Sunday, July 31, 2022
The Institution Too Big to Fail
Don't criticise it because that would be wicked, heathenish and American:
John Barnet received six hours of hospital care for a broken neck and sternum before being told he had to leave.
Now his family is demanding answers as to why the 41-year-old man was discharged from the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton hours after crashing his motorcycle, and with little in the way of followup care for injuries that could have long-term effects.
"It's unacceptable," Taylor Grandy, his wife, said in an interview Friday.
"He should still be in the hospital. He really should be, you know, at least for a week or more." ...
Paramedics took him to the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital around 8 p.m., where he was treated for a broken C7 vertebra in his neck, a broken sternum, a broken nose, a split tongue and broken teeth. ...
(Sidebar: to wit.)
Grandy said once the results of the CT scan confirmed the broken vertebra in his neck, staff started giving her instructions for maintaining the brace her husband had around his neck.
Then without explanation, they informed the couple Barnet would be discharged from the hospital later that evening.
"They wanted to sit him up in the bed … to kind of get him up moving, and they were like, 'You can go home tonight'.
"And even John couldn't believe it."
Grandy said she called Barnet's sister at around 1 a.m. to help get him up and out of the hospital. After a 90-minute struggle to move him without hurting him, they had him loaded into the family minivan with their five children and were on their way back to their home in Fredericton.
Staff sent Barnet home with a few Tylenol tablets, prescriptions for naproxen and morphine, and a referral to a neurosurgeon in Saint John, Grandy said.
It's a decision that, even two days later, still has her perplexed considering the severity of his injuries.
"And the doctor did tell me that if he moves a certain way or if he takes the [brace] off or anything like that, he could be paralyzed."
Grandy also said she's called the neurosurgeon Barnet was referred to the day after, only to find out he's away from work for the next week and a half.
It Was Never About A Virus
White blood cell counts may be off, immune cells don’t work the way they should, inflammation is higher than it should be. “Long story short, COVID-19 leads to lasting, and possibly permanent changes in immune cells in some, but not all, people,” McMaster University immunologist Dawn Bowdish said.
Research is suggesting that T cells, the cells that help produce antibodies and kill infected cells, are taking a particular hit, and that repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections may be prematurely aging human immune systems.
This was found out after a series of jabs.
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The fifth GTA doctor to die in July “radiated positivity” and “lived a vibrant and active life.”
But what the world lost in the sudden and tragic death of Dr. Candace Nayman was a woman who had dedicated her life to the health of children. ...
Four other local doctors have died this summer.
Trillium Partners staff physicians Dr. Jakub Sawicki, Dr. Stephen McKenzie and Dr. Lorne Segall died last week, just days after the tragic death of North York General Hospital’s Dr. Paul Hannam, an Olympian who died during a run at 50 years old.
Yes, About That ...
This Doctrine of Discovery has nothing to do with existing treaties and not even anything to do with Canada.
But, you know, rea$on$:
These Papal Bulls gave certain European countries, namely Portugal and Spain, the power to conquer non-Christian lands and played a central role in the colonization of the “New World,” specifically the Americas.
(Sidebar: to wit.)
It is a stretch to suggest that Protestant England with George III at its head (for the time) adopted this policy or that land never occupied by aboriginals was actually in their possession but, you know, rea$on$.
Rule Number One: We Don't Talk About Air Canada's Poor Service
It wasn't the employee but her daughter who complained:
The woman, who did not wish to be named, told Insider that she filed a complaint with the airline after what she deemed to be poor customer service by gate staff. She had bought a ticket using flying privileges given to her by her mother.
The woman emailed senior officials at the airline and copied in media outlets, which appeared to prompt the airline to retaliate by revoking her mother's flying privileges for two years.
An email sent to the employee suggested her daughter had misrepresented herself as a revenue-generating customer.
Her 62-year-old mother, who is an administrator, also was then disciplined by the airline and issued with the same punishment.
An email seen by Insider shows a senior official telling the employee that she would not be allowed to fly standby for two years.
"I had a really like sickening feeling when my mother told me what they did to her," the woman said. "It's one thing for me to be reprimanded, but it's totally different for my actions impacting my mom."
Stand-by tickets allow airline employees to fly anywhere for a fraction of the normal cost and are one attraction of working for a long-established carrier such as Air Canada.
The woman told Insider that stand-by privileges were the main reason her mother, who is close to retirement, took the job. She is now worried she will lose her job if the situation escalates.
The woman said her mother went to her union, but was told there was nothing they could do, and suggested she apologize to try to reduce her penalty.
I think it is less a breach of confidentiality and more about another black eye for this disreputable carrier.
An Entire Country Was Hoodwinked By a Failed Snowboard Instructor
According to a new Abacus Data poll, Canadians find Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a lot scarier than Conservative leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre.
The survey of 2,700 adult Canadians from July 22-27, released Saturday, is bad news for Trudeau and the Liberals, save for the fact the next election is three years away.
Disapproval of the Liberal government, at 51% compared to 34% approval, is at the highest level the pollster has recorded since Trudeau was elected in 2015.
Only 33% of Canadians think the country is headed in the right direction, eight to 10 points lower than last year.
Disapproval of Trudeau is at 51%, compared to 31% approval, his worst numbers since he was elected in 2015.
