U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel posted a controversial tweet on the social media platform X, two days before Biden’s news conference.
“President Xi’s cabinet lineup is now resembling Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None,” Emanuel wrote. “First, Foreign Minister Qin Gang goes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now Defense Minister Li Shangfu hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks. Who’s going to win this unemployment race? China’s youth or Xi’s cabinet?”
Emanuel’s jibe about the recent disappearances from the public eye of senior Chinese officials is another sign that the Biden administration has gained insight into some likely chaos in China’s internal affairs.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
“Brandon Hunter useless at 42,” read the article.
Diesel Squeeze
The world’s oil refiners are struggling to make enough of the fuel that powers vast swaths of the global economy.
In northwest Europe, benchmark diesel futures have topped $1,000 a ton, trading at a 10-year seasonal high. In New York, the fuel is at its most expensive in three decades, and it’s a similar story in Asia.
Diesel-type fuels aren’t just used by drivers of trucks and cars. They’re also consumed in farming, construction and manufacturing, by trains and ships, even in heating. The world may be trying to move on from oil, but petroleum prices still matter.
Costly fuel typically spurs refiners to make more, increasing supply and ultimately bringing prices down. But this year, a slew of factors have made that difficult.
A sweltering summer in the Northern Hemisphere led to cuts in oil processing. Meanwhile, some large new refineries have been slow to start. Many plants have also closed, with 3.9 million barrels a day shuttered in recent years, International Energy Agency data show.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Good: Jury clears three men of plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer
It’s Good To Be Queen
Governor General Mary Simon logged thousands of kilometres by government jet to live in Nova Scotia rather than the 175-room Rideau Hall mansion in Ottawa. Simon yesterday disclosed she decided to make Nova Scotia her home “during the pandemic.”
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Trudeau says the heads of large grocery stores need to come up with a plan to stabilize food prices:
"Let me be very clear: If their plan doesn't provide real relief … then we will take further action and we are not ruling anything out, including tax measures." pic.twitter.com/gjBHHGY4ac
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 14, 2023
More: The Trudeau Grocery Gaffe
The numbers are in, and they’re staggering! Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up for this next gem. Are you ready? The cumulative inflation for your food from December 2021 to June 2023 is, brace yourself, a staggering 18.2%. That’s right, in less then three years nearly one-fifth of your money’s buying power has evaporated, just like that! Poof! But here’s the kicker: Trudeau had this very data in his hands in a report by the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food — a report that he commissioned since last June. And yet, what does he do? Yesterday, almost four months after the report was published – opts for the political theatrics of summoning grocery CEOs and flirting with the tax hammer.
Don Martin is scathing – a reality of sorts finally got through to Trudeau this week at the Liberal caucus retreat.
Diversity Is Our Strength
“A TO funeral home sends 5 dead back per month.”
My blood's boiling & you're about to feel the same way.
It's 's international students. Not them, but the diabolical, complex, & unimaginal scheme to fuel 's growth.
Here's how manufactured an exploitation machine & sold it as social good.
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— Stephen Punwasi ️☃️ (@StephenPunwasi) September 15, 2023
The full, revolting scam explained here.
Via @buperac – Tried to hire a machinist, interviewed a guy from India that is a mechanical engineer (they all have this fake degree) then went to a hole in the wall tech school in Ontario. This guy had over 10 years of machining in Canada, we did a working interview and he didn’t even know the fucking basics of machining. The easiest questions he could not answer one of them correctly. We will not hire from India because of this, it has happened to us 3 times so far with fake degrees and diplomas.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has been indicted by special counsel David Weiss on felony gun charges.
The charges bring renewed legal pressure on the younger Biden after a plea agreement he struck with prosecutors imploded in recent months.
The younger Biden has been charged with one count of False Statement in Purchase of a Firearm, one count of False Statement Related to Information Required to be Kept By Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer, and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is an Unlawful User of or Addicted to a Controlled Substance.
Prosecutors have spent years scrutinizing Hunter Biden’s business endeavors and personal life — a probe that appeared to culminate in a plea agreement the two sides struck in June, which would have allowed him to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax offenses and enter into a pretrial diversion program to avoid prosecution on a felony gun charge.
But that deal fell apart during a court hearing in July after U.S. Judge Maryellen Noreika expressed concern over the structure of the agreement and questioned the breadth of an immunity deal, exposing fissures between the two parties.
Related.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy calls out a reporter for dismissing concerns about Joe Biden's involvement in Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.
McCarthy: "Do you have any concern? Have you asked the White House any questions?!"
Reporter: "Yes"
McCarthy: "Do you believe… pic.twitter.com/7aUG8cU14p
— Real Mac Report (@RealMacReport) September 14, 2023
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Volkswagen AG is cutting temporary workers at its main electric-vehicle factory in Germany after the phaseout of a subsidy in the country caused demand for its EVs to drop.
The manufacturer is letting go 269 people at the Zwickau plant when their 12-month contracts expire in the near future, VW said Thursday. The company expects it will have to adjust the shift schedule at the facility near the Czech border.
The fate of around 2,000 additional temporary staff remains uncertain, according to people familiar with the matter, who declined to be named because a final decision hasn’t been made yet. Corporate orders that accounted for some 70 per cent of VW-branded EVs made in Zwickau have been plummeting since aid for electric company cars expired this month, one of the people said.
End Of Oil
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development receives funding from an organization founded by a British hedge fund manager who has previously bankrolled the radical Extinction Rebellion group.
