ICU nurse at Baptist Hospital in Miami tells protesters not to come to the hospital if they get sick and aren’t vaccinated pic.twitter.com/CgndtRYpCr
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2021
Author: Blazingcatfur
Terence Corcoran: Canada joins the long march with Xi to global statism
Canadians today look out over a political landscape dominated by major political parties that feign conflict and ideological battle. The rhetoric and jargon of the last 33 days of electioneering and post-election speeches, reinforced by a compliant media, are filled with a façade of disagreement over policy and principles that camouflage the reality. Canada’s democracy is in the hands of statists who believe that government justifiably holds near-absolute power. Where once there were accepted limits to democracy, today the only limits seem to be the degree to which policy can be shifted in marginally different ways.
Damning New Report Reveals What Wuhan Scientists, British Zoologist Were Up To In Months Before Pandemic
Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), including British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, were reportedly planning to release “enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations” to inoculate them in the months before the pandemic. The scientists also sought funding from the U.S. to “create chimeric viruses,” which are “genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily.”
Facebook exempts secret ‘whitelisted’ elite from its rules allowing them to post banned content with special XCheck program
Facebook’s oversight board is reviewing the company’s practice of exempting secret ‘whitelisted’ users from its community guidelines and allowing them to post banned content through a special XCheck program.
XCheck, also known internally as cross-check, has been a long-time subject of Facebook’s oversight board – a body not affiliated with the social media giant hired to critique how Facebook handles problematic content.
The board was created last year with a $130million trust fund from Facebook, which allows the committee to make final decisions on whether individual pieces of content can remain on the site.
Lithuania urges people to throw away Chinese phones
Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying new ones, Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has warned.
A report by its National Cyber Security Centre tested 5G mobiles from Chinese manufacturers.
Researchers identified that one Xiaomi phone had built-in censorship tools while another Huawei model could be vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Huawei said no user data is sent externally.
“Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,” said Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius.
Most Europeans believe US in new cold war with China and Russia – and they want no part of it
A majority of Europeans believe a new cold war is under way between the US and its chief geopolitical rivals, China and Russia, according to a report – but few view their own country as a direct participant.
Based on polling in 12 member states, the study by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) found, however, that more Europeans believed the EU leadership in Brussels was a party to the new international conflict.
… “The European public thinks there is a new cold war but they don’t want to have anything to do with it,” said Mark Leonard, a co-author of the study and ECFR director. “Our polling reveals that a ‘cold war’ framing risks alienating European voters.”
If Washington and Brussels were preparing for an “‘all of society’, generational struggle against autocracies in Beijing and Moscow”, they could discover they “do not have a societal consensus behind them,” wrote Leonard and his Ivan Krastev, an ECFR board member.
Jihadist Element Investigated After Deadly Vehicle Attack in Spanish City
Spanish officials are investigating a possible Islamic terrorist motive following a deadly car crash at a bar in Murcia on Friday that left one man dead.
The “disappearing Haitians” mystery is solved. You’ve been lied to
Yesterday, when writing about the conflicting stories coming out of the Del Rio Haitian encampment, I concluded my analysis with an assumption. “There’s more to this story than we’re being told.” A number of things being reported about how the Biden administration has been dealing with more than 14,000 Haitians, particularly the aggressive tactics being employed and the rapid deportation schedule, simply didn’t add up. Part of that just comes down to the math.
Prince Andrew has accepted lawsuit and plans to ‘come out fighting’
Prince Andrew has finally conceded that he’s been served with the bombshell sex-assault lawsuit against him, according to his accuser’s attorney — and is reportedly preparing to “come out fighting” to clear his name.
The scandal-scarred UK royal was this week twice served documents — via the UK’s High Court and his US attorney — after earlier denying that they’d been legally delivered.
France: The eight defendants tried for Anti-Semitic insults targeting Miss Provence are all Muslims
The four men and four women had questioned the Israeli-Italian origins of April Benayoum.
Less than a year ago, on social networks, April Benayoum, then Miss Provence, suffered a torrent of hatred because of her Israeli-Italian origins. Since Wednesday, September 22, eight people, four men and four women, have been tried after their anti-Semitic tweets. Originally from Sarthe, Ain, Bouches-du-Rhône, Bas-Rhin, Rhône, Val-d’Oise or Seine-Saint-Denis, they are between 20 and 60 years old, reports Marianne. . Described as people inserted into society, such as a podiatrist or a history graduate, they all have one thing in common, recalls Me Muriel Ouaknine-Melki, criminal lawyer and president of the European Jewish Organization (OJE): they are all Muslims.“The eight claim it, whether they are practicing or not. “
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Diane Francis: The Liberal electoral anchor will take Canada down with it
This election was a $600-million waste of time, thanks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Like promises of clean water for Indigenous people, tree-planting and timely vaccines, this vote was another botched initiative by Trudeau. His failure to reach his goal of getting a majority is another example of his modus operandi, which is to concoct policies and initiatives that are unjustified, unformulated, unfunded and, in the end, go unfulfilled.
Oxford’s Worcester College apologises to students for ‘distress’ caused by hosting Christian conference
An Oxford college has been accused of ‘cancel culture’ after apologising to students for the ‘distress caused’ after it hosted a Christian conference.
Worcester College hosted a Christian Concern training camp at the beginning of September while the college was closed for the summer break.
Students reportedly complained that the the curriculum for the week-long event – which also hosted a speaker reportedly linked to ‘conversion therapy’ – was ‘Islamophobic’ as the final day included a discussion about ‘the nature of Islam’.
The Problem With Canada
The results of the recent and utterly unnecessary Canadian election, called two years before the expiry of a four-year term and returning Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to the same minority government status as before, were not unexpected. Indeed, they were graven in stone—a tombstone, I’m tempted to say.
Who is Controlling the Biden Presidency?
The question has been asked dozens of different ways, depending on the questioner and the public policy issue. “Who is controlling the Biden presidency?”
One thing appears certain: It is not President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. He gives incoherent, rambling speeches, and often declines to take questions.
A May 2021 powder-puff profile of President Biden in the Washington Post was written as both a hagiography and a politically therapeutic assurance that there’s been a “return to normalcy” in the White House. The article’s author, Ashley Parker, was clearly given extraordinary access to personal details by White House staff and Biden handlers in order to compose her report. The resulting article is an interesting mix of Ms. Parker taking careful dictation from the White House, and her own ambition to pledge allegiance to the larger Biden “family.”
Why Erin O’Toole’s strategy to move to the centre should be abandoned
The Conservatives’ third defeat at the hands of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals should be considered a rebuke of the party’s strategy to tack hard towards the so-called centre. It definitely shouldn’t mean that the party should try even harder to moderate itself, as leader Erin O’Toole suggested in his concession speech. Instead, the lesson the Conservatives should learn from this loss is that they’d be better off selling their own ideas to voters, rather than watered-down Liberal, or even NDP, policies.
Fearless prediction – O’Toole will remain CPC leader and no material changes will be made to the centre-left program. I suspect the ‘brain trust’ regards the election result as proof of concept that a permanent leftward shift is a viable path to power. Anyone who disagrees will be welcome to lump it or leave it as the party casts its net for disgruntled Liberals. O’Toole talks of outreach to those who have walked away from the CPC. Frankly given his record of flip flops I would not trust him.