Trudeau’s net negative approval rating of -20 among Canadians (51% versus 31%), is far higher than Poilievre’s at -7, despite months of pounding by political and media opponents arguing he is unfit to be prime minister, let alone leader of the Conservative Party.
Poilievre wasn't even trying to be hated but Justin surely must have.
Trudeau may even pat his own government on the back for being the first to officially recognize August 1 as Emancipation Day last year.
But, any true believer in the spirit of Emancipation Day should feel insulted by our current prime minister. While he presents as though he’d be on the right side of history two hundred years ago, Trudeau gives a pass to slave labour today.
Literally, right before our eyes, Trudeau allows for goods made by slaves to be sold in our country. ...
Canada’s Liberal government has also continued its business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party, even after the Chinese government was condemned globally for enslaving Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China. In 2021 it was revealed that Trudeau Liberals spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to purchase medical gloves from the Chinese state-owned Sinopharm.
Well, it’s actually true.
— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) July 30, 2022
The Trudeau Foundation is partnered with a scholarship program at Xi Jinping’s alma mater.
He recused himself from his “dealings” with the Trudeau Foundation in 2014, yet he sent messages to graduates of the program in China in 2018.
How did he know? https://t.co/nzdNQRx5oE pic.twitter.com/xfDzQm5l4g
Who Did You Vote For, Canada?
If someone had told you that by 2022, your savings would be worthless because of the inflation the Trudeau government made, you would have said: "Yeah, but Stephen Harper ....".
And you would still be cutting your own throat:
The savings accounts of Canadians have sprung a leak.
As inflation tops 8%, anyone with money in the bank is seeing their savings drip away at the fastest rate on record because interest rates for savings accounts, still largely languishing at around 1%, haven’t kept up.
“They will lose money. The value of their savings is decreasing,” said Claire Celerier, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
It’s a sharp contrast to the last time inflation ran this hot. In 1981, inflation peaked at over 12%, ...
(Sidebar: when Justin's dad was running things into the ground.)
... but Statistics Canada data says bank accounts were paying out 19% interest, and even in 1990 when inflation was running a little under 5%, accounts were paying out over 9%.
With that and the plan to end industrial farming in Canada, this is what we can look forward to:
The Inquiry cited evidence of arbitrary executions, infanticide, and forced abortions being commonplace in detention centers and testimonies of “repeated instances of infanticide and forced abortions at detention centers, particularly targeting ‘impure’ half-Chinese babies.”
The Inquiry presented evidence of detainees being intentionally deprived of food as a “weapon of punishment and control” resulting in severe illnesses, malnutrition, and often death by starvation. One witness testified of being fed “mostly skin of corn or potatoes mixed in with stones and coal.” Other witnesses testified to eating rodents, frogs, or snakes to survive.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Mid-Week Post
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The shackles are off - for now:
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich was once again released from jail on Tuesday after a Ontario Superior Court judge found errors in the decision to revoke her bail two weeks ago.
Lich was mobbed outside the Ottawa courthouse with cheers and hugs from an enthusiastic group of about two dozen supporters.
They included familiar faces from the protest that gridlocked downtown Ottawa for three weeks earlier this, which saw crowds protesting COVID-19 restrictions, including vaccine mandates, and the Liberal government.
“We feel it’s long overdue,” Lich’s lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, said after his client’s release.
Earlier Tuesday, Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman gave Lich a stern warning before she was allowed to leave the courtroom.
“It must be crystal clear to you by now that the authorities are monitoring your every action,” he told her. He added that should she return for another bail review, he thinks it would be unlikely that she would be released again.
Lich is charged with mischief, obstructing police, intimidation and counselling others to commit mischief for her role in the massive protest.
Let that be a lesson to anyone who embarrasses Justin: sexual offenders will be tolerated but not anyone who makes him wet his pants in pure terror.
Also:
CTV’s Glen McGregor (the bald guy in a blue suit) just committed more violence while “reporting” on the trucker convoy than all the convoy’s participants committed in their entire existence. https://t.co/3H8N2EyEAI
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) July 27, 2022
Mrs. Lich would not be imprisoned were it not for the government's loyal Gestapo (and the federal banks):
Police compiled a blacklist of names of crowdfunders linked to the Freedom Convoy, according to Access To Information records. A secret list of individuals and their credit ratings was sent to Farm Credit Canada, a Crown bank: “Follow the money.”
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The Commons ethics committee yesterday voted 6-5 to investigate whether the RCMP spied on parliamentarians. The probe follows an admission from police they used spyware to monitor smartphones: “Why? For what purpose?”
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said that the conference call between herself and other top officers had several misunderstandings, which has led to confusion on whether the Trudeau Liberals put pressure on her to release information on the Nova Scotia mass shooter's weapons.
Lucki denied on Monday that she told detectives to make the details of the weapons used public, and denied that pressure came from then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
As untrustworthy as their bosses:
Public Works Minister Filomena Tassi called police over contracting irregularities, records show. Staff in Tassi’s department discovered an unidentified consultant falsified time sheets and billed identical hours to several federal agencies at the same time: “The case has been referred to the RCMP.”
