Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week moment to yourself ...


Oh, Justin ... 

It's like you can't help yourself:

For a party that so brazenly accuses its opponents of spreading disinformation and misinformation, the federal Liberals too often fail to pass their own test. In the aftermath of Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on Israel, and in the midst of one of the most pivotal geopolitical crises in recent years and a pronounced spike in antisemitism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some of his cabinet ministers seem to be having a hard time breaking their bad habits.
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On Tuesday, reports emerged that the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza had been struck by a missile. The information came from the health ministry in Gaza, which blamed Israel for the strike and claimed that up to 500 people had been killed.
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Quick to forget everything journalists and politicians know about wartime propaganda and bad actors’ use of false flags, some in the Canadian media, along with certain elected officials, rushed to share unverified, suspect information, condemning Israel in the process. ...
Given the rush by some senior Liberals to imply that Israel was to blame for the attack, it’s entirely fair to ask tough questions about the government’s internal biases — which, at best, can be condemned as a cynical urge to play “both sides” despite a lack of moral equivalence.
Worse, it reveals an internalized belief that Israel is the inherent aggressor and that it is violating international law. The Liberals may claim solidarity and support with Israel, but their words and actions reveal those to be largely superficial words.
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Beyond a call that Hamas treat hostages taken in accordance with international law, the term is largely absent from Trudeau’s condemnations of Hamas, which Canada lists as a terrorist group.
Trudeau’s statement also came before Israel had officially answered Hamas’ accusation that its forces were responsible for the explosion. “I don’t know to say whether it was an Israeli airstrike,” Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told the press in the first hours after the blast.
Only later would the Israeli military conclude that the explosion was caused by a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group allied with Hamas.


This misfire:

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The conversation between the two terrorists was translated into English goes as follows:

What?

They are saying this was Islamic Jihad.

That this was from us?

It seems that it was from us, yes.

Who is saying this?

They are saying that the shrapnel of the missile are local pieces and not Israeli shrapnel.

What are they saying [there]?

My god, from us, it didn't just explode, but in a hospital!

They may have fired from the cemetery behind.

What?

It seems that they fired this from the cemetery behind the hospital, and it failed and landed on the hospital.

There is a cemetery behind it?

Yes, it is right in its area!

Where is it exactly? When you enter the general courtyard area?

When you enter the courtyard area, so that you do not continue towards the city, but instead from the right side, that is where the hospital is.

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Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said it was not firing in the area when the blast occurred. And, he said, Israeli radar confirmed a rocket barrage was fired by the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad from a nearby cemetery at the time of the blast, around 6:59 p.m. Independent video showed one of the rockets in the barrage falling out of the sky, he said.

The misfired rocket hit the parking lot outside the hospital. Were it an airstrike, there would have been a crater there; instead, the fiery blast came from the misfired rocket’s warhead and its unspent propellant, he said.



Justin is desperate to prove he is the elder stateman and not the blinkered moron who invites scandal after scandal.

It should be no surprise, therefore, that two-thirds of polled Canadian voters want him never, ever to run again.

An irrelevant point to ponder as only his Chinese "admirers" can determine when he finally leaves office.


But Justin isn't the only moron in this "blame Israel" game:

MPs demanded an explanation after New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh said “the seeds of genocide” were being sown in Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces. Legislators including Jewish MPs expressed alarm over Singh’s remark: ‘Yes or no, do you believe Israel is committing genocide?’


How many baby corpses did Israel burn, Jag?

I know that there were at least seven infants killed in the mass murder you "accept the results of".

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Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Montreal Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi said the world must recognize that the Palestinian death toll is mounting, with over 4,000 people reported killed since the start of the war, which he said amounts to one out of 500 people amongst the two million inhabitants.
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“That’s because of bombardments that are falling on the heads of babies, of elderly seniors, of women and children, boys and girls and, yes, innocent adults who are both men and women,” Zuberi said as he was making his way to a caucus meeting with his party.
“We have to see that this stops. This is not acceptable.”


 

Israeli soldiers stand next to the bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas fighters in the Kfar Azza kibbutz in southern Israel, about five kilometres east of Gaza, on Oct. 10, 2023


Also:

Among the litter of guns, korans, and maps discarded by the Hamas terrorists whose bodies lie alongside bullet-riddled vehicles and dusty roads are green Gaza IDs with work permits. Normally residents of the Hamas territory can’t enter Israel, but work permits allowed over 20,000 Gazans to enter Israel. When some returned, it was as Hamas rapists and killers.

