Megyn K. and Vladimir

Below is a video of Vladimir Putin running circles around former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who left Fox News because she complained of "sexual assault" by its boss, and the boss and everyone else ignored/denied her allegations. This is Kelly who disarms her guests by yelling at them thinking that she's being tough and out to get the "Fair and Balanced™" news. She is shedding carefully maneuvered tears at various interviews and appearances. So much for the toughness. I wonder if Roger Ailes yelled at her.

Most likely, Putin has watched her program and also that infamous moment when, another macho, President Trump, gave Kelly as good as she gave (better, actually). Of course, Kelly couldn't handle it.



For all its potential as an SNL skit, this is serious stuff. A senior news anchor from an internationally regarded American media is confronting an influential world leader to act DICTATORIALLY in order to serve America's interests.

Unbelievable.

What happened was that sarted to pray

Daffodils

Central Park, New York
March 2017
[Photo By: KPA]

Our Father Which Art in Heaven

[Photo By: KPA]

Our Father, which art in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And leave us not in temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power and the glory,
For ever and ever. Amen.

"Suffer Little Children, And Forbid Them Not, To Come Unto Me"

Although I blog about race immigration and other similar cultural and societal phenomena of this modern world, I'm beginning to think we're beyond that now.

I'm still working through the idea that these issues are a detraction or some kind of shield covering up the real thing: A gradual movement away from God and towards Satan.

Films (as I discussed here and will elaborate on the post here) are now boldly and aggressively showing us "the other side."

One of my theories is that film has always been a preferred medium for the Devil to infiltrate society. It began with the early filmmakers and how they understood this capacity, and some used it with great finesse and beauty. I was part of the group which watched and analyzed these films until I abruptly left - never to turn back - after I finished my film program.

This particular moment occurred after I attended a lecture where one of my professors was presenting. By then I had understood his ideas and ambitions. I was, one could say, a preferred student. I worked two summer jobs with him. I learned much in the process. I was an avid student, never missing class, film demonstrations, and local festivals and events. I realized, after I left the program (that departure too was somewhat dramatic though not a full cutting off of the strings), I was just as much a "consumer" as a "creator" of these worlds.

This episode too will make for an independent post because that is when I began to really see the demonic in contemporary art.

Well forget film for a while! The God-rejecting world has now been sabotaged via immigration, multiculturalism and equality (of cultures) into accepting alien gods and beliefs, and has become a conduit for this nefarious side.

The program The Social from Canadian Television (CTV) airs daily and aspires to be "The View" of Canada.

They bring in authors, cosmeticians, fashion followers, politicians and other experts on their show. Once in while they bring in exercise coaches. And they seem to have a preference for yoga-type exercises.

In the most recent episode, they brought in a "mindfulness" expert for children. I realized right away that this had something to do with yoga and mind control.

I wasn't wrong.

There is a video of the interview as well as a long article explaining "mindfulness" on The Social's website.

Here are excerpts from the article:

What is mindfulness?
Being mindful is the practice of intentionally living in the present, without judgment and with gratitude...It is often practiced through various forms of meditation (e.g., sitting, walking, eating, etc.). It has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, increase self-awareness and awareness of others, and promote self-regulation and kindness to self.

How does it work for kids?
Mindfulness can be adapted for kids...For instance, it may be a challenge for a child to sit in silence and focus on his/her breath. But, if we were to pair it with a visual of a balloon inflating and deflating or some other object rising and falling, that would help.

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There is as great book called Mindful Games by Susan Greenland that has a bunch of creative mindfulness activities. But, the best way to teach mindfulness is to practice it yourself and just be present with your child, engaging in activities with no distractions. Talking aloud about your present feelings and sensations is also helpful.

Is it best suited for certain ages?
With some creativity, children as young as three could likely participate in some sort of mindful practice/activity (e.g., going on a walk and recognizing colours, smells, sensations, etc.). Again, mindfulness is any activity that keeps a child in the present moment.