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I have not travelled anywhere else where the citizens and the government are more neurotically “concerned” about the pandemic. It may have escaped Canadians’ notice, but virtually nowhere else in the developed world is it now required to wear a mask, as is still mandatory in many of Canada’s airports and on flights out of our benighted country. There is absolutely no excuse for this, except the punitive self-righteousness of the Trudeau Liberals. What else might you expect, however, from a government that also includes Chrystia Freeland, a deputy prime minister who has bragged about her colleagues’ appalling economic performance, claiming that it is actually good for Canadians to empty their wallets at the gas pumps, because of its implications in fighting the “climate emergency.” I simply cannot believe that this absolute failure of economic policy is now being trumpeted as a positive accomplishment. Here’s a hint for you saintly progressives: if you cared about the poor (the real poor, not the hypothetical poor you are hypothetically saving in the future), you would seek to drive down the cost of energy — energy that is precisely equivalent to work and, therefore, to the wealth that ameliorates poverty. ...
... here’s an additional selection, peppered with some questions: How have Canadians failed to realize that our government holds them in contempt? That Trudeau believes that his God-given mission is to elevate the consciousness of his citizens, instead of serving their interests, economically and practically? That the Trudeau Liberals are perfectly willing to make us all poor, miserable and demoralized just to utterly fail in their efforts to save the planet? That the agents of that party and government are, as previously noted, perfectly willing and eager to trumpet that aim, which can be easily attained through the wretched combination of incompetence and moral Machiavellianism that characterizes the Trudeauites, as a moral accomplishment? That we could be the freest, richest, cleanest country in the world but that we are trying hard to be none of those three? That we are dividing ourselves among racial lines that are more germane to the U.S., just to mimic the very progressive radicals whose policies are dooming the Democrats to what appears to be their worst electoral defeat in at least 50 years? That all the data on the environmental front indicates that the fastest way to improve the ecosystems on which we all depend is to make people richer, not poorer (and to do that with good old capitalism) so they have the luxury to think about the long run and the habitat of their children?
And I have said nothing about additional issues such as Bill C-11, which is perhaps the most appalling piece of legislation currently on the books (and that’s a tough competition), which renders virtually every internet content provider in the world subject to the rules that should not even still govern the CBC and CTV (despite their use of scarce public airwaves), and which will make the rules regulating the net in Canada some of the most absurd and restrictive in the free world (and beyond). Or that we are pursuing an energy policy generated by ideologues that will not only impoverish our populace by making energy unreasonably expensive (have you noticed, Canadians, when you fill up your unnecessary vehicles at the pumps?) but that will only increase the probability that countries such as China will have to rely on coal to produce electricity instead of accessing, say, our plentiful natural gas. And that will therefore make the CO2 burden borne by the atmosphere greater instead of lesser. And, just last week (and in the aftermath of the Dutch farmer protests), that we are trying to reduce the absolute levels of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide produced by those who grow our food regardless of the amount of those crops produced in consequence. And that we’re doing that by threat and force — shades of COVID policy — instead of working with the farmers to find mutually acceptable and truly sustainable economic and environmental solutions.
(Sidebar: these Dutch.)
Do Canadians care that their government hates them?
No.
Fatted calves don't care where the grass comes from, only that they get it.
Let's segue into what is in store for us:
Grace Jo was born in North Korea, a place where she almost starved to death as a child. Two of Grace’s brothers died of starvation. Grace’s father was tortured and starved to death, he passed away when North Korean agents transferred him from a detention center to a jail and his “crime” was that he left his country in search of food for his family. One of Grace’s older sisters went to China to find food for her family, but went missing and was probably sold into human trafficking. Grace was repatriated twice to North Korea by the Chinese government, and suffered imprisonment after she was repatriated. Grace’s mother and one of Grace’s sisters were repatriated four times and suffered torture after repatriation.
What a thought that Canada could be among the same numbers as victims of Nazism or Stalinism.
Hyperbolic?
I'm not the one trying to stop industrial farming.
Two men charged for shooting Air India conspirator:
Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ripudaman Singh Malik.
Malik, the man acquitted in 2005 for the bombings of two Air India jets, was shot in his vehicle outside his business in Surrey, B.C., on July 14.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says 21-year-old Tanner Fox and 23-year-old Jose Lopez have been charged.
Note that CTV makes pains to show that he was "acquitted".
That plane didn't blow up itself.
Allegedly.
The Canadian government hates veterans:
The Department of National Defence says it will not bow to “public pressure” on whether to award a Canadian combat veteran the Victoria Cross for the first time in 78 years. MPs and petitioners have sought consideration for an Afghan War hero: “Awarding national honours is designed to be insulated from political influence and public pressure.”
It will never be enough:
Indigenous groups in the United States are echoing Canadian complaints about the Pope’s apology to survivors of residential schools north of the border.
The National Congress of American Indians acknowledged the apology from Pope Francis as a historic moment, but is pressing the church to do more.
Also:
In contrast to the insistence of some Christians today that certain pagan superstitions ought to be accepted in the name of inculturation — such as the “smudging” ceremony of “purification” practiced by native tribes in North America, in which the Pope will take part — the first indigenous converts to Christianity in Canada not only embraced the Catholic Faith wholeheartedly, abandoning all superstitions, but they esteemed the Jesuit missionaries so much that they entreated them to remain with their tribes when the missionaries were considering a return to safety in the French settlements.
