Italy on Monday arrested three Palestinian men, described by the Minister of Interior Matteo Piantedosi as “dangerous terrorists.” Prosecutors said they were planning terror attacks abroad.
La Repubblica reports that the three had been allowed to live in Italy after being given “residence permits for humanitarian reasons.”
Swiss politician Ruedi Löffel said the news was a sign that “Hamas terrorism is coming to Europe.”
If Bill C-63 passes, it will lead to cancel culture on steroids.
The scariest aspect of the Liberals’ new online harms bill (Bill C-63) is that it revives the old Section 13 hate-speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act and puts the highly biased Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in charge of policing the internet.
The poll suggests the Conservatives have 40 per cent support, compared to the Liberals on 23 per cent and the NDP on 21 per cent.
But Kurl pointed out that the results of the next election will depend entirely on what is happening at the time on the number one issue that is dominating the mindset of voters — the cost of living.
A generation of Canadians will likely never be able to afford a home, for some even rent will be beyond their means.
Justin Trudeau did that and the situation will not be reversed in time for the next election.
Special Counsel Robert Hur has made himself an enemy of the national political press for the offense of telling the truth about Joe Biden’s failing memory. Hur cited Biden’s age and poor memory as a chief basis for not prosecuting Biden mishandling national-security documents while out of office — the same sorts of mishandling that resulted in Jack Smith bringing three dozen felony charges against Donald Trump. He’s being assailed for partisanship in releasing a report detailing his findings, analysis, and conclusions — assailed by all the same people who lauded the Mueller report’s findings, analysis, and conclusions, and who assure us that it is offensive to even raise the possibility of partisanship or bias on the part of Smith or David Weiss or elected Democrats Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis. Yet, as even Glenn Thrush at the New York Times conceded, Mr. Hur, a registered Republican who has steered clear of partisan politics during a two-decade career as a prosecutor, was chosen, in part, because of his reputation for calmly handling the pressure of high-wire investigations and internal department politics.”
Judge Scott McAfee’s decision on whether to disqualify the district attorney of Georgia’s Fulton County, Fani Willis, from the racketeering case she charged against President Trump and 18 others will likely turn on the legal standard Ms. Willis is forced to meet.
A court in Germany is set to rule this week on whether the anti-globalist, anti-immigration party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) can be designated as a suspected extremist organisation, in what is seen as another attempt to delegitimise the party which is riding high in the polls amid voter disenchantment with the policies of the left-liberal coalition government.
At London’s weekly anti-Israel protests each Saturday, one can often find a small group of strictly Orthodox Jewish men — always men or boys, never women. Generally no more than a dozen, they hold signs with wording such as “Judaism: Godly and Compassionate. Zionism: Godless and Merciless”, or “Authentic Jewry Worldwide Never Recognised the State of Israel or Jerusalem as its Capital”. At the bottom of the placards, there is inevitably a mention of either “NKEurope” or “NKUSA”. “NK” stands for “Neturei Karta”, Aramaic for “Guardians of the City”, the name of the group the men belong to.
Xi is strengthening his grip over his party, the military and society.
Since January, when elections in Taiwan returned the independence-leaning Lai Ching-te as president, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing has been very quiet. But we shouldn’t mistake the relative silence for calm. Beneath the surface, the CCP is clearly experiencing quite a bit of turmoil at the moment.
Just yesterday, Breitbart News reported on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state isn’t such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.
I missed the following post in February but it is well worth the read if you have time.
In Praise of Conspiracy Theories: From The Camp of the Saints to Camps in the Darién Gap
Last week, the American journalist Tucker Carlson interviewed Bret Weinstein, a professional biologist who became a public intellectual after he and his scientist wife were driven out of their woke university for refusing to cooperate with a diversity program they regarded as racist. Though he has been a lifelong leftist and atheist, Weinstein’s iconoclastic observations and commentaries have been embraced by conservatives who are more interested in truth than ideological conformity. It turns out that people like him, who find themselves thrust outside the bubble of epistemic closure, often see things that the rest of us do not.
On the Carlson program, Weinstein reported on his recent visit to the Darién Gap, the densely forested patch of land in Panama, through which all migrants headed north from South America must pass. For most of the millions of migrants who have passed this way headed to the United States in recent years, this is the most perilous part of their journey. Weinstein, who is familiar with the area from his field research there as a biologist, was shocked to see NGOs everywhere in the Darién Gap, and also the United Nations migration office.
“The United States Government is facilitating this economic migration,” he said on the show. “It’s unmistakable.”
Bret Weinstein traveled to the Darien Gap to understand who’s behind the invasion of our country. His conclusion: “it’s not a friendly migration.” pic.twitter.com/8Ase52sLOz
— TUCKER CARLSON (Parody) (@tuckercarlsonew) March 4, 2024
The inhabitants of a city in Japan have been warned not to approach a cat after it tumbled into a vat of hazardous chemicals and then fled, leaving bright yellow paw prints in its wake.
The discovery was made by a worker at a metal plating factory in the city of Fukuyama, after he found paw marks leading away from the vat.
When staff checked their security cameras, they found images of the feline fleeing the plant.
It is all beginning to look a bit like the Volkswagen scandal: you remember, when regulators caught out the German car company for installing software which detected when diesel engines were in test mode and adjusted performance so that it flattered emissions figures.
A test by What Car magazine has revealed that the official figures for the range of electric cars over-estimates their real-life range by around a third. Vehicles were driven around a test track in Bedfordshire until they ran out of juice.
New methane feed additive pleases producers
“Collectively, if you take all the research around the world and you average it out, there’s no benefit,” she said.
But that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be other benefits. For example, displaying due diligence on environmental concerns can improve public opinion about cattle industries, said Boeve.
“I’m thinking producers will do it just because of social licence, basically, and will do it even if there’s a bit of a cost to it,” he said.
h/t Mauser
HALIFAX – The recent decision by SaltWire Network Inc., Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper company, to seek protection from its creditors is another sign of the decline of the business and the growing threat to local journalism, experts said Tuesday.
“We’re seeing a resurgence in a steady spate of closings and scaling back of local news operations,” said April Lindgren, a professor with Toronto Metropolitan University’s journalism program. “If anything, it’s at an accelerated pace.”
I can’t recall the last time I held a newspaper in my hands.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) dished out $14.9 million in bonuses to employees in 2023, government records show.
The Crown corporation is facing criticism for its growth in bonuses in recent years despite widespread layoffs.
What really worries me about the upcoming federal budget is the risk that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will feel compelled to try to fix something.
It’s a real possibility. When the Liberals were first elected in 2015 they seemed convinced there was something wrong with Canada they needed to change. They’ve been working at it ever since and the results haven’t been inspiring. Interest rates, near zero at the time, are now crushing businesses and individuals alike. Inflation, well under control in 2015, is a major problem. Owning a home has gone from a goal to a dream to a hopeless fantasy across much of the country.
