Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
(Bumped for more).
More emerging on the upheaval at Trudeau Foundation. La Presse citing sources alleging conflict of interest and lack of transparency from Foundation members that accepted massive PRC-linked cheque, now turns out name on it doesn’t look legitimate. La Presse cites internal Trudeau Foundation review.
As this story evolves, the perception issues surrounding the Special Rapporteur’s prior links to this Trudeau family foundation won’t help the argument that he is totally distant from entities subject of PRC interference efforts
Update: The Globe & Mail lays out the full stink in English: Un-returnable Chinese donation triggered governance crisis at Trudeau foundation
The taxpayer-backed Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was plunged into crisis in March, several weeks after the Globe and Mail reported that a major 2016 donation ultimately came from the Chinese state rather than a Beijing billionaire, according to an internal document obtained by La Presse.
Shortly after the Globe story broke, the foundation publicly announced it would return $140,000 to the Chinese benefactor.
But the document says problems cropped up when the foundation began preparations to send back the money.
The foundation’s board was alerted that the name on the reimbursement cheque to return the Chinese donation would not be the name of the real donor.
This stalled plans to return the cheque because the name of the true donor, according to the document, did not appear anywhere on the accounting books of the foundation, La Presse reported. It said such a reimbursement would therefore have been unlawful, according to the internal foundation document.
The Montreal newspaper reported that eight members of the foundation board, who were not directors at the time the donation was received in 2016, then demanded that an independent investigation be carried out. They asked those longer-serving members of the board to recuse themselves from any discussion of the matter because they were in a conflict of interest.
One source told La Presse the Chinese donation ultimately turned out to be a “stink bomb” that led to an internal crisis of governance at the foundation.
The newspaper also reported that members of the board of directors even considered asking the office of the federal auditor general to investigate the matter.
These revelations come after the head of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and its board of directors resigned Tuesday, blaming the political backlash that followed a revelation that the true benefactor behind a large financial gift from a Beijing billionaire was the Chinese government.
The foundation announced in early March that it planned to return $140,000 to the wealthy Chinese donor after The Globe and Mail reported that the contribution was part of a Beijing-directed influence operation to curry favour with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
BOOM.
Y2Kyoto: Moby Sick
Greenpeace launched its “Save the Whales” campaign on April 27, 1975. But in the ensuing years, Greenpeace has gone full Orwell. Greenpeace is no longer interested in saving the whales. It may actually be aiding and abetting the Biden administration and the offshore wind industry in killing whales supposedly to “save the planet.”Since December, dozens of whales and dolphins have washed up dead along East Coast beaches, especially the New Jersey coast. There are no eyewitnesses to, and no video of, the deaths so no one knows for sure what is killing the animals.
The deaths are coincident, however, with an increase in activity by the offshore wind industry as it surveys locations to erect its turbines. These surveys include seismic testing that involves bouncing sounds off the bottom of the ocean. It is possible that these sounds impair sound-sensitive whales and dolphins in such a way that deaths can result.
Green activists certainly believed as much when the Natural Resources Defense Council sued the U.S. Navy over its sonar testing in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Greens also oppose seismic testing when conducted by the oil industry in its offshore activities.
The Biden administration denies that there is evidence that the whales and dolphins are being harmed by the offshore wind industry.
“At this point, there is no evidence to support speculation that noise resulting from wind development-related site characterization surveys could potentially cause mortality of whales, and no specific links between recent large whale mortalities and currently ongoing surveys,” says the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
And not only does Greenpeace embrace the agency’s denial, but it denounces links between offshore wind seismic testing and the whale and dolphin deaths as a fossil fuel industry-funded “right-wing disinformation campaign.”
So what’s the truth?
Once again, there are no eyewitness or video. But there is some inconvenient paperwork.
As it turns out, the federal agency has actually issued permits to the offshore wind industry to kill whales, dolphins and even seals. And not just one or two members of the species.
A currently proposed permit would allow New Jersey-based offshore wind developer Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, L.P., , a partnership of foreign-owned wind companies, to kill 42 whales, 2,678 dolphins, and 1,472 seals.
Not very green. But it gets worse.
Among the 42 whales that Atlantic Shore Offshore Wind has been licensed to kill are 13 whales that are listed as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. Three whales are the North Atlantic right whale, a species federal regulators are wielding to wreck the Maine lobster and groundfishing industries on behalf of the offshore wind industry.
