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Shanghai population = 26 million Toronto population = 3 million

This is not discussed at all in the public debate. But in Canada, we have way too many Ministries, which in turn creates a really fat government with a lot of Ministers, who cost a lot of money in turn, plus their teams and executives that drives the cost of government through the roof. I'll list the stupidest Ministries first, then I'll list those who are basically useless since another Ministry should already cover their field. List of the most stupid ministries; Ministry of Seniors, Ministry for La Francophonie, Ministry for Canada Post Corporation, Ministry for Canadian Dairy Commission, Ministry of Status of Women, Ministry of Canadian Heritage. Each one of those should not have to exist, and/or to have a Ministry to regulate those. I'm sorry Frenchies (I am French from Québec), but a Ministry just for the French Language is incredibly stupid. A Ministry for old people (Seniors)? A Ministry for Canada Post? A Ministry for the Dairy lobby? Those ministries are totally unjustifiable, a waste of money, and sheer indirect corruption. Next for me are the 'double Ministries' which are petty to say the least. Very petty. They sometimes are even a triple ministry. Demonstration here; Ministry of Science ===== Ministry of Science AND Sports ===== Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Ministry of intergovernmental Affairs and Youths ===== Ministry of intergovernmental Affairs, Northern Affairs and International Trade Ministry of Canadian Heritage ==== Ministry of Culture (Ministry of Culture does not exist, my bad) Ministry of International Trade ===== Ministry of International Trade Diversification Ministry of Small Business and Export promotion ===== Ministry of Small Business and Tourism Does anyone agree we have some serious fat to cut with a chainsaw? It's not even a surgery with a scalpel that we need. It's a straight up psycho from Texas that we need to cut the fat. Discuss, and correct me.

An interesting perspective from Quillette, pointing out that while China might call itself Communist - much as Communist states in eastern Europe used to call themselves Democratic - it more closely resembles a Fascist state. What's more it is a Fascist state with imperialist ambitions spreading its influence around the world through whatever means it can. This includes influencing universities through access to China, and through the threat to withdraw large numbers of Chinese students, bribing politicians and opinion makers, and intimidating and threatening its overseas diaspora. All with very little opposition from western governments. It is important to understand that China is a fascist dictatorship. The term “fascist” is now thrown around with such carelessness that it has lost most of its meaning outside the offices of a few historians or political science professors. But fascism, in its original early twentieth century incarnation, meant a political system defined by three attributes—authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and an economic model in which capitalism co-existed with large state-directed industries and partnerships between the government and corporations. China is an ethnonationalist, corporatist, authoritarian state. The government harasses, imprisons, or murders those who demand the right to vote. It engages in cultural genocide and seeks to make the Chinese dictatorship ideologically inseparable from the self-image of the Chinese people. It protects its domestic economy from foreign competition, subsidises all its important industries, mandates that government officials sit on the boards of all large companies, and does not allow independent labour unions. Despite the use of the word “communist” in both the name of the state and the name of its ruling elite, China is fascist. The label of communism is now merely a historical anomaly, relevant only to the extent that totalitarianism remains an underlying principle, the source code of a regime that has likely killed more people than any other in history. https://quillette.com/2019/08/05/china-and-the-difficulties-of-dissent/

The pendulum always swings back, the hunters will become the hunted, what goes around comes around.

Yes. It isn't really violence inciting you. Not physical violence. Sometimes when you react to things strongly you should ask yourself, who is profiting of my reaction? Much of the money made in the world is made out of reactions. Control is also seized through reactions.

How about a predominantly white country music festival in Las Vegas?

Liberalism is present in both "small c" conservatism and on the centre left. It is a belief in free press, property rights and individual rights and freedoms. More to the left you find the "progressives" or "cultural Marxists"... here you find the recent post-modernist mindset of cultural relativism and a denial of any moral truth... of equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity... Here exists the mindset that we must eradicate any and all "oppressive" authorities.... this is where the rot has set in. All victim groups must be identified and protected from any harm real of perceived. Capitalism is suspect, as is the scientific method if it challenges the core tenets or egalitarianism.... there is a lot of crazy as you proceed down this pathway. On the right you also find collectivist values creeping in ... protectionism... anti-science and conspiracy theory. But the left fringe has captured media and universities in a way that the right fringe has not. Return to classical liberalism is the route out of this insanity... I like to say that the left has a role to play in looking out for underdogs... but raising underdogs up as an unearned ruling class is where the left loses itself... The right has a role to play in maintaining healthy authority and healthy competition.... Both must protect individual rights and freedoms...

