Opioid toxicity deaths were falling across the country prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But then came lockdown in March 2020.
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Fauci Doubted The Swift Development Of A Vaccine. Now He’s Trying To Take Credit For It
“When I saw what happened in New York City, almost overrunning of our health care system, it was like, ‘Oh my goodness,’” the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CNN. “And that’s when it became very clear that the decision we made on January the 10th to go all out and develop a vaccine may have been the best decision that I’ve ever made with regard to an intervention as director of the institute.”
Basic Income Programs in Marin County and Oakland Exclude White People. Is That Legal?
Basic income pilot programs are proliferating throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal is to empower poor families with unconditional cash grants. But there’s a catch: You aren’t eligible if you’re white.
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Instead Of A Carbon Tax On Canadians, Impose ‘Climate Tariffs’ On China
We need to decouple our economy from China anyway, and if calling tariffs ‘climate tariffs’ is what governments need to feel good about it then it’s worth the price.
Trudeau co-hosts world leaders’ meeting as UN warns of looming global debt crisis
The UN says the world needs to take action to help governments in lower-income countries gain access to cash and to help ease their debt burdens — or risk an uneven global recovery.
Tam criticized for supporting ‘indefensible’ assessment of COVID-19 risk
An expert who worked on the Auditor-General’s report that criticized Canada’s lack of preparation for COVID-19 says the government’s risk assessments were “an utter failure” and cannot be defended.
Liberal activist Naomi Wolf warns that vaccine passports will spell the end of individual freedom
Speaking to Steve Hilton, Wolf said “I am not overstating this, I can’t say it forcefully enough, this is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned.”
‘Heavily armed’ antifa rioters descend on Oregon Capitol targeting vehicles with projectiles and lasers
“A rioting #antifa militant was nearly run over by a truck at the Oregon state capitol in Salem. #Antifa have gathered there today with weapons. They’re throwing rocks at vehicles passing by. Police are not getting involved,” journalist Andy Ngo tweeted, accompanied by video of the scene.
Oxford University May Scrap Sheet Music for Being Complicit in ‘White Supremacy’
The woke educators went on to claim that musical notation itself is a “colonialist representational system” that has “complicity to white supremacy”. The claim is similar to leftist pronouncements in America that mathematics is inherently racist.
Senators Demand Answers From Secret Service Over Hunter Biden Gun Scandal
In what appears to be just the latest scandal engulfing the first family, compliments of Hunter, Politico reported that his sister-in-law, with whom he was having a romantic relationship at the time, seized a handgun from his pickup truck, took it to a dumpster behind a local upscale grocery store, and proceeded to chuck the gun inside.
Later, after telling Hunter what she had tone, Hallie Biden went back to retrieve the .38 revolver on Hunter’s instructions but it wasn’t there. Turns out that a man who frequently digs rummages through the trash bin found the gun and turned it over to the grocer.
At some point, the Politico report notes, Secret Service agents stationed in Wilmington, Del., where Biden, the then-ex-VP lives, visited the gun store where Hunter bought the weapon and asked for the sales paperwork. Fearing the agents were simply going to take the paperwork and memory hole it, he refused to give it up; later, agents from the ATF showed up to inspect the sales records.
But what was the Secret Service doing getting involved in what appeared to be a lover’s spat, especially since Joe Biden was not under protection by the agency at the time? Why would the agents attempt to confiscate the gun sales record?
Rally held downtown to raise awareness about anti-Asian racism
Organizers of the demonstration said they are “outraged and heartbroken” by the events that took place on March 16 when Robert Aaron Long allegedly killed four people inside two Atlanta spas and four others at a massage business roughly 50 kilometres away.
NIKE, Rapper Unveil “Satan Shoes” With Blood Sloshing Around In the Sole
Nike, in what seems to be too polished to be an April Fools day joke (but still may be), they have create a Satan Shoe.
Ontario education minister calls on feds to procure COVID-19 vaccines for children
In a letter to three federal ministers, Stephen Lecce said that it is critical that Canada looks ahead and applies the “lessons learned on the importance of forward planning” in obtaining and distributing vaccines to students and children as soon as they are approved by Health Canada.
Why?
