Vice President Kamala Harris has angered supporters of Israel by expressing support for a college student who accused the country of ‘ethnic genocide’ against Palestinians.
The interaction came as Harris made a surprise visit on Tuesday to a political science class at George Mason University in northern Virginia to encourage voter registration and discuss voting rights.
A former Tory MP with significant military experience once told me that former Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance, who is the subject of sexual harassment and obstruction of justice allegations, was “a very good soldier, but a very bad boy.”
Ontario reports 495 new COVID-19 cases, eight more deaths
Ontario reported fewer than 500 new COVID-19 cases for a second day in a row and eight more deaths on Wednesday.
Provincial health officials logged 495 new infections today, up slightly from 466 on Tuesday and 463 a week ago.
RCMP union says it supports a Mountie’s ‘right’ to refuse vaccination
The RCMP’s union says it supports the “right” of RCMP officers to refuse to get vaccinated and will back up any member who refuses vaccination once the mandatory vaccination policy for the federal public service is in place.
“The [National Police Federation] supports a member’s right to choose to be vaccinated or not,” says a Sept. 23 email to members, obtained by CBC News.
“We will assist and represent members individually with their choice and its possible employment consequences.”
Elsewhere on the Labour front… TTC claims employee vaccines disclosure refusal an illegal strike
Deadlines loom for hundreds of unvaccinated hospital workers if they want to keep their jobs
And…
‘Vaxxed or not vaxxed you are all welcome’: Hundreds of Ontario businesses defy vaccine passport rules
An elderly Japanese man developed ‘restless anal syndrome’ after catching Covid, in what doctors claim is a world first.
The unidentified 77-year-old was admitted to Tokyo Medical University Hospital after testing positive for Covid.
Despite his age, he did not require any oxygen during his stay and managed to start breathing normally again 21 days after being admitted.
As a member of the U.S. government’s security apparatus, I have witnessed a level of groupthink that would shock even the most accredited academics associated with the leading internationalist think tanks. As the professional class of international relations thinkers and their elitist dopamine peddlers in mainstream media continue launching their crusade against the so-called threat of populism, the people are again being actively pushed out of foreign and domestic policy. The boogieman-version of populism that is being thrust upon cable news viewers is not entirely accurate. This misconstrued definition in the modern American lexicon purports that populism is synonymous with authoritarian strongmen who intend to push nativist policies inherently referred to as racist.
A webinar from the radical, anti-Israel Muslim Alliance in North America.
The webinar “9/11: American Muslims Twenty Years Later” does not concern “who did it, was it Mossad, the CIA, and how did bin Laden get operatives in the building to orchestrate a controlled demolition,” stated Zaytuna College co-founder and professor emeritus Zaid Shakir. On 9/11’s twentieth anniversary, he and his fellow panelists spun absurd conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks, while doing their best to obscure the plain facts of Al Qaeda’s guilt.
The developer’s collapse isn’t leading to global contagion, but China’s looming economic disaster might.
A major mistake of the Cold War was the tendency of Western observers to overestimate the Soviet Union. I have often wondered if the same mistake is being repeated with the People’s Republic of China. Then again, for every article over the last 10 years that predicted China’s economy would overtake that of the U.S., there were at least two prophesying a “China crisis.”
“The endgame of Chinese communist rule has now begun,” wrote David Shambaugh in 2015. Wisely, he added: “Its demise is likely to be protracted.” That same year, Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates warned, “We’re getting inexorably to a tipping point in China.”
Charles is in no position to lecture the proles about our carbon footprints.
It’s not just Harry and Meghan who are doing deals with US streaming services. At the weekend, it was announced that the heir to the throne himself, Prince Charles, is ‘curating’ a channel on Amazon Prime called RE:TV. It’s unclear quite how much involvement Charlie really has, but the channel is being promoted as his baby.
“Before the pandemic,”wrote Nate Silver the US political analyst, “I would have guessed that conservatives were COVID hawks and liberals were COVID doves.” It is an intriguing thought: perhaps, if a few key figures had made different decisions, the political argument of the past 18 months could have flipped entirely between Left and Right?
President Joe Biden’s presidency is not going as smoothly as he probably hoped it would.
Only 43% of respondents in a survey conducted between Sept. 13-19 believe the phrase “mentally sharp” describes Biden “well.”
Squid Game: the hellish horror show taking the whole world by storm
What if winning playground games could make you rich? That’s the basis of Squid Game – the South Korean show currently at number one on Netflix around the world – where debt-ridden players sign up to compete in six games for a cash prize of 45.6 billion won (around £28m). The small print: if you lose, you get killed. In the first episode, a game of Grandma’s Footsteps (known as Red Light, Green Light in South Korea) leaves bodies piled high as the shell-shocked winners proceed to round two. It’s blood-splattered child’s play – a kind of Takeshi’s Castle with fatalities, or Saw with stylish shell suits.
It was late, I couldn’t sleep and nothing caught me eye so I clicked on Squid Game.
Binge watched, it is good in that late night time waster way.
“Truth is complicated but lies are obvious and Russia-gate was a lie,” left-wing comedian/actor Russell Brand says in this new clip. Just to put that in perspective, Brand is coming from the far left. He says so himself in this clip. Later he talks about his idea of democracy which sounds a lot like Democratic Socialism to me, i.e. the kind of democracy where workers get to vote on every decision made in the workplace, etc. He is not a right-wing guy, though he sort of sounds like one here.
Supply chain issues are leaving supermarket shelves empty. Shoppers might yet make things worse.
Walk around a supermarket in the U.S. or Europe and you will see some empty shelves once more. This isn’t due to people panic-buying toilet paper, as they did early on in the pandemic; rather it’s because supply chains are clogged at almost every stage between Asian factories and grocery stock rooms.
But rising prices and patchy availability mean it’s only a matter of time before shoppers start purchasing in bulk again — this time to avoid future sticker shock.
The commander of the U.S. Central Command, General Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, and the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, told Congress that they had recommended to Joe Biden that the military maintain a presence of at least 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. Biden said in an August 19 interview with George Stephanopoulos that he couldn’t recall anyone recommending that troops remain in Afghanistan after the August 31 deadline.
A man has been placed under house arrest in Russia after he beat up and concussed a doctor who inspected his wife and complimented her. The woman, a hijab-wearing Muslim, claimed the dermatologist dubbed her skin “beautiful.”
