Rend your hearts, not your garments ...
China has been abusing its people since 1949. The famines, the arrests, the forced abortions, the organ trafficking, the massacre at Tienanmen Square, the aiding and abetting of other regimes in the region, the annexation of countries and the brutal quashing of dissent were not unknown in the West. Indeed, freeing Tibet was trendy at a time.
As the Iron Curtain began to tumble down from years of economic boycott and spiritual revival within its confines, the opportunity of wealth in China afforded no such successful democratic regime change. The lack of will to affect such a change was also ideologically based.
Now we have Western puppets who stand proud against the moral posturing of others who likewise refuse to treat China as they once did the Eastern Bloc and apartheid-ridden South Africa but will satisfactorily imitate concern.
It is no surprise, therefore that Justin, whose love for China's "basic dictatorship" was known and glossed over in 2013, refuses outright to call what is happening to the Uighurs genocide.
(Sidebar: he also did the same to the Yazidis).
Biden, the dribbling, senile idiot, repeated similar fed lines about "different norms" that include rape and imprisonment.
Indeed, Xinhua, the Chinese press, has free reign in the parliamentary gallery.
How was that arranged, I wonder?
Why should he? Like his father, he loves the tyranny of China. he said as much. Now that China nearly owns the globe, why stand in its way?:
The Politburo understands all too well that conceited people think arrangements that flatter and favour them represent the universe unfolding as it should. And it’s easy and comforting to ignore threats. Back in the Cold War, people were forever insisting Leonid Brezhnev or Stalin weren’t communists. Sure, they claimed to be, and imposed communism aggressively wherever possible. But deep down they wanted peace, power, security or any dang thing you could name except communism. Like our Chinese buds.
Unfortunately, Xi Jinping is as communist as Lenin or Mao. General secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Commanding its immense private army and flying a red flag with five yellow stars. Need I go on?
Apparently so. Because if you asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whether Xi was a communist, he wouldn’t admit it. He isn’t given to answering even innocent questions, let alone awkward ones. And I’m not saying they have something on him. He’s a fool on national security, as on economics, our constitutional order and practically anything else you can think of.
Even so, this wilful blindness and misconduct is amazing. If he won’t stop it, we must.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Also - another one of China's vassal states:
A North Korean was captured by South Korean soldiers on a beach in Gangwon Province in the early hours of the morning, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.
The JCS said the man was caught on surveillance camera walking along the beach near the coastal town of Goseong at around 4:20 a.m.
The military dispatched troops to the scene but only captured him three hours later some 8 km south of the border. He seems to have crossed the border by boat.
The man, who is believed to be in his early 20s, told his captors he wanted to defect and is being investigated.
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North Korea has reportedly shortened the mandatory military service in an attempt to free up more young workers for its moribund economy.
The National Intelligence Service here said Tuesday the term for men has been reduced from a staggering 10 years to eight, and from seven years to five for women.
Let's hear about the budget, Chrystia:
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is appealing to the official Opposition Conservatives to hasten passage of a COVID-19 relief bill through the House of Commons.
The appeal is in a letter from Freeland to Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole in which the deputy prime minister says the Tories are dragging their feet on the proposed legislation for no good reason.
Also - one doesn't really think that Justin will hand over that money, do they?:
The federal government owes Canadian families in three provinces more than $200 million after underestimating how much it would raise from the carbon tax during the first year of the program.
Do not be mistaken. It was never about controlling gun crime:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is launching the long-promised buyback program for what he has described as “assault” or “assault-style” firearms.
The buyback program is part of a suite of new gun control measures promised by the federal Liberals in the 2019 election campaign, and follows the announcement of an executive order last May that changed the classification listings to prohibit roughly 1,500 “assault-style” weapons.
While terms like “assault-style” and “assault rifle” are not legal classifications in Canada, they are frequently used colloquially by gun control advocates and the government to describe the type of high-capacity, quick-fire guns targeted by the ban.
Automatic firearms are already prohibited in Canada, as are high-capacity magazines.