Extinction Rebellion conducted a Melbourne workshop, blaming the alleged climate emergency on ‘white privilege’
The only problem is, China and India are the biggest polluters on the planet.
So I went to ask them how it works, and the only answer I got was “whiteness doesn’t limit itself to the colour of skin”.
Biden Unhinged: Calls Attempts To Stop Election Fraud ‘Sick’ And ‘Un-American’
Biden flew off the handle over the fact that several states are taking steps to reform their election laws in ways he doesn’t like.
9-year-old girl found dead after trying to cross Rio Grande into U.S.
News of her death — the first of a child that’s been reported amid the Biden-era surge of unaccompanied children who have swamped border facilities — was released Saturday.
Can you imagine the outcry if Trump, or any Republican, was President?
Obama Quote from 2005 Makes the Perfect Counter-Argument to Dems’ Filibuster Power-Grab
It’s not like we didn’t see this coming.
As the 2020 election process unfolded, Democrats came to an inexorable conclusion: They could very plausibly take the White House and the Senate, and they could plausibly hold the House, but their victories in those three areas wouldn’t be resounding or historic.
Whoever was nominated, if they won, would win modestly. Once it became clear the nominee was Joe Biden, the polls showed him consistently ahead — but every time he’d start opening up a big lead nationally, it’d snap back like a rubber band. In swing states, that lead was less consistent and considerably smaller, when it existed at all. There was going to be no repudiation of the Republicans or Trumpism.
And most importantly, they weren’t going to get anything near the 60 votes they would need in the Senate to end the filibuster. There was no landslide on tap, no resounding defeat that would force moderate Republicans, tails between their elephantine legs, to vote with them.
Thus, the drum began to be banged, and hard: End the filibuster. Mind you, the first drum majors in the band were on the left fringe. In the Democratic field, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and billionaire tartan-tie enthusiast Tom Steyer were the first candidates whose poll numbers didn’t have to be measured with electron microscopy to embrace it.
CNN Describes Horrific Murder Of UberEats Driver As An ‘Accident’
Mohammad Anwar, who is 66 years old and from Springfield, Va., died after two girls aged 13 and 15 dragged him while he gripped the car they were stealing. The minors eventually flipped the vehicle, flinging Anwar to the sidewalk on Tuesday. The minors are from the DC area, according to police.
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Conservative climate plan expected in coming months: O’Toole
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole joined Rosemary Barton [we know how much you love her! – Sarc] Live to discuss his party’s climate-change plan and China’s sanctions on MP Michael Chong.
Tories demand Trudeau testify on WE deal after Liberals reject hearing from PM staff
The demand follows bickering between opposition parties and the Liberals last week over a Conservative-backed motion in the House of Commons that saw MPs vote to have senior members of Trudeau’s staff testify before the ethics committee.
30 travellers entering Canada caught with suspected fake COVID-19 test results: CBSA
In a statement emailed to Global News on Sunday, CBSA said since January, when the federal government implemented requirements that all travellers returning to Canada by air provide proof of a negative molecular test, “officers have been on the lookout for fraudulent COVID-19 test results.”
Senators say Biden officials blocked them from taking photos of migrant facilities; Ted Cruz posts video of confrontation
Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) alleged that a “Biden aide” instructed him to delete photos of the severely cramped migrant processing facility, and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) shared a video of his confrontation with an alleged government official. Braun and Cruz were two of 18 Republican senators who visited the migrant facility in Texas to see the conditions for themselves.
China Weaponizes Social Justice Warriors and Black Lives Matter In Covert War Against the U.S.
The opening salvo in this all-out campaign was fired at the U.S.-China summit in Alaska on March 19. The Chinese delegation, besides publicly humiliating the Biden administration, used the summit to accused the U.S. of “deep-seated” racism. Chinese representatives referred to the propaganda put out by the BLM movement to accuse the U.S. of ‘slaughtering’ Black Americans.
2020 chaos ‘is precisely how elections are stolen’
“The further we get from the November 2020 election, the more we will see documented evidence of voting irregularities, manipulations and gamesmanship,” writes Chris Farrell in a column for the Gatestone Institute.
‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won’t be easy
The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as “vaccine passports” — that would allow Americans to prove they have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus as businesses try to reopen.
h/t Mauser98