Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Mid-Week Post

 


 

Your mid-week side of bacon ...

 

I knew they would ban Christmas eventually:

 Premier François Legault says he would like to permit Quebec families to host up to 25 people for the Christmas holidays, but the opposition says the premier is sowing confusion and creating expectations.

For the second consecutive day, Legault told reporters Tuesday it was his wish that indoor gathering limits would increase during the holidays to 20 people or 25 people — up from 10. He made the same comment on Monday, adding that he had to wait for advice from public health authorities before he could issue an order.

“What I (said) yesterday is I hope, personally, that we can increase the number of people in houses from 10 to 20 or 25,” Legault said Tuesday.

“I hope so, but we’ll have recommendations from (Quebec's public health director) next week.”

Opposition parties were quick to criticize the premier for the statements, suggesting they were similar to his comments last year, when he had told Quebecers indoor gathering rules would be eased for the holidays, before backing down. Shortly after, he imposed a curfew across most of the province that lasted for almost five months.

 

You're a foul one, Mr. Legault ... 

 

 

Let us be clear: the Liberals have shown ZERO concern for the plight of Yazidis and Middle Eastern Christians.

The Liberals represent the callous and antipathetic throngs of voters in the greater Toronto area.

The Narrative of a people lesser than the Islamists and their yes-men among the leftists must be maintained at all costs:

Murad was a torture victim, a rape slave, whose family was killed by ISIL. Her life story is a dark window into the harrowing cruelties, the unthinkable physical and mental violence that girls, in the desperate regions of this vile world, suffer from sadistic fanatics, of which ISIL is the nightmare incarnation.

It should be considered a privilege and an honour to hear from a young woman who bore unspeakable torments, saw family killed, yet, with an endurance and personal strength beyond all belief, went on to become a Nobel-winning human rights advocate.

Any ordinary person, male or female, who endured what she endured would most likely end up in a dark room weeping till the end of that person’s days. Murad came out of the inferno to offer an example to all young women, and to challenge the indifference of the nations of the world to the wicked persecution of her fellow nationals. She deserves two Nobel prizes and is worth 50 wailing Greta Thunbergs.

Yet some functionary at the Toronto District School Board, vibrating with the right pseudo-thoughts and embedded in woke sensitivities, decided it was improper to expose young readers to what she has to say. How do so many overpaid people get so silly, or is it necessary to be so silly to get hired by the TDSB?

These two case studies are not isolated incidents. They are an index of a kind of insanity, a symptom of ideas so far off the beam of truth and reality, of attitudes both corrupt and shallow, that steep some of the most crucial structures of our society. The elite institutions of the West have bedded down in the cave of nonsense, smashed the lights of rational thought and taken the knee to a third-rate ideology.

It is not enough for the TDSB to talk glibly about a “misunderstanding.” What we need to hear from the great minds of the TDSB is how the pernicious mentality these cases have exposed has situated itself within the board, and how those with such an abridged understanding of life have so high a place in its deliberations. Explain yourselves.

There is such a thing as occasionally being wrong, but this wasn’t merely wrong — this was a vivid illustration of an entire mentality, an ethos that pervades the whole board, and that is far more worrisome than the particular incidents that revealed it.

Political correctness is toxic; wokeism is an insult to reason. Both seem to have found a home in Canada’s largest school board.

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Two weeks after the Toronto District School Board said students were not to attend a book club event featuring lawyer Marie Henein, they will now be allowed to read her book. ...

The event will go ahead, Lee said.  She’s hoping for a national event, and says she would love for the library of Parliament to host it — but Murad’s book is still under consideration by the TDSB.

“(Murad’s) book is still being read and we hope to approve shortly,” wrote Bird.

 

(Sidebar: and who asked these @$$holes what can and cannot be read?)

 

Canada will own this.

Canada will be known as a country that actively silenced the victims of violence in the Middle East and thwarted any domestic attempt to bring attention to their plight.

History will not forget.


Also

The CCRL has launched a Church Attacks Database, accessible from www.ccrl.ca  which catalogues attacks against Catholic churches in Canada ranging from the breaking of stained-glass windows, to acts of desecration and church burnings, as witnessed this summer and reported in releases on June 22, July 1, and July 30.

