thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-13--SUCCESSFULLY SMEARING CHINA WITH BIG LIE PROPAGANDA ABOUT “MUSLIM GULAGS”, MSM DIGS UP A STALE PSYOP

SUCCESSFULLY SMEARING CHINA WITH BIG LIE PROPAGANDA ABOUT “MUSLIM GULAGS”, MSM DIGS UP A STALE PSYOPS: “ORGAN HARVESTING”.

Pictured above : every weekend in Hong Kong , Falungong and Anti-Falungong supporters put up stands and hand out flyers .
They will both usually be side by side and frequent heavy foot traffic zones outside bigger metro stations and pedestrian overpasses and walkways .
The poster up top shows Falungong leading brainwashed masses over a cliff , with a banner that reads , “ Falungong ’ s evil teaching ” .
The bottom one shows a convert handing over his heart , gold and legal papers to Li Hongzhi , the Falungong ’ s founder , while calling him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the streets of China , Jeff Downloadable SoundCloud podcast ( also at the bottom of this page ) , YouTube video , as well as being syndicated on iTunes , Stitcher Radio , RUvid and Ivoox ( links below ) , Note : I would like to thank Charles Liu , of https : //blog.hiddenharmonies.org .
Most of the material in this article/podcast came from his fine research and writing .
Check out his blog .
He ’ s a really good journalist .
This week , the CIA/MI6 publications , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came out simultaneously with very similar articles , rehashing a tall tale that has been lurking around mainstream media for 12 years : the supposed organ harvesting in China ( https : //www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/06/call-for-retraction-of-400-scientific-papers-amid-fears-organs-came-from-chinese-prisoners and https : //www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-harvesting-in-china-11549411056 ) .
The culprits are still the same .
For background , the well-known CIA front organization , Falungong , or Falun Gong ( FLG ) has a long , sordid history of working overtime to destabilize the Chinese people ’ s communist-socialist way of life .
I wrote about this gang of saboteurs in The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/06/18/praise-for-the-china-trilogy-the-votes-are-in-it-r-o-c-k-s-what-are-you-waiting-for/ ) .
Another celebrated CIA front , the National Endowment for Democracy ( NED ) is also involved , through the evil offices of neocon Ambassador Mark Palmer , until he died in 2013 .
He ’ s the guy who co-wrote Ronald Reagan ’ s famous 1982 , “ Marxism is heading towards the ash heap of history ” speech .
Tell that to 1.4 billion Chinese .
Not !
Every Western anti-communist , anti-socialist propaganda campaign needs a bought and paid for politician or two , to lend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case of the FLG , that would be US Congressman Tom Lantos ’ wife Annette , who , with Mark Palmer , founded the “ Friends of Falun Gong ” front group .
NED has given millions to this shell operation ( http : //falungongpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-trail-between-us-government-and.html ?
m=1 ) .
As far back as 2006 , the US government knew this organ harvesting slander was a Big Lie .
In an internal report released by Wikileaks , the American Embassy even pulled off a surprise visit to the place the FLG claimed was killing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ouighurs/Uyghurs , supposedly cutting out all their organs and then cremating the remains .
FLG was screaming to the world that it was a Chinese Auschwitz , on an industrial scale .
Yet , the Department of State report , In other words , it was not true then and is still not today .
But for the Big Lie Propaganda Machine ( BLPM ) , truth goes out the window in the West ’ s pathological zealotry to discredit any country that is not a resource whore for Fortune 500/Wall Street capitalism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Big Lie must be kept alive .
Right before the US State Department confirmed it was a hoax , two reliable imperial whores , Canadians David Kilgour , a member of parliament and David Matas , a “ human rights ” attorney published a report that was probably given to them by CIA/FLG .
It is cited in the same Wikileaks release above .
In 2008 , Charles Liu ( https : //blog.hiddenharmonies.org ) , who provided me with most of the researched information used in this article/podcast , wrote an open letter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overwhelming evidence that this story was a hoax , and asking that they retract their bogus claims ( https : //blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2008/10/06/open-letter-to-david-kilgour-and-david-matas-on-falun-gong-and-organ-harvesting/ ) .
Of course , they didn ’ t .
Are you kidding ?
It has nothing to do with the truth and everything to do with the BLPM hating communism , socialism and anti-imperialism .
Just ask Venezuela , Cuba , North Korea , Iran , Iraq , Russia , Libya , Syria , Eritrea , along with China and many more proud peoples , who want their independence , unique @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occupied by NATO .
In fact , these two Canadian compradors for capitalism , along with another commie hater , Ethan Gutman , maintain a hoax website entitled , “ The International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China ” ( https : //hu.endorganpillaging.org/ ) .
These guys and their site reek of CIA money and are part of the BLPM .
Then , there are spinoff groups , like the FLG creating “ Doctors against Organ Harvesting ” .
Charles Liu did his usual excellent job of research and showed that its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the panel were all Falungong members ( http : //falungongpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/another-example-of-falun-gongs-hidden.html ?
m=1 ) .
Now , the Guardian and Wall Street Journal are digging up all this phony baloney from the BLPM , by referring to these aforementioned clowns , while citing the European Parliament ’ s ( EUP ) 2016 “ written declaration 0048/2016 on stopping organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China ” .
As it turns out , only the original twelve members who submitted it were signatories .
On July 27 , 2016 , it lapsed into undignified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since it did get the obligatory 50 % of members to sign , so it was never officially published ( https : //eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/ ?
uri=OJ : C:2017:304 : FULL ) .
In other words , it was a defunct , dead letter .
This ability to claim “ an EU Parliament human rights declaration ” was so badly abused by the BLPM , that in 2017 , the EUP abolished Rule 136 , which allowed it ( https : //www.cvce.eu/content/publication/2014/8/21/5aeae169-ad4e-46de-a9ef-befc9b30990d/publishable_en.pdf ) .
So , here we are in February 2019 and BLPM mouthpieces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making it look like this defunct EUP “ human rights declaration ” was a really big deal , when the EUP got so sick of the CIA/MI6/DGSE/BND bribing and extorting its members to pump out these propaganda pieces , that the whole system was abolished , while citing a bogus “ report ” from the aforementioned CIA “ organ pillaging ” front website .
The BLPM is propaganda based on lies built on propaganda .
It is a seductive , mainstream media three-card monte , an evil circle of color revolutions , subversion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death and destruction .
Looking at the calendar , it ’ s about time to dig up another classic mainstream hoax , to insult the Chinese people : selling canned human meat to Africans .
That BLPM whopper got a big buzz around the world a couple of years ago ( https : //www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/china-shipping-human-flesh-cans-8217761 ) .
It ’ s a CIA special .
I ’ m sure hoary , “ police state ” chestnuts from Tibet are in the pipeline too .
Hong Kong , Taiwan , Macao , the South China Sea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enterprises ( SOEs ) , ZTE , Huawei , cyber-hacking , cashless society , surveillance cameras , AI , big data , facial recognition , Social Credit Score ( SCS ) – the hopper of hoaxes from Western hell is full , and just waiting for a little spin .
It ’ s sad , but like the bogus Muslim concentration camp Big Lie , it works every time .
( https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/08/27/time-to-get-real-about-chinas-25-million-muslims-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180827/ ) .
The problem is 99 % of Westerners mistakenly believe they have a “ free press ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ headlines , swallow it all as gospel truth , post it on their Facebook and Twitter pages , then are “ experts ” at the dinner table and around the water cooler at work – Hey , look at me , I subscribe to the Economist and the New York Times !
This , while they are equally brainwashed that socialist , communist , anti-imperial media are all “ totalitarian ” and unworthy of consideration .
What the BLPM does is ingeniously and diabolically effective : psychological reflection/deflection of all its planetary psychopathy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No wonder they call it psyops .
Unfortunately , humanity – mostly dark skinned , poor and Muslim – pays the terrible price of millions of innocents being exterminated every year and the planet being genocidally plundered and environmentally desecrated by global capitalism , as a result of Western citizens ’ delusions of racial , cultural and political superiority ( https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/01/06/slavs-and-the-yellow-peril-are-niggers-brutes-and-beasts-in-the-eyes-of-western-empire-china-rising-radio-sinoland/ and https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/11/10/all-the-chinese-people-want-is-respect-aretha-franklin-diplomacy-on-china-rising-radio-sinoland-171110/ and https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/03/01/western-racism-and-hypocrisy-foaming-at-the-mouth-over-chinas-constitutional-changes-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180301/ ) .