And this is not the only such permit. There are others already issued with more on the way. Each one allows for the killing of dozens of whales and thousands of dolphins and seals. And all this permitted killing is just for the survey phase of construction. There is the actual erection of wind turbines, and their operations and maintenance still to come.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
New documents obtained from the National Archives appear to reveal the direct involvement of the Biden Administration in the FBI’s controversial and widely-panned raid on President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida last year.
As reported by Breitbart, the documents were obtained by the legal watchdog group America First Legal (AFL). At the time of the raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8th, 2022, the Biden Administration claimed that it was “stunned” by the development, while the National Archives claimed that it had “not been involved in the DOJ investigation.” The excuse that the FBI and Attorney General Merrick Garland gave for carrying out the authoritarian and unprecedented raid was that President Trump allegedly possessed several classified documents, which had to be returned to the National Archives.
However, the new documents reveal that the National Archives ultimately did cooperate with the Biden FBI and DOJ due to a “special access request” from the Biden Administration, which was filed on behalf of the DOJ.
One of the facts exposed by the documents is that John Laster, the Archives official responsible for handling all access requests for presidential records, was in direct communication with the FBI as he discussed preparing the seized Trump documents for FBI review on August 23rd, 2022.
In October, the National Archives told senior Republicans Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and James Comer (R-Ky.) about the Trump documents, which the Archives “discovered that they contained classified national security information,” at which point “NARA’s OIG (Office of the Inspector General) subsequently referred the matter to DOJ on February 9, 2022.”
But the discrepancy arises from Laster’s decision to directly coordinate with the FBI himself, thus discrediting the Archives’ claims that the OIG acted independently of the Archives’ leadership. Furthermore, the Biden Administration’s attempt to use “special access request” as a pretext for a law enforcement raid is an unprecedented abuse of presidential records law.
“The special access statute authorizes special access requests to an incumbent president only when the records in question are needed for ‘the conduct of current business’ of the White House,” a spokesman for America First Legal explained further. “Providing documents to the DOJ for purposes of a criminal investigation is not the ‘current business’ of the White House.”
Reed Rubinstein, senior counselor at AFL, added that “the evidence further suggests that Biden officials in the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice unlawfully abused their power and then lied about it to the American people.”
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
FBI Undercover Agent Developed Plan to Spy on Catholics
“Big Black C**** “
ZeroHedge – Throughout the interview and afterwards, Elon proceeded to make, and promote, BBC (‘big black cock’) jokes, as is the only appropriate move given the circumstance.
Those People
Dear Leader is terribly upset that people are trashing the Trudeau Foundation.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: When a boy likes pink. The new face of Marxism. Wokeness at colonial Williamsburg. Biden is marketing censorship. Apparently Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist hates you (JW). Biden pushes British prime minister aside, so he could sniff a woman’s hair. Lessons from the Boston Marathon bombing. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Education in Doug Ford’s Ontario. And education in Ottawa. They left out a letter in the alphabet. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug. They will need more healing lodges. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Winnipeg. There he will lecture students and his loyal media about global warming. Will pay Ukraine forever. Hans Gruber is looking for a slogan.
Today In Islam: Don’t upset the Muslims (JW). And Canada brings back four Islamic State brides (JW).
Neil Oliver: Should Charles be king?
I Question His Motives
Via social media, Mr Dolatowski has aired his view that “Trans women aren’t a threat if I use the bathroom” – meaning, one assumes, that other dysmorphic men aren’t a threat to him – while also insisting, “I know I’m not a threat to anyone.” Except, of course, 10-and-12-year-old girls in supermarket toilets. Much like the ones Mr Dolatowski filmed and sexually assaulted.
Oh, there’s more. Because the twisted farce must go on.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
“So, apparently, I’m an extremist.”
Let That Sink In
Over 1.4 million people are currently listening to Elon musk talking to BBC things are getting heated https://t.co/8WfdTBcZ68
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 12, 2023
@stillgray – Elon Musk is absolutely embarrassing this idiot BBC reporter on stage about the supposed rise in hate speech. The guy can’t name a single example of hate speech.Update: clip here.
OMG
BBC slug: So you took away the Covid misinformation labels
Elon: You mean about the BBC's misinformation about Covid? For example not reporting the side effect of vaccinations because the British govt pressured you?
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 12, 2023
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He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Newly released documents show that a federal government department asked Facebook and Twitter to delete a newspaper article that it felt contained errors — but both social-media giants denied the request.
