Month: April 2022

Residents in Beijing Hoard Food, Fear Prolonged Lockdown Amid Mass Testing

Authorities have commenced mass testing affecting at least half of the residents in China’s capital city of Beijing, a possible signal to accelerate its zero-COVID containment pace and lockdown like Shanghai. Local residents are scrambling to hoard food and supplies in fear of starving during the impending lockdown. The epidemic situation in Beijing is “serious…


Lack of Fairness, Reasons Prompts Federal Court to Set Aside BC Fish Farm Phase-Out

A Federal Court judge has set aside a Department of Fisheries order that would have phased out fish farming in British Columbia’s Discovery Islands. Federal Court Judge Elizabeth Heneghan says in a decision issued April 22 that the order made in late 2020 by then-fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan breached the right to procedural fairness owed…


Germany Agrees to Send Tanks to Ukraine Amid Major Policy Reversal

The German Ministry of Defense, in a significant reversal, announced Tuesday that it would send Gepard anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced strong opposition to the move. The decision to send the anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, which has been fighting a war against Russia for the past two months, was announced by Defense…


Midterm Races Will Be Showdown Between ‘RINO’ and ‘Trump’ Republicans: Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro

There may be a “60-seat swing” to the GOP in the midterm elections; populist economic nationalism has arrived as a movement; the United States “should stop doing any kind of business” with China “until they cease their economic aggression.” That’s according to Peter Navarro, a senior official during the Trump administration, who spoke to The…


Midterm Races Will Be Showdown Between ‘RINO’ and ‘Trump’ Republicans: Former Trump Advisor Peter Navarro

There may be a “60-seat swing” to the GOP in the midterm elections; populist economic nationalism has arrived as a movement; the United States “should stop doing any kind of business” with China “until they cease their economic aggression.” That’s according to Peter Navarro, a senior official during the Trump administration, who spoke to The…


‘Competing Interests’: Liberals Raise Security Concerns With Emergencies Act Review

A senior Liberal minister says the government has “two competing interests” when it comes to sharing information about its use of the Emergencies Act: transparency and protecting national security. Government House leader Mark Holland was responding this morning to questions about what information the Liberals will provide to a judge tapped to lead an independent…


Is ESG Investing a Scam?

Commentary When you hear the acronym ESG, do your eyes glaze over? If so, you are not alone. For some, ESG represents progress. For others, however, it’s nothing but a scam. Nevertheless, the ESG movement is picking up steam, with an increasing number of corporations jumping on board. According to Barron’s, the sister publication of…


Ex-drug Addict Becomes an International Artist—After Messages From 3 Angels

In the creative process, we find freedom, relief, release, expression—and redemption. But for noted Southern California ceramicist Rich Lopez, the creative process and the hummingbird ceramic that became a part of his identity had to wait. He had to die first, to experience this new creative life. “That second time, I tell people I committed suicide. It wasn’t…


Book Review: ‘Princes of War: A Novel of America in Iraq’

When interviewing retired Army colonel Claude Schmid for a story about the nonprofit he founded, Veterans Last Patrol, I learned that he had written a novel, “Princes of War.” His organization focuses on partnering veterans with veterans in hospice care.  The story ran in The Epoch Times. I was curious about his book, a fictionalized…


Why the Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances

According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease” The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate, prevent and…