The Department of Health in three weeks of spot checks found $1,440,000 in counterfeit medical products, records show. The Canada Border Services Agency said it also intercepted shipments of fake pandemic masks from five countries: “They should start going after the people importing this.”
Also:
Federal failures to properly stock medical supplies prior to the pandemic were a “significant error,” the Canadian Public Health Association said yesterday. Managers of the national stockpile were so short of goods they recommended nurses wear aprons due to lack of medical gowns: “We are facing a real crunch.”
Indeed.
When former health minister Leona Aglukkaq heard that the once-hefty stockpile of masks and other equipment was gone, she was "disturbed".
The blame game is in progress but the truth of it is that the Vichy puppet regime that has been in place since 2016 alone is to blame for every single mess that has gone on since.
That and the people who voted for them. Once cannot forget their valuable silence and gaping maws for free vittles.
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Born in secrecy, rife with conflict of interest, the task force that guided Ottawa in its stumbling effort to procure COVID-19 vaccine should be heavily revamped or disbanded entirely, expert witnesses argued Tuesday in a blunt dissection of Canada’s vaccine “disaster.”
The federal government was also weeks too late in negotiating contracts with leading vaccine candidates, unwisely sidelined Health Canada and went on a panicked, largely ineffective buying spree when reality sunk in, health policy critics charged before the House of Commons industry committee.
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Remember that Patty Hajdu is a graphic arts designer:
Federal ministers Dominic LeBlanc, Anita Anand, and Patty Hajdu announced new measures to be implemented at the border starting later in February.
The new measures, which the Trudeau Liberals say come in response to concerns around variants of the COVID-19 virus, will be implemented throughout various days in the next month.
One eyewitness says greeting the party-crashers, was Brampton, Ont., MP Raj Grewal and at least one of his assistants.
The eyewitness, who was near the front of the line and knows Grewal by sight, said the MP was arguing with an RCMP officer, who grew visibly upset as Grewal apparently insisted the men be let in.
Yep:
Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal is slated for a trial later this year on charges of fraud and breach of trust related to his time in office.
Grewal is scheduled to go before an Ontario judge in an eight-week criminal trial starting Oct. 18.
There will be no election. There is no need for one. There is certainly no need to finesse the electorate into voting for more beer and Netflix:
The federal Leaders’ Debates Commission yesterday said it is hiring a TV producer in anticipation of a snap election call. The Commission said more than two debates may be held, but did not comment on its censure by a federal judge for running a media blacklist: “They botched it.”
Ongoing legal expenses from Julie Payette’s brief term as Governor General have cost taxpayers a quarter million, according to accounts. Payette abruptly resigned January 21 following complaints of workplace harassment: “Participants used the expressions ‘climate or reign of fear or terror.’”
The lady doth protest too much:
An increasing number of woke teachers are refusing to study the Bard — accusing his classic works of promoting “misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.”
(Sidebar: is that a thing?)
A slew of English literature teachers told the School Library Journal (SLJ) how they were ditching the likes of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet” to instead “make room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices.”
“Shakespeare was a tool used to ‘civilize’ Black and brown people in England’s empire,” insisted Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson, a professor of English at Arizona State University.
Teachers also need to “challenge the whiteness” of the assumption that Shakespeare’s works are “universal,” insisted Jeffrey Austin, who is head of a Michigan high school’s English literature department.
I think one needs to look beyond the obvious distraction of race and see that this is no more than effort to rid curricula of things union schlubs masquerading as teachers didn't study themselves.
Yes, I believe that has been done before, despite the monopoly and the power of pity:
Conservatives and centrists need to take a lesson from Gina Carano and Dave Chappelle: stop whining and complaining about liberal hypocrisy and cancel culture. Get out there, build something of your own and remember who your real boss is: the people.
Big Tech is biased against centrists and conservatives. No denying that. Universities, multinational corporations and mainstream media are biased, too. It’s unfair, and governments should hold elites accountable by protecting everyone’s constitutional rights, free market competition and employment standards. ...