Currently, there are 153 individual entries covering attacks from 2010 through 2021. In any given year, acts of vandalism and desecration increased during Christmas and Easter, but by far, 2021 has featured the highest number of total attacks, far more than in any other year. The period from May through August of 2021 alone has had more attacks than in any other period.

The surge in attacks against churches this summer follows reports of discoveries of communal graveyards on properties of former residential schools. There have been no indications that these attacks have been carried out by indigenous people and indigenous leaders were quick to condemn these acts of violence. Indeed, there were churches burned down on indigenous land and those serving indigenous Catholic communities.

The CCRL noted how many non-indigenous Canadians were quick to accuse the Church of genocide but were much slower to acknowledge that many of these graveyards were known, and in many cases were the subject of compensation for upkeep and maintenance from local dioceses.

 

 

Money-grubbers:

A federal manager coached a favoured contractor how to invoice one penny below the Treasury Board threshold on a sweetheart contract, according to Access To Information records. Neither the contractor nor manager would comment yesterday: “Hello, Raj. Our contracting folks inform me that the total contract value cannot exceed $40,000.”



You can vote when you pay federal taxes:

A federal law that prohibits voting by children faces a constitutional challenge. A legal clinic and group of young plaintiffs yesterday filed their claim in Ontario Superior Court: “Denying Canadian citizens under the age of 18 the right to vote is unconstitutional.”

Aren't children precious? 



No one asked to be censored, despite what Goebbels thinks:

A federally-funded agency yesterday claimed wide public support for internet regulation in a survey that asked Canadians if they’d like to ban hate speech. Parliament already banned hate speech in 1970: “This is really an important point.”


 

Canadians will soon debate amongst themselves whether to heat the home or buy food.

But the real issue of the day, according to the Right Honourable Mincer, is conversion therapy:

We have been living with uncommon restrictions on our freedoms for the better part of two years now, of course, and some of them even made sense. But too many people enjoyed slapping those restrictions on the unwilling, and governments that score points off limiting freedoms tend to get a taste for it, regardless of the circumstances.

Parliamentarians did their jobs with C-6 last time, not that it improved the legislation much. They need to go back to the drawing board with C-4, not wave it through just because it’s easy to support and difficult to oppose.

 

When does acupuncture get banned?

 

 

Communists used to control people's movements, too:

As of Nov. 30, everyone age 12 and older will need to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to travel from Canadian airports and trains, including VIA Rail and Rocky Mountaineer trains.

Also:

The Canadian Tourism Commission laid off nine percent of its employees due to Covid. Recovery from the pandemic will take at least four years, the agency said: “We are facing the spectre of an industry in deep crisis with many parts of it on the brink of collapse.”

 

Justin et al care about conversion therapy. Isn't that enough?:

NORAD commander Gen. Glen VanHerck warned top Canadian government and military leaders Tuesday about the threat hypersonic missile technology poses to North American security, saying it's making it "very challenging" for him to carry out his mission.

Visiting Canada for the first time since taking command of the continental defence organization last year, VanHerck gave officials in Ottawa what he called a "candid" risk assessment — one day after Russia said it had successfully tested another of its hypersonic cruise missiles.

Hypersonic missiles can travel at more than five times the speed of sound and have vast ranges. A hypersonic missile can bob and weave through the atmosphere and avoid interception en route to its target. Its manoeuvrability also makes it more difficult to track.

Most hypersonic vehicles can only deliver conventional warheads — but experts warn that they could be capable of carrying nuclear weapons within years.

 

 

I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned about:

The longtime president of Belarus said Tuesday that his country would be ready to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moves U.S. atomic bombs from Germany to Eastern Europe.

In an interview, President Alexander Lukashenko also said for the first time that he recognizes the Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia and plans to visit it soon. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that the West regards as illegal.

Lukashenko made the remarks as he moves to cement ties with Russia, his main ally and sponsor, amid tensions with the West over his disputed reelection last year and his government's brutal crackdown on dissent in Belarus.

 

Also:

Lithuania's government said on Wednesday it would ask parliament to declare a state of emergency on its border with Poland from Dec. 10 as part of efforts to prevent the smuggling of migrants.

The state of emergency would include border checks focusing on "suspicious vehicles", Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite said.

Poland currently provides the only checks-free route from Lithuania and Latvia to Germany, the destination for many migrants who have arrived in the region via Belarus in recent months.

