Some Covid restrictions were “idiocy” and lengthy school closures were an “unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief has admitted.
Karl Lauterbach, who became the face of the pro-lockdown movement, said some regulations went too far.
“Much of what we did was right but what was idiocy was the things like jogging with masks, or rules for outdoors. Those were excessive,” Mr Lauterbach said.
This week, the Washington Examiner uncovered “Disinformation Inc.” and how it makes money blacklisting conservative “disinformation” spreaders. One of those “disinformation” trackers has multiple ties to none other than liberal billionaire George Soros.
The Examiner released a Feb. 9 exclusive about how “well-funded ‘disinformation’ tracking groups are part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media” by working to deprive them of large amounts of advertising revenue.
A black man says he was manhandled and removed from a February 4 Sarah Silverman concert for wearing blackface. The 71-year-old Michael B. Jackson says he wore the blackface to protest Silverman’s use of blackface 15 years ago in a skit on her canceled TV show. Jackson said things got so rough, six security guards were necessary to remove him, and he ended up in the hospital.
An invasion through Belarus would accelerate negotiations
Looking ahead, there are only two possible major military moves for Russia. Following the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists last autumn, Putin’s army is now larger than when it invaded last February. Then, the aim was not to start a war but to end it, with a quick victory forecast by Russian and US Intelligence, both equally intoxicated by the false promise of “post-kinetic” warfare; this would combine electronic propaganda with cyber-attacks on everything from military headquarters to civilian infrastructures. Generals who had never fought against patriotic Europeans but only against Middle Eastern sectarians, if they had fought at all, who considered tanks old-fashioned and had limitless respect for “information warfare”, heavily influenced the totally wrong estimates that misled both Biden and Putin.
#Ukraine: Two Russian tanks and what may have been two UR-77 mine clearing vehicles (very difficult to tell since both were nuked) were destroyed by the Ukrainian army north of Volodymyrivka near Vuhledar, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/S6ILqTCX3W
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) February 10, 2023
After Fetterman’s latest hospitalization, his people rushed out a damage control piece in the New York Times which pushes for sympathy while essentially conceding that they lied during the campaign about his competency.
If approved, the move would authorize U.S. Special Operations troops to employ Ukrainian operatives to observe Russian movements and counter disinformation
The Pentagon is urging Congress to resume funding a pair of top-secret programs in Ukraine suspended ahead of Russia’s invasion last year, according to current and former U.S. officials. If approved, the move would allow American Special Operations troops to employ Ukrainian operatives to observe Russian military movements and counter disinformation.
I have an awful time believing anything anyone says about the Ukraine-Russia conflict especially in light of the NordStream pipeline report.
It is at this point a Proxy war for economic supremacy and the continued dependence of Europe on the US. Ukraine is a pawn. And we get to help pay for it all.
A new poll by Hillel Ontario found that a significant majority of Jewish students had refrained from expressing their pro-Israel believes in public for fear of being criticized and slightly more than half had downplayed their Jewishness in social settings.
Hillel Ontario, which describes itself as the largest regional Hillel in the world with a combined Jewish student population of 14,000 across nine universities, released the findings from the “student pulse check survey” after polling nearly 500 Jewish students between November 2022 and January 2023.
John Tory is stepping down as mayor of Toronto after having a relationship with a member of his office staff during the pandemic.
Tory announced his resignation during a surprise news conference on Friday evening as he confirmed the relationship, which he said: “did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man.”
“I am deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto,” Tory said.
VIDEO: Mayor John Tory says he’s stepping down from office after admitting he had relationship with former staffer. https://t.co/ww9Zx2f6kh pic.twitter.com/ZKKmrXJJQs
— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) February 11, 2023
h/t SDMatt & XC
NatPo is allowing comments – Toronto Mayor John Tory resigns as mayor, admits affair with staffer
Here’s the original Star piece – Mayor John Tory steps down from office after admitting he had relationship with former staffer
What is this “Just Transition” everyone’s been talking about?
It’s the beginning of the end for Canadian energy — a blueprint to dismantle an industry and cripple the economies of entire provinces.
It is the insane wish-dream of lunatics.
Barry Sherman had $372 in his wallet when he died. Honey Sherman’s wallet was stuffed with $7,500, possibly from a visit to an ATM shortly before she was killed.
Sources say cash discovered at the crime scene explains why a homicide detective went to great lengths to calm fears in the neighbourhood shortly after the bodies were found. It was unlikely their deaths were a break-in gone wrong.
Middle school teacher at @KIPPNJ makes students to use they/them pronouns and corrects them if they make a mistake.
These are the people teaching your kids. pic.twitter.com/deHVbTws6b
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 7, 2023
Now French farmers have joined the tractor revolt against the laptop classes.
Nothing speaks to the madness of the modern elites better than their war on farming. Consider France. One day President Macron is telling the world to get serious about ‘food security’. Post-Covid and with war raging in Ukraine, we must make sure food keeps being made and transported around the world, the French government says. Yet, at the same time, that same government, without missing a beat, is bringing in pesticide bans that could devastate sections of France’s own agriculture industry. Which could even lead to the closure of farms. Behold the schizophrenia of the 21st-century establishment.
Forces in the Iranian revolutionary guards are beginning to feel “doubt and confusion” after almost five months of anti-regime demonstrations, senior officers have admitted.
Compounding this sense of frustration is their pay. The salaries of IRGC soldiers are a quarter of their counterparts in Lebanon’s Hezbollah forces, Iran’s most powerful Middle East proxy, according to sources.
The 125,000-strong IRGC has carried out a brutal crackdown against protesters across the country, killing at least 528 civilians and imprisoning tens of thousands more, rights groups say. Seventy IRGC soldiers are believed to have died.
Smoking cannabis outside in Amsterdam’s red light district will soon be made illegal, and brothels forced to close earlier, under rules to save residents from “glassy-eyed tourist zombies”.
The new regulations are set to come into force in mid-May and aim to make city centre living more bearable for long-suffering locals.
A city spokeswoman said: “The atmosphere becomes dire, particularly at night. This comes at the expense of a good night’s sleep for residents and the liveability and safety of the whole neighbourhood.”