By Jeff J. Brown
Pictured above: every weekend in Hong Kong, Falungong and Anti-Falungong supporters put up stands and hand out flyers. They will both usually be side by side and frequent heavy foot traffic zones outside bigger metro stations and pedestrian overpasses and walkways. The poster up top shows Falungong leading brainwashed masses over a cliff, with a banner that reads, “Falungong’s evil teaching”. The bottom one shows a convert handing over his heart, gold and legal papers to Li Hongzhi, the Falungong’s founder, while calling him, “The Devil”.
Live from the streets of China, Jeff
Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), YouTube video, as well as being syndicated on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, RUvid and Ivoox (links below),
Note: I would like to thank Charles Liu, of https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org. Most of the material in this article/podcast came from his fine research and writing. Check out his blog. He’s a really good journalist.
This week, the CIA/MI6 publications, the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, came out simultaneously with very similar articles, rehashing a tall tale that has been lurking around mainstream media for 12 years: the supposed organ harvesting in China (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/06/call-for-retraction-of-400-scientific-papers-amid-fears-organs-came-from-chinese-prisoners and https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-harvesting-in-china-11549411056).
The culprits are still the same. For background, the well-known CIA front organization, Falungong, or Falun Gong (FLG) has a long, sordid history of working overtime to destabilize the Chinese people’s communist-socialist way of life. I wrote about this gang of saboteurs in The China Trilogy (http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/05/19/the-china-trilogy/ and https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/06/18/praise-for-the-china-trilogy-the-votes-are-in-it-r-o-c-k-s-what-are-you-waiting-for/). Another celebrated CIA front, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is also involved, through the evil offices of neocon Ambassador Mark Palmer, until he died in 2013. He’s the guy who co-wrote Ronald Reagan’s famous 1982, “Marxism is heading towards the ash heap of history” speech. Tell that to 1.4 billion Chinese. Not!
Every Western anti-communist, anti-socialist propaganda campaign needs a bought and paid for politician or two, to lend it “credibility”. In the case of the FLG, that would be US Congressman Tom Lantos’ wife Annette, who, with Mark Palmer, founded the “Friends of Falun Gong” front group. NED has given millions to this shell operation (http://falungongpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-trail-between-us-government-and.html?m=1).
As far back as 2006, the US government knew this organ harvesting slander was a Big Lie. In an internal report released by Wikileaks, the American Embassy even pulled off a surprise visit to the place the FLG claimed was killing thousands of its followers, Muslims and Ouighurs/Uyghurs, supposedly cutting out all their organs and then cremating the remains. FLG was screaming to the world that it was a Chinese Auschwitz, on an industrial scale. Yet, the Department of State report,
Found no evidence that the site is being used for any function other than as a normal public hospital. Amnesty International spokespersons have stated that the claims of systematic organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners cannot be confirmed or denied .
(https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CRS:_China_and_Falun_Gong,_August_11,_2006).
In other words, it was not true then and is still not today. But for the Big Lie Propaganda Machine (BLPM), truth goes out the window in the West’s pathological zealotry to discredit any country that is not a resource whore for Fortune 500/Wall Street capitalism, including China.
So, the Big Lie must be kept alive. Right before the US State Department confirmed it was a hoax, two reliable imperial whores, Canadians David Kilgour, a member of parliament and David Matas, a “human rights” attorney published a report that was probably given to them by CIA/FLG. It is cited in the same Wikileaks release above. In 2008, Charles Liu (https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org), who provided me with most of the researched information used in this article/podcast, wrote an open letter to these two colonial cuckolds, citing overwhelming evidence that this story was a hoax, and asking that they retract their bogus claims (https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2008/10/06/open-letter-to-david-kilgour-and-david-matas-on-falun-gong-and-organ-harvesting/). Of course, they didn’t. Are you kidding? It has nothing to do with the truth and everything to do with the BLPM hating communism, socialism and anti-imperialism. Just ask Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Libya, Syria, Eritrea, along with China and many more proud peoples, who want their independence, unique ways of life and to not be occupied by NATO.
In fact, these two Canadian compradors for capitalism, along with another commie hater, Ethan Gutman, maintain a hoax website entitled, “The International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China” (https://hu.endorganpillaging.org/). These guys and their site reek of CIA money and are part of the BLPM.
Then, there are spinoff groups, like the FLG creating “Doctors against Organ Harvesting”. Charles Liu did his usual excellent job of research and showed that its director and every “doctor” on the panel were all Falungong members (http://falungongpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/another-example-of-falun-gongs-hidden.html?m=1).
Now, the Guardian and Wall Street Journal are digging up all this phony baloney from the BLPM, by referring to these aforementioned clowns, while citing the European Parliament’s (EUP) 2016 “written declaration 0048/2016 on stopping organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China”. As it turns out, only the original twelve members who submitted it were signatories. On July 27, 2016, it lapsed into undignified irrelevance after the three-month submission period, since it did get the obligatory 50% of members to sign, so it was never officially published (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2017:304:FULL). In other words, it was a defunct, dead letter.
This ability to claim “an EU Parliament human rights declaration” was so badly abused by the BLPM, that in 2017, the EUP abolished Rule 136, which allowed it (https://www.cvce.eu/content/publication/2014/8/21/5aeae169-ad4e-46de-a9ef-befc9b30990d/publishable_en.pdf).
S I D E B A R
WHO expert calls Falun Gong allegations absurd (click orange button below)
Transplant claims debunked
In 2006 the Us Government itself declared the claims to be false The Star NATION
Beijing: It cannot be true that between 60,000 and 100,000 organ transplants are performed on the Chinese main-land yearly using organs taken from executed prisoners, prominent transplantation experts said. Speaking at news conference after a symposium of the 26th International Congress of The Transplantation Society, held in Hong Kong, experts Jose Ramon Nunez Peña, medical officer of the World Health Organisation, and Michael Millis, vice-chairman for global surgery and director at the University of Chicago’s School of Medicine Transplant Centre, dismissed the allegations – which were raised by Western critics of China as early as 2006 – as implausible. Peña, a transplant surgeon who has visited China often, said the claimed number is equal to the transplant activity of the entire world and is practically impossible. Peña said that the WHO firmly and without reservation supports China’s new ethics-based, transparent organ donor programme, which must be free of corruption and financial incentives. Transparency is the best guard against rumours, he said, acknowledging that China has taken many measures to ensure the fairness and traceability of the whole organ donation and distribution process. “It is time to close the door to rumours and open the door to the facts,” Peña said. “China now has joined the transplantation train along with the international community. We are all in the same train because we share the same principles and ethical practices.” Rumours about “organ harvesting” were said to be false in 2006, after an investigation conducted by the United States Consulate General in Liaoning province. The source of the rumour was Falun Gong, an outlawed group on the Chinese mainland, which alleged that the organs of more than 6,000 practitioners had been illegally extracted at Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital in Liaoning, it said. However, some people with political influence have made the opposite claim. — China Daily/Asia News Network [bg_collapse view="button-orange" color="#4a4949" expand_text="WHO expert rejects Falun Gong allegations " collapse_text="Show Less" ][/bg_collapse]
So, here we are in February 2019 and BLPM mouthpieces the Guardian and Wall Street Journal are making it look like this defunct EUP “human rights declaration” was a really big deal, when the EUP got so sick of the CIA/MI6/DGSE/BND bribing and extorting its members to pump out these propaganda pieces, that the whole system was abolished, while citing a bogus “report” from the aforementioned CIA “organ pillaging” front website. The BLPM is propaganda based on lies built on propaganda. It is a seductive, mainstream media three-card monte, an evil circle of color revolutions, subversion and subterfuge that just keeps on spinning death and destruction.
Looking at the calendar, it’s about time to dig up another classic mainstream hoax, to insult the Chinese people: selling canned human meat to Africans. That BLPM whopper got a big buzz around the world a couple of years ago (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/china-shipping-human-flesh-cans-8217761). It’s a CIA special. I’m sure hoary, “police state” chestnuts from Tibet are in the pipeline too. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, the South China Sea, Belt and Road Initiative, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), ZTE, Huawei, cyber-hacking, cashless society, surveillance cameras, AI, big data, facial recognition, Social Credit Score (SCS) – the hopper of hoaxes from Western hell is full, and just waiting for a little spin.
It’s sad, but like the bogus Muslim concentration camp Big Lie, it works every time. (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/08/27/time-to-get-real-about-chinas-25-million-muslims-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180827/). The problem is 99% of Westerners mistakenly believe they have a “free press”, barely read beyond the well-orchestrated, sensational headlines, swallow it all as gospel truth, post it on their Facebook and Twitter pages, then are “experts” at the dinner table and around the water cooler at work – Hey, look at me, I subscribe to the Economist and the New York Times! This, while they are equally brainwashed that socialist, communist, anti-imperial media are all “totalitarian” and unworthy of consideration. What the BLPM does is ingeniously and diabolically effective: psychological reflection/deflection of all its planetary psychopathy and tyranny onto its anti-imperial enemies. No wonder they call it psyops.
Unfortunately, humanity – mostly dark skinned, poor and Muslim – pays the terrible price of millions of innocents being exterminated every year and the planet being genocidally plundered and environmentally desecrated by global capitalism, as a result of Western citizens’ delusions of racial, cultural and political superiority (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/01/06/slavs-and-the-yellow-peril-are-niggers-brutes-and-beasts-in-the-eyes-of-western-empire-china-rising-radio-sinoland/ and https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/11/10/all-the-chinese-people-want-is-respect-aretha-franklin-diplomacy-on-china-rising-radio-sinoland-171110/ and https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/03/01/western-racism-and-hypocrisy-foaming-at-the-mouth-over-chinas-constitutional-changes-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180301/).


