🚨 ELECTION INTERFERENCE ALERT 🚨
Big Tech giant @Google has BLOCKED our Ad Accounts. They are trying to stop the Reform message.
I hope @MattBrittin can look into this issue as a matter of urgency. We want action. pic.twitter.com/yYKyQC8nal
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 22, 2024
Welcome to the club Nigel. BCF was demonetized before it was cool.
h/t Mauser
Yesterday, Breitbart News interviewed songwriter Chris Wallin — the Nashville hitmaker behind Country chart-toppers for superstars including Garth Brooks, Montgomery Gentry, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, and Trace Adkins — about a song he wrote, from the point of view of a baby that never had a chance to be born, for 18-year-old country artist Rachel Holt.
This is a new one.
It’s a trend in Philly.
Women playing basketball in booty shorts.
Thank God Brittney Griner isn’t in this league. Something might fall out of those shorts.
Is there nothing women won’t do to debase themselves these days? pic.twitter.com/g7d9iEgvDa
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) June 22, 2024
Blame Mauser
It’s always been the case that partisan voices are willing to slam the state of the Canadian economy if it means they can score a dig against one of their political opponents. Politicians and pundits will lob accusations at the other side of the aisle until the cows come home.
A large percentage of the general public then no doubt ignores what sometimes sounds like political noise on these matters. But in recent months one thing we’ve seen more of are completely non-partisan voices stepping forward to sound the alarm on the direction of the Canadian economy. These are voices worth listening to.
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Hitmen were given medical ‘murder kits’, while A&E staff had to write fake reports of accidents for insurance scams
When the mafia quietly took over the running of San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples, the plan was less about saving lives and more about making money and killing people.
Creating what one magistrate called an “anti-state”, the mob dealt drugs and held summits in wards, gave fast-track treatment to patients for cash, ran accident insurance scams in the emergency wing and used ambulances to deliver cocaine.
RCMP chief says he hopes MPs don’t name politicians accused of aiding foreign powers in the House
The head of RCMP says he’s uneasy with the idea that politicians could use their parliamentary privilege to name colleagues accused of aiding foreign powers.
Earlier this month, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a heavily redacted document alleging — based on intelligence reports — that some parliamentarians have been “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics.
The RCMP has said anyone who leaks classified intelligence could be charged under Canada’s secrets law. The Liberal government has still faced pressure from the Conservatives and others to release the names of those cited in the report on the floor of the House of Commons, where MPs enjoy parliamentary privilege protecting them from arrest.
Sounds like Justin asked him to issue a thinly veiled threat.
Can you trust an outfit who had a top guy selling secrets on the open market and had to be informed by the US what he was up to?
Almost £1.5 million in taxpayer funding has been awarded to a research project that aims to “decolonise” folk singing.
Taking place at the University of Sheffield, researchers “will take an unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England”.
They then hope to “increase accessibility to the folk club scene and take the first step in a process of decolonisation within the folk music canon”.
Liberals have held the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s for three decades, but heading into Monday’s federal by-election, people in the party say that while they expect to win, it will be a closer race than it should be.
With national polls showing the governing Liberals badly trailing the Conservatives and issues such as affordability, Israel’s war with Hamas, and the recent capital-gains tax hike having a pronounced impact on the riding, the race has turned from a typical Liberal cakewalk to an all-hands-on-deck push to the finish.
The environmental extremist group Just Stop Oil has been repeatedly pushing the boundaries of political protest since it was founded in 2022—blocking roads, including for emergency services, and vandalising priceless (and, of course, precious) pieces of art. But some commentators reckon that its latest attack—on Stonehenge—will be the final straw, even for former supporters of the group.
It was the middle of the pandemic, and the dizzyingly complex criminal case against Arash Missaghi was falling apart.
A looming trial was about to test the most substantial set of charges Missaghi — a man who would become known as a “prolific fraudster” — had ever faced. But in the midst of the pandemic, as courts struggled to hear proceedings on Zoom, the case was collapsing in a virtual Ontario courtroom.
Ten weeks out from a jury trial, Justice John McMahon heard reservations from Crown attorney Mitchell Flagg about several of the accused, including Missaghi, having yet to retain a lawyer, and the prospect of running a trial with several self-represented people, including one who would need the entire hearing translated into Farsi.
The annual Canada Day parade in Montreal has been cancelled less than two weeks before the event, due to alleged bureaucratic issues between the organizer and the city.
The event’s organizer, Nicholas Cowen, claims “difficulties with local government leaders” were to blame when trying to coordinate the July 1 parade that’s been held since 1977.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) brainstormed about infiltrating local communities to spy on Americans, and suggested being “religious” or “in the military” was an “indicator of extremists and terrorism,” excerpts of documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) purportedly show.
In politics, it’s important to remember that even if your preferred issue or candidate is lagging in the polls, the direction in which it (or he) is moving matters. Currently, candidate Trump is moving up on every metric. I’m mindful of the many warnings against hubris: “There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip”; the Yiddish “Mann tracht, Un Gott Lacht” (“man plans and God laughs”); and, of course, Aesop’s “Never count your chickens before they hatch.” However, optimism is a driving force in momentum, so let’s celebrate a bit.
Announcing his intention to stand as an MP in the deprived English seaside town of Clacton, Essex, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage stated that “something is happening out there”’ concerning the number of young people who insisted he return to frontline politics. This vibe shift at the upcoming British general election was foreshadowed earlier this month in Europe. The success of patriotic populist parties across the continent is driven by Gen Z: lacking homes and families of their own due to inflation, energy insecurity, and mass immigration. As I have warned, Zoomers will be a reactionary force—and they have started their march.