According to the memoirs of the missionaries, titled Relationes, in northern Ontario in 1649, after the Iroquois had driven the Huron tribes from their own lands through incessant warfare, and following the brutal martyrdom of St. John de Brebeuf, leader of the Jesuit mission to the natives of New France, twelve Huron chiefs approached the blackrobes on the Island of St. Joseph to present them with gifts and beg them not to abandon them in their time of trial.
We went from "bake the cake" to "give us our g-d- snacks, you hater!" that we hardly noticed:
The response to a donations request for a rock climbing and barbecue event in Canada’s Rocky Mountains has gone viral for its overt transphobia and QAnon-like “child grooming” conspiracy theory.
On Monday, Canmore Pride asked Valbella Gourmet Foods for donations to this year’s Pride event, like they had done successfully with other area businesses.
But the response they got on Tuesday morning was not what they expected.
“You could not pay me to sponsor anything to do with child grooming tranny’s [sic],” an email from “Jeff von Rotz” said where the author identified himself as owner.
Now, why would that guy say such a thing?
Oh! I know!:
Newly-opened Dallas gay bar "Mr. Misster" hosted a "child friendly" drag show Saturday, where signs read "It's not gonna lick itself" and "I licked it so it's mine."
For some reason, that puts people right off.
Also - b@$#@rds:
The FDA recently added a warning to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists—known to most as "puberty blockers"—after having identified a serious potential side effect for some that may cause a dangerous surge of spinal fluid pressure in the brain, that can cause headaches, nausea, double vision, and even permanent vision loss.
The taxpayers, not this nebulous entity called the "public healthcare system", pays for this:
“The best thing about this is the guarantee: I can come in here four times a day and get it,” Chris said. He no longer spends all of his waking hours in a frantic scrabble of panhandling and “other stuff” to scrape up the cash to pay a dealer. He won’t get arrested — and he won’t overdose and die using a drug that is not what it is sold as.
This fentanyl dispensary is legal, and Canada’s public health system finances it.
Did everyone forget about Taiwan?:
Taiwan’s president boarded a warship Tuesday to watch the country’s largest-ever military drills amid warnings that China could move to invade Taiwan within a year and a half.
Tsai Ing-wen, dressed in combat fatigues, oversaw her armed forces’ simulated efforts to push back an invading force, which included air-raid exercises across the island of 24 million people.
“Let’s continue to guard our homeland together. Good job,” she said from aboard a decommissioned U.S. Kidd-class missile destroyer. It was only her second time on a navy ship in her six years in office.
Twenty warships including frigates and destroyers fired shells to intercept a would-be invasion off Taiwan’s northeast coast, while fleets of F-16 fighter jets and domestically manufactured Ching-kuo fighters launched airstrikes.
Island-wide drills this year include repulsion of an invading force at a harbour near the capital Taipei, urban combat practice by the reservist force, and an exercise to transfer jets across Taiwan to bunkers dug out of the side of mountains on the remote east coast to withstand a first wave of missile attacks.
A big pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.
Called the “Lulo Rose," the diamond was found at the Lulo alluvial diamond mine, the mine's owner, the Lucapa Diamond Company, announced Wednesday on its website.
The Lulo mine has already produced the two largest diamonds ever found in Angola, including a 404-carat clear diamond.
The pink gemstone is the fifth largest diamond found at the mine where 27 diamonds of 100 carats or more have been found, according to Lucapa, which is based in Australia.
The pink diamond will be sold by international tender by the Angolan state diamond marketing company, Sodiam. Angola's mines make it one of the world's top 10 producers of diamonds.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
And the Rest of It
Former Unifor president Jerry Dias tried to impede a probe into his conduct and pressured a whistleblower to drop their complaint about an alleged kickback scandal — flouting the union’s code of ethics in the process, according to the findings of a third-party workplace investigation obtained by the Star.
After Dias unexpectedly announced his retirement earlier this year, Unifor revealed it had initiated a workplace investigation into claims that the long-time labour leader received $50,000 from a rapid test supplier he promoted to employers.
Dias’ assistant, Chris MacDonald, had filed a complaint to the union saying Dias offered him half of that money.
The allegations have thrown Canada’s largest private sector union into disarray as Unifor faces its first-ever contested election for national president. They also raise crucial questions about accountability and governance within an institution representing 315,000 workers across the country.
Apologies are for industries only:
Prior to his martyrdom, he wrote: “Whatever conclusion they [the Aboriginal peoples] reach, and whatever treatment they give us, we will try, by the grace of Our Lord, to endure it patiently for His service. It is a singular favor that His Goodness extends to us, to make us endure something for His sake.”
Indeed, the foremost desire of the Canadian missionaries was to convert souls for God, and if necessary, to die for the people they served. They worked tirelessly to give the Aboriginal peoples a better life; not to strip them of their identity but to further their culture and lives by making them truly Christian.
The conversion of the Aboriginal peoples and the sufferings of the Jesuit missionaries who gave their lives for Canada and her peoples must not be forgotten or apologized for. Brebeuf is only one of many who died for this country, and his death must not be in vain.
The Aboriginal peoples especially should remember the service of the missionaries who came to die for their sakes. These men should be honored and remember in Canadian history.
No, but they are more smug, self-important, self-conscious, boorish, tactless and insulated than their American counterparts who don't publish fluff pieces like this in order to boost their fragile self-esteem:
But residents of other countries — like the U.K., Ireland, and Australia, for example — were quick to point out that being polite wasn’t only a Canadian character trait.
