Author: Blazingcatfur
Peter Menzies: Who’s killing free internet speech? Canada’s culture industry
Canada’s cultural sector, long a champion of rights and social justice, now finds itself — despite Monday’s government pullback — in the awkward position of having inspired the mugging of free speech and expression on the internet.
To say this is a unique position for this group, which has successfully lobbied the federal government to “get money from web giants,” is an understatement. Whether through courageous historic battles on behalf of artistic freedom or leading the vanguard on behalf of women’s rights, gay rights, trans rights, Indigenous rights, workers’ rights, the battle against racism and more, no single group can claim more success in the virtuous use of its profile to advance progressive causes.
He’s absolutely right about Canada’s Culture industry, which is why few care for their woke Pablum. It’s not so much a culture industry as a welfare dependency.
The Back Story of the CIA’s ‘Woke’ Recruiting Video
“I am a woman of color, I am a mom, I am a cisgender millennial who’s been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” explains a 36-year-old woman in a recent CIA recruiting video. “I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” she says. Though suffering from “imposter syndrome,” viewers learn, “I did not sneak into the CIA.” Indeed, “My employment was not and is not of a fluke or a slip through the cracks … I am educated, qualified and competent.”
Bucking Biden’s push for ‘equity,’ US states are outlawing critical race theory in schools and public agencies
President Joe Biden may have revoked his predecessor’s ban on critical race theory and embraced its concept of “equity,” but several US states have adopted laws against the doctrine, setting up a showdown with the White House.
On Tuesday, Arkansas passed legislation banning critical race theory (CRT) “indoctrination” in public agencies and prohibiting the state from promoting collective guilt, segregation, racial stereotyping or scapegoating.
Arabs Warn West: Do Not Let Iran Fool You
Arabs are growing increasingly concerned about Iran’s sinister intentions and deception as the Iranians and representatives of Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and China continue their negotiations in Vienna about reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the Trump administration abandoned in 2018.
The deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is ostensibly aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98%, and reduce by about two-thirds the number of uranium gas centrifuges for 13 years. After the deal expires in a few years, however, Iran may build as many nuclear weapons as it wants. In that sense, the JCPOA deal was a runway to a full-blown nuclear weapons program.
Germany outlaws Islamist organization Ansaar International
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Wednesday that Germany has banned the Islamist organization Ansaar International and several of its sub-organizations.
“The network finances terrorism worldwide with donations,” Seehofer’s spokesman Steve Alter tweeted on Wednesday.
Alter quoted Seehofer as saying: “If you want to fight terror, you have to dry up its sources of money.”
Transgender paedophile once jailed for raping girl, four, attacked prison guard after her razors were removed ‘making her gender dysphoria worse’
A transgender paedophile attacked a guard after her razors were removed because it ‘made gender dysphoria worse’, a court heard.
Marcia Walker, 47, reacted angrily when officers at HMP Frankland, a Category A men’s prison, objected to her possession of razor blades, Durham Crown Court was told.
The defendant, who was previously known as Mark Walker, was first jailed for 13 years in 2003 for two rapes against girls under 16, one aged four, along with making and distributing indecent photographs of children.
Stalin monument taken down FOUR DAYS after being erected in southern Russia, following backlash on social media
The golden-colored bust was erected on April 29 in Dagestanskiye Ogni, a city of 30,000 in the multiethnic Dagestan region in Russia’s northern Caucasus. The small monument stood near a bus stop on a rural street that bears Stalin’s name.
Dad who pulled his daughter out of ‘woke’ $43k-per-year NYC school urges other parents to do the same, saying ‘they don’t know how bad this really is’
A father who pulled his daughter out of her $43,000-per-year New York City school said other parents are unaware of how bad the ‘woke’ teaching in the city’s schools has become, and should follow his lead and withdraw their children.
Harvey Goldman took his nine-year-old out of Heschel School, a Jewish day school on the Upper West Side, because he felt its curriculum ‘teaches children to feel bad about the color of their skin’.
‘They are teaching these kids terrible things,’ he said on Tuesday. ‘Teaching them to feel bad about themselves and it is really awful.’
Trump Reacts to Facebook’s Decision to Uphold Account Suspension
Former President Donald Trump reacted to Facebook’s move to uphold the suspension of his account, arguing that Big Tech firms are working to censor Americans.
“What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before,” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday after Facebook’s Oversight Board handed down a decision saying the former president’s account should be suspended.
Twitter CFO Ned Segal Re-ups Pledge to Maintain Ban on Trump Forever
Appearing Tuesday on Yahoo! Finance Live, Twitter CFO Ned Segal reaffirmed that the social network giant will never reverse its blacklisting of former President Donald Trump
As clock ticks down on Enbridge’s Line 5, anxiety grows in Sarnia and Michigan
CALGARY — For Mike Bradley, the mayor of Sarnia, the impending shutdown of a pipeline that supplies fuel to his city’s biggest employers has been “hovering” for seven months.
That anxiety has been steadily building ahead of a deadline this month imposed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for Enbridge Inc. to shut down its Line 5 pipeline, which crosses through Michigan, where it delivers more than half of the state’s propane needs, en route to deliver oil to Ontario, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
TDSB launches $90M lawsuit against city, fire department, over massive blaze that destroyed York Memorial Collegiate Institute
The Toronto District School Board has launched a $90 million lawsuit against city, its fire department and police services board, as well and the Ontario Fire Marshal after a blaze two years ago that gutted York Memorial high school, alleging the scene was not put under a proper fire watch which led to the “rekindling” of the initial smaller fire.
The lawsuit also alleges that incident reports were “modified in an effort to suppress evidence of negligence” on the part of the fire services in relation to the blaze at the school on Eglinton Avenue West and Tretheway Drive in May 2019.
The City of Toronto is named in the suit as it oversees Toronto Fire Services, and the province as it oversees the Office of the Fire Marshal.
A pity as York Memorial had a rich history but does the TDSB really need the facility restored when many schools operate well below capacity or in fact sit empty? Of course not, they remain arrogantly eager to play with tax payer money.
Conservatives break fundraising records but struggle to break through with voters
The Conservatives broke new fundraising records in the first months of 2021, raising more money than any party ever has in a first quarter and outpacing the governing Liberals by their widest margin yet.
But the party’s success on the fundraising front hasn’t led yet to a boost in its political fortunes.
According to data published by Elections Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada raised $8.5 million between January and March 2021 — its best first quarter ever. And because the CPC has a long history of raising more money than any other party, its first quarter performance was the best by any federal political party on record.
‘Actually It Does’: Joy Reid Mocks Parent For Saying It Isn’t Racist To Oppose Critical Race Theory
MSNBC host Joy Reid mocked a parent Tuesday night for saying that opposing critical race theory in schools was not racist.
Reid said that thanks to the “1619 Project,” a controversial initiative to teach history in a way that centers around slavery and teaches that 1619 was the true founding of the United States, “we’ve seen a growing movement to reframe how American history is taught in public schools.”
Cracks appear in China’s New Silk Road
The Australian government may have only halted a couple of small joint-infrastructure projects with China, but the response from Beijing to the decision was one of rage and threats. The Chinese Embassy in Canberra has called the halt “unreasonable and provocative” and vowed revenge.
Canberra stepped in last year to pass a law that allows the federal government to overrule agreements made by Australian states with foreign countries. The decision followed deals signed by the state of Victoria in 2018 and 2019 to cooperate with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — often dubbed the New Silk Road — a massive infrastructure plan that aims to smooth trade links with dozens of countries.