Facebook, Reddit Ban Pro-Cop Comic That Broke No Platform Rules

Comics legend Mike Baron and his pro-cop comic book “Thin Blue Line” are unwelcome on Facebook or Reddit, despite not breaking any of the rules stated on either platform. Facebook has so far blocked all attempts by Baron and his team to use Facebook ads. The largest comic book social media page, the “r/comics” subreddit, which has more than 1.7 million subscribers, has now blocked all posts about Baron’s comic, and, it seems, this author.

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Portland offered to rehire dozens of recently retired police officers, only 2 expressed interest

Watching the city of Portland gradually come to terms with reality has been a long, painful process. After jumping onboard the “defund the police” bandwagon and watching dozens of officers retire or resign, shootings and murders skyrocketed in the city. Suddenly, the mayor reversed course and started talking about refunding the police and putting back together the Gun Violence Reduction Team he had disbanded, albeit under a different name.

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The disarray of the West

The Russia-Ukraine crisis has exposed the fraying of the Western alliance.

Representatives of the ‘West’, from the US and NATO to the European powers, all dialled in to Monday’s confab to discuss the Ukraine crisis. US president Joe Biden emerged afterwards determined to put on a united front. ‘I had a very, very, very good meeting’, he said, adding, ‘total unanimity with all the European leaders’.

This is at best wishful thinking. If anything, the Russia-Ukraine confrontation has exposed precisely the absence of unanimity among members of the Western alliance. Each nation and each institution has signally pursued its own divergent objectives, often negotiating and talking to Moscow independently, and, in the process, crossing wires, muddying waters and taking us further away from any realistic solution.

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Last living signer of Canadian constitutional charter of rights sues government over COVID travel ban

The last living drafter and signatory of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the highest law of the land, is suing the Canadian federal government over its travel ban for the unvaccinated.

Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford, 79, is the main applicant in a case brought against the federal government by the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, according to a press release.

“It is becoming more obvious that being vaccinated does not stop people from getting Covid and does not stop them from spreading it,” the former premier said in a statement. “The government has not shown that the policy makes flying safer—it simply discriminates.”

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Kelly McParland: The West’s clean energy push empowered Russia and China

The gospel on climate change has been that, first and foremost, fossil fuels must go.

Coal, oil, gas (liquefied or otherwise)… out, out out. Close the oilsands, cancel the pipelines, end the fracking, get rid of the nuclear plants while you’re at it. The imperative is all about ridding the world of supply, getting us off our existing addictions, whether or not there was an alternative available to take its place. It was taken for granted … or on blind faith … that the alternatives would be there. Technology would advance, innovation would flourish. Just get rid of the bad stuff and we’ll worry about supplying the good stuff later. It’ll work, I promise you. We can do this! No more coal! No more coal!

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Amir Abdulrahman sentenced to five years for death of Calgary police officer

The passenger in the SUV which dragged Calgary police Sgt. Andrew Harnett to his death during a routine New Year’s Eve traffic stop in 2020 was handed a five-year prison term Friday.

Amir Abdulrahman, 20, pleaded guilty in December to a reduced charge of manslaughter in connection with the New Year’s Eve death of Harnett, who was dragged more than 400 metres along the side of a vehicle he’d pulled over for inadequate headlights. Abdulrahman had been charged with first-degree murder.

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Halyna Hutchins’ estate edges closer to filing wrongful death lawsuit in ‘Rust’ shooting

Halyna Hutchins’ family is one step closer to filing a wrongful death lawsuit after the cinematographer was shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the set of “Rust” last October, court records show.

A Sante Fe, New Mexico, attorney filed a petition Wednesday asking the court to appoint her as the personal representative of Hutchins’ estate “solely for the purpose of investigating and pursuing a lawsuit under the New Mexico Wrongful Death Act,” the records show.

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British ‘hitman’ found guilty of plotting to kill Pakistani activist

A British “hitman” has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands.

A court in London heard Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year.

However he failed to track his target down, and was arrested on his return to the UK.

Now a jury has given a unanimous guilty verdict of conspiracy to murder and he is set be sentenced in March.

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The Houthis Belong on the Terrorist List: The ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ Manipulation

The U.S. and the international community can no longer ignore or reward the malign behavior of Iran or the Houthis.

International pressure is growing to redesignate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), but pushback is emerging from humanitarian groups who fear it could exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The concerns of these groups are not unfounded, but failure to relist the Houthis will not address the underlying, root cause of the issue — Iran’s destabilizing effects on the Middle East executed in concert with its terrorist proxies, which include the Houthis.

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Police on guard against ‘lone wolf individuals’ as protest convoy arrives in Ottawa

Ottawa’s police chief says officials are on guard against “social media actors” and “lone wolf individuals” who might try to infiltrate this weekend’s convoy protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Members of a protest organizers call the Freedom Convoy steadily streamed into the nation’s capital Friday as various groups from across the country prepared to rally against the federal government’s vaccination mandate for all cross-border drivers, which came into effect earlier this month.

At least hundreds more were expected throughout the day and over the weekend, and Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly says authorities weren’t sure how large the rally would be.

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