Links - 14th April 2025 (2 - Palestine/Middle East Peace [including Syria Genocide])

Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ on X - "Bangladesh is being overrun by Islamists attacking non muslims, and the world stays silent.   Syria is overrun by Islamists slaughtering minorities, and the world stays silent.   Yemen is overrun by Islamists starving and killing thousands, and the world stays silent.   Sudan and murder is and Congo and North Africa is overrun by Islamists massacring Christians and other minorities, and the world stays silent.   Turkey is massacring Kurds and occupying yours for decades, and the world stays silent.   The Islamists of Hamas are killing their own people and stealing all the aid, and the world stays silent.   Islamists are overrunning Western Europe and raping and stabbing and crashing cars into the indigenous Europeans, and the world and their own European governments stay silent.   Do you notice a pattern?  But go on… blame it on the Joooos🙄"

Insurrection Barbie on X - "Tulsi Gabbard said Assad was the only thing standing in the way of the total erasure of Christians in the Middle East and the media called her a Russian asset. The media kept telling us these rebels were moderate. The EU gave them 300 million dollars. Biden took one of their  leaders off of the terrorist most wanted list.   They were all dead wrong."

Michael Knowles on X - "Can someone explain to me why we're supposed to celebrate Bashar al-Assad's replacement by a member of al-Qaeda?"

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "It didn’t take a week after the UN met and shook hands with the Islamist leader of Syria, al-Joulani, for the massacre of Syrian Christians and other minorities to start. This is what happens when you legitimize terrorism. The UN is a useless organization."

Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ on X - "A Sunni Muslim Syrian man boasting about slaughtering 9,000 Alawites for those they deem their ideological enemies. He’s openly claiming and celebrating the fact that 9000 people have been slaughtered in just two days. Now talk to me about a fucking genocide 🤬"

Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ on X - "🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 One of Abu Mohammad al-Julani's jihadists announces over the radio to his subordinates: "Do not leave a single member of the Alawite sect alive. You must slaughter all the pigs. The most honorable person among the Alawites – slaughter him as well. Leave neither young nor old... Slaughter them all. None of them deserve to live in safety. Where is their security? Take them to the middle of the sea, where they will be safe—among the fish... Go ahead! Good luck!""
Gad Saad on X - "I can confirm that the translation is correct given that Arabic is my mother tongue. I can't believe that the guy uttering these words is a Zionist pretending to be a Noble Muslim."

Kosher🎗🧡 on X - "This isn’t Gaza. This isn’t Judea and Samaria. This is Syria. Last night. Arabs murdering others Arabs, depending on what type of Arab they are. Why isn’t this all over mainstream media? Oh right yeah, because they can’t twist it and blame the Jews."

Dries Van Langenhove on X - "The genocide of ethnic and religious minorities in Syria escalates even further, while the European Union praises the jihadi HTS-regime.  The Belgian government even turned reality completely upside down and said that “now that Assad is gone, there is finally hope that minorities will be safe” 🤡  Warning: very violent videos of mass murders in this thread."

John Hasson on X - "I’m old enough to remember when @JDVance predicted that the new Syrian regime would slaughter Christians—and @joshrogin said he was wrong because Josh interviewed the Bishop of Aleppo (the Islamic Syrian regime is slaughtering Christians now)"

Kosher🎗🧡 on X - "This man is arguing that “Palestine” is losing the war because there are too many LGBTQ+ people who support Palestine and Allah doesn't approve."
This doesn't stop left wingers from celebrating Palestine because of "solidarity". But of course, they will still mock other people for leopards supposedly eating their faces or allegedly voting against their interests, because only left wingers can have principles

Thread by @hearnimator on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A Jewish patient had pro-Palestine stickers plastered across his room as he lay fighting for his life. Another was told: “Get your Jewish ambulance to come and get you”  Therapists complaining about a colleague posting support for Hamas were accused of “micro-aggressions” 👇 The patient whose room was stickered said “I think it was quite clear that this was a sticker that said I’m Jewish.” Sounds like a yellow star.  A Jewish doctor was given a hijab as a secret santa present. Systemic racism, exposed by @theousherwood @CST_UK"
Antisemitic abuse rises within NHS and staff are the ‘worst culprits’ - "NHS staff are more likely than members of the public to perpetrate antisemitic abuse in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries since the October 7 Hamas attacks, according to complaints compiled by an influential charity... Neil, a man in his sixties admitted to a hospital in Greater London, said that he had been ignored as he called for help from his hospital bed only to find “Boycott Israeli Apartheid” stickers on the window to his room and on the headboard of his bed... Jewish doctors have also told of a “culture of fear” and “toxic atmosphere” since October 7. One woman GP said: “Jewish staff are called baby killers and guilty of genocide and other hateful, untrue slurs. There is a silent campaign to intimidate by lecturers and senior staff wearing keffiyehs [the black and white Palestinian scarf] and Free Palestine badges to work.”"
Diversity is the NHS's strength

Meme - 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ @NiohBerg: "He was 17 and beat a man to death with a shovel."
Osama Abu Rabee: "Arrested as a child and returned to his mother with gray hair... Gaza's longest-serving prisoner, Diaa Al-Agha, embraces his mother after 33 years in captivity."

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi: “As a brown Muslim woman I find it deeply disturbing for a white male education minister to criticise an Arab academic for supporting Hamas.” She moved to Australia at the age of 30 from one of the most racist and sectarian societies on Earth (Pakistan) and now spends all her time lecturing us about how evil and racist we are - while trying to impose the sectarian principles of her previous society on us."
Criticising Islamist terrorists is Islamophobic. Does this mean that Islam is inherently linked to terrorism? Isn't that Islamophobic?

Thread by @habibi_uk on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Imagine an NHS doctor spotted with known extremists, shouting “we don’t want Muslims here!”. He might not last long in the NHS.  Now reality. See Abed Alfarra, a Leeds NHS doctor, with Leeds hate marchers, shouting “we don’t want no Zionists here!”. (From 0:12.)  He has form.
Here he is at another “Palestine Solidarity Campaign” Leeds protest. Another one who would be at home in the KKK. “Zionists control the media, Zionists control the world!"  But not Gaza. It is “the home of liberation for the entire world”.  He went on to add a Holocaust slur. Well, he is very fond of Nazi abuse. Here a few more examples.  Really, Israel is *worse* than the Nazis, you know.  While the Prime Minister “prioritises Zionism above his ministerial duties to Britain” (get that hood on).
So who does he like? Hamas. In the video in the first image, people make the triangle gesture, a symbol of support for the terrorists. “You will be the past.”  Why, Hamas are “people who, while defending their land and beliefs, never abandon their humanity”.  "Elegant death". Back to nefarious Zionists. Those puppet masters. America is Israel’s dog. Yes, they have Elon Musk too. The Rothschilds control the world’s money, you know. They even start riots in the UK! (The “just asking questions” mode of conspiracy theorists.)
“Terrify the enemy of Allah.”  There’s more, but the picture is clear enough with these stories alone.  Why should we have any confidence in the NHS? It teems with extremists."

Philippe Lazzarini on X - "I am relieved about the release of hostages, including that of Ms. Damari & I hope all others will also soon return safely to their families.   Claims that hostages have been held in UNRWA premises are deeply disturbing & shocking. We take any such allegations extremely seriously.  We have repeatedly called for independent investigations into any credible claims of misuse & disregard of UN premises by Palestinian armed militants, including Hamas.   UNRWA was forced to vacate all its installations in the north of Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, on 13 October 2023 & has, since then, had no control over them.   The same happened whenever a military evacuation order was given during the last 15 months in other locations of the Gaza Strip.  UNRWA has not been involved in any negotiation related to hostage release as it is not within its mandate.   I repeat our call for the immediate release & safe return of all hostages."
Hillel Neuer on X - "UNRWA CHIEF “SHOCKED”: Lying Lazzarini says he's “shocked” hostages were held in UNRWA premises. Same guy who did nothing when he was sent this list of 100 Hamas terrorists on his UNRWA payroll:"

Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Disgusting: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting “The First Intifada and Mass Organizing," in which the flyer says attendees will be taught how to stab.  Columbia University is nothing more than a cesspool of extremism. They should be shut down."
"Want to learn how to un-live Jews? head to St Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem NYC, this weekend!
THE FIRST INTIFADA AND MASS ORGANIZING
TEACH-IN + FUNDRAISER"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: At King's College, a conversation meant to create understanding between Israelis and Iranians was hijacked by a group of radical Palestinian supporters who shut down the event. This is the most anti-peace and radical ideology in the world."

Imtiaz Mahmood on X - ""French journalist Jean Quatremer recalls:   "Between 1948 and 1967, Jordan annexed the West Bank, and Gaza was part of Egypt. During those years, Arab countries didn’t want to establish a Palestinian state in that region.”  But now they’re all so passionate about “Palestine”. Why’s that?   The issue is not “Palestine”; it is Jew-hatred. Islamists, right-wingers, left-wingers… all of those who have a problem with the fact that Jews finally have a country. They are, in fact, the problem.   “Palestinians” are their pretext and cover. The human shields Hamas used against the Jews.   Their obsessive, genocidal hatred of Jews is the essential reason determining the perpetual war between Israel and the “Palestinians” of Gaza."  - Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_"

Oli London on X - "Georgetown University set to host evening with Palestinian TERRORIST who blew up a 17 year old Israeli teen. In 2019, Ribhi Karajh carried out a terror attack using an explosive which killed 17 year old Rina Shnerb (pictured below) and injured her father and brother.  Georgetown Law will host the terrorist who they describe as a ‘student activist & former prisoner’ next week."

