Yesterday, in a speech to a Ukrainian delegation in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had the nerve to talk about the “slipping of democracy” as a result of “greater authoritarianism”, only a few weeks after Trudeau invoked the emergency act and triggered financial targeting against protestors who assembled against his regime. Again, the media ignore the inherent hypocrisy.
You just can’t make this up. The timing is exquisite. https://t.co/QZiq0SiOXf
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 18, 2022
The police who are attacking the truckers and seizing their fuel are exempt from the vaccine mandate the truckers are protesting against. Can’t make it up! pic.twitter.com/ekyvVW9oVB
— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) February 7, 2022
Labour and some Tory MPs are demanding immediate answers on whether Boris Johnson attended a drinks event in the Downing Street garden during lockdown.
In heated scenes in the Commons, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the PM “can run, but can’t hide” from scrutiny over the May 2020 gathering.
And Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Mr Johnson must quit if found to have broken Covid rules.
The PM has declined to say whether he went to the drinks. (That of course means he did. – Ed)
This is about the party at Downing Street all of five days earlier, plus some other ones.
On Monday, ITV published a leaked email from Mr Johnson’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, inviting 100 staff to “socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden” on 20 May 2020 – when lockdown rules in England banned large outdoor gatherings.
The invitation encouraged people to “bring your own booze” and “make the most of the lovely weather”.
https://twitter.com/tombradby/status/1480600958501634052
Despite the Canadian government having awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to North American manufacturers, Parliament Hill has been giving out masks made in China to MPs, their executive assistants and other employees.
A major nickel mine in a Philippines rainforest has continued to expand, mowing down acres of trees as global demand for minerals essential for electric vehicle manufacturing surges.
Those fears were apparently absent when Sultana visited the MOBO awards in Coventry, during which she was photographed in close proximity to others at an indoor event attended by thousands.
h/t Mauser98
Boris Johnson says no Covid rules were broken after reports Christmas parties were held in Downing Street at the height of last year’s lockdown.
The BBC has spoken to a source who attended a Downing Street gathering on 18 December, as first reported in the Mirror newspaper.
They said “several dozen” people were at the event, where party games were played and food and drink served.
The PM did not deny parties were held but said “all guidance was followed”.
The source at the 18 December gathering said it had gone on past midnight, and that the “mood was down”, with concern building about the new Kent variant of coronavirus.
…London was placed under Tier 3 lockdown restrictions on 14 December last year, after which time people were not allowed to mix indoors with anyone outside their household or support bubble.
How Boris Johnson’s spokespeople answered questions today about whether the Prime Minister broke Covid rules by having parties in Downing Street during lockdown. pic.twitter.com/5nknYjs5hO
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) December 1, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making a stunning move.
As rumors continue that she may be retiring before the 2022 midterm elections, she has made a purchase that has some scratching their heads.
The 81-year-old speaker has apparently purchased a $25 million mansion in Florida, The Nancy Pelosi Portfolio Tracker said on Twitter.
h/t Marvin
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green has dished some “personal dirt” on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Greene took to Twitter and said that Pelosi was on her plane and was “house hunting” in south Florida last week.
This, if true, would suggest that Pelosi may believe that Democrats are going to lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
By his own standards, Aykroyd would have to renounce some of his most famous performances and their lucrative residuals. They include the 1983 movie Trading Places, in which he appears in black face, and NBC’s Saturday Night Live, in which he famously used the phrase “Jane, you ignorant slut” to demean a woman during the “Weekend Update” segment.
h/t Marvin
Canadian politicians, both Liberals and Conservatives, have denounced Facebook for the suspension of the Tamil Guardian’s Instagram account. Instagram suspended the account of the Sri Lanka-based outlet for over 48 hours earlier this week.
The irony is that the same politicians that have called for more online censorship are the ones that have complained when social media’s algorithms have failed to censor what they want, and instead censored what they don’t want to be censored.
Climate-change crusader and former Vice President Al Gore published a new video on social media this week as world leaders gather in Rome and Scotland; saying it’s “time to say goodbye to coal, oil, and gas.”
“We are right now at a political tipping,” he warns in the video. “The window for limiting the increased temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius is closing. But we have the solutions we need to solve this crisis.”
