

This church:

It is the Church that stopped the widespread practice of human sacrifice in polytheistic religions. It is Church that converted barbarians, evangelized the Vikings, and tamed the Wild West. The Church has done good, a lot of good, and who could argue that our world is not better for it?

 

Also - why do I keep thinking of Jerzy Popielusko?:

Pastor Artur Pawlowski has just been arrested upon his return to Canada from a months-long speaking tour in the United States.

After landing at the Calgary airport, police rushed onto the tarmac and arrested Pastor Artur the moment he stepped off the plane.

 

Lockdowns have no effect on the economy ... until they do:

Most Canadians expect to carry the impact of pandemic debts into retirement, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries said yesterday. Researchers found the financial fallout from Covid was so bleak more than one in ten Canadians, 14 percent, said they “do not expect to ever retire.”

 

Also - the unvaccinated lepers are the reason why nurses are quitting, not mismanagement, governmental incompetence and fatigue:

A frustrated contractor told the Department of Public Works it was “killing our doctors and nurses” by rationing pandemic masks from the outbreak of Covid, according to internal emails. Shortages caused by mismanagement of a national stockpile were “beyond embarrassing,” said a Canadian distributor: “It’s approaching negligence.”

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Forced overtime during the pandemic and a recent spike in births have exacerbated a shortage of labour and delivery nurses in Quebec, leading several Montreal-area maternity wards to curtail services and even, in some cases, temporarily close.

 

(Sidebar: I'll just leave this right here.) 

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Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is now recommending COVID-19 booster shots for residents of long-term care homes and seniors living in other congregate settings.

 

(Sidebar: the ones who everyone forgot.)

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I'm sure that will work:

The Alberta New Democrats have proposed a door-knocking campaign to improve vaccine uptake rates, with health-care workers going from home to home to offer up a dose of a COVID-19 shot.

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The study confirming Canada’s children were largely spared severe COVID-19 during the early waves of the pandemic, with relatively few admitted to hospital — and even among the children hospitalized, a large number weren’t actually due to COVID — appeared this week, just as public health units begin preparing for COVID vaccines for children down to age five.

 

I'll just leave these right here:

Following the finding of a potential one in 5,000 risk of heart inflammation after a second dose of Moderna, Ontario is recommending people aged 18 to 24 be preferentially vaccinated with Pfizer — a decision made “out of an abundance of caution,” but one that could rattle confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

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In the third (but not final) video, one worker claims the vaccine isn’t necessary for kids. He also states that the media should never be trusted.

“Kids shouldn’t get a f*cking [COVID] vaccine,” said Johnson & Johnson Regional Business Lead Brandon Schadt. “It’s a kid, you just don’t do that, you know? Not something that’s so unknown in terms of repercussions down the road, you know?”

“It’s a kid, it’s a f*cking kid, you know? They shouldn’t have to get a f*cking [COVID] vaccine, you know?” he added.

The other employee, a scientist named Justin Durrant, said he wouldn’t recommend the Johnson and Johnson vaccine for anyone. “Don’t get the Johnson & Johnson [COVID vaccine]. I didn’t tell you though,” he said, adding that “it wouldn’t make that much of a difference” if children are unvaccinated for COVID.”

 

So get the shot, say the mouthpieces for those who financially benefit from these shots.

And - I guess it was too big a gamble:

 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday omitted any deadline to mandate vaccination of 300,540 federal employees and millions of air travelers and train passengers. Cabinet had originally set an October 31 deadline for compulsory vaccination: “Are you prepared to lay off tens of thousands of workers?”

 

I'm sure the virus will go easy on these federal employees because that's what viruses do.

It's science ... or something.

Wait - are there shoes for this?:

Indigenous Services Canada gave residents of an Ontario First Nation 71 expired doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 between Aug. 9 and Sept. 15.

According to a statement from the Saugeen First Nation, nurses from the federal department administered doses based on the expiry date on the vials, not realizing the doses had already expired because they were not refrigerated.

 

Reconciliation looks awfully good on camera but probably not this.

 (Sidebar: FYI, there were verified graves at Babi Yar but not shoes.)

Also - no, Big Aboriginal is not done with you, Church. Nor is anyone done destroying the churches:

A leader in Canada’s national assembly of Catholic bishops says he hopes an apology for the harms endured at residential schools could mark a turning point in the church’s relations with Indigenous Peoples.

Black Canadians seem to disregard PM Blackface's antipathy toward them:

Immigrants and visible minorities have more pride in Canada’s treatment of ethnic groups than white people, Statistics Canada said yesterday. The agency said most Black, Asian and Arab-Canadians were prouder of the nation’s achievements than whites: “Immigrant respondents, 63 percent, were more likely than Canadian-born respondents (43 percent) to be proud of Canada’s treatment of all groups in society.”

 

All that white shame means nothing!

 

Also - the Green Party, one of racism and hatred of the Jews:

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul who had to fight off critics in her own party to even run in the federal election only to lose at the ballot box, is resigning.

Not to be outdone, Desmond Cole asks Mrs. Paul to hold his kombucha:

In what can only be described as an epic self-own, Toronto activist Desmond Cole took to Twitter incensed by suggestions that the slogan 'Free Palestine' is a call for the destruction of Israel. He demanded proof or what he thought was a baseless accusation, his own followers obliged.

"Why is free Palestine in your display name ugly motherf**ker, this Palestinian says we will be destroying 'israel' (sic) in the most violent ways imaginable" one user tweeted.

