Iran’s targeted attack on the sleeping quarters of American personnel in a Jordanian base near the border with Syria and Iraq killed three black military personnel: Sgt. William Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Specialist Kennedy Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Specialist Breonna Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia.
All three happened to be black.
h/t Dana G.
Rumours are once again circulating among figures on the American Right that Michelle Obama could run for president.
A New York Post op-ed cited anonymous sources to claim that former president Barack Obama has polled donors and is plotting behind the scenes to have his wife replace Joe Biden on the ballot. The incumbent president will supposedly announce that he’s dropping out of the race just before the Democratic National Convention in August, where Michelle Obama will be nominated to run in his place.
The much-touted media hit piece that propelled a wave of anti-AfD protests in Germany— including calls for the party itself to be banned—has come under fire this week as one of its lead journalists described heavy exaggeration in the German press.
Anette Dowideit, the deputy editor of the left-wing Correctiv media outlet, in an interview on national TV on Sunday evening, stated that, contrary to media coverage, there was no direct talk of mass deportations—’remigration’— in a meeting between nationalist migration-critical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party and key figures on the radical right.
This raises serious questions about the credibility of the reporting, especially given its role in prompting protests and calls for political repression.
As the International Court of Justice in The Hague prepared to announce its verdict on South Africa’s charge of Israel committing genocide on Jan. 26, Greta Thunberg posted a photo of herself with a keffiyeh wrapped around her neck and holding a sign stating “Palestine will be free.”
The 21-year-old, left-wing Swedish activist, who rose to fame calling attention to climate change, wrote on social media that “we cannot remain silent during a genocide.”
“As an intelligence officer, I would expect all of you to expect me to lie to you.” So the former director of the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office quipped to an audience in 2022.
Since his retirement in December, Sean Kirkpatrick has been on a media tour unusual for former intelligence officials.
Kirkpatrick now indirectly accuses top members of Congress of holding a “religious belief” in UFOs “that transcends critical thinking and rational thought.” In his most pointed commentary, he has also fired back at whistleblowers alleging the existence of surreptitious government UFO retrieval and reverse engineering efforts.
The Trudeau government is expected collect nearly a half-billion dollars in sales taxes on the carbon tax this year alone.
On January 23, the Budget Office acknowledged that a five percent federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the carbon tax will cost Canadians $486 million despite repeated claims by Liberals that the carbon tax is “revenue neutral.”
In a much-remarked-on recent column — “The case for Trump — by someone who wants him to lose” — Bret Stephens of The New York Times gave U.S. Democrats a wake-up call: “You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable.” Let me provide the same wake-up call to Canadian Liberals about Pierre Poilievre — with the important difference that I want Poilievre to win.
It’s not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
OTTAWA — Canada’s international development minister avoided reporters’ questions Tuesday on whether the widely publicized pause in the government’s funding of a contentious UN agency came before or after Canada had made a promised payment to the agency.
On Monday, columnist Hélène Buzzetti posted in French on X, formerly Twitter, that the federal government had already made the first of four promised $25-million payments to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) — despite last Friday’s announcement from International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen that funding would be paused after evidence emerged that agency employees took part in the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel.
Happy Tuesday, friends! pic.twitter.com/1wapkQNVrf
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 30, 2024
The Canadian military is demanding soldiers support tampons in men’s bathrooms to promote LGBT “inclusion.”
According to a leaked Canadian Armed Forces memo, the Commanding Officer of the 4th Canadian Division Support Group (CDSG) of the Greater Toronto Area Detachment, Maj. Robert P. Ryan, threatened soldiers who dared to throw out tampon dispensers which had been placed in men’s bathrooms as part of the military’s new “inclusion” policy.
UNREAL. Black woman claims a white person giving her a compliment at work is a microagression and can be offensive.
Complimenting black people is now racist pic.twitter.com/yqF08tAB5A
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2024
Israelis in Germany, take note! History always accelerates on the banks of the Rhine and Germany is fast going Muslim, faster than much of Europe.
A shaman calling herself “Putanny Yawanawa” opened the World Economic Forum in Davos. All the leaders on stage managed to keep a serious expression, almost in contemplation, while Yawanawa performed her spells and blew something. It did not quite seem like a normal way to start an economics meeting, at least not to everyone. But there is very little that is normal left in Davos and the participants at the Swiss ski resort had already been bewitched by a shaman called Al Gore, who announced the end of times.
It’s been a rough few months for electric vehicle fans. During the January cold snap, social media sites were filled with sarcasm and pictures of Teslas stranded by freezing temperatures. Lots of “dead robots out there,” one wag put it.
In mid-January, the rental car company Hertz, previously an eager early adopter of fleet electrification, announced a big sell-off of EVs that it had only recently purchased, mainly because they proved far more expensive to maintain than advertised. The same week, Ford slashed EV production, having earlier pulled back on planned battery factories. Both Ford and GM now face higher labor costs, having negotiated epic United Auto Workers pay hikes that now include previously excluded battery factories. Adding to the woes, unsold EVs are piling up on dealer lots, spurring aggressive discounting. The big sales benefit buyers but deepen the already-massive losses of manufacturers.
Without a single shot fired.
