Post 158—Is Prime Minister Trudeau Funding Islamic Extremism?

I may have reminded you of this before, but do you remember that during the last Federal election the Conservative Party of Canada kept repeating that Trudeau was not ready for being Canada's Prime Minister?  I full agreed with that, for I had seen no sign whatsoever that he was ready. Too young and too inexperienced in politics. Just cute and belonging to a famous political family.   Well, since his election he has undone so many measures that the Conservatives put in place for the security of both Canada and the world. Don't get me wrong. I am often aghast at what Conservatives say or do as well.  Too many Canadian politicians of whatever party are just that: politicians, not stateswomen or men. Trudeau has shown himself just one of that crowd and, because of his high position, he stands out as just another politician. Apart from his initial composition of the Cabinet--gender equality and wide racial representation--I have seen little positive from him. Oh, he looks cute when he poses in the midst of young people and all that, but when it comes to serious decisions, he seems to have no standard of any kind.  So, I am sharing with you a news item from The Rebel, an alternative news source that mainline journalists despise.  Though I enjoy reading the Vancouver Sun, I am aware it is mainline and often ignores events that do not pass their test for "responsible news."  I have noticed for years, for example, that they never report on the annual MissionsFest, a large Christian event held in the very heart of Vancouver that draws some 30-35,000 people every time, including high school students who do not drink or do drugs. Now that's a miracle of its own that the press ignores. Recently there was a large Christian gathering in Vancouver that was totally ignored also, except that they made a lot of noise about Franklin Graham.  So, I am fully aware of the selective nature of mainline media.   Here then The Rebel: ========== Hamas is the Palestinian version of ISIS.  Besides being Islamic extremists, and calling for death to all Jews in their charter, Hamas routinely launches rockets into Israel, firing them from hospitals and schools, using Palestinian citizens as human shields. This practice clearly violates international law. But Hamas doesn't break international law all on its own. They work with a UN organization called UNRWA to hide these rockets. UNRWA runs the schools and hospitals that Hamas attacks from. They have also provided textbooks to children that promote the murder of Israelis. Because of such horrific actions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided to stop providing funding for UNRWA — they were simply too closely tied to Hamas. (The Harper Conservatives still helped fund other Palestinian relief agencies, just not UNRWA.) But Justin Trudeau has decided to start helping Hamas again and reinstate UNRWA funding. Now, thanks to documents obtained by The Rebel, we have proof that the Liberals knew their decision to reinstate UNRWA funding with Canadian tax dollars could be diverted to terrorism. Watch my video, or click here to see the documents we've obtained.  UNRWA may have been a good cause when it started back in the 1940s, but it has become corrupted. If you agree that Justin Trudeau should not fund UNRWA with Canadian tax dollars, then please go to www.StopHelpingHamas.com and sign our petition. And remember, I'm on your side, Brian Lilley ============== I am not much of a techy and do not know whether all the links in the above will work. If they don't, please find The Rebel online yourself and see what you can see or hear.

Post 105--Trump: On the Lighter Side!

After the heavy subject of Post 104, you deserve something lighter and more pleasant today: Donald Trump! See the last sentence in previous blog—a pun for the lighter side. Did I say “lighter and more pleasant” with respect to Trump?  Yes, I did, as incredible as that may seem to you at this point.  Just read on.

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Donald Trump Family Interview

This evening I watched the Trump family being interviewed on CNN, not just the old man himself, but also his current (third) wife and four of his adult children, two daughters and two sons, all of them perhaps half-brothers and half-sisters.  Not sure just how they relate to each other, but all of them Donald’s children. They seemed like very nice people, well brought up, well mannered, all good looking and nicely groomed. And that’s in spite of the two divorces in their family, something that, according to marriage and family specialists, should not happen. They should be disturbed people with lots of problems in their lives.

Of course, they may all have been groomed for the event and be on their best behavior, including Donald himself. So, they may have been cleverly prepared for this show of civility. You never know what goes on behind the scene. However, they all seemed pretty genuine, again even including Donald. They all spoke so highly of their father in answer to questions from the floor that they would not have been able to practice on. And Donald, that tough bear of a political campaigner, himself came out as a really friendly and likeable chap. His children all spoke so highly of him in spontaneous unrecited responses to questions. But in spite of all that, the fact of two divorces does throw kind of a shadow on the whole situation, especially on his repeated claim that he has a wonderful family. Nevertheless, the programme was a very pleasant change from Trump the vicious campaigner. He himself explained the reason for showing this different side of him: he was in a friendly environment instead of in the hostility of vicious campaigners who are dishing all sorts of untruths about him. So, at least, he explained.  But perhaps there is a brighter and lighter side to the man. Political campaigns can bring out the worst even in the best!

Certainly there is one thing I accept from him, namely that he is largely free from the pressures of special interest groups and their lobbyists, since he is rich and can act independently. I believe we are all aware of how tied most politicians are in the US—and probably in Canada as well—to these groups and their agents, how unfree they are to vote their conscience and convictions. It would be a refreshing experience to have a US President who is free to do what he sees as the right thing after full consultation with all the stake holders. I would expect him to reign in some of his seemingly atrocious “promises” or threats once in office and after consultations. (The use of quotation marks in this last sentence is significant for grasping its meaning.)

The Lighter Side

A lighter side? Another one? Indeed there is.  There are various skyscrapers in the world associated with the Trump name. Canada has one in Toronto and right now as we speak there is one under construction in downtown Vancouver, my city. It is the second highest building in the city. The outside seems to be completed; the interior is still being worked on.  I wonder about the things architects take into consideration. I know they at least sometimes take the shadow a high building casts over its neighbourhood into consideration, but I wonder about reflections of the sun. We live in downtown, the West End. Between us and the downtown high rises north of us there are a few blocks of lower building and various parks. So we have a wide open view of the city’s sky line.  Some of these buildings reflect the sun right into our apartment, so brightly that we either have to move to another chair or draw the drapes.

At dawn, the sun rises in the east where we cannot see it, but reflects its bright beams onto the windows of high buildings in the north, from where the reflection bounces off right into our apartment.  We can’t even see the sun but it blinds us!  During the evening sunset in the east, the same thing happens, but now from other buildings.  Again, we can’t even see the sun but we have to move to another chair. 

What does that have to do with Trump? Well, I warned you this would be about his lighter side. That new Trump building, more than any other, reflects the morning and evening sun from many of its different floors separately so that our dining area is totally lit up from an invisible sun. If our bathroom door is open, those reflections in the morning totally light up the world map on the wall behind the toilet, while in the evening the reflections are lower and lighten up the toilet itself! When you consider that the sun itself is in a totally different direction and hidden behind a dozen or more high rises, then our bathroom lighting system is the cause for much amused laughter on our part and that of our guests. So, that tiger we see on the TV day after day—at least if you can stand him that long—has after all and indeed his brighter side!  His family showed it during the family interview and we see it every morning and evening.

So, we do wonder whether architects take such reflections into consideration.  Whether we like it or not, we are reminded of Donald Trump every morning and evening. We are grateful that it is that lighter side.

Pun intended!