Former president Barack Obama shrugged off the concerns of scientific experts by throwing himself a massive 60th birthday party at his $17.5 million estate on Martha’s Vineyard this past weekend.
As usual, the scientific experts were correct: The star-studded affair was a confirmed “super spreader” event, putting countless lives at risk and further cementing Obama’s reputation as a narcissistic war criminal.
The school board of Newberg Public Schools in Oregon voted 4 to 3 Tuesday to prohibit Black Lives Matter (BLM), gay pride flags, and all other “political” items from classrooms. Now, Democrats in the state legislature are appealing the decision.
Furious road rage suspect hurls ax into woman’s windshield after first ‘chasing her off the freeway and blocking her escape’
WATCH: Video was just released of a driver, reportedly already wanted for crimes, hurling an ax at a driver in a road rage incident in Shoreline, WA.
This incident happened on July 27 and he was arrested three days later after an investigation. pic.twitter.com/z7mgeVNhZt
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) August 12, 2021
With Beijing’s brazen effort this week to coerce a favourable outcome in the marathon extradition trial of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, now in its final stretch in the British Columbia Supreme Court, one thing that should be clear is that Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping is confident that when he wants to rub the world’s nose in it, he can get away with anything.
The world’s first Covid-19 patient may have been infected by a bat while working for a Wuhan lab in China, a World Health Organization chief has admitted.
Dr Peter Embarek, who led the WHO probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in China, made the shocking claim despite initially dismissing the notion that the virus escaped from a lab as extremely unlikely.
This theory assumes the release of the China flu was an accident.
h/t TB
Back in the early 1990s, after three years roaming the East Bloc of communist countries once tethered to the Soviet Union and after wild forays into the bushlands of southern Africa, I attempted to join the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — or CSIS for short.
The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, confirmed on Thursday that the force is conducting a review into the allegations of sexual assault against Prince Andrew, declaring that “no one is above the law.”
Dick’s comments were in response to the filing of a lawsuit in a US court by Virginia Giuffre, accusing Prince Andrew of sexual assault, battery and inflicting emotional distress on her when she was 17.
Speaking to UK radio station LBC, Dick stated that “as a result of what’s going on,” her force is having “another look at the material” relevant to the allegations. However, the Met commissioner said that, despite the review, no formal investigation into Prince Andrew is currently underway.
The security of digital assets has been thrown in sharp focus after a huge theft of around $600 million took place on a decentralized network. The lack of protection for those affected is clear.
Around $600 million (€512 million) worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen by hackers this week on a decentralized financial (DeFi) network which specializes in allowing users to transfer digital assets tied from one blockchain to others.
PolyNetwork links some of the world’s top digital ledgers and blockchains but it announced on Tuesday that a hacker or hackers had exploited a vulnerability in its system which allowed them to access various digital ledgers and transfer funds away from the network to their own online wallets.
Update – Cryptocurrency heist hacker returns $260m in funds
French police have been urged to step up security around Covid vaccination and testing centres after a spate of attacks and vandalism in the last month.
As France prepares for a fifth weekend of demonstrations against the health pass, the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has written to police chiefs calling for greater vigilance. French media reported that the request had come directly from Emmanuel Macron.
It came after the ministry reported that 22 health sites had been vandalised, including five test centres, 15 vaccination centres, a medical laboratory and a health centre, since 12 July.
A bus has exploded downtown in the central Russian city of Voronezh. Footage emerging from the scene shows the vehicle torn apart, as local media report multiple people injured.
A nine-year-old boy was found dead in his bed by his mother this weekend after he was struck by a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting in Albany, Georgia.
The shooter still remains at large, despite officials begging witnesses or those with information to come forward.
Over at City Journal, Jeffrey Anderson has written a very interesting article that dives into many of the studies our public health officials have used to justify mask-wearing. Now that the mask debate is back in full swing as several cities and states reimplement mask mandates, it’s worth asking, as Anderson does: How effective are masks really?
The answer: It depends on the study.
Anti-migrant protesters have attacked houses, shops and cars owned by Syrians in Turkey’s capital after tensions flared over the alleged killing of a local teenager.
The violence erupted on Wednesday night following reports that a Syrian refugee had stabbed two Turkish men in a fight.
Hundreds of locals descended on an area of Ankara where a community of Syria migrants and refugees live.
#Altındağ #EmirhanYalcın #suriyeliler pic.twitter.com/U5gSIF80lM
— Müslüm Ulusoy (@muslumulusoy) August 11, 2021
Damn that’s Islamophobic!
‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar has accused a pro-Israel group of putting her life in danger over new attack ads claiming she sees no difference between America and the Taliban.
‘Stand with American. Stand against terrorists,’ reads an anti-Omar American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) ad.
‘For Ilhan Omar, there is no difference between America and the Taliban. Between Israel and Hamas. Between democracies and terrorism.’
‘Tell Rep. Omar, condemn terrorists, not America.’
“These measures demonstrate the government’s commitment to both a robust, diverse and sustainable news ecosystem and ensuring Canadians can receive the timely information they require from their government,” wrote Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault.
Pure coincidence an election is coming up.