Jeffrey Zimmerman on X - "You stupid stupid woman @billieeilish the red pin you are wearing is the same as if you were wearing a noose pin in front of African Americans. It symbolizes the lynching of Israelis by “Palestinian” savages."
Christina Hoff Sommers on X - "On 10/12/2000, two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn &entered Palestinian-controlled area. At police station,they were torn limb from limb by a savage Palestinian mob. One killer waved his blood-soaked hands from window to delirious crowd outside. Ethically-challenged @BillieEilish  chose to honor this lynching with pin bearing bloody hand. #depraved"

Meme - Hamas member: "Rape The Jews"
Soyjak: *smug*
Hamas member: "Beat the Jews"
Soyjak: *smug*
Hamas member: "Kill the Jews."
Soyjak: *smug*
Tony Hinchcliffe: "Puerto Rico's a floating island of garbage"
Soyjak: *super upset*

Meme - "MASKS NO LONGER WORK !
ISABELLA GUISTI. OFFENSE: DISRUPTION OF A COLLEGE CLASS ON ISRAEL AND HARASSMENT OF JEWISH STUDENTS WITH ANTISEMITIC POSTERS
melissaschapman: "BREAKING: @terrorwatch613 has discovered that one of the four students who violently stormed the class of Jews at Columbia is Isabella Guisti. This is the same girl who held a sign reading "Al-Qassam's [Hamas] next targets" with an arrow pointing at Jewish students.""

Chris Rose on X - "Just listen to the abuse a female farmer in London received today from unhinged Palestine protesters: "F**k off back to the racist farmers” “F**k off back to the EDL" Since when was caring about the livelihoods of farmers, which we rely on, “racist”?"

Meme - 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ @NiohBerg: "This photo was taken in Lebanon.  This woman was part of an invading 'Palestinian' army massacring native Maronite Christians."
Noctis Draven: "Palestine has been fighting for freedom for many, many years. It began long before October 7th."
"Palestinian fighter 1976 *Woman in keffiyeh with rifle running*"

Meme - SRS-One @jemmaisOKeh: "One group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misiniformation. they have houses w addresses, kids in school. they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more"
Terrorism supporters keep claiming that it's okay to hate "Zionists" because it's not racial or religious (of course, criticising Islamists is Islamophobic). But they never say just why directing death threats at people is acceptable

King Crocoduck, Gigazionist on X - "Every time a pro-Palestinian is presented with undisputable evidence that their side is in the wrong, their default rhetorical flourish is to derail the conversation with "aNd yOu tHiNk tHaT jUsTiFiEs GeNoCiDe??!!" Some examples:
1. Pro-Pali: "The reason for Palestinian resistance against Israel is because of the Nakba"
Me: "Palestinians have been murdering Jews en masse without provocation since at least 1920, which was 28 years before the Nakba. They ethically cleansed Hebron of its Jews 10 years later for expressly religious reasons, so you're wrong about the causes of this conflict.
Pro-Pali: "aNd yOu tHiNk tHaT jUsTiFiEs GeNoCiDe??!!"
2. Pro-Pali: "Gaza isn't getting enough water! Why is Israel denying Gaza access to basic survival necessities?"
Me: "Actually here's a video Palestinians themselves posted explaining how they dig water pipes gifted to them by the international community out from the ground to make rockets, which they shoot at Israel."
Pro-Pali: "aNd yOu tHiNk tHaT jUsTiFiEs GeNoCiDe??!!"
3. Pro-Pali: "Israel revels in the deaths of Palestinian children."
Me: "Here's a dead baby festival the Palestinians just threw, where they jeered and played upbeat music while triumphantly parading the corpses of Jewish babies. The Jews have never done anything remotely like this to Palestinians."
Pro-Pali: "aNd yOu tHiNk tHaT jUsTiFiEs GeNoCiDe??!!""

Eyal Yakoby on X - "In 2015, Hamas denied that they are holding Avraham Mengistu. Today, after a decade, he was released. Remember, “Palestine” lies."
Palestinians deny they are holding Israeli captive in Gaza
A decade of 'unimaginable suffering:' Relief as Avera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed freed
Of course, the "anti-Zionists" always just pretend that it's Israel which is lying

Marc Zell on X - "I live in Judea and Samaria surrounded by Palestinian Arab towns.  They pay no income tax.  They build hundreds of multi family buildings which are entirely empty just to make it appear that there is a large population.  They get billions of dollars from foreign governments other than the US.  Their leaders pocket much of this foreign aid and stash it away in foreign  banks.  And they pay millions of dollars to terrorists and their families for killing Israelis and Jews. In short, they have more than enough resources to fix their allegedly malfunctioning water pipes.  This is the true face of Palestinian Arab nationalism.  It’s essentially one enormous scam.  And I haven’t yet said a word about Gaza."

leekern on X - "There is no culture on earth more evil than Palestinian culture.  All it has brought to the world is suicide bombing, plane hijackings, car rammings, mass stabbings, terror tunnels, raping women and kidnapping babies.  Absolute filth of a culture.  They hand out sweets when children are murdered.  They came out in huge numbers to spit on rape victims in the back of trucks.  They dress their children up in pretend suicide vests.  Their culture really is an abomination and a glimpse into evil"

Meme - eigenrobot @eigenrobot: "this explains a lot about what's going on, for those of you paying attention"
"i am asserting the humanity of the gazans, not their inhumanity"
"you make fun of gazans because you hate the sons of the sea peoples i make fun of the gazans because people around us are imbuing them with an ersatz sacredness that does not befit humans and i am drawing attention to that idolatry and denying it by refusing to take it seriously"

Meme - Netanel Azulay 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱 @Azulay_the_gay: "Pro-Palestinians are the most uneducated people in the world."
Cheery Cherry Boom Boom @babylonh...: "Whatever. Your day will come soon and you will move back to Europe"
Netanel Azulay @Azulay the_gay: "Europe? My grandparents fled Morocco after Muslims stole their property and threatened them, just like half of the Jews living in Israel who are not from Europe but were expelled from Arab countries through ethnic cleansing and came to Israel to build a state and protect themselves. I was born in Israel; this is my home."
Emma @Ella08022: "Im sure they support immigration to Europe from Muslim countries tho. Hypocrites."

Kosher🎗🧡 on X - "Palestinians 🇵🇸
They entered Lebanon and caused a civil war and the spread of weapons and chaos to this day  They entered Jordan and attempted to overthrow the King of Jordan in what was called "Black September."  They entered Syriaand killed the Syrian people and dug tunnels in the Syrian city of Ghouta.  They entered Egypt and killed the Egyptian soldiers and slaughtered them in the Sinai desert  They entered Kuwait for work, and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, they stood with Saddam Hussein against Kuwait, which received them.  They entered Iraq and became suicide bombers, exploding in popular markets in Baghdad.  They entered Europe as refugees, and today they are demonstrating in the streets and waging chaos and violence against the country's residents.  They entered America as “refugees” the celebrated 9/11  They entered Israel to work, and they helped plan and map out what we witnessed on October 7th.  And you wonder why no countries want to take them in 🤷🏻‍♂️"
Actually, Western countries want to take them in, because of suicidal empathy

The Missing Data Depot on X - "A 2023 survey of students at 254 universities found large religious differences in tolerance. While ~60% of Jewish students said a Pro-Palestinian student group should be allowed on campus, ~25% of Muslim students said a Pro-Israeli student group should be allowed on campus."
Why are "Zionists" so intolerant and hateful? They need to be deported!

Meme - "TRANSWOMEN ARE MALE-BORN MALE-BODIED BIOLOGICAL XY..."
"JUST SAY MEN"
"WHAT?"
"CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE. MEN."
"ANY WAY. DOWN WITH ISRAEL! DOWN WITH GENOCIDAL ZIONIST PSYCHOPATHS!"
"JUST SAY JEWS"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: According to a new investigation, Hamas hired a senior Al Jazeera staffer to help produce the propagandized events of the returning hostages to Israel. Al Jazeera is literally the PR wing of Hamas."

Meme - Adam Ma’anit 🎗️ @adammaanit: "Hamas murdered two of my teen cousins - one by a suicide bombing of an Arab-Israeli run restaurant, the other with a bullet to the head in her own home – they live-streamed my family’s horror and then took my cousin Tsachi hostage after murdering his first born in front of him."
susan abulhawa: "If Hamas had an army, it would be the most moral army in the world"

Meme - Kosher🎗🧡 @koshercockney: "Don’t try and fool us with this “journalist” bullshit any more."
*Smiling young man with Hamas terrorist flashing peace sign*
*Smirking young man with 'press' label*

Hamas-linked organization CAIR Inc. won’t reveal where their funding is coming from - "A Washington-based Muslim nonprofit, which is one of the largest operating across the US, agreed this week to settle a case brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding, The Post has learned.   Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.   CAIR Inc. settled with Lori Saroya Thursday, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of the former Minnesota chapter leader’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group...   Lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into the nonprofit, which took in more than $5.3 million in contributions and grants in 2022, the last year for which public filings are available.   “CAIR’s leadership has a long history of spewing vile antisemitism and anti-Zionist rhetoric, including openly praising the Hamas terrorists that brutally attacked Israel, murdering, raping, and kidnapping more than 1,200 people on October. 7 [2023],” said Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic Congressman from New Jersey...   CAIR, which was founded in 1993, was linked to Hamas in 2008 when US authorities successfully prosecuted five leaders at the Holy Land Foundation For Relief and Development, a now-defunct Texas-based nonprofit, for giving more than $12 million from the US to the terror group...   CAIR is the now the largest Muslim civil rights group in the country, and includes 33 chapters, including two in California.    Following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas strike on Israel that left 1,200 Israelis dead, CAIR’s executive director and co-founder Nihad Awad was seen on a video celebrating the attack"

Exclusive | Muslim group CAIR accused of 'financial irregularities' - "A Muslim charity with links to Hamas was awarded more than $7.2 million in taxpayer cash, which has now disappeared, according to a watchdog group.  An “immediate investigation” needs to be launched into The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter’s use of funds, according to the watchdog... According to the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN), a California-based, non-partisan advocacy group, the money was given to the chapter to help re-settle impoverished immigrants in California between 2022 and 2024.  In what appears to be a sleight of hand, the money – $7,217,968.44 — was sent to CAIR-Greater Los Angeles and not to CAIR-CA, which was the only group eligible to receive it, according to the complaint.   The Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Muslim organization, which is not a registered non-profit and not eligible to handle charitable donations, received the entire pot of money according to the complaint...   In California, CAIR leaders have lobbied against Holocaust education in the Senate, and pushed for anti-Israel measures, such as boycotts, at the municipal level, said Marzouk.  Some CAIR leaders praised the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel. Zahra Billoo, the executive director of CAIR in San Francisco minimized Hamas atrocities against Israelis, declaring that the world was “witnessing decolonization,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.   In earlier statements, Billoo warned about Jewish organizations.  “We need to pay attention to the Anti-Defamation League,” said Billoo during a 2021 panel discussion sponsored by the American Muslims for Palestine.  “We need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation. We need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues. We need to pay attention to the Hillel chapters on our campuses, just because they are your friends today, doesn’t mean that they have your back when it comes to human rights.”  Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of CAIR-CA, said that Israel had no right to defend itself after Oct. 7 and yet Palestinians have the right to “pick up arms” Billoo sitting on a wall outside of an office... Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood."