I have no sympathy for Islamic terrorists. I have sympathy for the innocent, non-violent Muslims people like you, Goddess, Argus, DoP etc., want to lump in with the Islamic terrorists.

And if a Christian village launches an attack against the nearest Fulani herders, and the Fulani respond in kind - does the Christian attack get mentioned? Nope; it's portrayed in Western media and especially in places like Jihad Watch as an example of more "Muslim terrorism". If a South African Christian group plans an attack against malls, does that make Western media? Nope - we in Western land have to go looking for it, if we're interested. If it was a Muslim terrorist planning an attack in a mall, anywhere in the world, it'd be in Western media and in Jihad Watch. Do you know who Christopher Paul Hasson is? Without clicking on the link, I mean. Have you heard of Elizabeth Vincent or Vincent Armstrong? It's pretty easy to conclude that a group is a particular threat when you are only exposed to the crimes that group has committed, when there are multiple sources detailing those crimes that you can easily access, and the same crimes committed by other groups are barely mentioned, or even not mentioned at all beyond the local papers. So, what about the fact that law enforcement in Western countries considers right-wing hate groups to be of equal, or even more danger than Islamic terror groups in Western countries? It seems likely that law enforcement would have a handle on who poses the most threat to citizens in our country, yet people such as yourself dismiss that info, in favor of a site like Jihad Watch - which you admit is biased. Why is that? Could it be that its ok, in your mind, to frame Muslims as dangerous to Westerners, regardless of facts?

It doesn't cover most attacks in other countries. Period. There are so many of them, after all. Now according to another site you won't like which keeps track of such things there have been over 1600 Islamic inspired attacks this year alone in 52 countries. It's kind of hard to put all that into the western media, so only a small tithe gets noticed. On the other hand, a Christian terrorist attack is something like a 'man bites dog' story and would tend to get more, not less overage than it deserves. Besides, it plays into the 'woke' narrative of western media that all religions are the same. That's crap. Everyone knows the terrorism is coming from the religion founded by a violent warrior prince who cut people's heads off for refusing to embrace him as prophet. https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2019

This makes NO sense. Fascism is authoritarian and ethnonationalist... that's all it is. It has NOTHING to do with liberalism. It is opposed to liberalism. Liberalism is a belief in individual rights and freedoms. Free press and intact property rights. Something that fascism disavows. Anarchy disavows any form of coercion on the part of the state whatsoever... and believes in only voluntary cooperation.... Conservatism is merely a statement of resisting change from the status quo. A desire to uphold current power structures. Communism is a desire to implement a state run to empower the working class where the state controls the means of production. I would agree that China is authoritarian and ethnonationalist... it pays lip service to communist values... but the working class seem to be dropping off their radar... None of this makes much of a difference... China is a self interested player on the world stage... like every other... and a menace to many of it's own people. It's people will bleed to free states taking their skills with them.

And yet you consider those liberal sites I mention as being credible. The opinions and attitudes on a site like Jihadwatch are known and taken into account. What they are useful for is in compiling incidents which largely escape notice of the world media. Mainstream media has a decidedly liberal agenda in lauding multiculturalism, inclusiveness, equality and immigration, and it deliberately downplays a lot of stuff which does not fit with that agenda.

OK...here is the "6 series" manual as a PDF file. http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201512/20151210090904492/ENG_US-HMUATSCJ-1.318-1203.pdf

If your cable service uses an addressable box for selecting channels, you should be able to select the input port for the HDMI or composite cables coming out of the cable box and connected to the TV. The TV should have at least one HDMI port to choose from. https://www.samsung.com/au/support/tv-audio-video/samsung-tv-setting-my-tv-source/ Smart Hub is Samsung's proprietary streaming app and subscription service built into the TV (e.g. Netflix) without having to use a separate plug in streaming stick. If the TV has an ATSC tuner (some don't), then you can go into menu setup and scan for all the free local channels in your area if you attach an antenna to the back of the TV. If you tell us the model number of the TV, we can find you a link to the user manual online.

