Canada’s Emergencies Act is culturally and historically significant to the nation.
Its previous iteration, the War Measures Act, was invoked only three times.
Two of those were during the First and Second World Wars.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Winston Marshall: Quitting Mumford & Sons to Speak Out Against Antifa and Far Left Violence “Let Me Keep My Integrity, My Dignity and My Soul”
Former Mumford & Sons lead guitarist Winston Marshall sensationally quit the band last year after deciding that being able to speak his mind on opposing Antifa and the violent Far Left was more important than keeping his career by kowtowing to the censorious wokerati. Now forging a new career as an anti-woke culture warrior, he says that looking back, he made the right decision as it allowed him to keep “my integrity, my dignity and most importantly my soul”.
Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand from Mohammedan terror attack, says agent
Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack he suffered while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York state two months ago, his agent has confirmed.
The 75-year-old author, who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s after his novel The Satanic Verses was published, was stabbed in the neck and torso as he came on stage to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institution on 12 August.
The West Turns Its Back on Persecuted Christians, Embraces Radical Muslims
Western authorities appear committed to discriminating against Christian asylum seekers, while welcoming Muslims ones.
Most recently, Germany — which has taken in millions of refugees from the Muslim world, including many, non-vetted, from Afghanistan — denied refuge to an Iranian convert to Christianity, known by the initials “H.H.,” whose brother-in-law had been imprisoned, tortured and killed after converting in their native Iran. According to a report from August 2
Politburo Standing Committee: Who are the men that rule China now?
The Chinese Communist Party has finally unveiled the men who will rule China for the next five years.
The Politburo Standing Committee is China’s equivalent of the presidential cabinet.
It is considered the elite of the elite within the party, and getting to the top often requires not only a stellar political track record, but also deft manoeuvring of internal rivalries.
It is not unusual to see big reshuffles of the Standing Committee after a term ends, and this time it is no different.
The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees
… Now spool forward to November 2015 when Nohemi Gonzalez, a young American studying in Paris, was gunned down in a restaurant by the Islamic State terrorists who murdered 129 other people that night. Her family sued Google, arguing that its YouTube subsidiary had used algorithms to push IS videos to impressionable viewers, using the information that the company had collected about them. Their petition seeking a supreme court review argues that “videos that users viewed on YouTube were the central manner in which IS enlisted support and recruits from areas outside the portions of Syria and Iraq which it controlled”.
The key thing about the Gonzalez suit, though, is not that YouTube should not be hosting IS videos (section 230 allows that) but that its machine-learning “recommendation” algorithms, which may push other, perhaps more radicalising, videos, renders it liable for the resulting damage. Or, to put it crudely, while YouTube may have legal protection for hosting whatever its users post on it, it does not – and should not – have protection for an algorithm that determines what they should view next.
Or bring free speech to its knees.
Today in History: Muslims Worship Allah Atop 2,400 Decapitated Christian Heads
Today in history, a battle that radical Muslims of the ISIS variety all but venerate took place between Muslims and Christians in Spain, or al-Andalus.
Context: in 1085, Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile captured the Muslim city of Toledo, thereby formally initiating the Reconquista. Great was the lamentation among Muslims and great the rejoicing among Christians. The Muslim emirs of al-Andalus—notorious for their disunity, dissipated lifestyles, and disinterest in jihad—had to act fast, for “the arrogance of the Christian dogs,” to quote one Muslim, had “waxed so great.”
Remembering Hill 355 — a forgotten battle in an almost forgotten war
The moment from the Korean War that sticks with retired lieutenant-colonel Brian Simons happened at the beginning of the Battle of Hill 355 — a now largely forgotten struggle in an often overlooked war.
A young signaller attached to the Royal Canadian Regiment, Simons — a newly minted lieutenant at the time — was up on the rocky hillside at a battalion outpost when Chinese artillery and mortars opened up with their first deafening barrage.
The drug trade has wrecked Amsterdam
Soft policies caused disorder and violent crime
“It’s fine on the other side, it’s fine on the other side!” sing five rowdy, dancing Brits, to the tune of the Pet Shop Boys’ “Go West”. On the other side of the 14th century Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal, a cluster of partying men yodel back. It is midnight on a Friday in the heart of Amsterdam’s De Wallen district, and I am on a reconnaissance tour with Amsterdam’s Night Watch.
Ol’ Man River is Not Rolling Along
If you think the price of energy and food has reached the limit, I have bad news for you: All signs are it’s going to be much worse. Hot Air described the coming supply chain wreck.. Water levels on the Mississippi are tied with an all-time low. And that portends a bitter winter for consumers…
Net Zero Bombshell: The World Does Not Have Enough Lithium and Cobalt to Replace All Batteries Every 10 Years
Influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero – witness last Wednesday’s substantial vote against fracking British gas in the House of Commons – or busy scooping up the almost unlimited amounts of money currently on offer for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impracticable green technologies. Until the lights start to go out and heating fails, they are unlikely to pay much attention to a recent 1,000 page alternative energy investigation undertaken for a Finnish Government agency by Associate Professor Simon Michaux. Referring to the U.K.’s 2050 Net Zero target, Michaux states there is “simply not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target”.
h/t SDMATT
Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy slams Russian ‘dirty bomb’ claims
In his daily video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Moscow’s claims that Ukraine was preparing provocations with the use of a “dirty bomb”, as suggested by Russia’s defense minister during telephone calls with NATO counterparts.
“If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means one thing: Russia has already prepared all this. I believe that now the world should react as harshly as possible,” Zelenskyy said.
The Ukrainian president also said that only Russia was capable of using nuclear weapons in Europe.
Blackouts: another dark consequence of Net Zero
Energy rationing is an integral feature of the green agenda.
The way he announced it spoke volumes. On Monday, John Pettigrew, head of the National Grid, warned that Britain could face blackouts when the weather turns ‘really, really cold’ this winter. If energy supply fails to meet household demand, blackouts would have to be imposed between 4pm and 7pm on the ‘deepest, darkest evenings’ of January and February, he said. So we may be reaching for our candles on winter evenings next year. This would be a bleak midwinter indeed.
Military recruiting issues may be ‘more serious’ than senior ranks letting on: Hillier
As the Canadian Armed Forces grapples with how to boost recruitment amid growing global dangers, a former chief of the defence staff is warning that the situation might be even worse than the top brass are letting on.
Current Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre has warned in recent weeks that, due to recruitment issues, Canada does not have the military “that we need” to tackle future threats — and that readiness within the CAF is “going down.”
Anand’s PR people must have dictated this article. It never mentions the CAF is now “Uber woke” and instead blames everything and anything including of course “right wing extremists” for the shortfall.
Never mentioned but reported elsewhere is that young white males, formerly the armed forces primary source of recruits, have ceased to sign up.
There’s nothing appealing about being sent to Club Ed for mispronouning a bitchy “superior” officer who’s complaining of PMS even though they have a penis said young white males everywhere.
WTF?
This is Jessica Schwinn. She’s running for school board in Centennial School District, MN. She says that white people who quote MLK are racist and upholding white supremacy pic.twitter.com/bidbzRZVbL
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