Green Party phoneys to banning pointed sticks: Links 1, September 24, 2019

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1. Green Party used Photoshop to add reusable cup and metal straw to photo of Elizabeth May

(One suspects that like Trudeau and his blackface, all. virtue signalling is phoney. But its nice to see it this obviously)

OTTAWA — In an era of “fake news” controversies, photoshopping a reuseable metal straw and a reuseable cup into the hand of Green Party Leader Elizabeth May would not be the greatest idea.

 

But that’s what the Green Party did and then prominently displayed it on the party website.

Such fakery in the middle of an election raises issues of how such misinformation is used, say experts in the “fake news” phenomenon.

 

“It would probably be good practice for official political parties to avoid photoshopping images,” said Britt Paris, a researcher for the Data & Society Research Institute who focuses on visual propaganda and disinformation. “But it’s almost a moot point when photoshopping can be performed by anyone and that manipulated image can then be shared or retweeted by an official political party, an operative… or even just a celebrity.”

 

The Green Party admitting using Photoshop to add a reuseable cup and metal straw in the photo

2. FIVE new complaints against far left Islamic Ilhan Omar

3. 500 Scientists Write U.N.: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’

More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.

Just as 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York accusing world leaders of robbing her of her future, scientists were begging the United Nations to keep hysteria from obscuring facts.

 

“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” the declaration states. “Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation.”

 

The scientists underscored the importance of not rushing into enormously expensive climate action before fully ascertaining the facts.

 

“There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent,” they declared. “However, CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. For instance, wind turbines kill birds and bats, and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests.”

More on that here.

4. Boris Johnson on the UK court decision against his proroguing of Parliament.

The ruling here:

 

5. Church leaders urge government to ban pointed kitchen knives

Church leaders in the Diocese of Rochester have called for the government to enforce stricter rules on the sale of domestic knives.

 

They’ve written an open letter asking for a ban on the sale of pointed kitchen knives. The letter was also signed by leading crime experts, as well as MPs, and community leaders.

 

It comes after a conference called The Point in Chatham last week raised awareness of the issue, as statistics show that there has been an 80 per cent rise in knife crime in the UK since 2014.

6. Here are a few links on ongoing but important subjects that are attempts to negate us as people using the lexicon of human rights, while actually eliminating them.

This one explains well how rape, as a concept, was alchemically transformed into a weapon against men.

An article where invaders to Canada are encouraged by the communists within the Canadian government to abuse human rights terms to gain entry to Canada when in fact they have zero qualifiers to do so. The number of these, is predictably going up. And the government has barricaded the illegal entry point so people cannot get video or photos of the RCMP assisting them as they cross. So our real rights to information is ended, while the fake rights of invaders to claim asylum is accelerated.

In Switzerland, violent communists seem to have special rights compared to regular people. Although I have to say, these events are more fairly handled by authorities than is typical in Canada or the USA or Germany, where communists can commit major crimes and classical liberals will be arrested for anything from a false flag event to littering.

The jury is still out on this one. Will an Italian mayor on trial for assisting illegal immigration be treated like any other citizen who committed a same level crime? Or will he get off and get paid and be a hero like the German ship captain who knowingly broke every maritime law to force Africans on to Italy pretending it was rescue work.

Thank you Richard, M., Wrath of Khan, Sassy, Yucki, Johnny U., Xanthippa, Gary Fouse, Nash Montanna, Miss Piggy and SO many more who have contributed to this work in the past few days.

This second one is too accurate to be funny

The problem with the clip below, is that Steven King is a communist sympathizer from what little I have seen from him in terms of his politics.

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

16 Replies to “Green Party phoneys to banning pointed sticks: Links 1, September 24, 2019”

  2. The radio waves were abuzz with pundits lauding little Greta von Bratwurst’s great courage. Poor kid. Being used by ambitious radical leftist parents as both a shield and a sword is tearing a page from the Hamas playbook.

    • It is a wonderful observation.

      A commenter decried it so I quoted them (unable to post for some reason so I comment here):

      “And of course, it has been proven by linguists, that it’s modern usage [Denier] has next to no connection with the denial of the Holocaust.”

