Memory Challenged

Was President Biden’s disastrous press conference the beginning of the end?

“My memory is fine!” insisted a defensive President Joe Biden at a hastily convened press conference last Thursday, at which he identified Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the president of Mexico and blanked on the name of the cathedral where he received a rosary upon the death of his son Beau. For much of the press conference, Biden, 81, resorted to indignation to bat away questions about his mental acuity from an unusually insistent White House press corps.

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Wokies Claim Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Creations Exemplify ‘White Fragility’

“God is white, David is white, and the angels are white…”

Talking is easy. It happens when air passes from the lungs through airways and the larynx, making the vocal cords vibrate and resulting in sounds that, in most adults, we interpret as language. When those sounds correspond to the concrete code of some language, the speaker will be saying things that the listener can decode and understand. After what I have just heard, I suspect that Robin DiAngelo is speaking, because I hear her, but she is not saying things that any human receiver can decode.

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‘Freedom’ movement fighting against ‘perceived government overreach’: CSIS

The loosely knit collective that vocally opposed COVID-19 health measures has morphed into a movement waging a broader fight against “perceived government overreach,” says a newly released assessment from Canada’s spy agency.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s analytical brief traces the evolution of the “Freedom” movement that began to emerge following the early 2022 protests that paralyzed downtown Ottawa and key Canada-U.S. border points.

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Judicial Reform Controversy Emboldened Israel’s Enemies

The controversy over the judicial reform proposed by the government of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year was what likely encouraged Iran’s terror proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis to attack Israel. The mullahs in Tehran and the three Iran-backed Palestinian, Lebanese and Yemeni terror groups viewed the dispute over the reform as proof of Israel’s perceived weakness, disunity and a sign of its imminent demise.

Israel’s enemies have always shown great interest in political, security, economic and social events in Israel. They closely follow these events and devote huge efforts to analyzing them as part of the “know thy enemy” doctrine.

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George Soros fund poised to take control of nation’s second-largest chain of radio stations: ‘This is scary’

George Soros is poised to take a massive stake in the nation’s second-largest radio company, which owns more than 220 stations nationwide, according to court filings and sources close to the situation.

The left-leaning billionaire’s Soros Fund Management has bought up $400 million of debt in Audacy — the No. 2 US radio broadcaster behind iHeartMedia with stations including New York’s WFAN and 1010 WINS, as well as Los Angeles-based KROQ, according to bankruptcy filings.

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Hamas supporters shut down parliament … Freeland demands someone’s bank accounts be frozen

Pro-Palestinian protestors removed from Parliament after interrupting proceedings

h/t Sweetpea

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Trudeau’s Liberals continue to trail Poilievre’s Conservatives.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals keep taking punches at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but new polling suggests they aren’t hitting home.

In fact, since the beginning of Parliament’s spring sitting, the Liberals have found themselves facing all-time lows when it comes to support. Abacus Data polling shows a 19-point lead for the Conservatives, who hold 43 per cent support among those polled, compared to 24 per cent for the Liberals.

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Politico Presents Wishful Thinking ‘Plan B’ to Ditch Biden

The Democrats (and Politico) have a problem. In the wake of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report which did not charge President Joe Biden with improperly storing classified documents, not because he was innocent but because Hur judged him too senile due to age to be sent to trial, there was more urgency than ever among liberals to replace Biden on the 2024 presidential ticket. But how to do it? Politico’s senior politics editor, Charlie Mahtesian, and his colleague, Steven Shepard, came up with a highly problematic “Plan B” chock full of wishful thinking on Monday in, “Democrats Might Need a Plan B. Here’s What It Looks Like.”

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Kansas City Shooting

Shots were fired at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade Wednesday, injuring eight to 10 people, a fire official said.

Police said in a news release that two people were detained.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: ArriveCAN could be the nail in the Liberals’ political coffin

By the numbers, the federal government’s ArriveCAN app is a disaster. Designed during the pandemic to pre-screen travellers to Canada, its cost ballooned from $80,000 to $59.5 million — and possibly more.

Over $12 million worth of invoices for work done on the project was potentially unrelated to it. Over 10,000 people were told by the app to quarantine when they didn’t have to, and only 10 per cent of travellers have continued to use ArriveCAN since it was made optional.

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New Report Says Obama CIA Worked With International Spy Agencies to Get Trump

When the Trump-Russia operation began unraveling, it was clear that there was an international cast of characters involved in the frame-up. The operation to get Trump — in time to torpedo his election in 2016 and then subvert his presidency — involved the Hillary Clinton campaign, the CIA’s John Brennan, who informed President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden of the operation, the FBI, which appeared to cover it up, a reputed Russian spy working for a Democrat think tank, a mysterious Maltese professor, an international honeypot, an Australian diplomat, and a British spy.

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Leaks, ineffective anchors, mechanical breakdowns among ongoing problems facing new Arctic patrol ships

The Royal Canadian Navy is trying to fix a series of problems on its new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships including anchors that aren’t effective, a refueling system that’s too heavy to use, and areas on the vessels that are leaking.

In addition, the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) can’t perform emergency towing as was required in the original contract and some cranes on the vessels are inoperable, National Defence confirmed to this newspaper.

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NDP to introduce bill calling for stupid thing

NDP to introduce bill calling for ban of coal exports as Canadian output booms

Canadian exports of the kind of coal used to make electricity hit an eight-year high in 2022, even as the Liberals have promised to work on banning exports completely by the end of the decade.

The Liberals made the promise during the 2021 election and it was listed in Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s mandate letter that December.

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