Carano could have spent weeks, months even, crying about Disney’s double standard. Instead, she fought back against cancel culture by finding allies elsewhere. Just days after losing her job, Carano announced that she’ll be starring in, and producing, a new movie project with the Daily Wire, a conservative media company co-founded by Ben Shapiro. In Shapiro, Carano has found a business partner who shares her conservative politics and is determined to offer conservative-friendly entertainment alternatives to the hyper-liberal content churned out by most of Hollywood.
When building new institutions, uncertainty is a given. These are entrepreneurial — and therefore risky — endeavours. Success is most likely to be realized by institution-builders whose dreams are fortified by popular support.
Comedian Dave Chappelle relied on popular support in his own battles with liberal hypocrisy. Last year, while ViacomCBS was boasting about its commitment to “amplify the voices of Black communities,” the media conglomerate sold the streaming rights to episodes of “The Chappelle Show” without paying Chappelle a dime.
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Chappelle could have spent months whining about how ridiculous it is for a multinational corporation to pat itself on the back for caring about “social justice” and “inclusion,” while denying a Black comedian the chance to earn money from the licensing of his own work. But whine he did not. Instead, Chappelle pleaded with his fans to use their power as consumers to stop streaming his show, until he was shown the respect he deserved. And it worked.
“The Chappelle Show” is back on streaming platforms this month, and this time Chappelle is getting paid millions of dollars. He thanked his audience last week while performing in Austin. “I never asked (ViacomCBS’) Comedy Central for anything. If you remember, I said, ‘I’m going to my real boss,’ and I came to you (the people), because I know where my power lies,” he said. “I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did.”
Escaping the spectre of liberal hypocrisy and cancel culture won’t be easy, but it’s significantly easier when the people have your back. Conservatives and centrists should be as entrepreneurial as Carano and as humble as Chappelle. Stand tall.
If one was shooting fourteen students each day, someone would notice.
But this act goes unnoticed every single day and is defended (and, according to the comments below, seen as hilarious).
It is not Derek Sloan's refusal to defend the morally indefensible that is the problem but the oft-repeated nonsense that supporting an allegedly fiscally conservative candidate will bring about change in a country that is not just morally and culturally rotted but longs for the crushing weight of taxes that do nothing but line the coffers of the politically connected:
As we emerge from a once in a generation crisis, our biggest challenges are ripe for socially conservative solutions. According to the Brookings Institute, already dropping fertility rates in the United States are being exacerbated by a COVID-19-related baby bust, with families delaying or opting not to have children at all due to precarious financial situations. We can assume the same is true for struggling Canadian families. Under government-mandated isolation, we are growing more atomized, separated from our families, our friends and our community institutions. Places of worship, already suffering from public indifference, have been left empty and the less fortunate among us, those who most need our help, are struggling as jobs are lost, mental health supports fall short and opioid addiction reaches an all-time high.
Canada’s social conservatives have a unique opportunity to present solutions to increase birth rates and strengthen and support families and community institutions. Instead, a few malcontents are fighting intra-party battles under the social conservative banner, trying to embarrass our leadership and losing touch with the dire needs of struggling Canadians.
Does anyone really think that people would be open to having children if they had a few more bucks in their wallets (if there were bucks to be had)?
Children, like the elderly and disabled, are nuisances we pass laws to rid ourselves of.
Finances are incidental. A culture that has consistently devalued the human person and personal responsibility is the start and finisher of the rot.
The number of occupied ICU beds with ventilators has fallen from 90 per cent in New Delhi in November to just 16 per cent last week. But given that vaccine programs in India were launched only in January, vaccinations have been ruled out as a possible explanation.
One intriguing possibility explaining the decline is that some large areas have developed herd immunity — the threshold at which enough people have developed immunity to the virus, by falling sick or being vaccinated, that the spread begins to slacken, Vineeta Bal of India’s National Institute of Immunology, told the AP.
But India seems to be far from reaching herd immunity, with some 20 per cent of Indians having contracted COVID-19. That’s well below the 70 per cent minimum that experts believe could be the threshold.
