Do you remember way back when central bankers were telling us that inflation was “transitory?”
Both the Bank of Canada’s Tiff Macklem and Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve used all their official authority and confidence to assure us nearer the start of the pandemic that prices, while rising faster than the two had hoped, would soon stop rising and inflation would go away all on its own. Rate hikes were not needed.
The former intelligence officials who put out a misleading letter suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation rate the most blame in this episode.
The “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social-media company decided to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
This was a woefully stupid decision. The New York Post’s account was suspended for two weeks for the offense of coming up with a scoop that we are still talking about and that will surely play a large role in upcoming GOP investigations into Biden-family corruption.
In China, workers were forced to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves. Nets were hung up to catch the falling bodies.
The largest lockdown uprising in China took place at facilities run by Apple’s Foxconn supplier where workers had previously jumped to their deaths. After thousands fled the Apple gulag, making their way through the woods and rural areas to freedom, other employees battled with Communist authorities over abusive conditions and treatment.
At a moment when China and Iran, two of the world’s most despotic regimes, are being consumed by waves of protests, the Biden administration’s overly cautious approach is sending entirely the wrong signal to those campaigning for freedom and liberty in their respective countries.
In what is being hailed as the largest anti-government protest movement China has experienced since the unrest in 1989 that culminated with the Tiananmen Square massacre, nearly all of China’s major cities have witnessed large crowds taking to the streets to protest against the Communist Party’s dictatorial rule.
New York Times theater critic is accused of ‘casual racism’ and ‘white cultural supremacy’ after scathing review of mostly-asian cast in new Broadway play KPOP
Producers of the Broadway musical KPOP, based on the Korean music genre, have accused The New York Times of publishing a ‘racist’ review that implied ‘white supremacy’.
New York Times theater critic Jesse Green was accused in an open letter of racism in his negative review of the production and asked to issue an apology.
The letter, written by KPOP producers Tim Forbes and Joey Parnes, claimed ‘astonishment’ at The Times’s casual racism and cultural insensitivity.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry arrived by private jet in New York City as they are set to accept an award for their “heroic” efforts to fight racism on Tuesday ahead of the launch of their docuseries Harry & Meghan.
IN early December 2019, in the midst of a measles outbreak, the South Pacific island nation of Samoa ordered a two-day countrywide lockdown to complete a compulsory mass vaccination programme. In a three-month period, nearly three-quarters of Samoa’s 200,000 people were inoculated.
The circumstances surrounding this vaccination campaign, in particular its timing and the use of a lockdown, have given rise to the speculation that SARS CoV-2 (coronavirus) was released during that outbreak using an experimental measles vector Covid vaccine. Measles vector vaccines are measles viruses genetically engineered to contain material from other pathogens.
For awhile now, we’ve been hearing that FBI agents toiling in the fields remain dedicated and pure with none of the Jacobean politics and intrigue seen in the upper echelons.
But a new report from Newsweek, citing anonymous FBI sources, suggests something else is going on…
The FBI is sounding real Strangelove of late.
Many of those now praising the anti-lockdown protesters in China were all too quick to demonise those in the UK.
The recent anti-lockdown protests in China have rightly drawn reams of media coverage and praise in Britain. The bravery of the protesters has been widely acknowledged, as has the tyranny of China’s lockdown regime.
Last week, the protests were hailed by the Guardian as the stirrings of democracy – deserving of our ‘admiration and support’. The BBC approvingly profiled the ‘young people powering the demonstrations’. The Sunday Times similarly praised the ‘bravery’ of the protest movement in the face of a brutal state crackdown. And quite right, too. These protesters are indeed courageous freedom fighters.
For many officials, it’s a topic they won’t touch. When pressed, politicians give memorized, terse and robotic answers.
The verboten subject? Ukraine’s potential NATO membership.
It’s an issue so potentially combustible that many NATO allies try to avoid even talking about it. When Ukraine in September requested an accelerated process to join the military alliance, NATO publicly reiterated its open-door policy but didn’t give a concrete response. And last week, when NATO foreign ministers met, their final statement simply pointed to a vague 2008 pledge that Ukraine would someday join the club.
Let me see if I’ve got this right.
It’s OK for the federal Liberal government to try to sneak the largest gun confiscation in Canadian history into a bill after second reading; lie repeatedly that it’s not targeting law-abiding hunters and farmers (when it very clearly is); then use the anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique shootings as cover to prevent criticism.
San Francisco has closed a drug treatment centre that officials said saved lives but critics warned had operated as an open-air drug market in the heart of the city.
London Breed, the mayor, announced the opening of the Tenderloin Center in January as part of her plan to tackle San Francisco’s drug epidemic, which has attracted international headlines. Already this year more than 500 people have died from overdoses in the city, while last year there were 641 deaths.
Relaxing euthanasia laws in Canada so children can be offered assisted dying would tell sick young people their lives are ‘not worth living’, a campaigner has warned.
Lawmakers in Canada are currently considering whether medical assistance in dying (MAID) should be open to ‘mature minors’ who meet certain criteria.
Mike Schouten, an activist whose son Markus died of cancer earlier this year, said the highly-controversial policy would send the message to patients like his son that caregivers are ‘giving up’ on them.
Canada’s auditor general says that while the federal government effectively delivered emergency COVID-19 benefits during the pandemic, deciding to not front-end verification resulted in $4.6 billion in overpayments to ineligible individuals.
After sending out an estimated $211 billion in COVID-19 aid, a performance audit tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday found that the Canada Revenue Agency and Employment and Social Development Canada are “falling short” when it comes to following through on belatedly verifying recipients’ eligibility.
Absolutely terrifying. This TikToker had a near death experience after Dr. Gallagher of Miami performed a double mastectomy and ignored complications.
Dr. Gallagher is famous for her tiktoks about “yeeting the teets”
Full story here. Extremely graphic. https://t.co/sX8TGJoXwU pic.twitter.com/I2d05Dph8O
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 6, 2022