      This reliance on “experts” – the priests of Communism – to tell us how to interpret our minds. Distorting and bending them into split brain personalities. To the right brain lobe: “nothing to see here, move along” and to the left brain “you willfully do not accept the facts of 2 + 2 = 5 – so you are evil.”

      Exactly 6 million Jews not murdered? Denier?

      When ‘peace is all you need’ or when ‘facts are all you need,’ then “denier” is clearly meant to silence them both. The comforter of ignorance to be buried deep and safe within the fold, or the threat of a price upon your head if you speak your truth.

      Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

      “You are a total anathema to the beliefs and teachings of Christ.”

      The Narrow Way: Both brains talked to each other and worked out the frauds laid upon them. Counterintuition. Skepticism.

      As this is my first time here, you have piqued my interest in that our author might actual understand the Greek writers’ motives for writing their hero’s journey to consciousness. Thank you for shedding darkness so we may all see light.

  4. https://quillette.com/2019/04/23/self-harm-versus-the-greater-good-greta-thunberg-and-child-activism/
    Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism
    Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has stopped speaking to anyone but her parents and younger sister, Beata.

    After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.

    The book Scenes from the Heart (“Scener från Hjärtat,” 2018) recounts these medical difficulties and the events that led to Greta Thunberg’s now-famous “school strike for climate,” in which hundreds of thousands of children have refused to attend school to protest about government inaction over climate change. Greta herself strikes every Friday and spent three weeks sitting outside the Swedish Parliament at the beginning of the school year. Written by her family—mother, father, Beata and Greta—the story is told in the voice of Greta’s mother, the opera soprano Malena Ernman, who was a celebrity in Europe long before her daughter’s fame. Although the book is only available in Swedish for the time being, it is already being translated into numerous languages—a development that reflects the global fascination with Thunberg’s campaign.

    We are offered a story of “a family in crisis and a planet in crisis”—two phenomena that are presented as inextricably linked. The book posits that oppression of women, minorities, and people with disabilities stem from the same overarching root problem as climate change: an unsustainable way of life. The family’s private crisis and the global climate crisis, the authors argue, are simply symptoms of the same systemic disorder.

    Greta is not alone in her mental suffering, according to the book. Her sister Beata, who was 12 when the book was written, lives with ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome, and OCD. She is prone to sudden outbursts of anger, during which she screams obscenities at her mother. What would normally be a 10-minute walk to dance class takes almost an hour because Beata insists on walking with her left foot in front, refuses to step on certain parts of the sidewalk, and demands that her mother walk the same way. She also insists that her mother wait outside during class—she isn’t allowed to move, even to go to the bathroom. The child still ends up weeping in her mother’s arms.

    Like many parents of children with similar diagnoses, Greta and Beata’s parents fight hard for their daughters to receive the right care and assistance in school. When Greta refuses to eat they do everything they can to save her from starving herself. Her father begs their doctor to save Beata from whatever it is that plagues her. To read the story is heart-wrenching, many times over.

    And yet as someone who does not share the family’s political views—that the girls’ problems are inextricable from the climate crisis, and that the cure is to “change the system”—I wonder whether the world needs to know the intimate details about the lives of these two anguished young girls.

    Swedish 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg takes part in a march for the environment in Brussels. Photo: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock

    Which brings me to us—editors, journalists, prize juries, teachers, onlookers.

    It has been less than a year since Scenes from the Heart was published and, during that time, Greta has become a global celebrity. This week, she was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. She has briefly met the Pope, who encouraged her to “Keep doing what you’re doing.” She has received numerous awards, including, most recently, the German Golden Camera award. She has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She has been featured and interviewed in most of the world’s leading media. She has appeared on a panel with the UN Secretary General António Guterres, addressed the European Parliament, and lunched with the Financial Times.

    “Is Greta the new Che Guevara?” asked the German TV-anchor Maybrit Ilner recently during a TV debate about the striking school children.

    In defense of the excellent Ms. Ilner, she probably meant to refer to Che Guevara as a global political symbol. But the question is telling: Greta is turning into a revolutionary icon.

