When Prevent Is Worse Than the Cure

The UK’s Prevent labeled Shakespeare, Tennyson, Conrad, Chesterton, Tolkien, Chaucer, Kipling, and Milton “key texts” for “white nationalists.” Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1960s BBC TV documentary series “Civilization” was also named and shamed.

After much prevarication, in February the former Charity Commission supremo William Shawcross’s highly critical review of the government’s useless Prevent anti-terror strategy was finally released, unsurprisingly concluding that politically correct Prevent staff had applied a “double standard” towards perceived Islamist and Far-Right terrorist threats. Established in 2006 and now costing £49m per year, Prevent has apparently preferred to neglect Islamists in favour of the far easier target of conservative-minded individuals who, argued Shawcross, held views “well below the threshold of even non-violent extremism.”

Advised by alleged ‘anti-fascist’ groups whose definition of ‘fascist’ appeared to be ‘anyone who doesn’t think exactly like we do,’ Prevent drifted down the road of defining the majority of the population who voted Brexit, or consider immigration to be too high, as being at danger of becoming the next Unabomber.

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Five kids killed in Westchester crash were likely panhandling: video

The five children who were killed in a horrific car crash in Westchester County last month were likely coming back from panhandling at a New Jersey shopping center, according to surveillance video.

Sisters Zahnyiah, 12, and Shawnell Cross, 11, their half-brothers AJ Billips Jr., 17, and Andrew Billips, 8, and cousin Malik Smith Jr., 16, all died March 12 on their way home to Connecticut when Smith, who was driving them, ran off the road on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale.

WTF?

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Is this a CBC staffer’s kid?

A family paid over $400 for Nike shoes that lasted 10 weeks

Spencer Potter, 15, has his eye on the ball when it comes to becoming a professional soccer player.

He’s been playing the game since he was three, practises several times a week with an elite team in Mississauga, Ont., and dreams of joining a pro team.

So when Nike released a limited edition of soccer cleats last fall — the Zoom Mercurial Superfly 9 Elite CR7 Firm Ground Cleats — Spencer wanted in.

Sorry kid, you got ripped off, 3rd world sweatshop multinationals do that every minute of every day.

But was this news? For whom?

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No one saw this coming? … Statue Is Defaced in England After Children Were Given Crayons

Bright blue crayon marks were found on a statue that is more than two centuries old at a conservation site in England after activity packs with crayons were handed out to children at the property, officials said.

The statue and a memorial were defaced this month at Croome, a 700-acre property that is home to a mansion and two castles as well as violets, tulips and bluebells.

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As Dictated By Katie Telford & Xi Jinping: Even small leaks can reveal big problems

The message: there is trouble at CSIS, and if the government doesn’t wake up, it could leave Canada vulnerable to threats from hostile foreign interests – or, conceivably, from domestic terrorism

… The message sender(s) – one or more disgruntled, or genuinely alarmed, CSIS officers – were not whistleblowers in the customary sense. Their mission was not to expose malfeasance, corruption, or some ghastly mistake that the agency had made.

Their message was political, its delivery staged to embarrass the government without revealing any truly damaging information. It conveyed a sense of festering antipathy in the relationship between CSIS and the Trudeau Liberal government.

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RCMP work-from-home policy caused case against alleged ChiCom asset at Agriculture Canada to fall apart, court document reveals

Delays caused by the RCMP’s work-from-home directives in the early days of the pandemic are the reason for the collapse of a criminal case against a former Agriculture Canada scientist who was accused of illegally taking payments from China.

The Saskatchewan RCMP arrested the scientist, Yantai Gan, in November, 2019, and he stopped working for the federal government shortly afterward. He was charged with breach of trust by a public official, as well as fraud.

Now this is so stupid you have to wonder if the fix was in.

h/t OJ

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Study Shows Mothers of Boys With Gender Issues Are Mental

The abstract of a scientific study published in 1991 has been making the rounds on social media, and it is shocking on two levels. The first wave of shock (although not surprise) comes at you from what the study discovered: the mothers of gender dysphoric boys tend to suffer from a host of mental illnesses of their own.

The study (full text can be found here), “Mothers of boys with gender identity disorder: a comparison of matched controls,” was performed by researchers Sonia Marantz and Susan Coates, both of whom are Ph.D.s.

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Biden, Harris officially announce 2024 reelection bid

President Joe Biden formally announced his bid for re-election Tuesday, asking voters to give him another four years as America’s oldest president to help him “finish the job” despite plunging support.

“Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours,” the 80-year-old president tweeted early Tuesday.

“That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job.”

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MPs exempt Trudeau’s brother from testifying about controversial Trudeau Foundation donation

Alexandre Trudeau reportedly negotiated and signed a deal for a $200,000 donation from a Chinese billionaire in 2016

OTTAWA – The prime minister’s brother, Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau, will not have to testify before a parliamentary committee probing the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and allegations of foreign interference in federal elections.

On Monday, MPs who are on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts unanimously agreed to launch a brief study composed of two hearings into the “situation” at the Trudeau Foundation, on the condition that the witnesses not include any elected officials or Trudeau family members.

Poilievre wanted Junior’s bro to testify but Conservatives voted to give him a pass. Okey Dokey, nothin to see here.

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Adam Zivo: Former Green party leadership candidate goes to Moscow to whitewash war

Dimitri Lascaris’ apparent pro-Putin sympathies reveals tensions within Canada’s Greens.

Prominent Canadian “eco-socialist,” and former Green party leadership candidate, Dimitri Lascaris stirred up controversy this month by visiting Russia and seemingly endorsing pro-Kremlin propaganda. His visit illustrates potential divisions within Canada’s Green party, as well as the pitfalls of far-left politics.

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Tesla readies export of Model Y to Canada from the Slave State of Communist China

Tesla has begun producing in Shanghai a version of the Model Y to be sold in Canada this year, the first time it will ship cars to North America from China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plan and a production memo seen by Reuters.

The move would connect Tesla’s biggest and most cost-efficient factory in the world to North America, its largest market. The Model Y is the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s best-selling model globally.

Manufacture in China will hurt Tesla’s brand.

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Tucker Carlson out at Fox News, network confirms

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting.

The network said in a press release that the last program of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired Friday.

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press release from the network said.

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