The European Union’s much-touted campaign to vaccinate 450 million Europeans against Covid-19 has gotten off to an inauspicious start. The vaccination rollout has been plagued by bureaucratic sclerosis, poorly-negotiated contracts, penny-pinching and blame shifting — all wrapped in a shroud of secrecy. The result is a needless and embarrassing shortage of vaccines, and yet another a crisis of legitimacy for the EU.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Leading figure on Sadiq Khan’s diversity commission is a Commie anti-vaccine activist who wants to topple Britain’s racist statues
A leading figure in a campaign to topple Britain’s statues is a hard-left fanatic who previously expressed scepticism around the Pfizer vaccine, his social media posts have revealed.
Toyin Agbetu, 53, joined Sadiq Khan’s new diversity commission this week to help investigate whether to remove statues and road names of prominent historical figures connected to the slave trade.
Mr Agbetu was previously known for his 2007 outburst in front of the Queen in 2007, when he shouted ‘you should be ashamed’ during a service at Westminster Abbey.
UK: New ‘do not resuscitate’ orders imposed on Covid-19 patients with learning difficulties
People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite of widespread condemnation of the practice last year and an urgent investigation by the care watchdog.
Mencap said it had received reports in January from people with learning disabilities that they had been told they would not be resuscitated if they were taken ill with Covid-19.
This is a feature not a bug, I have witnessed the callousness of our own medical bureaucracy.
Pray you don’t become an undesirable cost.
The language of our bureaucracy is chilling; Dying is referred to as “transitioning” due to “life limiting causes.”
Starvation is called “Allowing nature to take it’s course.”
If you decline an assisted death they will offer a sleep drug which will accomplish the same thing, just a little more slowly.
“It’s horror”: The green urinals of Paris turn into a fiasco – thousands of Euros pissed away!
(Note – Google translate) Installed in the summer of 2020 in the Chapel district, the “Naturinoirs”, which were to aid in the greening of the district, turned into a total fiasco. Dilapidated, unsanitary and inefficient, they are now closed to the public.
It was a foregone conclusion. Less than six months after their installation, the “Naturinoirs” of Paris have already become giant bins. Basically, reports Le Parisien , the three installations – two urinals and a cabin – were to allow urine to be recycled, in order to transform the latter into fertilizer. Unfortunately, the “Naturinoirs” do not work, the shadow of the neighborhood prevents the solar panels powering the equipment from working. Worse, the huge tanks, which can contain 1000 liters of urine, leak … After barely a few weeks, the “Naturinoirs” are extremely damaged, and no longer work at all. And local residents describe the unpleasant consequences of this failure to the Parisian :“The vespasians never worked! says a local resident. It was horror. Liters of piss flowing on the pavement and no one to clean up. The horror! “
Why Canada is at the mercy of vaccine nationalism during the COVID pandemic
OTTAWA – For the better part of a month, Canada’s vaccine effort has plummeted down international rankings, as little vaccine has arrived on our shores.
Americans, Britons and Israelis, along with those living in tiny nations like the Seychelles and Malta, are much more likely to have received a shot than people living in Canada, where as of this week only 2.4 per cent of people have received even one shot of a COVID vaccine.
Senate votes 55-45 to allow witnesses and more evidence for Trump impeachment case
BREAKING: Senate votes 55-45 to allow witnesses and more evidence for Trump impeachment case, slowing the progression of a trial that could have concluded Saturday. Five Republicans voted yes, including Lindsey Graham, who switched from an initial no vote https://t.co/3HfaYxaxQC pic.twitter.com/flGv46j7AX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 13, 2021
In a surprise move on Saturday, the Senate voted to call witnesses in former President Trump’s impeachment trial. “Finally something unscripted,” Senator Mark Warner said after the 55-45 vote.
Must be the unseen hand of the KKK!
TDSB human rights report says anti-Black racism involved in ‘overwhelming’ majority of hate incidents
The Toronto District School Board has seen a stark increase in human rights complaints in recent years linked to racism — specifically anti-Black racism — with the bulk of complaints launched by teachers, according to an alarming new report.
And the inordinate number of human rights incidents reported by Black administrators is so concerning that the board has launched a separate review, says the TDSB’s Human Rights Annual Report 2018-2020.
“We see a very distinct pattern of a disproportionate number of complaints being based on race, specifically anti-Black racism,” said Jim Spyropoulos, executive superintendent of equity, engagement and well-being at the board.
Black teachers launching complaints? No question then, the TDSB is something straight out of Birth of a Nation!
