It is an unimaginably gruesome crime: an example of human violence at its most extreme.
In May 2018, Bryn Spejcher of Thousand Oaks, California, picked up a bread knife and stabbed her new boyfriend 108 times — killing him — before turning the blade on her dog.
The 32-year-old, who worked as an audiologist, then proceeded to stab herself — only stopping when police hit her nine times with a baton.
On October 7, Yoni Saadon, a man at the Israeli rave festival near the Gaza border, hid from the Hamas berserkers swarming the concertgoers and engaging in a murder orgy. He pretended to be dead, pulling over him like a shield the body of a woman shot in the head, and smearing her blood on him to fool the killers. He told the Sunday Times of London that after an hour, he peeked out.
Saturday’s was another symbolic terror attack, perpetrated at France’s most iconic landmark
There was more bloodshed in Paris this weekend, this time involving a man who, prosecutors claim, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS). A German tourist was killed as he strolled close to the Eiffel Tower with his wife during the attack on Saturday evening. Two other passers-by, including a Briton, were wounded by the assailant, who French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said shouted “Allahu Akbar” and ranted about Muslims dying in Afghanistan and Palestine as he launched his deadly assault. Police used a stun gun to stop the man who is being questioned by anti-terror police.
Following news of mass cuts and layoffs at the CBC and Radio-Canada on Monday, CBC’s CEO Catherine Tait went on the network’s flagship news show and declined to say whether the public broadcaster’s executives would be receiving bonuses.
Adrienne Arsenault, host of “The National” on CBC, asked Tait, “I’m going to presume, no bonuses this year? … Can we establish (that) is not happening this year?”
A Conservative member of Parliament is introducing a private member’s bill that would designate December as “Christian Heritage Month.”
Marilyn Gladu, the MP for the Ontario riding of Sarnia–Lambton, introduced Bill C-369, the Christian Heritage Month Act, to the House of Commons on Tuesday.
The bill lands as the Conservatives press a petition campaign against a Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) paper that described statutory holidays marking Christian religious dates as discriminatory.
The CBC is happy to report the bill does not stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of passing.
I think Omar may be a Mohammedan.
We are deeply disturbed by @CTVNews misrepresenting yesterday’s peaceful “Rally for the Jewish People” in Ottawa that was attended by thousands of Jews, including students and Holocaust survivors, as being pro-war. The poignant pleas from the families of those held hostage by… pic.twitter.com/WRrVnjUHYR
— Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (@CanadianFSWC) December 5, 2023
WARMINGTON: CTV sparks outrage, reporting peaceful pro-Israel rally supported war
“If you (Americans) were OK with us killing 5,000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s. That’s what Israeli diplomats really think of U.S. policy, he says.
This implies that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) both dismiss U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken’s strenuous warnings about the need to avoid high Palestinian casualties in the renewed bombing as mere hot air.
Oh I don’t think they’ll miss by much if at all.
🚨Teacher who creates social justice curriculum says parents’ rights are dangerous. She wants teachers to keep crucial information a secret from parents pic.twitter.com/zTS41FYghm
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2023
In several of the courses that I have taught (e.g., consumer behavior or international marketing), I have at times covered how cultural misunderstandings can result in costly business mishaps. For example, it is always a good idea to apply back translation when developing advertising copy across foreign markets. Take an advertising slogan in language A, have it translated to language B, and then have someone else translate back to language A. This reduces the likelihood of having translation errors when otherwise conducted in only one direction (from A to B).
Elementary school teacher is disgusted that a lesson plan showed a straight white family. The horror!!! pic.twitter.com/AvSTVLBvl4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 5, 2023
They represent those who are tired of being told by the people in power what their choices and beliefs are or should be.
Last Thursday night, most pundits, journalists, and columnists were huddled around their televisions or devices, poised to opine on the long-awaited DeSantis/Newsom matchup. Having forced myself to sit through two GOP debates only to have them both end with me lowering my head in despair and wishing I had bought an extra fifth of scotch to help me weather the evening, I opted to forego the Presidential Hopeful WrestleMania. As I understand it, I didn’t miss much, and both sides declared victory. Instead, I found myself huddled on a cold sidewalk outside of a bar in Salt Lake City. The reason? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was holding a campaign rally, and I had been given press credentials. As I am the child of ’60s activists, JFK, MLK, and RFK were practically the Holy Trinity in our house. So, it was with a mix of nostalgia and curiosity that I went out into the cold.
Since 2020, no fewer than 10 former government officials, military officers and scientists, along with a former senate majority leader, have alleged (or suggested) publicly that the U.S. government has recovered advanced craft of unknown origin — that is, UFOs.
Nearly all of these individuals also claim that the government transferred multiple craft to defense contractors for scientific and technical analysis.
Key members of Congress, drawing on testimony from dozens of whistleblowers, appear to find these extraordinary allegations credible.
KYIV — More than 21 months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine the mood is turning grim in Kyiv — with tensions between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top general, Valery Zaluzhny, spilling into the open.
Last year’s successes, as Ukraine first blunted Russia’s attacks on its capital and then recaptured swaths of territory, have faded into a stalemate along hundreds of kilometers of frontlines as entrenched Ukrainian and Russian soldiers fight bloody battles for advances and retreats measured in meters.
“I managed to escape this place,” Nazmi Hanafiah laughs, slightly nervously.
A year ago, the 30-year-old IT engineer moved to Forest City, a sprawling Chinese-built housing complex in Johor, on the tip of southern Malaysia. He rented a one-bedroom flat in a tower block overlooking the sea.
After six months, he’d had enough. He didn’t want to continue living in what he calls “a ghost town”.
The Biden administration is continuing to promote the idea of having a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority (PA) govern the Gaza Strip after the Israel-Hamas war. US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken used the phrase “revitalized Palestinian Authority” to express support for placing the Gaza Strip, currently ruled by the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group, under the control of the PA, headed by Mahmoud Abbas. On December 2, Vice President Kamala Harris became the latest official to promote the idea that “we have to revitalize the Palestinian Authority” to prepare it for ruling the Gaza Strip after the war.
The White House has further suggested that Palestinians “should be the determining voice” in who governs them.