 

Wow.

With a little more crying, he could be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes and her brand of whinging anti-semitism.

Should we read something into this?:

Judy Woodruff: Do you draw any lessons from the mistakes you made with Jeffrey Epstein?

Bill Gates: “Well, he’s dead, so...” pic.twitter.com/HSLYahGtKJ

— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) September 21, 2021

Fumio Kishida is potentially the next prime minister of Japan:

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) anointed former foreign minister Fumio Kishida as its new leader on Wednesday, a victory for the party elite that virtually ensures the soft-spoken consensus-builder will become prime minister within days.

Although he enjoys only moderate popular support and is saddled with a bland image, Kishida drew critical backing from some party heavyweights, allowing him to stop the momentum of outspoken rising star Taro Kono, the minister in charge of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.

The Hiroshima lawmaker succeeds unpopular Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who did not seek re-election as party leader after just one year in office. Kishida is almost certain to become premier at a parliamentary session on Monday because of the LDP’s majority in the lower house.

It was not clear if Kishida’s tepid profile might spell problems for the LDP in a general election due by Nov. 28.

 

The Chinese-spread virus and the failed showcase that was the Olympics seemed to be too much for Suga.

North Korea tests a hypersonic missile (and where did it get the technology in a country with starving people?):

The projectile North Korea fired off its east coast on Tuesday was a newly developed hypersonic missile, state news media KCNA reported on Wednesday, the latest in a series of new weapons tested by the reclusive state.

North Korea fired the missile towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, as Pyongyang called on the United States and South Korea to scrap their “double standards” on weapons programs to restart diplomatic talks.

 

On the Korean Peninsula

The absence of a strong though often apathetic Western power and a power-hungry paper tiger has made North Korea quite bold as of late:

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Friday her country is willing to resume talks with South Korea if conditions are met, indicating it wants Seoul to persuade Washington to relax crippling economic sanctions.

Kim Yo Jong’s statement came days after North Korea performed its first missile tests in six months, which some experts said were intended to show it will keep boosting its weapons arsenal if the U.S.-led sanctions continue while nuclear diplomacy remains stalled.

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South Korea on Sunday urged North Korea to restore dormant communication hotlines, a day after the North repeated an offer to open conditional talks.

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North Korea on Monday accused the United States of keeping up its “hostile policy” and demanded the Biden administration permanently end joint military exercises with South Korea even as it continued its recent streak of weapons tests apparently aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear diplomacy.

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North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea Tuesday at nearly the same moment its U.N. diplomat was decrying the U.S.'s “hostile policy” against it, in an apparent return to its pattern of mixing weapons displays with peace overtures to wrest outside concessions.

 

Also:

Moon Jae-in also awarded distinguished service medals posthumously to two Korean immigrant soldiers. There was one notably absent aspect to these ceremonies, however. The White House didn’t dispatch any high-level officials to greet the South Korean president or participate in the ceremonies at the joint base at Pearl Harbor. He was instead met by Admiral John Aquilino, commander of the Indo-Pacific Command. 

Energy Grows On Trees

... or something:

Residents in north-east China are experiencing unannounced power cuts, as an electricity shortage which initially hit factories spreads to homes.

People living in Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces have complained on social media about the lack of heating, and lifts and traffic lights not working.

Local media said the cause was a rise in coal prices leading to short supply.

The country is highly dependent on coal for power.

One power company said it expected the power cuts to last until spring next year, and that unexpected outages would become "the new normal". Its post, however, was later deleted.

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Up to 90 per cent of British fuel stations ran dry across major English cities on Monday after panic buying deepened a supply chain crisis triggered by a shortage of truckers that retailers are warning could batter the world’s fifth-largest economy.

 

Canada Is (Way, Way) Back

At one stage, Canada was a country that worked:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau risks further fueling Canada’s hot inflation if he presses ahead with spending plans outlined during the election campaign, which could pressure the Bank of Canada to hike interest rates sooner than planned.

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Britain is signalling its interest in working with the Canadian military in the Arctic by offering to take part in cold-weather exercises and bring in some of its more advanced capabilities — such as nuclear-powered submarines — to help with surveillance and defence in the Far North.

 

Because: 

The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter was surprised this summer to find the Chinese and Russian navies conducting a joint exercise in open water in the Arctic Ocean. ...

The intelligence lapse was telling. The U.S. and its allies, including Canada, are doing more in Arctic waters in response to global warming and Russian and Chinese military activities and shipping there.

Despite underwater monitoring systems, as the U.S. Coast Guard found out, potential enemies are probably doing a lot more there than is generally known. A major shortcoming, according to Defense News, is that satellites tend to be oriented toward more target-rich environments that are a lot farther south.

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Canada’s Liberal government has abrogated its defence obligations. Our military capability has been reduced through neglect and defunding, and Canada, with more coastline than any other country on earth, has a peanut-size navy and virtually no presence in the increasingly important Arctic. Canada’s allies, and its enemies, have taken notice, which will only serve to diminish our influence over international defence policy and participation in western alliances — areas Canada has historically played an outsized role in.

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Canada is in critical need of a new submarine fleet and it can’t go about acquiring one the way it did in the past, according to a new report.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute research report “Deadline 2036: Assessing the requirements and options for Canada’s future submarine force” analyzes Canada’s history of and use for submarines and examines the purchasing considerations for a future fleet.

