Author: Blazingcatfur
The Mainstream Media’s Embarrassing Biden Lovefest
Their adulation is beyond parody.
When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at 11:48 a.m. on January 20, it was to be expected that the mainstream media would be ecstatic about the pomp and circumstance of their preferred candidate bringing his half-century of Swamp experience into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
‘They don’t want to lose control’: Australia’s competition chief on his country’s efforts to regulate big tech
Australia has become a test case for addressing the market dominance of big tech, one closely watched by Canada and the world
Rod Sims, the serious and sometimes feisty head of Australia’s competition and consumer authority, takes a liking to a comparison offered up to describe the battle playing out in his country between news publishers and big tech platforms controlled by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc.
News is like toothpaste: Consumers want and need it and would clearly suffer if the dominant distributors squeezed suppliers so much that it could no longer be made.
Germany: Meet Angela Merkel’s Second Successor
Armin Laschet, premier of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, has been chosen as the new leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He is now in a position to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor after general elections this September.
Laschet, a Merkel loyalist and continuity candidate, narrowly beat conservative Friedrich Merz by 521 to 466 votes in a run-off vote by party delegates on January 16. The CDU had previously chosen Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Merkel, but she stepped down as party leader in January 2020 after a series of regional electoral defeats cast doubt on her ability to retain the chancellorship.
I’ve heard this before somewhere…. Tensions rise as AstraZeneca tells EU promised deliveries were stretch goals
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s dispute with AstraZeneca over vaccine supplies intensified Wednesday as the drugmaker defended itself against claims that it had reneged on contractual commitments and the two sides sparred over plans for further talks.
AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot addressed the dispute for the first time, rejecting the EU’s assertion that the company was failing to honor its commitments to deliver coronavirus vaccines. Soriot said delivery figures in AstraZeneca’s contract with the 27-nation bloc were targets, not firm commitments, and they couldn’t be met because of problems in rapidly expanding production capacity.
Biden White House Warns It Won’t Allow Questions From Conservative Media
One of the big sea changes in the Trump administration for conservative media came at White House press conferences.
President Trump and his people opened up the press conferences from the narrow confines of the White House Correspondents Association and the mainstream media to a range of conservative media. That infuriated the media and the Biden White House is predictably signaling that will come to an end.
Delingpole: ‘Trussst Us! We‘re Not Evil‘ Claims Davos Great Reset Vid
The World Economic Forum wants you to know that there is nothing sinister about its globalist masterplan — aka The Great Reset — for a New World Order. It says so in a promo video, released to coincide with its annual Davos summit.
For Trudeau, there’s no political reason to fight for Keystone XL
After U.S. President Joe Biden moved recently to revoke permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “disappointed.”
That was a fairly tepid reaction to losing an infrastructure project billed as a job-generator and an essential prop for a struggling Canadian energy sector.
But Trudeau doesn’t really have an incentive to take on the Biden administration over Keystone because — economic and environmental arguments for and against the project notwithstanding — there simply isn’t much of a political case for fighting for it any longer.
A couple of skewed self-selected online polls then the CBC produces a Liberal Policy trial balloon and calls it “analysis”. That’s how the MSM rolls in Canada.
Islamophobia! Peterborough mosque’s call to prayer loudspeakers plan rejected
Plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers three times a day to a city neighbourhood have been rejected.
The Masjid Ghousia mosque on Gladstone Street in Peterborough applied to the city council to install the speakers on one of its minarets.
Planning permission has been refused on the grounds it would be “an unwelcome intrusion on the soundscape”.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Oh thank God! I thought they meant Denny Terrio!
That would have hurt.
“E-Tribunal” – That’s What They’re Calling Star Chambers Nowadays
Report calls for powerful new federal body to regulate social media
A federally funded panel is recommending the creation of a powerful new government regulator to oversee social media companies such as Facebook and Google and to require them to have strong content-moderation practices and to comply with a new legal duty to act responsibly.
The report by the Public Policy Forum (PPF)’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, to be released on Wednesday, also calls for the creation of a federal “e-tribunal” to hear complaints about specific social media posts.
The federal Liberal government plans to introduce legislation early this year to regulate social media companies, with a focus on online hate and harassment. The report’s recommendations are aimed at influencing that legislation.
Fuck you Nazi.
French appeals court rules Ottawa’s Hassan Diab to stand trial for 1980 terror attack
OTTAWA — A lawyer for Hassan Diab says a French appeal court’s order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of injustice.
Donald Bayne tells a news conference the decision delivered today in Paris flies in the face of the evidence.
The RCMP arrested Diab in November 2008 in response to a request by France.
Espionage Risk: BC police trained nearly 2,000 Chinese police officers since 2013
The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) has trained nearly 2,000 Chinese law enforcement students and officials since 2013, alongside dozens of Chinese state judges, according to a bombshell report from Business in Vancouver.
The JIBC’s international law enforcement studies (ILES) program, according to the report, has also trained officers from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, countries with a similarly poor track record for human rights, with minimal oversight.
Your China Class at work. Busy busy busy, always busy undermining Canada for their 30 pieces of silver.
University Of Ottawa Study Suggests Minorities Trip Out On Psychedelic Drugs To Heal Scars Inflicted On Them By Racist Canada
For people scarred by racism, one cure is a psychedelic trip, new research says. And it claims treatment with the same compound found in magic mushrooms and ecstasy decreases post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within 30 days.
For decades, the mind-bending effects of psychedelic drugs such as LSD have been well documented, but researchers in Canada and the United States wondered how the psychedelic drugs and psychotherapy would help people of color traumatized by racist abuse. The results were “a game changer,” Dr Monnica Williams, one of the co-authors of the study and a lead researcher at the University of Ottawa, believes.
Doesn’t say if it works on White folk, oops that sounds racist.
Jonathan Kay: If there really are 300 neo-Nazi groups in Canada, why can’t anyone name them?
For years now, progressives have been warning that neo-fascism represents a growing cancer within Canada. Since the riot at the Capitol, in particular, the Toronto Star has instructed us that “white supremacy” — not just everyday racism, but the real deal — is now an overt presence in public life. The NDP has jumped on board hard as well. Under the banner, “Take Action: Dismantle White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi Groups in Canada,” Jagmeet Singh’s party informs us that “there are 300 active far-right extremist groups operating across the country.”
Think about that. We’ve all heard of the Proud Boys (which many MPs want classified as a terrorist group), and nuts like Paul Fromm. And the 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada identified right-wing extremism driven by “white nationalism” as a major threat, rightly singling out Alexandre Bissonette’s horrific Quebec City rampage for special condemnation. But *300*? Wow.