Dries Van Langenhove on X - "One month ago, European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib (who is a ‘Belgian’ DEI-hire chosen because she is a non-white woman, born to muslim Algerian parents) gave €235 million of European taxpayer’s money in “aid” to ‘former’ ISIS-leader Jolani’s regime.  In the past 48 hours, that same jihadi regime has carried out countless mass murders of ethnic and religious minorities. Orders were given not to document the murders, but a lot of them did it anyway, laughing while they commit torture and murder. I’ll post a thread with videos below, but be warned that they are horrific.  Everyone with a working brain could have predicted that it would be a stupid idea to support a ‘former’ ISIS-leader, but the European Union did it anyway."

Labour is indulging Muslim extremism, and Starmer won’t stop it

Labour is indulging Muslim extremism, and Starmer won’t stop it - The Jewish Chronicle - The Jewish Chronicle

It’s safe to say that Sir Vince Cable is more likely to be remembered for having taken part in Strictly Come Dancing than for his rapier wit. But the former Lib Dem leader was responsible for one of the more memorable lines about Gordon Brown, when he said that the then PM had “gone from Stalin to Mr Bean”.

Something opposite appears to have happened to Sir Keir Starmer. According to journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund in their book Get In, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, described the prime minister as being “like an HR manager, not a leader”. And yes, for most of his first six months in office he seemed to be about as convincing a national leader as, well, Mr Bean.

No one could say that now. In recent weeks – since President Trump, JD Vance and Marco Rubio humiliated Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office – Sir Keir has not merely found his groove but started to act as the de facto leader of the free world. He has not put a foot wrong, and seems to have understood completely the gravity of the current situation. But (there is always a but).

Superb as Sir Keir has been on the world stage, in at least one critical area of domestic policy he has shown that he has learned nothing, and is dangerously wrong. I refer to his and Labour’s Achilles’ Heel: its inability to tackle, indeed its willingness to work with, Muslims who hold what might be termed problematic views.

Last week, for example, Sir Keir held a reception for Ramadan at Downing Street. Quite right, too. It is one of our many strengths as a nation that we celebrate the contributions made by different faiths. But when you hold such an event, it is of critical importance that invitations are only extended to those who deserve to be lauded - and are not handed to those with views that need to be tackled. Certainly not to anyone who celebrated the October 7 Hamas massacre. Yet at least one attendee, Liverpool imam Adam Kelwick, did just that, posting on social media four days later: "David beats Goliath!" and later urging fellow Muslims to "pray for victory" over Israel in the Gaza war.

He has posted how he looks forward to Israel's death, writing that it is "lashing out like a wild animal that thinks it's about to die", which is a "good sign" militarily.

This is not a one-off mistake but is emblematic of Labour's approach to such people. Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner confirmed last month that she is setting up an Islamophobia commission to draw up a governmental definition chaired by Dominic Grieve. The former Conservative attorney-general is just about the worst possible choice for the role, having written the foreword to the 2018 report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims that proposed the definition which was then adopted by Labour. It states that "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness". This is so all- encompassing as to classify almost any criticism of Islam as a religion as racist and which, were it to be enacted, would be in effect a blasphemy law - and one which singled out only Islam for protection.

Last November, Sir Keir responded to a demand by Labour MP Tahir Ali that he "commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions" by saying that he would tackle "Islamophobia in all its forms", describing "desecration" as "awful" and urging it to be "condemned across the House". Three weeks later the government then said it would not introduce a blasphemy law. But such a statement is meaningless. No one suggests Labour would openly legislate to re-criminalise blasphemy; the point is that the measures Labour does want to introduce - such as on Islamophobia - would amount to a blasphemy law.

The direction of travel is clear. Within weeks of taking office, Labour started refunding Unrwa, supported the ICC arrest warrants on Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, and imposed restrictions on arms sales to Israel. In January, junior minister Sir Stephen Timms attended a Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) dinner, despite a government ban on engagement with the group that has been in place since 2009. He is still in post.

As for why: it is a combination of ideology and political demographics. Put simply, Labour needs the Muslim vote and is afraid of losing a significant chunk of it. At the last election, candidates who sought to appeal almost entirely and only to Muslims had a huge impact, with four independents winning seats along with Jeremy Corbyn. Labour's vote fell by over 14 per cent in constituencies where the Muslim population is above 15 per cent. This matters: there are 37 constituencies with a Muslim population of more than 20 per cent, while a further 73 seats have a Muslim population between 10 and 20 per cent. The implications of this are obvious, and they are being played out in government now.

Sir Keir Starmer may now be a global statesman, but at home he remains a captive of his party's need to court the Muslim vote.

Links - 14th April 2025 (1 - Diversity)

John Carter on X - "A few months back, was killing time at hostel bar in Hamburg, having quiet beer. Dutch boomerdad wants to chat - family trip, wife and kids sleeping or on their phones or whatever, he comes down for beer, as you do. Nice enough guy, engineer or something.   He asks what I do. This is always awkward question, because, well, "I am unemployed" is not great answer, but neither is "I write pseudonymous right wing essays on the Internet for my racist frens". So I tell him what I did, until recently.   Wow, he says, that's really cool. But why aren't you doing that now?  Well, I say, it's very difficult in academia, in general, to find a job if you are from "unprotected class".   Ah, he says, trying to sympathize, yes that is unfortunate. But surely you must understand, for a long time there was much discrimination, now we try to correct...  All of a sudden, the frustration and hate boiled up inside of me, like acid reflux, like hot bile. I turned on him.   That is very easy for you to say, I tell him. You are already quite comfortable. You have a good job, a house - wife, kids. Now you take them on vacation. A pension, probably, on the way soon enough. You can support feminism, anti-racism, DEI, at no cost to yourself. I pay the cost. Me, and millions like me. We did not discriminate. That happened long before we were born. We were raised to be egalitarian, to be colorblind. We had no hand in Jim Crow, slavery, whatever. Now you and people like you make us pay the price for these sins that we did not commit. And you tell yourselves you are good people as you destroy our lives to help others.   You have a point, he said. He looked troubled. I do not think he expected such a vicious response.   I finished my beer and left.  No one clapped."

Wesley Yang on X - "Reagan wanted to abolish affirmative action, a policy that was always opposed by a supermajority of the American public from its inception, but was blocked by the consensus of corporate CEO's who favored it. It seems possible that a decade of overreach by DEI commissars may have finally broken that consensus."

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "Texting with Wall Street executives, who are telling me everyone is feeling good that DEI is coming to a close, even if they won’t do so publicly. Firms are reviewing DEI and ESG policies, ready to draw them down. “Things went way too far.”"
diligentium on X - "I say this as a fairly open-minded Aussie gay guy… I saw pictures of a scantily clad gay dude on the Yammer of a major Aussie bank — think Insta soft porn — all in the name of DEI. Know another gay guy who got “cultural leave” to attend the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. Cray"

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on X - "They're 13% of America's population. Yet somehow if you live in one of our largest cities... ...They're your Mayor, your Chief of Police, your Fire Chief...and they control every municipal agency of consequence. And you wonder why nothing works anymore."

The First on X - "WATCH: The Mayor of Philadelphia, America’s sixth largest city, is unable to spell the word ‘Eagles.’ ‘E-L-G-S-E-S, Eagles!’"

