And the Rest of It

Canada is finished but there is still a chance for the US:

And here’s the irony. In a nation in which state-practiced murder is becoming one of the most common causes of death, the state refused to grant Cardinal’s request.

I understand why. Giving Cardinal terminal relief from his suffering is to acknowledge that a procedure that the state so strongly supports is cruel and inhuman. It’s better that one person suffers horribly than to admit that its “gender-affirming” care is barbaric. (I am not advocating euthanasia. I am just pointing out the cruel logic here.)

All this gender madness will be remembered as one of the darkest times in Western history (assuming we survive to have a history written about us). And what’s happening in Canada is coming soon to America. In fact, depending on where you live, it’s already here.

 

 This US:

On Tuesday, the FBI handed over requested documents on its efforts to target Catholic Americans after another threat from Congress to hold director Christopher Wray in contempt.

As reported by the New York Post, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, had subpoenaed the files in question and threatened to hold Wray in contempt of Congress if the documents were not delivered by the deadline of July 25th.

The documents that are now in the possession of the Judiciary Committee also deal with the FBI’s plans to crack down on the grassroots protest movement led by conservative voters and parents to hold public school boards accountable for far-left propaganda being included in their curriculum, among other grievances. The movement started in 2021 and became a nationwide phenomenon that has seen numerous conservative victories, from the flipping of many school boards to a Republican wave in Virginia in 2021.

More recently, the FBI had outlined plans in a since-retracted memo for infiltrating Catholic churches, as the bureau had come to see “radical-traditionalist Catholics” and pro-life Catholics as possible domestic terrorist threats.

Acting Assistant Director of the FBI Christopher Dunham, in a letter attached to the documents, pleaded with Jordan to not release the files publicly.

“The production of this information to the Committee does not waive any applicable privileges or other protections,” said Dunham in his letter. “We respectfully request that the Committee not disseminate or otherwise disclose these documents without prior consultation with the FBI.”

 

 

What is this? Quebec?:

The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Tuesday announced that 249 out of 2,123 missing or "ghost" babies have been found to have died, be it from sickness or in some cases because their parents killed them. The announcement slipped through almost unnoticed because Koreans were focused on more than 40 deaths caused by the recent torrential rains and flooding.

The fatality rate of the babies, whose birth was recorded in hospitals but whose parents never registered them, stands at 11.7 percent, more than 50 times higher than Korea's normal infant mortality rate of 0.24 percent as of 2021. The fates of the remaining 817 missing babies, which are still under investigation, could push up the fatality rate even higher. But Korean society seems numb to their suffering. 

 

Perhaps this apparent indifference is due to the mentality of viewing babies as the possession of parents. Until the 1970s, babies were often registered one to two years after birth in Korea because 40 to 50 out of every 1,000 babies died from diseases such as typhoid.

 

These attitudes were reflected in laws and policies. The most glaring example is that the penalty for infanticide was much milder than for murder. The law was criticized for being antiquated, but was not revised once since it was enacted in 1953. Only now, amid the latest shocking discoveries, has it been scrapped.

 

The 249 deaths occurred between 2015 and 2022, or at a rate of 31 a year during that time, but the government was completely unaware. It claims that the oversight happened because hospitals are not required to inform the government of childbirths. But hospitals have always kept records due to payment receipts from parents, so the information was readily available for the government to check. 

 

The indifference of civil servants is as much to blame as Korean society's perception of infants as parents’ property whose rights can be disregarded.

 

A society's level of maturity can be gauged by how it treats its weakest members. Major countries require government workers to visit hospitals and verify childbirths and register them because they value infants as human beings just like adults. But Korean society continues to remain unfazed even after the shocking news of 249 unrecorded deaths. We need to change this mentality.

 

 

 And now, some good news - 

The little movie that could:

Angel Studios is launching its unexpected summer hit Sound of Freedom in a bunch of international markets after it made $127M during its first three weeks in U.S. theaters.

Written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, the pic, which has been widely embraced by conservative and right-wing commentators, will be released in South Africa from August 18 and Australia and New Zealand from August 24. The film will hit cinemas in the following territories from August 31: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. The film will receive subsequent releases in the UK and Ireland from September 1 and Spain from October 11.

 

 

You can make it, little guy:

 A first-time Pennsylvania mom who was told her baby “wouldn’t make it” because he was born so small, now says he is “thriving” at home following 181 days in hospital.

Zaylan was born when Krysten Risbon went into labor 16 weeks early.

He had a hole in his heart and needed constant oxygen, but he made it—and Krysten is now studying to become a NICU nurse, inspired by the care they received.

“When I first held him he could fit in my bra,” said the 22-year-old from Altoona. “Now only his foot fits in.”

“He’s a little fighter.”

 

Interesting:

An underwater photo shoot that took place 6.4 metres below the surface of Georgian Bay has been confirmed to be a Guinness World Record.

Hamilton-born photographer Steven Haining, Brantford model Ciara Antoski and a crew of divers staged the record-setting shoot at the rudder of the W.L. Wetmore Shipwreck at the Fathom Five National Marine Park in Tobermory, Ont.

The shoot saw Antoski brave temperatures of 14 degrees for as long as 30 minutes straight, before warming up and diving back into Tobermory’s famed turquoise waters. In total, the crew visited five ship wrecks over four days, in a shoot that took longer than three months to plan.

The final product is the world record for the deepest underwater model photo shoot.