"Rosenberg and the 11 other members of the ring — all Israeli nationals — were believed to have stolen up to $25 million, according to Channel 10." 11 other Israelis stole $25 million from Seniors. So how does Pierre Poilievre feel about that?
Global is reporting that "A retired RCMP officer who is accused of foreign interference and being an agent for China was in Vancouver for a court appearance on Tuesday. Taking a break from a hearing on his bail conditions in Vancouver, Bill Majcher made his first statements to Global News about the charges against him. 'My response, initially, amazement. And I 100 per cent reject it. It’s totally false, without foundation.'”
I've seen the merits of the case. There's no way it's going to trial. They just delayed it until after the election.
The National Post is reporting that "A Chinese property tycoon linked to a massive banking scandal in China’s industrial north is at the centre of more than $500 million in B.C. property deals, a joint investigation by Postmedia and global due diligence firm IPSA International shows." Careful. They're going to charge you with foreign interference next.
The opposition with Dan Knight is reporting that "A serving RCMP sergeant and retired national security detective accuse Trudeau-era ministers—and now Mark Carney’s inner circle—of illegal surveillance and intelligence cover-ups."
OK so it was a 10 minute flight. Pretty cool. Like the weather balloons with a gopro attached to them. You get on the edge of the atmosphere and can clearly see the curvature of the earth. The bible does not say the earth is flat and it isn't. Let's move past the mental illness and get healthy. Onward and upward.
Update: Just because the capsule's door was opened from the inside before Jeff Bezos officially opened it for the camera doesn't mean the entire mission was fake. Every building has an emergency exit. I find it hard to believe that they would put all those women in a capsule with no door handle on the inside in the event of a fire. You need professional help.
The BBC is reporting that "An Israeli air strike has destroyed part of al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last fully functional hospital in Gaza City. Witnesses said the strike destroyed the intensive care and surgery departments of the hospital."
"Video posted online appeared to show huge flames and smoke rising after missiles hit a two-storey building. People, including some patients still in hospital beds, were filmed rushing away from the site."
France 24 is reporting that "Since the outbreak of war, tens of thousands of Gazans have sought refuge in hospitals across the territory, many of which have suffered severe damage in ongoing hostilities."
"The strike on Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza —- also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab Hospital —- caused no casualties, but came a day after Israeli forces seized a key corridor in the territory and signalled plans to expand their campaign."
"It also comes after the United Nations warned that medicines and related supplies are rapidly running out in Gaza as casualties surge. 'The bombing led to the destruction of the surgery building and the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units,' Gaza's civil defence rescue agency said."
"The strike came "minutes after the (Israeli) army's warning to evacuate this building of patients, the injured and their companions", the agency said. AFP photographs showed massive slabs of concrete and twisted metal scattered across the site after the strike."
"Patients, relatives, and medical personnel evacuated the Al-Ahli hospital in haste following the military's warning to evacuate. Many now remain stranded in the surrounding streets."
Paul Palango is an accomplished Canadian author who has written several books about crime. Many of which are critical of the RCMP like Dispersing the Fog. Turns out he's also a podcaster. Today he and criminal defense lawyer Adam Rodgers talked quite a bit about the Bill Majcher case over in Vancouver.
Turns out Majcher is pronounced Miker. I did not know that. They talked quite a bit about the case at 22:01in today's podcast and continues to 37:11. Paul had written about Majcher is his book Dispensing the Fog saluting his competence.
Today was a beautiful sunny day so we strapped on the snowshoes and hiked up Brockton Point on mount Seymour. It was the first time my son in law has been snowshoeing and the second time he's seen snow. We took him up Cypress in the fall for him to see an early snowfall right before ski season started.
I guess today was closing day for skiing and snowboarding for the season on Seymour. Same with Cypress. I thought they all had another week. Looks like they're shutting down before Easter. I guess Grouse is staying open until April 21st 2025.
Spring skiing is in my opinion the best of the season. It's warm and the melting snow isn't icy. It's a bit sticky as in not as fast but skiing in the sunshine is awesome. There are still more snowboarders than skiers out there and although the line ups for the chairlift were pretty long by late afternoon, everyone was having a tailgate party in the parking lot.
After next week we won't have to park so far away since the ski hill will be closed. I had crampons again today but broke one as soon as we started so I made the trek with just one crampon. I'll have to get that fixed or replaced for next time. The snow is melting fast so we better get on it.
OK so Mark Carney stays you can't be serious about being tough on crime if you're not willing to be tough on guns. That is the Liberal lie we all need to address.
We all know that Justin's Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland's WEF Liberals are soft on crime and tough on legal gun ownership. Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland's leftists are the same.
While cracking down on legal gun ownership banning numerous hunting rifles in his Communist takes all gun grab, Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland's WEF Liberals reduced the penalty for violent crime committed with illegal firearms. At the same time they increased the penalty for any legal gun owner who violated any one of their long list of new rules.
That revealed an Agenda. Justin's Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland's WEF Liberals were using the crime they created to justify taking guns and hunting rifles away from law biding citizens with criminal records checks.
Justin Trudeau's last minute Communist takes all amendment to the last gun bill they voted on created quite an outrage from Liberal and NDP MPs in rural areas as well as the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs. The Chiefs declared hunting was a treaty right. You can't ban hunting.
The rural Liberal and NDP MPs said Justin Trudeau has no clue about what it's like to live in our communities. We are surrounded by wildlife predators like bears and wolves. In the North they said we live with polar bears. We need rifles for self defense.