Tales From the Gulag - "I published an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the tyranny that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies are imposing on universities and scientific institutions. This includes excluding talented scientists who are not effective enough in displaying their DEI allegiance, enforcing ideological adherence among faculty and students, and suppressing debate on the topics of merit, quotas, free speech, and a range of gender and race issues.  In that article, I gave a piece of partial evidence of the gulag-like environment currently existing in higher education. Numerous faculty responded to an earlier Wall Street Journal piece by me about ideological corruption in science, through emails in which they indicated they were writing under pseudonym accounts out of fear that colleagues or university officials might find out that they supported my concerns.  Happily, in response to my most recent piece, no respondents suggested they were shielding their identities, although a number indicated they were writing from their “non-university” email addresses—just in case—or felt comforted by now being retired and free to write. What they present, in summary, is a chilling perspective of the pervasive and divisive atmosphere that is continuing to develop in educational and scientific institutions. I felt it worth sharing a number of these perspectives, after having consulted the individuals involved. Unless otherwise directed, I have worked to ensure the anonymity of my correspondents...
'I feel like the turtle in the picture with the neck out and about to get chopped ... It is strange to me that this is happening because I am a Hispanic woman with Spanish, North African, Chinese, and Native American ancestry that speaks four languages and has lived everywhere in the world, so I should be the pinnacle of what DEI is aspiring for. Nevertheless, I am experiencing the tyranny of DEI because it is not about diversity of race or sex but more about a loyalty test. This will not last forever, but the question is how much damage this will do ... This year has been an authoritarian year full of tyrannical mandates and intolerance. I have never experienced having moral (mandatory DEI trainings that forces me to affirm things that go against my conscience), medical, or religious tests in order to work before this year. Innovation and intellectual greatness come as a result of freedom. Suppression of speech and ideas will result in a reduction of greatness and innovation. Freedom of speech can only be real freedom if speech that we do not agree with is allowed. Let's include diversity of thought and ideology in what you want to protect.'...
'all employees were expected to read Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo'...
efforts to write in support of faculty who come under DEI investigation are generally ignored. This has certainly been the general experience of all faculty I have talked to. DEI offices are usually only interested in documenting complaints. They often don’t even document letters of support...
From another Canadian university came a note from two science researchers which provides perhaps the most ridiculous example I have seen of how DEI statements are used to adjudicate grant applications. In this case, the grant was simply for a piece of scientific equipment, valued at $150,000, to be used by the scientists in their research."
From 2021. Doesn't stop left wingers pretending that DEI is just to ensure that anyone who isn't a straight white male gets a fair shot

Thread by @HistoricHive on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This book claims that black people built Stonehenge.  This might be amusing, were it not an award-winning work recommended for every classroom.  Here's a selection of absurdities it presents: 🧵
*Brilliant Black British History : Atinuke, Nebechi, Kingsley*
Black people have inhabited Britain for longer than whites.  Naturally, therefore, they built Stonehenge.  What is the basis for this claim? Cheddar Man, an Ancient Briton whose skeleton was discovered in a cave, was recently reconstructed.  His skin was described as 'as dark as dark can be,' as confirmed by scientists.  Surely they could not be mistaken? Scientists involved in the reconstruction were motivated to ‘...prevent people from identifying with ancestral populations.’  Regardless of refutations of his black ancestry, once black Britons adopt Cheddar Man as part of their identity, he will remain black thereafter.
Britain is described as 'some rainy islands that had no spices', therefore undesirable to conquerers.  Spices will play a predictably central theme to this book... The Romans, therefore, would have much preferred, rather than the rainy isles, to conquer the bountiful lands of Africa...  However, when stopped by a Nubian warrior queen, they turned, with great reluctance, to Britain... Populating Britain were 'Black Romans'.  York, for example, was apparently 11% black. One such 'Black Roman' was Septimius Severus.  Of Italic & Arabic ancestry, Septimius developed quite the tan in sunny Scotland! It is claimed, citing 'stories', that a black Roman introduced Christianity to Britain... It is skillfully inferred that Europeans, even kings, were devout Muslims.  Elsewhere, the Spaniards and Portuguese were enriched by a great Islamic empire... 🇪🇸🇵🇹
Traversing the West African coast, the primative Englanders basked at the rich and powerful empires that covered 'every inch of Africa', with:
- Cities grander than London
- Running water and toilets
Alas, the greedy English needed their salt and pepper!
Why couldn't the aforementioned mighty African empires couldn't prevent the 'unstoppable' enslavement of Africans?  Because African warlords were mostly complicit; slaves, captured in tribal warfare, were traded to Europeans in exchange for guns, alcohol, tools, and other goods.
The abolition movement led to the outlawing of slavery, a monumental decision, incurring a debt that Britain did not pay off until the 21st century.  However, we learn that the movement was driven primarily by black activists, with some white people belatedly joining in... Since gaining freedom, Black people have received 'no help,' which is often used to explain their perpetual position as a global underclass.  This presumably overlooks welfare, social housing, DEI initiatives, not to mention the eye-watering amounts of international aid...
After WWII, men from the Caribbean came to rebuild post-war Britain. Heartwarming! Except:
- They were implored not to come to England
- Far from a worker shortage, there was a surplus (soldiers back from war)
- They had no work, no money, no accomodation
Since revisionism has not stopped us so far, we end strongly with a celebration of George Floyd.  A strange addition to a book published in late 2023!"
Of course, if you criticise the book, you're a racist bigot who doesn't know that the British Isles were Black before they were British

Konstantin Kisin on X - "Something I've often wondered about: if "diversity is our greatest strength" why is it that we have to be reminded of that after every terrorist attack?"

Meme - Joyce @TOOAJoyce: "Funny how before diversity made us stronger there was less crime, better wages, affordable homes, better healthcare, rigorous education, less social angst, no issues of integration, no fixation on "racism,' more national confidence, and grooming just meant personal hygiene."

Robby Starbuck on X - "Wow. The American Institute of Dental Public Health had an absolute mental breakdown in response to President Trump’s orders ending DEI in the government.  They believe "Oral justice" is somehow tied to abortions and letting kids get sex changes.  They list @VFWHQ , @barstooldiff , The American Dental Association, @ruralhealth , @aspendental , @DeltaDentalins , @PattersonDental , @FisherHouseFdtn  and @unlv  as partners. I wonder how they all feel about being partnered with this lunacy? People should ask them. I somehow doubt @stoolpresidente  backs this crazy-town statement.   The whole statement is so crazy that you almost can’t believe it’s real but… it is.   There’s one thing we agree on though, mental health is very important and the people behind this statement should get some help!"

Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن on X - "Usha Vance just became the first Asian American and Hindu American to serve as Second Lady of the United States in American history.   The lack of celebration from those who typically champion diversity reflects the sentiments of the movement as not “advancing people of color,” but “advancing people of color who share my views.”   This is not “anti-racism,” but conditional racism. It is to be insincere about diversity as an objective, reducing it to a Trojan horse for political partisanship.  Congratulations to the Second Lady."

Andy Ngo on X - "London — The Westminster City Council @CityWestminster has posted a DEI job recruitment ad that says whites will be discriminated against. The council is seeking someone from the "Global Majority (GM)" and says it will use "positive" discrimination against white applicants."
We keep being told this isn't happening, and that DEI is just to ensure a level playing field so those who aren't white men can get hired

John LeFevre on X - "There are now thousands of unemployed DEI "experts."  They have useless degrees, minimal skills, wildly unrealistic salary expectations and delusionally-high opinions of themselves.  These people are unemployable.  They're toxic, bad energy, team-killers, and walking lawsuits.  And the NGOs and academia are getting dismantled next... so they can't even find a home there.  A couple of them can join KJP at Jennifer Rubin's new media empire, "run it back" with Kamala 2028 using the same playbook, or grift off of whatever retarded endeavor Steve Jobs' widow or Reid Hoffman funds next..."

Jesse Singal on X - "It's gonna turn out a ton of people were just straightforwardly breaking the law. Makes it much harder to argue against the anti-DEI push"

Thread by @JohnDSailer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: Louis Galarowicz (@nasorg) and I have acquired a trove of records from University of Colorado, Boulder, that show how the entire university coordinated to advance a system of brazen race-based hiring.  The receipts are pretty astonishing... 🧵
We acquired the approved/successful proposals for the university's large-scale diversity hiring program. Here are a few examples:  The College of Engineering & Applied Sciences said its cluster hire had “the goal of doubling our underrepresented faculty in the college.” Another example:  The Renewable And Sustainable Energy Institute proposed a specific candidate—who it noted was “an outstanding BIPOC scholar” who would increase the program’s “domestic Faculty of Color...” Another example:  The Department of Journalism told the admin in its proposal that “Our commitment, should we be successful with this application, is to hire someone from the BIPOC community…” Another example:  “We have an urgent and qualified need for BIPOC femme/women of color faculty,” the Department of Ethnic Studies stated, adding that the scholar should contribute to a “thematic cluster hire in racism and racial inequality.”
These are just a few examples, the list goes on and on.  The College of Media, Communications, and Information’s cluster hire, meanwhile, emphasized "hiring Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Latinx, and Pacific Islander faculty…”  But also note the disciplinary focus... As we argue in the @WSJopinion, racial preferences went hand-in-hand with ideological preferences.  Notice that this proposal to hire a German studies scholar touts how she's both a woman of color and has an expertise in “anti-racist pedagogy” and “decolonizing German Studies.” One of the most remarkable troves of public records I've ever received, the implications here are far-reaching, both for the university and for federal policy."
How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado - WSJ
Jesse Singal on X - "It's gonna turn out a ton of people were just straightforwardly breaking the law. Makes it much harder to argue against the anti-DEI push"

Brandon Wolf on X - "Karine Jean-Pierre earned two degrees, has worked in politics for 21 years, including on 5 presidential campaigns and in 2 administrations, and — just to put a cherry on top — speaks 3 languages. Go ahead and tell the class what is “DEI” about her. Let’s hear it."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Is that why Kirby had to to step in and handle the press on really important things?"
Sharkweek on X - "I like how liberals tell us how important DEI is and then are deeply offended when someone is called a DEI hire"
AdamSD on X - "Does Brandon Wolf not realize that she couldn't seem to answer one question without reading it from her binder? Yes, she was a DEI hire she reminded everyone of that quite often with her "I am an immigrant, black, lesbian."
Ruben Navarro on X - "With that kind of resume you’d think she would be better at her job. 🤷🏼‍♂️"
Andrew Follett on X - "I love how when they try to defend incompetence, they inevitably point to the number of degrees the incompetent has...as if that mattered."
Silent Majority on X - "If she's an example of what multiple college degrees get you, then I understand why American test scores continue to decline. She truly was awful at her job."
Emperor 4 Life on X - "I’ll never forget how badly she pronounced emeritus as if she never heard the word before."

Richard Hanania on X - "Katie Phang, MSNBC anchor, says that Trump ending DEI in government is like Woodrow Wilson segregating the workforce and putting black workers in cages: “Take a second to let that sink in.”"