[...]

Should mindfulness replace discipline?
Kids still definitely need consequences for their actions, because that is how real life works. If you steal, you can get arrested. If you lie to your friends, you may lose them. Mindfulness is more of a proactive approach to self-regulation and insight, whereas discipline is a reactive approach. Discipline is meant to be used as a teaching tool to show children not to repeat their behaviour. Although punishment can be effective, research shows that the best way to change behaviour in fact is not through punishment, but positive reinforcement. So that is acknowledging and encouraging the behaviours you want to see.

[...]

How to tell if your child has anxiety
Some signs of anxiety include: bodily aches with no known medical cause (e.g., headaches, stomach aches), difficulty sleeping/eating, frequent crying about school/tests/performance, voicing fears/concerns, avoidance of school/activities, difficulty separating from the parent, etc.

As a parent if you notice these signs, first talk to your pediatrician/family doctor to rule out any medical factors that may be impacting your child's mood or behaviour. Some parents may feel comfortable addressing anxiety at home. There are many books available to use as a resource (e.g., What To Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by Dawn Huebner). For more severe cases, parents should seek support from a professional (e.g., psychologist, psychiatrist).

The benefit of yoga and meditation rooms
Yoga is a great way to practice mindfulness through movement. I have often seen teachers engage in yoga practices after recesses as a way to transition from outside play to inside work...Yoga involves deep breathing and exercise which are two things that are associated with stress reduction and positive health overall. Meditation rooms could also be helpful. Already many schools have rooms or areas to allow children to “cool down” when they are escalated. A dedicated room for meditation is a good way of proactively practicing mindfulness.

How to bring mindfulness into the home
Personally, I like to practice mindfulness first thing in the morning, sometimes even before I get out of bed. Before I check my emails or get lost in thought about what I have to do today, I take 10 minutes to focus on my breath. I find it sets the tone for the day and makes it seem less overwhelming. You could try to incorporate it into your morning routine with kids or even before bed. As a family, finding the time to share what we are grateful for is also helpful. Ultimately though, if you want to incorporate mindfulness into your household, you start with your own practice. I’m sure once you start to see the benefits in yourself, you will find ways to extend it to your family.

The last section, How to bring mindfulness into the home, gave me a flash of realization.

"Personally, I like to practice mindfulness first thing in the morning, sometimes even before I get out of bed," writes this woman in the article.

These are the moments for prayer. "Lord keep watch over me during the day." And especially for children. "Mindfulness has taken over God!" I exclaimed (silently).

"I take 10 minutes to focus on my breath. I find it sets the tone for the day and makes it seem less overwhelming."

She has pushed aside our biblical Christian tradition of supplicating to God, praying to God, keeping God near us at all times to help us set the world right for us, or at least to protect us. By doing so she has allowed a gaping void to develop in her spiritual life which she has filled by these mindfulness programs.

And she passes on this "knowledge" to innocent the children.

The woman hardly goes through the history of mindfulness, but starts her introduction with:

"Well mindfulness is a term we're hearing more and more about these days, although it has been around for some time, with its roots in Buddhism."

There you have it.

Buddhism isn't some benign exercise program attained through yoga and meditation. It is a full-blown spiritual and religious practice.

This is the way that young children are being pulled into this nefarious anti-God realm.

Matthew 19:14:

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Paris à Tout Prix

Paris à Tout Prix (Paris At All Costs or the official translation Paris or Perish) started off as a charming film about an up and coming Parisian fashion designer. But appearances can be deceiving.

Reem Kherici has the dark hair/dark eyes looks of a French woman possibly with that Mediterranean heritage. But I soon learn that she is Arab.

Fine. There are many Arabs in France now who have appeared to have assimilated and become French.

But Reem's papers are not in order. In fact she is in France illegally. The deportation police come to her workplace and chaperone her out and eventually to Orly airport. She lands in Morocco, a country she barely knows.