“Decision-makers in Ottawa will have to make a difficult call in the next two years about the kind of submarine capability the RCN [Royal Canadian Navy] and the CAF [Canadian Armed Forces] need for the next half-century,” writes report author Jeffrey F. Collins, a political science professor at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Canada’s fleet currently has four diesel-electric Victoria-class submarines that were bought from the United Kingdom second hand in 1998 and they’ll be 50 years old by the time they are decommissioned between 2036 and 2042, the report noted. 

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Canadians are spending record amounts on housing, putting themselves at much higher risk than before should home prices collapse or interest rates rise.

Canada’s seasonally adjusted annual rate of residential investment, which includes home construction, significant renovations, and ownership transfer costs, hit $249.3 billion in the second quarter of 2021, with $67.9 billion spent during the quarter itself, according to Better Dwelling. Both amounts were new records and represented more than 10 percent of gross domestic product.

Meanwhile, Canadian households spend a huge amount of income on debt payments, based on data from the Bank of International Settlements. Canada’s household debt service ratio in Q4 2020, at 12.4 percent, was much higher than that of any other G7 country, outpacing the UK’s around 9 percent and the 7.6 percent of the United States and Japan. Of the nearly $2.48 trillion of debt carried by Canadians in Q4 2020, close to $1.66 trillion is on mortgages, representing around 67 percent of the total.

Ian Lee, a professor of business at Carleton University in Ottawa, was a lender at a major Canadian bank for nine years. He told The Epoch Times that for decades, Canadians have valued home ownership more than most of its international peers.

“We’ve had a deep attachment to owning our own home at the very core—what I would argue is a long-term and enduring core value,” Lee said.

“The reason that we are so indebted is because we are so committed to buying a home, and house prices have risen so rapidly compared to other countries.”

 

Elections Have Censorious Consequences

The loathsome little toad is at it again:

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s web regulations would “make Canada’s internet one of the most censored and surveilled in the democratic world,” an advocacy group said yesterday. Open Media of Vancouver launched a petition drive to counter any reintroduction of two cabinet bills that lapsed in the last Parliament: “Our newly-elected government is cynically taking advantage of our political fatigue.”

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Most Canadians consider online information reliable and are confident they can tell when it’s not, says internal polling by Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department. Guilbeault has proposed “concrete action” to police news and information on the internet: “66 percent feel confident in their ability to tell if online content is fair and balanced.”

Goebbels Guilbeault does not care:

The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society has petitioned Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department to drop a censorship bill so sweeping it would ban satire or jokes, impact news gathering and blacklist free speech “on social and political issues,” it said. “It cannot be justified in a free and democratic society,” said the Society whose members include a former federal judge: “This is completely wrong.”

 

 

Also:

Cabinet will fully implement a facial recognition system for 25 million Canadian passport holders within two years despite little proof of identity fraud. The program would see federal agencies compile a database of millions of Canadians’ faces: “Don’t you think it’s a bit too late to prevent the misuse of that information?”

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An internet kill switch is a device/software/configuration that allows one to shut down all internet access within a region or country indefinitely. If activated, the kill switch would prevent everyone from checking social media, shopping online, using online messenger services, sending emails, or anything else involving an internet connection.

In many cases, this may also include any form of phone contact (it varies).

Some People Are "Special": the Liberal Party Edition

The naturally corrupt governing party:

The former Liberal candidate elected in Spadina- Fort York has confirmed he intends to represent the riding in Ottawa despite calls for him to step aside amid allegations of sexual assault.

 

(Sidebar: people voted for this guy even after they heard the case against him.)

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The corporate entities of SNC-Lavalin Inc. and SNC-Lavalin International Inc., as well as two former senior executives of the Quebec-based firms have been charged with a series of fraud and forgery offences by the RCMP.

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What amazing timing the RCMP has... JUST after the election this comes out.. 🙄 https://t.co/2dLBGoapfP

— Alex Pierson (@AlexpiersonAMP) September 23, 2021

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Those are Trudeau’s men. The ones he told Jody Wilson-Raybould not to prosecute. Naturally, Trudeau’s hand-picked RCMP commissioner held this back until after the election. She’s as crooked as he is. https://t.co/EpAJ2yTnfF

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) September 23, 2021

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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. yesterday became the first corporation in Canada to be offered an out-of-court settlement under a provision cabinet wrote into the Criminal Code in 2018. Critics had denounced so-called “deferred prosecution agreements” as a get-out-of-jail card: “Ordinary Canadians would not have access to this type of plea bargain.”

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After a “deranged” and terrifying nighttime attack on his former spouse and her new boyfriend, former Liberal MP Marwan Tabbara pleaded guilty, Thursday, to assault and being unlawfully in a home. ...

Court heard of his stalking, confrontations, a hateful text message, as well as beating the male victim in the man’s own home and forcing the female victim out into the street, and then Tabbara, who represented the federal Ontario riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler, was given a conditional discharge.

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Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino’s department employs bigoted managers who made derogatory remarks about “lazy” Indigenous people, “dirty” Africans and Mexicans who emigrate to collect welfare, according to an internal report. The document is dated June 23 but only released yesterday: “If the natives wanted their land they should have just stood up.”

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Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino yesterday would not comment on an internal report documenting racist hate speech by managers in his own department. Mendicino has publicly stated all Canadians must do the “hard work” of fighting bigotry: “My message is that we are with you and we will condemn any and all examples of hate and racism.”