Lithuanian prosecutors are pursuing 60 cases of illegal smuggling of people and new smuggler "networks" are being established, the Interior Ministry said.

 


We don't have to trade with China:

China lashed out at Shinzo Abe Wednesday after the former Japanese prime minister warned of the serious security and economic consequences of any Chinese military action against self-ruled Taiwan.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Abe had “talked nonsense, pointed fingers at Taiwan issues and made irresponsible remarks on China internal affairs.

He said China ”strongly opposes and deplores this” and had protested to Japan through diplomatic channels.

 

And now you know why Japan is beefing up. 

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Cong Peiwu is an awful person:

He said China is eager to avoid any armed conflict over the island, but also won’t accept a challenge to its sovereignty.

“Our resolve is firm … there is no room for us to compromise and we will take resolute measures to counteract (separatism).”

 

Watch as Justin caves in, just as he will with Huawei.

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Senegal's Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall says she hopes China will lend support in the fight against insecurity in the Sahel region at opening of a China-Africa summit in Dakar.

Speaking on Sunday following a meeting with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Sall said she hoped China would become a "strong voice" in combatting terrorism in the vast Sahel region.

 

China will protect its interests in Africa.

Sall will do as he is told.

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China on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave three provinces in eastern Congo as violence intensifies in the mineral-rich region.

A posting from the Chinese Embassy in Kinshasa on the WeChat online messaging said a number of Chinese citizens had been attacked and kidnapped over the past month in the provinces of South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri, where several anti-government rebel groups have a presence.

It said Chinese residing in the three provinces should provide their personal details by Dec. 10 and make plans to leave for safer parts of Congo. Those in the districts of Bunia, Djugu, Beni, Rutshuru, Fizi, Uvira and Mwenga should leave immediately, it said, adding that any who do not do so “will have to bear the consequences themselves."

“We ask that all Chinese citizens and Chinese-invested businesses in Congo please pay close attention to local conditions, increase their safety awareness and emergency preparedness, and avoid unnecessary outside travel,” the embassy said.

 

(Sidebar: see - BELT, ROAD.)

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An academic is to receive £80,000 of public money to accuse MPs of spreading ‘moral panic’ over China.

The Government will sponsor a doctoral thesis that is expected to criticise parliamentarians who campaign against Beijing’s human rights abuses.

The focus of the study is said to be the China Research Group of Conservative MPs and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

The groups campaign against Chinese human rights abuses, such as Uighur oppression, and seek to expose economic and infrastructure threats.

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Why were they not sent to Taiwan?:

A new report by a human rights group has found more than 600 Taiwanese arrested overseas have been deported to China in recent years.

Safeguard Defenders says the practice was being "used as a tool to undermine Taiwan's sovereignty".

Taiwan, which considers itself an independent nation, has long insisted that Taiwanese arrested abroad should be sent back to the island.

But Beijing sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that is a part of China.

Safeguard Defenders said the deportations, which it collated from media reports between 2016 and 2019, were "being used to bolster Beijing's influence abroad" and accused China of "hunting" down these Taiwanese.

The Spain-based group pointed out that the Taiwanese sent to China "have no roots and no families", and warned that they were at risk of persecution and severe human rights abuses.

It argues several nations are breaching international human rights laws in following extradition treaties with Beijing, and singled out Spain and Kenya for extraditing the most number of Taiwanese people to China.

 

 

Deadly relics:

Four people were injured when an old aircraft bomb exploded at a bridge near Munich’s busy main train station on Wednesday, police said on Twitter, raising the number of wounded from three earlier.

The Munich fire brigade said one of the people was seriously injured.

More than 2,000 tonnes of live bombs and munitions are discovered each year in Germany, more than 70 years after the end of World War Two.

British and American warplanes pummelled the country with 1.5 million tonnes of bombs that killed 600,000 people. Officials estimate that 15 per cent of the bombs failed to explode, some of which were buried six metres deep in the ground.

The explosion happened as the site was being drilled to build a tunnel, police said, adding the area had been cordoned off.

 

 

There is a James Joyce joke in here somewhere and I am struggling to find it:

Eight people have been arrested in connection with a violent brawl at a cemetery in Co Galway in September.

The seven men and one woman were detained on suspicion of violent disorder during the fight which broke out following a funeral in Tuam cemetery on September 22nd.

 


 


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