    Given what we know about Greta’s problems and challenges, is this an appropriate adult response to Greta’s school strike?

    It is easy to exoticize. It is easy to look at pictures of the girl with pigtails and simply see someone out of the ordinary. Someone—or something—foreign. German media have dubbed Greta the “Pippi Longstocking of climate change,” with reference to another Swedish girl-rebel with a similar hairdo. They don’t seem to appreciate that the girl with pigtails comes from a country where her peers look more like the stars of the Norwegian television series SKAM than Pippi Longstocking—or that the girl is clearly marked by years of self-starvation. Instead they choose to portray the child as a dated cultural stereotype, based on her looks.

    A workplace strike shows company owners and management that workers are able to harm them economically. A school strike, on the other hand, constitutes a form of self-harm, undertaken to attract adult attention. And the global school strike for climate is led by a girl with a long and tragic history of self-harm to her own body.

    In Scenes from the Heart, when Greta eventually starts eating again, she only allows herself certain foods. Her mother has to prepare the same food every day for Greta to bring to school and keep in the school refrigerator: pancakes filled with rice. Greta will eat them only if there is no sticker with her name on the container: stickers, paper and newspapers trigger Greta’s OCD against eating.

    “I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day,” Greta said when she addressed the world’s leaders in Davos.

    Given the child’s history of precisely that—fear and panic—the adult response should perhaps not be “You go, girl” (the words of Madeleine Albright when she was asked what she thinks of Greta’s school strike), but something considerably more cautious.

    Greta does not skip classes from just any school, but one for children with special needs. Many other Swedish families fight hard to get their children into such schools, because places are rare. According to the family’s book, however, resources will be ample for such families once we change the system—including, according to Ernman, “patriarchal structures” that she claims favor boys with neuropsychiatric disorders over girls.

    I do not wish to suggest that Greta is too young to understand the consequences of her actions, nor that the challenges she faces make her unsuitable to take a stand on political issues, or even to lead a global movement. No one who has heard her address world leaders in impeccable English can doubt that she is very intelligent. Ernman also stresses that her daughter has never felt better than during her campaign for the climate. Greta herself has said that realizing that she could do something about climate change has helped her recover.

    I am also not questioning Greta’s role as a public speaker, nor the power of hundreds of thousands of protesting school children, nor that climate change is an existential threat to humankind.

    But adults have a moral obligation to remain adults in relation to children and not be carried away by emotions, icons, selfies, images of mass protests, or messianic or revolutionary dreams.

    Greta was recently named ”Woman of the Year” by a Swedish newspaper. But she is not a woman, she is a child. It is time we stopped to ask if we are using her, failing her, and even sacrificing her, for what we perceive to be a greater good.

  5. Matt Gurney: The Green Party is so tolerant, Elizabeth May can’t even talk about her Christian faith
    While May’s Christian faith would never make me more or less likely to vote for her, the fact she felt moved to apologize for discussing it sends up red flags
    Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has offered a very legalistic response when accused of having a hidden agenda on abortion and gay rights — he simply insists that he will not open those issues, because they are settled in Canadian law.

    I believe him. I don’t see any value in the Conservatives reopening these issues, and I see lots of potential dangers if they do. I don’t have to trust the Conservative leader to agree with me on moral issues, I just need to have faith that he’ll act in his own electoral self-interest.

    Besides, having seen Green party leader Elizabeth May attempt to talk about her religious faith this week, I’m not sure Scheer will be in any hurry to do the same, especially with an election campaign now under way.

    May was giving an interview to the CBC’s Vassy Kapelos. Kapelos asked the Green leader who her personal hero was. May answered, without hesitation, “Jesus Christ.” And then she apologized, and said she had answered without bothering to self-edit. Kapelos obviously had follow-up questions, including why May felt that she had to apologize for her religious faith.

    Chris Selley: Barely centre-left vs. barely centre-right, for all the marbles
    The Canadian millennials choosing God in a secular world: Pew study
    May bizarrely answered that it was because the Green party was a tolerant and diverse place — “inclusive and all-embracing” — were her exact words. Shouldn’t that make it easier for the leader to discuss her own sincerely held moral positions?

