There is a war going on — against the diesel engine. It is being waged not because the diesel engine is a “threat” to the “climate.” It is being waged because the diesel engine is a threat — to the electric car. The forces pushing the latter use the manufactured “threat” of a “climate crisis” to attack the diesel engine (and also diesel fuel) precisely because it is a threat … to them and their agenda.
A special counsel with a background in war crimes has been appointed to carry out criminal investigations into Donald Trump over his role in the January 6 riot and his retention of government documents.
Jack Smith, specialist prosecutor for Kosovo war crimes who has served at the International Criminal Court investigating crimes against humanity, was named special counsel by Merrick Garland, the US attorney-general.
As Winston Churchill pointed out, “I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction”.
The Biden administration’s inaction has only been legitimizing the Iranian regime’s savage crackdown on its population, and sending a message to the Iranian people that Washington does not stand with them or with their aspirations for establishing a democratic system of governance; rule of law and justice; freedom of speech, of the press and of assembly; and human rights for all.
November 19 – Paveh, western #Iran
More footage of regime security forces fleeing from protesting locals who are continuing the nationwide protests against the mullahs on the 65th day of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#مرگ_بر_ستمگر_چه_شاه_باشه_چه_رهبر pic.twitter.com/ALm6hn8iFc— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 19, 2022
Singapore achieves housing affordability through differentiated citizenship rights and restricted foreign ownership.
If you’re Canadian, you might feel envious learning the quest for affordable housing is basically a success for many of the 5.7 million people of Singapore.
That is not a story you hear often, or at all, in Canada, especially not in Greater Toronto, Metro Vancouver or Victoria, three of the world’s more unaffordable cities.
“I am like a broken record, I know. But when you are right, and desperate to fill up those time slots Ed Morrissey keeps assigning me to fill, you have to keep churning out the content. Besides, I think I churn out pretty darn good content that is worth reading. So there.”
A Colchester man who goes by the name ‘the Gimp Man of Essex’ has criticised his Somerset doppelganger for giving the “whole gimp community a bad reputation”. The social media personality is well-known in his local area where he is seen doing his weekly shop in Tesco, clad head-to-toe in black latex.
Under the handle @GimpManofEssex, he even posted images of his travels and shared them with surprised bystanders on social media. He has been visiting his village harmlessly for the past nine years the Mirror reports. He has to appear as “normal as possible” when he is out, but other gimps haven’t always abided by the same standards.
Two of the four slain University of Idaho students called a mystery man 10 times shortly before their murder, according to the sister of one of the victims.
Kaylee Goncalves made the calls beginning at around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 13, her sister Alivea told Inside Edition Friday.
“Kaylee calls [the man] six times between 2:26 a.m. and 2:44 a.m…. then Kaylee makes a final call to him at 2:52 a.m.,” Alivea said.
Two girls left untouched upstairs, no 911 call till 9 hours later. Lots of odd here.
Michelle Obama put up with a lot from a “downright mean” country she never could be proud of until it elected her husband POTUS. But we’re still learning how hellish her eight years in the White House really was.
In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres about her new book The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama said, “As black women we deal with it, the whole thing about do you show up with your natural hair? … As First Lady, I did not wear braids. Being the first – yeah, we had to ease up on the people … I was like, it would be easier. Nope, nope. They’re not ready.”
A library in the multicultural city of Malmo, Sweden claims to have received death threats following a story time performance by a pair of drag queens that took place last month.
An unnamed city library employee received the alleged death threat after a drag queen storytime performance by the drag queens ‘Lady Busty’ and ‘Miss Shameless’ at the end of last month.
A video has emerged from the front line in eastern Ukraine showing the surrender of a group of soldiers in an incident that appears to end in their deaths.
Russia has reacted to the footage, accusing Ukraine of executing Russian prisoners of war, which would be a war crime. Ukraine has not yet responded to the allegations.
Crazy – both sides are claiming victimhood.
⚡️The captured Russian soldiers are shot by one of their own comrades to prevent them from becoming prisoners of war. 2/2.
That is one solution, but it is a crime!
🔎@Militarylandnet#Hungary #DenesTorteli #Ukraine 🇭🇺❤️🇺🇦👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/02hEOOSc7u
— Dénes Törteli 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇦 (@DenesTorteli) November 18, 2022
In July 2021, when ‘vaccine passports’ were still a crazy conspiracy theory, I wrote an article for The Spectator Australia arguing that Australia must not become a checkpoint society based on proof of Covid vaccination. To allow such tyranny would be illiberal and draconian, and contradict everything that the Liberal Party, as conceptualised by Sir Robert Menzies, stood for.
Not long after that article was written, many unvaccinated Australians were barred from public places, doctors’ clinics, hospitals, and even from working because they turned down the jab. Our health bureaucracies and state premiers told us that this was essential for our safety to ‘stop the spread’.
As Highway 27 winds around Calcasieu Lake in southwest Louisiana, massive storage tanks tower over the wetlands in what is shaping up to be a new global epicentre for exports of liquefied natural gas.
Near the town of Hackberry, Cameron LNG is eyeing expansion of its already-huge terminal, which opened in 2019.
No surprises here. Canada gives in to a few eco-fanatics every time.
In his 12 years in the frontier service, Bohdan Hotskiy saw many wild places. He thought his home, Ukraine, was the most beautiful country in the world: it had sea and mountains, forests and steppes, marshes and lakes. All was perfect, and so complete that Hotskiy – a 29-year-old captain – never felt the inclination to go abroad. Why bother? “We have everything,” he tells me when we meet in the Ukrainian town of Izmail, close to the border with Romania.
It is high summer. We sit outside on a bench in a central park, not far from the Danube River and Izmail’s port. Hotskiy is dressed in military uniform and holds a Kalashnikov. He is a modest and diffident person, tall and a little awkward, his dark hair receding into an arrow shape. At times Hotskiy seems reluctant to talk about his recent experiences, giving staccato answers to my questions. His story is remarkable, a tale of survival and dispossession.
There is “nothing more precious” than when your son dies as “a Martyr for the homeland.”
That is what the Palestinian Authority (PA) expects parents to feel when their children are killed during their terror attacks, and that is the message the PA expects parents to publicly declare and pass on to others.
OTTAWA – Cabinet ministers did not exhaust every option they had to resolve the protests blockading Ottawa streets and border crossings across the country last winter before turning to the Emergencies Act, a federal inquiry heard Friday.
Thousands of protesters rolled into Ottawa in big rigs and other vehicles to voice their opposition to COVID-19 public health restrictions and the Liberal government.
After the first weekend, it became clear the protesters did not plan to leave downtown Ottawa, where they set up camps in the middle of city streets. That’s when cabinet convened to review what the federal government could do to end the protests, said Jacqueline Bogden, the government’s deputy secretary on emergency preparedness.