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-13--Planet of the Humans: Point/Counterpoint

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
Be sure to share it widely .
Editor 's Note : As might be expected from a shockumentary artist like Michael Moore , his latest outing , Planet of the Humans , packs a great deal of provocative , at times haunting , and vital information along with debatable truths .
This is inevitable considering that Moore , despite the rabble-rouser posture , is essentially a liberal , a man who apparently sees no insurmountable contradiction in supporting frauds like Hillary Clinton , Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders while yearning for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planet from capitalist oppression .
We could go to some length on this topic alone , the self-delusions of liberals and their long tail of failures and betrayals , but that is not the object of this post , which is only meant to serve as a platform for a point/counterpoint between Moore 's ( and his collaborator Jeff Gibbs ) positions on contemporary environmentalism and critics who have found the documentary wanting in precision , possibly integrity , scientific rigor , and ultimately misguided in its overall purpose .
( Personally , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exasperatingly so , given its important focus , `` greenwashing '' —the corporate infiltration and evisceration of the environmental movement with apparent collaboration from within—and the stunted way , the glaring missed opportunities marring the film 's narrative .
Maybe the topic is too big for just one documentary .
Maybe Moore and Gibbs should have considered a miniseries. )
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Still , this is not my counterpoint to Moore 's film , but the responses of other critics .
Are they being too harsh ?
Are they misguided ?
What say you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THE HUMANS By Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans , a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America .
This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face : that in the midst of a human-caused extinction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids .
It 's too little , too late .
Planet of the Humans : DEBUNKED | In Depth ( May 8 2020 ) .
( May 8 2020 ) .
Now You Know .
( May 8 2020 ) .
# nowyouknow # debunked http : //getenergysmartnow.com/2020/04/ ... On today 's episode of `` In Depth '' Zac & Jesse take the new Michael Moore/Jeff Gibbs documentary , `` Planet of the Humans '' to task and refute many of its claims about renewable energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a series on humans ' destruction of the natural world .
Michael Moore on Planet of the Humans and Censorship | Useful Idiots Michael Moore joins the show to discuss the removal of Planet of the Humans from YouTube , and addresses criticism he and the film have received .
( May 31 2020 ) Michael Moore , filmmakers respond to criticism of new bombshell environmental film Academy award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and associates discuss their new documentary , 'Planet of the Humans , ' a documentary that says we are selling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and corporate America .
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Sadly , we 're pretty used to dispelling myths on this channel - usually ones aimed directly at electric vehicles and clean transportation from the fossil fuel industry .
But rarely do we have to deal with accusations from folks who say they want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , safer and smarter .
And rarely from people who are eager to see the world 's carbon footprint fall and the world transition away from dirty fuels .
Except that 's exactly what we 're doing today after watching Planet of the Humans -- Michael Moore 's latest Shockumentary .
in it , his long-time collaborator Jeff Gibbs lays out a manifesto that claims electric cars , renewable energy , and everyting that goes along with a shift towards cleaner fuels is simply industrialism gone mad - and that we need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Sadly though , as we soon discovered , the film is less documentary and more a narrative towing a different agenda .
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This video was made possible thanks to the kind donations of our supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi. Join them in supporting us.
Sadly, we're pretty used to dispelling myths on this channel - usually ones aimed directly at electric vehicles and clean transportation from the fossil fuel industry. But rarely do we have to deal with accusations from folks who say they want the world to be cleaner, greener, safer and smarter. And rarely from people who are eager to see the world's carbon footprint fall and the world transition away from dirty fuels. Except that's exactly what we're doing today after watching Planet of the Humans -- Michael Moore's latest Shockumentary. in it, his long-time collaborator Jeff Gibbs lays out a manifesto that claims electric cars, renewable energy, and everyting that goes along with a shift towards cleaner fuels is simply industrialism gone mad - and that we need to find another way to live our lives. Sadly though, as we soon discovered, the film is less documentary and more a narrative towing a different agenda. . Watch the video above to find out more, support us with the provided links, and let us know what you think below -- but remember to keep your comments civil!
Presenter: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Produced: Transport Evolved
Apr 29 2020


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-13--Counterintuitive? In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive po

Counterintuitive? In New York, major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

hen New York police officers temporarily reduced their “ proactive policing ” efforts on low-level offenses , major-crime reports in the city actually fell , according to a study based on New York Police Department crime statistics .
The findings , published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour , put a crack in the “ broken windows ” theory of policing that has become a mainstay of many urban police departments .
“ Order maintenance policing , ” a type of proactive policing , is informed by the ‘ broken windows ’ theory — the idea that by fighting smaller @ @ @ @ @ @ @ create a ‘ lawful ’ environment that helps deter the more serious crimes .
It ’ s an idea that was put to use in the 1990s by former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton ( who also served as Los Angeles police chief from 2002 to 2009 ) .
The idea has taken hold in police departments around the U.S .
But some researchers have worried that this kind of policing can have a detrimental effect in the communities it targets .
“ A serious concern is that proactive policing diverts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ units , including detectives working to track down serial offenders and break up criminal networks , ” the authors point out .
“ Proactive policing also disrupts communal life , which can drain social control of group-level violence .
Citizens are arrested , unauthorized markets are disrupted , and people lose their jobs , all of which create more localized stress on individuals already living on the edge .
Such strains are imposed directly through proactive policing , and thus are independent from subsequent judgments of guilt or innocence.
” Either way , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because the cause-and-effect of policing and crime are difficult to tease apart .
“ Police officers target their efforts at areas where crime is anticipated and/or where they expect enforcement will be most effective , ” they wrote .
“ Simultaneously , citizens decide to comply with the law or commit crime partly on the basis of police deployment and enforcement strategies .
In other words , policing and crime are endogenous to unobservable strategic interaction , which frustrates causal analysis.
” That changed over the course of several weeks in late 2014 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declined to indict the officers involved in the fatal chokehold of Eric Garner in Staten Island , the NYPD held a work “ slowdown ” for about seven weeks as political conflict between protesters , Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city ’ s police unions intensified .
Legally , police officers can ’ t strike .
But they can “ work-to-rule , ” doing only the most necessary duties .
They responded to calls only in pairs , left their squad cars only if they felt compelled , and did not perform @ @ @ @ @ @ @ getting out of their vehicles to issue summonses or arrest people for petty crimes and misdemeanors .
The officers were ultimately ordered to return to work by Jan. 16 , 2015 .
This sudden slowdown provided researchers an opportunity to answer the question : Did crime rates go up when proactive policing went down ?
“ This makes for a unique natural experiment to identify the causal effects of changing police practices , ” the authors wrote .
The scientists filed Freedom of Information Act requests for a large set of NYPD CompStat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports describe the weekly activity for each NYPD precinct , including : “ Criminal summonses ” for penal law violations such as public alcohol consumption and disorderly conduct ; “ Stop , question and frisks ” or SQFs ; “ Non-major crime arrests , ” the vast majority of which are misdemeanors ; and “ Major crime complaints , ” such as murder , rape , robbery and felony assault .
During the slowdown , the researchers found that police dramatically reduced the number of criminal summonses and SQFs — a confirmation that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activities had gone down .
Non-major crime arrests also took a dip .
So did narcotics arrests .
So , with the drop in relatively low-level police activity , what happened to serious crime in the city ?
The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3 % to 6 % during the slowdown .
“ The cessation of proactive policing corresponds roughly to the relative decline in crime that earlier research attributed to the effects of mass incarceration , ” the authors noted .
The researchers ran the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the results still held .
They examined whether crime underreporting could have biased the findings , and the results still held .
“ While we can not entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting , ” the authors wrote , “ our results show that crime complaints decreased , rather than increased , during a slowdown in proactive policing , contrary to deterrence theory.
” Each week during the slowdown saw civilians report an estimated 43 fewer felony assaults , 40 fewer burglaries and 40 fewer acts of grand larceny .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actually continued for seven to 14 weeks after those drops in proactive policing — which led the researchers to estimate that overall , the slowdown resulted in about 2,100 fewer major-crimes complaints .
The broken windows theory posits that fighting smaller crimes helps to prevent the larger ones .
But in this case , it seems that the opposite may have been true .
“ In their efforts to increase civilian compliance , certain policing tactics may inadvertently contribute to serious criminal activity , ” the researchers wrote .
“ The implications for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not be understated.
” The findings show that experts may need to reconsider their assumptions about what is and isn ’ t effective in law enforcement practices , the authors said .
“ Our results imply not only that these tactics fail at their stated objective of reducing major legal violations , but also that the initial deployment of proactive policing can inspire additional crimes that later provide justification for further increasing police stops , summonses and so on , ” the authors wrote .
The researchers also noted that proactive policing is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poverty rates and large numbers of people of color .
“ The vicious feedback between proactive policing and major crime can exacerbate political and economic inequality across communities , ” they said .
“ In the absence of reliable evidence of the effectiveness of proactive policing , it is time to consider how proactive policing reform might reduce crime and increase well-being in the most heavily policed communities.
” In a commentary , David Weisburd of George Mason University pointed out that the study ’ s conclusions should be limited to a specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Certainly , this evidence should not be generalized across the broad array of proactive policing strategies , ” said Weisburd , who was not involved in the paper .
“ It is limited to a very specific approach applied very broadly in a large urban area .
“ But at the same time , as the authors note , they have capitalized on an interesting natural experiment that allows them to overcome the causal limitations of previous non-experimental work , ” he added .
“ This is well-done social science , and in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Still , he added , this isn ’ t a randomized experiment , and so the results aren ’ t entirely clear .
Not every potential unknown could be nailed down in a “ natural experiment ” such as this .
For example , even during the slowdown , did the police continue their practice of identifying and focusing on crime hot spots ?
“ My point is simply that we don ’ t know what the shock actually tells us because we don ’ t have a detailed understanding of what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote .
“ This gap suggests that we need experimental evidence of the impacts of proactivity at the jurisdictional level .
Non-experimental studies simply can not overcome the myriad threats to the causal interpretation of the findings.
” Setting up large-scale policing experiments is a difficult and expensive operation , he said — but it ’ s increasingly looking like a necessary step to understand which practices really makes cities safer .
“ The first law of treatment is ‘ do no harm ’ , ” Weisburd wrote .
“ [ The authors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offenses does just that .
We have a moral imperative to carry out well-designed experimental studies that can give us unambiguous answers to this important policy question.
” Follow @ aminawrite on Twitter for more science news and “ like ” Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook .

