May 1st was long ago appropriated by communism as its worldwide holiday and, unfortunately, the civilized world has yet to take it back. The latest murders by Marxist regimes bring the death toll from communism ever closer to 100 million, but there are still marches in celebration of the ideology everywhere, including American cities.
h/t DS
Cuba just endured a nationwide blackout of the electric grid, lasting for days — the third such disaster in six months. The population has succumbed to despair.
“There are no words to describe this,” a young Cuban YouTuber exclaimed. “This is hell.”
Yet the blackout scarcely made the news. Journalists and intellectuals have fallen out of love with Cuba, so nobody is asking the obvious question: How can any government allow such a humanitarian horror to continue?
Canada’s future.
Easter’s coming up and you can be sure that many young Canadians, fresh off of their first semester at university, will ruffle their relatives’ feathers at the Easter dinner table with glowing tales of this wonderful, beautiful, new thing they’ve discovered: Socialism.
With the Ontario and federal elections on the way, we will soon see if working-class voters in Canada are turning to the populist right. That is certainly the case in other countries. The recent U.S. election saw a major class realignment as those without a college degree overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. So did union households. Will we see something similar play out here?
Canadian politics of course differs from the U.S. in many respects. One obvious difference is that we have a social-democratic party that has been historically anchored in the working class in some regions of the country.
Working people don’t want what the “intellectual commies” are selling they tuned out long ago. The public service unions are predators and do not represent the working class. It’s that easy.
On Dec. 26, 1991, the upper house of the Soviet legislature officially voted to end the empire that was the Soviet Union. The day before, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last ruler, announced his resignation, and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin had the Russian tricolour raised over the Kremlin. Geopolitically, the event’s historical significance rivaled Napoleon’s abdication on June 22, 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo, and the end of the Nazi-led German empire on May 8, 1945. All three events marked the end of a hegemonic challenge to the global balance of power. For the subjects of the Soviet Union, December 26, 1991, meant the end of an evil empire that rose from the ashes of the First World War.
As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books.
But he also had tasks his party comrades could know nothing about: snooping on mail, copying phone numbers from scratch pads and rummaging through waste baskets.
Hadesbeck, known to his RCMP handlers as agent 810, would pass along any information he could glean to the national police force.
If these events were current Trudeau would have him arrested and his bank accounts frozen.
There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded from Whittaker Chambers’ fight against communism.
In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and passing secret U.S. government documents from traitorous New Dealers to his Soviet handlers in Washington, D.C. He broke with communism in 1937-38, then joined the staff at Time, where for the next decade he fought a one-man literary Cold War against communism at home and abroad, including an effort to warn the country about the Chinese communists during World War II and after.
Canada’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism was finally unveiled in Ottawa on Thursday, but the controversy that has followed the project over the past decade continues.
Etobicoke Centre MP Yvan Baker was expected to speak at the memorial’s public unveiling at the Garden of the Provinces and Territories on Wellington Street, but no one from the Liberal government attended the ceremony.
“We are very disappointed that the prime minister cannot be here, or chose not to be here,” said Robert Tmej, a member of the board of directors of Tribute to Liberty, the registered charity behind the project.
The transformation of the medieval world into the modern world came about with the idea that man could and should transform his lot in life. The liberal individualism of the Enlightenment however was soon countered by reactionary movements, feudal and socio-feudal, seeking to put the genie of individual autonomy back in the box through collectivist movements.
Among the most prominent of these was what would eventually be called socialism. While early socialist movements had been a radical Christian heresy emphasizing communal living, these experiments invariably failed on a local level, leaving behind a trail of wrecked lives.
Ahn Nguyen fled Vietnam with her parents when the communists took over in 1975. They lost their home and land but considered themselves fortunate to be able to start over again in Canada.
She then met her husband, Tien, and 35 years ago the family began fishing for elvers — tiny translucent baby eels netted in Maritime rivers and shipped to Asia where they are grown for food.
It was 1967. America was two years away from landing on the moon and Chinese Communists were eating people. The Communists hadn’t turned cannibal because of hunger, but politics.
Mao’s cultural revolution had already led to brutal lynchings of teachers and principals by the Red Guards unleashed by the Communist regime to purge all ideological deviation, but beating political opponents to death wasn’t enough for the radical mobs in the Guangxi region.
The Department of Canadian Heritage is being told that more than half of the 550 names on the Memorial to the Victims of Communism should be removed because of potential links to the Nazis or questions about affiliations with fascist groups, according to government records.
As originally planned, there were to be 553 entries on the Ottawa memorial’s Wall of Remembrance.
Communism killed well over 100 Million, making Hitler look a piker.
Was it really necessary to include any names at all?
Last week, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre sent out a tweet in honour of Black Ribbon Day, a European Union-originated day of “Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.” Because Poilievre is always heavily motivated by making exactly the right people lose their marbles, the text of the tweet read thus :
“On the 85th anniversary of Black Ribbon Day, we remember the victims of Soviet Socialism & National Socialism (Nazism). May we never forget the countless atrocities committed by these socialist ideologies, and may we honour those who fought to liberate Europe. Canada must always stand against socialism for freedom and democracy.”
Who wants you to believe taxes have risen 2000 per cent? Would-be Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre for a start
If we end up with Pierre Poilievre as prime minister, it will be partly because of all the groundwork done by right-wing think tanks in distorting the public debate over taxes.
Most notably, the Fraser Institute, generously funded by wealthy interests, has been using its ample resources for decades to turn Canadians into tax-haters, to disconnect taxes in the public’s mind from all the benefits, services, programs and infrastructure that taxes provide.
Key to promoting this anti-tax agenda has been grossly exaggerating the actual tax burden on Canadians.
Marxist activists and historians, along with their left-wing allies often make the claim that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under Joseph Stalin should somehow receive our thanks and praise for the defeat of Nazism. They often back this up with the statistical figure that many more Soviet soldiers died defeating Nazi Germany than American soldiers or the Western Allies.
While this statistic is true, it does not mean that the USSR should be thanked for defeating Nazi Germany, or that without the USSR, Nazi Germany would not have been defeated. This myth will be debunked thoroughly in this article.
