Chinese internet authorities are trying to block a popular video highlighting the impact of Shanghai’s five-week lockdown on its residents.
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Surge In Germans Migrating to South America to Escape Muslim Migrants
Paraguay is seeing a surge in German migrants, fleeing Islamic migrants in their own country and onerous coronavirus restrictions.
“We have a problem in Germany with Muslims,” said one of the exiles, adding: “Islam and vaccinations are big, big problems in this world.”
The city stopping the fall of south Ukraine
Scarred yet defiant, Mykolaiv will decide the future of the war
Mykolaiv, Ukraine
The lady burrows into the earth. Swathed in blue plastic to protect her against the rain, she pats the soil and digs into it with her hands. She won’t speak to me, but allows me to watch as she tends to her plants and flowers in a patch of soil outside a block of flats in central Mykolaiv.
Peter Menzies: Twitter Joins Wave of Opposition to Liberals’ Attempts to Regulate Internet
Canada’s first efforts to create an Online Harms Act were described by Twitter as alarmingly similar to those employed by China, North Korea, and Iran.
“The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the (proposed) Digital Safety Commissioner to block websites is drastic,” states Twitter’s 2021 response to the Department of Heritage’s proposed legislation.
“People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments (China, North Korea, and Iran for example) under the false guise of ‘online safety,’ impeding peoples’ rights to access information online,” it continued.
Pro-war memes, Z symbols and blue and yellow flags: Russian influencers at war
Dasha smirks at the camera and says in a baby voice: “Hi, I missed you all.” It is 11 March, a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, and the blond 19-year-old Moscow-based influencer with 126,000 Instagram followers is posting to her stories. “I wasn’t on social media for over a week and I want to talk about my news and the news of the world,” she says.
After taking a weekend trip to a friend’s dacha in the countryside, Dasha posts videos of her friends laughing, making pancakes or playing party games. The atmosphere is warm, the alcohol flowing. The next tile shows Dasha looking solemnly at her phone. “I was constantly watching the news to understand what was going on in the world and one thought wouldn’t escape my mind …” she writes. Next tile: “Maybe I should leave Russia?” in bold red letters. In smaller black text underneath, she elaborates: “At least for a little bit of time, until the situation calms down and we have a better understanding.” There is a question box for followers to answer: “What do you think about this?”
Why Is the Biden Administration Determined to Help Terrorist Iran Get a Bomb?
Why would any administration in its right mind permit an official state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, to have nuclear weapons, as well as billions of dollars that will assuredly not be used for a “GI Bill for returning members of the Revolutionary Guard”?
Just this week, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called Iran, a “sponsor of terrorism.”
Don’t bother asking Joe.
‘Do you want to watch The Mandalorian or extra Brian Stelter?’ Axed CNN+ staffer ridicules flop streamer’s ‘dregs’ content
A CNN+ worker has branded his own network’s shows ‘the dregs’ of the network – as media reporter Brian Stelter raised eyebrows by questioning whether it was really a flop.
On Friday – a day after the three week-old streamer was axed after wasting $300 million – one disgruntled former CNN+ employee told Fox News the venture was always ill-conceived.
DeSantis: Bill to End Disney Autonomy a Rejection of ‘Woke Garbage in Our Society‘
Friday on FNC’s ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) discussed his state government’s decision to eliminate Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, which gave the multinational corporation the ability to self-govern.
The Florida Republican governor said the repeal of the powers came as a response to his constituents rejecting “woke garbage in our society.”
Advocates want a feminist spending review as feds insist no social-program cuts
The Liberal government is insisting that the goal of an upcoming federal spending review is not to slash social programs, while gender-equality advocates want to make sure it is done with women and marginalized people in mind.
The federal government’s latest budget released earlier this month announced the launch of a spending review of its programs and policies
The review is meant to find savings of $6 billion over five years and $3 billion annually by 2026.
Thieves ransack Ohio Louis Vuitton store of $140,000 of designer goods in just minutes
A horde of thieves stole ‘every item on the showroom floor’ of a Louis Vuitton store in Ohio on Wednesday, making off with more than $140,000 in merchandise in just minutes.
Shortly after 3 pm, eight to 10 people clad in ski masks and gloves were dropped off at the entrance to the Kenwood Towne Centre in Kenwood, Ohio, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
Child Separations at the Border Are Okay Again!
The separation of children at the border has been going on for years. Heck, it happened throughout Obama’s presidency, and no one cared. The 2008 law dictating the separation of adults and children at the border was designed to prevent sex trafficking of minors, but that was suddenly a bad thing once Trump took office.
Washington Post: A Chinese lab identified COVID in December 2019 but the government kept it quiet
The Washington Post editorial board has a detailed story about a laboratory in Guangzhou, China which was one of the first in the country to genetically sequence COVID-19. The lab had been sent a sample from a hospitalized patient in Wuhan who had some kind of lung infection. A researcher at the lab saw the sequencing results and recognized it as a variant of SARS on December 26, 2019.
Mychailo Wynnyckyj: Pope Francis has wronged Ukraine. May God help us all
KYIV, Ukraine — I was baptized a Ukrainian Catholic. My wife and I were married in a Ukrainian Catholic Church in Kyiv, and our children were all baptized in this faith as well. Our church has a Patriarch (i.e. a separate hierarchy from Roman Catholics), but we recognize the spiritual supremacy of the Pope. In Ukraine, the Ukrainian Catholic Church follows the Julian calendar which means Easter will be celebrated on Sunday.
WARMINGTON: Tolerating drug use on TTC ensures violence remains a risk
There is a metal box placed on the wall of the bathrooms that most wouldn’t even notice.
Intravenous drug users, though, know what it’s for.
Even the shiny new $824-million Union Station transit hub subtly offers a hint of the problem authorities have no answer for. Drug use is common on TTC and GO properties. When you have that you will also have crime, overdoses, unstable behaviour and, of course, danger.