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hen New York police officers temporarily reduced their “proactive policing” efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell, according to a study based on New York Police Department crime statistics.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, put a crack in the “broken windows” theory of policing that has become a mainstay of many urban police departments.
“Order maintenance policing,” a type of proactive policing, is informed by the ‘broken windows’ theory — the idea that by fighting smaller crimes, it’s possible to create a ‘lawful’ environment that helps deter the more serious crimes. It’s an idea that was put to use in the 1990s by former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton (who also served as Los Angeles police chief from 2002 to 2009).
The idea has taken hold in police departments around the U.S. But some researchers have worried that this kind of policing can have a detrimental effect in the communities it targets.
“A serious concern is that proactive policing diverts finite resources and attention away from investigative units, including detectives working to track down serial offenders and break up criminal networks,” the authors point out. “Proactive policing also disrupts communal life, which can drain social control of group-level violence. Citizens are arrested, unauthorized markets are disrupted, and people lose their jobs, all of which create more localized stress on individuals already living on the edge. Such strains are imposed directly through proactive policing, and thus are independent from subsequent judgments of guilt or innocence.”
Either way, these arguments are hard to test, because the cause-and-effect of policing and crime are difficult to tease apart.
“Police officers target their efforts at areas where crime is anticipated and/or where they expect enforcement will be most effective,” they wrote. “Simultaneously, citizens decide to comply with the law or commit crime partly on the basis of police deployment and enforcement strategies. In other words, policing and crime are endogenous to unobservable strategic interaction, which frustrates causal analysis.”
That changed over the course of several weeks in late 2014 and early 2015. After a jury declined to indict the officers involved in the fatal chokehold of Eric Garner in Staten Island, the NYPD held a work “slowdown” for about seven weeks as political conflict between protesters, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city’s police unions intensified.
Legally, police officers can’t strike. But they can “work-to-rule,” doing only the most necessary duties. They responded to calls only in pairs, left their squad cars only if they felt compelled, and did not perform certain proactive policing tactics, such as getting out of their vehicles to issue summonses or arrest people for petty crimes and misdemeanors. The officers were ultimately ordered to return to work by Jan. 16, 2015.
This sudden slowdown provided researchers an opportunity to answer the question: Did crime rates go up when proactive policing went down?
“This makes for a unique natural experiment to identify the causal effects of changing police practices,” the authors wrote.
The scientists filed Freedom of Information Act requests for a large set of NYPD CompStat reports from 2013 to 2016. These reports describe the weekly activity for each NYPD precinct, including: “Criminal summonses” for penal law violations such as public alcohol consumption and disorderly conduct; “Stop, question and frisks” or SQFs; “Non-major crime arrests,” the vast majority of which are misdemeanors; and “Major crime complaints,” such as murder, rape, robbery and felony assault.
During the slowdown, the researchers found that police dramatically reduced the number of criminal summonses and SQFs — a confirmation that, indeed, the low-level proactive policing activities had gone down. Non-major crime arrests also took a dip. So did narcotics arrests.
So, with the drop in relatively low-level police activity, what happened to serious crime in the city? The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.
“The cessation of proactive policing corresponds roughly to the relative decline in crime that earlier research attributed to the effects of mass incarceration,” the authors noted.
The researchers ran the analysis under a couple other models, and the results still held. They examined whether crime underreporting could have biased the findings, and the results still held.
“While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting,” the authors wrote, “our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.”
Each week during the slowdown saw civilians report an estimated 43 fewer felony assaults, 40 fewer burglaries and 40 fewer acts of grand larceny. And this slight suppression of major crime rates actually continued for seven to 14 weeks after those drops in proactive policing — which led the researchers to estimate that overall, the slowdown resulted in about 2,100 fewer major-crimes complaints.
The broken windows theory posits that fighting smaller crimes helps to prevent the larger ones. But in this case, it seems that the opposite may have been true.
“In their efforts to increase civilian compliance, certain policing tactics may inadvertently contribute to serious criminal activity,” the researchers wrote. “The implications for understanding policing in a democratic society should not be understated.”
The findings show that experts may need to reconsider their assumptions about what is and isn’t effective in law enforcement practices, the authors said.
“Our results imply not only that these tactics fail at their stated objective of reducing major legal violations, but also that the initial deployment of proactive policing can inspire additional crimes that later provide justification for further increasing police stops, summonses and so on,” the authors wrote.
The researchers also noted that proactive policing is often used disproportionately in communities with high poverty rates and large numbers of people of color.
“The vicious feedback between proactive policing and major crime can exacerbate political and economic inequality across communities,” they said. “In the absence of reliable evidence of the effectiveness of proactive policing, it is time to consider how proactive policing reform might reduce crime and increase well-being in the most heavily policed communities.”
In a commentary, David Weisburd of George Mason University pointed out that the study’s conclusions should be limited to a specific subset of proactive policing tactics.
“Certainly, this evidence should not be generalized across the broad array of proactive policing strategies,” said Weisburd, who was not involved in the paper. “It is limited to a very specific approach applied very broadly in a large urban area.
“But at the same time, as the authors note, they have capitalized on an interesting natural experiment that allows them to overcome the causal limitations of previous non-experimental work,” he added. “This is well-done social science, and in this context the results have strong weight.”
Still, he added, this isn’t a randomized experiment, and so the results aren’t entirely clear. Not every potential unknown could be nailed down in a “natural experiment” such as this. For example, even during the slowdown, did the police continue their practice of identifying and focusing on crime hot spots?
“My point is simply that we don’t know what the shock actually tells us because we don’t have a detailed understanding of what the police were doing,” Weisburd wrote. “This gap suggests that we need experimental evidence of the impacts of proactivity at the jurisdictional level. Non-experimental studies simply cannot overcome the myriad threats to the causal interpretation of the findings.”
Setting up large-scale policing experiments is a difficult and expensive operation, he said — but it’s increasingly looking like a necessary step to understand which practices really makes cities safer.
“The first law of treatment is ‘do no harm’,” Weisburd wrote. “[The authors] suggest that generalized enforcement of low-level offenses does just that. We have a moral imperative to carry out well-designed experimental studies that can give us unambiguous answers to this important policy question.”
amina.khan@latimes.com
Follow @aminawrite on Twitter for more science news and “like” Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-13--China’s electric vehicles may be the future. Environmentalists should cheer.

