This is fantastic. Protesters on video are mocking media for their lazy smears. This includes a bit (in the video) in which a non-white dude claims he’s a white supremacist. People laugh. But a few pearl-clutchers now circulating it as gotcha evidence of…yup…white supremacy! https://t.co/0zri2oNV2G
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) January 31, 2022
Author: Blazingcatfur
Now is the Time for Mass Resignations from Within the Ruling Class
If there is a historical precedent for the truckers’ revolt in Canada, and the populist protests in so many other parts of the world, I would like to know what it is. It surely sets the record for convoy size, and it is historic for Canada. But there is much more going on here, something more fundamental. The two-year imposition of bio-fascist rule by diktat seems ever less tenable – the consent of the governed is being withdrawn – but what comes next seems unclear.
We now have two of the most restrictive “leaders” in the developed world (Justin Trudeau of Canada and Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand) hiding in undisclosed locations, citing the need to quarantine following Covid exposure. Streets globally have filled up with people demanding an end to mandates and lockdowns, calling for accountability, pushing for resignations, denouncing privileged corporations, and crying out for a recognition of basic freedoms and rights.
h/t MartinD2
Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion
Black Lives Matter transferred millions to a Canadian charity run by the wife of its co-founder to purchase a sprawling mansion that had once served as the headquarters of the Communist Party, public records show.
M4BJ, a Toronto-based non-profit set up by Janaya Khan and other Canadian activists, snagged the 10,000 square foot historic property for the equivalent of $6.3 million in cash in July 2021, according to Toronto property records viewed by The Post.
Khan is the wife of Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Foundation Network and a self-avowed Marxist.
WTF?
The anti-freedom people who are triggered by the trucks are getting really desperate. They are putting nails on the ground in the path of the convoy pic.twitter.com/TBqb9ft9XT
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2022
Ottawa mayor would like protesters to move on, but organizers say they’re not going anywhere
The mayor of Ottawa says many residents are reaching a boiling point over protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and public health restrictions, and he wants demonstrators to let the city return to normal. But organizers say they’re willing to stay in the capital for months until their demands are met.
Ottawa’s city centre continues to be filled with the sound of honking and chanting as thousands of truckers and others opposed to the restrictions gathered near Parliament Hill on Sunday for a second full day of protests.
Oh My Just Look At The Desecration!
WTF?
The left is falling apart pic.twitter.com/XFldEPnWFy
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2022
The New Lysenkoism
Scientific American’s broadside against E. O. Wilson fits a fashionable, science-denying trend.
A strange thing is happening to the venerable magazine Scientific American. It has decided to kick its science-loving readers in the teeth and embrace a modern equivalent of Lysenkoism—the doctrine that required Soviet biologists to ignore evolution and the genetics of plants.
Let the Genocide Games Begin!
This Thursday, thousands of athletes from more than 100 nations will arrive in Beijing to participate in the Winter Olympiad, a made-for-TV spectacular.
In 2011, NBC agreed to a $4.38 billion contract with the International Olympic Committee to broadcast the Olympics through the 2020 games, the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. NBC then agreed to a $7.75 billion contract extension in 2014, to air the games through 2032.
Shoplifting kills a Rite Aid — and maybe Manhattan’s comeback chances
Of all the burdens Manhattan has borne this January, the imminent closing of the 24-hour Midtown West Rite Aid hardly qualifies as a tragedy. But the fact that an otherwise-thriving major corporation is giving up on core Manhattan matters for our decaying borough.
The pharmacy, on 8th Avenue and 50th Street, will close Feb. 8. Last week, it was effectively already shuttered, with most of the store cordoned off with gates. Just a small, strange assortment — children’s coloring books jumbled with vitamins — was marooned on front shelves on “clearance.”
Russia and Ukraine: The Sword and the Shield
By the time you read this article, Russian troops may have entered Ukraine or even captured its capital Kiev in a blitzkrieg that would have made Field Marshal von Paulus green with envy. Or, maybe you would witness nothing but more sabre rattling by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The two contrasting possibilities, even if one is closer to a probability, illustrate the fact that no one knows what Putin, the consummate poker player keeping his cards close to his chest, has in mind.
At the risk of ending up with egg on my face, I belong to the group who think there would be no full-scale invasion. To back that assertion one could cite three reasons.
‘Transgender men should be proud of their periods’
Freddie Lewis is a pop musician and poet from Bristol.
He shares his life as a transgender man in his art and on social media, bringing positivity and pride to the trans narrative.
At just 21, Freddie has learned to love and accept his body, including the fact that he occasionally has periods.
Prince Andrew made eight trips to China as a guest of its propaganda unit
Prince Andrew made eight trips to China as a guest of an organisation accused of being a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party’s feared intelligence agency.
During the visits – most made on behalf of his Pitch@Palace business mentoring initiative – the Duke of York heralded closer UK-China co-operation, prompting critics to this weekend accuse him of being a ‘useful idiot’ for Beijing.
The visits, made between 2010 and 2019, were at the invitation of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA).
Pentagon Spox: Claims About Wokeness in the Military ‘Ridiculous‘
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that it was “ridiculous” to claim the U.S. military was too woke.
Anchor Dana Perino asked, “Also, just more back here focusing on some criticism in the U.S. military, that perhaps there’s too much of a leftward tilt, or a wokeness in our military when we face really determined adversaries, committed adversaries in China, Russia, Iran, who maybe don’t have those same kinds of pressures. How do you respond to those criticisms?”
Canada pulling non-essential embassy staff from Ukraine amid Russia threat … will stay with non-essential PM pulled earlier
Canada is pulling non-essential staff from the Canadian embassy in Ukraine as concerns continue to mount over the threat of a Russian incursion.
In a statement on Sunday, Global Affairs Canada said it was temporarily withdrawing non-essential Canadian employees and remaining dependants from the embassy in Kyiv.