Sooke
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One year ago, on this day…
In cold blood, Elias Rodriguez killed my friend Yaron and his fiancée as he was chanting "Free Free Palestine." Many things changed since then. I changed.
When people chanted "globalize the intifada," when they declared “Americans evil” or “the West genocidal”, I processed those slogans from a comfortable analytical remove, as political theater. Yaron's death ended that for me. The slogans had always been instructions. I had simply chosen to read them otherwise. Yaron and Sarah were killed, I have watched enough reactions online, from enough people in enough countries, to understand that the forgetting is not always passive. Some people were never troubled by it to begin with.
That is what frightens me, more than the killer himself. The killer was one person. The people who smiled or rejoiced are beyond counting.
Yaron and Sarah deserve to be remembered and the circumstances of their deaths deserve to be named with precision.
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The Laffer Curve exposes one of the biggest flaws in “tax the rich” politics: past a certain point, high taxes stop generating productive activity and start generating avoidance behavior instead.
The wealthy usually have the most ability to adapt by restructuring income, moving capital, raising prices, automating, reducing hiring, or passing costs onto employees and consumers.
So the rich often suffer slightly, not at all, or even profit through reduced competition, while workers and consumers absorb the damage through lower wages, higher prices, fewer opportunities, and slower growth.
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Is a single Muslim ever going to accept that Mohammed was morally wrong when he and his men seized female infidels as sex slaves, and that widespread present-day sexual depravity within the ummah stems directly from Mohammed's lies and crimes?
Nimco Ali (OBE)@NimkoAli
I am so tired of people confusing culture, extremism and the abuse of women with Islam itself. Selling daughters is evil. It is exploitation. But reducing 2 billion Muslims to “animalistic” because of the actions of abusive men says far more about your prejudice than it does about Islam.
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Just what side is this woman on? She it ignores Oct 7 and no qualms of financing UNRWA end providing refugee to IRGC thugs and terrorists in Canada.
Scott Robertson@sarobertson_
Foreign Minister Anita Anand says Canada will summon the Israeli ambassador regarding the mistreatment of civilians aboard the Gaza flotilla
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@stirlingmg @FrancesWiddows1 @Dallas_Brodie @CCCB_CECC " No “missing children” went away to residential schools and were never heard from again. The suggestion that missing children were murdered by school personnel after being subjected to physical and sexual abuse or even outright torture has also been exposed
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.@FrancesWiddows1 @Dallas_Brodie @CCCB_CECC
If We Could Turn Back Time…B.K. Before Kamloops
Future historians may look at Canada, whatever it may become, and notice a particular moment of destruction. They may mark that with initials, as people have done throughout time to mark significant events. B.C. or BCE for the more politically correct version marks the time Before Christ, or Before the Christian Era.
In Canada, I say the marker will be B.K. Before Kamloops. Before the unvetted media claims that a mass grave and human remains had been discovered in an apple orchard on the grounds of the old Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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@stirlingmg @FrancesWiddows1 @Dallas_Brodie @CCCB_CECC as a hitherto unknown N@zi-style blood libel."
-Hymie Rubenstein Editor of REAL Indigenous Report and a retired professor of anthropology, University of Manitoba.
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@RockChartrand Many countries in Asia have no minimum wage.
Wages rise and fall with supply and demand.
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Because in much of the West you’re not just paying for food. You’re paying for regulation, permits, taxes, labor mandates, insurance, rent inflation, and compliance costs layered onto the food.
In much of Asia, dense populations, cheaper labor, lighter regulation, lower rents, and high volume make cheap street food sustainable.
A $17 taco is often the accumulated cost of a heavily regulated service economy, not just ingredients.
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen
Why are restaurants so expensive in the West? I'm honestly asking. In Asia people eat out almost every day, there are options cheaper than cooking for yourself. But even "street food" is expensive here. I paid $17 for 4 tacos out of a truck from a guy who spoke no English.
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Thomas Isaac on Land Acknowledgements.
Watch full interview here:
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@terrynewman Canada is run so badly and so resistant to change that many people are looking for any alternative.
Look at health care. It's a disaster, but there are zero plans to change it.
Milton Friedman called it "The Tyranny of the Status Quo"
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What is it with the knee-jerk instinct in Canada to suggest that politicians should remove Canadians' ability to decide for themselves? It's as if this communitarianism at all costs and regardless of federal abuses, is wired into most of the country's DNA.
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No man alive is more personally responsible for more than six decades of murder, guerrilla warfare, terrorism, and drug trafficking across the American hemisphere than Raul Castro.
His advanced age should be no factor in taking him to the US by any means necessary for trial.
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@VividProwess Apparently Mosque attendance in Iran is around 2%.
That's what 45 years of living under the Mullahs will do.
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An Iranian 🇮🇷 woman: "Islam is not our religion in Iran. Islam was forced on us through torture, killing, beheading, raping, and enslaving Iranians to become Muslims. Iranians, Persians, were actually Zoroastrians."
This needs to be shared every single day.