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nce again propelling itself ahead in global electric vehicle markets , Beijing has just rolled out a new credit scheme that will essentially pay citizens to make the switch to EVs .
This week the electric vehicle world is abuzz with the news of a new million-mile battery in the works , but another , much less flashy innovation announced this week could have even more sweeping implications for the EV sector .
It may not make the sexiest headlines , but a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out in Beijing could revolutionize the way electric vehicle markets function .
“ Tesla made about $ 354 million in Q1 2020 by selling regulatory credits , ” Electrek reported this week .
“ Fiat Chrysler and General Motors , among others , buy billions of dollars in CO2 credits a year to avoid paying fines.
” Despite the fact that the Trump administration is in the process of rescinding fuel economy rules that include greenhouse gas credits , Tesla has seen plenty of demand for their credits at the federal level .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Tesla has made over $ 2 billion from the sale of environmental credits over the years , but those have mostly consisted of ZEV credits from CARB states – mainly California , ” Electrek reported in a separate article last June .
According to Xinhua , he went on to say that “ a driver can help cut carbon emissions by 1 tonne if he or she does not drive the car for about 200 days over a three-year period .
The municipal authorities hope to bring 1 million car owners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a target of reducing carbon emissions by 1 million tonnes within three years.
” China has clearly been paying a lot of attention to what ’ s happening with high demand for environmental EV credits in Western markets , and this week the Beijing Environmental Exchange launched “ a similar credit system to get individuals to drive an electric car , or avoid driving altogether.
” As Electrek explains , “ carbon emissions allowances are usually traded by companies .
But the Beijing exchange ’ s mobile app allows individual car owners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Xinhua Net , China ’ s state-run news source , reported this week that this “ new carbon-neutral solution provides a market-based incentive to encourage car owners to reduce their driving frequency and allows enterprises to buy emission quotas saved by car owners.
” The article also referenced an interview with Wang Huijun , executive vice president of the exchange , who explained that “ the average daily carbon dioxide emissions for an electric vehicle is 0.83 kg , while a fuel-powered vehicle with an engine of no more than 1.2 liters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ average daily.
” Essentially , the Chinese government will pay citizens to switch from traditional combustion engines to electric vehicles or not to drive at all .
Beijing ’ s target to convert 1 million of the city ’ s car owners to participate in the 1 tonne campaign is a lofty goal , but represents fewer than a third of the city ’ s drivers , as “ Beijing was among the 11 cities in China that had over 3 million cars on road by the end of 2019.
” “ Using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Green Traveler Platform , ’ individual drivers would install a smart device to track a user ’ s emission-reduction behavior , ” reports Electrek .
“ Emissions would be tallied in an account , building up credits .
Then , other individuals or companies ( including banks and insurance companies ) would buy credits for cash.
” Participants won ’ t see a huge influx of cash -- in fact they ’ ll make less than a dollar per day on average .
But over the course of the year , participants can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when these credits add up .
While Europe is often thought of as the EV headquarters of the world , and Tesla , the world ’ s most famous EV company , is located in the United States , China is taking over .
Beijing has been on the cutting edge of the electric vehicles sector for a while now , and all but controls EV markets .
Way back in 2018 Oilprice reported that “ China Indirectly Controls EV Markets ” because of its near-monopoly at various levels of the supply chain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lithium ion batteries .
It ’ s true that this program isn ’ t completely novel .
As Electrek points out , “ Metro Mile and other insurance providers in the US offer similar programs that use connected devices to monitor driving ” and Beijing has already had parts of this system in place for a few years , like their auto insurance platform that is used to track driving behavior .
But what Beijing launched this week is unique in that it “ not only reduces your insurance bill , it pays @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get around in a zero-emissions vehicle.
” At that time Oilprice reported that “ China produces about two thirds of the whole world ’ s supply of lithium ion batteries , the most common battery type used in electric vehicles .
Furthermore , these highly valuable batteries make up a staggering 40 percent of the cars ’ value .
As it stands , Europe is far from being able to compete with China when it comes to the production of lithium ion batteries .
In fact , currently the entire continent is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the market.
” Because of this , EV companies around the world are moving their entire production to China .
This credit trading market innovation is just another way that Beijing is securing its place at the forefront of the EV sector .
This article was originally published on Oilprice.com esla is set to launch a million-mile battery as soon as this year or early in 2021 for its Model 3 in China .
A million-mile battery would be just one pillar of Elon Musk ’ s strategy to make Tesla an energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Last year , a team from the Dalhousie University in Halifax , Canada , who do research for Tesla , said in a paper that they had tested lithium-ion battery cell chemistry expected to be able to power electric vehicles ( EVs ) for more than 1 million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage .
Jeff Dahn and his research team presented testing results of “ excellent moderate-energy-density lithium-ion pouch cell chemistry ” that should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1.6 million kilometers ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least two decades in grid energy storage .
The researchers from Dalhousie University have an exclusive agreement with Tesla , and they reported that they had designed battery cells with higher energy density without using the solid-state electrolyte that many believe is a necessary condition for enhanced density .
Earlier this year , Reuters reported that Tesla was in talks with China ’ s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd ( CATL ) to make batteries without using cobalt for its China-made vehicles .
Cobalt , one of the most expensive metals for batteries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are still more expensive than vehicles with internal combustion engines .
After an initial rollout in China for the Model 3 , the million-mile battery will be further improved for cost , storage capacity , and energy density and will be used in other Tesla models in markets outside China , including North America , Reuters ’ sources said , while Tesla declined to comment on the report .
This article was originally published on Oilprice.com Tesla 's newest rival is taking the stock market by storm They are both named after inventor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to upend the market of predominantly gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks with their zero-emission technologies .
And their stock prices are surging—but for different reasons .
The day on which Tesla 's shares hit an all-time high closing price of $ 949.92 on Monday on record-high China-made Model 3 sales , shares in competitor Nikola more than doubled since their Friday closing price , hitting $ 73.27 per share after soaring 104 percent on the third day of trading on the NASDAQ .
Nikola – founded in 2015 and named after the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name – made its debut on the stock market on June 4 , after merging with special purpose vehicle company VectoIQ Acquisition Corp. Stephen Girsky , the current CEO of VectoIQ and former Vice Chairman of General Motors , joined Nikola 's board of directors .
Nikola is not rivaling Tesla in the passenger car manufacturing business : it 's aiming to build battery-electric and hydrogen-electric trucks and pickups .
Its long game is in zero-emission heavy-duty transportation and related infrastructure such as hydrogen station networks .
But its new electric pickup truck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Tesla 's Cybertruck .
The Badger will have an estimated range of up to 600 miles , which is 100 miles more than the estimated maximum range of Tesla 's Cybertruck .
Nikola Share Price Doubles Just Two Days After Market Debut On their third trading day since listing on the NASDAQ , shares in Nikola surged by 104 percent , after the company 's founder and executive chairman Trevor Milton tweeted that Nikola would open up reservations for the Badger , `` the most bad ass zero emission truck '' on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Badger will be between $ 60,000 and $ 90,000 , depending on the configuration , according to the company .
Nikola and its founder are betting big that policymakers will support zero-emission technology in road transportation and that investors will see the Environmental , Social , and Governance ( ESG ) credentials of the company .
`` Nikola is thrilled to complete the Nasdaq listing and be part of the ESG investment world .
This is a significant endorsement in fuel-cell and battery-electric technology , '' Milton said in a statement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listing .
So far , so good—the stock market , retail investors , traders , and fans are lapping up Nikola 's stock .
The market capitalization of the company exceeded on Monday the market caps of two of Detroit 's Big Three .
`` I 've wanted to say this my whole adult life ; $ NKLA is now worth more than Ford and FCA .
Nipping on the heels of GM .
It may go up or down and that 's life but I 'll do my part to be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , '' Milton tweeted after markets closed on Monday .
Surpassing the market capitalization of each of Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is not bad for a company that has yet to make any revenue .
Nikola expects to start generating revenue by 2021 with the rollout of its Nikola Tre Class 8 BEV , followed by the Nikola Two Class 8 FCEV coming in 2023 .
According to founder Milton , the company will make five times the revenue per truck sold compared to other companies .
This will be achieved by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told Yahoo Finance in an interview on the day of the stock debut last Thursday .
Jeffrey Ubben , chief executive at Nikola investor ValueAct , said earlier this year that Nikola could be the next $ 100-billion company .
Milton told Yahoo Finance last week that `` How you get there is because we vertically integrated the entire supply chain .
It 's very similar to Amazon . ''
Regardless of the different business models , comparisons between the two companies named after Nikola Tesla may be inevitable , not only because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inventor .
Going forward , Nikola will have to start generating revenues , preferably sooner rather than later , in order to convince the still sizable camp of skeptics that zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles could give fossil fuel-powered vehicles a run for their money over the next decade .
Delivering on targets and smooth production ramp-up could also spare Nikola some of the growing pains that Tesla had two years ago .
The trend in the stock price of Nikola – just three days into trading on the market – is impossible to predict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the company may have already built a devoted group of followers and believers , just like Tesla has done .