Meme - "Diversity in real life: Roman soldier, American Indian chief, Viking warrior, Zulu [?] Warrior, Buddhist Monk, Samurai
Diversity in woke culture: Black Roman soldier, Black American Indian chief, Black Viking warrior, Zulu [?] Warrior, Black Buddhist Monk, Black Samurai"

Meme - "Love Island South Africa criticised for near all-white cast"
"South Africa is 8% white. So it is completly minority casted which makes it one of the most diverse shows there is"

Meme - *Woman wearing shirt 'America needs lesbian farmers'*
Brent Black: "but then who will design the collapsing bridges, unsuecessfully fight the fires, and crash the boats and planes???"
Mar Dave: "Didn't know Subaru made tractors"
Robert Smith: "Great idea, lots of farms will go for cheap once they reach the age of 40 and can't put up with the labor needed to keep the place running."a>

Meme - Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ: "We can’t find NHS beds and appointments for British people but we can find money for 35 “diversity” jobs, 29 of which allow “working from home” and many of which pay £80,000+  We should follow America and dump DEI woke waste"
"NHS hiring dozens of diversity jobs despite order to crack down. More than 30 equalities roles - some with salaries over £80,000 - have been advertised since Labour took power. NHS bosses have ignored an instruction to scrap diversity jobs. NHS bosses are ignoring orders to scrap diversity jobs by hiring dozens of new" Meme - "First look at Norman Osborn in 'YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN'. Voiced by Colman Domingo."
"You know, I'm something of a BLACK PERSON myself"

Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs - "The report was praised by the NFCC, which said it would help to create “safe and inclusive places to work”.  In the study, its authors claim that fire chiefs’ commitment to “inclusion” is as important as their “competence”."
When due to left wing social engineering and lowering of standards, more people die, this will be blamed on lack of "representation"

Thread by @aaronsibarium on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "SCOOP: The University of Illinois was sued today over a slew of race-based hiring programs that discriminate against white scholars.  The lawsuit shows how faculty hiring—and the paper trail it generates—could be an easy way for the Trump administration to go after DEI.🧵
The plaintiff, Stephen Kleinschmit, a former professor of public administration and data science at the University of Illinois Chicago, alleges that he was fired for raising concerns about the programs. The initiatives include "racial equity" plans that call on departments to "hire three [people of color]" and a separate program run by UIC’s diversity office that funds the recruitment of "underrepresented" scholars. To apply for those funds, departments must describe their DEI goals and what’s been done to achieve them. The result is a long paper trail of applications—first reported by the Washington Free Beacon—in which departments openly pledge to discriminate based on race.   Such statements form the backbone of Kleinschmit’s complaint, which argues his firing was both a form of retaliation and race discrimination. Though UIC claimed he was being fired due to budget cuts—which did not result in any other layoffs—those cuts came as his department was seeking to hire a scholar "from a community of color." The lawsuit is the latest example of a public university facing blowback for its discriminatory employment practices. CU Boulder paused a "critical needs" hiring program last month after documents surfaced showing the school's race-based hiring:
Similar documents have been unearthed at the University of Washington, Ohio State, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At the University of New Mexico, one professor wrote in an email, "I don’t want to hire white men for sure."
College admissions have also been the subject of discrimination complaints, but those cases can be difficult to win because student privacy laws shield admissions files from public disclosure, forcing plaintiffs to rely on statistical evidence. "Admissions decisions are an opaque morass at their best," said Dan Morenoff, the head of the American Civil Rights Project. "Proving discrimination requires intensive econometric analysis by experts and only 2-3 law firms have ever successfully litigated that discrimination." The faculty hiring process, on the other hand, tends to produce a paper trail that is accessible through litigation and, at public universities, subject to public records requests.   That could make programs like UIC’s easy pickings for private litigants and federal agencies amid the legal siege promised by the Trump administration, which has issued a series of executive orders targeting universities and DEI. "Plaintiffs should have a much easier time proving universities are violating Title VII in their hiring policies than they would have proving Title VI violations in admissions," Morenoff said. "The evidence will not be hard to find." At UIC, all departments are required to submit "advancing racial equity" plans to the school’s DEI office, which in 2020 released a set of templates for what those plans should look like.   The templates instruct departments to set hard racial quotas—"hire at least 3 new tenure-track faculty of color," for example—and to submit progress reports on the steps being taken to meet them. In one such report, dated October 2023, UIC’s College of Applied Health Sciences wrote that it had hired "2 more faculty and 1 staff of color" over the previous year. "By the fall of 2024 we will have two additional faculty of color in the department (e.g., AA/PI, NA/AI, Black, and/or Latinx)," the report said.  In another report, UIC’s Global Asian Studies program pledged to hire "at least three new additional faculty … who represent diverse identities."   The university has also incentivized race-based hiring through its Bridge to Faculty program, which provides money to departments to hire "underrepresented" scholars. Because that money comes out of UIC’s central budget—not each department’s own coffers—the program is the only way for some departments to afford new hires, according to the lawsuit, forcing them to double down on DEI if they wish to remain competitive. In applications reviewed by the Free Beacon, departments disparaged "White Masculinity," called for "additional BIPOC/female/nonbinary faculty," and claimed it would be "immoral" to recruit "underrepresented graduate students" without hiring more professors who "look like them."   Several also stated that they would target faculty with a focus on activist scholarship. The math department said it wanted a scholar of "race and power in undergraduate mathematics education," for example. And the biomedical engineering department, which received funding through the program, said that its ideal candidate would "train the next generation of Biomedical Engineers in DEI principles." These initiatives had an extraordinary effect on the racial makeup of UIC’s faculty. Between 2019 and 2023, the # of black and Hispanic tenure track professors rose by over 25%, according to data from the school, while the number of white tenure-track professors declined by 4%.
Soon enough, Kleinschmit began hearing from his colleagues that some of the new hires were not up to snuff. It was "demoralizing," he told the Free Beacon, to see unqualified scholars fast-tracked for tenure because of their race. In the fall of 2022, Kleinschmit began airing these concerns to top university officials, including UIC provost Karen Colley and the dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Stacey Swearingen-White. By February 2023, he had been informed of his impending layoff. Swearingen-White told him in a meeting that his contract would not be renewed because of budget cuts. But at the same time that those cuts were allegedly being made, the college found the money to hire a series of new administrators, according to the lawsuit.   The college aslo received funding through the Bridge to Faculty program to recruit a minority scholar. And Kleinschmit was the only member of the college who was ultimately let go. "The Plaintiff repeatedly and thoroughly highlighted the discriminatory nature of the university’s conduct, making him a target of retaliation," the lawsuit reads. "If Professor Kleinschmit were a member of one of the preferred racial groups, the administration would have quickly found the resources to support his continued employment."
Tldr: University of Illinois Chicago is being sued after nearly program at the school stated, in writing, that it planned to hired based on race."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) suggests that the reason more women don't go into manufacturing is because "the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.""
Dr. Steve Turley on X - "This is what the Democrat party has been reduced to, utter outlandish absurdity."

US government gave $2 million in funding to "Chinese for Affirmative Action" : r/aznidentity - "With discussions about USAID spending coming to the forefront of political discourse, it has recently come to light that one of the biggest Asian American organizations that defended and promoted affirmative action was funded by the US Department of Justice.  "Chinese for Affirmative Action", or CAA, was a prominent group that defended discrimination against Asian students and sided with elite institutions going back to the 1990s. They supported a policy where Chinese-American students were held to a higher standard than those from other backgrounds... CAA sent Chinese-American representatives to DEFEND Harvard (poor, oppressed little Harvard!). CAA also accused Asians of "anti-blackness" for opposing this unfair treatment...        Read between the lines of what CAA officials say, and you'll come away with even more disturbing conclusions. In an op-ed to the LA Times, CAA member Sally Chen appeared to suggest that Asian Americans don't count as real "diversity"... why is the U.S. government giving $2 million to groups like this? Do they have a vested interest in keeping Asians out of the best educational institutions?"

Links - 13th April 2025 (2 - Canadian Federal Election 2025)

Meme - G.M. Forbes @gmforbes35: "Same person 1 year apart.
April 2024: Paying the carbon tax puts more money in your pocket!
April 2025: Eliminating the carbon tax puts more money in your pocket!
It's Schrödinger's Tax!"
Mona Fortier @MonaFortier: "Good news #OttawaVanier! Starting today, Ontarian families can expect to see an extra 255$ deposited into their bank accounts. The Canada Carbon Rebate is putting more money back into the pockets of 8 out of 10 Canadians, while reducing carbon emissions."
Mona Fortier 🇨🇦 @MonaFortier: "Our policies are already hard at work! Gas prices are already coming down, and we're putting more money back in Canadians' pockets. Canadian families can trust that a #Liberal government will make life more affordable and bring down the cost of living, starting at the pump ⛽️"

Singh facing backlash for campaigning with OnlyFans star, taking photos with fetish gear - "While other party leaders court blue-collar workers, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is drawing attention for campaigning with anti-Israel pornstars and taking group photos with people in fetish dog masks... Another now deleted post showed NDP supporters wearing fetish-style dog masks cozying up with the NDP leader for a photo. The incidents had social media users confused about the direction in which Singh was taking his campaign."

