It is nothing if not rich in irony, this latest dramatic plot twist in the ongoing “world stage” soap opera chronicling the embarrassing ups and downs of the Trudeau government’s unrequited affections for Chinese strongman Xi Jinping. Of all people, Taiwan’s heroic president, the 64-year-old feminist and liberal Tsai Ing-wen, has been forced to endure the misfortune of being dragged into the script for this week’s episode.
I’d like to take a rational look at the confrontations among cops, motorists, and pedestrians.
When we see incidents of cops shooting blacks (which are the only shootings the media cover), one thing becomes clear: resisting arrest often ends up with a loss of life. Something else is obvious: when a cop is the one losing his life, it’s practically overlooked by the media.
California public schools are embarking on a new experiment: education as social justice. Earlier this year, the state Department of Education approved an ethnic studies model curriculum, and individual school districts have begun to implement programs that advocate “decolonizing” the United States and “liberating” students from capitalism, patriarchy, and settler colonialism.
If you didn’t know better, you would think that we are experiencing an epidemic of police violence against black men. And, strangely, Minnesota seems to be epicenter of the phenomenon.
The Star Tribune keeps a running toll of deaths resulting from police encounters in Minnesota. For the period 2000 to 2021, the total is 207, of whom 54% were white and 27% were black. Of course, suspect behavior has a lot to do with the likelihood of a fatal encounter with law enforcement. This is evident from the fact that only 3% of those killed by police have been women.
McALLEN, Texas—The number of unaccompanied children crossing the border is causing concern over the knock-on effects the wave will have on U.S. schools and communities.
The first surge of unaccompanied minors in 2014 was followed by an uptick in MS-13 gang violence in the areas where most of the minors were placed. MS-13 used the unaccompanied minor program as a recruiting tool, and vulnerable children found a home in the violent gang, often either by coercion or for a sense of belonging.
The federal government hopes to convert more than 90,000 temporary foreign workers and graduated international students into permanent residents as part of its ambitious goal of admitting 401,000 immigrants this year, despite borders being closed by the pandemic.
The new measures, announced Wednesday by Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, will allow 20,000 temporary foreign workers in health care, 30,000 workers in other occupations deemed essential and 40,000 international students who have graduated from a university or college to apply to become permanent residents. There will be separate, dedicated spaces for French-speaking or bilingual applicants residing outside Quebec.
He’s gone international!
Full disclosure I was born in the Pontiac.
It gets worse – Behold Canada’s new Olympics closing ceremony outfits!
Oh Fuck it gets worse!
Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony Outfit
The Closing Ceremony uniform pays tribute to Tokyo, the fashion-forward host city, in a unique and artistic way. Inspired by graffiti and streetwear, Hudson’s Bay collaborated with Levi’s® on the hero piece of the collection – a unisex trucker jacket that celebrates inclusivity and gender neutrality.
The superintendent for White Bear Lake Area Schools says racist and threatening messages sent to students of color over social media were a hoax.
The messages triggered a walkout last week at White Bear Lake High School’s South Campus.
h/t LH
For the fourth night in a row, protesters gathered Wednesday night outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department, many of them demanding that more serious charges be brought against the former police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright.
“What she did is murder! How do you not know your Taser from your gun?” asked Loretta VanPelt of TCC4Justice, a group seeking police accountability, before a 7 p.m. rally began.
Earlier Wednesday, former Brooklyn Center officer Kimberly A. Potter was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter. She resigned on Tuesday.
Officer arrested, charged with second-degree manslaughter in killing of Daunte Wright
Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly A. Potter was arrested late Wednesday morning at the offices of the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the agency said in a statement.
Potter, who resigned from the police department on Tuesday, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death on Sunday of Daunte Wright, the Washington County Attorney’s Office said.
She was booked into Hennepin County jail shortly after noon, jail records show. Potter posted $100,000 bond and was released from custody Wednesday evening.
Live in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota for justice. #DaunteWright #blm https://t.co/FxWix6regG
— (@KidDr1ft) April 15, 2021
The federal government’s treatment of Canadians flying home from foreign countries is vindictive, egregious and possibly unconstitutional. Its obvious purpose is to look tough and divert attention from the delay in acquiring vaccines that has put us in a humiliating 52nd place globally in full vaccinations per capita, at one-tenth the vaccination pace of the Americans. The prime minister and his colleagues must hope people unaffected by the border measures consider them to be appropriate or at least unobjectionable.
By draping itself in the finery of political activism, the corporatist class consolidates political power, corrupts democracy and distracts from its real functions.
The British spy agency GCHQ is so aggressive, extreme and unconstrained by law or ethics that the NSA — not exactly world renowned for its restraint — often farms out spying activities too scandalous or illegal for the NSA to their eager British counterparts. There is, as the Snowden reporting demonstrated, virtually nothing too deceitful or invasive for the GCHQ. They spy on entire populations, deliberately disseminate fake news, exploit psychological research to control behavior and manipulate public perception, and destroy the reputations, including through the use of sex traps, of anyone deemed adversarial to the British government.
“The murder of #DaunteWright is rooted in white supremacy and results from the intentional criminalization of Black and Brown communities. This system can’t be reformed. It must be dismantled and a real system of public safety rebuilt from the ground up. #DefundThePolice,” Ben and Jerry’s tweeted.
This was the corporate Twitter account of Ben & Jerry’s, rather than the personal account of its leftist founders, which is controlled by its parent company, Unilever.
Black Lives Matter co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors earned nearly $20,000 a month serving as the chairwoman of a Los Angeles jail reform group in 2019, according to campaign finance records obtained by the Daily Caller.
Records show that Reform LA Jails paid Cullors a total of $191,000 in 2019 through her consulting firm, Janaya and Patrisse Consulting with the description: “P. Cullors, Principal Officer, Business Owner.” The payments were distributed to Cullors in multiple deposits, with the first deposit of $51,000 occurring between January 2019 and the end of June 2019.
The collective effort by corporate CEOs to push their political views related to a growing number of public issues is putting the United States on a dangerous trajectory, experts say.
In the latest notable example, chief executives of some of America’s largest companies recently put out statements criticizing amendments to Georgia’s voting laws, which expand the state’s voter identification requirements to absentee voting, among other changes.
