It is an occupational hazard that people who are granted half a page in a newspaper every day start to think they’re geniuses and everyone else is an idiot. It is almost a relief to be wrong — it suggests the world is working as it should.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Window is closing to stop monkeypox spread, experts say
LONDON – Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will take several months for the outbreak to peak.
WHO Europe has forecast just over 27,000 monkeypox cases in 88 countries by Aug. 2, up from 17,800 cases in nearly 70 countries at the latest count.
Making predictions beyond that are complex, scientists around the world told Reuters, but there is likely to be sustained transmission for several months and possibly longer, they said.
Stephen Harper’s endorsement a boost for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership bid, Conservative Senate leader says
Stephen Harper’s endorsement of Pierre Poilievre for the Conservative Party leadership is a boost for the Ottawa MP that will particularly sway party members who have been on the fence about supporting him, the Conservative Senate leader says.
“So far, this is the biggest and most important endorsement,” Don Plett said in an interview on Tuesday.
But he said it’s a complicated situation. “Conservatives are strong-minded people, and if I had been a supporter of somebody else, I don’t think an endorsement like this would sway my first ballot vote. If I was on the fence, it most certainly would.”
Provinces demand more control over immigration to combat labour shortage
In letter to Ottawa, 4 provinces say they can choose newcomers with ‘greatest chance of success’
Citing a nationwide labour shortage, several provincial immigration ministers say they want more control over the immigration process, and have sent a letter to their federal counterpart calling for change.
Ministers from Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are calling on Sean Fraser, Canada’s minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, to allow their provinces to select more immigrants “with the skills they need most” in a letter sent Tuesday night.
“We need the ability to respond to the rapidly evolving needs of specific areas and communities, with a flexible system that we can adapt to changing economic and humanitarian needs,” the letter states.
In Canada only corporations get a say in immigration policy.
Drag Queen Showdown
Police are forced to escort drag queen to safety after protesters storm ‘story hour’ event at library for three to 11-year-olds and tell ‘woke’ parents: ‘He’s probably teaching their children that there are 100 genders’
Dutch Farmers Resume Protests Against Green Reforms, Dumping Manure, Garbage on Roads
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch farmers resumed protests at government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions Wednesday by dumping manure and garbage on highways and setting fires alongside roads.
Traffic authorities said several roads in the central and eastern Netherlands were completely or partially blocked by the early morning blockades and fire services rushed to clear roads as traffic built up. Cleanup operations were expected to take hours on some roads.
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All HEEL Queen Alessia Russo!
No striker wants to be a super sub, but so far it is working to perfection for England forward Alessia Russo.
The Manchester United player has come off the bench in all of the Lionesses’ Euro 2022 group matches and is now the joint-second top scorer at the tournament.
With four seamless goals, fans are referring to the 23-year-old as ‘Lessi’, likening her to Argentina footballer Lionel Messi – Often considered the best player in the world.
@alessiarusso7, that is #WEUROVision #WEURO2022 @hisensesports pic.twitter.com/i0BMDsxoa9
— UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 (@WEURO2022) July 26, 2022
Hopefully the vid stays up. It is a good goal.
Biden’s Cybersecurity Chief Says NatSec Apparatus Must Focus on ‘Dismantling Systemic Racism’
Is there a single agency in Old Joe Biden’s catastrophic administration that hasn’t been completely corrupted and politicized? Apparently not. On Monday, the White House announced that it appointed Camille Stewart Gloster to the post of Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security; she will lead the Office of the National Cyber Director’s “ongoing efforts to strengthen the security and development of our Nation’s cyber ecosystem — across people, processes, and technology.” That’s great, but Camille Stewart Gloster herself has other priorities in mind: she has repeatedly claimed that the real national security we face is “systemic racism.”
Extreme Policies for Organic Farming Ignore Soil Science: Former USDA Soil Scientist
Under pressure from environmentalists, some governments have implemented extreme nitrogen fertilizer restrictions that ignore the time needed to restore a depleted soil microbiology, resulting in protests from some scientists and farmers who are seeing the concerning impacts of such restrictions.
According to organic farming proponent and former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scientist Kelly Walker, in order to keep the billions of people around the world fed, a paced switch to a hybrid approach is needed over any extreme changes based on an arbitrary number to allow the soil the many years it needs to transition away from chemical fertilizers to a more organic future.
17-Year-Old Boys Don’t Want to Join Woke, Pronoun-Confused Military, Says Rep. Jim Banks
The U.S. military is facing a recruiting nightmare and Republican lawmakers place the blame on the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandates and radical sex and gender policies. Click here to join Todd’s private Facebook page for conservatives.
Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals, multiple U.S. military and defense officials told NBC News.
Law Enforcement Exists To Protect The Vulnerable. The FBI Is Protecting Its Powerful Favorites
The FBI obstructed an investigation into political royalty while that same agency has been deployed against weak enemies of the regime.
An explosive announcement from Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Monday revealed whistleblower claims that the FBI had used a sham investigation to smear the mounting evidence of Hunter Biden’s compromised foreign entanglements as “disinformation” and forestall a legitimate probe ahead of the 2020 presidential election. It’s unthinkable that in America, federal law enforcement is obstructing an investigation into political royalty while that same agency is deployed against enemies of the regime — see Donald Trump in 2016, parents at school board meetings, and a cancer-patient grandmother who was sentenced to jail time for “parading” on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Jihadists of the Caribbean
An Islamist shadow looms over Trinidad
“He’s a truly spiritual person,” Fuad Abu Bakr told me. He was referring to his father, Yasin, the notorious Trinidadian militant who led the first and only Islamist insurrection ever attempted in a Western democracy. We were standing in front of the mosque his father built at 1 Murcarapo Road on the outskirts of Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city, Port of Spain.
Excommunicate Prince Harry, Amish-Style
Time for the Royal Family to take off the velvet gloves.
Prince Harry used to be thought of as the jolly good royal, a “game” guy who never let his quest for adventure get in the way of family loyalty. The ginger prince had no fear about leaving the palace and engaging in edgy military endeavors — even if he occasionally slipped into occasional ‘bad boy’ behavior.
The UK public easily forgave him these slips of impropriety, never forgetting perhaps that he was left motherless as a young boy and that perhaps his bad behavior was due to emotional scars.
Post Office Massacre: Russian Soldiers Shot Five Ukrainian Civilians Seeking To Defend Their Village, Investigation Finds
PEREMOHA, Ukraine — For years, Serhiy Kulyk has been holding onto a plot of land next to his modest house in Peremoha, a village about 60 kilometers northeast of Kyiv.
He hoped his 27-year-old son, Ruslan, would one day build a home on the spot for his own family so they could remain close together.
That dream is gone forever: It died along with Ruslan, one of five civilians whom relatives and residents say were summarily executed by Russian soldiers at a post office in Peremoha shortly after they seized control of the village on February 28, according to an investigation by Schemes.