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I think this is a good decision.

See what lies are being fed to the North Koreans then combat them with the truth:

South Korea plans to lift its decades-long ban on public access to North Korean television, newspapers and other media as part of its efforts to promote mutual understanding between the rivals, officials said Friday, despite animosities over the North's recent missile tests.

Divided along the world’s most heavily fortified border since 1948, the two Koreas prohibit their citizens from visiting each other’s territory and exchanging phone calls, emails and letters, and they block access to each other’s websites and TV stations.

In a policy report to new President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said it will gradually open the door for North Korean broadcasts, media and publications to try to boost mutual understanding, restore the Korean national identity and prepare for a future unification.

Ministry officials said South Korea will start by allowing access to North Korean broadcasts to try to encourage North Korea to take similar steps. The ministry refused to provide further details, saying the plans are still being discussed with relevant authorities in South Korea.

Jeon Young-sun, a research professor at Seoul’s Konkuk University, said North Korea is unlikely to reciprocate because the flow of South Korean cultural and media content would pose “a really huge threat to” its authoritarian leadership.

 

It's worth a try. 

We will be North Korea one day.

It is nothing more than an institution, one the simple-minded will defense and enforce even though it does not work and is unfair:

An older woman died last week after lying on a stretcher for at least two days in a North Vancouver hospital waiting room. It’s another sign, health-care workers say, of the growing staff-shortage in B.C.’s overcrowded emergency rooms.

Vancouver Coastal Health refused to directly confirm the July 11 death or provide any details, citing privacy laws, but said in an email Thursday it “is conducting a comprehensive review of the incident and will make recommended improvements as appropriate.”

Postmedia learned of the death on Monday, but Health Minister Adrian Dix declined all week to be interviewed for this story, instead directing questions to the health authority.

His ministry issued a statement that said, in part, “We realize there are deep anxieties at the moment with the news of emergency department diversions and busy waiting rooms.

“We want people to know that when they come to the hospital, they are safe, and that even during busy times, a standard triaging system is in place so that regardless of bed availability, patients are seen by a physician as soon as possible."

 

Why did that lady die, Adrian? 

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D’Souza examines the concern of people who cannot gain effective treatment for their condition, but they can gain euthanasia. D’Souza writes:

But if you can only access health-care waitlists, as opposed to actual health care, and you cannot get financial or housing supports, is ending your life truly an independent and autonomous decision?

Fewer than 30% of Canadians have access to palliative care, a field I left in 2017 when Canadian governments refused to protect physician conscience rights when their patients seek to end their own lives.

 

Fewer older and poor people = more jet trips for Justin! 

It's a cult:

Since the leak of the reversal of the Roe decision, pro-abortion thugs have attacked  77 pro-life centers, the Catholic News Agency reported. That is about one attack a day. Some have been fire-bombed.

39 pregnancy centers, 28 churches and 10 other targets, which include a maternity home. Who attacks a place that houses pregnant women? What happened to a woman's choice?

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Start with the actual accused rapist, one Gerson Fuentes, a 27-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala, according to Fox News, citing a source from ICE, Despite being here illegally for seven years, he still speaks through an interpreter, which doesn't suggest a hell of a lot of motivation to assimilate, let alone basic morals. But no matter, he never had deportation to worry about, so having sex with a 10-year-old and covering up any pregnancy as a result through a free abortion didn't leave him with much fear of consequences.

Townhall found that authorities waited six weeks between the time of the rape and the arrest of Fuentes, who was the "boyfriend" of the 10-year-old's mother. She's the one who told Telemundo that all of the charges against Fuentes were "a lie" and that her raped daughter who was taken out of state for the abortion on June 30 was "doing fine."

 

Where was this when Putin invaded Georgia?:

Putin is preventing the export of Ukrainian wheat and is threatening to create widespread famine and major unrest in many of the poorest countries in the Arab world, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He is exercising unprecedented blackmail, telling Western countries that he will allow the delivery of wheat only if the sanctions on Russia are lifted. To achieve his ends, Putin is apparently perfectly willing to hold hundreds of millions of innocent people hostage, and even sentence them to death by starvation. Meanwhile, his propaganda services cynically claim to the countries concerned that the risk of famine results from the Western sanctions against Russia.

China did not and will not intervene militarily in Ukraine, yet it remains Russia's helpful ally. Chinese President Xi Jinping does not hide his ambitions of world domination and servitude for the rest of us. The agreement signed by Putin and Xi on February 4 in Beijing, three weeks before Putin attacked Ukraine, draws the contours of a new world order within which the notions of freedom, democracy and rule of law would no longer have any meaning. The enemies of the Western world are watching. Several of them -- North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran – have allied with Russia and China.

The Biden administration, since coming to power, has shown little but weakness; America's spectacular debacle in Afghanistan revealed extreme weakness. The Western world is losing ground. In 1975, when the G7 was created, its members accounted for 70% of the world's GDP. Today, they represent just over 40% of it.

The words spoken in Germany and Spain were filled with strength. Failing to give Ukraine every means to win, however, or letting a stalemate set in -- or even worse -- rewarding Russian aggression by ceding Ukraine's Donbass and declaring that Russia had "won", would effectively be announcing to China and all the enemies of the Western world that the power of the West and its ability to command respect belong in the past. Such an outcome would also be telling them that the rules of international law established after the Second World War, and the values ​​that the Western world claims to embody, are now rules and values ​​that the West is incapable of defending.

A war only ends when there is a winner and a loser. In the present situation, Putin is the ruthless aggressor who tramples all the rules and values of the West. He must be defeated. If he is not, the consequences will not be limited to Ukraine. They will be devastating.