The billionaire backing the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, a key player in the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), has also donated extensively to radical Extinction Rebellion activists.
The CCICED, a joint venture between the Chinese Communist government and Canada, is chaired in part by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
Minister Guilbeault travelled to China this fall on a diplomatic mission to participate in the annual general meeting of the joint China-Canada venture.
Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), a former top adviser to Xi Jinping, is the official head chairperson of the committee, ranking number six in the CCP Politburo pecking order and currently acting as the vice-premier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Xuexiang and Guilbeault are flanked on the executive by his overseas counterpart, Huang Runqia (黄润秋), minster of ecology and environment.
Spoiler Alert
This is exactly how they gaslight and manipulate people with fear and trauma based mind control to get the vaccine. Please show this to anyone considering getting another booster. They have to know they're being manipulated intentionally.
It's never about your health, it's all… pic.twitter.com/tIRhIpughV
— Inversionism (@Inversionism) September 14, 2023
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
AB-5, called the Safe and Supportive Schools Act, passed the California State Assembly in May by a vote of 64-4 and on Thursday passed the California State Senate, 32-3. The bill would mandate an “online delivery platform and an online training curriculum to support LGBTQ cultural competency training for teachers and other certified employees.”
Not only does this training enforce transgender ideology among educators, but it also trains educators to profile those despicable “anti-LGBTQ” parents.
Also California: Among the Eureka Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence events that Ellis-Gilmore participated in was a book reading at an elementary school where a man wearing a mock-nun outfit and Ellis-Gilmore, wearing fake blond braids, a dress, and fishnet tights, read to children.
Trudeau Pricing
#Trudeau pricing. It's transitory. #yxe @WalmartCanada pic.twitter.com/XBWHkAde1G
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 13, 2023
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’
Its governor’s press office said in June, “In April 2022, Governor Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to charter buses to transport migrants from Texas to Washington, D.C. The Governor added New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia as additional drop-off locations last year and most recently added Denver as a busing destination last month. Since beginning the migrant busing strategy last spring, more than 21,600 migrants have been transported to these self-declared sanctuary cities while providing much-needed relief to Texas’ overwhelmed border communities.”
Battles are usually fought with horses, tanks or aeroplanes. Greg Abbott used buses. As of June, he shipped 500 busloads of illegal aliens to sanctuary cities. The shipments continue.
You want ’em, you got ’em.
It turns out, sanctuary cities don’t want them.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
What do you do if you’re a news reporter and the biggest story of the day, if not the election, falls right into your lap?
Well, if you work for CBC Winnipeg, the answer appears to be ‘news be damned’ if it doesn’t fit the narrative being promoted at the moment.
The Black Rod happened to be on the scene when a deranged man smashed out the windows of a clearly marked CBC vehicle on Main Street in broad daylight Monday afternoon.
The female reporter cowered in the front seat, weeping while speaking to someone on her cell phone. The male camera man huddled in fear in the back seat as he, also, talked on his phone. Neither of the news crew was using their phone to capture video of the attack.
The car was parked outside of Our Place/Chez Nous at 676 Main St. just south of Higgins. The CBC team had obviously just interviewed some of the directors of the drop-in centre that’s closing after 30 years on the Strip amidst, as their CBC report later that evening put it, “growing safety concerns for those who staff it.”
Related: CBC has 144 corporate directors making six-figure salaries .
h/t Calgary Rick
Shovels 1 – Knowledge Keepers 0
Jonathan Kay delivers the grim news.
A group called Mohawk Mothers has been seeking to delay/block McGill U’s “New Vic” project in Montreal—based on claims of secret burials & unmarked Indigenous graves on the site. Today, @mcgillu’s provost reported that no graves were found, including in areas identified by GPR. (no word yet on whether McGill’s leadership team will be indicted on charges of “denialism”)
The determined Mothers aren’t about to let colonialist concepts like “facts” stop them.
Interesting Times
According to an internal source from #China, following #XiJinping's recent visit to #Heilongjiang Province, two significant decisions have been made:
1. System-Wide 20% Salary Reduction: A 20% reduction in salaries will be implemented across the entire governmental system,… pic.twitter.com/mVOehJSYbv— Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng 曾錚真言 (@jenniferzeng97) September 12, 2023
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Everything you ever wanted to know about quenched mafic inclusions.
“… recruiting numbers are lower than Kamala’s IQ”
Why fight for an elite that hates you? Here at home, we see normal, traditional Americans dragged through the dirt by a garbage ruling class that wants to castrate our kids, seize our weapons, and lock us out of political participation. When we protest, we’re terrorists – little did we know that it was an assault on Our Democracy for those of us who served and our families to presume to participate in it.
Our service means nothing to them. We are expendable and ignorable, unless we get uppity, and then we get their flunkies’ full attention. We just saw a guy with two Purple Hearts get nearly two decades in prison for a rowdy ruckus on Capitol Hill, a minor scuffle (except for when the government killed an unarmed protester) that was dwarfed in intensity and violence by the Los Angeles riots I helped suppress while in uniform. But our ruling class approved of scumbags like the Los Angeles rioters just like it approves of the BLM and Antifa scumbags who ran rampant across the country in 2020 and killed dozens of people. One of them burned a guy alive, and the Department of Justice, the same one that wants to steal decades of life from veterans for the crime of having dissident political views, actually went to bat for the killer and explained that this arsonist was merely upset by systematic racism or some other garbage. He got just 10 years.
Related: “I can think of nothing more un-American than to give the number one state sponsor of terrorism $6 billion…on 9/11!”