Good riots/bad riots

Looks like Canada is all-in for ramping up the violence in Hong Kong.

The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper of record, today features a 16 year old Canadian on the front page, a Canadian kid of HK origin who is vigorously helping restore democracy to the former British colony.

Then "Andy" gets two full pages of hero worship in the Folio feature.

Here's the first few lines of Nathan VanderKlippe's hagiography;

Andy raises a hand and begins to count the crimes he has committed as a Hong Kong protester in the past five months. Arson, attacking police, inciting violence...

Lucky for Andy he's having his fun in Hong Kong. In Canada he'd be locked up for sure.

But don't you know, the Hong Kong riots are good riots, because they are aimed at making trouble for China. If we are to be loyal servants to our American bosses, we must hate China with all our hearts.

Meanwhile, Canada's national newspaper of record is largely silent on the many more deadly protests going on around the world.

The Yellow Vesters are still at it in France, after a year of protests that have often turned deadly. Mum's the word on protests in France. Even though Macron has said some rude things about NATO recently, our Globe and Mail is loathe to criticise his heavy-handed (far heavier hands than China) treatment of protesters.

Look at the protests on-going in some of those countries we allied ourselves with in the "Lima Group." Where's the Globe's coverage of the deadly riots in Chile and Columbia and Honduras? Those are obviously bad riots, because as far as I know, we're still allied with those police states in our attempt to restore democracy to Venezuela.

Some of the deadliest pro-democracy riots in the world right now are going on in Haiti, a country where Canada has played a pivotal role in over-throwing democratically elected governments. Twice. Good luck finding meaningful coverage of those bad Haitian riots in your Globe.

Thank God for our free press!

Uppity third worlders no longer taking first world garbage; China to blame

There's been a lot of media hyperventilation about how the dastardly Chinese commies destroyed recycling programs in North America. The Globe and Mail's Nathan Vanderklippe has now exposed the commies as being behind the nasty garbage spat Canada is having with the Philippines.

Nathan dutifully plays his part in the media's ongoing China bashing campaign by pointing out that Duterte "escalated the dispute with Canada not long after returning from Beijing, which has itself mounted a high-intensity pressure campaign against Canada following the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wankzhou."

Not so fast, Nathan! The garbage dispute with Canada predates the election of Duterte by a couple of years. Here's a link to a 2014 National Post story on the matter. Five years ago we assured the Filipinos that we were working on it. That was two years before Duterte was elected and almost five before Meng Wanzhou's arrest, but our garbage is still over there.

Is it possible that the government of the Philippines is just fed up with our inaction?

Making China part of this story isn't news, it's propaganda.