The Hamas invasion succeeded so well because the terrorists had an intimate knowledge of the communities they were targeting because they had worked there or had intelligence from those who had worked there. The attackers had detailed maps and building layouts. One woman whose husband and son were murdered said that the Hamas terrorists knew the names of the people, how many children they had and even which of them owned dogs.


Speaking of killing children:

Bill C-314, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), was introduced by Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Ed Fast and a second reading of it will be voted on Wednesday, October 18.  

Should the bill prevail tomorrow, it would then proceed to third reading, where it stands a good chance passing and then heading to Canada’s Senate. 

“MPs should be voting on MAID with their eyes wide open,” wrote Fast about his bill on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.  

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Back in February, the House of Commons released a report on the state of medical assistance in dying, or MAiD. This is also known as assisted suicide or euthanasia. (See archive).

To be clear, there’s no intention of stopping, or even slowing this down. Instead, the report recommends expanding and accelerating the accessibility of death.

Specifically, new recommendations include:
(a) Letting “mature minors” apply for MAiD
(b) Letting people “book in advance” a date to die
(c) Ensuring people with disabilities have options to get MAiD
(d) Consulting with First Nations on MAiD options and availabilities

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A former Surrey schoolteacher who strangled his pregnant wife 17 years ago, then disposed of and burned her body, has been granted full parole.


He wants to be a good dad to his remaining kid.



Yes, but you still applauded a Nazi.

No expunging of the Internet can make anyone forget:

The House affairs committee tomorrow is expected to vote on hearings into how a Waffen SS member was presented to the Commons as a Canadian hero. The September 22 incident “brought shame on Parliament,” MPs were told yesterday: “Canadians deserve answers.”



"Journalist" Chrystia Freeland refuses to listen to provinces over the financial mess she and her party made:

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday bypassed all provincial consumer agencies in ordering that customer complaints against banks go to a single federal ombudsman. A similar attempt sought by bank lobbyists in 2016 was successfully defeated following an outcry in the Senate: “Certainly the banks will love this.”


To wit:

Ottawa is asking Canada’s largest lenders to reduce banking fees and help borrowers cope with higher mortgage costs, as Canadians grapple with high inflation and mounting expenses.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said during a news conference Tuesday that the federal government is pushing banks to comply with new guidelines intended to help financially stressed mortgage borrowers make their rising payments. She also announced that the government is instructing the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC), the country’s financial consumer watchdog, to set an expectation that lenders will reduce the fees they charge for personal banking accounts and other services, including overdraft fees.
These are the latest in a series of recent federal measures aimed at the banking sector.
Over the past two years, Ottawa has made three tax changes that have required banks and insurers to pay billions of dollars to support government initiatives and pay down government debt. This drew rare public criticism from the Canadian Bankers Association. Meanwhile, Canada’s banking regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, has been hiking capital requirements, which has forced banks to set aside billions of dollars as a cushion against a potential economic downturn.


Another stop-gap measure that will not prevent Canada from turning into the Weimar Republic.


Remember - these dolts would starve to death if Alberta left the Dominion of Canada:

It states that Trudeau is “deeply concerned” that a potential Alberta Pension Plan (APP) would would weaken the pensions of seniors in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada, causing “undeniable” harm.
“I have instructed my cabinet and officials to take all necessary steps to ensure Albertans – and Canadians – are fully aware of the risks of your plan, and to do everything possible to ensure CPP remains intact,” it reads.
It goes on to defend the CPP and its investment record over the course of close to six decades.
“We have a model that works in this country. It offers workers a reliable future, and pensioners with peace of mind.”
Smith has yet to issue a response to the letter.

(Sidebar: if Justin is against it, pursue it will all one's heart and soul.)
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An independent Quebec would have its own currency and a peacekeeping-style army, the leader of the Parti Québécois said Wednesday.
But without Albertan money?
Okay.
Sure.
Whatever you say.


Why is this creature even back in the country?:

Dure Ahmed, who is now living in the Toronto area under conditions, was married to El Shafee Elsheikh. He's a high-profile ISIS militant who was part of a cell known as "the Beatles" because of their British accents.

Elsheikh is the highest ranking ISIS member to be tried in the U.S. He's serving multiple life sentences in a supermax prison for his role in the deaths of eight American, British and Japanese hostages.

"It is unacceptable that the Trudeau government allowed someone affiliated with one of the world's worst terrorist groups to re-enter Canada without first ensuring the safety and security of Canadians from this terrorist threat," said Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong in a statement to CBC News. 

"This is but one example of Mr. Trudeau's neglect of Canada's national security."


Also - it's like there is a pattern:

The ISIS supporter who murdered two Swedish nationals in Brussels was flagged as a potential jihadist as far back as 2016.



