Biden’s First Signal on China: Fond Memories

Biden’s First Signal on China: Fond Memories

“I was asked a long time ago when I was with Xi Jinping,” said President Joe Biden in his first hours in office, as he swore in officials, “and I was on the Tibetan plateau with him, and he asked me in a private dinner he and I and we each had an interpreter he said can you define America for me, and I said yes and I meant it. I said I can do it in one word, one word: possibilities. We believe anything is possible if we set our mind to it, unlike any other country in the world.”

In Beijing, Communist Party leaders must be ecstatic. For one thing, during the 10-minute ceremony Biden mentioned no other country.

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A little good news… Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale in hospital with Covid-19

One of Fusilier Lee Rigby’s killers is seriously ill in hospital with Covid-19, the BBC has learned.

Michael Adebowale is serving a 45-year jail sentence for murdering Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, in May 2013.

Adebowale was removed from Broadmoor last week following a deterioration in his condition after he contracted Covid-19.

Occasionally even the China Flu does something right.

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Migrants Increasing at ‘Concerning Rate’ on Southern Border, Says CBP Agent

As caravans build up in Honduras, migrants are increasing at a “concerning rate” at the United States southern border, according to Matthew Hudak, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief patrol agent of the Laredo sector in Texas. He warns that immigration is just a piece of the threat coupled with the pandemic health risk and other crimes along the border.

“Like everybody, we’re tracking the formation of these caravans in Central America,” said Hudak. The Laredo Sector is one of nine CBP sectors along the southern border. It contains about 135 miles of the international border with Mexico.

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Canadians want online hate and racism curbed, even at cost of freedom of speech, poll finds

Canadians want online hate and racism curbed, even at cost of freedom of speech, poll finds

Most Canadians want the government and social media companies to do more to curtail hateful and racist behaviour online even if it diminishes freedom of speech and privacy, according to a national opinion survey.

The findings add to fraught debates over free speech and censorship, the power of Big Tech, the boundary between opinions and abuse, and how best to maintain free speech in an omnipresent online world.

One poll commissioned by a biased organization that sucks on the government teat. I refuse to believe Canadians are this stupid.

This reeks of government propaganda.

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Antifa rioters smash up Tacoma in rampage over cop driving through crowd

Antifa rioters started fires and trashed buildings in Tacoma, Washington, in outrage over viral video of a police officer driving his squad car through a crowd of illegal street racers.

Videos showed numerous fires and businesses smashed up late Sunday as more than 100 people took to the streets close to where the officer had sped through a crowd the previous night, running over at least one person.

Ironic that Antifa are “anti-maskers!”

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Sarah Sanders announces bid to become Arkansas governor

Sarah Sanders, a Trump administration press secretary and the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, on Monday announced her bid for the Arkansas governorship.

Sanders made the announcement Monday via a video.

I’d vote for her.

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Justin’s plan for you – Sustainable Green Impoverishment: Biden rolls out Trump-like ‘Made in America’ executive order

President Biden spent the first week of his administration taking executive action reversing many of former President Donald Trump’s signature policies, but on Monday, he will sign an order that has the hallmarks of Trumpism.

Biden will direct his federal government on Monday to update laws and regulations governing how it spends roughly $600 billion a year on contracts for goods and services. The order attempts to strengthen existing provisions giving workers and manufacturers in the United States preferential treatment, some of which haven’t been changed since 1954.

Specifically, Biden is asking agencies to tighten the requirements that need to be met for a product to be considered made in the U.S. He’s also requesting that they make it tougher for the government to justify buying foreign goods because of the price.


Forget Keystone! Justin will ask for an exemption for Canadian goods.

Yea, sure he will, just not too hard.

And when Biden’s people say no or grant some concession that likely benefits Quebec above all others he’ll secretly smile that his plan for a “green economy” has just been given another booster shot.

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Ontario reports 1,958 Kung Flu cases

Ontario reports 1,958 Kung Flu cases


Highly contagious U.K. variant of COVID-19 may have spread into community from LTC home north of Toronto

Health officials are investigating whether the British variant of COVID-19 behind a devastating outbreak at a long-term care home north of Toronto is also linked to infections at two other sites, heightening fears of community spread.

A genome sequencing test has identified the variant in six COVID-19 samples taken from Roberta Place, a long-term care home in Barrie where all but two residents are infected with the coronavirus; 40 residents and one essential caregiver have died.

On Sunday, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit announced that it has received another laboratory-confirmed case for the highly contagious and easily transmitted variant first detected in Britain.

Odd that it’s only been found in the hinterland. It isn’t in Toronto and the GTA?

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China pushes conspiracy theories on COVID origin, vaccines

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media have stoked concerns about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite rigorous trials that showed it was safe. A government spokesperson has raised the unfounded theory that the coronavirus could have emerged from a U.S. military lab, giving it more credence in China.

 

As the ruling Communist Party faces growing questioning about China’s vaccines and renewed criticism of its early COVID-19 response, it is hitting back by encouraging conspiracy theories that some experts say could cause harm.

State media and officials are sowing doubts about Western vaccines and the origin of the coronavirus in an apparent bid to deflect the attacks. Both issues are in the spotlight because of the rollout of vaccines globally and the recent arrival of a World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, to investigate the origins of the virus.

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UK serial killer offered COVID-19 vaccine before millions of vulnerable, elderly

One of the UK’s most notorious serial killers has been offered a COVID-19 jab before millions of Britain’s elderly and most vulnerable — a move condemned as a “national scandal,” according to a report.

Levi Bellfield — who murdered three people, including 13-year-old Milly Dowler — received a letter offering him a vaccine in the coming weeks even as the program has only just been rolled out to those over 70, The Sun said.

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No, this is not “getting back to normal”

No, this is not “getting back to normal”

The extinction of reason, justice and freedom on campus is now to be institutionalised as American government policy

Has there ever been such a profound and jarring disconnect between a new American president’s words and actions on his very first day in office?

In his inauguration speech, President Joe Biden hymned unity. America, he said, must “stop the shouting, and lower the temperature”. It must put behind it “anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness and hopelessness” and reaffirm “history, faith and reason”.

Yet within hours of that speech, Biden signed a slew of executive orders to set America on a path of anger, resentment, hatred, division, lawlessness and joblessness and which undermine history, faith and reason.

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French cartoonists are in trouble again: Le Monde, which defended the right to offend Islam, is more ‘Anglo-Saxon’ on the transgender issue

Rough translation – If I have been abused by the adopted half-brother of my transgender father’s partner who has become my mother, is it incest?

The freedom of a satirical cartoonist to satirise has limits even in France, it appears. The best-known, and best, French daily newspaper, Le Monde, this week bowed to some of its readers — and infuriated others — by apologising for a website cartoon which, it said, “could be interpreted” as an insult to transgender people and a “minimisation” of incest.

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Canada didn’t start Keystone XL dispute — the president did, Kenney says in rebuke of Biden

Alberta’s premier has offered another sharp rebuke of the U.S. president’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, going so far as to accuse him of showing “disrespect for America’s closest friend and ally.”

In an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney criticized newly inaugurated president Joe Biden’s decision to block the US$8-billion cross-border energy project on his first day in office.

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