The Liberals' response on C-21 isn't good enough for the people of northwest BC, and it isn't good enough for rural Canada. pic.twitter.com/ju6O07M1pp
So when Mark Carney says Pierre Poilievre can't be tough on crime if he's not tough on legal gun ownership, we all know that is a lie. We also know that when Mark Carney bans legal guns from law biding citizens with criminal records checks, that has absolutely nothing to do with stopping crime because his WEF Liberals promote crime.
Criminals do not use guns that were ever legally registered to do gang hits. They use throw aways. Illegal firearms smuggled in from the US that have never been registered. They often leave them at the scene because they can't be traced. That way they can't be caught in possession of it later on and be implicated in that murder.
The far left uses that lie to disarm the public. However, the far right uses crime to justify a different extreme reaction. Throwing a drug dealer in jail for 30 years isn't going to solve the problem. Building new Guantanamo Bays in El Salvador isn't going to solve the problem.
We already have all the laws in place. The problem is a manufactured one because they are not enforcing the laws we already have. That means all we have to do is enforce the laws we do have. Repeat offenders doing less jail time the more violent offenses they commit is illogical.
We don't need to throw repeat offenders in jail for 30 years but we do need to throw them in jail for three months. That isn't extreme. Not doing that is extreme. We also need to throw them in jail for 3 moths without access to drugs. That would be in everyone's best interest. The current methadone scam that exists in BC prisons is insane.
We need to enforce the law in halfway houses and detox homes. Arresting drug dealers who sell drugs in detox homes is not extreme. Failing to do so is.
So we don't need extreme responses to manufactured problems. We need to balance the extremes and be logical because right now we are anything but.
Cherry blossoms are always an empirical sign that spring is here and summer is on it's way but this year it's more than that. It's the calm but sure assurance that everything's going to be alright like Bob Marley proclaimed in the song No Woman no Cry. As I also mentioned in a recent podcast about the whirlwind of insanity that surrounds us and bombards us daily on the fake news, everything's going to be alright. The sky isn't going to fall. We're not going to crash into another economic recession triggering another stock market depression.
Trump's recent 90 day pause to tariffs shows that his billionaire supporters see the folly of this quest. Now they say his strategic tariff negotiations has been brilliant. Not but that's OK. We'll let him have his fake victory so he can save face over the defiant stupidity. Tariffs hurt American farmers and we all want to support American farmers as well as farmers around the world.
The CIA's persistent China defamation has shown that tariffs against China also hurt American farmers. We buy things manufactured in China. That trade creates Canadian jobs in the ports, on the railways and in the retail sector.
As I previously said American manufactured products help create Canadian jobs. Everyone at the local Harley dealer are Canadians. Now we can all see beyond the narrow minded protectionism of Fascism and see how that silly math shoots yourself in the foot. Now we can move forward in peace.
So yes, the cherry blossoms are a sign but today the sign has become even more real as they fall from the sky and dance in the wind. I picked up a handful of cherry blossoms on the ground and threw them in the air saying to the kids look, it's snowing. Cherry blossoms blowing in the wind are a vivid reminder of God's love that surrounds us.
Sakura is the Japanese word for cherry blossoms. The fall of the Sakura is a description of today as the cherry blossoms gently fall and dance in the wind. Korea, Japan, Vancouver - peace.
The lyrics that struck me were the clip she posted which says Heart beats fast, Colors and promises, How to be brave? How ... then it cut out so I looked up the song on YouTube. The line I want to discuss is how to be brave.
In context the song appears to be talking about relationships but that's the the context I'm using it in. The song says "I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more." It could be allegorical but it could also refer to a belief in a preexistence and an afterlife both of which I do believe in.
Jeremiah 1:5 states "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee" and I submit loved thee. It's referring to God's love for his children. He loved us before we were born because he knew us. Now I don't want to get all holy roller but I just want to put the feelings I have in context.
I see people try to steer me for their own political purposes but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about the love God has for all of his children. God is not a respecter of persons But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
I'm not just talking about the Christian God here or the Jewish God, or the Muslim God or the Sikh God. I'm talking about the Great Architect of the Universe. The Grand Geometrician so to speak. The one who created the Universe and everything in it.
I came across Susan Ashton's song Grand Canyon from a video I found on YouTube of a few local motorcyclists from Vancouver that went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon.
The thing that seemed to strike those riders was the majesty of the Grand Canyon. They related that to Susan Ashton's use of the Grand Canyon as an allegory to describe how she felt about her relationship with God. In that song she declared "Sometimes I feel like I'm as close as your shadow and Sometimes I feel like I'm looking up at you from the bottom of the Grand Canyon."
I can relate to that. Well today when I see the falling cherry blossoms dancing in the wind I feel I'm as close as his shadow. I can feel the love God has for all of mankind. Especially Gaza.
It brings us back to Daniel. Sometimes we all feel like we're looking up at God from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Isaiah once said"But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me."
Zion here doesn't just mean the Jews. There were 12 tribes in Israel not just one and Abraham had more than one child. Zion in this context means anyone who aspires to something higher like Bob Marley did. All of us at times feel as though God has forgotten us and forsaken us.
Then Isaiah declares "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." He uses the analogy of a mother to reassure people that God has not forgotten us. The Lord then declares "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." What does that mean? Wait 'till I tell ye.
Bruce R McKonkie once declared that for the final three hours Christ hung on the cross, all the horrifying pains of Gethsemane returned. While he was nailed to the cross he saw, felt and experienced all our pains and sorrow. Our walls are continually before him. So that explains the love of God.
Now let's look at something an angel once said to Daniel and see how that applies to bravery. "O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong." When Daniel felt the love of God, it strengthened him.
Why is that? Because perfect love casteth out all fear. Genuine love creates bravery. Look at how a mother will defend her child or how a bear will defend her cub. If we love someone or something, we will defend it.
