Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week shake of the head ...


Justin Trudeau is simply the worst:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on the Israeli government to exercise “maximum restraint” in its military operations in Gaza and around the territory’s largest hospital.



I won't post the quote in its entirety here.

It is the most vile, self-serving thing I've read all day.

Because Benjamin Netanyahu is a real leader and an actual man, he knew how to put the irrelevant Justin in his place:


Even this horrid bit of Israel-baiting is not enough for the imported savages and soy-soaked leftists.

To wit:

Vancouver police say 100 officers were sent to a restaurant where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dining last night, after it was surrounded by protesters chanting for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Police say one man was arrested for assaulting an officer, and another for obstruction, while social media videos showed protesters waving Palestinian flags, shouting slogans and jeering Trudeau outside the restaurant in Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Sgt. Steve Addison says the officers were sent to control the crowd so Trudeau could leave the restaurant just before 10 p.m.

Addison says a 27-year-old man from Coquitlam, B.C., was arrested after an officer was punched in the face and her eyes gouged while she was trying to disperse the crowd.

He says the officer was taken to hospital.

Videos posted earlier in the evening show Trudeau being heckled by protesters inside Vij’s, a restaurant in a different part of the city.

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No, Justin, you're not a statesman. The shine has come off of your hair plugs, even for an electorate attracted to shiny things instead of serious leadership and competence. You're weak and everyone knows it. 

If there is a silver lining, at least he has reached pariah status.

Now, who gets their bank accounts frozen without a warrant?

Them?


 Also - leave this repugnant creature in Gaza and walk away:



Israel isn't the only real country that is taking Justin to the woodshed:

In a story that’s been major news in India – while being almost entirely overlooked in Canada – the RCMP is now investigating a Canada-linked group for allegedly hinting at a pending terror attack on Indian targets.

“We are asking Sikhs not to fly Air India on 19th November … it can be life-threatening,” Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, head of the separatist group Sikhs for Justice, said in a recent video address.

Sikhs for Justice, a group that has been banned in India since 2019, advocates for an ethno-religious Sikh nation known as Khalistan to be carved out of the Indian state of Punjab.

The Air India reference has particularly galled Indian politicians and media outlets given that it was Khalistani extremists based in Canada who staged the 1985 Air India bombing.

Pannun is based in New York, but he’s a Canadian citizen whose group has been active within Canadian Sikh communities. Just last month, Pannun was quoted in the CBC after Sikhs for Justice organized an unofficial Khalistani independence referendum in Surrey, B.C. 

One of the voting stations was Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, where Hardeep Singh Nijjar – a Khalistani nationalist listed as a terrorist by the Indian government – was murdered in a targeted killing in June.

It was that killing which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed in September was an assassination organized by the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Or, as Trudeau told the House of Commons, “Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link.”

The gurdwara where Nijjar was killed now features a large billboard outside with the words “assassination wanted” against portraits of three Indian diplomats based in Canada. The group Sikhs for Justice, meanwhile, is depicted as an arm stabbing an assault rifle labelled “India.”

In response to the Pannun video, India has asked Canada to step up security for Air India flights leaving Toronto and Vancouver. Last week, the RCMP and Ministry of Transport both confirmed they were investigating the video as a potential terror threat.

In September, another video by Pannun sparked condemnation from Canadian politicians after he called on Hindus to leave Canada en masse. “Indo-Hindus who work against the interests of Canada have effectively repudiated their allegiance to Canada,” he said.

In a statement at the time, Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister of public safety, said the “circulation of an online hate video targeting Hindu Canadians runs contrary to the values we hold dear as Canadians.”

 

(Sidebar: but aren't we a post-national state with no core identity that holds Jew-murder is somehow a Canadian value because Toronto voted for it? Never mind.)


Yes, but this country has let terrorist acts happen before and they may very well happen again.

I think any politician who does NOT fix the things his pretty speeches promise to do should lose his or her pension.

 


When your job is to lie for the unaccomplished and installed son of a former prime minister who helped tank this country economically and politically, at some point even the Netflix masses will call you out:

Canadians rate media as less trustworthy than politicians or police, new Statistics Canada data showed yesterday. Lack of confidence in journalists’ integrity coincided with a $595 million bailout critics warned would fuel public skepticism: “Trust in Canada’s media has never been lower.”

You created this distrust.

Live with it.



Oh, someone from the government was caught in bad deals ... again!:

Dozens of whistleblowers cited instances of unethical federal contracting in the past year, Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic said yesterday. The Ombudsman in his Annual Report to Parliament said complaints of sweetheart contracting were now common: “Questionable federal procurement activities have negatively impacted public trust.”



