Based on a formula created by California Reparations Task Force, a nine-member panel appointed by Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, the total amount owed to black California residents victimized by the War on Drugs since 1970 amounts to over $225 billion.
Author: Blazingcatfur
How AI could shrink government – The public sector is ripe for disruption
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led many observers to worry that computers will soon replace far more jobs than imagined just a few years ago. The World Economic Forum now predicts that over 85 million positions could be lost to automation by the year 2025, many in law, medicine, accounting and other fields once thought immune to electronic substitution.
A Battle for Cultural Survival
In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms.
Anyone with even a glancing exposure to the media over the past several years knows that conservatives are waging a “culture war.” Republicans have been advocating and all too often implementing hurtful changes to settled social arrangements, proclaim the New York Times, Washington Post, and other outlets on a near-daily basis. This culture war arises primarily out of “hate and fear,” according to President Joe Biden, but pecuniary motives play a role as well, as GOP operatives try to stir up the base and shake it down for donations.
Free speech reigns supreme – thanks to Trump
WHATEVER one’s view of Donald Trump’s 2017-2021 presidency, the fact cannot be denied that through his appointments to the US Supreme Court he has saved American business owners from compelled speech.
France’s problems have been created by globalists-politician nexus
Uncontrolled immigration and the erosion of cultural identity pose a critical threat to the concept of nation-states in a globalised world
I have been meaning to write about West Europe for some time now, but issues like the Prigozhin march to Moscow, or the recent US visit by PM Modi demanded more immediate attention. But now with the France riots that are gradually spilling over to neighbouring states like Belgium, it is back to Europe and, probably time for a glimpse into what these riots are indicative of.
West Europe, through France, is having a sneak peek at how its moment of reckoning will look. The proverbial chickens have come home to roost, and there is nothing that their governments can do or are willing to do about it. They can best put it under the carpet and pretend that all is well. For instance, instead of calling for a ban on rioters, French President Macron has called for a ban on the internet. No internet means no coverage of the destruction and mayhem caused by the rioting immigrants. What you do not see does not exist.
Pope Gets Angry Over the Burning of a Book That Calls Christians ‘Vile’
Pope Francis is “indignant and disgusted,” according to a Sunday news report, but not over what you might expect. The pontiff is not enraged over the industrial-scale clerical sex abuse that has plagued the Church, or about the escalating persecution of Christians worldwide, or about the wholesale abandonment of Christianity in Europe. Instead, he is furious because an Iraqi refugee in Sweden set fire to a copy of the Qur’an.
What Israel is fighting against
The Islamists in Jenin pose an existential threat to Israelis – and to Palestinian nationhood.
Israel’s large-scale military incursion into Jenin on the northern West Bank has drawn widespread international condemnation. Starting on Monday morning, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) deployed over 1,000 troops with armoured vehicles, military bulldozers, drones and helicopter gunships to move into a refugee camp. The military operation is expected to last for a few more days. It is Israel’s largest operation in the West Bank in over 20 years.
The real story behind the AfD’s rise
The party is filling a vacuum on the German Right
It has been quite the week for Alternative for Germany (AfD). Hot on the heels of winning a run-off election for the post of district administrator in the eastern town of Sonneberg, the party now also boasts its first elected mayor in the small town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz in Saxony-Anhalt. As of yesterday, 42-year-old Hannes Loth can claim to have broken yet another ceiling for Germany’s most Right-wing political movement. Although these are small districts in parts of what used to constitute East Germany, it demonstrates that the recent AfD polling gains are beginning to have real political consequences.
Yevgeny Prigozhin says Wagner will return to the front soon
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, has vowed that his fighters will soon enjoy “new victories,” as Russia said it had shot down suspected Ukrainian drones near Moscow.
Prigozhin’s comments were his first for a week and came as his approval ratings plummeted among Russians because of his aborted mutiny against Moscow on June 24.
#Ukraine: A Russian 2S1 Gvozdika 122mm self-propelled howitzer was destroyed by counter-battery fire from the Ukrainian 45th Artillery Brigade in the vicinity of Bakhmut, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/n7lPpTslAA
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 4, 2023
The U.N. Is Planning To Seize Global ‘Emergency’ Powers With Biden’s Support
In September 2024, less than two months before the next U.S. presidential election, the United Nations will host a landmark “Summit of the Future,” where member nations will adopt a Pact for the Future. The agreement will solidify numerous policy reforms offered by the U.N. over the past two years as part of its sweeping Our Common Agenda platform.
Although there are numerous radical proposals included in the agenda, perhaps none are more important than the U.N. plan for a new “emergency platform,” a stunning proposal to give the U.N. significant powers in the event of future “global shocks,” such as another worldwide pandemic.
h/t XC
France’s riots put migration back on center stage
The riots that have ravaged France in recent days have given Éric Zemmour a second wind. The leader of the right wing Reconquest Party has been on the airwaves and in the newspapers, saying, with a touch of schadenfreude, “I told you so.”
🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen: "At a time when our country has just been ransacked and pillaged, I would like to ask you the question that all French people are asking: what have you done with France?"#Emeutes #Nahel #FranceOnFire #FranceBurning #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/7IMai3FLNk
— European Insider (@Europa_Insider) July 4, 2023
Several polls now showing Conservatives with significant lead
One poll showing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives ahead of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals is interesting, but it looks like we are seeing a trend. Ipsos is the latest polling firm to show a significant lead for the Conservatives over the Liberals when it comes to the national popular vote.
But …
Federal @338Canada Model – Most Seats Chances:
LPC: 50%
CPC: 49%– July 2, 2023 –
Check out the model here: https://t.co/PH3p7jLQWa pic.twitter.com/eQa92DRQcC
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) July 3, 2023
h/t Mauser
Trudeau slammed over cringeworthy video pumping government handouts for those harmed by Liberal policies
Justin Trudeau posted a TikTok-esque video on his official Twitter account in which he informally informed Canadians about a series of upcoming benefits and rebates.
Critics were quick to slam the prime minister over his “cringeworthy” media tactics, with many calling the whole spectacle a “joke.”
Making your life more affordable. And making sure you get the support you need. That’s what we’re focused on. And that’s what these five benefits are for. To learn more about them, visit https://t.co/w3Y2UrtE2T. pic.twitter.com/48Jsw1UWKK
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) July 3, 2023
WTF?
“Kaelie” doubles down on his right to use the women’s bathroom because it’s where “he feels safe.” Men do not have a right to “identify” into our demographic and spaces. Woman is a biological reality. Trans is a thought in your mind, sir. pic.twitter.com/R256Rq9E7g
— TroonyToons (@troonytoons) January 23, 2023