Out of touch? The Justin Trudeau story

It’s not often that I’ll come to the defense of Prime minister Trudeau, but in this case, I think our perspective is a bit skewed. The 60’s were a remarkably different time. News travelled slowly, and our perspectives of people (and events for that matter) were seen differently as the decades moved forward.

Mr. Trudeau, by all accounts, led a very sheltered life. And his mournings are of a man as seen through his father’s eyes. A family friend. Right or wrong, this is how he feels and he should be allowed wholeheartedly to express those feelings without being vilified.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/11/29/trudeau-out-of-step-with-canadians-in-response-to-castros-death-paul-wells.html?campaign_id=A100

Shimon Peres, war criminal or ambassador of peace?

This mornings blog post is in regards to the life and death of former Israeli PM, Shimon Peres. And in particular, this Huffington Post article praising Trudeau for his posturing of pro Israeli in the current conflict with Palestine: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/30/justin-trudeau-shimon-peres-funeral_n_12273196.html

Firstly, let’s look at the facts.

Shimon Peres, died Wednesday morning, after suffering a stroke in Tel Aviv. He was 93 years old.

In 1963, he negotiated with John F. Kennedy to buy MIM-23 Hawk Surface-to-air anti aircraft missiles. It was the first set of dealings in ammunitions to the country by the US.

In 1994, after helping draft the Israel-Jordan Peace treaty, along with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for talks that eventually produced the Oslo Accords, an agreement between the Israeli government and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was signed in Washington, DC in 1993.

What isn’t being mentioned in all this, is that on April 18, 1996 his government led attacks on a refugee compound in Southern Lebanon that killed 106 and injured 116.

He was also a pioneer in bringing Israel into the nuclear age. Believed to be the only true Nuclear power in the Middle East. And in 1975, he signed and governed all aspects of the SECMENT agreement, a secret brokering between Israel and South Africa to arm both countries with nuclear weapons programs, that helped pave way to the Peres led invasion of Angola.

In 1997, he also helped Iran develop and modify Israeli built missiles so that they could have longer range capabilities beyond two hundred miles.

This was clearly not a man of peace. But none of this has been spoken about in mainstream media, who pro Israeli conglomerates have been praising with high regard.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/world/israel-middle-east/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/i-stopped-netanyahu-from-attacking-iran-extraordinary-claim-shimon-peres-ordered-published-after-his-death

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/09/shimon-peres-nuclear/

Morning musings: US Congress has voted to override a veto by Obama allowing families of the victims of 9/11 to sue the Saudi government: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/senate-votes-to-override-obama-veto-on-9-11-victims-bill.html?_r=0

Canadian terror suspect was able to take a selfie with PM Trudeau: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/29/canadian-suspect-in-terror-probe-took-selfie-with-justin-trudeau.html?campaign_id=A100

Mentally ill patient not criminally responsible for hammer attack: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hammer-attack-not-criminally-responsible-jeff-weber-1.3779102

Poverty is sexist, apparently

This mornings post is in regards to this news article in the Star: ‘Poverty is sexist,’ Trudeau says at AIDS conference in Montreal …

I’m trying very hard to be non partisan here. And it’s quite honestly giving me a headache. As most speeches by Justin Trudeau have the tendency to do. But here at Media Watch, I’d like to say we do the best to remain unbiased, and so I’ll just state the facts as I see them, and treat my symptoms later.

I think it’s wonderful that the Prime Minister of Canada is trying to tackle issues like gender inequality, and disease like AIDS and Tuberculosis. It’s even more wonderful that he’s encouraging other countries to get on board and join that fight.

He and the Zuckerberg’s (Mark and his wife Pricilla Chan) should definitely talk, given the recent declaration of Facebook founder to a 10 year, $3 Billion plan to cure all diseases. It’s both bold  and grandiose. But what it lacks in real world application, it more than makes up for in ingenuity and when it comes to mainstream media, that’s often enough.

Trudeau certainly has high aspirations for himself when he says “Canada can go to other rich countries like Sweden and Germany and say ‘we’re stepping up; you step up,’” And it amounts to childhood dares of “I’m jumping off this bridge into shallow water, so you should too.”

For a government big on promises, and short on actual resolution, it’s an oddly self gratifying declaration. But if the future is with women, then people like Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and Theresa May are strange figureheads to lead that revolution.

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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/16/trudeau-hosts-star-studded-aids-conference-in-montreal.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/priscilla-chan-mark-zuckerberg-cure-diseases-facebook-initiative-brilliantly-bold

Musings 

It seems that CBC got it right yesterday, with an excellent article by senior writer Aaron Wherry, who penned this piece on Trudeau’s question period: Link to article

Senior Trudeau staffers offer to give back $65,000 in “unreasonable moving expenses”: Link to article

And finally, Huffington Post is developing a crush on Canadian PM: Link to article