He struggled to give direct answers - just like his boss:

Minh Doan, chief federal technology officer, yesterday was threatened with contempt of Parliament over evasive testimony regarding the $54 million ArriveCan app. Doan in two hours of cross-examination at the Commons government operations committee “struggled to give direct answers to simple questions,” said one MP: “Nobody believes you.”



"I have every right to screw over the taxpayer!" cries liar:

A Liberal MP accused of giving Opposition benches the finger during a Commons vote upholding the carbon tax complains he was bullied on social media. “I will continue to stand up for what is best for the people in my riding,” said MP Ken McDonald (Avalon, Nfld. and Labrador).



Where is the money, Chrystia?:

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A House of Commons committee is set to question Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland about Canada's dealings with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which has been accused of being under the influence of Beijing. This comes five months after Ms. Freeland's commitment to suspend collaboration with the bank.
MPs voted in favour of an Oct. 23 motion asking the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations to invite the Minister of Finance to appear as a witness in its examination of “Canada’s freeze in government-led activity" with the AIIB, as first reported by Blacklock's Reporter.
Ms. Freeland announced on June 14 that cabinet would "immediately halt all government led-activity" at the Chinese-led bank.
 "I have instructed the Department of Finance to lead an immediate review of the allegations raised and of Canada’s involvement in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank," Freeland said in a statement at the time.
This decision followed the abrupt resignation of Bob Pickard, a Toronto publicist serving as the AIIB's communications chief. In a social media post, Mr. Pickard had described the Bank as a "cesspool" infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
"The Communist Party hacks hold the cards at the Bank. They deal with some board members as useful idiots," Mr. Pickard wrote. "I believe that my Government should not be a member of this PRC [People's Republic of China] instrument. The reality of power in the bank is that it’s CCP from start to finish."
He further raised concerns in a June interview with CBC saying Canada's membership in the AIIB could be seen as an endorsement for the CCP and contributes to the promotion of the authoritarian regime's image.
"I didn't find a single tangible benefit to communicate back home here to Canada of what this bank does that is consistent with our values in a way that would benefit Canadians," he said.
"All we're doing with our membership in this bank is we're making China look good as a country able to do multilateralism. We are effectively supporting the Chinese image campaign to show that they are ready to assume world leadership and, frankly, I don't think that's the country that we should support, especially in the current political environment."



Made-up jobs for useless people still cost the Canadian taxpayer:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office has released two mandate letters for newly created cabinet posts after the summer’s ministerial shuffle but will not be updating the mandates for ministers who have taken over existing portfolios.

New Minister of Citizens’ Services Terry Beech is expected to serve as the government’s “champion for service delivery excellence” and to “develop mitigation plans” to prevent another crisis in Canada’s passport service, according to the mandate letter posted on the prime minister’s website.

New Minister of Sport and Physical Activity Carla Qualtrough’s mandate letter includes a list of commitments that are an almost word-for-word duplicate of the mandate letter for the minister of sport, Pascale St-Onge, from December 2021, with some minor alterations.

Mandate letters outline the objectives and goals that each minister is expected to accomplish, and any other challenges they will have to address in their role. Trudeau promised when first elected to make them public after each cabinet shuffle but has been criticized for not doing it as promptly this time. The two letters were posted on the prime minister’s website last Friday.

 

He was too busy flying off somewhere. 



That is the sound of fear in the collective voice:

The head of CPP Investments says Albertans will only benefit from staying in the Canada Pension Plan, arguing the safety and security of a national plan is “indisputable.”

CEO John Graham, who leads the professional organization that manages the Canada Pension Plan Fund, delivered his pitch to Calgary business leaders at the Alberta Energy and Growth Forum on Tuesday.


I never asked for the CPP.

 

 

That's a very interesting question:

Patrol Officers Question Why Some Accused Officers Receive Association Legal Funding and Others Do Not

Ottawa Police Officers told me that they have questions not only about why their police union refuses to pay Detective Grus’s legal fees, but also about what some called “the secretive process” that results in the Association covering legal fees for some members but not for others.

 

Oh, I think we know why.

 



But don't provide faster access to oncologists, though.

We like to keep the public guessing:

Its lead author, former University of New Brunswick law professor Jula Hughes, says the data from hospital abortions and those at Fredericton's Clinic 554 proves that "hospital access is just slower."


Now, about that:


Why does the NHS believe that it cannot actually physically bar patients from leaving British hospitals?

Or does it just really hate babies?:

This afternoon Lord Justice Peter Jackson of the English Court of Appeal denied the application of Indi’s Italian guardian that the end-of-life case of the eight-month-old baby, who is now a citizen of Italy, be transferred to an Italian judge. He did not support the wishes of the Indi’s parents that the child, who has a rare mitochondrial disease, be cared for by the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome.

