Good representative. Smh pic.twitter.com/8Q3dD2lfmW
— Josh Barnett for Congress (AZ-01) (@BarnettforAZ) January 22, 2023
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Author: Blazingcatfur
How Iranian Canadians are trying to stop regime affiliates fleeing to comfort in Canada
Some Iranian Canadians say they are taking efforts into their own hands to investigate and track down Iranian regime members and affiliates who are now in Canada — saying the Canadian government is not doing enough.
One group even made the extraordinary move of publicly shaming a recent arrival at Toronto’s Pearson airport, who they claimed was a regime affiliate, asking how she got a visa.
The issue has ramped up since protests erupted across Iran last fall after the in-custody death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran’s strict rules requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.
WTF?
Video of a drag show yesterday in Columbia, Missouri. Columbia Public Schools took students there without informing parents that their child would be attending a drag show.
Full story here: https://t.co/aR13AKMfgp pic.twitter.com/8lmcgflGze
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 20, 2023
Ukraine is lucky to have Britain’s Challenger 2 tanks
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. So wrote William Shakespeare in Henry V. He could well have been writing about the British Army’s main battle tank, the mighty 62-tonne behemoth that is Challenger 2, which is now being sent to Ukraine.
The Challenger 2 is a weighty sort of greyhound. But ‘Chally’, as it was affectionately known by those of us crewing it, could really move. It had close to that ideal balance all tank designers are aiming for, providing protection, manoeuvrability and firepower (each of which deteriorates when you improve one of the others).
WARMINGTON: Health Canada deems 400 deaths after receiving COVID vaccine low
Canada now has 400 reported deaths and more than 10,000 serious injuries following people receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, but Health Canada indicates it has confidence in vaccinations to battle coronavirus variants.
Penalty Box
Progressive sports media and LGBT advocates condemn Ivan Provorov for declining participation in the NHL’s Pride Night.
On Tuesday, Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov declined to signify support for the National Hockey League’s “Pride Night” in support of LGBGT activism, citing his Russian Orthodox faith. Pride Night is part of the NHL’s “Hockey for Everyone” initiative, intended to use “the game of hockey—and the League’s global influence—to drive positive social change and foster more inclusive communities.”
Proud Boys on defensive at sedition trial haunted by absent Trump
While federal prosecutors are casting the Capitol insurrection trial of five far-right Proud Boys leaders as an attempt to bring participants of an attack on US democracy to account, the members of the group are using the proceedings to ask one question even some of their opponents on the political left agree is valid.
Why have prosecutors so far only focused their energy on the supporters of Donald Trump who are accused of a coordinated invasion of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the congressional certification of his defeat to Joe Biden in the previous year’s presidential election? Is it because they regard the former Republican president himself – who urged his supporters to “fight like hell” that deadly day – as too formidable and them as easier targets?
Ukraine: Waiting for the Stinger Moment
When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, many analysts expected a quick catharsis in line with the prevailing view of war as a short hymn to military power.
That view had taken shape over many decades as memories of wars in ancient times through the 18th century faded. The 200-year long Roman-Persian War was far away as were the Hundred Years’ War and the Thirty Years’ War in Europe. Wars became shorter and shorter. The Napoleonic Wars, starting with the French Revolution, lasted 23 years.
FBI “discovers” even more classified docs at Biden home
Before we get to the obvious conspiracy theory material, let’s get past the basics of the story. While this is starting to sound like a broken record, six more classified documents were reportedly discovered at Joe Biden’s mansion in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday.
‘Child Protection’ Org Fought Against Efforts To Crack Down On Childlike Sex Dolls, Cartoon Child Porn
The Prostasia Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization that claims to work to prevent child sex abuse, has fought against measures cracking down on fetish activities involving sexually fantasizing about children, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.
Sad Rolling Stone: Concern Over Civil Liberties, Surveillance ‘Right-Wing Paranoia’
Under the heading “Tin Foil Hat Party,” a headline in the once-influential music magazine Rolling Stone spouted about “The Conspiracies Powering the GOP-Controlled House — How Republicans have put disinformation and falsehoods at the center of their governing agenda.”
What are some of the ghastly things the GOP wants to do with a new committee?
Is Seattle finished? Crime-ridden woke city’s dying downtown
Crime-ridden Seattle has lost its downtown Nike flagship store and multiplex movie theater as crime runs rampant and the number of homeless people dying soars.
The Rain City’s downtown area suffered its latest blow on Friday when the popular Nike store, located at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pike Street, shut its doors for good.
Nike’s exit came right after Regal Cinemas announced it would reject the lease of the Meridian 16 multiplex located on Seventh Avenue and Pike Street.
Antifa torch police car, damage businesses in Atlanta after activist killed
An angry crowd took to the streets of Atlanta Saturday night, smashing windows and torching a police car in response to the death of a 26-year-old protester Wednesday, reports said.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters that multiple protesters were found with explosive devices on them. One of the devices was used to set an Atlanta Police car on fire.
Protesters — who hit the streets after calls for a “Night of Rage” by Antifa members — were also seen throwing bricks at Atlanta Police Department vehicles smashing property, 11Alive reported.
CNN’s guest suggests we shouldn’t use the word “violent” to describe the Antifa riots in Atlanta tonight.
Antifa is currently destroying buildings and setting police cars on fire. pic.twitter.com/2PeCOFqXEk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 22, 2023
Police release image of Monterey Park shooting suspect – attack sparked by domestic dispute
‘This is not a hate crime’: Local leader says Chinese Lunar New Year dance studio massacre that left ten dead and ten hospitalized was sparked by fallout between husband and wife – as cops hunt ‘Asian man’
Update: Driver of white van ‘may have shot himself’ – report
Eyewitness accounts have said the driver of the parked van, in Torrance, which is south of Monterey Park, appears to be slouched over the wheel without moving.
“As officers gave commands for the occupant to exit the van, they heard and believed the driver may have shot himself,” CNN’s John Valerio wrote on Twitter a short while ago.
Body of ‘suspected Chinese Lunar New Year gunman’ is found slumped over in white van after ‘he shot himself’ during intense stand off: Shooter killed 10 and left 10 hospitalized in dance studio bloodbath
Norwegian Shipping Company Bans Electrified Vehicles Over Fire Fears
Norway’s Havila Krystruten is one of two shipping companies that sails between the coastal cities of Bergen and Kierkenes and says that it will no longer carry electric or electrified vehicles on its ships following the results of an external investigation.
The company mostly carries passengers and goods on the route, but now says that it will only carry private vehicles with internal combustion engines. Havila Krystruten cited fire safety as the main reason for its decision.
h/t Mauser