The ex-diversity program manager for Facebook and Nike who stole more than $5 million from the mega companies to fund her “luxury lifestyle” was sentenced Monday to five years behind bars — and ordered to pay back the hefty sum.
Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, set up fake business deals, invoices and events — including a Juneteenth celebration — to line her own pockets, the Justice Department said.
Democrats are preparing to remove Biden from the ticket.
Vivek explains his theory.pic.twitter.com/NenkoTfOdv
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 17, 2024
h/t DS
I was struck by some numbers in Robert Lyman’s column in FP Comment yesterday on the costs of net-zero climate policies. The costs he talked about were impressive enough: the units they come in are years’ worth of GDP. But what impressed me almost even more was that, according to a compilation by Navius Research for the Canadian Climate Institute, there are, as Lyman wrote, no fewer than 112 federal and 364 provincial and territorial programs addressed at various aspects of climate change. That’s almost 500 in total.
Amid the ongoing war in Gaza, the calculation and reporting of Palestinian civilian casualties there have sparked intense debate by researchers and activists from both sides. Adding to the already complex situation, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced a significant revision to the numbers published previously. This revision, which cuts the original number of women and children in Gaza “identified” as deceased by more than half, has prompted questions about the general accuracy and transparency of casualty data until now.
JUST IN: Dashcam footage released of the semi-truck that launched over the edge of the 2nd Street Bridge in Kentucky.
33-year-old Trevor W. Branham has been charged for the crash.
Branham's Chevrolet truck can be seen speeding and swerving before weaving out of the way to avoid… pic.twitter.com/pfNJYJKOMg
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 16, 2024
Justin Trudeau says Canada’s conservative leaders threaten abortion rights
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to a safe abortion as the rollback of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision was in the United States.
In some of his starkest comments to date, Trudeau teed off in New Brunswick against federal and provincial conservative politicians, including Premier Blaine Higgs, who he said do not support a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
The Stasi in action again. Arresting a working man trying to go about his day and earn a living, rather than the entitled morons with nothing better to do than block a public road in worship of the doomsday cult.
The police are a national embarrassment.pic.twitter.com/k1R6lTCXb4
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) May 15, 2024
Courtroom spectacle, resting on a contorted legal theory and a tawdry cast of characters, chiefly hurts the Democrats
It was supposed to be a win-win proposition. Tie Donald Trump down in a Lilliputian web of criminal prosecutions and, whatever the outcome, it would greatly enhance the likelihood that he would never again win a presidential election.
Either he would be convicted in at least one of the cases against him, and those swing voters already uneasy about the man would have to decide whether they could actually elect a bona fide felon as president. Or, even if somehow none of the cases produced a conviction, he would still be so consumed in an election year with trial proceedings, the airwaves so full of sworn testimonies to his moral turpitude, that the sheer weight of it all would sink him.
Islamic mob in Germany who wants Islamic caliphate and Sharia law attacks German police. pic.twitter.com/LLz4ExmpXg
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) May 16, 2024
Newly released figures have more than doubled what the government spent to attend a high-profile UN climate change summit last year.
And, according to information sourced online, COP28’s Canada pavilion featured a four-minute climate change hip-hop set by Baba Brinkman, a Canadian rapper and playwright known for rapping about science, literature and environmental issues, and is also the son of former federal fisheries minister Joyce Murray.
Students who have raised concerns over anti-Semitism at Oxford University have been told they should leave, a letter from staff and students claims.
The letter, sent to Prof Irene Tracey, the university’s vice-chancellor, as well as deans and proctors, claims that there has been a lack of aid and sympathy for Jews, who face harassment and a hostile environment on campus.
The letter, whose signatories wish to remain anonymous, also accused the university of promoting “conspiratorial narratives”, as well as failure in reporting procedures in the past seven months.
Canada is imposing sanctions on “extremist” Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Global Affairs Canada announced Thursday.
“The sanctions are a response to the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank,” Global Affairs said in a news release.
Canada is sanctioning four people, the department said: David Chai Chasdai, Yinon Levi, Zvi Bar Yosef and Moshe Sharvit. Global Affairs Canada said the four have engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians and their property.
I bet Netanyahu is beside himself.
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to suspend all taxes on gasoline and diesel between Victoria Day on May 19 and Labour Day on Sept. 2 to help Canadians save money and retain their summer vacations amid high inflation.
Speaking to reporters in Vancouver, Mr. Poilievre said many families could be forced to cancel their summer vacation plans due to the rising cost of living, noting the record number of visits to food banks across the country.
The nation’s top public health official during the Covid-19 pandemic admitted that the origins of the coronavirus remain up for debate, the lab-leak theory is not a conspiracy, and that there was no scientific evidence to support the government’s social-distancing guidance.
Former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins testified behind closed-doors earlier this year and made those admissions to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, according to a transcript and accompanying subcommittee memo provided to National Review.
As Joe Biden’s reckless foreign policy puts the world on the edge of catastrophe with conflicts already raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the Air Force is directing its focus toward the biggest issue implicating U.S. national security: LGBT “pride.”
In an under-the-radar maneuver, Marianne Malizia, the Air Force’s chief diversity officer, issued a memo Monday informing service members that the Department of the Air Force recognizes June as “LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2024.” In doing so, she claimed the month represents “a time to celebrate the diversity and inclusivity of our force, and to honor the contributions of our LGBTQ+ Airmen, Guardians, and dependents.”