 

Except the ones that come from your side, obviously. 

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“Very, very busy” diplomats and regimental commanders scrambled to host a 2019 vanity trip to Latvia by former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, according to Access To Information records. Clarkson’s junket included a night at the opera, request for a field uniform and questions on whether to wear her ceremonial medals: “What is the purpose of this visit?”

 

What did Latvia ever do to deserve this pomp?

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Federal agencies quietly arranged to ship hundreds of thousands of Covid masks to Québec when all other provinces faced shortages, according to internal emails. Political aides in the Prime Minister’s Office stressed “we should be careful about what we say” in giving Québec preferential treatment: “The plan is for them to go to QC.”

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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimates that MPs who lost their seats or stood down before the election could get $3.3 million in “golden goodbyes.”

Fifty-one MPs, who lost their seats or decided not to stand again, qualify for a severance cheque worth half their salary — some $92,900 or more if they were a cabinet minister or chaired a committee.

If they are 55 or older and had been an MP for six years, they qualify for a pension instead.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimates that pensions for MPs leaving office in 2021 will cost the public purse $1.4 million a year.

It says MPs’ severance payments will cost the taxpayer $3.3 million.

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Canadian taxpayers would directly subsidize millions in transit fares for money-losing city operators under a “potential federal option” proposed by cabinet, according to internal documents. Aides in the Prime Minister’s Office said the confidential proposal would redirect climate change grants to cover revenue drops due to falling ridership: “There is no mechanism in place for us to do this right now.”

 

And people question why the electorate would seek political alternatives.

Some People Are "Special": the Chinese Communist Edition

Kidnapping does work!:

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer, has been freed after a B.C. Supreme Court agreed to a discharge order, withdrawing the U.S. extradition request against her.

The judge’s decision to free Meng comes just hours after the Huawei executive secured a deal to resolve the charges against her in a U.S. court earlier Friday.

 

Only after this nauseating little twerp walk did China - which swore up and down that it didn't kidnap Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor - release its hostages.

Thanks, America!:

Joe Biden cut a deal with China to free their criminal spyware billionaire, Meng Wanzhou.

Trudeau had Biden on the phone just two days ago -- but the White House readout shows Trudeau didn't even bring up the two Canadians being held hostage in China. https://t.co/duh2b4sdDi https://t.co/Ah8p46Snye

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) September 24, 2021

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According to Toronto-based criminal lawyer Ari Goldkind, the extradition case against Meng seemed solid.

“She admitted the entirety of the United States’s case [in the DPA], she admitted her guilt, and signed an agreement to that effect,” Goldkind told The Epoch Times.

“The extradition therefore in Canada was airtight, properly brought in pursuant to the rule of law, which is why what happened [on Sept. 24] is such a disgrace in so many ways.”

 

After this public spectacle, China reminded Justin who he really works for:

The release of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou shows China’s strength and Canada should “draw lessons,” China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, after state media called it an opportunity for a reboot of bilateral relations. ...

“Canada should draw lessons and act according to its own interests,” she added.

 

Let's start arresting Chinese nationals then.

Nothing personal, China. 

 

This China:

Woo shared a Toronto Star column by a retired professor making the claim that Canada and the United States “took Meng hostage.”

“The United States, assisted by Canada, took Meng hostage in the first place as part of its trade-and-technology war with China; Beijing swiftly retaliated by jailing the Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor,” the column said. 

By sharing it, Alexander said Woo was serving as a “mouthpiece for foreign propaganda.”

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After digging through unexpectedly high Liberal vote counts in Vancouver and Toronto, former Conservative organizer Karamveer Lalh  concluded in a tweet thread that up to a dozen seats in heavily Chinese-Canadian areas may have been lost to the Conservatives due to Chinese-language efforts by pro-Beijing groups. Lalh added that Canadian media and pollsters often fail to grasp the electoral forces that play out within minority communities, citing his own experience seeing rampant Punjabi-language election misinformation being spread on platforms such as WeChat and Facebook.

 

And the Liberals know how to repay their Chinese communist friends:

The Liberal government is refusing to offer support for Taiwan to join a Trans-Pacific trade agreement, recent reports reveal. 

According to the Globe and Mail, both China and Taiwan have simultaneously applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The Trudeau government has decided to not support neither countries’ efforts.

“All decisions are made by consensus, and any country that joins CPTPP must meet and comply with the high standard rules and ambitious market access commitments of the CPTPP,” Global Affairs spokesperson Lama Khodr told the outlet.

I'm Sure It's Nothing to Be Concerned About

Lockdowns never cause problems ... except when they do:

Quebec nurses are criticizing the government's proposed plan to curb the critical staffing shortage in the province, saying it won't work because it doesn't address dismal working conditions in the public sector, which they say is a key reason nurses are leaving.

Yesterday, Quebec announced it will provide bonuses of up to $18,000 to full-time nurses, part-time nurses willing to work full-time and nurses that return to the public sector as part of its emergency response to the personnel crisis.

But the vice-president of the Quebec Nurses' Association, which represents over 4,000 nurses and nursing students in the province, says throwing money at a problem that requires real change to working conditions is "ridiculous."

 

It's easy to blame the obvious failures of Canada's healthcare system on the "unvaccinated" or some other bogey-man but a system that elevates bureaucrats above much-needed professionals is bound to peter out at some point.

