It’s a good thing these two didn’t walk through the Capitol on January 6th. They’d currently be in jail, rather than home confinement, and no one would be asking for leniency on their behalf.
Author: Blazingcatfur
“Calgary Men”
Tarek El-Rafie and brothers Barakat and Talal Amer originally faced a total of 25 attempted murder charges
h/t DM
The white privilege of BLM
Connecticut’s wealthy enclaves reveal the emptiness of anti-racism
For every major metropolis that painted BLACK LIVES MATTER on its streets two years ago, there were huge swathes of America where the whole movement felt like a distant diversion, similar to the current war in Ukraine. You knew it was happening, of course, and who the good guys were. You woke up each morning to fresh footage of this or that inspiring protest (or sometimes, to the news that the marching had devolved overnight into something worse). You worried for the safety of those caught in the conflict and hoped for positive change. But the front, the fighting, was far away.
Tucker Hits Leftists for Blaming Conservatives for Buffalo Shooting
Fox News host Tucker Carlson had to be champing at the bit to get back on television Monday night after having to endure an entire weekend of many in the leftist media blaming him and others for the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday afternoon. When Carlson opened his show Tucker Carlson Tonight, to defend himself and his fellow conservatives, he did not disappoint.
Canadian sniper dodges death in Ukraine: ‘It was pretty much close calls every week’
The fifth floor condo in Irpin, a suburb north of Kyiv, was new and well-furnished, with attractive tile floors and an espresso machine on the kitchen counter.
But the residents had wisely abandoned it and the Canadian sniper known as Wali knew there were scores of Russian soldiers nearby. He warned “Shadow,” his fellow Canadian foreign fighter, not to touch the curtains, a sure signal to the enemy they were inside and potential targets.
Biden’s Unwise Attempts to Save the Iran Deal
The utter futility of the Biden administration’s obsession with reviving the Iran nuclear deal has been laid bare by the latest damning assessment by the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
US President Joe Biden has indicated to Tehran that he is willing to rejoin the deal so long as Iran agrees to fall back into compliance with the terms of the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated by the former Obama administration in 2015.
No Data Supports Threat of ‘White Supremacists’
Joe Biden will use the blood of innocents to paint millions of Americans as “white supremacists” and wannabe terrorists simply for supporting the opposite political party.
Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday, ostensibly to join the upstate New York community in mourning the murders of 10 people at a local grocery store over the weekend. It is, of course, appropriate for Biden in his role as president to grieve with Americans devastated by such a brutal massacre of innocents, especially an attack that from all accounts was racially motivated.
What’s not appropriate is for Biden to use the atrocity as a platform to fuel even more hatred and division in a country ripping apart at the seams in so many ways—but that’s exactly what he will do. The man who launched his 2020 campaign for president touting the lie that Donald Trump commended “very fine” white supremacists after a 2017 protest in Charlottesville can be expected to promote another lie; violent white supremacists and domestic extremists pose a heightened threat to the country.
Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources
Vladimir Putin has become so personally involved in the Ukraine war that he is making operational and tactical decisions “at the level of a colonel or brigadier”, according to western military sources.
The Russian president is helping determine the movement of forces in the Donbas, they added, where last week the invaders suffered a bloody defeat as they tried on multiple occasions to cross a strategic river in the east of Ukraine.
The sources added that Putin is still working closely with Gen Valery Gerasimov, the commander of the Russian armed forces, in contrast to claims made by Ukraine last week that the military chief had been sidelined.
Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol, new prime minister says
Sri Lanka’s new prime minister says the country is down to its last day of petrol as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years.
In a televised address, Ranil Wickremesinghe said the nation urgently needs $75m (£60.8m) of foreign currency in the next few days to pay for essential imports.
He said the central bank would have to print money to pay government wages.
Mr Wickremesinghe also said state-owned Sri Lankan Airlines may be privatised.
Sri Lanka is in real chaos. Hungry residents are literally preying on wealthy residents and officials, burning their homes and cars. The police open fire to kill. More than 200 people have already been killed. pic.twitter.com/SBdXTsXpnE
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) May 16, 2022
Rex Murphy: Don Cherry’s cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada
I wish to speak of the venerable, Mr. Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game from that singular podium there was no other individual Canadian broadcaster who commanded so large and loyal an audience. From the smallest, most remote village to the most crowded cities, old and young, everyone knew Don Cherry.
Monarchists criticize Canada’s ‘lacklustre’ and ’embarrassing’ Platinum Jubilee plans
Monarchists in Canada say they’re disappointed with what they call the federal government’s “lacklustre” plans to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, an event that honours the sovereign’s remarkable seven-decade reign.
Monarchists say the federal government’s “indifference” to this historic event — which they see in the shortage of officials events, the lack of a jubilee medal to celebrate community service and a limited three-day royal tour by Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall — amounts to an insult to the Queen’s legacy.
Mariupol: Hundreds of besieged Ukrainian soldiers evacuated
Ukraine has confirmed that hundreds of its fighters trapped for more than two months in Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks have been evacuated.
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said 53 badly wounded soldiers were taken to the town of Novoazovsk, held by Russian-backed rebels.
She said another 211 were evacuated using a humanitarian corridor to Olenivka – another rebel-held town.
Russia earlier said a deal had been reached to evacuate the injured troops.
WTF?
#Russia: Why it is unwise to take items from the battlefield: Today, a Swedish Pansarskott 86 (AT-4) launcher exploded in the truck of a civilian car- not in UA, but in Mytishchi, Russia.
It was taken from the battlefields of E. Ukraine- perhaps as a souvenir or for sale. pic.twitter.com/OohtR3ExeJ
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 17, 2022
Buffalo suspect may be latest mass shooter motivated by ‘eco-fascism’
Buffalo suspect allegedly calls himself ‘eco-fascist’ and blames migration for harm to the environment in document posted online
The suspected perpetrator of the deadly shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday may have been the latest mass killer to be motivated by a growing fixation of rightwingers – environmental degradation and the impact of overpopulation.
Funny how the left’s preferred radicals get a pass on their plans for mass murder… Extinction Rebellion is way more radical than you think – By any reasonable measure, the group’s platform would kill untold millions if implemented
So how does that square with unfettered “migration.”
The Guardianista’s are playing every angle to paint the Buffalo shooter as right wing when in fact he declared himself to be of the “mild-moderate authoritarian left” in his silly manifesto. Sorry boys he’s one of yours.
Let’s fact-check a federal Liberal claim on affordability
There was a clash between reality and the federal Liberal Twitter account last week. The self-congratulatory tweet claimed Liberals have been “making life more affordable” since 2015.
When Canadians look at gas prices, grocery store receipts and mortgage payments, that claim might raise some eyebrows. Does life feel more affordable now than it did seven years ago?
Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner victim of Etobicoke carjacking
“It happened at the Cineplex theatre on The Queensway,” said a police source.
My neck of the woods. It’s good to drive an undesirable vehicle!