After Mar-a-Lago, the middle ground has been plundered
Thursday 22 May 1856, was a sunny, sleepy day in Washington, D.C. As Preston Brooks, the Democratic Representative from South Carolina’s Fourth District, strolled into the Senate chamber, the air felt hot and heavy. The Senate’s business had wound down; the galleries had almost emptied. Brooks glanced up, and waited for the last spectators to leave. It was important, he thought, that no ladies were present to watch what he had planned.
Hydro One says it is investigating an issue affecting power to Toronto Hydro and its downtown customers on Thursday.
The hydro company tweeted about the outage just before 1 p.m.
“We’re currently experiencing a large outage in downtown Toronto and working together with Hydro One to address it,” Toronto Hydro said.
It was back on New Year’s Day 2008 that Yaser Said brutally murdered his two daughters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, in Irving, Texas. On Tuesday, he was finally convicted of capital murder and received an automatic life sentence. But throughout the trial and all the coverage it received, it was clear that virtually no one is willing to tell the truth about why Said killed his daughters, or to face the unpleasant reality that murders of this kind could quite easily happen again in America.
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch filed suit in a federal court demanding that the Department of Justice unseal the search warrant that formed the legal basis for the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Largo;
“Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President Biden,” the group’s motion stated.
Riots resulting from gas shortages would make anti-lockdown protests look like a “children’s birthday party”, one official has said.
Gas shortages in Germany brought about by a combination of long-term government mismanagement and Russia’s war in Ukraine are likely to prompt mass riots that will make previous anti-lockdown demos look like a “children’s birthday party”, an official has claimed.
A new survey finds more Canadians report a strong attachment to their primary language than to other markers of identity, including the country they call home.
The survey, which was conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, found 88 per cent of respondents reported a strong sense of attachment to their primary language, whereas 85 per cent reported the same for Canada.
There’s a reason that you don’t kick a (metaphorical) sleeping giant. It’s a big mistake.
Raiding the private home of President Donald Trump was like kicking that sleeping giant. If people weren’t already fired up to come out to kick the Democrats out, this just made them more energized to do so.
Jagmeet Singh is making rumbling noises. The NDP leader is beginning to sound like a person who has doubts about his closest political ally and his deal with him.
How shall we interpret this? For, there are two Jagmeets. Which Jagmeet is at play here?
A 21-year-old man says he is in a ‘very depressed state’ having been sent to fight against his wishes as parents file complaints to watchdog
Russian soldiers have complained to the military watchdog about being tricked into joining the frontline in Ukraine, a massive leak on Wednesday revealed.
A trove of complaints from troops and their relatives sent to the Russian Military Prosecutor’s Office and obtained by Bellingcat and The Insider revealed what appears to be a wide-spread practice of forcing and tricking soldiers into going to Ukraine.
One unnamed soldier said he was away on military drills on a warship off the Syrian coast when “we were tricked into going to Ukraine: no one asked me if I wanted to take part in the special military operation,” the man said, using the Kremlin’s term for the invasion.
Three American oil scions have been bankrolling mobs of eco-zealots who have terrorized the world by slashing tires, blocking traffic and attacking firms.
Aileen Getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case, who are heirs to their families’ huge fortunes, are paying the salaries for thugs through their non-profits in an apparent bid to offset their relatives’ legacies.
Getty, whose grandfather created Getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million through her California-based Climate Emergency Fund.
Since we last checked in on the Congressional hearings involving the Pentagon’s UFO investigation office, there have been several additional developments. (Yes, I know. We’re supposed to say UAP now for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, but I refuse to comply.) The public congressional hearing held by the House Intelligence Committee in May was encouraging in terms of being more open with the public, but somewhat disappointing in the lack of substance.
Most unaffordable housing, highest cellphone bills and worst rate of acute care beds, to name a few
Lou Kuiack, a mother of two living in Alberta, filled out her voting ballot for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leadership race but originally waited before sending it in the mail.
Why? The fact that the return envelope is addressed to Deloitte, which identifies as “long-standing strategic partner” of the World Economic Forum (WEF), made her “uneasy” and she was still searching for “answers” at the time of her interview with the National Post.
Shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau predicted it would be the impetus for the world to move faster towards replacing fossil fuel energy with green energy.
Trudeau has a brain made of shit.
