Two Alabama women have been given suspended jail sentences last week after feeding stray cats and trapping them so they could be neutered, a common public health intervention to reduce stray numbers.
Beverly Roberts, 85, and Mary Alston, 61, of Wetumpka, Alabama, were sentenced to two years of unsupervised parole and a $100 fine each on Tuesday, reported the Montgomery Advertiser. The women were also given suspended 10-day jail sentences.
Documentary maker Meg Smaker hopes that British film audiences will help her where those in the US could not. Her film The UnRedacted, about ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates undergoing “rehab” in Saudi Arabia, screens this week at an indie cinema in north London, its first British outing since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Given the film’s many rave reviews, a seven-day run at the ArtHouse Crouch End may seem a somewhat low-key release. A clue as to why lies in one of the reviews quotes on the film’s poster. It hails it as a “masterpiece”, but adds: “Don’t let anyone tell you how to feel about it until you see it yourself.”
As the Taliban were taking over Afghanistan, I predicted that Biden would fund the Taliban using “humanitarian aid” as a pretext. Since then, Biden has provided $1.1 billion in Afghan aid.
Despite assurances that the money would not go to the terrorists, the Biden administration issued global licenses authorizing financial transactions with the Taliban and the Al Qaeda allied Haqqani Network that include the “delivery and provision of humanitarian aid”.
h/t Ingenui
The charge of seditious conspiracy is the same as in a recent trial of members of the Oath Keepers militia, but the Proud Boys defendants are accused of a central role in the fighting at the Capitol.
On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, as scores of Proud Boys were getting ready to take their place in a pro-Trump mob outside the Capitol, a leader of the far-right group sent a message to his colleagues.
“I want to see thousands of normies burn that city to ash today,” he wrote.
Almost two years later, the notion that the Proud Boys wanted to provoke violence among the “normies” — or the normal people — in the crowd that day rests at the heart of the government’s case against five members of the group who are facing trial on charges of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol attack.
Expect lengthy sentences as pretext for railroading Trump.
But is there the will?
Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war.
What started as an allegedly rare and ‘kindly’ way to ease the suffering of the terminally ill has ballooned into a government program offering death as an escape from loneliness, depression, or even poverty and homelessness.
The prospect of the new year is always a mix of hope and caution; but as 2023 peers over the horizon, it throws dark and ever deepening shadows over the landscape of human rights in Canada. This coming March, Canada will expand its already shockingly broad MAiD, or Medical Assistance in Dying, law, to make death-on-demand available to Canadians—including so-called ‘mature minors’—suffering from mental illness.
The Canadian experiment with death-on-demand began in 2016. Rupa Subramanya, in a chilling post at Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, recounts how physicians warned from the beginning that the experiment was a reckless one. Dr. Ellen Warner, a professor at the University of Toronto’s medical school, objected to MAiD because “there was no way we would be able to avoid this slippery slope.”
A “silent majority” of car companies is concerned that electric vehicles will not alone be able to end reliance on fossil fuels, according to a senior Toyota executive.
Akio Toyoda, the company’s president and grandson of its founder Kiichiro Toyoda, said that many concerned senior figures are reluctant to say what they really think because of the pressure to go green.
It comes as the industry struggles to ditch petrol and diesel, in the face of materials shortages and complex processes that have kept the cost of building electric cars high
Bureaucratic jargon sucks for everyone — so let’s banish it.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre haș pledged to mandate the use of “plain language” in government if he is elected prime minister. Perplexingly, some critics have found this deeply offensive, going so far as to call it authoritarianism and “mandating newspeak.” Yet progressive governments in other countries have already adopted plain language reforms and seen demonstrable benefits with no significant downsides.
There has been no honeymoon for new Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, an Angus Reid Institute poll suggests.
Poilievre is less popular than former top Tories Andrew Scheer, Erin O’Toole and Stephen Harper in the early days of their leadership.
… NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was viewed more positively than either Trudeau or Poilievre with 47% of those polled having a favourable or very favourable impression of his leadership.
Queer teacher says “they” need to be out as non-binary in the classroom otherwise students might feel unsafe pic.twitter.com/KfAbkpz0d2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 18, 2022
Welcome to Day 4 of Reader Fave Christmas Carols. We have an eclectic collection for you as usual. Leave your faves in the comments and we’ll play them in the run up to he Big Day!
Enjoy!
AMY GRANT “BREATH OF HEAVEN” – from kiki882
Carol of the Bells (for 12 cellos) – The Piano Guys from Surele Surele
Bing Crosby, David Bowie – Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy from PMSTrudeau
And also Christmas Truce of World War I — Joyeux Noel
And… Irish flight delayed so trad session started between DaoiríFarrell, Geoff Kinsella and Robbie Walsh
Steeleye Span – Gaudete from Chris Huber
Let It Be Christmas – from Clink
O Holy Night | Christmas Carols from King’s 2021 – From DavidinNorthBurnaby
Chris de Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling – from Chris Huber
Walking backwards for Christmas from Buzzy Krumhunger
Tchaikovsky “December” … ‘Noël’ from “The Seasons” – From Norman in New York
And also … The Salsoul Orchestra – Christmas Medley
Effective Altruism is ultimately rooted in saviorism
In 1889, Andrew Carnegie, one of the most ruthless industrialists in American history, wrote an essay entitled “The Gospel of Wealth,” which became the moral playbook for the oligarchs of his time on what to do with their fortunes. Carnegie was determined to overcome his reputation as a “robber baron” by becoming one of the greatest philanthropists who ever lived. The “man of wealth,” Carnegie wrote, should “consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer… in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community.” By pledging it all to posterity, he believed he could transform the fortune he had amassed from a totem of private avarice to a monument of civic virtue.
Not exactly, but it certainly raises the possibility. A wide-ranging analysis published to little initial fanfare on December 1 reviewed Medicare data for outcomes for more than 30 million recipients of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine above the age of 65. The first pass of the data showed “statistical signals” to four potential adverse outcomes, but subsequent reviews limited the signal to just one: a potential causal link between this particular vaccine and a type of pulmonary embolism …
1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 19, 2022