Complicating a resolution is the emergence of new strains of the virus. Several have appeared in India, including some that have been blamed for causing new infections in people who already had an earlier version, a situation similar to the one in Manaus, Brazil. There, a recent survey estimated that more than 75 per cent of people had antibodies for the virus in October, but then the city experienced an even larger case count in January.
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Nearly half of India’s current cases are in the southern state of Kerala, which had been lauded as a model for tackling the virus. It is believed a more contagious version of the virus could be at play, and efforts to sequence its genome are ongoing.
“The message is that a large proportion of the population remains vulnerable,” Dr. Balram Bhargava, who heads India’s premier medical research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research, told the AP.
“If the COVID virus can be controlled in the nose and throat, before it reaches the lungs, it doesn’t become as serious. Innate immunity works at this level, by trying to reduce the viral infection and stop it from getting to the lungs,” said Jameel, of Ashoka University.
Also - why am I detecting a faint whiff of Andrew Cuomo here?:
Public hearings on what unfolded at the Residence Herron will be postponed until September as part of a wider coroner’s inquest into coronavirus-related deaths at long-term care homes in Quebec.
Coroner Géhane Kamel announced her decision Tuesday morning to delay the hearings on the long-term care home (CHSLD) in Dorval. The Herron was one of the hardest-hit facilities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and where more than 40 people died.
(Sidebar: this.)
And:
What do we know about the new TYPE of vaccine being given?
Pfizer and Moderna were the first COVID-19 vaccines to be approved. Both use a new technology called mRNA vaccine, which has never been broadly given to a human population to prevent any disease.
Let that sink in for a moment.
All previous vaccines take a weakened virus or a piece of the virus and inject it into humans to induce an immune response sufficient to prevent a disease. Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines inject mRNA, which is a protein code that instructs the body to make a part of COVID-19’s spike protein that will then induce an immune response.
Our bodies daily use our own mRNA to carry instructions from DNA to make various proteins the body uses. While this new vaccine science sounds intriguing, it has never been tried in humans in this scope. It may be a breathtaking scientific advancement heralding a new path for all vaccines. It may also be less effective or have currently unknown side effects.
Is the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 safe?
So far, the limited study of the vaccines approved for emergency use (one major study for each vaccine approved) has shown some short-term side effects. The vaccine is a two-shot series and side effects were prominent after the second shot. Side effects were more common if the recipient was younger than 65 years old.
Damage caused by the earthquake in northeast Japan.
As millions of people across Texas struggled to stay warm Tuesday amid massive cold-weather power outages, Republican Governor Greg Abbott directed his ire at one particular failure in the state’s independent energy grid: frozen wind turbines.
“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” Abbott said to host Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis … It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary.”
If people feel that Governor Abbot is mistaken in his conclusion, they are welcome to rig up up their own wind turbine in minus twenty weather.
Iran said on Monday it will block snap inspections by the U.N. nuclear watchdog from next week if other parties to the 2015 nuclear deal do not uphold their obligations, a challenge to U.S. President Joe Biden's hope of reviving the accord.
"If others do not fulfil their obligations by Feb. 21, the government is obliged to suspend the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol," Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
"It does not mean ending all inspections by the U.N. nuclear watchdog...All these steps are reversible if the other party changes its path and honours its obligations," he said, alluding to the United States.
Hollywood actor and liberal activist Sean Penn was ridiculed on social media after he appeared to assume evangelical Protestants are led by the Vatican, and referred to Satan as “Satin.”“Evangelical leaders should themselves be impeached by the Vatican if they themselves don’t follow Nikki Haley’s lead & clearly state they should not have followed Satin into the bowels of hell. But, perhaps they are too busy at sex parties,”tweeted Penn on Saturday, seemingly frustrated at the lack of evangelical leaders who have condemned former President Donald Trump since his second impeachment trial – in which, like the first, he was acquitted.
Americans – evangelical, Catholic, and atheist – were quick to point out, however, that evangelical Protestants are not a part of the Catholic Church and have not been aligned with the Vatican since the 16th-century Reformation.
(Sidebar: praising velour or flannel would be absurd at this point.)
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
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