The request to remove social-media posts that linked to an unspecified Toronto Sun article came from a director of communications on Sept. 27, 2021, according to information prepared by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Documents say that staff at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, which reports to Parliament through the immigration minister but is otherwise an independent body, believed the article contained “serious errors of fact risking (and) undermining public confidence in the independence of the board as well as the integrity of the refugee determination system.” The board did not respond to questions from The Canadian Press.
The social-media companies ultimately said that they were denying the request because the article wasn’t their original content.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
ANGRY: Justin Trudeau lashes out at Conservatives when asked by a reporter about the shock resignation of the entire Trudeau Foundation board. pic.twitter.com/EuN1HCXYP6
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) April 11, 2023
Succinct: I never heard about the Chinese Communist Party pouring donations into the Canadian Kidney Foundation or the Special Olympics. It seems the only charity they were interested in was the Trudeau Foundation. I wonder why?
How It Started
How it’s going…
I didn’t say what you clearly heard me say
At least that’s how the federal Justice Minister is spinning it on this natural resources dustup with the provinces. Moe, Smith and Stefanson are not happy.
These canola crushing plants aren’t because everyone decided they want Becel
Yorkton’s Louis Dreyfus canola crushing plant to double in size, driven by the Clean Fuel Standard Saskatchewan’s government opposes.
This is a real conundrum for the provincial government. The mantra, for decades, is to bring value-added processing here. But in this case, it’s to replace petroleum with biofuels. Which, in turn, takes farmland out of food production and puts it into fuel production. That might be okay, if everyone on this planet was properly fed. They aren’t,
This is a real conundrum for the provincial government. The mantra, for decades, is to bring value-added processing here. But in this case, it’s to replace petroleum with biofuels. Which, in turn, takes farmland out of food production and puts it into fuel production. That might be okay, if everyone on this planet was properly fed. They aren’t,
My mom lives directly across the fence from both this plant and the JRI plant. She was there long before they were built in 2009. They were both built directly upwind of the city of Yorkton. And they smell like the contents of a diaper of a four-month-old baby, ALL THE TIME. Oddly enough, the prevailing winds sometimes sweep that smell right past the acreage and straight into the heart of Yorkton. You can often clearly smell it clear across the city, from Broadway to the Parkland Mall. While that may be the smell of money for the few hundred people that work at them, it’s definitely not for the 16,000 other residents.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Two years ago, a colleague entered a prestigious graduate program. When I asked how the opening days of classes had gone, she described something akin to a dreary Maoist struggle session. Discussion focused on tedious strategies for avoiding the barely discernible microaggressions that would cause fragile classmates and others to crumple into apoplexy. Students dutifully climbed to their particular rungs on the intersectional ladder and admitted the sins that indelibly stain those on their particular rungs. Conversations signaled which sorts of viewpoints would be unwelcome. The best strategy, she thought, was to remain quiet and nod reflexively when absolutely necessary. I wondered how this particular department could have sunk so far, but in the following months, I realized that the problem had suddenly metastasized in universities of every type across America.
Sure, let’s give instruction manuals to eco-terrorists. It’ll work out well
They actually made a movie called “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” It opened April 7.
As a side note, when it comes to giving unhinged people bright ideas, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, appear to have been closely modelled on the plot of the Tom Clancy Novel Debt of Honor, a 1994 book. The conclusion of the book saw a bereaved airline pilot fly an empty but fully-fueled Boeing 747 airliner into the United States Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress, killing the president and nearly every member of Congress as well as the Supreme Court. Seven years later, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists attempted a very similar attack, with the last plane, United Flight 93, widely believed to have been targeted at the U.S. Capitol. It was brought down by its own passengers, who fought the terrorists for control of the plane.
Brokeback Covid
Even though the medical justification for nearly every Covid abatement measure has fallen away like the layers of an onion over the past two years, a few stubborn holdouts still remain.
The prohibition against lunchtime speaking varied depending on the teacher, according to Stein’s two children, and the parents of current students. (The school has no cafeteria, so lunch is eaten in classrooms.) Stein’s 13-year-old daughter said that, last year, her seventh-grade teacher often played movies like Elf and Coraline while the students ate. But, she said, there were also plenty of days where they simply ate in silence. If the students had to ask the teacher a question, she told me, they had to first don their masks, and then take them off again to continue eating.
During a parade in spring 2022, the band members were all masked. This meant the wind instrument players wore masks with openings in the center so they could blow into their flutes and trumpets and clarinets. Stein told me she felt embarrassed as the children marched by hordes of unmasked townspeople lining the streets.