NDP drops OnlyFans creator over anti-Israel content - "An OnlyFans creator who goes by Jessica Wetz, whose full name is Jessica Wetzstein, was one of the latest additions on the campaign trail for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh — until the party said Thursday it would no longer be working with her due to comments she made about the Holocaust... This week on Instagram, she posted three videos — two of her talking with Singh and one showing her time with the NDP team on its campaign bus. In a video posted to Instagram on Monday, Wetz and Singh discuss the Middle East. “The (NDP Canada) advocate for Canada acknowledging the state of Palestine. It makes me so angry that the Liberals and Conservatives put us on the wrong side of history by refusing to do it,” Wetz wrote in the caption of the post. “As Canadians, we’re proud the American military does not get to decide what goes on inside our borders because we don’t vote them. Palestinians deserve the exact same thing,” said Wetz, speaking to Singh with a keffiyeh draped over her shoulders. “And I know you feel similar,” she added, gesturing to the NDP leader... Wetz said that the “censorship” on Palestinian voices was “unbelievable.”"
Clearly, being dropped for making Holocaust comparisons is censoring pro-Palestinian voices

Canada election: NDP promises national rent control - "“If any province or municipality wants federal investments … to build homes, they have to put in place laws that protect renters,” he said. “We’re not going to build affordable homes for those homes to just turn into unaffordable homes because there are no protections in place.”... Singh said an NDP government would also push provinces to ban so-called renovictions and fixed-term leases, which are lease agreements that don’t automatically renew beyond their set end date... The NDP also wants to prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to co-ordinate rent increases, and to recognize the right of tenant unions to negotiate with landlords."
The folly of piling ever more restrictions on aside, provincial jurisdiction is no match for the left wing agenda

KLEIN: Canada is losing jobs, investment, and stability: Voters must take this election seriously - "Statistics Canada reported our country lost 33,000 jobs in September. Even more concerning, 48,000 of those losses were in the private sector, mostly full-time jobs. At the same time, the U.S. economy added 228,000 new jobs. That contrast is more than just economic trivia. It tells a larger story, one of two countries moving in very different directions... The economic slowdown we’re facing isn’t a result of external forces. It’s the consequence of internal decisions — years of policy choices that have made it harder to grow businesses, invest in infrastructure, or plan for the future. Yes, global factors matter. It’s a mistake, however, to blame U.S. tariffs — which were applied broadly, to all countries — for Canada’s poor private sector performance. The numbers speak for themselves: While the U.S. added nearly a quarter-million jobs in September, Canada lost tens of thousands. If tariffs were the cause, the U.S. wouldn’t be growing. The core problem is that we’ve made it too expensive, too complicated, and too uncertain to do business in this country. We’ve burdened industry with taxes and red tape. We’ve added costs under the banner of climate policy, without balancing competitiveness. Meanwhile, public spending continues at a pace that isn’t sustainable. More Canadians than ever now rely on food banks. Over 2 million visits were recorded in a single month, according to Food Banks Canada. That’s not about a lack of compassion or generosity. It’s a sign that working Canadians are falling through the cracks. So again, ask yourself — are you better off than you were nine years ago? If you are, then more of the same might make sense"

Kelly McParland: Carney and Poilievre struggle to distinguish themselves - "Nothing was more arresting than observing Carney at his “Canada Strong” podium boasting about having axed the carbon tax — the signal policy of nine years of Trudeau Liberalism, a measure Carney supported from the get-go and one he hailed in a 600-page treatise as an achievement the rest of the world should emulate... Kory Teneycke, a former aid to Prime Minister Stephen Harper who’s now working for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who only recently talked to Poilievre for the first time, popped up all over warning of disaster ahead. Poilievre “looks too much like Trump. He sounds too much like Trump. He uses the lexicon of Trump,” Teneycke said (without mentioning that Liberals used to say similar things about Ford). The consensus opinion was that Poilievre should ditch his pitch — which had been meticulously prepared to target Liberal failures and voters’ domestic concerns — and go full-throttle on a rampage against Trump. But Poilievre demurred. The Trump threat, he argued , validates his argument that Canada needs to look to itself to remedy the economic damage left by a decade of Liberal misrule... The opening days of the campaign saw several Liberals who had announced their retirement suddenly jump back into the race. Former cabinet minister Anita Anand said she changed her mind not because her chances of re-election went from two per cent to 94 per cent once Trudeau resigned — oh heavens no — but because Carney promised that, unlike his predecessor, he’d be “open to considering the viewpoints of his caucus and cabinet in a serious way.” Not a bad reason overall, but since becoming prime minister Carney has been anything but enthusiastic about sharing. He balked at offering details of his personal finances, his corporate ties or his role in a plan that helped business operations avoid taxes by registering in Bermuda, and refused to shift his view on Chiang, even when it became obvious that the candidate had to go. Poilievre, for his part, styles himself as determined to repair Canada’s Trudeau-battered finances while announcing a series of pricey new spending programs and a tax cut that would cost twice as much as something similar pledged by Carney. If anything, their tactics seem to consist of stealing ideas wholesale from one another... If there’s an honest chasm separating them it’s over energy and climate. Carney says he’d speed up permitting of resource projects, cut duplication and look favourably on pipelines, but he’d keep a tax on big emitters and maintain the Liberals’ controversial Bill C-69, sometimes derided as the “no-pipelines law.” To meet global emissions goals, he’s written that , “More than 80 per cent of current fossil fuel reserves (including three-quarters of coal, half of gas, one-third of oil) would need to stay in the ground.” Poilievre, in contrast, insists the energy industry is vital to reversing Canada’s economic slide"

Liberals offended by Poilievre’s compassion for ‘biological clock’ - "We have officially reached the point in the election campaign where expressing compassion for those struggling to find the funds to comfortably start a family lands you the charge of … misogyny... “Some people have said that I should stop talking about the doubling housing costs that have denied an entire generation the chance to own a home after the lost Liberal decade,” he said, extending the thought to drugs, crime and the economy. “I disagree. My purpose in politics is to restore Canada’s promise.” But what really set Liberal observers off was the words of sympathy he gave shortly afterward, acknowledging the plight of adults in their 30s who feel they can’t afford to have a family — and fear they might not make it in time. The full quote — and I’m providing it because a much shorter, context-deprived clip has been circulated — is this: “The unjustified threats by President (Donald) Trump further strengthen the argument in favour of the Canada First agenda that I’ve been fighting for my whole life. And while we propose those solutions, we will not forget the single mom who can’t afford food; we will not forget the seniors who have to choose between eating and heating; we will not forget that young 36-year-old couple whose biological clock is running out faster than they can afford to buy a home and have kids; we will not forget the families terrorized by crime and drugs; and so we will continue, despite calls to the contrary, to talk about those things, even if I am the only leader in the country that offers any change.” The key term here is “biological clock.” We all know that, in women, fertility starts to decline in one’s mid-30s, which is around the same time that male gamete quality begins heading downhill. It also happens to be the age that many young Canadians finish their education, become settled in their careers and find stable housing that has enough space to fit an infant. Perhaps medical technology will one day change things, but until it does, the finite window to conceive is a fact of life. In the meantime, human beings will continue to talk about it, sometimes with the easy-to-understand idiom of “biological clock.” It surfaces in CBC coverage, the Toronto Star’s opinion section, and throughout pop culture, really. Well, on March 31, progressive partisans declared “biological clock” to be deeply offensive upon reviewing the Poilievre clip and performing a collective gasp of horror. Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, known for interrupting the press conference of a fellow female MP, declared that it was possible to talk about “the need to build housing without talking like this.” He was echoed by Etobicoke Liberal candidate Yvan Baker, who complained of “outdated and harmful rhetoric” — which was certainly news, as the term was perfectly acceptable the day before. Ottawa MP Yasir Naqvi even invoked abortion after calling the Poilievre soundbite “Absurd. Offensive. He’s not even hiding it anymore—this is blatant misogyny.” I note that Naqvi previously endorsed a book on Islam that condones hitting one’s wife to correct “serious moral misconduct” (an endorsement he made without reading the book, he says, but nevertheless). The overreaction was no doubt a partial attempt to change the channel from the nasty business that was Paul Chiang — an Ontario MP and former Liberal candidate who, despite receiving Mark Carney’s support, resigned after nudging supporters to turn in a Conservative candidate for a Chinese state bounty. But it was also an occasion for middle-aged male Liberals to position themselves as the truly feminist foils to their caveman-brained Conservative counterparts... Cardus, a family policy think tank, studied the issue in 2023 and found that Canadian women have about 0.5 fewer children than desired. This is a serious issue, but it’s one that receives next to no attention from federal politicians because it touches the passé topic of female fertility. The Liberals, as you know, have mummy-wrapped that issue in yellow “Do Not Cross” tape to appease the demands of the most vocal, most irrational branch of their base. In their view, acknowledging the economy’s role in family formation is only a short skip away from criminalizing abortion and indenturing women into Handmaid’s Tale harems. Unhinged. So it’s at least a relief that the affordability concerns — and, as part of that, family-starting concerns — of the country’s youth are being acknowledged by someone with a platform rather than language-policed into oblivion. The Canadian promise should include self-sufficiency before age 40, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say it."
When left wingers talk about empathy, they mean selective and weaponized empathy to push the left wing agenda

Liberals drop Edmonton candidate who praised Hamas, Hezbollah in video - "Loyola, an NDP member of Alberta’s legislative assembly since 2015, won the Liberal nomination for the new riding of Edmonton on March 26. He then announced he was leaving provincial politics to join Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s team. “(Carney) is the man of the hour that we need, especially to stand up to Donald Trump south of the border,” said Loyola at his March 29 campaign launch. Loyola has drawn criticism for the past for his public support of autocratic Latin American political strongmen including Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. Loyola said in a 2021 podcast interview that he’s been unfairly targeted in Alberta’s legislature for his “support for Latin American progressive governments.” He doubled down on this support, saying he believed that Cuba and Venezuela were more enlightened than Canada in some respects. “It’s not necessarily saying that I want us to become the next Venezuela or the next Cuba… I’m just saying that we can learn from how they stress particular rights,” said Loyola. Chavez, the Venezuelan socialist leader widely accused of gross human rights violations, died in 2013, and Loyola was listed as the media contact for an Edmonton tribute to him, which was billed as “an opportunity to express solidarity with the Venezuelan people and support for the Bolivarian Revolution.” “The event will also share with the media and local community the hard work, dedication and achievements of President Hugo Chávez and his government,” read the description Loyola also compared Alberta’s oil and gas industry to right-wing military juntas that have seized power in parts of Latin America in a 2014 interview with Edmonton’s VUE Weekly magazine."

