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"It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It's become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness.
"The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation."
"Washington and Moscow are discussing various options, but the final decision has not yet been made. "Whelan's exchange is being discussed for two Russians at once - Bout and Yaroshenko."If the report proves true, there is a significant imbalance. Bout is considered a heavyweight prisoner, whereas Whelan, and the US authorities, have insisted he was only in Moscow to attend a wedding. Whelan has described himself as "more like Mr Bean, than James Bond."
Israeli annexation, Canada's confusion and hypocrisy
Canada welcomes the importation of settlement products, extends preferential tariff treatment to them under the terms of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) and defends Israel's right to label settlement products as Israeli in origin. The Trudeau government knows full well why Israel insists on labeling settlement products as Israeli, and it isn't for tariff favors. In response to a complaint of mine [full disclosure: read more here], Ottawa went to Federal Court to defend Israel's right to stake sovereign claim to its colonies on Canadian stores shelves. It lost its case. 'Product of Israel' labels on settlement wines are "false, misleading and deceptive," Justice Anne Mactavish ruled in July 2019. Undeterred, Canada's Attorney General is now appealing Justice Mactavish's decision — going to the wall in support of Israel's annexationist ambitions.
Meanwhile, the Canada Revenue Agency lets Canadian Zionists write settlement contributions off their taxes. The Jewish National Fund of Canada, Canadian Friends of Ariel University (in Ariel, the largest settlement in the northern West Bank) and Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Har Etzion (in the Gush Etzion settlement block) are all registered charities, in spite of their declared commitment to colonization and de facto (if not de jure) annexation of Palestinian land. Among Yeshivat Har Etzion's publicly stated goals: To foster a "lifelong commitment" to "Am Yisrael and Eretz Israel."
Astonishingly, Canadian government support for settlement expansion is accompanied by acknowledgement that settlements are absolutely illegal, under both the Fourth Geneva Convention (FGC) and Canada's own Geneva Conventions Act (GCA).
Comment: The majority of mainstream UK news outlets have been bought off, infiltrated, and everything of import is distorted by an agenda, and a significant portion of the public know it; that's why people are increasingly getting their news online and, in turn, the ruling establishment are attempting to censor those voices by claiming to be concerned about 'fake news':