Democrats claim to be the party of science, yet many of their highest-profile sycophants in the media regularly parrot anti-scientific claims like “gender is a spectrum.” This was the case on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday as moderator Chuck Todd argued with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy over second-grade biology.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Mexican Migrant Wanted for Murder of Five Hondurans Deported 3 Times, Says Texas Sheriff
CLEVLAND, Texas — Immigration officers deported the Mexican man wanted in connection to Friday night’s alleged murder of five Honduran nationals on three occasions, according to the Texas sheriff leading the investigation. The most recent removal came in 2016.
Ex-mortuary worker indicted for selling stolen body parts for $11K to a man she met on Facebook
An Arkansas woman pleaded not guilty to charges she sold stolen body parts from medical school corpses for $11,000 to a Pennsylvania man she met on social media.
Candace Chapman Scott, 36, a former mortuary worker, is accused of selling 20 boxes of body parts to a man she met through a Facebook group about “oddities,” according to the April 5 indictment unsealed Friday in federal court in Little Rock.
‘It’s hell’: vigilantes take to Haiti’s streets in bloody reprisals against gangs
As Vélina Élysée Charlier ventured on to the streets of her conflict-stricken city last week, she encountered scenes that will haunt her for many years to come.
Armed civilians dragging bodies through the streets. Smouldering corpses. Young men with machetes chasing suspected gangsters they planned to kill.
“I’ve seen enough dead people for many lifetimes,” said the Haitian human rights activist. “Since Monday, if you get killed, you get burned. It’s kill, burn, kill, burn … It’s nothing I would want anyone else to witness. It stays with you … It’s hell, you know?”
U.S. asks Canada to reimpose visa requirements for Mexico to stem surge of crossings at northern border
The Biden administration has been asking Ottawa to consider reimposing visa requirements for Mexican nationals visiting Canada, CBC News has learned.
At issue is the sharp increase in illegal crossings from Canada into the United States: Mexicans don’t need a visa to travel to Canada, while the U.S. requires a visa for Mexicans to enter. American border officials say some Mexican nationals are using Canada’s visa-free rule to fly into the country and then cross south illegally into America.
San Francisco Whole Foods Closure Reflects City’s Economy and Crime Woes
SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, with pandemic lockdowns in the rearview mirror, Whole Foods Market made a bet on a gritty San Francisco neighborhood. The high-end supermarket chain opened a giant flagship store in a part of the city that is home to both tech companies like Twitter and open-air drug dealing.
But the store was soon confronted head-on with many of the problems plaguing the area. People threatened employees with guns, knives and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought and tried to defecate on the floor, according to records of 568 emergency calls over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem.
No wonder they wanted him dead: Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Many Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer
The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules.
William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan.
Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2020. He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.
Good snapshots in this thread.
BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Calendar just dropped. The calendar includes meetings with the man who’s now the current Director of the CIA, William Burns, among other prominent names including Rothschild, Kissinger and many more. https://t.co/9CcLlzenoB
— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) April 30, 2023
h/t Mauser
How Democrats’ Push For Electric Cars Endangers National Security
Ford Motor Company recently announced it’s set to lose more than $6 billion on its latest electric vehicle plants while it gets them running, with the company CEO saying “we cannot continue to import batteries and rare earth from overseas.”
“We can build all the plants, but what’s the good if we’re importing batteries?” he continued, highlighting U.S. mine closures and global shortages of the rare earths required for the batteries that power these cars.
Joe Biden declared war on fossil fuels on his first day in office. The federal government has adopted numerous policies to swiftly move our nation away from gas-powered vehicles to all-electric ones.
Adam Zivo: The CBC has a unique obligation to be neutral, which it is failing
Recent debate about defunding the CBC often misses an important distinction — the problem isn’t that the CBC has a partisan bias per se, it’s that the organization has this bias while being a state broadcaster.
It’s natural, indeed beneficial, for news organizations to have political biases of some sort. A democratic society thrives when it maintains a vibrant marketplace of ideas, and that marketplace is healthiest when different ideological groups are represented, and empowered, by affiliated media outlets.
Scientists’ declaration emphasises value of meat for human health
Meat is crucial for human health, scientists have warned, as they called for an end to the “zealotry” pushing vegetarian and vegan diets.
Dozens of experts were asked to look into the science behind claims that meat eating causes disease and is harmful for the planet in a special issue of Animal Frontiers.
They warned that it is difficult to replace the nutritional content of meat, arguing that poorer communities with low meat intake often suffer from stunting, wasting and anaemia driven by a lack of vital nutrients and protein.
Douglas Todd: Many Canadian politicians belong to the landlord class. We should question their motivations
It’s relevant to ask about conflict of interest when so many cabinet ministers and MPs make serious money through their real estate investments.
Having so many Canadian politicians invested in real estate is a problem.
In the midst of an affordability crisis that has struck Canada harder than almost any other country, the public should be worried that an unusually high proportion of its politicians are landlords.
… In addition to the real estate holdings of Liberal cabinet ministers — notably including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen and cabinet ministers David Lametti and Francois-Philippe Champagne — 38 per cent of the MPs in all parties are real estate financiers or landlords.
h/t Kiki
Supporters defy opposition to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day in shadow of the huge Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial
The Sons of Confederate Veterans group’s held their Confederate Memorial Day celebration at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia near Atlanta, despite meeting with opposition from local groups.
The event was canceled for several years due to COVID but was revived in 2022.
Although groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, called for the event’s permit to be revoked, the 2023 Confederate Memorial Day event was allowed to go ahead by the state authority that runs Stone Mountain Park.
GOLDSTEIN: Our soft-on-crime philosophy began 50 years ago
Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is right when he says passing federal legislation to toughen bail conditions for repeat violent offenders — which he says he will introduce during the current session of Parliament — won’t in and of itself address legitimate concerns about public safety.
He’s also right, as he told the CBC’s The House on Saturday, that Ottawa alone can’t address the problem of violence — that provinces and municipalities have a responsibility as well.
‘God has planned to ambush them’: Tempers flare as furious religious groups protest SatanCon in Boston
Furious Christian groups are attempting to shut down the ‘largest Satanic gathering in history’ after hundreds of The Satanic Temple’s members descended on Boston.
The annual SatanCon festival arrived in town on Friday to celebrate the organization’s 10-year anniversary, kicking off with a bizarre opening ceremony that saw speakers tear up the bible and perform ‘un-baptisms’.
But the arrival of the Devil worshippers on the East Coast has sparked backlash from religious groups, with crowds gathering Saturday to stage a series of demonstrations across the city and combat the hellish three-day event with ‘intense prayer’.
Toronto braces for a decade of traffic turmoil as Ontario Line work shuts city streets
A busy downtown intersection is closing Monday for nearly half a decade as construction on Toronto’s newest subway line begins in earnest.
Starting May 1, Queen Street between Bay and Victoria Streets will be shut to cars for four and a half years in what will be one of the biggest disruption the city will face in the construction of the Ontario Line subway. Work on the line began last March, but will heat up this summer with the Queen Street closure and other projects.
The way Toronto is going I’m not sure they will need this line.