Matteo Fraioli of Italy’s Pro Vita e Famiglia (For Life and Family) organization reported that Jackson “harshly” criticized the Italian intervention, saying it was “not in … the spirit” of the Hague Convention for the protection of minors cited.

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Baby Indi Gregory died last night after she was taken off life-support following the order of England’s Court of Appeal

Indi’s father Dean Gregory, who says he is not religious, had her baptized before her death, saying the court ordeal has been like “hell… and I want Indi to go to heaven.” 

After the Court of Appeal rejected the parents’ plea to take Indi home on Friday, November 10, the eight-month-old baby was taken from the Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham to a hospice, where she died at 1.45 a.m. local time on November 13 in the arms of her mother, the Daily Mail reports.

Indi’s father, Dean Gregory, said, “My wife Claire and I are angry, heartbroken, and ashamed.” 

“The NHS [National Health Service] and the courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi’s dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged,” he continued. 

“They managed to take Indi’s body and dignity, but they will never be able to take her soul.” 

 

Thanks for making an incredibly difficult situation even harder, NHS.

Go to hell.



Why, it's like Pope Benedict did a great job:

A comprehensive study polling thousands of Catholic priests found that new clerics identifying as politically "liberal" or theologically "progressive" have "all but vanished" from seminaries in the United States.
The study was produced by The Catholic University of America's "The Catholic Project" and draws on responses from 131 bishops, 3,516 priests and "in-depth interviews of over 100 priests."
"Simply put, the portion of new priests who see themselves as politically 'liberal' or theologically 'progressive' has been steadily declining since the Second Vatican Council and has now all but vanished," the survey reported.


Also - Archbishop Vigano calls out Pope Francis' attendance at the upcoming climate conference:

There is nothing true, good or holy about what will take place in Dubai. There is only yet more evidence that a man dressed as pope is usurping the authority of the Church to support the narrative of a den of God’s subversive enemies to enslave humanity. And instead of proclaiming that the only salvation comes from Our Lord Jesus Christ who became incarnate and died for us, he propagates religious indifferentism and lowers the living and true God to the level of false gods and idols.

 

Considering that even the term "climate change" is subject to revision, how can this junk science be of service to all?

It will only cast the Church in a bad light to embrace something model-makers swear is true. 

 

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What Cardinal Müller said:

It is confusing and harmful when the Magisterium relies on the terminology of a nihilistic and atheistic anthropology and thus seems to lend its untruthful content the status of a legitimate theological opinion in the Church.

“Have you not read,” Jesus says to the Pharisees who wanted to set up a trap for Him, “that in the beginning the Creator created man and woman?” (Mt 19:4) In truth, transsexual or homophile (homoaffective or homosexual) persons do not exist, neither in the order of creaturely nature nor in the grace of the New Covenant in Christ. In the logic of the Creator of man and the world, two sexes are sufficient to ensure the preservation of mankind and to help children flourish and blossom in the family community with their father and mother. As every philosopher and theologian knows, a “person” is a human being in his spiritual and moral individuality, which relates him directly to God, his Creator and Redeemer.

However, every human person exists in the spiritual-bodily nature and concretely either as man or woman through the act of creation in which God created him or her (and in the reciprocal relationship of marriage) in the likeness of His Eternal Goodness and Triune Love. And just as He created them, God will also raise from the dead every human being in his male or female body, without being irritated by those who (for a lot of money) have genitally or hormonally mutilated other people or who – confused by the false propaganda – have voluntarily allowed themselves to be deceived about their male or female identity.

Transhumanism in all its variations is a diabolical fiction and a sin against the personal dignity of human beings, even if in the form of transsexualism and terminologically spruced up as “self-determined gender reassignment.” The doctrine and practice of the Roman Church clearly prescribes: “The harlot, the fornicating man, the one who mutilates himself, and anyone else who does something that is not spoken of (1 Cor 6:6-20) should be rejected [from the catechumenate and baptism]” (Traditio Apostolica 16).

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Even cultural Christianity is a bulwark against destructive ideologies:

So, what changed? Why do I call myself a Christian now?
Part of the answer is global. Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilise a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fibre of the next generation.
We endeavour to fend off these threats with modern, secular tools: military, economic, diplomatic and technological efforts to defeat, bribe, persuade, appease or surveil. And yet, with every round of conflict, we find ourselves losing ground. We are either running out of money, with our national debt in the tens of trillions of dollars, or we are losing our lead in the technological race with China.
But we can’t fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites us? The response that “God is dead!” seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in “the rules-based liberal international order”. The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
What will the post-modern West fall back if the values upon which it was built have been replaced with empty platitudes and frivolities that change from moment to moment? How does one answer against hedonism or Islamism if all one has is a Tik-Tok video? 

