Meng and the Michaels: why China’s embrace of hostage diplomacy is a warning to other nations

“China was sending a message not just to Canada, but to every other country in the world that they take hostages. And if you step out of line from their policies or don’t toe the line the way Beijing has instructed you to do, then they will take retaliatory action and kidnap your citizens,” said Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s graduate school of public and international affairs. “This is the behaviour of a medieval kingdom – not a 2021 superpower.”

China don’t give a damn. Neither does our China class.

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The Strange Case of Anti-Christian Christianity

What to make of Christians embracing the U.N. and denying Christ?

Spain.

Visiting a classroom in a Catholic school, of a well-known prelature. I’m surprised to notice that they have removed the crucifix that used to be on the wall. Instead, outside the classroom, on a cork board, there is a huge mural colored by the children. It represents an enlarged multicolored logo of the 2030 Agenda, and a load of children’s postcards contain the students’ proposals for implementing the 17 UN goals. You know what they are: end poverty, raise taxes daily, ride donkeys on highways, have abortions at all hours, and recite the litanies of the criminal Tedros Adhanom every night.

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HATE CRIME HOAX: Racist Graffiti That Led To Walk-Outs Was Painted By Black Student

Last week, racist graffiti was found in multiple bathrooms at Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Students took the opportunity to skip class by staging a protest walkout, with some students cursing at school administrators and others crying, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Students took turns claiming they had been the victim of prejudice. Parkway Superintendent Keith Marty sent a letter to parents on the day of the walkout to condemn the racist messages.

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Suspect in ATM attacks blew himself up filming tutorial, says Europol

Dutch and German police have broken up a criminal gang involved in making video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines after one of its members blew himself up in the process.

One suspect was killed and another was badly hurt in the Dutch city of Utrecht when a trial run went wrong at an illegal “training centre” for explosives attacks on ATMs, Europol said.

Police eventually made nine arrests during an 18-month operation targeting the gang, which the EU’s police agency said was linked to at least 15 bombings on ATMs in Germany that resulted in losses of €2.15m (£1.5m).

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Kingston, Ont., pub loses liquor licence for refusing to enforce vaxx pass rule

A Kingston, Ont., sports pub can no longer serve alcohol as Ontario’s alcohol licensing agency, the AGCO, has removed its licence for breaking pandemic rules.

The decision comes about a week after J.A.K.K. Tuesdays shared on Facebook it wouldn’t enforce the province’s proof-of-vaccine rules, which came into effect Sept. 22.

The AGCO said in a Thursday news release officials with the pub told the agency on Sept. 10 it wouldn’t enforce the Reopening Ontario Act, which covers vaccine rules along with what’s allowed under Step 3 of the province’s reopening plan.

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California scrambles to ban ‘ghost guns’ as untraceable weapons’ popularity soars

Cities across California are ramping up efforts to try to stop the flow of so-called ghost guns into their jurisdictions, as the do-it-yourself weapons appear with increasing frequency at homicide scenes, traffic stops and community gun buybacks.

As state and federal laws meant to bring ghost guns into compliance with traditional firearm laws await implementation, local officials and prosecutors across California are increasingly resorting to bans and lawsuits to regulate the weapons in their cities.

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Will Britain Shiver? – This winter, the U.K.’s wrongheaded energy policy may test public devotion to environmentalism.

Britain this winter might perform an interesting if discomfiting experiment to find out how deep is its people’s practical commitment to the environment. My guess is that it is not terribly deep.

There is much talk of a coming energy crisis if the winter is severe. A possibility exists that the lights will go out, factories will close, and hot water and central heating will be lacking. A population unused to such hardships may express its discontent by means not wholly peaceful or constitutional.

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China owed $385bn – including ‘hidden debt’ from poorer nations, says report

Researchers have identified debts of at least $385bn (£286bn) owed by 165 countries to China for ”belt and road initiative” (BRI) projects, with loans systematically underreported to international bodies such as the World Bank.

The four-year study by US-based research lab AidData said the debt burdens were kept off the public balance sheets through the use of special purpose and semi-private loans, and were “substantially larger than research institutions, credit rating agencies, or intergovernmental organisations with surveillance responsibilities previously understood”.

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The Real Palestinian ‘Heroes’: Terrorists

While many international media outlets focused their attention on the escape of six Palestinian inmates from an Israeli prison on September 6, as well as the ensuing dramatic manhunt launched by thousands of Israeli police officers and soldiers, only a few – if any – reported on the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership’s ongoing glorification of terrorists.

The PA lionization of Palestinian terrorists, including those who have been caught by the Israeli security forces, tried and are currently serving prison sentences, is not new. In fact, this is a practice that dates back to the first years of the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964.

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Female jailbirds furious over possible trans killer transfer

… Yostin Murillo and David Beak were convicted of first-degree murder for Estrada’s slaying and sentenced to life in prison earlier this month. Murillo — who was supposed to have been booted from the country in 2015 — wants easy time.

Like a lot of other enterprising jailbirds playing Corrections Canada like a fiddle, Murillo now identifies as a woman. Just the latest violent criminal who wants to do their time in a women’s prison. Their future cellmates aren’t happy.

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Are You a White Christian Conservative? Joy Reid Probably Thinks You’re a Terrorist

It was a potpourri of evil and stupid Wednesday night on MSNBC’s The ReidOut as host Joy Reid and a conga line of like-minded guests shoveled more poison to viewers by talking about everything from tens of millions of Americans embracing “Republican extremism” to the GOP consisting of criminal delinquents you shouldn’t leave alone with children to white Christians being deep-seated racists filled with hatred for Black people instead of love Jesus.

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