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China launches bold new electric vehicle credit scheme
O nce again propelling itself ahead in global electric vehicle markets, Beijing has just rolled out a new credit scheme that will essentially pay citizens to make the switch to EVs.
This week the electric vehicle world is abuzz with the news of a new million-mile battery in the works, but another, much less flashy innovation announced this week could have even more sweeping implications for the EV sector. It may not make the sexiest headlines, but a new form of EV credit-trading being tested out in Beijing could revolutionize the way electric vehicle markets function. “Tesla made about $354 million in Q1 2020 by selling regulatory credits,” Electrek reported this week. “Fiat Chrysler and General Motors, among others, buy billions of dollars in CO2 credits a year to avoid paying fines.” Despite the fact that the Trump administration is in the process of rescinding fuel economy rules that include greenhouse gas credits, Tesla has seen plenty of demand for their credits at the federal level. Even without these greenhouse gas credit sales, “Tesla has made over $2 billion from the sale of environmental credits over the years, but those have mostly consisted of ZEV credits from CARB states – mainly California,” Electrek reported in a separate article last June. According to Xinhua, he went on to say that “a driver can help cut carbon emissions by 1 tonne if he or she does not drive the car for about 200 days over a three-year period. The municipal authorities hope to bring 1 million car owners in the city to the one-tonne campaign with a target of reducing carbon emissions by 1 million tonnes within three years.”China has clearly been paying a lot of attention to what’s happening with high demand for environmental EV credits in Western markets, and this week the Beijing Environmental Exchange launched “a similar credit system to get individuals to drive an electric car, or avoid driving altogether.” As Electrek explains, “carbon emissions allowances are usually traded by companies. But the Beijing exchange’s mobile app allows individual car owners to create an account and accumulate credits.” Xinhua Net, China’s state-run news source, reported this week that this “new carbon-neutral solution provides a market-based incentive to encourage car owners to reduce their driving frequency and allows enterprises to buy emission quotas saved by car owners.” The article also referenced an interview with Wang Huijun, executive vice president of the exchange, who explained that “the average daily carbon dioxide emissions for an electric vehicle is 0.83 kg, while a fuel-powered vehicle with an engine of no more than 1.2 liters discharges 2.58 kg of carbon dioxide on average daily.” Essentially, the Chinese government will pay citizens to switch from traditional combustion engines to electric vehicles or not to drive at all. Beijing’s target to convert 1 million of the city’s car owners to participate in the 1 tonne campaign is a lofty goal, but represents fewer than a third of the city’s drivers, as “Beijing was among the 11 cities in China that had over 3 million cars on road by the end of 2019.” “Using the Beijing Environmental Exchange’s ‘Green Traveler Platform,’ individual drivers would install a smart device to track a user’s emission-reduction behavior,” reports Electrek. “Emissions would be tallied in an account, building up credits. Then, other individuals or companies (including banks and insurance companies) would buy credits for cash.” Participants won’t see a huge influx of cash--in fact they’ll make less than a dollar per day on average. But over the course of the year, participants can make a few hundred dollars or more when these credits add up. While Europe is often thought of as the EV headquarters of the world, and Tesla, the world’s most famous EV company, is located in the United States, China is taking over. Beijing has been on the cutting edge of the electric vehicles sector for a while now, and all but controls EV markets. Way back in 2018 Oilprice reported that “China Indirectly Controls EV Markets” because of its near-monopoly at various levels of the supply chain, most notably in the case of lithium ion batteries. It’s true that this program isn’t completely novel. As Electrek points out, “Metro Mile and other insurance providers in the US offer similar programs that use connected devices to monitor driving” and Beijing has already had parts of this system in place for a few years, like their auto insurance platform that is used to track driving behavior. But what Beijing launched this week is unique in that it “not only reduces your insurance bill, it pays you not to drive at all or to get around in a zero-emissions vehicle.” At that time Oilprice reported that “China produces about two thirds of the whole world’s supply of lithium ion batteries, the most common battery type used in electric vehicles. Furthermore, these highly valuable batteries make up a staggering 40 percent of the cars’ value. As it stands, Europe is far from being able to compete with China when it comes to the production of lithium ion batteries. In fact, currently the entire continent is estimated to hold just 1 percent of the market.” Because of this, EV companies around the world are moving their entire production to China. This credit trading market innovation is just another way that Beijing is securing its place at the forefront of the EV sector. This article was originally published on Oilprice.com
Tesla could launch a million-mile battery this year
T esla is set to launch a million-mile battery as soon as this year or early in 2021 for its Model 3 in China.
A million-mile battery would be just one pillar of Elon Musk’s strategy to make Tesla an energy company, according to the sources. Last year, a team from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, who do research for Tesla, said in a paper that they had tested lithium-ion battery cell chemistry expected to be able to power electric vehicles (EVs) for more than 1 million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage. Jeff Dahn and his research team presented testing results of “excellent moderate-energy-density lithium-ion pouch cell chemistry” that should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) and last at least two decades in grid energy storage. The researchers from Dalhousie University have an exclusive agreement with Tesla, and they reported that they had designed battery cells with higher energy density without using the solid-state electrolyte that many believe is a necessary condition for enhanced density. Earlier this year, Reuters reported that Tesla was in talks with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) to make batteries without using cobalt for its China-made vehicles. Cobalt, one of the most expensive metals for batteries, is a key reason why EVs are still more expensive than vehicles with internal combustion engines. After an initial rollout in China for the Model 3, the million-mile battery will be further improved for cost, storage capacity, and energy density and will be used in other Tesla models in markets outside China, including North America, Reuters’ sources said, while Tesla declined to comment on the report. This article was originally published on Oilprice.com Tesla's newest rival is taking the stock market by storm
They are both named after inventor Nikola Tesla. They are both aiming to upend the market of predominantly gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks with their zero-emission technologies.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-13--Trudeau’s Cowardly and Cynical Pursuit of a United Nations Security Council Seat