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It couldn’t be a worse time to be short on staff. Restaurants, hobbled by months of lockdowns and seating limitations, are finally able to pull in serious revenue and start the crawl out of debt as those restrictions ease up. Instead, operations from independents to major chains are abandoning lunch services, or shutting down entirely during weekdays because they can’t find enough workers.

Initially, some argued workers weren’t coming back because rosy pandemic benefits had made lower paying service industry jobs unattractive, but the factors behind the shortage now appear to be more complex: Many workers used the time off during the lockdowns to reconsider their careers and move to different, less precarious industries, start their own businesses or go back to school. An aging population, slowed immigration and continued COVID-19 fears are all also suspected of contributing to the shortage.

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Covering the period from 2000 to 2019 (excluding 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), the report found Ontario performed well below its own historic economic norms, most other provinces, and neighbouring U.S. states.

In the key metric of per-person business investment which, Eisen said, “lies at the heart of improving our standard of living and job creation,” Ontario recorded the third-lowest average annual growth rate of just 0.3% when adjusted for inflation and population.

Only New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had lower growth rates and Ontario lagged far behind B.C., the top-performing province, where the average growth rate was 2.7%.

 

Imagine A Boot Stamping On a Mask Forever!

This is the state of Australia:

UNREAL: Australians are being shot in the back as they are running away 👇🏼pic.twitter.com/n70WjeRg2I

— Art TakingBack 🇺🇸 (@ArtValley818_) September 22, 2021

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The Australian police terrorizing an elderly couple sitting on a bench without a mask. The police steal her phone so she can’t film to protect her civil rights. pic.twitter.com/q225p1yO0R

— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) September 25, 2021

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Melbourne police officer grabs young woman by the throat for not wearing a mask.pic.twitter.com/BShplVxTz8

— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) September 24, 2021

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A trio of Australian police officers visited a man claiming they are doing "welfare checks" to ask residents if they plan on participating in the ongoing protests against COVID-19 mitigation efforts. The man in this video was asked if he has plans or if he knows anyone who has plans to protest and if he has participated in protests in the past.

"Have you gone to any protest in the past?" the policeman asked.

"No, I'm not going to answer that, you guys wouldn't be here otherwise," the man says.

"I'd like to know how you got this address, actually," the man told the police.

"Anything else you might want to tell us to help ensure the public safety?" an officer asked after a barrage of questions about his "plans."

"No, as long as you aren't going around shooting people with rubber bullets like in Victoria," the man said.

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The bullets may be rubber, or “non-lethal” as they euphemistically call them. But they’re being fired at Australian citizens who have the audacity to want to… go outside. To leave their homes. To live life as normally as they can despite the state’s insistence of locking people in their own homes and creating a culture of fear around the Chinese Communist Party’s virus.

 

The Italian police have taken a gentler and less-arresting and firing rubber bullets approach:

Italian police stands down and stands in solidarity with protesters pic.twitter.com/dgK9SMGgk8

— McLuhan (@Kukicat7) September 27, 2021

 

 

Today In "Fear the Virus" News

Why doesn't anyone ask for a negative TB test before going to a restaurant?:

The B.C. government has finally admitted that daily, it under-reports the number of people recovering in hospital from the after effects of COVID-19.

The undercount was almost 50 per cent below the actual number of hospitalizations in an example provided by the health ministry in a belated response to media requests.

 

Oh, Rex! You understand it all!:

And as the anxieties of the population began to swell and the question of whether face masks would be a useful or necessary safeguard, at a time when face masks were not abundantly available here in Canada, Tam was ready with advice on those as well: “Putting a mask on an asymptomatic person is not beneficial, obviously if you’re not infected,” she said. But when, just seven days later, the same front figure of the federal response to COVID-19 did a full 180-degree turn and returned to her podium to urge the benefit, if not the necessity of face masks, you could sense the turbulence in the public’s confident reception in what the political and medical authorities were urging and ordering. ...

Then there were the discrepancies in the application of closures and lockdowns. “Necessary” services were allowed to operate — grocery stores, trucking, and curiously, Big Box stores — but “unnecessary” services were to close. Gyms, barbershops, shoe stores, indeed any retail outlet, big or small, that didn’t belong in a chosen category, were to close totally. And people were urged or ordered to stay away from work, unless of course they were, prime example, clerks in the grocery and food outlets.

There was another discrepancy, too, this one financial, and it never has, to this moment, received the full attention it should have. All civil servants, teachers, those on any public contract, remained on permanent payroll, while those in the private sector — even with the CERB payments and other federal assistance — were being brutalized by the closures. ...

While people kept hearing the Liberal mantras — “we all in this together, and we’ve got your back “ — it was clear some backs could claim more shielding (and got it) than others, and “all” and “together” did not quite carry the weight both terms should aspire to.

 

(Sidebar: like basketball players, for example.) 

 

It should be clear by now that the governments do not want the public to trust them but to obey them.

 

(Sidebar: see Australia.) 

After all, if one really"believed in the science", one would see that the questionable jabs for this virus (which the Chinese and Fauci are mired in) don't actually neutralise the virus but make one more prone to it, that there has been a rise in miscarriages and other reproductive health problems related to these shots, that the much-touted duty to wear masks isn't all that effective, that lockdowns have deleterious effects, especially on the working poor, and that the COVID mortality rate has often been fudged to suit a headline.