The mystery of Quebec City, the Tories' beachhead in La Belle Province - "“Psychosis exists here. People only talk about Trump… We are incapable, until further notice, of putting a little rationality into our thoughts. I have rarely seen that,” he said."

Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 on X - "I sued the Liberal government to challenge the constitutionality of the carbon tax.  The Liberals managed to persuade 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices that the consumer carbon tax was necessary “to prevent irreparable harm” and that it was “critical to our response to an existential threat to human life in Canada and around the world.”  Now that they’ve admitted none of this was true, will the Liberals apologize to the Supreme Court for misleading the justices about the rationale for the carbon tax?  And will the Supreme Court be more sceptical when governments argue that they need to bend the constitution to prevent “irreparable” environmental harm?"

Melissa Lantsman on X - "There should be just one takeaway from the fall in gas prices: the Liberals had the power ALL along to make life more affordable for you and your family. They did absolutely nothing until they needed your vote. What happens again when they no longer need it? I’ll give you one guess."

Kelly McParland: NDP collapse contains further uncertainties - "Though Carney presents himself as a new wind blowing from a wholly different direction than Trudeau, he is surrounded by Trudeau’s caucus, Trudeau’s cabinet, Trudeau’s advisers and Trudeau’s legacy. While promising to unveil a reformist platform at some point in the future, so far, he has been campaigning along lines that could easily have served the former prime minister in a bid for a fourth term. A “middle-class tax cut” that would cost billions while somehow not affecting the deficit. Money to support the auto industry, money to expand the military, buy more equipment and pay it better wages, a tax break for housing and a pledge that none of the new spending will lessen the amounts Ottawa sends to individual Canadians or the provinces. No serious cuts, lots of new spending and no indication of how it’s to be paid for without adding further to the mammoth debt the Trudeau Liberals left behind. If not for the existence of Donald Trump and the opportunity he gives Carney to stand up as Canada’s champion, it would be hard to argue the new leader offers anything much different than the old. Liberals would be just as desperate to entice the left, at whatever the cost. That’s the problem facing U.S. Democrats, who Liberals so often ape as they seek ideas and tactics. Before former president Joe Biden was forced to step aside over concerns about his age, he had suffered a steady erosion in support from a sense he’d become too much a creature of the party’s vociferous and outspoken left... The peculiar reality of the NDP is that both the biggest parties need its existence to serve their own ends. Conservatives need it to siphon off crucial support when leftist “progressives” get fed up with Liberal antics. Liberals need it to prop up minorities or provide emergency reinforcements if fear emerges of a Conservative victory."

Opinion: A watershed election, but with the same old politics - "Is this what to expect for the next four weeks? A stream of special, one-off tax breaks, instead of a serious plan to address our economic challenges? Canada’s economy has been lacklustre for years. Business investment is poor, as is productivity, and per capita GDP is falling: the Trump tariff war was the last nail in the coffin. We need a new economic plan that includes fundamental tax changes , not giveaways. First, to retain and attract capital investment and make Canadian business as internationally competitive as possible, our corporate tax rate should be reduced. Our combined federal-provincial rate is about 26.5 per cent, compared with an average rate for OECD countries of below 24 per cent. While our rate is close to the average U.S. federal-state tax rate of 26 per cent, we need a competitive advantage against our new rival, not parity: not to mention that Trump has proposed a six-percentage point reduction for corporations that make their products in the U.S. Second, to keep our best and brightest in Canada and encourage risk taking, the rate in the highest personal tax bracket — for those with annual income above $253,000 — should be reduced to below the psychological barrier of 50 per cent. Canada has one of the highest top personal tax rates in the world: in 2022, the average for OECD countries was only 42.5 per cent. Third, to help pay for these corporate and personal rate reductions, the GST should be raised by at least two percentage points — to seven per cent, where it was before Stephen Harper lowered it in 2008. Economists say consumption taxes cause less economic harm than income taxes, yet Canada relies on them much less than most other developed countries. Finally, we need major tax reform, both to simplify our tax code and to eliminate special deals and preferences. The lower corporate tax rate on small and medium-sized businesses is much too generous and should increase. The exemption from tax for capital gains on a principal residence should be capped. And many other deductions and credits should be repealed or simplified. The new government, whoever forms it, should strike a tax reform committee, with instructions to report its findings and recommendations within six months."
Clearly, "taxing the 'rich'" is the "moral" choice and will make everyone richer

Mario Zelaya on X - "Conservative signs are being taken down in Oakville. Down the same street, Liberal signs are allegedly being left up. This appears to be a by-law officer in an official Oakville vehicle."

Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "The newly appointed @CTVNews  election “fact checker” is the same social media personality who spread the conspiracy theory that convoy truckers tried to burn down an Ottawa apartment building."
Rachel Gilmore: ""One of them taped up the door handles so no one could get in or out," Matias wrote. Taped. The. Doors. Shut. I feel sick.
!!! This downtown Ottawa resident says a full package of fire-starter bricks was brought into their apartment building's lobby at 5:00 a.m. Two men lit it. Luckily, he says, a passerby was able to get inside and put the fire out. The "what ifs" here are horrifying."
Sebastian Skamski @Skamski: "In a shocking new low for @CTVNews , they are having this disgraced disinformation peddler lie directly to their viewers under the guise of “news”.  The Liberal media will do anything to ensure a fourth Liberal term.  Remember that the next time they “fact check” Conservatives!"

FIRST READING: NDP says it has 'momentum' as it stares down electoral collapse - ""We are ready for this election,” NDP Campaign Director Jennifer Howard said in the statement. In truth, the NDP is entering this campaign with shaky finances and some of the worst poll numbers they’ve ever charted. If the party can’t turn it around in the next five weeks, they could well be staring down the worst electoral showing since their 1961 founding. NDP poll numbers have been in steep collapse ever since Jan. 7, when then prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign, setting the stage for his replacement by Mark Carney. Before Trudeau’s resignation, the NDP had spent years hovering between 15 and 20 per cent of the popular vote. This is roughly in line with how they performed in the 2021 federal election, when the NDP captured 17.8 per cent of total ballots cast. But particularly in recent weeks, multiple pollsters have charted the NDP in single digits... If these kinds of figures hold out until election day, the NDP could end up facing the near-total annihilation of their caucus, which stood at 24 MPs as of Sunday’s election call. A recent projection by election modeller Raymond Liu forecast the NDP having a caucus of just two seats come April 28... To date, the NDP’s historical worst still belongs to 1993, when it won just nine seats under leader Audrey McLaughlin. The plummeting support has tracked closely with a proportionate rise in Liberal support, indicating that even longtime NDP voters appear to be stampeding to the Liberals under new leader Mark Carney. The election call also comes just as the NDP has finished digging itself out of a multi-million-dollar financial hole caused by the last general election. The party was forced to take out a $20 million loan to cover their expenses during the last general election, and only last year did party brass announce that the debt was paid . In the NDP’s most recent audited financial statements — for the fiscal year 2023 — they had just $289,808 in cash on hand, barely enough to cover the travel expenses of leader Jagmeet Singh in a national campaign. The NDP was able to fundraise $6.3 million in 2024, although this lagged dramatically behind the $15.2 million brought in by the Liberals, and an unprecedented $41.8 million brought in by the Conservatives. But in Sunday’s statement, the NDP still said it intended to spend the maximum amount allowed by Elections Canada. In the 2021 election, this was about $30 million . “This is the first time in a decade the NDP will spend the maximum allowed under Elections Canada’s limits,” read the NDP release."

Liberal Markham candidate to stay on despite call for ouster - "Mark Carney’s Liberals say they won’t turf Markham-Unionville candidate Paul Chiang, despite calls for his ouster after it emerged that he told a diaspora media outlet earlier this year how to claim a bounty Hong Kong had placed on a Conservative rival.  “Paul Chiang recognized that he made a significant lapse in judgment. He apologized and has been clear that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong as they fight to safeguard their human rights and freedoms,” a spokesperson from Carney’s campaign told the Star in a statement... At a January event with ethnic media outlets, Chiang spoke with Ming Sheng Bao, the Canadian subsidiary of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, and referenced a $1 million (HKD) bounty — about $184,000 — that Hong Kong police had placed on a local Conservative candidate. He told the Chinese-language outlet that if anyone present at the event brought the candidate to the Chinese consulate general in Toronto, they could obtain the reward... Chiang apologized for his remarks on Friday, calling them “deplorable and a complete lapse of judgment,” and saying that as a former police officer, he “should have known better.”... NDP candidate Jenny Kwan, a former target of the Chinese government in part for her advocacy for human rights in Hong Kong, called Chiang’s comment “absolutely astounding.”  Kwan said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) putting a bounty on any Canadian is “intimidation at its worst,” and that Chiang “played right into it.”  “In what universe is this normal?” Kwan said at a news conference with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in British Columbia, adding that transnational repression is a deeply serious issue that has caused people in Canada to fear for their lives. Earlier in the day in Toronto, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters that Chiang “must be disqualified.”  “I find it incredible that Mark Carney would allow someone to run for his party that called for a Canadian citizen to be handed over to a foreign government on a bounty. A foreign government that would almost certainly execute that Canadian citizen. Think about that for a second,” Poilievre said."

