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New York Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting

The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast about ISIS was an “institutional failure” that included shoddy reporting based off interviews with a “con artist,” executive editor Dean Baquet said Friday.

In a blistering editors’ note, the newspaper said the 2018 series “Caliphate” blew its journalistic standards.

An internal investigation into the 12-part series was launched after the main subject, Shehroze Chaudhry, was arrested in late September in Canada on charges he lied about his role in ISIS activity in Syria.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Journalists", New York Times, The Media Lies

BONOKOSKI: Donations poured into PET foundation once Justin Trudeau became Liberal leader

When Justin Trudeau was elected Liberal leader in 2013, the money was soon raining down on the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation — not to mention Trudeaumania 2.0 making him prime minister two years later.

Suddenly the foundation had a pied piper in spirit as the younger Trudeau stepped aside to avoid the bane of bad optics.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Sleazebag Joe Biden claims GOP calls to probe sleazebag son Hunter’s business dealings are ‘foul play’ designed to hurt HIM

President-elect Joe Biden said he has ‘great confidence’ in his son Hunter and is not concerned about investigations into his tax affairs during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Last week it was revealed that Hunter was under federal investigation for his taxes and business dealings in the Ukraine in a probe kept secret before the election by Attorney General Bill Barr.

Biden defended his son to Colbert on Thursday night alongside wife Jill, saying: ‘I’m not concerned about any accusations made against him. It used to get to me.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Diane Francis: Pandering to the panda is why Trudeau’s China policy has failed

Dominic Barton’s appointment as Canadian ambassador to China last year was inappropriate because he, and the firm he worked at for much of his life, McKinsey & Company, have been unabashed fanboys of the People’s Republic of China for years.

Pandering to the panda is why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy toward China has failed. Billions of dollars worth of contract breaches by China remain unaddressed, two innocent Canadian businessmen remain political hostages and the Chinese government’s rhetoric toward Canada has become toxic.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Men who dragged a 70-year-old Christian woman through her village naked because her son was rumoured to be having an affair with a Muslim woman are acquitted by a court in Egypt

Three men who stripped and dragged an elderly Christian woman through an Egyptian village over rumours that her son was having an affair with a Muslim woman have been acquitted by a court.

Soad Thabet, now 74, was the victim of the sectarian attack in 2016 which saw her paraded naked by a mob of vigilantes in Al-Karm.

The attack was accompanied by the torching of Coptic Christian homes and villagers angrily calling for the religious minority to be expelled.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Egypt, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islamic Barbarians

Holocaust Denier Remains on Northwestern Website After Author of Controversial Jill Biden Is A Joke Op-Ed Scrubbed

Northwestern University scrubbed its website of references to a former professor who penned a controversial op-ed against Jill Biden—but it continues to feature a professor who denies the Holocaust.

Joseph Epstein, a writer and former adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University, had argued in the Wall Street Journal that Jill Biden shouldn’t call herself a “Dr.” Following the op-ed, Northwestern issued a condemnation of Epstein and removed his profile from its website. Yet the school still has a page for Arthur Butz, a tenured engineering professor who calls the Holocaust a “hoax” and a “legend.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture", WTF?

Ontario reports 2,290 new Covid infections

Ontario is reporting nearly 2,300 new cases of COVID-19 ahead of an announcement from the Ford government that could see new restrictions introduced in some regions.

The Ministry of Health says that there were 2,290 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday as well as an additional 40 deaths. That is down from the record 2,432 infections reported one day prior but it still represents the second highest number that we have ever seen in a single day.

The rolling seven-day average also continues to rise and now stands at 2,089, which is up 11.6 per cent from this time last week and nearly 19 per cent from two weeks ago.

Doug Ford says ‘everything is on the table’ as pressure mounts for wider and stricter COVID-19 lockdowns

Premier Doug Ford is under mounting pressure to impose wider lockdowns and make them more strict as the daily number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise, hitting another record and risking a major surge over the holidays.

The Ontario Hospital Association called on Ford to put almost half of the province’s regional health units into a four-week lockdown along with Toronto, Peel Region, York Region and Windsor-Essex when he announces the weekly changes to public health measures Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

WARMINGTON: When cops, courts and city hall fail, who ya gonna call?

If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call?

Primary Defence Corp. Security company, of course.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime

‘Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.’ – UK Judge in landmark ruling favouring Gal over bizarre looking cross dresser who tried to force her to call him a woman

Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the ‘right to offend’ in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on ‘woke’ intolerance.

Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: ‘Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.’

They added that ‘free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another’. The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•Big Tranny

Ignorant PC Nazis end Durham Region Camp X exhibit over military emblem

After eight years, it’s gone.

Earlier this month, Historian Lynn Philip Hodgson was shocked to open an email concerning his exhibit on Special Training School No. 103 — popularly known as Camp X — which since 2012 has resided at Durham Region’s Whitby headquarters.

The so called offensive “Iron Cross” symbol is still in use by Germany’s Airforce and pre-dates the Nazi era.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•Batshit Crazy Grievance Mongers, Political Correctness

Heap Big Fake Indian Win Fat Award Make Grey Owl Angry At Cultural Appropriation

Award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer’s Indigenous identity under scrutiny

An acclaimed film director lauded for two high-profile Indigenous productions this year says she’s sorry for not verifying her ties to an Algonquin community after facing questions over the validity of her identity.

Michelle Latimer, who recently directed the CBC television series Trickster and the documentary Inconvenient Indian, has risen to become one of Canada’s most prominent names in Indigenous filmmaking.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•"Affirmative Action", "Cultural Appropriation", WTF?

Liberal Party Eco-luddites float idea of North American ban on new gasoline-powered cars

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada wants deeper environmental ties with the United States and one result could be a North American ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks, a senior cabinet member said on Thursday.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Ottawa and the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden both agreed zero emissions vehicles needed to be deployed faster.

Canada will discuss with the United States how to achieve this and also improve the overall performance of the transport sector, which accounts for 26% of Canadian emissions, he said in a phone interview.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 18, 2020•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Maria Bartiromo drops the mother of all bombshells

Every one of us who voted for Trump believes that the only reason Biden appeared to walk away with more votes was because of massive election fraud. On Tuesday, during her morning show, Maria Bartiromo dropped what must be, in this crazy year, the mother of all bombshells. According to Bartiromo, an intel source told her that Trump won the election. It’s now up to the Supreme Court, said the source, to stop the clock from running so the proper election result can be implemented, returning Trump to the White House.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 17, 2020•0•"US Presidential Election 2020"

Hemingway: Hunter Biden Email Ties Joe Biden To Chinese Oligarchs

New documents reported by Fox News Wednesday show communication between Hunter Biden and a Chinese businessman, further implicating former Vice President Joe Biden in his son’s foreign business dealings, Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway said on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday morning.

“You don’t want the president’s son having ties to corrupt foreign adversaries or governments because you worry how that will affect U.S. policy,” Hemingway said.

by Blazingcatfur•December 18, 2020December 17, 2020•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"