A few weeks ago, Time interviewed with Trump, which Time promptly misrepresented in its reporting on its own interview. Now, Time has interviewed Biden. I didn’t bother with Time’s reporting on its interview but went to the transcript (which Time, to its credit, published). It’s illuminating because it reveals a dishonest man. I cannot cover everything Biden said, but I’ve tried to capture a few of the worst things.
Politicians are wilfully ignoring the omens
One of the most dangerous problems in the West today is its vulnerability to normalcy bias: the assumption that nothing will ever happen, things will turn out fine, and there’s nothing really to worry about. Put plainly, this predisposition is a product of our brains not being able to keep up with events. We only have so much brainpower to spare at any particular moment, so if unexpected things happen too quickly, many humans simply tend to freeze up. Even as the waters were slowly seeping into the Titanic, passengers were still milling about, unsure what it all meant.
A charity has come under fire after claiming that anyone can have ovarian cancer, regardless of their gender.
Ovarian Cancer Action posted on Twitter: “Did you know that anyone with ovaries, regardless of gender identity, can be at risk for ovarian cancer?
“Let’s raise awareness by asking: can men get ovarian cancer? #PrideMonth #OvarianCancerAwareness”
The political class has been desperate to avoid condemning this brutal Islamist attack.
Last Friday, five people were injured and one police officer was killed in a knife attack in the German city of Mannheim. The suspect is a 25-year-old man who came to Germany from Afghanistan in 2014.
Though there were no shouts of ‘Alluha Akbar’ heard on the video taken during the stabbing, there was immediate speculation that the attacker was an Islamist. This was hardly a far-fetched idea, given that most of those injured were members of an anti-Islamist activist group called Pax Europa – a branch of the ‘Stop Islamisation of Europe’ organisation.
Chrystia Freeland put out the bunting after her April 16th budget.
The fiscal plan had three targets or “guideposts”: keeping the deficit below $40 billion in 2023/24; lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio in the current fiscal year, compared to last fall’s financial statement; and keeping deficits below one per cent of GDP in 2026/27.
With the stroke of her pen, Freeland proclaimed victory.
“In this budget, every single one of these objectives is met,” she said.
NSICOP chair says it’s up to the RCMP to probe allegations of foreign interference
The chair of an intelligence review body that released an explosive report earlier this week alleging some Canadian parliamentarians “wittingly” helped foreign state actors says it’s now up to RCMP to decide whether it can pursue charges.
On Monday, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a long-anticipated report that looked at foreign political interference in Canada.
The heavily redacted document alleges some parliamentarians have actively helped foreign governments like China and India meddle in Canadian politics.
French police have arrested a 26-year-old man of Ukrainian and Russian nationality in possession of explosives in a hotel north of Paris, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
A source at the French PNAT anti-terrorism prosecutors office said PNAT had taken charge of the case and opened an investigation on suspicion of participation in a terrorist conspiracy.
Talk about whether the Senate would thwart the will of the elected House whenever a change of government is expected in Ottawa is almost a right of passage in Canadian politics. And even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau packed the upper chamber with ostensibly independent senators, the debate remains the same this time around.
This is your reminder that the gender binary is a white colonialist construct.
Let this persxn further educate you. pic.twitter.com/lRTW77RAmY
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 5, 2024
MPs expressed unease Tuesday in the aftermath of the bombshell revelation there are unnamed spies reporting to foreign governments operating within the Canadian elected government.
One unnamed public office holder was suspected of “providing information learned in confidence from the government to a known intelligence officer of a foreign state,” per Blacklock’s Reporter.
“I’ve had like 45 abortions and I’m gonna keep having them!”
Demonic d*ath cult pic.twitter.com/puMtQlOaB3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 5, 2024
Hammering a long-overdue nail in the coffin of Ibram X. Kendi’s career.
Ibram X. Kendi, one of the premier philosopher-kings of 2020’s “racial reckoning,” is now facing a reckoning of his own. Or at least, that’s the title of today’s lengthy New York Times magazine profile of Kendi’s fall from grace (“Ibram X. Kendi Faces a Reckoning of His Own”). In reality, Kendi’s faux-intellectual hustle has been mired by controversies, snags, and setbacks for years; if papers like the Times only appear to have noticed now, it’s because raising certain nuanced, moderate “concerns” about the vast constellation of post-Black Lives Matter dogmas has suddenly been greenlit by the priesthood of acceptable opinion.
The WPATH files offer a disturbing look into the group’s decision-making process for “gender-affirming” care.
In private, leaders of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) express concerns indistinguishable from those of their most ardent critics. This is the conclusion that one reaches when reading the WPATH files, leaked from the group’s internal forums and communications. In them, members drop the euphemisms and doublespeak that characterize their public-facing comments in exchange for frank discussions about how to navigate the challenges and complications arising from their gender-based medical interventions.
Eighteen Halifax heavy bombers left their base in Yorkshire about two hours after midnight, on their way to hit a German coastal gun battery in Normandy. No. 433 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, had struck targets in Nazi-occupied France before. But this time, as they reached the English Channel, they realized they were on a very different mission.
It was the 1960’s.
Dad and 4 or 5 war buddies would get together for a mighty drunk at least once a year.
I remember one summer day being jammed into the back seat of a vehicle with 4 of my siblings.
Dad was in the front seat helping his buddy Vic to drive.
Seat belts weren’t even an after thought.
It was a booze run to the local plaza and the promise of treats for us kids.
We bounced off the curbs as we weaved our way there and back.
I recall being embarrassed about the poor driving and not at all concerned about safety.
I got a bag of chips, a 10 cent one, and I think a Pepsi.
It was the 1960’s.
Israel has long been the primary supporter of the Palestinian people, both on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Israelis have opened their borders to Palestinian workers, to whom they pay high wages. They have accepted Palestinian patients, including even terrorists, into their excellent hospitals. Some of the Israeli kibbutz residents who helped Gazans were murdered by them on October 7. Even during the current Gaza war, Israel has provided more food, medicine and humanitarian aid to Palestinians than any country has ever done during wartime.