 

 

While no one was looking, Russia has been trading with North Korea - again!:

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol slammed the purported illicit arms deal between North Korea and Russia, saying he’ll emphasize its far-reaching security implications and discuss international response during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco this week.

In written responses to questions from The Associated Press ahead of the APEC meeting, Yoon also said that North Korean provocations will invite immediate retaliation by South Korean and U.S. forces. There are concerns that North Korea might miscalculate and make a move against the South while the world is focused on the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.

“An effective way to prevent North Korea from miscalculating is to demonstrate our robust deterrence capabilities and determination towards North Korea based on the solid ROK-U.S. joint defense posture,” Yoon said, using the initials of South Korea’s formal name, the Republic of Korea.

“North Korea’s provocations will not only fail to achieve its intended goal but also result in immediate and strong retaliation from the ROK-U.S. alliance,” he said.

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North Korea has successfully tested new solid-fuel engines for intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM), state-run media said Wednesday, in the nuclear-armed country’s latest development of a weapon capable of stealthily striking Japan.

"At a time when the dynamic struggle is being accelerated to bolster up the country's defense capabilities in every way, the missile industry of the DPRK has developed new-type high-thrust solid-fuel engines for intermediate-range ballistic missile again, which are of important strategic significance,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported.

It said the country had “successfully conducted the first ground jet tests of the first-stage engine and the second-stage engine” on Saturday and Tuesday, respectively.

KCNA also published two photos from the tests, including one with flames and another with a large amount of white smoke billowing out of the engine's nozzle — characteristics typical of a solid-fuel engine.

“The tests provided a sure guarantee for reliably accelerating the development of the new-type IRBM system,” the report added.

Solid-fuel missiles offer significant advantages for North Korea over the liquid-fueled weapons that make up the bulk of Pyongyang’s arsenal. They are easier to deploy and can be fired off quicker, giving the United States and its allies less time for its satellites to spot and take them out.

At a news conference in Tokyo later Wednesday, Japan's top government spokesman voiced concern over North Korea’s continued push to develop a variety of diverse weapons that increasingly put Japan at risk.

“We recognize that North Korea has been developing solid-fuel ballistic missiles from the perspective of improving its surprise strike capability,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said, adding that Pyongyang could continue to engage in further provocations, including missile launches and nuclear tests.

 

 Indeed, Russia isn't the only one who needs the world confused:

Russia, China, and Iran have forged an entente with clear resemblance to the Axis of the mid 20th century. These new revisionist powers share a number of strategic objectives with their historical forerunners. They chafe under the restrictions of an international system that refuses to grant authoritarian states the right to aggrandize themselves at the expense of smaller neighbors. They seek to dominate their regions to ensure their long-term economic control over the world around them, primarily for domestic purposes. And they espouse ideologies — Russian national fascism with its syncretic blend of racial hierarchy and Soviet nostalgia, Iranian Khomeinism with its universalist demands and antisemitism, Chinese totalitarianism with a cult of personality — that are inimical to liberalism, representative government, and prudent and balanced rule.

 

 

Who do you think you are? Canada?:

The Australian Government has recently introduced in Parliament a new law proposal to ban officially unapproved online content. Digital companies are expected to adopt a code of conduct which will see them censor speech based on broad, vague and far-reaching directives.

The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 foreshadows the imposition of a legal obligation on digital platforms to police alleged ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. If that does not work, the law proposal provides for the full empowerment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to directly intervene for the purpose of preventing ‘harm’.

Section 2 of the proposed legislation defines ‘harm’ as follows:

  • (a) hatred against a group in Australian society on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion or physical or mental disability;

  • (b) disruption of public order or society in Australia;

  • (c) harm to the integrity of Australian democratic processes or of Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government institutions;

  • (d) harm to the health of Australians;

  • (e) harm to the Australian environment;

  • (f) economic or financial harm to Australians, the Australian economy or a sector of the Australian economy.

The concept of ‘harm’ peddled by the bill is illusory, and its content would be subjectively determined by a powerful government agency. The definition of what is and what isn’t harm is malleable and can expand and contract depending on ACMA’s prevailing views. Ultimately, any type of speech with which the government is uncomfortable could be deemed ‘harmful’. For example, describing “disrupting social order” as serious harm could be interpreted to stop the organization of legitimate political protests. This could certainly be used to suppress legitimate political speech that should be part of a functioning democracy.

Above all, ACMA would gain sweeping powers to require any person to appear at a time and place of its choosing to answer questions about misinformation or disinformation. These powers include infringement notices, remedial directions, injunctions and civil penalties, including fines of up to AU$550,000 (US$358,000) for individuals and AU$2.75 million for corporations. Criminal penalties, including imprisonment, may also apply in cases of alleged “extreme harm.”

 


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