“Who doesn’t thank the bus driver?” quipped a TikTok user.
As the debate continues on social media, the woman who filmed the video, content creator Corrin Carlson, told CTV News she found the situation “incredibly endearing.”
She had been living in New York and “no one did it there,” which is why she thought to capture the moment.
A researcher at the University of British Columbia who is originally from Nigeria says students from Nigeria and other African countries should not be asked to take English proficiency tests to get into universities such as UPEI.
Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi said on Twitter that the system is unfair, since English is the official language of Nigeria, and all education is taught in English.
Your Corrupt and Wasteful Government and You
To wit:
Most Canadians disapprove of Justin Trudeau’s performance as prime minister and feel he is a divisive leader, with almost as many hoping he resigns before the next election, according to a new public opinion survey probing the legacy of Canada’s leader.
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😂 @JustinTrudeau literally flew 60km in a private jet from Kelowna to Penticton. But you driving an SUV to your kids hockey practice in the snow is the problem 🤦♂️
— Ryan Keenan (@rxkeenan) July 19, 2022
Our PM is a joke. Straight up. https://t.co/5QhkRCI2Oq
Moving on ...
It's just your money:
Rideau Hall is responsible for costly air catering charges run up by Governor General Mary Simon, says the air force. Simon’s staff attempted to blame the military for meal expenses that were the equivalent of $218 per plate: “I cannot believe the Department of National Defence decides what the Governor General will eat.”
Did the federal government interfere in the police investigation of the deadliest shooting in Canadian history?
That’s the central question that will be at the heart of a much-anticipated probe on Monday, looking at allegations of pressure on the RCMP during its investigation of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
The House of Commons standing committee on public safety will be hearing from RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, as well as current and former top RCMP officials from Nova Scotia.
An MP who yesterday pleaded guilty to breach of the National Defence Act does not face automatic expulsion under Commons rules. Independent MP Kevin Vuong (Spadina-Fort York, Ont.) may only be stripped of his seat by a House vote: “I am proud to have served seven years now in our country’s largest naval reserve division.”
Kevin Vuong, a Toronto member of Parliament and naval reservist, has been fined $500 for failing to tell the Royal Canadian Navy about a 2019 sexual assault charge.
The federal government is facing fresh calls to boost security at the National War Memorial after images surfaced showing someone draping flags on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
These vandals are beyond redemption. Why couldn't they just throw paint on statues of Queen Victoria or Sir John A. Macdonald?
Pay attention because this concerns you - it doesn't matter how many jabs you get. Your government wants to destroy you:
An elderly woman who is fully vaccinated but didn't download Trudeau's ArriveCan application has been sentenced to 14 days of house arrest in Canada for not complying with the Liberal government's expectations of its subjects. pic.twitter.com/dmyCkDS9Uq
— Keean Bexte 🇳🇱 (@TheRealKeean) July 21, 2022
While No One Was Looking ...
Yep:
The Parole Board of Canada has granted the trucker who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash day parole for six months.
Yes, About That
University of Michigan medical students walked out of their white-coat ceremony on Sunday as an anti-abortion professor was about to give the keynote speech.
What actually happened:
Openly has the views of...roughly half the population. Hopefully the Michigan School of Medicine educates these young people such that they grow to hear views with which they disagree and to be open to challenges to their biases. P.S. The talk had nothing to do with abortion. https://t.co/LRuWb6H8Mn
— Charlie Camosy (@CCamosy) July 24, 2022
Note the hundreds who remained to hear the talk.
How embarrassing for the proponents of street theatre.
On the Korean Peninsula
It's not like Yoon has a choice:
South Korea is pouring resources into its strategy of deterring any North Korean nuclear attack by preparing for preemptive strikes if necessary, a strategy some experts say may exacerbate their arms race and risks miscalculation during a conflict.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has publicly given new emphasis to the so-called "Kill Chain" system to counter a North Korean nuclear attack.
First developed a decade ago as North Korea ramped up its nuclear development, Kill Chain calls for preemptive strikes against the North's missiles and possibly its senior leadership if an imminent attack is detected.
The system is a logical but highly risky and potentially unreliable way to try to counter North Korea's nuclear threat, some experts and former officials say.
Consider that under the Moon presidency, North Korea was much more bold. This was due to Moon's being pro-North Korea:
Especially on issues of human rights in North Korea, President Yoon and his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, have stark differences in their approaches. During the previous Moon administration, Seoul turned a blind eye to North Korea’s human rights violations for the sake of appeasing the Kim Jong-eun regime and abstained from voting on UN resolutions about its human rights violations.
In 2020, the Moon government even passed a law banning the practice of sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea. Moon’s policy tailored mostly to inter-Korean rapprochement invariably negatively affected Washington-Seoul relations. The Korean government seemed more favorable to Pyongyang’s interests rather than those of Washington regarding core democratic values and human rights.
Unlike his predecessor, President Yoon gives more attention the human rights concerns and strives to play a positive role in the human rights of North Korea. His administration’s high priority on human rights is well reflected in its determination to find the truth of the circumstances concerning the 2019 repatriation case of two North Korean escapees who committed felonies.