As it happens, her father was very ill, which she didn't know, and she managed to be with him during his last days. At this point, I switched off the t.v. and resumed a book I was reading. But curiosity got the better of me, and I turned on the show near the very end with about a half hour to go.

Reem was still in Morocco enjoying the company of her family and old friends. We had a brief tour of Marrakech with happy and content Arabs interacting with each other. There is no multiculturalism (or whites) in Marrakech. People are amongst their own and there is an air of freedom around despite the obvious economic difficulties.

Reem decides she should return to Paris and to her job. She had put together a leather and lace "gown" to show her design team during her time in Morocco with local items (especially the leather). Her stay has not been in vain after all! Here she is, an Arab girl promoting her land.

But she has no passport and she has been banned from entering France.



So she does what any Arab girl would do. She borrows her cousin's passport and goes to the airport anyway.

The cousin looks nothing like her. Reem has a longer face with prominent cheekbones and large eyes. The cousin has a rounder smaller face, is lighter skinned and has slightly oriental eyes. The agent at the airport customs, who looks Arab and should have known better, spends a good deal of time cross checking the passport photo against the real-life traveler before him. Finally he lets her through.

Reem enters Paris illegally. She arrives just in time to present her dress to her fashion house as a runway was in progress. Her leather gown with lace trimmings is chosen as the "final" dress, a big honor in the runway world. It is a success.

Reem has made a contribution to French art and culture. Who cares about the slight aberration that she is neither French nor a legal resident. She is PARISIAN!



Above is the runway dress. I couldn't find a full length picture of it. Perhaps it has to do with some copyright issue that it cannot be posted publicly. The costume designer for the film is Aurore Pierre.

The gothic dark S&M alluding leather strap of a dress is further indication of the decline of the classic French culture. Reem may be "Parisian" but she adds no grandeur to Paris, and in fact degrades it.

"To shake the hand of the Universe"

The extraordinary movie A Wrinkle In Time is Oprah Winfrey's chef d'oeuvre, in all its filmic mediocrity. Through it she is able to project her spiritual beliefs through clumsy and inarticulate language, yet powerful in its simplicity. The movie is supposedly made for children; it is a Disney film with a PG (Parental Guidance) rating.

PG: Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give "parental guidance". May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.

Here is the rating for G:

G – General Audiences
All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.

The movie is a really a story made for adults who can come with their children. In effect, through simplistic child language, and a "fairy tale" ambiance, Oprah has lured the adult population to watch her path. And she is willing to sacrifice the innocence and psychopsychic safety of the young children to do so. She is using the children as a shield to cover up her intent.

I will go into depth about this movie which I have now watched three tims (well 2 1/2). I took as much notes as I could since the film script is not yet available online.

A main theme in the film is that it is a young child (the protagonist sure to win - initially at least - the attention of those six-year-olds) who guides a couple of older children (in their early teens) through a maze of nefarious landscapes. They are out to save the world before the dark force, The It, takes over. The adults meanwhile are scientists busy creating, or getting lost in, their latest astro-physics equation. They are outlying the world through which these young intergalaxy troopers navigate. As one of the scientist says: "I wanted to shake with the Universe." Oprah, one of three "Misses," is Mrs. Which (yes it is that obvious) who appears in her shimmering gown of sparkles (yes she is the light that should overpower the darkness ) along with the other two to guide these children to The It.

"The heavens declare the glory of God"

[Photo By: KPA]

Psalm 19: 1-2

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

"O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!"

Isaiah 14:12-14

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

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Excerpt from James Perloff's blog:

Christianity and the Truth Movement: How much do they coincide?

[I]t may be incumbent on those of us in the Truth Movement to become the new Constantines. Though we don’t bear swords of steel, we bear swords of truth, as we battle the New World Order, for whom destruction of true Christianity - and our very souls - is the paramount end-game.