Couple these facts with the silencing of physicians, the inflated claims that Alberta has managed the COVID crisis (but not the hospital bed one) poorly (itself not alone in this country), military leaders testing propaganda techniques on Canadians, and the complete failure of any provincial or federal government to manage this two year fiasco:

Stranger isn't it.
Quebec and BC both brought in vax passports before Ontario but they still have higher cases counts.
I thought that one tool was the solution to everything! pic.twitter.com/1Z5jIfwSxO

— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) September 23, 2021

 

 ... and why should anyone trust the alleged experts? Why should they let them inject their children with shots that, at best, are ineffective? Why should they have their freedoms restricted (as gyms are somehow the new hotspot for this virus) or their livelihoods taken away because people are afraid and hate those who are hesitant to inject something still unproven into their bodies? Why has natural immunity taken a backseat in this discussion?

I think we know why.

It is to laugh:

This is brilliant. pic.twitter.com/FclRQWmI0e

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) September 18, 2021

 

 

Mid-Week Post

Your mid-week amble through the ashes ...

 

The vanity election with the second lowest turn-out revealed that Canadians are fond of their scandal-ridden, black-faced retard:

If the strategists who allocated resources to the overall Liberal campaign are super-geniuses, the party’s sagging vote share hints at the existence of a second group of less brilliant people — Liberal dark matter? — who were responsible for trivia like the party platform and the prime minister’s image. (Perhaps not coincidentally, this is the department of the Liberal factory wherein Mr. Butts used to toil before he became a political liability and departed. Maybe this is the esoteric Straussian message encoded in his tweet: without me, microtargeting is all they’ve got.)

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Elections Canada last night calculated turnout in Monday’s general election was only the second-worst since Confederation. An estimated 58.9 percent of electors cast ballots compared to the record low 58.8 percent in 2008: “We will have to consider this.”

 

Wear it, Canada!:

Canada’s international influence has been declining for years, and the establishment of a new U.S.-led security alliance that intentionally excludes us is just the latest consequence of this. Indeed, this announcement was made in the midst of an election campaign, one in which Canada’s defence policies, and larger defence spending record, has been most notable for its absence (as has virtually any discussion of foreign policy).

It thus adds to the growing perception that Ottawa has effectively disappeared as an international actor, a development that few Canadians seem to be aware of (or care about). Other countries have noticed, though, and are adjusting their policies accordingly. As a result, I doubt many observers in Washington, London or Canberra will shed a tear for our ever-diminishing international influence.

 

Also:

And then on Monday, Chiu lost to Liberal Parm Bains by almost 3,000 votes, just two years after he was first elected, even as the Liberals more or less duplicated their 2019 performance.

His defeat — and that of other Conservative MPs in ridings dominated by Chinese Canadians, – has raised the question of whether proxies for the People’s Republic government managed to influence the election – just as security agencies and other watchdogs have warned could happen.

 

Um, what about 2013? 

And - stop being an @$$hole about this, Erin. You lost because you were a pastier Trudeau. Loads of failures and corruption to mention and you did none of that. You wanted to fail:

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he's triggered a review looking into his party's election loss, underscoring that he's committed to making sure the Tories are battle-ready for the next one.

 

Don't forget that some of the chaff was voted out and won't be getting a gold-plated pension as a result.

 

 

Today in "this entire COVID thing is a scam and we all know it!" news:

On the first day Ontario’s new COVID-19 vaccine certificate system was set to go into effect, the province’s portal to download vaccine receipts was  temporarily shut down for maintenance.

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The Quebec government plans to introduce a bill on Thursday banning anti-vaccine protests near schools and hospitals, and Premier François Legault says he wants it adopted within a day.

 

Hitler had stuff done in a day.

Just saying.

** 

The CBC has expressed regrets over a garbled online story that depicted re-elected Conservative MP Rachael Harder (Lethbridge, Alta.) as “callous and ignorant.” Records detailed snide questions from a CBC Calgary reporter who falsely accused the MP of spreading misinformation about Covid: “I agree we have failed.”  

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Because the healthcare system is overflowing with medical professionals:

More than 100 staff members at a Windsor, Ont., hospital are being placed on unpaid leave for not receiving their first COVID-19 vaccine doses by a set deadline.

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People voted for this:

Political aides in the Prime Minister’s Office offered a sole-sourced pandemic contract to a U.S. vendor by text, according to records. The message went to a Liberal Party contact at Tesla Motors Canada: “We will pay of course.”

 

More: 

Political aides in the Prime Minister’s Office offered a sole-sourced pandemic contract to a US vendor by text, according to records. The message went to a Trudeau Liberal contact at Tesla Motors Canada.

"We will pay, of course," texted Sarah Goodman, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's senior advisor on climate action. Goodman’s March 25, 2020 message followed a March 23 announcement by California’s governor that Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had made a "heroic" offer of 1,255 free ventilators.

"We see that Elon Musk was able to acquire some ventilators from China for California," texted Goodman.

"As you know, we are working all our pathways to get more supply here in Canada. If you have access or avenues to get ventilators, that would be most appreciated," she texted.

"We will pay, of course."

Tesla Motors does not manufacture ventilators. Ultimately no China-made ventilators were delivered by Tesla, according to the California governor’s office.

**

The Prime Minister’s Office from the earliest days of the pandemic knew of a “massive shortage” of masks that would have to be rationed, according to an internal document. The Public Health Agency at the time publicly stated Canadians had no need for masks: “Everybody wants it, we won’t have enough to go around.”

