My new pen holder arrived today, going to display it proudly in my truck pic.twitter.com/JvcAGcYlyL
— Bored Albertan ($15) (@boredalberta) January 28, 2023
h/t Mauser
Author: Blazingcatfur
Most online antisemitism from Palestinians, pro-Palestinian circles – report
Sixty-eight percent of online antisemitism originates in Palestinian or progressive pro-Palestinian circles – according to a new report on the state of antisemitism, by the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, which was exposed by Minister Amichai Chikli during the cabinet meeting on Sunday morning.
Chikli said that “antisemitism is changing the way it manifests and it is increasingly focusing on hatred towards the Jewish state and the denial of its right to exist.”
That’s odd, we keep getting told it’s white supremacists who are responsible.
Vending machines with lifesaving drug grow as opioid crisis rages in US
The police chief of the small Kentucky city of Vine Grove knew from heart-rending experience why he needed a vending machine outside his office.
Kenneth Mattingly’s daughter was twice brought to the brink of death by heroin and twice pulled back by paramedics carrying an antidote, naloxone. Then Mattingly responded to an opioid overdose call early last year at which a woman saved a friend’s life because she was carrying a naloxone spray, often known by its brand name Narcan.
Is Putin Destroying Russia?
December 13, 2022. UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace tells the House of Commons that, since the start of the war in Ukraine, “over 100,000 Russians are either dead, injured, or have deserted”. Today, the figure is undoubtedly higher. The losses to the Russian army have been such that on September 21, Putin decreed a mobilization. Tens of thousands of men were sent to ,military training. Thousands of others were immediately deployed to the front, with no training, no arms, or with only rusty guns, and sent to a certain death. Another mobilization seems to be in the works. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu recently said that the Russian army will soon number 1.5 million men, but whatever the number, if front-line soldiers do not have adequate equipment, they will be killed.
Company faces backlash for Hitler inspired Valentine’s Day products
The Hitler merchandise had the description as “Nothing says ‘I love you’ more than Time Magazine’s Man of the Year (1938) clasping a rose.”
2050: The never-ending nightmare of Net Zero
IT IS the year 2050 and Britain, relentlessly driven by the governing Labour-Green coalition, has achieved Net Zero. The nation is quite unrecognisable from the comfortable, well-fed country it was in the early part of the 21st century. Massive wind turbines cover the landscape; the old ones built 25 years ago now knocked down and lying next to the new ones because it was uneconomic to remove them. The whole country is covered in a dense spider’s web of power lines from the multitude of wind and solar farms miles from where the power is needed. Offshore wind farms died ten years ago: it became impossible to maintain them because all the workboats were rusting in port with no fuel. Thousands of acres of formerly productive agricultural land are now solar farms with nothing but weeds growing beneath the panels.
Russia Tightens Grip Around Bakhmut as Ukraine Awaits Western Tanks
BAKHMUT, Ukraine—Russia’s invasion forces tightened the noose around this beleaguered city in eastern Ukraine, while Kyiv urged the West to provide longer-range firepower to counter Russia’s missile barrages.
Ukrainian troops here described mounting difficulties in stopping the Russian advances around Bakhmut, the site of this winter’s heaviest fighting in the 11-month-old war.
Russia on Sunday claimed the capture of another village in the Bakhmut area as its forces try to surround the city and force a Ukrainian retreat.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine needed advanced weapons systems such as the U.S. Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, to counteract Russian strikes that were killing Ukrainian civilians.
Activist Vows to Burn Koran Every Week
Rasmus Paludan, the Danish-Swedish politician who recently burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, continues his activism. On Friday, he burned more copies of the Muslim holy book in the Danish capital. From Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio, DR:
Paludan has just burned a copy of the koran in front of the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen. Paludan announced yesterday that he would burn the koran at three different addresses in Copenhagen on Friday. Earlier today he burned one copy in front of a mosque in northwest Copenhagen.
California Firefighters Use 6,000 Gallons of Water to Put Out Tesla Fire on Highway 50
A Tesla Model S burst into flames on Saturday afternoon in California while driving on Highway 50, causing two eastbound lanes to close, officials said.
The electric vehicle was traveling at “freeway speeds” when its battery compartment “spontaneously” caught fire, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said on Twitter. The incident happened around 3:41 p.m.
The vehicle battery compartment spontaneously caught fire while it was traveling freeway speeds on EB Hwy 50. The fire was extinguished with approx 6,000 gallons of water, as the battery cells continued to combust. Thankfully no injuries were reported. pic.twitter.com/PRmlWzQdXS
— Metro Fire of Sacramento (@metrofirepio) January 29, 2023
Canadian Immigration: The Real Newcomer Numbers
The federal government has been touting the record numbers of immigrants arriving in Canada, but the over 431,000 it cites is in fact less than half the number of newcomers who came to the country last year.
Once combined with non-permanent residents, the number of newcomers in 2022 amounted to an estimated 955,000, which represents “an unprecedented swing in housing demand in a single year that is currently not fully reflected in official figures,” according to a Jan. 25 CIBC report.
The number of new international arrivals in 2023 could reach a million, the report said.
1 year after disrupting Alberta’s border with the U.S., protesters return to Coutts — where wounds remain
As vehicles pulled into a meeting spot on the side of the highway south of Lethbridge, Alta., it was clear that this year’s convoy protest gathering would be different. As people gathered to mark its one-year anniversary, they were greeted by two RCMP vehicles at the side of the road.
There was no missing the police vehicles scattered along the highway and the helicopter in the air, or the message: The event would be permitted, a large-scale disruption would not.
One year ago, Alberta RCMP had sent out a fairly innocuous media advisory warning of heavy congestion and slow-moving traffic near the border crossing at Coutts, Alta.
China’s Top Nuclear-Weapons Lab Used American Computer Chips Decades After Ban
SINGAPORE—China’s top nuclear-weapons research institute has bought sophisticated U.S. computer chips at least a dozen times in the past two and half years, circumventing decades-old American export restrictions meant to curb such sales.
A Wall Street Journal review of procurement documents found that the state-run China Academy of Engineering Physics has managed to obtain the semiconductors made by U.S. companies such as Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. since 2020 despite its placement on a U.S. export blacklist in 1997.
Conservatives’ détente over Freedom Convoy endures, for now
While some Conservative MPs and MLAs openly supported the Freedom Convoy as it began a year ago this weekend, others were highly critical of the protests
OTTAWA — The past year has seen many Canadians become politically engaged for the first time in their lives because of the Freedom Convoy, as well as conservative politicians hoping to bring this potential new pool of voters into the fold.
I’ll be voting PPC as they are the only federal party against the mass immigration scam.
Trudeau’s web-police groups lacking objectivity
Examples are everywhere of why it would be supremely dangerous to permit the Trudeau Liberals and their appointees to police content on the Internet.
On Wednesday, the government-funded Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), claimed that journalistic balance is getting in the way of good public policy.
WTF?
“Cheers to the ones that lick us where we pee” – drag queen in front of children who then hand him cash tips at a “family-friendly” drag show in Texas pic.twitter.com/RNEPzaka1C
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 29, 2023