uring a daily press briefing in Ottawa this Monday , Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued parasitizing on calamitous issues to increase the tempo of his bid for election to the United Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) seat next June 17 .
How else can one explain that he took the unusual step to comment , in his various first sentences , on the situation in the U.S. ?
In a supposedly self-effacing comment , he stated that “ anti-Black racism also exists in Canada.
” How convenient for the statesman .
Trudeau did not utter a word about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. nor show support for the just cause of protesting there , at least in the manner that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers ( CUPW ) point out : “ Over 50 years ago , American Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King said… A riot is the language of the unheard … This quote explains and underscores what we are seeing in the media in response to the police killing of a Black man , George Floyd , in Minneapolis … Unfortunately , these are not isolated incidents .
A recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1,000 black men and boys in the U.S. can expect to die at the hands of police .
That is , they are 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die during an encounter with a member of the police force.
” Trudeau , perhaps also animated by his UNSC elections campaign , did not utter a word about the violent century-old colonialist racism against First Nations in Canada .
Did Trudeau have a memory lapse about First Nations in Canada ?
No , the answer perhaps lies in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United Nations Special Rapporteur James Anaya on the rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada consisted of devastating criticism of the situation of Indigenous peoples in Canada .
And Canada has not been applying the 2007 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People .
If Trudeau had mentioned this , he would have opened a can of worms , as the situation is notoriously known to much of the public .
Thus , this would be bad press for a UNSC seat .
When a reporter asked him in that same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s incendiary comments against the protesters , Trudeau said , “ I am not going to speak on behalf of other countries.
” This is not true , and to utter blatant falsehoods is certainly not becoming of a country seeking a seat at the UNSC .
Trudeau has indeed commented on many occasions regarding countries whose governments he does not like , such as Nicaragua , Bolivia ( before the racist Trump–Trudeau coup ) , Palestine , China , Russia , Iran , and many others .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trudeau literally “ speaks on behalf of other countries , ” that is , Venezuela .
Through the mouth of the Trump-appointed so-called president-in-waiting Juan Guaido , Trudeau like Trump “ speaks on behalf of Venezuela.
” While very aggressive in meddling in the affairs of counties whose governments do not appeal to Trudeau , he does not have a word to say about violation of human rights against the countries he does like , such as Colombia , Brazil , Honduras , Israel , Saudi Arabia and , last but indeed not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a word was uttered in the June 1 press briefing about violation of human rights in the U.S .
This hypocritical contradiction , becoming so glaring , actually made it into the Canadian mainstream media .
On June 2 , the day following what the whole world witnessed on television , namely Trump ordering his troops to attack protesters in front of the White House so that he can have a photo op with a bible at the nearby official White House church , the daily press briefing took place .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and answer period was converted even by mainstream media into a relatively aggressive interrogation of Trudeau for his foreign policy double standard .
Several , and not just one , journalists ’ questions implored Trudeau to comment on Trump ’ s actions and words , not only the previous day ’ s police attacks and church photo op , but since the beginning of the crisis .
Trudeau again refused to answer the question , let alone address Trump ’ s words and deeds against protesters .
A journalist ( seemingly frustrated ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A drew to an end , and thus addressed Trudeau in the following way : “ You ’ ve been reluctant to comment on the words and actions of US president Donald Trump .
But we do have Donald trump now carrying out military action against protesters .
We saw people there gassed yesterday to make place for a photo op .
But if you do not want to comment on that , what message do you think that you are sending ?
” Trudeau stood silent for 20 seconds , on live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has international repercussions .
He finally answered with the same evasive “ we have all witnessed with horror and consternation what is going on , but now is the time to pull together… ” International western media showed the video clip with the journalist ’ s question followed by the long delay and finally the response .
There will surely be ongoing debate on his long moment of silence , Trudeau may or may not try to spin it .
However , the bottom line is that he got , wittingly or not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criticize Trump , bringing shame on millions of Canada , sacrificed on the alter of pleasing Trump in exchange for USSC support .
On the same day of his moment of silence on Trump , Trudeau ’ s Foreign Minister Jean-François Champagne issued a statement via Twitter confirming Canada ’ s support for the violent pro-U.S. opposition in Venezuela against the elected Maduro government .
On that June 2 , Trudeau passed the litmus test as a faithful ally of Trump and the U.S. and is expecting full U.S. support for the UNSC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theatrics ( as some parliamentarism called it ) did not go down at all right in the Canadian Parliament .
First to stand up against Trudeau ’ s non-response was the opposition social-democratic party NDP Member of Parliament Niki Ashton .
The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh also opposed Trudeau ’ s silence “ revealing his hypocrisy.
” Bloc Québécois opposition leader Yves-François Blanchet was quoted in the Montreal press that Trudeau “ lacks courage.
” However , we are not yet done with Trudeau ’ s June 2 presser .
It was not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the heels of his pledge to work against racism in Canada ( his opening UNSC pitch ) , a reporter ’ s question confronted him on a report that was released close to three years ago demanding that Canada apologize and offer reparations for slavery of Blacks in Canada .
He was asked why nothing has been done .
The response was band standing for the international audience , the usual… “ we are working on it.
” After all , the Trudeau government has spent so much time and funds in trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote for Canada .
He had to say something .
Nevertheless , let us be fair and ask : is it exaggerated to assert that Trudeau uses even the most tragic situations to boost his presence on the international scene as a trampoline for his UNSC seat ?
For those in doubt , in addition to the June 1 and 2 press conferences , let us take note of the May 28 , 2020 virtual UN-sponsored meeting on COVID-19 that Trudeau held with the Prime Minister of Jamaica and the United Nations Secretary-General @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television CBC reports , “ The conference is taking place as Canada competes with Norway and Ireland for one of two non-permanent seats opening on the UN Security Council next month .
Canada is running on a platform of helping to rebuild the post-pandemic world.
” The CBC headline , emphasizing help for poor countries , reads , “ Trudeau , allies call for global unity at UN summit on pandemic recovery.
” However , what is Trudeau ’ s actual track record on COVID-19 in “ poor countries ” ?
The quiescence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ week of May 2020 .
The U.S.-led attempted invasion of Venezuela from Colombia on May 3 , in collaboration with Juan Guaidó , to carry out a coup against President Maduro failed .
It was a fiasco .
How did the Trudeau government show its solidarity with the Trump-led mercenaries ?
His Foreign Minister issued two tweets , on May 3 and May 5 .
On both occasions , he allegedly based himself on Canada ’ s “ concern ” about COVID-19 in Latin America .
It was a cynical pretext .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support for the U.S.-led regime change strategy .
COVID-19 was just a pretext .
Nonetheless , in the apparent haste to cover up regime change solidarity with Trump and Guaidó , conveniently camouflaged with “ COVID-19 concern , ” Trudeau overlooked this fact : the Latin American countries to which he refers ( all American and Canadian allies ) – either directly or indirectly – such as Brazil , Ecuador , Peru , Colombia and Chile have the worst COVID-19 prevention records in Latin America .
On the other hand , the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most successful results in containing the pandemic is Venezuela .
This country was , of course , not mentioned in the Trudeau government ’ s May love-in statements with the US-led coup plotters .
Trudeau ’ s morbid UNSC pursuit is fully exposed because it is this successful Venezuela example that the Trump–Trudeau alliance wants to overthrow , which , had it occurred , would have thrust the Venezuelan people into the same hell as the U.S.-Canadian Latin American allies .
Nonetheless , let us continue to give Trudeau some benefit of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against him is serious : sadistically using COVID-19 for personal political careerism .
During the June 1 press briefing , in the context of racism , one reporter did ask him about the racism against the First Nations in Canada and the report of the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls ( MMIWG ) .
This inquiry was commissioned by the Trudeau government itself .
However , it did not turn out as planned .
The news reporter was perhaps making reference to the serious Commission findings leading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governments including the Justin Trudeau mandate .
Trudeau , waxing eloquently for the international audience and potential UNSC votes , did not answer the question except to say that his government is very concerned about the plight of the First Nations .
This statement and similar ones , not to mention innumerable photo ops showing Trudeau in Indigenous clothing , consist of a sin quad non sardonic approach to get a seat on the UNSC .
Moreover , to emblazon his “ concern for First Nations , ” Trudeau claimed they are working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Despite the fact that everything indicated that the First Nations are disproportionately prone to be infected by the pandemic because of historical social and economic conditions , his government announced on May 26 , 2020 that the work on the Commission was postponed because of the pandemic .
However , the former MMIWG chief commissioner Marion Buller said in response to Trudeau ’ s postponement that governments had ample time to get the work done by the promised date .
“ ‘ Using COVID-19 as an excuse for delaying a national action plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying , well , the dog ate my homework , ’ ” Buller said .
“ ‘ So much could ’ ve been done , should ’ ve been done up to and including February and March.
” Let us conclude by going back to square one .
On June 1 , Trudeau made his “ dramatic ” statement on anti-Black racism and then on June 2 , we heard his lame response to Canada ’ s history of slavery .
In addition , one may ask : a UNSC seat for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. and France , for a coup d ’ état and the continued oppression and violence against the people of Haiti .
For those who are still not convinced that we should say NO to Canada , Yves Engler ’ s title of his most recent article merits reflection : “ For Trudeau Black ( Haitian ) lives do not matter ” Is it any wonder that the description of Canada as “ colonialism at home , imperialism abroad ” is increasingly popular ?
Trudeau : If the shoe fits , wear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s bid for a UNSC seat is gaining traction .
We have made much headway despite the national and international pressure of the Trudeau government and its apologists .
Now that the bid is in the public limelight , we have far more leeway to expand the discussion in Canada and thus perhaps take a step in the direction to change Canada ’ s foreign policy .
However , we must increase our tempo .
No one can remain indifferent .
As Howard Zinn famously asserted , “ you can ’ t be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ article was originally published on The Canada Files .