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We do “tax the rich” - in the CNBC interview, Bezos cited the well-known statistic that the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all federal income taxes.
The correct policy debate is whether we want to “tax the rich more”
That’s a fair question. But it’s not the one pushed by politicians who are waging class warfare as a simplistic fix to America’s many problems. Without putting some common sense limits on spending, much of any extra money raised will likely disappear into pet projects and government waste and inefficiency.
No one would give an alcoholic more to drink.
Mike Z@MikeZ___2
@geraldposner TAX THE RICH.
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Ask anyone why Africa is poor and you'll hear every answer except the real one.
Nobody ever says it's because Africa is the most overregulated region in the world. That's the answer.
And once you connect those dots, everything else starts to make sense.
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Do not tell @erinotoole about this. He says it does not happen. LOL
Terry Newman@terrynewman
Hamas memos show Canadian-funded charities worked with terror group, NGO says The Israeli army says it seized documents in Gaza detailing how terror organization allegedly infiltrated and exploited international NGOs nationalpost.com/news/hamas-mem…
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@mario4thenorth " No “missing children” went away to residential schools and were never heard from again. The suggestion that missing children were murdered by school personnel after being subjected to physical and sexual abuse or even outright torture has also been exposed
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Some hard facts on “mass graves”:
-The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, found 0 cases of homicide. ZERO.
-In 165 years of residential schools, there were a total of 6 suicides in residential schools.
-From 2011 to 2015, the estimated deaths by suicide was 1,180 for First Nations
-There were a total of 3201 deaths in 165 years
-Over a third were before 1940
-Tuberculosis, influenza (the Spanish Flu), and pneumonia were the leading cause of death
-Antibiotics weren’t widespread until the 1950s
-This is well documented in the 1907 Dr Bryce report (screenshot attached)
-Back then, there was NO admission medical exams & kids who were admitted were documented as sick
-IMPORTANT FACT: the Spanish Flu FORCED common graves with PRIESTS, STAFF, & STUDENTS
-This was the norm during this era: Philadelphia, the UK, and Norway all used mass graves in 1918–19
-And yes, outside of the 1918 Spanish Flu there was SHARED USE cemeteries
-School cemeteries buried priests, bishops, settlers, and reserve community members so remains aren’t necessarily students
-This is a FACT CONFIRMED by the truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
-Pupil burials were free to First Nation parents; what was known as Indian Affairs, they had a policy to do this to keep costs low
-This ensured that on site burials were the cheapest option
-This was consistent with how institutions treated the impoverished or indigent in a general sense
-It’s worth considering that neglect can explain “unmarked” graves
-Wooden crosses with painted names deteriorated or were destroyed after schools closed and were abandoned post 1969
-So “unmarked” reflects decay, not some sort of secret burial
-Here’s a major discrepancy which you might not know of: Kamloops
-The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada documented only 51 deaths at Kamloops
-This completely contradicts against the May 27, 2021 press release of “215 children.”
Where did that number come from?
-The community’s own framing, Chief Rosanne Casimir stated it was “not a mass grave, but rather unmarked burial sites,” and the press release acknowledged the cemetery was already “spoken about” and known
-FYI: ground penetrating radar detects ONLY soil anomalies
-It cannot confirm human remains, identify age, nor determine whether a body is a student, former student, a nun a priest or community member
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@mario4thenorth as a hitherto unknown N@zi-style blood libel."
-Hymie Rubenstein Editor of REAL Indigenous Report and a retired professor of anthropology, University of Manitoba.
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This is what the average American fails to understand
The Revolution never stopped (nor was it meant to) at Cuba. Cuba has tried to overthrow around 20 countries, and not always by force (intelligence and subversion is their main tactic)
Cuba (till this day) serves as a training ground for Marxism and exports those radicals like “agents” across the Americas including the US
Forget China and Russia, Cuba itself is a problem for the West and has been for 7 decades 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Ed Tarnowski@edtarnowski
The Cuban regime has been the most destabilizing force in Latin America of the last 67 years. It has stolen the aspirations of millions. It gives our adversaries a foothold 90 miles off our shore. The fall of this socialist regime would be a generational victory for liberty.
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Trudeau’s spooning of a female student got less attention than his blackface.
His touching of a reporter’s bum in Creston BC got little attention.
His roommate being jailed for child porn got little attention.
$15 billion in media support since 2015 bought him some grace.
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The best ׳genocide׳ ever!
The number of Arabs from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea has grown tenfold over the last 80 years. That's true for Gaza, that's true for Israel, and that's true for the West Bank.
And here's another surprising fact that nobody talks about: Palestinians are the fastest-growing population in the Middle East over the last 80 years.
If someone wants to call that a genocide, then it must be the best genocide in history.
By the way, the number of Jews in Arab countries has dropped by 99% over the same 80 years.
That's the real genocide.
Attached is a picture of Jews in Egypt. 80 years ago the community numbered 85,000 people, and today there are 3. This is what a genocide looks like."
Share the truth.
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