The virtue-signalling ice-cream brand has been accused of mistreating migrant workers.
The social-media team at Ben and Jerry’s UK has waded into Britain’s immigration debate. Again.
This supposedly socially conscious ice-cream brand – owned by corporate giant Unilever – has posted incessantly in recent months about the UK’s contentious Rwanda policy for illegal migration, with tweets about the status of the plan sandwiched between cringeworthy marketing posts.
A chronicle of the Biden administration’s increasingly absurd attempts to hide its complicity in the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust
It may strike some observers as curious, and others as unimaginably evil, that only weeks after Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, the Biden administration awarded sanctions waivers worth $10 billion to Iran, the primary external sponsor of those attacks. The waiver, which allows Iran to collect money from the sale of electricity to Iraq, an arrangement that further deepens Iranian control of that country, came with an added bonus: Iran would be allowed to convert the funds into euros which it could spend immediately, without the usual requirement that the money remain in escrow inside Iraq. The prospect that Iran might immediately spend the money it receives on continuing to target U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria doesn’t appear to have disrupted the deal, either.
A Canadian woman has applied to be euthanized after long Covid left her jobless and in constant pain – amid fears assisted dying has become too easy in Canada.
Tracey Thompson, 55, from Toronto, has not been able to work since catching the virus in 2020 and is so sore and fatigued she stays in bed for up to 22 hours a day.
The former chef has been robbed of the simple pleasures in life: she’s too weak to cook, too nauseous to eat and can’t listen to music, read or watch movies because her brain fog is so severe she ‘can’t process the info.’
The United Nations has long been sliding into irrelevancy, but it’s a great pity that Canada has decided its foreign policy can go along for the ride.
On Tuesday, Canada supported a UN general assembly vote that called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Israeli-Hamas war.
here's the clip
"Is the only reason why you called for a ceasefire because you're losing Muslim support and donors in Canada? What changed on the ground in Israel that changed your government's position so dramatically from a week ago?" pic.twitter.com/rFRcfiJAjl— CañadaRecord (@CanadaRecord) December 13, 2023
Never interrupt your enemy when he/she/they/xe/zorp is making a mistake, and the Ivy Leagues are making a huge one. Talk about getting high on your own supply – for the last few decades, our allegedly prestigious universities have been dealing out highly addictive nonsense to their students, and it looks like they huffed a big rail of it. How else could you explain having three university poohbahs sit there on camera in front of Congress and be unable – or, more likely, unwilling – to say that cheering on Jewish genocide is bad?
h/t DS
Travelers should also be ready for ‘virtual vacations’ and ‘armchair travel’ to become mainstream, a report says.
Travelers should expect to add another item to their packing lists by 2040 — carbon passports. That’s the latest from a growing push by environmental activists for the idea of limiting a person’s ability to travel in an effort to combat climate change.
Seven years ago, Simon Fraser University political scientist Sanjay Jeram perceptively said that Canada was one of the last countries in the world where it is not permitted to discuss migration policy.
“The hidden consensus in Canada is that we don’t talk critically about immigration. The taboo against discussing it is very real,” said Jeram, who has a PhD from the University of Toronto, the city in which he was born and raised.
The Justin Trudeau versus Pierre Poilievre show has wound down for the year, giving Canadians a bit of a break from a battle between the two leaders that has become increasingly raw and personal.
If 2024 is anything like 2023, that antagonism will become likely become even more pronounced when the Commons returns from the six-week break it takes from mid-December until the end of January.
Not acknowledging a trans person if you happen to see them in public is transphobic. If we acknowledge them, we’re transphobic and if we don’t we’re transphobic… 🤷🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/lUmMkUa6OF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 14, 2023
Ottawa is preparing to create a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people who have lived and worked in Canada illegally for years, starting with construction workers, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says.
In an interview, Mr. Miller said he is preparing to create a “broad and comprehensive program” that would allow many without valid documents to apply for permanent residency. Among those included would be people who entered the country legally, as temporary workers or international students, and then remained here after their visas expired.
Another guy who always thinks he passes and no one can tell pic.twitter.com/GZiDx851bD
— Men Posting F’s (@troonytoons) December 14, 2023
Just like the war on drugs and the war on terror, efforts at stopping population movement by force often just fuel the problem. But for many claiming to confront the perceived threat, that suits all too well
… In 2010, when Ruben first arrived in Senegal to study migration to Europe, he was struck by something people kept telling him. Four years earlier, in one of Europe’s earlier “migration crises”, 30,000 west-African migrants had arrived at the Spanish Canary Islands in wooden fishing boats, sparking a large-scale deportation campaign. On the outskirts of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, one of those deported from the Canaries told Ruben that he was, as an anthropologist studying migration, part of a system that was profiting from the migrants’ misery. “There’s lots of money in illegal migration,” said the deportee, pointing out, on long walks through his seaside neighbourhood, all those who fed off this system: academics, journalists, NGOs and European and Senegalese maritime forces stationed just beyond this fishing community.
At the time, the word on the street was that Senegalese politicians, both locally and nationally, were using Spanish aid money – meant to ensure Senegal’s collaboration in deportations and border patrols – for their own private or political gain. In coming years, the pattern would be replicated as major partners in European immigration control – such as Libya, Turkey and Sudan – leveraged their promised cooperation, not just for a windfall of aid, but also for wider strategic and economic ends.
Worth a read, and just set aside that it’s in the Guardian.
Disney has spent the last year developing and refining its destructive habit of producing films infected by woke themes — and it’s become surprisingly good at it. The result, of course, has been disastrous for the mega-entertainment company; almost every film Disney sent to theaters this year flopped at the box office.
Zegler got told to shut up after single handedly sinking the movie prior to production.
You can’t have Snow White played by a whiny leftist.
I bet the plug gets pulled.
If you’re into Bible verses at Christmas, unlike the craft store clerk who didn’t know what a “nativity scene” was even after I mentioned wise men, Mary, Joseph and the “Christ child,” I suggest Matthew 5:11. Which, for her and her millennial ilk, says “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” So there’s a lot of blessing worldwide.
At least three panicked senior Hamas members and their superiors recently ran from Qatar, where the brutes have been allowed to run a political office for a decade, in a desperate bid to escape the bounties on their heads.
