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Judge throws out historic female genital mutilation case, calls feds ‘vindictive’

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation’s first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the prosecution and FGM survivors who had hoped the Detroit case would help end a practice that is still performed on millions of girls worldwide.

In dismissing the four-year-old case, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman concluded the prosecution was vindictive in seeking new charges against the accused, who had previously convinced the judge to declare the federal FGM ban as unconstitutional.

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The fake ‘your hood’ PC outrage might finally tip the scale against cancel culture

Hate crime hoaxer

Like a sitcom in its death throes jumping the proverbial shark, the cancel-culture movement is plunging into a humiliating depth of inanity. This weekend, video emerged from a person called Frederick Joseph, a regular practitioner of “man on the street put-up jobs,” showing a confrontation with a white woman named Emma Sarley.

Sarley supposedly told Joseph, who is black, to “go back to [his] hood.” Or at least that’s what he says. She doesn’t say this on the video.

The familiar fracas ensued: Social-media mobs assembled, and quickly Sarley was fired from her job. But what happened next was a little different.

 

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Ontario recommends Pfizer vaccine over Moderna for ages 18 to 24 due to high incidence of cardio issues

According to data released on Wednesday, the risk of the development of the heart condition is 1 in 5,000 for males aged 18 to 24 following a second dose of Moderna. This was based on more than 96,000 second doses between June 1 and August 7, 2021. For women between 18 to 24, the risk is 1 in 17,000.

In comparison, health officials said the risk was 1 in 28,000 after the second dose of Pfizer.

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No One Outside Of China Allowed To Attend 2022 Winter Games In Beijing

The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday that the only people allowed to attend the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, China, are those who live in China.

“Tickets will be sold exclusively to spectators residing in China’s mainland, who meet the requirements of the COVID-19 countermeasures,” the IOC said.

I’m sick of the Olympics anyway.

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Media Allies Rush to Defend Biden After Devastating Day of Testimony

Several media members rushed to President Joe Biden’s defense Tuesday after it was suggested the president lied about feedback he was given by top military officials regarding last month’s horrific withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Within their testimonies, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie described how they both recommended the U.S. maintain a 2,500-troop presence in Afghanistan.

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Wearing second hand clothes ‘an example of white privilege’, students told

Wearing second-hand clothes without this being blamed on “the bad morals of my race” is an example of white privilege, students have been told in a compulsory diversity course.

The University of Kent has instructed every student to complete the four-hour mandatory module, covering topics such as white privilegemicroaggressions and pronouns.

The course, titled Expect Respect and seen by The Telegraph, includes a white privilege quiz where participants are asked to pick which of 13 options are societal benefits allegedly enjoyed by white people in the UK.

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The Meng-Michaels saga ended, Canada is turning back to its Huawei 5G controversy — and the potential of public backlash

…  A decision on Huawei’s participation is part of a broader national security review of next-generation wireless technology. The new technology is as much as 100 times faster than existing 4G technology.

But the decision had seemingly been stalled as Canada’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China spiralled during the saga of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and Canada’s “two Michaels.”

One pollster said those events would make it hard for the Canadian government to now allow Huawei access to the 5G network.

Failing to block Huawei’s involvement would result in swift backlash from Canadians, in fact, predicted Mario Canseco, president of Vancouver-based polling firm Research Co.


There is no reason to delay Huawei’s exclusion. But Trudeau is the figure-head of Canada’s China class and he will protect their interests above all others.

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CNN denies Australians access to its Facebook pages, cites defamation risk

SYDNEY, Sept 29 (Reuters) – CNN said it is preventing Australians from accessing its Facebook Inc (FB.O) pages after a court ruled that publishers can be liable for defamation in public comment sections and the social media firm refused to help it disable comments in the country.

The move makes CNN, which is owned by AT&T Inc (T.N), the first major news organisation to pull its Facebook presence in Australia since the country’s highest court ruled this month that publishers were legally responsible for comments posted below articles – even if the articles themselves were not defamatory.

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A New Word for the Administration & Those Who Have Chosen Power and Profits over Patriotism

For the Afghans left behind….

For the French who were double-dealed….

For the Texans confronting an open border that mocks our nation’s sovereignty…

And for the members of the Fed who privately know just how destructive our massive national debt will be to our future…

All of them may want to learn a word not currently in their vocabulary:

“Paskudnyak”

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YouTube moves to ban all anti-vaccine content

YouTube is moving to block and remove all content that spreads misinformation about vaccines against COVID-19 and other illnesses, such as measles, hepatitis and chicken pox.

The Google-owned online video company said in a blog post on Wednesday that any content that “falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects” will be removed.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberals must demand probe into any China election meddling

It’s a common trope that foreign policy is never a ballot question. As riled up as Canadians got about Afghanistan in our recent election, research showed it had little impact on the choices they ultimately made. Bread and butter issues like childcare or concerns about climate change mattered more than how well the prime minister performed — or did not perform — on the world stage.

Or did it? 

Oh yea, Justin will be right on this, as soon as the China class gives him the go-ahead.

 

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Conservative vote likely not hurt — or particularly helped — by carbon pricing plan, new poll finds

OTTAWA — As the Conservative Party prepares to review its 2021 election loss, one of the biggest internal battles will be on environmental policy: Did Erin O’Toole’s inclusion of carbon pricing in the Conservative platform hurt the party’s performance?

I predict the CCP shift to the left is permanent. If not O’Toole the “braintrust” will install a “leader” equally suited to their ideological shift. They will continue to mouth “conservative positions” only to walk them back as needed.

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