Is there any community more narcissistic? pic.twitter.com/nnYm4x8BCx
— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) August 16, 2023
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— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) August 22, 2023
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COVID Mandates Return to Hollywood: Lionsgate Requires Employees to Mask Up, Submit to Daily Testing
COVID mask mandates are returning to Hollywood, with Lionsgate being the first major studio to reinstate masking and daily testing for its Los Angeles office workers.
Why sanctions aren’t turning Putin’s oligarchs against him
This is one area in which the West is still struggling to get its act together
When personal sanctions on Russian oligarchs and officials were imposed by the US, EU and UK after Putin’s invasion, the rationale was that this would undermine the Kremlin. In the main, this has failed — and there is still no coherent strategy to encourage those Russians willing to turn against the regime.
No end in sight.
Ukraine war: The men who don’t want to fight
Ukraine is struggling to meet its demand for soldiers.
Volunteers aren’t enough. The country constantly needs to replace the tens of thousands who’ve been killed or injured. Many more are just exhausted, after 18 months fighting off Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Some men though don’t want to fight. Thousands have left the country, sometimes after bribing officials, and others are finding ways of dodging recruitment officers, who in turn have been accused of increasingly heavy-handed tactics.
“The system is very outdated,” says Yehor. He watched his father suffer from mental health issues after fighting with the Soviet Army in Afghanistan.
Music Elites and the Oliver Anthony Conundrum
There was a time when disputes between intellectuals made headlines and provoked editorials.
One of our young staff, Luther Ray Abel, raised an interesting point the other day in one of our subscriber-only letters about the kinds of issues that divide conservative intellectuals, causing long-time friends to turn on each other and become ex-friends.
Always one for comity and all hands on deck, it occurred to me: Is the quarrel Abel referred to, between one of our contributing editors and a fella at National Review Oliver Anthony, critical to our survival as a free society? Or is it of the academic politics variety, wherein intensity and stakes are inversely proportional?
The Top 3 Censored Topics in America in 2023
The left likes to whine about alleged “book bans,” which are no more than decisions by wise educators and librarians to keep pornographic and sexually explicit materials out of the hands of minors. In their twisted world, kids should have access to anything and everything they demand. No child should be shielded from materials that could harm their development or pervert their innocent minds. Their ideas about “censorship” are bizarre, to say the least, and often seem more focused on scoring political points and virtue-signaling than protecting children.
Continuing Atrocities: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
The utmost violence, it seems, against the Christians in Pakistan has taken a permanent form. According to the Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn, on August 16, following an alleged incident of blasphemy in the town of Jaranwala, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched five churches, and attacked the homes of Christians and the office of the local assistant commissioner.
Pakistan: Muslims are now desecrating the graves of Christians. They have nothing else in their lives that keeps them going, outside Christian hate. pic.twitter.com/UfxBgdaENg
— Dane (@UltraDane) August 21, 2023
Christian are under Attack in #Pakistan.
Last night on 22 August 2023 #Barelvi Muslims #TLP Tehreek-e-Labbaik to settle personal score with one of Christian family in madina town #Faisalabad #Pakistan.
The extremists hanged a polythene bag full of torn pieces of #Quran.… pic.twitter.com/cCnXyzrmrM
— Faraz Pervaiz (@FarazPervaiz3) August 22, 2023
Dangers of AI Growing? Listening to Keystrokes, Stealing Passwords
Artificial intelligence can “listen” to keystrokes and steal passwords, according to new research.
An Aug. 3 research paper from the UK, titled “A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards,” examines how hackers could use artificial intelligence (AI) to figure out passwords by “listening” to keystrokes. AI achieved over 90 percent accuracy in determining passwords, and was even able to adjust for variations such as the weight of the finger pressing on a key. This raises new concerns for the already severe risks associated with AI.
No charges yet after Edmonton police read Riot Act to quell violent clashes within Eritrean community
It was a chaotic scene with few if any parallels in Edmonton’s history: hundreds of men clashing on a field — some in blue, others in orange — carrying sticks and poles flying brightly coloured flags.
Now, police are investigating the weekend violence, which pitted members of the city’s Eritrean community against one another and led officers to take the rare step of proclaiming the Riot Act.
Grave offence
A graveyard is usually a place for peace and quiet reflection but the goings-on at a church in Ipswich are enough to wake the dead.
Couples are using the raised tombstones as a convenient platform for alfresco sex, according to Suffolk police. Other visitors are drinking, taking drugs and using the tombs as a table.
Doctor sues Queen’s University for allegedly pushing him out of job over his COVID opinions
When the frightening, frantic first waves of COVID-19 hit Canada in March 2020, Dr. Matt Strauss worked in intensive care at a Kingston, Ont., hospital and taught at Queen’s University medical school.
He volunteered for extra shifts at Kingston Health Sciences Centre to help with the crush of patients, but a much less dramatic development now anchors his public place in the pandemic: he started sharing his thoughts about pandemic response.
Trump says he will be arrested on Thursday in Georgia election case
Donald Trump has said he plans to turn himself in on Thursday to a court in the state of Georgia to face charges of election interference.
A judge in Atlanta who is overseeing the former president’s case has set bail at $200,000 (£157,000).
The agreement says Mr Trump can remain free pending trial so long as he does not attempt to threaten or intimidate witnesses.
Mr Trump denies 13 charges, including racketeering and false statements.
Let’s just rename Toronto DEI Death Camp No. 1
LILLEY: Yonge St., Wellesley, Churchill and more on city renaming list
Are we ready to give up Yonge St. in Toronto? The most famous street in the city is on the list of streets and places that should be considered for renaming.
The same city report that pushed forward the idea of renaming Dundas St. said that there were 60 street names, including 12 named for slave owners, which “are no longer considered to be reflective of the city’s contemporary values.”
White Japanese Man …
Travis Ikeguchi, 27, made anti-LGBTQ posts before shooting dead California shop owner Laura Ann Carleton over her Pride flag
Ikeguchi’s GAB – a blogging site often known for its right-wing users – page was filled with references to religion, anti-democracy, anti-police and references to defending himself.
‘America must repent for a lot of things we allow; abortion/baby killing, sexual immortality, pornography, same-sex marriages, LGBTQP/pedophilia, freemasonry, religiosity, politics, wars, colonialism, the federal reserve,’ he wrote in a post.
Letting go of China’s money – the price Canada must pay for its principles
Remember the 1990s? It was an innocent time when globalization was lifting all boats. Massive, multilateral trading agreements were all the rage. And any trade disputes were modest irritations that could be smoothed over with a few glasses of chardonnay.
Fast forward to the 2020s, and everything has shifted. The brave new world of neoliberal economics has been rocked to its core. And now geopolitical tensions are sparking some very unpleasant shocks to global trade.
Council meeting in affluent San Francisco neighborhood descends into chaos as residents protest turning hotel into homes for 100 homeless people
A local council meeting in an affluent San Francisco neighborhood descended into chaos when hundreds of ‘rowdy’ residents began booing plans to place homeless people in a nearby hotel.
Crowds of angry Millbrae residents packed out their local community hall on Friday to protest ‘Project Homekey’ proposals to house 100 rough sleepers at the La Quinta hotel on El Camino Real, close to the city center.
So many people turned up that hundreds had to stand outside the 300-man capacity hall to hear proposals outlined by San Mateo County Executive Mike Callagy.