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And let's not forget that plethora of shots one must endure when the efficacy wears off and all that is left are some lingering side-effects:

Cole goes on to state that as a result of this vaccine-induced “killer T-cell” suppression, he is seeing an “uptick” of not only endometrial cancer, but also melanomas, as well as herpes, shingles, mono, and a “huge uptick” in HPV when “looking at the cervical biopsies of women.”  

This is not the first time the COVID-19 vaccines have been linked to serious issues regarding women’s health. 

According to a German research study, polyethylene glycol, an ingredient found in the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, has been found to pose a “potential toxicity risk” to women’s ovaries.  

Dr. Michael Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, has cited the German study as a possible explanation for the large number of menstrual irregularities and miscarriages being reported by vaccinated women.  

Yeadon warns young women to avoid the vaccine for, in his expert opinion as a toxicologist, the shots will likely impede a woman’s ability to get pregnant and carry a baby to term.  

Dr. Cole states in his video that, not only are melanomas showing up more frequently, like endometrial cancers, the melanomas are also developing more rapidly, and are more severe in younger people, than he has ever previously witnessed. 

“Most concerning of all, there is a pattern of these types of immune cells in the body keeping cancer in check,” stated the doctor. 

“I’m seeing invasive melanomas in younger patients; normally we catch those early, and they are thin melanomas, [but] I’m seeing thick melanomas skyrocketing in the last month or two,” he added.

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In the table footnotes, the following content should have been appended to the double dagger footnote: “No denominator was available to calculate a risk estimate for spontaneous abortions, because at the time of this report, follow-up through 20 weeks was not yet available for 905 of the 1224 participants vaccinated within 30 days before the first day of the last menstrual period or in the first trimester. Furthermore, any risk estimate would need to account for gestational week–specific risk of spontaneous abortion.”

These so-called vaccines:

Pfizer made $19 Billion in Q2 this year, or $211 million per day. Some known risks of their jab are blood clots and cardiomyopathy. Luckily for them they make Eliquis for treating blood clots – sales up 13%. They also make Vyndaqel to treat cardiomyopathy – sales are up 77%!

— COVID FORUM (@ForumCovid) September 20, 2021

**

In response, 52% of people polled were either totally against the idea or preferred that employers recommended a booster shot instead of making it mandatory. 

When broken down even further, 34% opposed mandates but supported recommending booster shots while 18% were against employers having any kind of stance on COVID-19 booster shots.

On the other hand, 48% of those polled said that they would support a mandatory booster shot if their employer required it.

 

Apparently, unemployment isn't a thing here: 

A federal agency, the National Research Council, is recruiting foreign workers after claiming it is “often not possible to find qualified Canadians” to work at its labs. Canada has produced 19 Nobel Laureates including prize winners in chemistry, medicine and physics: “Foreign workers may be hired to work in any NRC location across Canada.”

 

Don't we know it!

Water filtration plants are also terrible consequences of "colonisation":

Each morning, when O Canada plays over the speakers at River East Collegiate, 15-year-old Skyla Hart remains seated. 

"This country is a colonized country and I don't want to stand for a colonized country," Skyla said. "People always say, like, it was a long time ago, [but] we're still … going through it — all the trauma from it."

 

Like drinking clean water.

Air-lift yourself to North Korea, dear. 

 

 

Some Americans with a pulse voted for this:

President @JoeBiden's BLUNDEROUS United Nations Speech in 90 Seconds. 😔 #Biden

⬇️Just Real News & Honest Viewshttps://t.co/Yvs2pSjssg 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/HKvaT4uqy8

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) September 21, 2021

 

No, Cuba has not been forgotten:

Suarez said that while protests still take place, the Communist regime passed a law in August called Decree 35, “basically threatening people who videotape, who share things on social media with fines and prison, and also encouraging their cadres to physically assault them.”

Why, it's like a petty, vindictive government that I know.

Can China drown in this debt?

One hopes so:

China itself is one big Evergrande.
One big debt crisis.

For years massively over-levered shadow banks masqueraded as propcos, got drunk on credit, flirted w/ default & called for bailout like a late-night uber.

Contagion has begun ...

 

Tolkien's experiences in the meat-grinder that was World War One contributed to his works:

The grim battles and fire-breathing beasts of J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit drew inspiration from the author’s own real experiences fighting on the Somme in World War I.

The author had two close friends die in the battle, and fought across ground filled with rotting dead bodies in one of the deadliest battles in human history. 

One million people were wounded or killed at the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916. 

The vast battles of Tolkien’s books and much of the grim imagery of Middle Earth were inspired by his World War I experiences, says John Garth, author of the biography Tolkien and the Great War.

(Sidebar: put that on your reading list.)

Garth said in an interview with the Mirror, "I think he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings partly because he was trying to exorcise the trauma he suffered. It was part of the healing process.”

 

 

Today In "COVID FEAR Campaign" News

Ramping it up as people start having second thoughts: 

Australia's police arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney on Saturday at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers were injured in clashes with protesters.

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The total, contained in a Public Health Ontario (PHO) epidemiological summary updated earlier this month, means Ontario hospitals have been the province’s second-deadliest setting for COVID-19 outbreaks in the pandemic, behind long-term-care homes and ahead of retirement homes — but with little of the public reckoning seen in those sectors.

**

COVID actors BUSTED!