LILLEY: Chiang is gone and so is any claim that Carney is a leader - "Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s announcement that he would step down as a candidate just before midnight Monday shows a massive failure of leadership by Mark Carney. It took four days for Chiang to be removed as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville and it came after Carney had spent all morning defending him. It shouldn’t be hard to distance yourself from someone who advocates for kidnapping a rival and handing them over to China for a bounty, but the Liberals blew this one. The resignation only came after the RCMP confirmed they were investigating Chiang’s comments which may have violated several sections of the law by counselling others to commit a crime... “This is another example of China exerting undue influence in our election,” Yiu said. “Our political parties are being held hostage in the sense they are afraid to run candidates not favoured by China.” China’s ongoing political interference in our country is a massive problem that we are still not taking seriously. In the 2019 election, then Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and his team were briefed by CSIS on concerns about one of their Toronto candidates and China interfering his nomination. Trudeau took the information and did absolutely nothing with it. In fact, that candidate — Han Dong, who always has denied any help from China — was allowed to sit in the Liberal caucus, to run again in 2021 and nothing was done until media stories came out in 2023. Now, after a foreign interference inquiry, multiple reports on the matter, we have a Liberal MP and candidate encouraging people in Canada to do Beijing’s bidding. The reaction from the new Liberal leader is the same as the last one, do nothing until forced to by never ending media stories. As Trudeau’s former cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould commented, it looks like the new guy is a lot like the old guy."

Lorne Gunter: Carney uses 'teachable moment' excuse to avoid strong action against rogue candidate - "About the only person who seems to have needed a “teachable moment” to understand just how wrong Chiang’s remarks were, was Carney himself. The Liberal leader insisted he had complete confidence in his candidate up until the moment Chiang resigned. Carney’s “teachable moment” explanation should also remind voters of just how much he is like Justin Trudeau. Trudeau used the “teachable moment” phrase (or similar euphemisms) whenever he got himself into trouble and wanted all of us to share his blame."

Terry Glavin: Beware, Mark Carney's affection for authoritarian China - "the Chiang scandal provides yet another fleeting glimpse into Beijing’s ongoing subversion of Canada’s political culture, specifically, in this case, in the overbearing presence of Beijing’s collaborators and influence-peddlers in the Greater Toronto Area’s Liberal Party establishment. If you spend any time peering into those backrooms and banquet halls and business-class venues these days, you’ll notice that the forces that have long been attempting to pull Canada into Beijing’s orbit have become immeasurably stronger now that U.S. president Donald Trump is taking a chainsaw to the structural foundations that prop up Canada’s place in North America’s integrated economy and defence architecture. It’s like 2015 all over again. Back then, boasting of his abiding family ties with the Chinese Communist Party, Justin Trudeau enlisted the kleptocrat-enabling, oxycontin-boosting McKinsey and Company to formulate a strategy to solemnize a “win-win” marriage of Canada’s natural resources and advanced capitalist economy with China’s investment capital and China’s consumer markets. McKinsey global managing director Dominic Barton was brought in to chair Trudeau’s blue-chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, delivering big ideas about attracting investment and radically boosting immigration. More than $180 million in federal McKinsey contracts later, along with several Beijing-induced national security scandals and election-monkey-wrenching outrages and a pattern of economic catastrophe, Ipsos polling showed that, by last summer, seven in ten Canadians judged the country to be “broken.” And then, last September, the Liberal Party enlisted another oracle, Brookfield Asset Management board chair Mark Carney, to chair the Liberal Party’s Task Force on Economic Growth. And after Trudeau’s abdication and the shuttering of Parliament in January, the Liberal establishment threw everything it had into Carney’s succession as party leader. Canadians go to the polls April 28. “I’m really wondering whether, if Carney becomes the prime minister, it’ll be like if Dominic Barton became the prime minister,” Charles Burton, a former diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Beijing who’s currently a member of the Taiwan-based Doublethink Lab’s China in World Global Index Committee and a senior fellow at Sinopsis, a global China-focused think tank based in Prague. Four years ago, Carney and Barton convened a “fireside chat” with the Canada-China Business Council, where they boosted opportunities for enhanced cooperation between China and Canada in green energy, agri-food and other areas. “We’re all obviously all focused on Donald Trump, but I worry that ultimately, Carney’s plan is to out-Barton Dominic Barton. I’m concerned that Mr Carney will make us more and more beholden to the demands of the Chinese regime by expanding or raising public expectations of increased economic benefits with China.”... For at least a quarter of a century, Beijing’s overseas “elite capture,” strong-arming and influence-peddling institution, the United Front Work Department, has singled out Canada for special attention. In 2003, the UFWD boasted about electing six of its preferred candidates in Toronto, and in 2006, the UFWD claimed to have helped elect 10 of its 44 favoured Toronto-area candidates. The UFWD redoubled its efforts in Canada during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, mainly targeting Conservative candidates, and the Trudeau government went out of its way to keep the operations out of the public eye. In 2019, Trudeau was warned in advance about Beijing’s mobilization of Chinese foreign students in the Liberal Party’s 2019 selection of Han Dong and the party’s candidate in Don Valley North — a case that sparked a flurry of disclosures and intelligence-agency leaks about Beijing’s interference in several ridings — but Trudeau said nothing and did nothing. In his testimony to the recently concluded Hogue Commission on foreign interference, Trudeau said he didn’t think there was anything particularly wrong about Chinese students voting in a Liberal Party candidate selection race. While the Conservative Party told the Commission it detected suspicious activity in 13 ridings across the country, former prime minister Jean Chrétien told a party gathering two years ago: “Ten or 15 constituencies in Canada at most? I don’t think it’s a very big problem.” While Carney has stressed that he has no intention of reviving the Trudeau government’s early enthusiasms for tighter and more intimate relationships with Beijing, his apparently cavalier attitude about Paul Chiang’s conduct raises serious questions of trust, according to Cheuk Kwan of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China... Carney had sought and received a $276-million loan for Brookfield Asset Management from the Bank of China last fall, while Carney was doing double duty as Brookfield’s chair and as the head of Trudeau’s economic growth task force. But that’s not the half of it. In his capacity with Brookfield, Carney paid several visits to China, where he routinely praised Xi Jinping’s leadership and urged the advancement of the Chinese renminbi as a global reserve currency to challenge the U.S. dollar. While he was governor of the Bank of England, Carney oversaw the creation of a $1 billion investment fund to support Beijing’s globe-encircling “Belt and Road” initiative and participated in the conclusion of a deal allowing Chinese banks access to the United Kingdom’s currency market. Last March, Carney was back in China, praising China’s leaders in the deployment and application of artificial-intelligence technologies. Beijing’s AI has proved handy in recognizing the facial features of Xinjiang’s persecuted Uyghur minority. Kwan said none of this can be said to shore up Carney’s trustworthiness among pro-democracy Chinese-Canadians, and Beijing’s malign influence is far broader and deeper in Canada than is generally understood. “I keep telling everybody, look, you’re looking at more than just federal elections. It’s pervasive at every level of society, down to the election of trustees of school boards.”"
Donald Trump is a fascist, but China is good.

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "Here is Paul Chiang’s replacement for his Liberal riding. It’s Peter Yuen singing a ballad for the CCP while in uniform. Does Mark Carney approve of this new candidate?"

Good riddance to all the Liberal bills that Trudeau just culled - "The online harms (censorship) bill? Dead.  The Liberals were already backing off Bill C-63, having announced in early December that the hulking piece of legislation would be split in two in hopes of making at least parts of it into law. Now, the whole thing is off the table. It’s mostly good news: the draft online harms law would have subjected social media companies operating in Canada to a new government bureaucracy in the name of “safety.” Moreover, it would have introduced the vague crime of “hate crime” and tasked the Canadian Human Rights Commission with regulating comments online.  Now, this also means the death of the parts of C-63 that worked to crack down on child sexual abuse online, but even that had its flaws.  Also dead is that bill that would have made thousands of people around the world eligible for Canadian citizenship.  Bill C-71, if you remember, would give the children of Canadians born abroad citizenship through descent, as long as the parents can establish a “substantial connection” to Canada. The guardrail wouldn’t be a secure one, since some judges don’t believe that there are any citizens who lack a connection to the country. The bill’s proponents marketed it as a remedy to a rare problem that sometimes afflicts Canadian families who live abroad, such as military families. However, in trying to solve their problems, the bill would have made it much easier for citizenship to be obtained by the grandchildren of birth tourists (people who travel to Canada to give birth, which secures Canadian citizenship for their child).  Lesser-known Senate bills of grave consequence are in the grave, too, including a bill that would have allowed every minority group to establish its own healing lodges (that is, low-security incarceration facilities for prisoners).  Bill S-230 would have required a lot worse, too. If passed, the law would require the Correctional Service of Canada to approve all requests by prisoners to transfer to their respective healing lodges, unless a court were to decide that such a transfer was “not to be in the interests of justice.” Introduced by the same senator jockeying for identity-based healing lodges, was Bill S-233, which is also now dead. It would have required the government to create a Universal Basic Income framework that would cover anyone in Canada over the age of 17 — even non-Canadians like temporary foreign workers, permanent residents and asylum seekers. Though it was more a concept of a plan and didn’t set out any dollar figures, the bill would have opened the door to even more unproductive spending. And finally, the Senate bill that would have commandeered Canadian banks to regulate the climate impact of its clients has met its timely end as well. The draconian Bill S-243, which was midway through the Senate, would have allowed the federal financial regulator to mandate banks to increase the amount of capital clients need to finance loans related to the fossil fuel industry. The bill would have also mandated that corporate directors in the finance industry uphold the federal government’s climate commitments, violating the public-private boundary that free countries are supposed to respect.  “The bill would effectively discourage — in some cases probably even block — financing of pipeline operators, natural gas distributors and fuel companies”... Also dead is the capital gains inclusion rate hike... Not all bills before Parliament will die, unfortunately.  Private members’ bills that start in the House of Commons are immune to prorogation, according to House rules. That means that the jurisdiction-defying school food program bill (which comes with all sorts of cultural restraints), Bill C-322, will live to see another session.  As will C-332, which would criminalize “coercive control” — that is, behaviour that makes a person’s spouse or partner that makes the other person feel unsafe. The latter is an honourable goal, but the way it’s drafted is so broad that it risks capturing relationships that, though toxic, aren’t dangerous."