I always suspected the TDSB’s incessant humble brag about diversity was just a sham.
“Diversity” is a weaponized grift. Used by race hustlers to shake down and demonize the opposition and consolidate power.
Ontario reports 1,300 new Kung Flu cases
Ontario is reporting 1,300 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 58,800 tests completed. Locally, there are 433 new cases in Toronto, 253 in Peel and 116 in York Region.
As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 456,947 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 13, 2021
Canada is ‘playing chicken’ with COVID-19 by reopening while variants are spreading widely
Much of Canada is lifting lockdown measures and reopening risky indoor settings while experts warn fast-spreading coronavirus variants threaten to jeopardize recent progress and trigger a brutal third wave.
On the same day Manitoba announced its first case of the variant initially detected in the United Kingdom, the province also said it would reopen restaurants, gyms, places of worship, museums, art galleries, tattoo parlours, nail salons and libraries.
Sainted Irish Mother is now experiencing her 3rd Covid Lockdown while in hospital. Thursday there were 2 cases on her floor, Friday 5. Today? We’re waiting on the test results for Mom and the rest. Visits are once again verboten until Feb 26 at the earliest. The isolation is killing her.
White Supremacy and the Dearth of Ideas
My wife was watching a TV program that caught my attention as I was walking through the room. It was an episode of Madame Secretary in which one of the protagonists is embedded in a White Supremacist organization to disrupt a pending attack. I commented that the series was winding down and would likely be canceled soon.
US Marshals, ICE ‘Reevaluate’ Operations on Sex Offenders After Biden Deportation Freeze
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are working to “reevaluate” enforcement operations on sex offenders after a recent executive order issued by President Joe Biden.
“According to our Sex Offender Investigations Branch chief, the USMS is working with ICE to reevaluate upcoming enforcement operations to ensure compliance with recent Executive Orders issued by the POTUS,” the USMS told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
Facebook censors award-winning journalist for criticising the WHO
It looks like something plucked straight out of another age, a foreign culture where freedom of expression is always subject to a censor’s whims. Not only is it labelled ‘False Information’ but the accompanying image is greyed out, a design no doubt honed by the ‘user response experts’ at Facebook to dissuade users from clicking on it.
But this is the UK in 2021 and the post is an UnHerd article from yesterday that has now been labelled as misinformation by Facebook.
But Where Are the Clients’ Yachts?
There’s an ancient Wall Street joke about a visitor to the Hamptons who is shown harbors full of the yachts of stockbrokers and bond salesmen. He naively inquires, “But where are the customers’ yachts?”
We might ask the same question about the clients of diversity consultants.
These days, we are constantly lectured that hiring more diversity is the route to riches. Studies, we are assured, prove that organizations that employ more blacks, women, or whatever will make more money.
Yet the people who get paid to tell us that diversity-inclusion-equity (DIE) is good for us seldom can remember documented examples of organizations that gained an enduring competitive advantage by fighting racism or sexism.
AOC Blamed Trump for Assaults on Elderly Asians; The Attacker was Muslim
When a video of an assault on a 91-year-old Asian man went viral, the media and civil rights groups were quick to blame President Trump for using the term, “Chinese Virus”.
“We stand with our Asian American & Pacific Islander community against the rising tide of racism and hate crimes that have been stoked to a fever pitch, much of amplified by the actions of our last president,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tweeted another false accusation.
Why Ibram X Kendi won’t be cancelled – He’s accused of making ‘transphobic’ comments but woke enough to survive the scandal.
On 25 January, Dr Ibram X Kendi, author of How To Be An Antiracist, took part in a conversation with the New York State Association of Independent Schools on the topic of ‘How To Be An Antiracist School’. I am only aware that the eSeminar took place because an ‘EXCLUSIVE CLIP’ allegedly from it was shared on Twitter.
In the clip Kendi speaks for less than a minute and recounts for those in attendance via Zoom how ‘I think it was last week my daughter came home and said she wanted to be a boy.
Sharia-Enforcing Amazon Brownshirts Delete Book That Criticized Islam
The freedom of speech is on the ropes, and it just received another body blow. Over at Amazon, you can still get Friedrich Nietzsche’s God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. You can still get Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. You can get Christianity Disproved: The conclusive proof that Christianity is false. You can get God Needs To Go: Why Christian Beliefs Fail. You can get All That’s Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More. You can get Four Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer: Breaking the Spell of Christian Belief. And on and on and on. But you can’t get Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion by the New English Review’s Rebecca Bynum.