The Justice Department is using the Biden administration’s invocation of executive privilege to fight a lawsuit by multiple parties that seek to gain access to the audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Polls show the changing opinion of Israelis about a Palestinian state. Can you blame them?
In 2005, the majority of Israelis favored the establishment of a Palestinian state.
By 2013, just over 50% of Israeli Jews still favored a two-state solution, despite a growing wave of Palestinian terror attacks.
Just weeks before the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, according to a Pew poll, it was already down to 32%.
You could consider Gaza a trial run of a Palestinian state and look how that worked out.
For Hunter Biden, a dramatic day with his brother’s widow led to charges
Hallie Biden awoke on an October morning in 2018 after Hunter Biden, the brother of her deceased husband Beau, had spent the night. While he slept, she dropped her two kids off at school and then returned to rummage through the truck he had parked outside, anxious as to what the admitted drug addict might be hiding.
The truth about D-Day, 80 years on
Troops were fighting for democracy at home as well as abroad.
Shortly after midnight on 6 June 1944, Operation Neptune, otherwise known as D-Day, began.
Thousands upon thousands of planes and ships bombed and shelled Nazi defences in Normandy. The Allies then sent in 23,000 men in three airborne divisions and mounted, with 4,000 landing craft, what remains the world’s largest ever amphibious assault: five divisions, attacking five separate beaches.
Republicans are posing a growing threat in blue states
Calm down, Democrats, Donald Trump will not, as some zealous Maga types fantasise, take New York this election. Nor will he win over New Jersey, although the race may be closer there. California, as we New York natives would say: fuggedaboutit.
But the Trump surge in deep blue places, epitomised by successful rallies in the Bronx and the Jersey shore, reveals a great deal about shifting political allegiances. In New York, which Trump lost by 23 points in 2020, the former president is now within nine points. In New Jersey, where he lost by 16, the margin is down to five. If Trump forces Biden and the Democrats to deploy forces to these places, he is very likely to win a second term.
‘Terrible abuses’ — or perhaps not?
Children who attended Residential School had better health than those who did not.
MORE AND MORE, serious writers on the Indian Residential Schools issue are rejecting the label “genocidal” to describe the record of the Schools in their treatment of indigenous people. It is now less widely believed that the Schools routinely raped and murdered the children in their care and threw them into furnaces, or buried them secretly in unmarked mass graves.
On the other hand, writers often qualify their rejection of these extreme, unsupported claims by conceding that the Schools were, all the same, places of terrible abuse and unrelieved misery.
But were they in fact? Fortunately a great deal of evidence is becoming available from the study of archival records that enables us to make an objective assessment of this indictment.
Dr. Anthony Fauci confesses he ‘made up’ covid rules including 6 feet social distancing and masking kids
Bombshell testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci reveals he made up the six foot social distancing rule and other measures to ‘protect’ Americans from covid.
Republicans put out the full transcript of their sit down interview with Fauci from January just days before his highly-anticipated public testimony on Monday.
They plan to grill him about covid restrictions he put in place, that he admitted didn’t do much to ‘slow the spread’ of the virus.
Conscription if necessary?
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a plan to bring back mandatory national service for 18-year-olds last week. The plan would require British teens to partake in a 12-month full-time military placement or spend one weekend a month carrying out community service. The program, which the Tories insisted shouldn’t be described as “conscription,” could be dismissed as an outlandish idea from a government likely on its way out – if, that is, you hadn’t been tuned in to the changing mood about mandatory military service in the West in recent months.
Bjorn Lomborg: ‘The science’ doesn’t tell us what fighting climate change costs
If we ‘just stopped’ using fossil fuels billions of people would die. We need to balance the benefit of reducing emissions against its cost
We constantly hear that because climate change is real we should “follow the science” and end fossil fuel use. We hear it both from politicians who favour swift carbon cuts and from natural scientists themselves, as when the editor-in-chief of Nature insists “The science is clear — fossil fuels must go.” The assertion is convenient for politicians because it allows them to avoid responsibility for the many costs and downsides of climate policy, painting these as inevitable results of diligently following the scientific evidence. But it is false. It confounds climate science with climate policy.
uOttawa launches world’s first master’s degree in psychedelics and consciousness studies
The University of Ottawa has launched a master’s program aimed at equipping students with the knowledge and skills they need to harness the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.
The program, which opens next September, will be housed in the university’s psychology department, but run in partnership with the department of classics and religious studies. Students will be able to take a broad range of courses from neuroscience to comparative mysticism.
This guy was the inspiration for Doc in Back to the Future.
5 things we learned from a new book about Justin Trudeau
A new book on Justin Trudeau, “The Prince” by Stephen Maher, documents a turbulent time at the top of this country. Here are five takeaways from the story of his reign, amassed through stories that hit the headlines and drama behind the scenes.
Not much really.
Canada now ‘a little bit of a laughingstock in NATO’
“Canada, you are freeloading!” That’s how businessman and former Canadian soldier Lawrence (Larry) Stevenson interprets last week’s letter from 23 U.S. Democratic and Republican senators to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American lawmakers urged Canada to uphold its NATO commitments, and speed up efforts to increase defence spending to two per cent of GDP.
WTF?
This child was brought up to respect the police, true or false? pic.twitter.com/6q3crc38jN
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 2, 2024
MORGAN: Trudeau’s mass immigration policies are crushing Canada
Canada is facing social and economic challenges on every front and mass immigration is one of the prime culprits behind it. With nearly 1.3 million people entering Canada in 2023 alone, the correlation is undeniable.
WTF?
Miss Rachel is an educator who makes content for toddlers. Lately she’s been under fire for inviting Dylan Mulvaney to come on her show and sing. People also don’t like this Pride video.
Do you have an opinion on Pride content for children? pic.twitter.com/qgt6oHLECF
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 1, 2024