And for those Truthers who don’t recognize it yet, hasn’t the time come to perceive that the universe’s complexity wears God’s signature, that our antagonists are Lucifer and his followers, and that we are in the middle of a spiritual war - one that is played out not only in geopolitics, but in the personal inner struggles of our own daily lives? Over the past two thousand years, Lucifer has done everything he can to disfigure and misrepresent Christianity (see, e.g., my posts here and here). I believe we need to critically analyze and debunk those lies (in the same way we’ve investigated 9/11 and other historical lies), and see God for who He is: our creator, savior, our guidepost for living, and—after bodily death takes us - our ultimate hope.

Heart and Soul

This young singer brought up in Miami since the age of five sings the most authentic Cuban salsa music.

Of course the pornographc lesbian Ellen Degenerate has her claws on her and invited her on her show. Nonetheless the Havana Girl shows herself to be thoroughly heterosexual despite the Ellen Charm™.

I know. I had a flair for salsa dancing. During my Mexico years, I befriended a group of people who liked to frequent a small salsa joint, Bar Leon, in the city's Centro Historico (actually not a very safe district).

A dorm mate at the University of Connecticut from Puerto Rico taught me some basic steps and I practiced them in my cramped room with latino music from a cassette I had borrowed playing on my compact player. Even she was impressed by my results.

At Bar Leon, I would drag whatever partner I could find in my group who was naive enough, or curious enough, to go to the dance floor with me and I would dance as the GUIDE, something unheard of in Latino culture - the woman never GUIDES for the love of God!

Some young man either from the audience or from the floor would ask my clumsy partner to step aside and he would gently nudge me in the directions he would like me to go. He was the guide.

People thought I was some gringo Cuban (or from Vera Cruz). Never the African I was. Although in the my later encounters with deeply religious Catholic rural Mexicans, they thought Ethiopia was not "African" but rather the land by the Red Sea with Mosesian associations. "Vengo del pais por el Mar Rojo" I would dramatize my origins. One time, when a farmer knew I was coming back in the area (word gets around in those hilly villages), he came along to see who this person was. I don't think he was disappointed. But I brought things back to earth by asking him if any senora in his village could make me one of the embroidered tops typical of the region. He told me to come back in a couple of weeks. By then, I had left the region and was renegotiating my future - to stay on with my program or to start new frontiers. Of course I chose the latter.

Lyrcs to:
Havana, Oh na-na
Havana, ooh na-na
Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-na
He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na
Oh, but my heart is in Havana (ay)
There's somethin' 'bout his manners
Havana, ooh na-na

He didn't walk up with that "how you doin'?"
(When he came in the room)
He said there's a lot of girls I can do with
(But I can't without you)
I knew him forever in a minute
(That summer night in June)
And papa says he got malo in him
He got me feelin' like

I knew it when I met him
I loved him when I left him
Got me feelin' like
Ooh-ooh-ooh, and then I had to tell him
I had to go, oh na-na-na-na-na

Havana, ooh na-na
Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-na
He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na
Oh, but my heart is in Havana
My heart is in Havana
Havana, ooh na-na

Havana, ooh na-na
Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh-na-na
He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na
Oh, but my heart is in Havana
My heart is in Havana
Havana, ooh na-na

Take me back to my Havana

Getting "The Shape of Water" All Wrong

Below is a rambling article which I have cut down to its bare essentials by the rambling author at VDare, Steve Sailer.  I understand that VDare is concerned with issues and stories surrounding immigration, but Sailer completely glosses over the real story of this movie: alien/human copulation.

Sometimes race and immigration aren't everything. We have now filmmakers explicitly showing a completely different type of "invasion" with an open acceptance of nefarious and satanic themes.

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Trophy Wife
Steve Sailer
March 7, 2018
Taki Mag


The Shape of Water’s plot is: A Democratic Party Coalition of the Fringes (a disabled woman, a gay man, a black woman, a Jewish Communist Russian spy, and a fish) unites to defeat the GOP Core American cishet evilest evil white male of all time (besides Trump, of course). Square-jawed white man Michael Shannon plays the epitome of hateful hate-filled white whiteness who epitomizes his white male privilege by peeing on the floor.