We don't have to trade with China:

The head of Canada's intelligence agency spoke openly about China's interest in partnering with Canadian universities to gain a military edge during a conference with his Five Eyes counterparts on Tuesday.

"China has been very transparent," Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault said.

"Everything that they're doing in our universities and in new technology, it's going back into a system very organized to create dual-use applications for the military."

Vigneault made the comments on stage during a rare public gathering with spy bosses from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

The representatives of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance are meeting in California's Silicon Valley at the invitation of FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss adversaries' use of technology and threats to innovation and research. 

Vigneault said CSIS has been trying to warn Canadian universities about the People's Republic of China's motivations and is in the process of setting up a research security centre to provide advice directly to research institutions.

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Another top aide to the Prime Minister yesterday said he missed a 2021 warning that Chinese agents were targeting a Conservative MP. Mike MacDonald, former national security advisor, said an ongoing House affairs committee investigation should not be “about laying blame.”



Oh, burn, Cardinal Zen:

Cardinal Joseph Zen renewed his criticism of the “confused and confusing” Synod on Synodality and denounced the participation of two bishops linked to China’s communist government at the synod.

The former bishop of Hong Kong blasted synod leaders for trying to “reduce the Word of God to the feeling of the people” and emphasizing the “magisterium” of Pope Francis while neglecting nearly 2,000 years of Catholic teaching in an interview with the Catholic Herald.

“The animators of the Synod seem to reduce the Word of God to the feeling of the people – by which they mean all the baptized, even those who left the Church long ago – and refer to the magisterium, not of the past 20 centuries, not of the many recent popes, but only of the reigning pontiff,” he said.

Zen also mocked the concept of “conversations in the Spirit,” a form of “shared prayer” used in the Synod’s small-group discussions that aims at “inclusive consensus” and “discernment” of dissenting views.

The Instrumentum laboris of the synod describes the method not as a “generic exchange of ideas, but a dynamic in which the word spoken and heard generates familiarity, enabling the participants to draw closer to one another.”

“Perhaps a cup of coffee or small glass of something ‘spiritual’ and some cookies might help even more the ‘conversation in the spirit,’” the 91-year-old Hong Kong cardinal remarked. “Please find somebody to explain, in a way that we poor mortals may understand: What does it mean ‘to discuss not ideas but experiences?’”

“So, the long tradition of ‘see and judge’ should be changed to ‘see and do not judge,’” he said. “But Jesus told the Apostles to ‘teach!’”

“If discernment is meant to help the Pope and the bishops to ‘teach,’ and the teaching is surely done through ideas,” he added, “shouldn’t the ‘conversations in the Spirit’ necessarily bring us back to Jesus himself, who said that the Spirit will ‘take from what He has taught to the Apostles?’”




Be not afraid:

With aggressive challenges to traditional Christianity ramping up within the United States and the Catholic Church itself, it’s important to remember that conditions have been far more desperate before: like 400 years ago in Japan.

Last February 6, the Church celebrated the feast day of St. Paul Miki and Companions. The courageous example of the 26 Martyrs of Japan, and other Japanese Christians who kept the faith during centuries of extreme persecution, is vital today — as American Catholics confront powerful forces committed to subverting their religion. ...

Catholicism was introduced to Japan by St. Francis Xavier after his arrival in Kagoshima on August 15, 1549, the Feast of the Assumption. The Catholic Church flourished for the next several decades, especially in Kyushu, the southernmost of the country’s four main islands. The initial embrace would be followed by horrific persecution that nearly extinguished Christianity from the archipelago.

Twenty-four Christians, known as Kirishitan, were rounded up in 1597 on the order of military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had come to view the religion as a foreign-directed political threat. All were Franciscans, six of them Europeans, except for Jesuit brother and renowned preacher, Paul Miki, and two lay catechists who would be made Jesuit brothers before their deaths. The shogun directed that the Christians’ ears and noses be cut off, but a sympathetic government official had their left ear lobes sliced off instead.

The group was forced to travel from the imperial capital of Kyoto to Nagasaki, then and now Japan’s center of Christianity, in the dead of winter and mostly by foot. Guards made additional prisoners of two Catholic laymen encountered along the 400-mile route, neither of whom protested, bringing the total number of captives to 26.

The road to the crucifixion grounds, located on a steep hill overlooking Nagasaki, was lined by silent Kirishitan as the martyrs made their ascent, resolutely singing the “Te Deum” hymn of praise. Seeing the rows of crosses, 12-year-old Luis Ibaraki asked, “Which one is mine?” The boy then ran to his cross and hugged it.




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