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The entire government is a crime syndicate:
Convicted felons cannot remain on the government payroll while in federal prison. The labour board finding came in the case of a Parks Canada employee fired after he was sent to the penitentiary: “Integrity is a legitimate concern.”
As part of China's push towards data-driven governance, the Corporate Social Credit System (CSCS) is to be a single, standardized reputation-based scheme for both local and foreign firms doing business in China, ensuring their regulatory compliance and improving their corporate behaviour. Although delayed due to slow regional implementation, standardizing best practices and evaluation criteria, and shifted priorities from the Covid-19 pandemic, China seeks to speed up completion of its ambitious credit monitoring system with the recent release of numerous regulations and policies.
While the CSCS has, the potential to level-the-playing-field for local and foreign firms alike, compliance for foreign firms may be more complex and costly. Resultantly, businesses must be prepared to navigate inconsistent regulatory systems with caution, as China can easily change their regulatory and compliance postures towards specific industries with limited notice.
But I thought that they were all brothers:
Powerful Arab nations on Saturday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League released a joint statement rejecting any plans to move Palestinians out of their territories in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Trump floated the idea last month, saying he would urge the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to take in Gaza’s now largely homeless population, so that “we just clean out that whole thing.” He added that resettling most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million could be temporary or long term. Some Israel officials had raised the transfer idea early in the war.
Look how they treat the Christians:
In Pakistan, blasphemy laws carry a death sentence. These notorious statutes are often used abusively for settling personal scores, making personal gains or for satisfying grudges that one neighbor may have against another.
The country’s blasphemy laws are also used to target minority groups, and Christians are disproportionately affected. Indeed, roughly a quarter of all blasphemy accusations target Christians. Business rivals accuse Christian men of blasphemy as a means of destroying their business and reputation.
In 2020, a Christian man was sentenced to death for having allegedly sent “blasphemous” text messages to his former supervisor. He has been held in custody since 2013.
While the death sentence is seldom carried out, people accused of blasphemy are vulnerable to attack or murder by rampaging Muslim mobs. In June 2024, for instance, an elderly man was killed by mob violence after being accused of desecrating the Quran.
In its 2024 report, the human rights organization Open Doors found that anti-Christian violence in Pakistan has been at the maximum possible level for many years. Violence against Christians does not only include widely publicized attacks against the Christian community, such as in the city of Jaranwala in August 2023, but also small-scale, localized, and increasingly persistent killings and attacks on Christians and churches, often spurred on by the country’s notorious blasphemy laws, which have been expanded in scope and punishment.
Christians in Pakistan are more frequently arrested and charged than acquitted, and although not all situations are linked with blasphemy accusations, those are the most prominent examples.
In 2023, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed legislation that increased punishment for some forms of blasphemy by raising the penalties from three years to no fewer than 10 years for insulting the companions, wives, and family members of Islam’s founder, Muhammad. The widening of the scope of blasphemy laws and the increase in penalties on conviction demonstrate the level of importance that politics and society attach to this topic.
All of this, in turn, is further encouraging vigilante attacks on Christians. In the Jaranwala incident, after false blasphemy allegations were made against two Christians, up to 26 churches were burned or damaged and hundreds of Christians fled their homes.
Teresa “Milo” Conseulo Youngblut, a female student at the University of Washington who identifies as transgender, is accused in the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, an Air Force veteran, on the side of a highway near the Canadian border on Jan. 20. Agents returned fire, killing Youngblut’s companion, German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt, a man who identified as a woman.
While investigating Youngblut and Bauckholt’s Toyota Prius, authorities found ammunition clips, a ballistic helmet, hollow-point ammo, lodging information, night-vision goggles, pistols, radios, and “a dozen electronic devices, some of which were wrapped in foil,” according to the New York Post.
The vehicle had North Carolina plates. Youngblut and Bauckholt had previously lived in the same North Carolina neighborhood, according to KRON 4. “The thing that struck me the most was that there was a stretcher in the living room,” the owner of Bauckholt’s former unit told the local outlet. “The hair on the back of my neck is still up.”
The suspects’ guns had been purchased by a “person of interest” in unsolved murders — Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, who identifies as “trans” and “nonbinary,” according to the Post. Zajko’s parents, Rita and Richard, were mysteriously killed in Pennsylvania two years ago.
Zajko had purchased land in Vermont close to the deadly shooting, and has connections to a cult led by a man named Jack LaSota, who claims to be a woman and has gone by the nickname “Ziz” as well as the name Andrea Phelps. The Newport Dispatch, an independent local outlet, reported that Bauckholt became involved with the “Zizians” in 2023. Youngblut’s parents had reported her missing in May last year, telling police they lost contact and that she was in a controlling relationship.
Youngblut had filed a marriage application in November with 22-year-old Maximilian Bentley Snyder, who graduated from the same high school and went by “any pronouns,” according to The New York Post. According to ABC 7, police arrested him on Jan. 17 for murdering 82-year-old Curtis Lind in Vallejo, Calif. Lind was slated to testify against “Zizians” who allegedly attacked him in 2022, Ngo reported.
“Three young adults” had attacked Lind, on whose Vallejo property they were squatting, on Nov. 13, 2022, according to a GoFundMe set up for the victim’s family. Lind shot and killed one of the assailants. “He miraculously survived being stabbed multiple times, had a sword impaled through his chest and ultimately lost his right eye,” the GoFundMe post said.
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