Another day brings yet another tale of China’s atrocities at home, or in Hong Kong, in Africa, or for that matter in America.
And they’re met with little in the way of meaningful solutions.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible
It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.
– PROFESSOR NEIL FERGUSON, THE TIMES
The year the ruling class got woke
Identity politics has become the new secular religion. We need more heretics.
For me, the defining image of 2020 was also the funniest: that of Democratic lawmakers in the US taking the knee, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, draped in Ghanaian kente cloth.
Watching thoroughly establishment politicians, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer to the fore, literally kneeling before the new woke politics was striking. It provoked so many questions, not least if Pelosi and Schumer (80 and 70 respectively) would be able to rise again unassisted.
Spanker Knob, Bullshit Hill and Guys Dirty Hole are all real places in Australia
The North Pole is located a short distance from Marble Bar, the hottest place in inland Australia. Siberia is near Kalgoorlie, with an average summer temperature of 35C. Australian humour is not complicated. And when you colonise a land that is almost the size of Europe, it’s easy to run out of names.
Which is possibly why there are so many bottoms in Tasmania.
From Stalking Dog Walkers to Banning Easter Eggs: Britain‘s COVID Cops
Stalking dog walkers, fines for unauthorised car journeys, telling Britons to snitch on their neighbours, and arresting protesters at Britain’s sacred space for free speech are just some examples of British policing during 2020, the year of the Chinese virus.
LA’s Covid ‘tsunami’: inside the new center of America’s raging pandemic
Los Angeles is becoming the center of America’s out-of-control coronavirus pandemic in these final days before the new year, with officials warning that a meteoric rise in infections is crushing the healthcare system in one of the country’s largest metropolitan regions.
LA county has faced an onslaught of terrifying Covid developments in recent days, including a surge in deaths, dire shortages of hospital resources, and fears that doctors will have to make agonizing choices to ration care.
“Do we need to start filming people dying?” said Marcia Santini, a nurse at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), medical center, who is recovering from a brutal Covid-19 infection that forced her to be hospitalized at her own workplace. “People need to understand, there is no place to take care of you. You can’t have this mindset that this isn’t going to happen to you. It doesn’t work like that any more. The virus is rampant.”
Some Interesting Questions Raised About the Viral Video of the Nashville Bombing
Ford Fischer who has done a lot of coverage of Antifa and Black Lives Matter may have come across something interesting when it comes to the bombing in Nashville this morning.
One of the most unusual things about the Nashville bombing was that there were reportedly gun shots before hand and then a recording in the RV which warned people to evacuate out of the area before the RV blew up.
‘Highly damaging’: Girl Scouts accuse Boy Scouts of poaching their membership in latest filing of two-year legal battle
Boys will be boys. And, according to court documents, girls should be Girl Scouts.
The Girl Scouts, in a pointed Manhattan Federal Court filing, accused the Boy Scouts of America of wrongfully crossing the gender line by poaching potential female members from their organization over the last two years.
“As a result of Boy Scouts’ infringement, parents have mistakenly enrolled their daughters in Boy Scouts thinking it was Girl Scouts,” the 108-year-old group charged in a Christmas Eve court filing. “According to the Boy Scouts, blame for the rampant marketplace confusion lies at everybody’s feet but its own.”
Trump Says Supreme Court ‘Incompetent and Weak’ Over Election Fraud
President Donald Trump said that the U.S. Supreme Court failed to address massive election fraud properly.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has been totally incompetent and weak on the massive Election Fraud that took place in the 2020 Presidential Election,” he wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday morning.
“We have absolute PROOF, but they don’t want to see it—No ‘standing’, they say. If we have corrupt elections, we have no country!” he added.
Lockdown police go wild
Ezra took a look at some of the most recent videos showing the inhumanity of the lockdowns.
WARMINGTON: Long line-ups at airport instead of stores on Boxing Day 2020
Who says there not line-ups on this Boxing Day in the year 2020!
In fact, these lines were longer than you would normally see on Dec. 26 outside of any store. Seems these thousands of people’s mad dash was not for bargains but for a seat to get out of dodge.
The North Face’s Absurd, Hypocritical Virtue-Signaling
They refuse to serve companies in “bad” industries — and in the end it’s their loss.
Virtue-signaling, and the hypocrisies that inevitably accrue to it, are nothing new. Neither is it new that those who virtue-signal while engaging in or benefiting from those things that they decry are deeply self-deluded about their hypocrisy.
Doorway Denizens: San Francisco’s beleaguered business owners were hoodwinked into building makeshift housing for the homeless.
With the Covid-19 shutdown dragging on for months, and business owners and employees struggling to stay afloat, San Francisco’s restaurants, cafés, bars, and fitness centers were permitted to create patios, or “parklets,” so that they could operate outdoors. This option offered a critical lifeline. Running the gamut from modest to elaborate, the parklets soon became ubiquitous. They stretched by the hundreds along sidewalks and into streets and alleyways in every district in the city. Small-business owners and their staffs finally had some revenue coming in, and their communities rejoiced in any semblance of normal life returning.
Russian agents foil ‘Islamic State’ terror attack
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday it had prevented an attack by a terrorist group with links to the Islamic State (IS) armed group.
The FSB said it had arrested four people who were set to carry out the offensive in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan.
“Members of the group planned to detonate an explosive close to an administrative building belonging to security services, followed by an armed attack against interior ministry employees in the city of Makhachkala,” the FSB said in a statement.