[...]

Perhaps the pandering politics of this movie is just del Toro’s Safe Space for what he really cares about, which is colors. Nobody who matters is going to give del Toro trouble for his hate-whiteyness, and that frees him up to obsess over the colors he really cares about: not partisan red vs. blue, but red vs. green. The Shape of Water is constructed around a color scheme where red represents the beloved nostalgic past and green signifies the hideous technological future.

If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, then del Toro is a genius at imposing his childlike fanaticism about how red is his favorite color and green is his most hated color on every single frame in the movie.

On the other hand, I kind of like green. I’m trying to get my lawn to turn green now that it has finally started raining in Southern California.

Granted, I’m not as aesthetic or as stylish as del Toro.

[...]

...Guillermo del Toro (who is not to be confused with the very cool Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro) is sort of the Mexican Tim Burton, if the Burbank-born Burton weren’t quite so swarthy. Del Toro looks about as pale as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, an early fatality in the ongoing White Death.

[...]

At the Oscars, del Toro announced that he was an immigrant and that the purpose of art was to “erase the lines in the sand.” Yet del Toro seems to value being able to secure his daughters north of the line in the sand between the Lovecraftian madness of Mexico and the sane safety of suburban America.

It’s almost as if del Toro finding refuge north of the border...is what Trump meant by implying that our immigration system should be reformed so that Mexico is sending their best.

Sex With Creatures: Getting Closer to the Luciferian Agenda

Forget all the hypocrisy of the Oscars with stars wearing million-dollar dazzling jewellry as they stand on stage talking for the underdog in the movement de l'epoque: "equality."

Forget motherly Meryl who points her index finger with a "you can do better" over-her-reading-glasses look at her proteges.

Forget jovial Owen, standing as clueless as his "alright, alright, alright" moment when things were clearly not all right, especially for his blonde and not-so-rosy future.

Forget black directors and actors (and actresses, to revive a discarded word) who pump their black fists at racist Hollywood as they spend their days (and nights) with white "partners."

Forget the gothic stage looking like Satan's boudoir shimmering from the sparkles of a million Swarovski crystals.

What everyone missed is how a movie about intercourse between a human female and an alien creature made it with "Best Picture" Oscar.

This is not a "first" of course. Others have done it and with some popular success. But none have won a "Best Actor" Oscar, and most have an element of comedy in their theme.

Del Toro is dead serious.

I scoured the internet to see what commentators had to say about this epic first in popular movie history, but no-one, nowhere, in the Main Stream Media™ mentions it.

But that is because Del Toro camouflages this collaboration with Satan with the "equality now," "Time's Up," "Me Too" and all those other slogans that have been circulating through the elite crowd for a couple of years now.

Says Del Toro about his move:

"Much like fairy tales, there are two facets of horror. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of fairy tale: Don't wander into the woods, and always obey your parents. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment."

So there you have it.

Intercourse with a monster is a "Me Too" moment.

Here is commentary on the film by Paul Bois:

The values governing "The Shape of Water" are best summed up as follows: have sex with anything you want, even if that "thing" is not of your species, and kill innocent people to do it . . . Fin!

That the film presents this in the guise of a tale about how love conquers all in the face of white male patriarchal oppression makes it all the more insidious.

The whole article is succinctly written. Still there is an element of awe and ominousness that is missing. Bois thinks this is just another Disney movie as his article's title The Shape Of Water’ Review: An Adult Disney Movie With A Wickedly Perverse Heart "warns" us.