Investigators call into hospital asking for the name of the people featured in a news broadcast only to find out they weren't admitted to the hospital!

Watch 👇 pic.twitter.com/jv7EvbmTnq

— Zach Vorhies (@Perpetualmaniac) September 14, 2021

 

Because the Narrative demands it.

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Alberta is enacting stronger provincewide public health restrictions and a vaccine passport system as the fourth wave of COVID-19 threatens to collapse the province’s health-care system.

 

Also - who didn't hire more medical professionals or find hospital beds?:

On Thursday, Alberta activated its highest level of surge response, notifying pandemic units in Edmonton and Calgary to be ready if needed to help, moving patients to homes or continuing care, postponing surgeries, asking retired workers to return and training other staff for intensive care unit (ICU) work.

**

Tyrant!:

Saskatchewan’s premier says the “time for patience is over” and that the province is putting in place mandatory masking requirements as well as implementing vaccine passports, all amidst the largest surge of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

**

A virus doesn't care if you are getting your hair cut or not:

Ontario will require residents aged 12 and older to show their vaccine receipt and a piece of government-issued photo ID starting Sept. 22 in order to access the indoor areas of restaurants and bars, nightclubs, meeting and event spaces, gyms and theatres. As of Oct. 22, residents will receive a QR code that will serve as proof of vaccination, which businesses can scan using a government app. Proof of vaccination will not be required to access services including retail stores and hair salons.

 **

I'd look at the person who won't get sued:

Some Herron workers confided to Pettinicchi that they were afraid, and many had been told to quarantine for 14 days. One of the health authority officials who came to help on March 29, Dr. Nadine Larente, was asked to speak to kitchen staff who were afraid to distribute food trays to patients.

Pettinicchi said she distributed trays that evening to several residents herself, but said she didn’t note sticky floors and soiled patients as other witnesses have testified. “I didn’t see anything that was like what was described in the media,” Pettinicchi said.

Kamel wondered about the differing views of the situation, noting that Larente considered the situation bad enough that she called her husband and children to help.

“The perception of what is happening in this establishment is like night and day, it’s like two completely different realities,” Kamel said.

 

 

What can go wrong?:

 Cuba has begun vaccinating children as young as age two, the only country in the world doing so.

 

How dare someone bring up natural immunity?:

Former Alaskan governor and U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she hasn’t been vaccinated for COVID because she’s already had the virus and gained immunity from it.

 

I'll just leave this right here:

People who recovered from a bout of COVID-19 during one of the earlier waves of the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the delta variant than those who got two doses of the vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE.

Findings:

1) Asymptomatic fully vaccinated are carrying around extremely infectious high viral loads. You are MUCH MORE likely (82%) to contract Covid from an asymptomatic fully vaccinated person than from an asymptomatic unvaccinated person (29%).

Read that again.

3/4

— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) September 16, 2021

Follow the thread.

A ruling by the FDA:

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine committee has voted against a blanket authorization for booster doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 jab. However, the panel recommended boosters for vulnerable people and the over-65s.

Also:

A new study seeking to shed light on real-world COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness shows a widening gap between Moderna’s and Pfizer’s vaccines four months after each vaccine’s second dose.

And:

“Since January 1, in the laboratory, I’m seeing a 20 times increase of endometrial cancers over what I see on an annual basis,” reported Dr. Cole in the video clip shared on Twitter.  

“I’m not exaggerating at all because I look at my numbers year over year, I’m like ‘Gosh, I’ve never seen this many endometrial cancers before’,” he continued.  

Explaining his findings at the March 18 event, Cole told Idahoans that the vaccines seem to be causing serious autoimmune issues, in a way he described as a “reverse HIV” response. 

Cole explained that two types of cells are required for adequate immune system function: “Helper T-cells,” also called “CD4 cells,” and “killer T-cells,” often known as “CD8 cells.” 

According to Cole, in patients with HIV, there is a massive suppression of “helper T-cells” which cause immune system functions to plummet, and leave the patient susceptible to a variety of illnesses.  

Similarly, Cole describes, “post-vaccine, what we are seeing is a drop in your killer T-cells, in your CD8 cells,” 

“And what do CD8 cells do? They keep all other viruses in check,” he continued. ...

This is not the first time the COVID-19 vaccines have been linked to serious issues regarding women’s health. 

According to a German research study, polyethylene glycol, an ingredient found in the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, has been found to pose a “potential toxicity risk” to women’s ovaries.  

Dr. Michael Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, has cited the German study as a possible explanation for the large number of menstrual irregularities and miscarriages being reported by vaccinated women.  

Yeadon warns young women to avoid the vaccine for, in his expert opinion as a toxicologist, the shots will likely impede a woman’s ability to get pregnant and carry a baby to term.  

Dr. Cole states in his video that, not only are melanomas showing up more frequently, like endometrial cancers, the melanomas are also developing more rapidly, and are more severe in younger people, than he has ever previously witnessed. 

“Most concerning of all, there is a pattern of these types of immune cells in the body keeping cancer in check,” stated the doctor. 

“I’m seeing invasive melanomas in younger patients; normally we catch those early, and they are thin melanomas, [but] I’m seeing thick melanomas skyrocketing in the last month or two,” he added.

How interesting:

 
As children return to classrooms across Canada, there has been a surge in COVID-19 cases, but this is not causing a rise in hospitalizations, Canadian pediatricians say.