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Pro-Palestinian protesters ‘meant paraglider image as peace symbol’

Sure Jan.

Two women accused of sticking images of paragliders on their backs at a pro-Palestinian march were actually displaying a “cartoon parachute” used as a “symbol of peace”, lawyers have claimed.

Heba Alhayek, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, allegedly wore the pictures of paragliders at a march in central London seven days after militants from Hamas used paragliders to enter Israel from Gaza on October 7.

A third woman, Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo, 27, is accused of displaying the paraglider picture on a placard at the protest.

Update: Women guilty of terror offence over parachute image at pro-Palestinian march

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Canadian TV, Film, Music Industries Ask MPs for Protection Against AI

Canada’s actors, directors and musicians are sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence, saying it threatens their livelihood and reputations.

Groups representing people who work in TV, movies and music are calling on the Liberal government to protect their industries in its AI legislation.

Actors’ union ACTRA says unbridled use of AI could result in people’s names and images being misused in artificially crafted videos—or even replace human actors entirely.

People lose jobs everyday to AI. Whether it’s a labourer replaced by an industrial robot or a clerk by software and no one says boo.

The entertainemnt business is owed no special treatment.

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NFL fans show the proper disdain for the so-called ‘Black National Anthem’

That the NFL went all-in for Black Lives Matter makes sense, given that almost 60% of pro football players are black. It even went all-in for playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before games, including yesterday’s Super Bowl. It’s a lovely hymn in its own right, but there’s a problem: It’s billed as “the Black National Anthem.” That’s why Rep. Steve Cohen, an uber-woke House member from Memphis, later tweeted out his disappointment that Super Bowl fans insisted on there being only one National Anthem. Tweeters soon set him straight.

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How the Kennedy Family Caused Today’s Immigration Crisis

And brought Obama’s father to America

When LBJ signed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act into law, JFK had been dead for two years, but it, more than the Cuban missile crisis or the race to the moon, was his real legacy which still impacts us today when there are no more Americans on the moon or nukes in Cuba.

At the signing, LBJ paid tribute to “the vision of the late beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy”. Little did the 36th president know that the 44th president, born to a radical Kenyan student, was already growing up in this country due to JFK’s personal intervention during his 1960 presidential campaign.

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Biden Gives Taxpayer Dollars to Soros-Funded Groups to Interfere in Hungarian Elections

The Biden administration and leftist billionaire George Soros are tied at the hip, working in cahoots to undermine Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The U.S. Department of State entrusted Soros-funded Ökotárs Foundation and media watchdog Mérték Media Monitor to hand over $320,000 in taxpayer dollars to 15 media outlets critical of the pro-freedom Hungarian government, according to NGO and government documents. European Parliament elections take place from June 6 to June 9. Similarly, Hungary will hold local elections on June 9. Hungary-based political analyst András László and Rod Dreher spread the news in Jan. 27 posts on X.

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Shooter at Joel Osteen’s Texas mega-church may have transitioned, ‘Free Palestine’ written on rifle

The person who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Houston-area mega-church on Sunday has been named as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, according to the Houston Chronicle, as authorities revealed “Free Palestine” was written on the weapon used in the attack.

Moreno entered Osteen’s Lakewood Church just before 2 p.m. with a boy, believed to be about 4 or 5 years old, and opened fire into the church.

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The way you park could be making illegal alien benefit shoppers homeless say experts who really just want to ban private cars.

Could the way Canadians park vehicles be part of the housing crisis?

It’s no secret that Canada is facing a major housing shortage. But could the sheer amount of space used for parking vehicles be part of the problem?

A recent Re/Max report looking at participation in the housing market said the “vast majority” of lower-priced properties in the Greater Toronto Area are parking spaces, and that most of the 250 ‘properties’ listed for sale under the $400,000 price point are parking spaces, lockers and vacant land.

For housing advocates, it touched on a longtime frustration

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, WTF?

Doug Ford Just Fine With Sexual Mutilation Of Children

What Doug Ford insiders say about Danielle Smith’s plan for transgender rights — and what it means for Ontario

The premier was shaking his head before the reporter had finished asking him the question.

“No,” said Doug Ford when queried Monday about whether the Ontario government would consider “any similar action” to the controversial moves Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is making on transgender rights.

“We have a law here, we’re leaving everything alone,” he said.

By immediately shutting down the possibility of his Progressive Conservatives following Alberta’s United Conservatives’ decision to restrict youth hormone treatments and surgeries, Ford was, as is his wont, keeping in the mainstream of public opinion in Ontario.

Lost my vote. 

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Eric Idle hits out at Terry Gilliam as Monty Python money ‘runs out’

Eric Idle has criticised his fellow Monty Python star Terry Gilliam while complaining that he has to keep working at the age of 80 because his money has run out.

Idle spoke of his ­surprise that income had dried up from the comedy troupe, which was responsible for films such as Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Meaning of Life and the stage show Spamalot. “I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded,” he said on Twitter/X. “Python is a disaster. Spamalot made money 20 years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age.”

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Alberta NDP leadership candidate says federal carbon levy is ‘dead’

Alberta’s former deputy premier entered the province’s NDP leadership Sunday with criticism of the federal carbon levy and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Sarah Hoffman, who was deputy premier when the NDP was elected in 2015, joins fellow legislature members Kathleen Ganley and Rakhi Pancholi in the race to replace Rachel Notley, who announced last month she was stepping down.

The new leader is to be chosen in June.

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