On Friday, The Washington Post published a story headlined “TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job.” Nowhere in this story was any mention of the word “Antifa,” despite their repeated habit of attacking TV news crews.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Teacher Placed on Leave for Opposing Transgender School Policy: ‘First Amendment is on Our Side’
The Loudon County school district has stayed true to its word and is repealing a Circuit Court decision to reinstate Tanner Cross, an elementary school gym teacher who was placed on leave after objecting to the district’s policy that transgender students be referred to by their proper pronouns. Cross was speaking during the public comment period of a May 25 school board meeting.
Botched: More Embarrassing Details Emerge In FBI’s Snag Of Rioter With Lego Set
Remember last week when The Daily Beast published a “scoop” revealing that one of the men charged in the January 6 Capitol riot had a “fully assembled” Lego model of the Capitol in his home? It turns out it wasn’t true; the man merely had the unopened box set.
Rainbow Monkey Dildo Story Hour at Redbridge Library
A London library sparked intense backlash after it hired a self-described anti-racist carnival troupe with a performer dressed up as a monkey with a large dildo hanging between his legs for a children’s reading event.
Capitol Police to use Army surveillance system on Americans to ‘identify emerging threat’
The U.S. Capitol Police will begin fielding military surveillance equipment as part of sweeping security upgrades as the police force pivots towards becoming “an intelligence-based protective agency” following the Jan. 6 attack.
Defense Secretary Loyd Austin recently approved the Capitol Police’s request for eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground – Medium (PSSG-M) units. The system provides high-definition surveillance video and is enabled with night vision. The system does not include facial recognition capabilities, according to the Pentagon.
NYC school’s faculty rebels against principal who ‘tried to get rid of white teachers’
A Washington Heights high school principal is facing a probe by the New York City Department of Education for allegedly discriminating against white teachers.
The probe was launched after faculty members at High School for Law and Public Service accused principal Paula Lev of discriminating against staff and conspiring to get a white colleague fired.
Faculty filed a complaint with the Education Department and also voted they had ‘no confidence’ in Lev’s leadership.
FBI goes ‘American Stasi’ with tweet encouraging family members to rat each other out for ‘extremism’
The FBI has asked Americans to examine their own family members for signs of “homegrown violent extremism,” and report them. The call for snitches comes as the FBI turns its surveillance powers on regular Americans.
“Family members and peers are often best positioned to witness signs of mobilization to violence,” read a tweet from the FBI on Sunday. To help prevent “homegrown violent extremism,” the agency advises Americans to visit its website, “to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and report them to the FBI.”
Marxist, Extremist Support for Palestinian Terrorism Leads to Jew-Hate Throughout West
London. May 23. An organization called The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign organized a protest against Israel. 180,000 people turned up. Placards compared Israelis to the Nazis, and black flags of jihadist movements, accompanied by cries of “Allahu Akbar”, fluttered alongside the Palestinian flags. “Israel, the new Nazi state“, some read; and “Nazis are still around, now they call themselves Zionists”. This kind of comparison is now common among many in Europe who also seem sympathetic to Marxism, in which there always has to be an “oppressor” and “oppressed”, never a “win-win” or a “making the pie bigger.” Do these new Marxists, who compare Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, to the Third Reich and the Zionists to the Nazis, really not know what the Nazis did to six million Jews, or what Communists and Marxists today, in China, Russia, Cuba, or Venezuela, are still doing to their own citizens?
‘Surreal’: Black families rally with Oakland cops against violence, countered by ‘mostly white Antifa’
Mostly white Antifa thugs interrupted a rally against street violence Saturday in Oakland to lecture black men and women who’ve lost loved ones to street violence about how the police are allegedly the real bad guys.
In #Oakland today there was a "Stand up for a Safe Oakland" rally against gun violence
Several #Antifa, who appear to be all white, showed up to "protest" by drowning out mostly black speakers who were naming and remembering homicide victimspic.twitter.com/rYleOwDCWd
— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) July 10, 2021
The Latter Day Lord Haw Haw’s in China’s disinformation drive
The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive
Foreign video bloggers denouncing what they say is negative coverage of China on highly controversial subjects such as Xinjiang are attracting large numbers of subscribers on platforms like YouTube.
In recent years, the “vloggers” have been increasingly presenting themselves as China-lovers, spreading Communist Party disinformation.
YouTube labels Chinese state media like broadcaster CGTN as government-funded. But there is little policing when it comes to individuals promoting similar narratives.
Some vloggers are suspected of co-operating with state-owned outlets to spread China’s rhetoric to the world. But it’s far from clear what really motivates them, or how effective this strategy is.
No Shopping Carts Allowed Outside San Francisco Safeway Amid Theft Concerns
Hoping to stop theft, one San Francisco Safeway is no longer allowing shoppers to take their carts outside the store.
An employee at a Market Street Safeway told NBC Bay Area that dozens of shopping carts have been stolen recently. Published reports say as many as 160 have been taken in the past few weeks.
h/t JK
GUNTER: Are Conservatives under Erin O’Toole going to face an epic defeat?
Canadians don’t seem to like early elections, at least not those called just for the political advantage of a sitting government.
I offer as exhibits David Peterson’s Liberals in Ontario in 1990 and Jim Prentice’s Tories in Alberta in 2015.
I would not be surprised.
Money, politics and split opinion in Japan on ‘grand gift’ of Tokyo Olympics
An illustration shared on social media shows International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach wearing a face mask and cheerfully waving, while the accompanying text conveys the message that people in Japan don’t necessarily want to reciprocate.
“We can’t wave back — meaning we’re pretty depressed, it’s a bit of an emergency,” said Hyung-Gu Lynn, a professor in the Asian studies department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He describes an ambivalent mood in Japan, addressed in a recent meme, ahead of the pending Olympics.
The pandemic-adjusted Tokyo Games get underway on July 23 under a state of emergency in the capital and amid opposition from those who fear the potential public health consequences of what’s to come.
“Grand Grift” is spot on.
Ontario reports 166 new Covid cases … and once is not enough
Ontario reports lowest daily COVID-19 case count since Sept. 9
Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases for the third consecutive day and the lowest single-day total since early September.
Provincial health officials logged 166 new COVID-19 infections today, down from 179 on Saturday and 183 on Friday.
Only one shot won’t prevent fourth wave, say experts
Ontario has not reached the level of vaccination needed to protect itself from COVID-19 variants and a potential fourth wave, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) CEO Doris Grinspun says.
The summer months and their outside activities work against the spread of the virus, she said.
Doug Ford’s “Conservative” Government Will Now Teach Students That Math Is Racist
Ontario’s new Grade 9 curriculum preaches ‘subjective’ nature of mathematics
“Math, it continues, has been “used to normalize racism and marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges,” and explains that taking a “decolonial” and “anti-racist approach” to teaching math will outline its “historical roots and social constructions” to students.”
That’s dumb Dougie.