CIA Director William Burns recently selected the intelligence officer, who has not been identified, to lead a task force to investigate the unexplained symptoms, the Journal reported on Wednesday, citing “current and former officials familiar with the matter.”
Standing on a podium on Saturday to take an oath of office, Bashar al-Assad declared himself the only man who could rebuild Syria.
His first foreign guest, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, seemed to enhance his claim, endorsing the president’s win in a May poll described by Britain and Europe as “neither free nor fair” and laying a marker to help get the job started.
China’s high-visibility stake in postwar Syria was straight from its playbook elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as in Asia and Africa: windfall investments in return for local access and global cover. Analysts and diplomats, however, say that even in relative calm, Syria will offer poor returns for years to come.
In its most recent display of absurdity, Twitter has suspended the Nation of Islam, but not for its history of racism against white people or anti-Semitism.
Twitter suspended the Nation of Islam’s account reportedly after it criticized COVID-19 vaccines. Meanwhile, the unverified account that appears to belong to Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, is still active on the platform. The account contains multiple pieces of disgustingly anti-Semitic and racist content.
The move to rename Toronto’s Dundas St. is a fool’s mission.
It’s as if the city doesn’t have more pressing problems that it has $6 million to blow on changing a street name because of some jacked-up transgressions made by a man in the 18th century.
The Pentagon has a 23-minute video showing multiple mysterious objects moving in strange patterns, says a former official from the Department of Defense Luis Elizondo. Speaking on YouTube channels Witness Citizen UAP and Fade to Black, Elizondo said he personally saw the video, which he described as “extremely compelling”.
The former Pentagon employee mentioned the video when he was asked about his work as the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Speaking on videos of UFOs that may leave viewers rattled, Elizondo described the long video, which shows numerous eerie objects, which move in patterns humans “wouldn’t really understand”.
OTTAWA – Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan told the military to create a position eventually filled by a reserve officer from his old unit who had been ordered suspended from the Vancouver police for an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate, according to newly released briefing notes.
Sajjan also wanted the military to upgrade the position less than two months after Maj. Greg McCullough was hired because the minister wanted even more support in his home riding in Vancouver, according to the notes, though that request did not become reality.
The briefing note comes amid lingering questions over how and why McCullough ended up in the unique position before his removal last month following revelations about the complaint and disciplinary action taken against him while he was a sergeant in the Vancouver police.
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from"hate groups". But it's a scam… a money grabbing slander machine: pic.twitter.com/Os5AOjZRMR
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) July 22, 2021
Canada’s spy agency says state actors may attempt to blackmail voters and pressure politicians in order to influence the outcome of the next election.
The warning is contained in a special report on foreign interference threats, which charts some of the tactics the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has observed over the years.
Its publication comes as Ottawa prepares for an election call widely expected in the next few weeks. That election, when it comes, is likely to see attempts at foreign interference online, the Communications Security Establishment has warned.
Hell, the LPC is a subsidiary of the CCP.
Facebook announces sweeping new restrictions on criticism of protected groups.
The battle over permissible speech in American society was helpfully, and predictably, elaborated by Facebook last week in an update to its “hate speech” rules. The social media giant’s changes are a signal of the new limits being placed on political expression and the freedom of the mind. Other major American institutions are almost sure to follow its lead.
Annamie Paul isn’t in the battle of her political life to hold on to her leadership of the Green party because she’s Canada’s first Black woman leading a national political party.
It’s because she’s a Jew on the political left who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
As the trend of removing symbols of Canada’s past and renaming buildings and streets grows, historians warn of the consequences of attempts to misrepresent or erase the country’s history.
“If you control the past, you control the present and the future,” Gerry Bowler, a historian and former professor of history at the University of Manitoba told The Epoch Times.
After a remarkable period of pipeline expansion, primarily in the United States over the past decade, North America is expected to become an increasingly inhospitable place for new projects, according to a new report.
The Biden Administration, Big Tech, and other organizations will go to almost any extreme, including propaganda, to promote their priorities. Their efforts on COVID vaccines may be a trial run for what we may see for the next three years on a range of issues. With vaccines, we have already seen social media censor those who have raised legitimate concerns or objections to various COVID vaccines.
“Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus,” President Biden said.
DABANCHENG, China (AP) — The Uyghur inmates sat in uniform rows with their legs crossed in lotus position and their backs ramrod straight, numbered and tagged, gazing at a television playing grainy black-and-white images of Chinese Communist Party history.
This is one of an estimated 240 cells in just one section of Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng, seen by Associated Press journalists granted extraordinary access during a state-led tour to China’s far west Xinjiang region. The detention center is the largest in the country and possibly the world, with a complex that sprawls over 220 acres — making it twice as large as Vatican City. A sign at the front identified it as a “kanshousuo,” a pre-trial detention facility.