In November of 2019, the Moon government forcibly repatriated the two North Korean fishermen who had sailed in a small squid fishing boat to South Korean waters. They were known to have expressed their intention to defect to South Korea but were forced back across the border at the Panmunjom truce village to North Korea against their will five days later. The pictures capturing the repatriation process, released last week, showed they struggled desperately to resist being handed over to the North Korean authorities as they were dragged and pushed to the North Korean side of the border.
The way in which the repatriation was handled by the South Korean authorities seems to have been atrocious. In the beginning, they attempted to cover up the repatriation process, but South Korean press discovered it. On top of that, they seem to have hastily claimed or concluded that the North Korean escapees had committed aggravated felonies. Conducting a brief investigation on factual circumstances for three days was qualified neither for due process of law nor for the rule of law. The criminal matter should have been litigated in South Korea in accordance with its investigatory procedures and legal system, even though the evidence and witnesses were in North Korea. In hindsight, the case should have been treated openly in a transparent manner, and the information should have become public.
In theory, under the South Korean Constitution, the North Korean fishermen involved were considered South Korean citizens once they crossed the inter-Korean border. Yoon’s presidential office has criticized the repatriation as a potential “crime against humanity” in violation of the South Korean Constitution and applicable international human rights laws.
A U.S. congressman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), says that the repatriation underscores the “brutality of North Korea’s communist regime and the callous complicity of the previous Moon administration.” In this regard, David Alton, a member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, wrote a letter asking President Yoon to investigate the repatriation case to assess who ordered the swift return of two fishermen.
Under international law, people seeking freedom should not be subject to forced returns to North Korea, regardless of whether the fishermen are deemed to have committed a “particularly serious crime.” The applicable law to the case is the Convention Against Torture and Other Crimes, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 1984 (CAT). South Korea is a signatory to the CAT and ratified it in 1995. In particular, the Article 3 non-refoulement obligation of the CAT is linked historically with the prohibition on the return of refugees, contained in Articles 32 and 33 of the United Nations 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees (“the UN Convention”), and reflected in the withholding of removal provision under U.S. law. In addition to its conventional form, the principle of non-refoulement or non-return, a so-called jus cogens norm of customary international law, applies equally to the expulsion or return in circumstances in which there is a real risk of torture.
We Don't Have to Trade With China
Yet we do:
The Biden administration has sold nearly 6 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to an entity tied to the Chinese Communist Party, records show.
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Tortured, beaten, imprisoned, killed, and ostracized. Falun Gong practitioners have routinely suffered these abuses at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the past 23 years.
Their accounts of persecution include being sentenced to forced labor camps, shocked with electric batons, deprived of sleep, raped, denied employment or expelled from school, among many others—all because of their faith.
Victims range from children starting at the age of one—detained and forced to watch their parents being tortured—to elderly people tortured to death. The CCP’s brutal treatment of Falun Gong adherents has not spared the most vulnerable.
“The CCP’s campaign has made Falun Gong practitioners the most oppressed group in Chinese society,” reads a 2019 report titled “The 20-Year Persecution of Falun Gong in China” by Minghui, a U.S.-based website that tracks the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline involving meditative exercises and moral teachings based on three core principles: truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. The practice gained popularity in China during the 1990s, with estimates putting the number of adherents at 70 million to 100 million.
The communist regime, fearing the number of practitioners posed a threat to its authoritarian control, initiated a sweeping campaign aimed at eradicating the practice starting on July 20, 1999, a program that continues today.
Since then, millions have been detained in prisons, labor camps, and other facilities, with hundreds of thousands tortured while incarcerated, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Detained adherents also have been victims of forced organ harvesting, which has resulted in an untold number of practitioners being killed for their organs to supply the organ transplant market in China.
Because that worked so well the last time:
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Sri Lanka's new president his support on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the Indian Ocean island grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, a lawyer who served as Sri Lanka's prime minister a record six times, was sworn in on Thursday in the face of fierce public opposition.
Sri Lanka's crisis sparked months of mass protests and eventually forced then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country.
In his message, Xi said he believes Sri Lanka will be able to move towards economic and social recovery and he is "ready to provide support and assistance to the best of my ability to President Wickremesinghe and the people of Sri Lanka in their efforts", CCTV reported.
Sri Lanka owes at least $5 billion to China although some estimates put it at almost twice that amount. India has also lent it $3.8 billion and Japan is owed at least $3.5 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund, with another $1 billion due to other rich countries.
Don't worry. Rajapaksa is on his way back.
China Evergrande Group’s Chief Executive Officer Xia Haijun was forced to resign as the embattled property developer tries to strike a restructuring deal to resolve $300 billion of liabilities that have roiled the nation’s real estate market.
It Was Never About A Virus
I think we know that now:
Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, frequent COVID-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible. The decrease in immunity can be caused by several factors such as N1-methylpseudouridine, the spike protein, lipid nanoparticles, antibody-dependent enhancement, and the original antigenic stimulus. These clinical alterations may explain the association reported between COVID-19 vaccination and shingles. As a safety measure, further booster vaccinations should be discontinued. In addition, the date of vaccination should be recorded in the medical record of patients. Several practical measures to prevent a decrease in immunity have been reported. These include limiting the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including acetaminophen to maintain deep body temperature, appropriate use of antibiotics, smoking cessation, stress control, and limiting the use of lipid emulsions, including propofol, which may cause perioperative immunosuppression. In conclusion, COVID-19 vaccination is a major risk factor for infections in critically ill patients.
