Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.
That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t finish in one of the top two spots.
The Biden White House is courting TikTok stars and other social media influencers to be pro-Democrat mouthpieces online, amidst mountains of evidence that the Chinese Communist-tied app poses a serious national security threat.
As the Biden Administration continues to state its commitment to a “two-state negotiated solution” between the Palestinians and Israel, Palestinian leaders are pursuing their campaign to vilify Israel and demonize Jews. This campaign, which is manifest mostly in the rhetoric of the leaders and the Palestinian media, mosques and schools, has made it impossible – not to mention personally dangerous – for any Palestinian leader to seek a negotiated and peaceful settlement with Israel.
Muslim extremist Malika El Aroud (64) has died in Belgium after a prolonged illness, De Standaard reports. El Aroud was considered one of the leaders of al-Qaeda’s Belgian cell and was known as one of Europe’s most prominent Internet jihadists.
Malika El Aroud, nicknamed ‘Mama Jihad’ or ‘the black widow of jihad’, passed away in Belgium on Thursday. Since being stripped of her Belgian citizenship in 2017, she had been living in seclusion with a relative. The New York Times called El Aroud one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe in 2008.
A federal judge has denied Elizabeth Holmes’s latest attempt to stay out of prison, ruling that she must begin serving her more than 11-year sentence on April 27.
The Theranos founder had argued she should be allowed to remain free while she appeals her fraud convictions for misleading investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup.
I wanted to lead this article off with a Courtney Love quote that I read years ago, but I couldn’t find it. So I’ll paraphrase it. Love once told an interviewer that she had to learn the difference between honesty and candor, and she explained that honesty is telling the truth, while candor is telling the truth in a way that could offend.
Security experts have warned about the emergence of previously unknown spyware with hacking capabilities comparable to NSO Group’s Pegasus that has already been used by clients to target journalists, political opposition figures and an employee of an NGO.
Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School said the spyware, which is made by an Israeli company called QuaDream, infected some victims’ phones by sending an iCloud calendar invitation to mobile users from operators of the spyware, who are likely to be government clients. Victims were not notified of the calendar invitations because they were sent for events logged in the past, making them invisible to the targets of the hacking. Such attacks are known as “zero-click” because users of the mobile phone do not have to click on any malicious link or take any action in order to be infected.
Women are women.
How’s that for a sentence? A declaration.
To say a woman is a woman requires no prefix. It requires no qualifier. No extra start-up syllable. It requires no semantic trickery to take its plain and always-understood sense—its sense since the beginning of time and the discovery of language itself—to try to turn it in so something else.
Whole Foods, the hippie-friendly high-end grocery store owned by Amazon, is closing a new location on Market Street in downtown San Francisco due to high levels of crime that have plagued the city in recent months.
Award-winning American cartoonist Al Jaffee, renowned for his work on satirical magazine Mad, has died at the age of 102.
Jaffee, who was still working up until three years ago, set a Guinness World Record for his 77-year career.
MAD Magazine was a staple in our home of 7 kids.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is announcing a range of military, economic and cultural measures to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.
That includes the provision of assault rifles, machine-guns and ammunition as well as an update to the existing Canada-Ukraine free trade deal.
Also, the signing of a new agreement will make it easier for Ukrainian and Canadian youth to work and travel in both countries.
Support for Ukraine financial aid fades as fed spending reaches $8B says @FinanceCanada in-house research. Ukraine defaulted on debts last July 21. https://t.co/MbdWWiiPTb #cdnpoli @cafreeland pic.twitter.com/IYkSZK1Fn7
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) April 11, 2023
WASHINGTON — A surprisingly large number of people potentially had access to the Pentagon intelligence documents leaked on a social media site in early March, but clues left online may help investigators narrow down the pool of possible suspects relatively quickly, U.S. officials said on Monday.
A series of critical questions hinge on the investigation: not just who took the documents and posted them online, but also why and what kind of damage the release of the material might have done.
“We don’t know who is behind this; we don’t know what the motive is,” said John F. Kirby, the National Security Council spokesman. “We don’t know what else might be out there.”
Housing affordability has metastasized from a Toronto and Vancouver problem to a national crisis. Double-digit rent increases have hit traditionally more affordable communities coast to coast, and the cost of home ownership remains persistently high amid rising interest rates. One of the main reasons for the lack of affordability, according to our recent report, is the misalignment between Canada’s different levels of government.
The article is crap, they want your house, they want you poor and desperate to work for any wage.
“I detest the fact that important news stories nowadays cannot reliably be found from legacy MSM sources but require also looking at alternative sources like Revolver.news or independently curated Social Media feeds.
On VDARE’s Gab thread today I found Coffee harvest plunges amid Central American exodus, Bangkok Post, Feb 23, 2023…”
h/t O
Canada has been rocked in recent weeks by leaks indicating the government knew about Chinese meddling in recent elections. A Feb. 17 report in the Globe and Mail newspaper suggests that Beijing was actively meddling in Canada’s democracy at every level: federal, provincial and municipal. The leaks also reveal that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has responded to reports of interference with obstruction, obfuscation and only minor concessions.