And accurately! Facts don’t care about your feelings.

Jihad Watch is not a credible source. Without a credible source, you can't make a credible argument. Without a credible argument, you just look Islamophobic.

I did google "machete attacks" --- the first hit was about a non-Muslim criminal who killed a senior using a machete and a hammer. The next two were from within Canada, neither of which identified the attacker as Muslim, or the attack as terror - one is a meth user, and the other wanted a cigarette.. There were other hits around the theatre attack (a gang thing, nothing about Muslims or terror), one in Athlone which does not identify anything but the gender and ages of the attackers. Another from Toronto which was domestic violence; if the country of origin is any indication, they would be Buddhists. I had to click into each story because not one of them included "Muslim" in the headline. Of course, once I added the word "Muslim" to the search query, I got a list much more like the one you so nicely screenshot for us. So, how amazed are we that you'd do a google search for "Muslim machete attacks", post it, and then claim that all you had to do was google "machete attacks"? Just for fun, I googled "Alberta machete attacks" - cause you live there, and maybe you'd be interested. First hit: attacker was Greg Fox, from Little Pine First Nation. Second hit was a road-rage incident, no personal details provided. Third hit was a good old-stock Canadian, judging by his name, Dillon Richard Runions - he's to undergo psychiatric assessment. Two more incidents listed are also clearly not Muslim or terror related. Not a Muslim machete wielder in sight. Your attempt to spread the idea that Muslims are instigating machete attacks around the world fails miserably. Maybe you'd be more persuasive if you didn't resort to hyperbole, misinformation and outright lies. ETA: I just noticed - your "google search" was actually just a bunch of links from "Jihad Watch" - even more of a lie than I thought! You are such a propagandist; no better than DoP, or the Islamic extremists the two of you pretend all Muslims are. How sad I am about that, cause up till now I believed you were well-intentioned, merely wrong.

Black Friday must be a very confusing time for Justin Trudeau

From what I understand, most cases of gender dysphoria in youths and children wind up going away, or transitioning into them realizing they're gay. In those case I imagine patience is the best solution. This is an individual problem and really no one else's business. BUT... when we read stories of teenage girls being told they must change with male-bodied 'girls' there, even in swimming change rooms, or when we have male-bodied 'women' sent to womens prisons, or competing with women in sports events I think we've passed the limits of societal acceptance and that this sort of thing will only engender resentment if not outright hatred.

And Islamophobes only keep track of Islamic terrorism.

So Saudi Arabia and Emirates shoot their people from the top and back by sending their thugs and kidnap their citizens from their houses (and abroad) to prisons and torture and rape them? Or prevents funerals by families and ask for money to return the dead bodies t their families? Or they have killed and beat up women and executed tens of thousands of their citizens for simply expressing their views?..............................? They are rapidly developing nuclear weapons to hit Israel or Europe and their space industry to hit North America with nuclear weapons? Yes those two regimes certainly not angelic but no comparison with the devil himself (the Iran regime). Don't compare flu and cancer as same disease. Btw, do not speak to me of US prop up dictatorships when you ignore Russian prop up dictatorships like the murderous regime of Assad in Syria causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, not to mention half a century of Russian crimes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

How about if we improve freedom here by demanding an end to the internet monopolies: Google, Facebook, and Twitter, which have taken it upon themselves to "protect us" from "fake" news! If these services cannot function effectively if broken up into smaller, competing companies, then the monopolies should be public and have a board of governors which have to publish clear reasons why a user should be banned or have their accounts suspended. AND 'shadow-banning' and all of the bullshit games being played to push down certain sources in searches or removing pages without notice or stated reason (Facebook) should be considered unjustified interference with the free flow of information. And let's have sanctions over here against our corrupt government officials....some of them identified as Wikileaks published cables and emails delivered to them by whistleblowers tired of the corruption in their workplaces. And after we fix our corrupt corporate-serving government officials and guarantee our access to trustworthy information, then we can focus more attention on helping the Iranians!

Rachel Maddow on MSNBC is excellent. She should really get more recognition for her great work.