George Galloway sealed a shock return to front line British politics on Thursday night as he stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election.
The Workers Party leader claimed his fourth Parliamentary seat and will return to Westminster after almost a decade in the wilderness.
He secured a comfortable 5,697 majority with Azhar Ali, the candidate who Labour ditched over an anti-Semitism row, pushed into fourth place.
“Islamophobia” seems to be everywhere these days – or at least accusations of it. What does it mean?
Too often it leads to silencing people who have questions about Islam and its teachings. I don’t know of any laws preventing people from criticizing or questioning Christianity or Judaism – in Judaism it seems that what is said is based on context!
… Today, in 2024, there seems to be a double standard in Toronto. Although Brazau was charged because language can be a weapon, those calling for the extermination of Israel and the Jews are allowed to speak whatever they want and protest anywhere – without fear. The October, 2023 barbaric massacre of Jews in Israel by Muslims from Gaza led to full-throated Muslim protests.
Trudeau’s new hate crime legislation is a thinly disguised effort to implement sharia law in Canada.
The American radical left’s glorification of the self-immolation of US airman Aaron Bushnell in front of Israel’s Washington, DC embassy on Sunday is another step toward widespread acts of political violence in America.
Bushnell approached the embassy in his uniform, doused himself in a flammable liquid, and before setting himself alight and mortally wounding himself, gave a speech.
Pro-Palestine activist gets ‘Aaron Bushnell’ tattooed on his face after the U.S serviceman set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy DC.
In an Instagram post, the man, who is a p*rn star, captioned his new tattoo:
“With this face tattoo I honor your life and courage.” pic.twitter.com/ythC10JBXP
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 1, 2024
Justice Minister Arif Virani has defended a new power in the online harms bill to impose house arrest on someone who is feared to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not yet done so already.
The person could be made to wear an electronic tag, if the attorney-general requests it, or ordered by a judge to remain at home, the bill says.
Mr. Virani, who is Attorney-General as well as Justice Minister, said it is important that any peace bond be “calibrated carefully,” saying it would have to meet a high threshold to apply.
We need to march on parliament and burn it down, in fact burn down all of Ottawa.
VATICAN CITY, March 1 (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Friday warned of the dangers of so-called gender theory, saying he had commissioned studies into what he condemned as an “ugly ideology” that threatens humanity.
Addressing participants of a two-day conference in the Vatican on the evolving role of men and women according to Christian teachings, Francis said what he called “gender ideology” was a threat because it sought to erase the difference between the sexes.
The growth crisis deepens. The latest figures from Statistics Canada confirm that Canada suffered yet another decline in per capita GDP in the fourth quarter of 2023: the fifth decline in the past six quarters, the worst sustained drop in more than 30 years. Per capita GDP, after adjusting for inflation, is now below where it was in the fourth quarter of 2014, nine years ago.
Russia using militias in Africa to ‘weaponise’ flows of people in attempts to influence elections
Russia is using private militias to control and “weaponise” immigration into Europe, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Kremlin has influence over a number of the main routes into the continent and border police are warning that, with the arrival of spring, Russia is likely to “intensify” its efforts to move migrants.
It has been widely feared that Vladimir Putin is using the tactic to destabilise Europe.
An IT firm run by a defence department employee has been awarded millions of dollars in government contracts since 2015.
Dalian Enterprise has come in for scrutiny recently over its involvement in the development of the ArriveCan app. The company had received $7.9 million for its work on the project as of last March, according to a recent report from Canada’s auditor general.
The company has received more than $200 million in government contracts since 2015, according to a CBC News analysis of documents tabled in the House of Commons in January.
Binyamin Netanyahu is facing his most difficult set of dilemmas since the war with Hamas in Gaza began on October 7.
The circumstances of the deaths of more than 100 Palestinian civilians on the coastal road by Gaza City on Thursday morning will continue to be hotly debated, with each side sticking to its narrative.
The Palestinians claim that a stampede was caused by Israeli troops firing into a crowd gathering around a supply convoy. Israel claims not to have been involved in the stampede. But the facts remain that a large number of civilians queuing for food were killed in an area the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) controls and that Israel bears a responsibility for their deaths.
Al Jazeera airs footage of dozens of Palestinians which the network claimed were killed in Northern Gaza today.
One of the so called ‘victims’ is seen opening his eyes before realizing he is on camera and quickly closing them again.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 29, 2024
🚨BREAKING: PROTESTS IN TEL AVIV AFTER THE FLOUR MASSACRE IN GAZA.
People lift up bags of flour at Tel Aviv rally to protest escalating hunger and killing in Gaza and to call for the return of all the hostages & a ceasefire now. pic.twitter.com/cFkRWhztSp
— Suppressed Voice. (@SuppressedNws) March 1, 2024
Canada’s mass immigration policy to revitalize the economy amid an aging population has yet to bear fruit. Compared to higher U.S. business investment and productivity, relying on immigration for economic growth has been to the country’s detriment, says a former Statistics Canada chief economic analyst.
“It is a clear fact that these very high rates of immigration have not given the economy a boost. … We cannot absorb this number of people that fast,” Philip Cross, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, told The Epoch Times on Feb. 27.
Besides labour, capital and technology also contribute to economic growth, said Mr. Cross.
Last night, it was reported that the police were “assessing” a report of hate speech made against Lee Anderson following his claim that “Islamists” had taken control of London and Sadiq Khan.
This is a concerning step, particularly because Labour has used the Anderson saga to divert the narrative away to the party’s adoption of the contested All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) definition of Islamophobia, which could become incorporated into law if it sweeps to power. According to this definition (also adopted by the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the London Mayor’s office), Islamophobia is “rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”.
On Monday, the Trudeau Liberals unveiled the Online Harms Act, a bill that Justice Minister Arif Virani claimed would make the internet a safer place for all, especially children. Parts of the act, however, have been criticised, namely those dealing with what the government has deemed to be “hate speech.”
If passed, the bill would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to find someone spreading “hate speech” is liable so long as the speech is not deleted, which some have interpreted to mean that the government wants to retroactively come after people for potentially violative content they’ve posted in the past.
Will Poilievre denounce this madness in no uncertain terms?
News that the CEO of Dalian Enterprises, which received $7.9 million for its work on the ArriveCan app, was also an employee of the Department of National Defence (DND) was a “surprise” to former defence minister Anita Anand.
“I was definitely not aware. I was very surprised to hear this news,” the Treasury Board President said to reporters on Parliament Hill on Thursday.
CTV News broke the story on Wednesday after the department confirmed that the employee in question, David Yeo, had been suspended. DND also said it was suspending Dalian contracts and launching an internal investigation.
How much did Anand pocket? Junior?
Maryland hate-crime commissioner Zainab Chaudry continues to post inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric on social media after being suspended from the body, and subsequently reinstated, for comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.
Chaudry, the Maryland director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was temporarily suspended in November by the state’s Commission on Hate Crime Response after she made social-media posts dismissing reports of Hamas killing Israeli babies as “fake.”
Ten days after the 10/7 atrocities, Chaudry compared Israel to Nazi Germany: “That moment when you become what you hated most,” she posted beside graphics of Nazi flags at the Brandenburg Gate in 1936.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys suggested a sentence of five to six years in prison, sharply lower than the roughly 100 years that he faces for stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers.
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried argued for 63 to 78 months in jail, citing medical conditions, including autism, and his intentions to better the world with his now-fallen crypto exchange.
A New York jury found Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts he faced last year. Prosecutors called the case one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history. Bankman-Fried’s sentencing is scheduled for March 28.
