In late August, Mark Memmott, the senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, sent an email to all CBS News employees reminding them to “be careful with some terms when we talk or write about the news” from Israel and Gaza. One of the words on Memmott’s list of terms was Jerusalem.
Of Jerusalem, Memmott wrote: “Do not refer to it as being in Israel.”
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — With no new campaign director, no new ad campaign rollout, no major cabinet shuffle, and no change at the top amid grim polling data for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, anxiety and dread amongst MPs and insiders about their electoral prospects has ramped up, sources tell the Star.
Most MPs head out Friday — some fled Ottawa earlier — into a Thanksgiving week parliamentary break which should be a reprieve from parliamentary wrangling with the opposition Conservatives that has stalled government business for two weeks.
Storm surges from Hurricane Milton could turn electric vehicles and other products containing lithium-ion batteries into “ticking time bombs,” Florida’s fire marshal warned.
Residents and first responders are being cautioned about “an alarming fire hazard with lithium-ion batteries, EVs, as well as hybrid and fuel cell vehicles in preparation of Hurricane Milton,” according to a Monday statement from Florida fire marshal Jimmy Patronis, who also serves as the state’s chief financial officer.
h/t DS
This didn’t happen by accident. Someone programmed it. Republicans in Congress or a future administration should subpoena Google to find out. https://t.co/TeinRjrZiC
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) October 10, 2024
h/t Mauser
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s in favour of mandatory, involuntary drug and psychiatric treatment for kids and prisoners who are found to be incapable of making decisions for themselves.
He said earlier this summer he was open to the idea, but needed to study the issue more closely.
I can’t wait for the screeching to begin.
The best kind of alarm..⏰ pic.twitter.com/xK2inOSB2a
— o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) October 11, 2024
I get the touch and the face smush as well as the making of the biscuits, every night. Every night.
CBS News is facing a civil war over presenter Tony Dokoupil’s interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Accusations are coming from within the network that Dokoupil, who pushed back on Coates’s more dramatic claims, was overly aggressive. The interview earlier this week, centred on Coates’s latest book about the Israel-Palestine conflict, has triggered some tortured internal debate about what the role of a journalist is — and if there’s a double standard at work when subjects such as Coates, a darling of the social justice movement, are involved.
They hate Catholics. They know exactly what they're doing with this Dorito Eucharist https://t.co/RRy3k1ZalE
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) October 10, 2024
Now do Islam.
Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino says he is very worried the public conversation about some parliamentarians being complicit in foreign interference is becoming a “kangaroo court.”
Mendicino said at a federal inquiry into foreign meddling today that it’s important to follow due process under the law before leaping to conclusions about the conduct of parliamentarians.
This is the open letter signed by over 300 academics, back in March 2024: https://t.co/sRNFtF19XP
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) October 10, 2024
Transport for London (TfL) has been criticised for allowing adverts on tubes and buses that show a controversial Islamic preacher holding a briefcase full of burning US dollars.
The transport body, which is overseen by London mayor Sadiq Khan, has been urged to reconsider the decision to allow a series of billboards promoting Islamic finance startup Wahed, which tell commuters to “withdraw from exploitation”.
For the second time this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took a more hawkish stance on Iran and its regional allies than Canada or the United States, pressing the Trudeau government Thursday to add the Houthis, the Iran-allied group in Yemen, to Ottawa’s list of terrorist entities.
Poilievre’s remarks came days after he said he backed Israel’s right to hit nuclear facilities in Iran.
29.6% of the country’s violent crimes and 32.4% of rapes are committed by perpetrators from a non-Western background, despite only making up 10.6% of the population.
Non-Western immigrants and their descendants are vastly overrepresented in Danish crime statistics.
Citing numbers from the Ministry of Justice, Berlingske reports that non-Western immigrants, who make up 8.4% of the Danish population, commit 14% of the country’s crimes of aggravated violence and 24.3% of the rapes, judging by number of convicted.
Maybe even more concerning are the figures for second-generation non-Western immigrants. Making up a mere 2.2% of the population, this demographic is responsible for 15.6% of the violent crimes and 8.1% of the rapes.
Further thoughts on the reaction to the anti-Israel demonstration in Vancouver on the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack…
The vast, vast majority of people I’ve seen react online and talked to in person expressed their anger and disappointment over what was done that day. They agreed that declaring “We are Hamas,” burning Canadian flags, and chanting “Death to Canada” are all unacceptable.
