Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have yet to achieve cold fusion, but they have poured their time and money into creating a video game about racism on an airplane.
With real racism being so rare these days, it’s no wonder that it had to be manufactured.
It’s a very good thing that public attention and opposition inquiries are at last promising to shed light on the opaque and strangely intimate relationship between the Trudeau Liberals and McKinsey and Company, the global management consultancy that mutated into a service agency for dictators, oligarchs and corporate drug pushers. Its former boss was Dominic Barton, the longtime Trudeau confidant and Canada’s former ambassador to China.
OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government’s plan to buy anti-aircraft missiles for Ukraine is prompting questions about why such equipment isn’t being bought for the Canadian Army.
The Army has been without weapons to defend Canadian troops from enemy aircraft, rockets and drones since the last of its anti-air weapons were retired in 2012, and efforts to acquire new ones have remained stuck in neutral for years.
Multiple Army commanders have described the lack of such weapons as a key deficiency for the Canadian military, including defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre, when he was the head of the Army in 2019.
Mom freaks out because a school wouldn't enroll her young child, who she thinks is transgender, as the opposite sex. pic.twitter.com/myRqP2AZs1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 11, 2023
Liberals feared that once Americans focused on Oswald’s communism, there would be no stopping them as they edged toward war with Russia.
WASHINGTON — I am engaged in reading a very fine book by my colleague Paul Kengor. It was written six years ago, so do not feel bad if you missed it. You still have time.
It is called A Pope and a President. It covers the lives of John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, and, as its coverage is chronological, I just read its treatment of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This will be the umpteenth time that I have read about the assassination of JFK, and frankly I did not learn anything more than in earlier accounts. JFK was shot by a lone assailant, the despicable Lee Harvey Oswald. Other presidents have been shot by a lone assailant. In fact, Reagan and John Paul were both shot by lone assailants and fortunately survived. Yet for some reason JFK’s assassination was unique. It set loose a plethora of conspiracy theories for which there are a plethora of believers, probably millions, perhaps worldwide.
When Allison Holthoff entered a crowded Nova Scotia hospital at the end of December, the intense pain in her abdomen worsened with each hour she spent waiting for treatment. With the emergency room under renovations, overwhelmed staff triaged a stream of incoming patients in a makeshift treatment area.
“‘I feel like I’m dying. They’re going to let me die here,’” Holthoff told her husband, Gunther.
Bankruptcy courts are not built for Sam Bankman-Fried’s mess
On january 5th Sam Bankman-Fried turned up at the funeral of his own crypto empire. He lodged a complaint against ftx’s bankruptcy proceedings, demanding $500m in frozen assets earmarked for creditors. Mr Bankman-Fried wants the money in order to pay legal fees for his criminal trial, in which he is accused of sucking billions of dollars of customer deposits from the crypto exchange for his own use (he has pled not guilty).
The demand is an opening salvo in what will be a long, chaotic battle. America’s bankruptcy laws have evolved over centuries to pick apart regular businesses. Now, on the fly, lawyers must work out how to apply them to crypto companies. In November ftx filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, which allows a bankrupt firm to re-organise rather than liquidate. The process usually plays out as a legally refereed tussle between a company and its creditors. The firm, told by a court what it owes, tries to convince lenders to accept stakes in the business rather than cash. If successful, it emerges with less borrowing and a shiny new growth plan. If unsuccessful, it shuts up shop. A big restructuring might have 100 creditors. A long one lasts a year. A complex one takes at least a couple.
Police in riot gear have started to drag climate activists away from an abandoned village in western Germany they have occupied for months.
Protesters barricaded themselves in to prevent Lützerath from being swallowed up by the nearby Garzweiler open coal mine.
Some activists threw stones and pyrotechnics at police officers as they began to clear the camp.
Protesters climbed into treehouses to make the eviction more difficult.
Translation … The “peaceful activists” & the “evil police”. If it weren’t for the stones.
Die „friedlichen Aktivisten“ & die „böse Polizei“. Wären da die Steine nicht. #Lützerath pic.twitter.com/VjL7xz7Qva
— Julius Böhm (@julius__boehm) January 11, 2023
As Jews were hounded out of German universities in the 1930s, where would you have stood? Many of us would like to think we would have found the moral and if necessary physical courage to stand up for our fellow students rather than see them persecuted, bullied, abused and thrown out. Well, now we can actually put our courage to the test as before our eyes we see a re-run of an almost identical pattern of antisemitism — this time at American colleges, with a similar picture at universities in Britain and elsewhere in the West.
A new study by the antisemitism watchdog Amcha Initiative documents a pervasive, relentless assault on Jewish identity at US universities.
Legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck has died aged 78 after ‘suddenly’ contracting bacterial meningitis.
The rock star, who just weeks ago finished touring with Johnny Depp, passed away ‘peacefully’, his family said today.
Progressives “f**king love science.” Just ask them. But it’s an abusive relationship, given that they habitually undermine, harm and degrade the credibility of that which they claim to love. In fact, after climate change, Covid-19 and the ongoing “biology just isn’t good enough for me” drama, science may want to flee to a shelter for battered disciplines.
Order of Canada appointees far less diverse than the population, analysis shows
The 2022 list of appointees to the Order of Canada is far less diverse than the Canadian population and even less diverse than it was in 2021, a new analysis shows.
The Governor General made 184 appointments to the order in 2022. It’s considered one of the country’s highest civilian honours, one which recognizes “people who make extraordinary contributions to the nation,” according to Rideau Hall. Over 7,600 Canadians have joined the order’s ranks since its creation in 1967.
But analysis by retired public servant Andrew Griffith, who served as Canada’s director general of citizenship and multiculturalism, found that last year’s appointees were not representative of the Canadian population.
Flights are grounded all across the USA… but why? Everybody knows the proximate cause, but is there a deeper rot at the FAA and our Department of Transportation?
You bet!
“How could the FAA leave all US domestic flights grounded for the first time since the 9/11 terror attacks?” is the obvious question, after Wednesday’s hot mess at the FAA. Under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a better question might be, “Yes, but were flights grounded with diversity, equity, and inclusion?”
See also … Canada briefly hit with similar aviation outage as U.S. flights ‘gradually’ resume
Seems an odd coincidence.
Hollywood sucks, America knows it, and according to the preliminary numbers, Tuesday’s NBC telecast of the Golden Globe Awards crashed to an all-time low.
Just how much has Woke McCarthyism destroyed award shows by perverting them into pompous lectures?
Hollywood is determined to self-destruct. I won’t stand in their way.
The owner of an art gallery in San Francisco who was caught on camera spraying a homeless woman with a hosepipe has defended his actions.
In footage shared on social media, Collier Gwin, who runs Foster Gwin Gallery in the Financial District, leans against the gate of a restaurant and continues to spray the woman, despite her yelping with discomfort.
Local businesses were quick to condemn his actions, while scores of enraged social media users left dreadful reviews online – causing the gallery’s rating on Google to plunge to just one star.
San Francisco pic.twitter.com/n6XU5CMvQa
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) January 10, 2023
What do people expect to happen when authorities abandon responsibility?