D
uring a daily press briefing in Ottawa this Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued parasitizing on calamitous issues to increase the tempo of his bid for election to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat next June 17. How else can one explain that he took the unusual step to comment, in his various first sentences, on the situation in the U.S.?
In a supposedly self-effacing comment, he stated that “anti-Black racism also exists in Canada.” How convenient for the statesman. Trudeau did not utter a word about the extreme violation of human rights in the U.S. nor show support for the just cause of protesting there, at least in the manner that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) point out:
“Over 50 years ago, American Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King said… A riot is the language of the unheard … This quote explains and underscores what we are seeing in the media in response to the police killing of a Black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis … Unfortunately, these are not isolated incidents. A recent U.S. study found that about 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in the U.S. can expect to die at the hands of police. That is, they are 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die during an encounter with a member of the police force.”
Trudeau, perhaps also animated by his UNSC elections campaign, did not utter a word about the violent century-old colonialist racism against First Nations in Canada. Did Trudeau have a memory lapse about First Nations in Canada? No, the answer perhaps lies in the fact that in 2014 the Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur James Anaya on the rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada consisted of devastating criticism of the situation of Indigenous peoples in Canada. And Canada has not been applying the 2007 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People. If Trudeau had mentioned this, he would have opened a can of worms, as the situation is notoriously known to much of the public. Thus, this would be bad press for a UNSC seat.
When a reporter asked him in that same press briefing for his view specifically on Trump’s incendiary comments against the protesters, Trudeau said, “I am not going to speak on behalf of other countries.”
This is not true, and to utter blatant falsehoods is certainly not becoming of a country seeking a seat at the UNSC. Trudeau has indeed commented on many occasions regarding countries whose governments he does not like, such as Nicaragua, Bolivia (before the racist Trump–Trudeau coup), Palestine, China, Russia, Iran, and many others. In fact, on the hot issue of Venezuela, Trudeau literally “speaks on behalf of other countries,” that is, Venezuela. Through the mouth of the Trump-appointed so-called president-in-waiting Juan Guaido, Trudeau like Trump “speaks on behalf of Venezuela.”
While very aggressive in meddling in the affairs of counties whose governments do not appeal to Trudeau, he does not have a word to say about violation of human rights against the countries he does like, such as Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, Israel, Saudi Arabia and, last but indeed not least, the U.S. itself. Not a word was uttered in the June 1 press briefing about violation of human rights in the U.S.
This hypocritical contradiction, becoming so glaring, actually made it into the Canadian mainstream media. On June 2, the day following what the whole world witnessed on television, namely Trump ordering his troops to attack protesters in front of the White House so that he can have a photo op with a bible at the nearby official White House church, the daily press briefing took place. However, and this is unusual, the question and answer period was converted even by mainstream media into a relatively aggressive interrogation of Trudeau for his foreign policy double standard. Several, and not just one, journalists’ questions implored Trudeau to comment on Trump’s actions and words, not only the previous day’s police attacks and church photo op, but since the beginning of the crisis. Trudeau again refused to answer the question, let alone address Trump’s words and deeds against protesters. A journalist (seemingly frustrated) made another attempt as the Q and A drew to an end, and thus addressed Trudeau in the following way:
“You’ve been reluctant to comment on the words and actions of US president Donald Trump. But we do have Donald trump now carrying out military action against protesters. We saw people there gassed yesterday to make place for a photo op. But if you do not want to comment on that, what message do you think that you are sending?”
Trudeau stood silent for 20 seconds, on live TV, a very unusual act that has international repercussions.
He finally answered with the same evasive “we have all witnessed with horror and consternation what is going on, but now is the time to pull together…” International western media showed the video clip with the journalist’s question followed by the long delay and finally the response. There will surely be ongoing debate on his long moment of silence, Trudeau may or may not try to spin it. However, the bottom line is that he got, wittingly or not, international attention and he refused to criticize Trump, bringing shame on millions of Canada, sacrificed on the alter of pleasing Trump in exchange for USSC support.
On the same day of his moment of silence on Trump, Trudeau’s Foreign Minister Jean-François Champagne issued a statement via Twitter confirming Canada’s support for the violent pro-U.S. opposition in Venezuela against the elected Maduro government.
On that June 2, Trudeau passed the litmus test as a faithful ally of Trump and the U.S. and is expecting full U.S. support for the UNSC seat.
However, Trudeau’s theatrics (as some parliamentarism called it) did not go down at all right in the Canadian Parliament. First to stand up against Trudeau’s non-response was the opposition social-democratic party NDP Member of Parliament Niki Ashton.
The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh also opposed Trudeau’s silence “revealing his hypocrisy.”
Bloc Québécois opposition leader Yves-François Blanchet was quoted in the Montreal press that Trudeau “lacks courage.”
However, we are not yet done with Trudeau’s June 2 presser. It was not Trudeau’s day. Right on the heels of his pledge to work against racism in Canada (his opening UNSC pitch), a reporter’s question confronted him on a report that was released close to three years ago demanding that Canada apologize and offer reparations for slavery of Blacks in Canada. He was asked why nothing has been done. The response was band standing for the international audience, the usual…“we are working on it.” After all, the Trudeau government has spent so much time and funds in trying to recruit African and Caribbean countries to vote for Canada. He had to say something.
Nevertheless, let us be fair and ask: is it exaggerated to assert that Trudeau uses even the most tragic situations to boost his presence on the international scene as a trampoline for his UNSC seat? For those in doubt, in addition to the June 1 and 2 press conferences, let us take note of the May 28, 2020 virtual UN-sponsored meeting on COVID-19 that Trudeau held with the Prime Minister of Jamaica and the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. As the Canadian state television CBC reports, “The conference is taking place as Canada competes with Norway and Ireland for one of two non-permanent seats opening on the UN Security Council next month. Canada is running on a platform of helping to rebuild the post-pandemic world.” The CBC headline, emphasizing help for poor countries, reads, “Trudeau, allies call for global unity at UN summit on pandemic recovery.”
However, what is Trudeau’s actual track record on COVID-19 in “poor countries”? The quiescence of cynicism took place in the first week of May 2020. The U.S.-led attempted invasion of Venezuela from Colombia on May 3, in collaboration with Juan Guaidó, to carry out a coup against President Maduro failed. It was a fiasco. How did the Trudeau government show its solidarity with the Trump-led mercenaries? His Foreign Minister issued two tweets, on May 3 and May 5. On both occasions, he allegedly based himself on Canada’s “concern” about COVID-19 in Latin America. It was a cynical pretext. The tweets show that the bottom line was support for the U.S.-led regime change strategy. COVID-19 was just a pretext.
Nonetheless, in the apparent haste to cover up regime change solidarity with Trump and Guaidó, conveniently camouflaged with “COVID-19 concern,” Trudeau overlooked this fact: the Latin American countries to which he refers (all American and Canadian allies) – either directly or indirectly – such as Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Chile have the worst COVID-19 prevention records in Latin America. On the other hand, the country in the region with by far the most successful results in containing the pandemic is Venezuela. This country was, of course, not mentioned in the Trudeau government’s May love-in statements with the US-led coup plotters. Trudeau’s morbid UNSC pursuit is fully exposed because it is this successful Venezuela example that the Trump–Trudeau alliance wants to overthrow, which, had it occurred, would have thrust the Venezuelan people into the same hell as the U.S.-Canadian Latin American allies.
Nonetheless, let us continue to give Trudeau some benefit of the doubt. After all, the charge against him is serious: sadistically using COVID-19 for personal political careerism. During the June 1 press briefing, in the context of racism, one reporter did ask him about the racism against the First Nations in Canada and the report of the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). This inquiry was commissioned by the Trudeau government itself. However, it did not turn out as planned. The news reporter was perhaps making reference to the serious Commission findings leading to accusations of genocide against successive Canadian governments including the Justin Trudeau mandate. Trudeau, waxing eloquently for the international audience and potential UNSC votes, did not answer the question except to say that his government is very concerned about the plight of the First Nations. This statement and similar ones, not to mention innumerable photo ops showing Trudeau in Indigenous clothing, consist of a sin quad non sardonic approach to get a seat on the UNSC.
Moreover, to emblazon his “concern for First Nations,” Trudeau claimed they are working on the MMIWG report. False! Despite the fact that everything indicated that the First Nations are disproportionately prone to be infected by the pandemic because of historical social and economic conditions, his government announced on May 26, 2020 that the work on the Commission was postponed because of the pandemic. However, the former MMIWG chief commissioner Marion Buller said in response to Trudeau’s postponement that governments had ample time to get the work done by the promised date. “‘Using COVID-19 as an excuse for delaying a national action plan – to me – is really like saying, well, the dog ate my homework,’” Buller said. “‘So much could’ve been done, should’ve been done up to and including February and March.”
Let us conclude by going back to square one. On June 1, Trudeau made his “dramatic” statement on anti-Black racism and then on June 2, we heard his lame response to Canada’s history of slavery. In addition, one may ask: a UNSC seat for a country that is responsible, along with the U.S. and France, for a coup d’état and the continued oppression and violence against the people of Haiti. For those who are still not convinced that we should say NO to Canada, Yves Engler’s title of his most recent article merits reflection: “For Trudeau Black (Haitian) lives do not matter”
Is it any wonder that the description of Canada as “colonialism at home, imperialism abroad” is increasingly popular? Trudeau: If the shoe fits, wear it.
The movement against Canada’s bid for a UNSC seat is gaining traction. We have made much headway despite the national and international pressure of the Trudeau government and its apologists. Now that the bid is in the public limelight, we have far more leeway to expand the discussion in Canada and thus perhaps take a step in the direction to change Canada’s foreign policy. However, we must increase our tempo. No one can remain indifferent. As Howard Zinn famously asserted, “you can’t be neutral on a moving train.”
This article was originally published on The Canada Files.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-14--Eagle released after rehabbing—breathtaking

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
Be sure to share it widely .
This post is part of @ @ @ @ @ destruction of the natural world .
PATRICE GREANVILLE A victim of lead poisoning , an @ @ @ @ @ .
Now she is being returned to the wild .
But why did she get @ @ @ @ @ ?
The short answer is she is an indirect victim of `` recreational hunting '' @ @ @ @ @ from the ingestion of lead slug or bullet fragments found in the systems and carcasses @ @ @ @ @ .
Millions of birds are affected annually .
... Eagles frequently scavenge carcasses of deer @ @ @ @ @ that may harbor lead or lead fragments .
Still , there are humans who try @ @ @ @ @ broken .
They always seem to be in the minority .
But they are compelled @ @ @ @ @ all , we are surrounded by beauty we often take for granted .
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Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post. Be sure to share it widely.
This post is part of a series on humans' destruction of the natural world.
PATRICE GREANVILLE
A victim of lead poisoning, an eagle is rescued and rehabbed. Now she is being returned to the wild.
But why did she get sick in the first place? The short answer is she is an indirect victim of "recreational hunting".
Lead poisoning can occur from the ingestion of lead slug or bullet fragments found in the systems and carcasses of deceased and live prey. Millions of birds are affected annually. ... Eagles frequently scavenge carcasses of deer, pheasants and other wildlife that may harbor lead or lead fragments.
Still, there are humans who try to repair what others have broken. They always seem to be in the minority. But they are compelled to do it. After all, we are surrounded by beauty we often take for granted. 7865


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-14--Bill Maher gets owned by Glenn Greenwald over religion and US intervention plus Greenwald on the “id

Bill Maher gets owned by Glenn Greenwald over religion and US intervention plus Greenwald on the “ideological Bubbles” separating Americans

There are occasions when Bill Maher imprudently chews more than he can swallow .
This is an occasion when Maher @ @ @ @ @ Israel and Democrat party corruption , meets his match in Glenn Greenwald .
Too bad @ @ @ @ @ a bit overwhelming and probably not attractive to general brainwashed audiences—who will be left in @ @ @ @ @ his exposés .
Note that Maher 's panel also has on board the notorious Joy @ @ @ @ @ a major tool for the distribution of the Russiagate hoax , and good exponent of @ @ @ @ @

There are occasions when Bill Maher imprudently chews more than he can swallow. This is an occasion when Maher, an unabashed apologist for Israel and Democrat party corruption, meets his match in Glenn Greenwald. Too bad Glenn's machine-gun delivery is a bit overwhelming and probably not attractive to general brainwashed audiences—who will be left in the propaganda dust—when listening to his exposés.
Note that Maher's panel also has on board the notorious Joy Reid, later to become a major tool for the distribution of the Russiagate hoax, and good exponent of the Trump Derangemet Syndrome.