Decisions, decisions.
We are still contemplating where to send our $1500. So far, I think we agreed to split it in three and choose three recipients.
Initially, I was thinking some of the independent news operations like Rebel, WS, TN, etc. but they have their own fund raising using paywalls.
I noticed that some suggested single investigators like Andy Lee, Sheldon, Mocha. and realised I really don't know much about them and did a ilittle research. That changed my vote.
We will have a second poll after we have all had a chance to read the comments and look into the lkess prominent candidates. From what I see, they are doing amazing work, without a lot of support.
Rather than pin the whole discussion up top, I unpinned it and suggest going to https://thelions.locals.com/post/5538626/decision-time-fellow-lions-are-requested-to-participate-in-deciding-how-to-use-the-roughly-1 to read and comment -- and maybe change your vote.
“Biggest Transnational Crime Group on Earth”: Why Canada Must Break Free From China
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....