A family doctor from Manitoba has been censured for prescribing Ivermectin to a patient, not wearing a mask during a clinical encounter, and conveying information about COVID-19 pandemics and vaccines that run counter to public health recommendations, says the province’s regulatory body for medical physicians.
I'll just leave these here:
On July 25, the Indonesian government started to distribute free ivermectin and vitamins to self-isolating COVID patients in high-risk areas just as the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus tore through the country. Each package from the government contained seven days' worth of ivermectin and vitamins and was given to patients who were asymptomatic and who had mild to moderate symptoms, such as fever and dry cough, the Strait Times reported.
Because of the surge in COVID cases, health facilities were packed and those who self-medicated at home caused a spike in the cost of medicines. The health ministry quickly moved to control the prices of COVID related drugs such as favipiravir, remdesivir and ivermectin.
But the dramatic drop in new COVID cases has also been seen in other countries where ivermectin was accepted as a treatment for the coronavirus, such as India and Namibia. This is in contrast to countries with high vaccination rates such as Singapore, Ireland, the U.K., and Israel that have high vaccination rates but major COVID outbreaks.
NOQ Report revealed that Ireland, which has 90.11% of their population over the age of 12 vaccinated at least once for the COVID shot, is seeing a major spike in COVID cases. Ireland, which has 88.63% of its population fully vaccinated, now has "highest number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 since March, despite over 91% of the population over-12 being vaccinated - the highest jab rate in the EU," Gript.ie reported.
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Japanese trading and pharmaceutical company Kowa Co Ltd (7807.T) said on Monday anti-parasite drug ivermectin has been found effective for treating the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in a Phase III trial.
The trial found ivermectin has "an antiviral effect" against the variant, Kowa said without providing further details.
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Results: Ivermectin prophylaxis was taken by 76 controls and 41 cases. Two-dose ivermectin prophylaxis (AOR 0.27, 95% CI, 0.15-0.51) was associated with a 73% reduction of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers for the following month. Those involved in physical activity (AOR 3.06 95% CI, 1.18-7.93) for more than an hour/day were more likely to contract SARS-CoV-2 infection. Type of household, COVID duty, single-dose ivermectin prophylaxis, vitamin-C prophylaxis and hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis were not associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Conclusion: Two-dose ivermectin prophylaxis at a dose of 300 μg/kg with a gap of 72 hours was associated with a 73% reduction of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers for the following month. Chemoprophylaxis has relevance in the containment of pandemic.
She said the quiet part loud:
With some propaganda, this will change:
According to a new Angus Reid survey, just 25% of Canadians want vaccine passports to continue.
To get a sense of the shift, 70% supported them in September of 2021.
Support for mask mandates has also dropped dramatically.
From a height of 86% support in November 2020, to 72% in February 2022, just over half (51%), support mask mandates now.
If you’re double boosted and still frantically calling COVID a “dangerous illness” it makes me wonder (1) how this person ever lived before COVID (or even lives now) with all the other risks in the world; & (2) how this person is allowed to retain a license to practice medicine. https://t.co/GYgMnSEdSZ
— David Anber, Criminal Lawyer 🇨🇦 (@DavidAnber) July 21, 2022
Tamara Lich On Bail
Following an allegation that she breached the conditions of her bail, Tamara Lich, one of the organizers behind the Freedom Convoy, has been granted her release after a bail review.
Lich has been behind bars since she was arrested in Medicine Hat, Alberta after Ottawa police asserted she had broken one of the terms of her bail. The allegation stemmed from a picture Lich took alongside Tom Marazzo, another organizer behind the Freedom Convoy, at an event hosted by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom. Part of the conditions placed on Lich required her to avoid contact with other organizers unless she was accompanied by her legal representation. Lawyers from the Justice Centre, who were at the event, are representing Lich.
Get Ready For Global Famines
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And behold a pale horse, and he that sat upon him, his name was Death, and hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
First, let use a bit of science here:
Nitrogen is essential to all living systems, which makes the nitrogen cycle one of Earth's most important nutrient cycles.
Eighty percent of Earth's atmosphere is made up of nitrogen in its gas phase.
Atmospheric nitrogen becomes part of living organisms in two ways. The first is through bacteria in the soil that form nitrates out of nitrogen in the air. The second is through lightning. During electrical storms, large amounts of nitrogen are oxidized and united with water to produce an acid that falls to Earth in rainfall and deposits nitrates in the soil.
Plants take up the nitrates and convert them to proteins that then travel up the food chain through herbivores and carnivores. When organisms excrete waste, the nitrogen is released back into the environment. When they die and decompose, the nitrogen is broken down and converted to ammonia. Plants absorb some of this ammonia; the remainder stays in the soil, where bacteria convert it back to nitrates. The nitrates may be stored in humus or leached from the soil and carried into lakes and streams. Nitrates may also be converted to gaseous nitrogen through a process called denitrification and returned to the atmosphere, continuing the cycle.
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When nitrogen leaves the root zone, it can affect the quality of groundwater and surface water. The key to reducing this is practising efficient on-farm management of nitrogen, so that as much of the available nitrogen as possible is used to grow crops and livestock and maintain soil health. The range of management options available to a producer varies depending on the farm's characteristics. These can be identified through the preparation of a nutrient management plan.