Bois could have written a similar commentary for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (remember that one?), the true Disney alien movie, although without a wickedly perverse heart, which won four Oscars, the same number as The Shape of Water:

E.T.'s four Academy Awards:
- Best Original Score
- Best Sound
- Best Sound Effects Editing
- Best Visual Effects

One would think that The Shape of Water would have the Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects prizes. After all it was a sci-fi film, at least the copulation part.

The Shape of Water's four Academy Awards:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Production Design
Best Original Score

What is Production Design?

Production Design...focuses on the creative process of visually and physically developing an environment that becomes an essential component of the storytelling process. Production Designers must possess a keen understanding of the story in order to create a believable and realistic world on screen.[Source]

Yes, recreating that monster, and his copulation scenes, must have taken a lot of creative talent! Although to be fair, it is also creating the environment where such a story can be plausible. Well the Hollywood/Oscar crowd certainly bought it.

This Hollywood style pornographic horror film is rated "R" (Restricted): Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian, - imagine an "under 17" watching this in the dark theatre! - whereas it should should have received an "NC-17" (Adults Only) - No One 17 and Under Admitted.

E.T. on the other hand, with its benign alien befriending a young girl (although I wouldn't put it past its team for infusing barely detectable scenes of sexual allusion) was given a PG and fairly so, rather the G (General Audiences):

PG - Parental Guidance Suggested
Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give "parental guidance". May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.

We have come a long way from (or closer to the luciferian agenda) a 1982 "alien befriends a young girl" to the 2018 "alien fornicates with a young woman."

And I'm not the only one to think so. See here and here.

His Mouth Speaketh

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Justin's Delhi Design

What happened to Justin Trudeau? Even a non-politician with a modicum of diplomatic training would have realized sooner than later the mistakes made during an international visit. Plus there is a range of advisors and experts who would be guiding him through these foreign waters.

But I don't think it was lack of knowledge or lack of cultural etiquette that brought on this "Delhi Debacle" as one Canadian journalist calls it. Although, again, I beg to differ. It was not a "debacle" as much as "design."

Trudeau is not stupid, nor is he inexperienced. He climbed up rungs of ladders, at times with dogged (ruthless?) perseverance, to make it to primininstership. Of course Trudeau Père helped, but I don't believe all that much. Pierre Trudeau was not really all that popular during and after his reign. He was skilled and astute enough to to win, is all. Plus Canadians inherently dislike nepotism, since it would remind them too much of the union with Britain, which any Canadian would say has no place (any more) in his country's identity.

I think what Trudeau was doing was his version of "multiculturalism abroad," to show Indians and the world that he is a non-racist, pro-Asia (well pro-India, since Asians have their own version of regional xenophobia), contemporary Prime Minister.

But India is also a huge sub-subcontinent. Even within the country (let alone across regional borders) there are conflicts, disagreements and even at times wars and battles. His advisers certainly know this, and certainly passed on the information to him.

And the dress!

Was Trudeau simply and gauchely playing at dress-up? Possibly. But I think it is his exuberant, and hyperactive and irritatingly childish wife (this is a woman in her forties, and who has given birth to three children) who concocted that one up. Why not go exotic? Look at all those natives! Look at all those costumes! Look at all those temples!

No wonder the Indians got furious!


Trudeau and Clan at the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar


Trudeau and Clan at the Mahatma Gandhi Ashram in Ahmadabad



Trudeau and Clan at the Jama Mosque

Exotic and Ferocious: from China

Etro, silk poodle-print scarf for sale at Holt Renfrew in Mississauga
with a special Year of the Dog tag (price CAN$450)

(Full image of scarf here)


[Photos By: KPA]

We just had a week of hyperactivity around the Chinese New Year at Mississauga's self-proclaimed city centre: The Square One Mall. But what exactly are the Chineses contributing to Canadian (and Mississaugan) culture except for fast (and often NOT hard) cash? What are the new cultural insights of excellence that we are receiving?

For example: Where are the Chinese (bona fide, like French, English or even Brazilian designers, and not some Chinese-Canadian/Chinese-American) who had their work exhibited at the SQ1-Chinese-New-Year-at-Holt's event?

