Day: September 29, 2024

Why I like Valentina Lisitsa

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Not only is she an outstanding pianist, she has the backbone to stand up for what’s right! It’s a rarity in this world dominated by the Western narrative!

Wikipedia entry, edited by me:

The Toronto Symphony canceled her 2015 engagements as soloist with them because of her social media postings in support of pro-Russian separatists during the war in Donbas Donbass.

Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv Kiev, Ukraine).

She is of Russian and Polish descent on her mother’s side, while her father is of Ukrainian heritage.

Lisitsa has expressed her opposition to what she considered is Western interference within Ukraine.

On May 9, 2022 Lisitsa played a concert in Mariupol in commemoration of its annexation liberation by Russia.

Related:

[2015] Valentina’s Facebook post

[2015] I like Valentina Lisitsa

Disability groups legally challenge Canada’s euthanasia law

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

On September 26, 2024 a coalition of disability rights organizations and two personally affected individuals filed a Charter challenge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The Court Challenge opposes Track 2 of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which provides euthanasia to people with a disability who are not dying, or whose death is not “reasonably foreseeable.” 

Disability groups legally challenge Canada’s euthanasia law

An open and free Indo-Pacific, or stability at home?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Source

The Voice of America, in an article about why the Quad met in Washington this week, claims that the aims of the Quad are to create an open and free Indo-Pacific. Biden, in a prepared remark, suggested his Administration believes “Xi Jinping is looking to focus on domestic economic challenges and minimise the turbulence in China’s diplomatic relationships, and he’s also looking to buy himself some diplomatic space”.

An open and free Indo-Pacific, or stability at home?