I’m in Vienna on day one of the world’s first lockdown for only the unvaccinated.
At first glance it seems like an ordinary, if rather grey, November day — perhaps with slightly fewer people out and about than you might expect. Medical-grade masks are much in evidence, and there are queues outside all the testing centres (a negative test is an accepted alternative to vaccination).
But this is no ordinary day.
I’m not sure how popular bowling is these days, but my wife and I went recently and had a great time. There might even be real-life lessons one can glean from the game — like the reset button.
This is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/bXVPmWOllz
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 11, 2021
Facing Some Hard Truths Twenty years after 9/11, is its leadership about anything more than Washington’s revolving door and huge contracts?
When USMC Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller first got news that an explosion had rocked one of the gates at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26, killing 13 U.S. service members and 169 Afghan civilians, he decided to post a YouTube video with his reaction — knowing it could kill his 17-year career and current post as a Marine advanced infantry battalion commander.
“I’m making this video because I have a growing disconnect and contempt for perceived ineptitude at the policy level,” said Scheller, donned in his Marine fatigues and looking a bit shell shocked. “The reason people are so upset right now … they are upset that senior leaders let them down and no one is raising their hands and saying we messed this up.”
John Durham has indicted three people but he may break our hearts yet
“… So far, anyway (and this brings me to the heartbreaking part of the narrative) all of Durham’s three indictments suggest that, as McCarthy puts it, “the FBI was duped, not that the bureau intentionally lied to the court.” That’s not what I want to hear, nor is it what I think is true. That is, I think that the FBI is an institution that is out of control. I believe it has become thoroughly politicized and is in effect a tool of the Democratic establishment. The fact that the Biden administration just turned it loose on Project Veritas because the group may have had Ashley’s Biden diary is only the latest example of its weaponization as a sort of geheime Staatspolizei. Why is the FBI involved in recovering a private document of no national security import? In my view, the FBI does not need to be reformed. It needs to be dismantled and replaced.”
Kevin Donovan’s car was stolen from his driveway in Toronto. It was tracked to a Halifax port, bound for the Middle East
“… Roughly 80,000 cars are stolen in Canada each year — 25,000 of those in Ontario, with most of those from the GTA. It’s a growing number due to the pandemic, with supply chain issues reducing the number of new cars for sale or lease.
Police and insurance investigators told me this theft was likely carried out by a web of local and international car-theft rings with connections to the Middle East and terrorism. They told me the Toyota, like most cars stolen by these rings, would never be seen again.”
Viva diversity.
A tragedy that recently hit the Gaza Strip has again exposed the extent of the suffering of Palestinians under the rule of the Iranian-backed group, Hamas.
The tragedy also serves as a reminder of the double standards of the international community in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially the obsession with Israel and the tendency to ignore any wrongdoing on the Palestinian side.
According to reports from the Gaza Strip, at least three Palestinians who fled the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave went missing, apparently after their boat capsized off the shores of Greece and Turkey. The three were among dozens of Palestinians seeking a better life away from the repression and corruption of Hamas.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger ‘lied to the jury’s faces’ in his closing statement when he said that Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the situation that saw him shoot two men dead and injure a third on August 25, 2020.
This was the startling opening to defense attorney Mark Richards’ closing statements when he stood to address the court Monday afternoon.
Speaking with a furious energy he said, ‘This case is not a game. It’s my client’s life. We don’t play fast and loose with the facts, pretending that Mr. Rosenbaum was citizen A, number one guy.
VANCOUVER – The intense storm bombarding British Columbia has forced officials to evacuate the entire City of Merritt, where floodwaters have “inundated” bridges and left the local sewage treatment plant inoperable.
Some homes were evacuated overnight as unrelenting rain drenched much of the province, causing flooding, mudslides, rockslides and widespread highway closures between the Lower Mainland and Southern Interior.
This footage out of Merritt is heartbreaking.
The entire City of #Merritt is now under an evacuation order due to surging floodwaters from the Coldwater River.
The city’s mayor is urging residents to stay calm.@EmconServicesBC #BCFlood #BCStorm pic.twitter.com/k6R25Z61P2
— Alanna Kelly (@AlannaKellyNews) November 15, 2021
Recently released statistics and anecdotal accounts have caused anti-euthanasia activists increased concern, as they believe medically assisted death is not only permitted, but encouraged.
Medically assisted deaths in Quebec rose to 2,426 in the year ending March 31, an increase of 37 percent over the year before, and represented 3.3 percent of all deaths. The statistics were made public by the province’s commission on end-of-life care, which submitted its report to the Quebec parliament on Oct. 20.
Vice President Kamala Harris feels increasingly isolated inside the White House as her approval ratings plummet — with the first female veep believing she’s not getting the same support given to other members of the Biden administration, according to a detailed new report.
Despite their public show of unity, Biden and his right-hand woman have a dysfunctional relationship that has reached an “exhausted stalemate,” according to CNN, which based its report on interviews with nearly three dozen insiders.
A suicide bomber who died inside a taxi as it blew up outside a hospital in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday was a Syrian asylum seeker who converted to Christianity and was once arrested for carrying a knife, MailOnline can reveal.
Enzo Almeni, 32, is thought to have suffered from mental health problems and was sectioned in around 2014 after being caught for brandishing a knife in central Liverpool, friends said.
He arrived in the UK several years ago and spent most of his time in Liverpool, where he was being supported by Christian volunteers from a network of churches who help asylum seekers.
The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was found liable on Monday for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, over Jones’s claim the massacre was a hoax.
Twenty first-grade children, aged five and six, and six adults were killed in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
Employees in key sectors — including health care and education — should be fired if they refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a majority of Canadians believe, according to a new poll.
OTTAWA — Arguing that Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has betrayed the party’s principles and can’t win the next election, a Conservative senator has launched a petition to have the party’s membership vote on O’Toole’s leadership by no later than June 2022.
The petition, organized by Saskatchewan senator Denise Batters, appears to be the first serious threat to O’Toole’s leadership since the 2021 election concluded on Sept. 20.
O’Toole is perfect for the Conservalibs. No need for change.
