Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are two radically different candidates running radically different campaigns in what’s become a national popularity contest.
Author: Blazingcatfur
The charges against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs explained
Two years ago, rap musician and mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs threw a lavish 53rd birthday party at his $61m mansion in Beverly Hills.
A host of stars lined up to toast his career, with a guest list that included Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Mary J Blige, Kehlani, Tinashe, Chris Brown and Machine Gun Kelly.
The party coincided with his 30th year in the music industry – three decades in which he formed his own entertainment empire and changed the sound of hip-hop, both as an artist and a producer for the likes of Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and The Notorious B.I.G.
Fast-forward to 2024, and his career is on the ropes.
FBI and the US Secret Service Plot Against Trump
A recent report shows that the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump were facilitated by unacceptable misconduct and unprofessional behavior by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Secret Service (USSS) stemming from deep-seated politicization within these agencies.
The increasing politicization of the U.S. government and its institutions has become a pressing concern in many media. Conservative pundits have been sounding the alarm about that issue since at least 2016, when the FBI plot against Donald Trump was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Now, after it became clear that the Democrat party has weaponized the Department of Justice to destroy Trump’s presidential campaign, it turned out the “conspirators” were telling nothing but truth.
Communist Cannibals
It was 1967. America was two years away from landing on the moon and Chinese Communists were eating people. The Communists hadn’t turned cannibal because of hunger, but politics.
Mao’s cultural revolution had already led to brutal lynchings of teachers and principals by the Red Guards unleashed by the Communist regime to purge all ideological deviation, but beating political opponents to death wasn’t enough for the radical mobs in the Guangxi region.
Ozempic has exposed the grift behind the public-health lobby
Has the US turned the tide on obesity? The latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control show that between 2017-20 and 2021-23, the prevalence of obesity fell by two percentage points.
It is perhaps too soon to get out the bunting. The obesity rate is still a hefty 40 per cent (compared with 28 per cent in the UK) and the proportion of Americans who are morbidly obese is 10 per cent (in the UK, the figure is two per cent). It will take another year or two to see whether the decline is sustained. But the signs are promising and – as John Burn-Murdoch argues in the Financial Times – there is only one plausible explanation for it: the weight-loss drug, semaglutide, sold as Ozempic or Wegovy.
I do not know enough about the success of these drugs or their side effects. I am reluctant to proclaim them a miracle.
Sara Sharif ‘had a plastic home-made hood taped over her head’, was ‘hit with a cricket bat’ and ‘left unable to walk’ after being ‘beaten black’ by father
Sara Sharif had a plastic bag taped around her head as a ‘home-made hood’ and was beaten with a cricket bat, a court heard today.
The 10-year-old’s father Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his daughter to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August after subjecting the schoolgirl to weeks of brutal abuse.
Months before the murder, neighbours noted that Sara had started to wear a hijab in January 2023, which Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, said was a bid to conceal the appalling injuries she was receiving at home.
Why Sweden is cracking down on cousin marriages
In Sweden, marrying your first cousin has long been legal, though as in the UK it is widely frowned upon. Yet in response to the growing number of cousin marriages in Sweden after a rise in migration, the government has announced plans to ban the practice next year. A Bill is currently being drafted. In Norway, a ban on cousin marriage was adopted this summer. Denmark may soon follow in the footsteps of its Nordic neighbours.
The reason for the move is the same in all the Nordic countries; within certain large immigrant communities, the practice of cousin marriage remains common. In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, up to half of all marriages are between relatives. Pakistan, which has a significant immigrant population in the UK, has one of the highest prevalence of cousin marriages in the world.
HANNAFORD: Unfit for action, how the Trudeau Liberals broke the armed forces
“We need warriors. We seem to be hell-bent on destroying the warrior culture but if there’s one organization where you want to have warriors, would that not be your military?”
And by the way, sexual predation is nowhere near as common in the armed services, as the attention given to it by the Liberal government, would lead one to believe.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberals play diaspora politics to hide their failure to address foreign interference
On Monday, Canada announced the expulsion of six Indian diplomats over allegations of foreign interference. In a full court press conference, RCMP commissioner Michael Duheme warned of widespread violence, homicides, and a public security threat linked to agents of the Indian government. New Delhi has rejected the allegations, and sent six Canadian diplomats packing in return.
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Donald J. Trump
A French newspaper journalist asked me last week, “Are you voting for Donald Trump?” As an American, I get this question often from Europeans. The answer is always, “Yes, absolutely.” Which is usually followed by some version of, “Dear God, why on earth?”
The answer is not because I believe in Donald Trump’s abilities, or because I think he embodies any kind of conservative ideal, or even that I think he’s a good man. It is not because I believe Trump is any kind of conservative ideal. The answer is partially because I believe 100% in J.D. Vance. But the answer is mostly because of who Donald Trump is not.
He is not a presidential candidate who wants to continue this pointless and costly war in Ukraine. Like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, he wants to see a peaceful resolution of the intractable and bloody conflict.
Sellout Singh the NDP’s man from Khalistan calls for emergency study into allegations of Indian government links to crimes in Canada
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh calls for emergency study into allegations of Indian government links to crimes in Canada
Federal New Democrats called for an emergency House of Commons study into RCMP allegations that agents of the Indian government are linked to homicides, extortions, and other violent crimes in Canada.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Tuesday made the request amid several other actions he said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should take. The other demands included levelling sanctions on the six Indian diplomats who were expelled by Canada on Monday and banning the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh network, which Mr. Singh described as a “right-wing, extremist, militant group.” The Hindu nationalist network is based in India.
What a farce.
WTF?
Have you met Theyley Williams from System of a Vagene? pic.twitter.com/U2i0VaTQCn
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 15, 2024
India’s crimes in Canada and the politician allegedly behind them
Fourteen bullets fired at a home near Victoria. An Edmonton building torched by arsonists with a red jerrycan. A 39-year-old found dead in a Winnipeg duplex.
The crimes are among several across Canada that were allegedly part of an Indian government campaign against activists and opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Six diplomatic and consular officials posted at India’s foreign missions in Ottawa and its consulates in Toronto and Vancouver have been identified as persons of interest in the scheme.
I hope both sides lose. That said Trudeau and his love of identity politics are squarely to blame for this mess.
WTF?
Nonbinary kindergarten teaching assistant discusses how she explains to kindergartners that they can become trans or nonbinary.
These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/NUiJaCkFuU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 15, 2024
Worldwide Efforts to Reverse the Baby Shortage Are Falling Flat
Imagine if having children came with more than $150,000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes.
Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no.
These are among the benefits—along with cheap child care, extra vacation and free fertility treatments—that have been doled out to parents in different parts of Europe, a region at the forefront of the worldwide baby shortage. Europe’s overall population shrank during the pandemic and is on track to contract by about 40 million by 2050, according to United Nations statistics.