So there's that.
What is happening now:
Cutting fertilizer use to reduce on-farm emissions could cost growers nearly $48 billion over the next eight years, says a newly released report by Meyers Norris Penny (MNP).
Under Canada’s A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy, the Government of Canada is envisioning a 30% absolute emissions reduction target for on-farm fertilizer use by the year 2030. Elsewhere, the European Union (EU) has proposed an absolute emissions reduction target and aims to achieve it through a 20% reduction of fertilizer use compared to 2020 levels.
If Canada adopted the EU model, the potential economic impact of reduced fertilizer use
would be devastating to Canadian farmers. To avoid this, any plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must be done through sustainable agricultural intensification; an approach that allows for significant reductions in agricultural emissions without risking Canada’s contribution to global supply of food or economic growth within the sector.
Fertilizer Canada commissioned the report by MNP, one of the largest full-service chartered professional accountancy and business advisory firms in Canada. MNP has specialized expertise regarding all aspects of agricultural business – from primary producers through to food and beverage processors.
“When the Federal government announced a 30% emission reduction target for on-farm
fertilizer use it did so without consulting - the provinces, the agricultural sector, or any key
stakeholders - on the feasibility of such a target,” said Karen Proud, President and CEO of
Fertilizer Canada. “This study shows that we need to work together to find practical and
pragmatic solutions for emissions reductions, without causing economic devastation to our
agricultural sector.”
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The Netherlands is in turmoil because its government is bringing down stringent fertilizer curtailments, which have resulted in a countrywide protest by farmers. Agricultural workers are protesting similar policies in Sri Lanka, to say nothing of Ireland, where farmers are decrying a government plan calling for a 21 to 30 per cent cut in emissions from the agriculture sector.
But surely this stumbling, aimless Liberal government of ours would not attempt something of the same here?
Alas yes. Our federal government has given notice that farmers and ranchers have to cut back their emissions. The government has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent as part of its overall effort to reduce Canada’s emissions by 40 to 45 per cent by 2030.
What kind of madness is this? With so few things (see above) functioning in this country, why is this otherwise indifferent or detached government wandering into a cardinal economic sector — the one that provides food — with its IPCC-driven mandates?
It is impossible to disagree with Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit, who said, “We’re really concerned with this arbitrary goal … The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and has set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers.”
Energy and food — the twin essentials of life and security. And this government cannot leave the industries which provide both alone.
Neither can it seem to leave alone the lives and security of Western Canadians.
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Cabinet has minimal control over food prices, says Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s office. However the Department of Agriculture acknowledged federal regulators raised wholesale prices for milk and butter at a rate higher than general inflation: “Federal governments deliberately have minimal direct involvement in managing food prices.”**
BREAKING: Gas rationing hits Europe - member states ordered to cut fuel use by 15%. READ: https://t.co/lbqr833cuIpic.twitter.com/wDpcwUOJwq
— Keean Bexte 🇳🇱 (@TheRealKeean) July 20, 2022
There's more:
Ottawa police issued 103 tickets and towed 12 vehicles amid convoy protests held at the city’s downtown area over the weekend.
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Internal documents confirm a federal bank, Farm Credit Canada of Regina, told employees to secretly record the names of customers who supported the Freedom Convoy. The Access To Information records contradict the agency’s public denial it began blacklisting clients “in support of activity related to the Freedom Convoy.” Staff emails showed managers were still compiling names of customers even after cabinet lifted the Emergencies Act: “If you become aware of a customer’s involvement report it immediately.”
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**🚨🚨🚨🚨Breaking news🚨🚨🚨🚨
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 20, 2022
Tanks are being put on the streets in China to protect the banks.
This is because the Henan branch of the Bank of China declaring that people's savings in their branch are now 'investment products' and can't be withdrawn.
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West Lincoln Councillor and truck driver Harold Jonker has been reprimanded by his town council for participating in the Freedom Convoy protests earlier this year.
The law firm Aird & Berlis LLP published a Jul. 12 report on Jonker’s actions finding him to break the code of conduct on two counts.
Jonker was cited for requiring a duty of loyalty to residents and accepting gifts or benefits. The investigation focused on Jonker’s involvement in leading the Niagara convoy.
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Canada’s CPI ripped higher, largely due to the price of gasoline. Annual growth came in at 8.1% in June, the largest annual growth since January 1983. Despite markets expecting higher inflation and this being a “relief,” it was 0.4 points higher than May. Price growth isn’t just high but still accelerating.
Are people still not convinced that their governments are trying to destroy them?
AVOID!:
A food brand called ActuallyFoods lists Organic Cricket Flour as one of its ingredients. The brand, from Canadian company Entomo Farms, has several new cheese puffs that they say are "actually" good for you.
"We've ditched so-called 'natural' ingredients that are actually not as clean as they claim. Instead, we're making something you can feel good about, using unexpected ingredients that, although surprising, actually boast the health benefits you're looking for: like high-protein cricket powders, fava bean, and more," they write on their site.
Crickets have been in the spotlight as of late. Recently, Canada announced that it has completed its construction of the world's largest cricket production facility.
Actually Foods, claiming they offer "a smarter way to snack," gives the warning that "people who are allergic to shellfish may be allergic to crickets." Cricket flour, listed among the other flours used, is a primary ingredient in Actually Foods' cheese puffs.
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