From the long list of designers available at Holt's website, I found one Chinese (who works in China), who is a jewelry designer and who had a dog pendant for sale during the dog-year festivities.


Qeelin
Wang Wang Small Bulldog Mario Pendant
Diamond, 18K White & Rose Gold
$4,500

But alongside the benign face of Wang Wang, Qeelin also displays more exotic, and ferocious, figures such as:


Jewelry Designer Qeelin's Male and Female Spirits

The King & Queen collection captures the majesty of the powerful dragon and the enchanting phoenix in a range of pieces fit for royalty. These two mythical animals are often paired in a potent balance of male and female energy, of yin and yang. [Qeelin.com]

But what do these "two mythical animals" symbolize?

Dragon (long龙)
The Chinese dragon is the ultimate symbol of the cosmic energy qi气and the most powerful symbol of good fortune. Ranked first among mythical beasts, it can bring rain to parched lands,which in turn represents abundance and relief. A dragon and phoenix (king of all winged creatures) symbolise the emperor and empress as well as marital bliss. The dragon is often used as an emblem of high rank and power on the robes of emperors and princesas well as on imperial art objects.

Phoenix (feng凤)
The phoenix is the ‘king of birds’ and symbolises good fortune and opportunity as it appears only in times of peace and prosperity. In Chinese mythology, the phoenix is a benevolent bird since it does not harm insects, and each of its body parts represents one of the virtues of benevolence (ren仁), righteousness (yi義), propriety (li礼), knowledge (zhi智) and sincerity (xin信).

The phoenix is also the symbol for the empress and, shown with the dragon, it stands for a perfect marriage. [Source: The British Museum]

Mississauga is busy courting Chinese, but what happens when the Chinese money runs out? What will happen to the over-priced Holt's "the luxury store" when people stop going? Another addition to the ghost town that will be Mississauga.


Qeelin for sale at Holt Renfrew

And all that will remain are plastic Made in China renditions of phoenixes and dragons decorating the lower level Food Central's
Shanghai 360 or Szechuan Express.

Welcome to the Multi-Culti Kool Aid.

Below is an excerpt from an article asking questions similar to mine about China, especially the last sentence of the excerpt, "If China consumes, produces and exports such a vast amount of clothing, why are we still wearing clothes designed in America, Europe and Japan? Why aren’t we seeing Chinese fashion brands in shops all over the world?":

It’s a strange paradox China finds itself in at the minute. Nearly half of all the world’s luxury goods — 46 percent to be precise — are bought by Chinese shoppers. Luxury stores across the world employ Chinese-speaking staff to cater for the countless retail tourists walking through their doors. Every high-ticket shop on the planet relies on China’s globetrotting nouveau riche to pay their bills, and luxury brands have invested so heavily in the country that the thought of another economic slowdown there makes executives shudder. When Chinese shoppers reined in their spending back in 2015, Burberry CEO and Creative Director Christopher Bailey had to take a 75 percent pay cut to offset the brand’s plummeting sales.

It’s not just buying power that makes China the mightiest fashion consumer on the planet. It’s the workshop of the world, the country that makes the phone in your pocket and the clothes on your back. President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ shtick promised to take back many of the countless jobs that have been outsourced to China in recent years. That won’t change the fact that pretty much every manufacturer on the planet has China incorporated into its supply chain in some way or another—and fashion brands are no exception.

China’s manufacturing might have created a stupendous amount of wealth in the country, and like emerging middle classes all over the developing world, being seen spending your money is a vital sign of success—hence all the luxury shopping. The world’s most populous nation is now flexing its muscles abroad—China is investing in vast infrastructure projects in over 60 countries, from a nuclear power plant in the UK to Africa’s first transnational electric railway. Oh, and its navy is currently building islands in the middle of the South China Sea to claim ownership of the seaways that carry a third of the world’s shipping.