    This entire campaign thus far has been infused with the background issue of religious tolerance in Canadian society. Indeed, I note with interest that it was just a few days ago that May was making the point that her party was welcoming of religious diversity and would not tolerate discrimination, this after some NDP defectors to the Greens were reported to have concerns with the electability of Jagmeet Singh, a Sikh, because of his religion.

    I wonder if May was revealing something deeper when she went out of her way to stress that Singh’s religious beliefs should not be a matter of concern for any member of her party, while also feeling an obligation to apologize for her Christian faith.

    I am not a religious person. I was not raised in a religious household. I’m also not an atheist. Though I belong to no church and do not regularly attend services, from time to time, and probably not as often as I should, I do like to offer a prayer of thanks for the many blessings I have known in my life, and to ask for the protection and continued well being of those that I love. I don’t know if this would meet anyone’s definition of religiously observant. But it’s something I do and have taken comfort from — and also humility.

    Simply having a religious faith ought not to be itself something May felt a need to self-edit

    In this, I am a pretty typical Canadian. Pew Research crunched the numbers on religious faith in Canada just a few months ago.

    Canada is, obviously, less observant than it once was. But more than half of Canadians still say that religious faith is still at least somewhat important in their lives, and more than half the country identifies as Christian (in some capacity). It’s true that the religiously unaffiliated are a growing bloc — but still a clear minority. Simply having a religious faith, particularly the majority one, ought not to be itself something May felt a need to self-edit.

    It’s fine that Singh is Sikh. It’s fine that May and Scheer (and Justin Trudeau!) are Christian. It ought to be possible to debate the pressing social issues of the day, or even, for that matter, the not-so pressing social issues of the day, without needing to resort to either suspicion of someone else’s religious faith or apologize for one’s own.

    I understand that some voters would probably place a higher emphasis on a candidate’s religious faith, or lack thereof, than I would. But I have to imagine that there are a great many Canadians who feel exactly as I do. The religious views of all of the party leaders in the upcoming election is of absolutely zero interest to me. I could not care less.

    But I admit that I am certainly interested in what the discussions about religion reveal about the leaders. As I noted weeks ago, Scheer needs to come up with a better answer to abortion and gay marriage than simply stating he won’t reopen them.

    Similarly, while May’s Christian faith would never make me more or less likely to vote for her, the fact that she felt moved to apologize for discussing her faith absolutely sends up red flags.

    If she does not see the absurdity in insisting that the Green party is too open and tolerant a place for her to express, in pretty mild and unobjectionable terms, that she has faith in the Christian Saviour, I’m not really sure that says anything good about either her, the party she leads or the notions of tolerance and inclusivity as embraced by Canada’s political left.

  8. That girl is sick , she have light version of Autism, people are so dumb, I can’t believe they believe what’s really going on , how they not get rid of Soros the biggest scum who is destroying Europe right now with Islamic/ African invasion, why nobody see this ???, why that Soros puppet Greta is not going to China , India , all this countries where is the real problem with pollution ???, if she is not there , she can’t save the world, how stupid can you be to believe this ,,,

    • Beggars go where Liberals meet
      Enjoying virtues in both deceit.
      Where each will gain a life complete
      When we pick up their meals’ receipt.

      In Communist countries, they they have outlived their usefulness.

  9. The pacific islands have been lying for years that they are sinking in the Pacific and want only our millions – but not moving. All of Africa’s incompetent, corrupt and kleptocratic military dictators, tribal chiefs and other nepotisms are behind the tale of hot climate death, waving billions and billions of dollars from all sorts of money pots of Western “democracies” to them.

    “Development Minister” Müller calls for at least 60 billion euros in aid from Brussels for Africa. The 39 billion euros provided for in the EU financial plan for 2021 to 2027 would hardly help the more than 50 African states. https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article177682710/Entwicklungshilfe-Afrika-ist-eine-Jahrhundertaufgabe-Das-muss-auch-Bruessel-verstehen.html

    Libertarian video blogger asks simple questions to hysterics “protesters”

  10. PC, Thank you for your help. I keep reminding myself of the old Chinese proverb, “All things are difficult before they are easy”.