Drag queens do sexual themed performances in front of a baby who then hands them cash tips with the mom’s help pic.twitter.com/ywEAFy5Uhg
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 1, 2023
WTF?
wtf
Steve Bannon Says Elon Musk Is Owned by Chinese Communist Party
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has called Tesla founder Elon Musk “a complete phoney” and accused him of being in hock to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Bannon made the comment on the Tim Pool Daily Show podcast after Musk tweeted that he was “open to the idea” of acquiring Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The tech lender went under on Friday, stranding billions of dollars of investors’ and companies’ money, in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
China is Big Business to Musk
CNBC’s Cramer Urged Viewers to Buy Shares of SVB Last Month
Jim Cramer, CNBC analyst and host of Mad Money, recommended that his viewers buy shares of Silicon Valley Bank’s parent company last month, before the bank collapsed on Friday.
“The ninth-best performer to date has been SVB Financial. Don’t yawn,” Cramer told viewers during a February 8 episode of Mad Money about Silicon Valley Bank’s parent company.
Crime story
Street Matador pic.twitter.com/Q84mnu4lbP
— Steve Inman (@SteveInmanVoice) March 11, 2023
h/t Mauser
Zelensky snubbed by Oscar organisers for second time
A request by President Zelensky of Ukraine to appear at the Academy Awards has been rejected by the ceremony’s organisers for a second year in a row, it emerged last night.
Zelensky had been hoping to appear on Sunday’s broadcast following appearances at the Golden Globes and the Grammy Awards.
Names of Candidates Supported by Beijing an ‘Open Secret,’ Committee Told
The Chinese regime’s interference in Canadian elections revealed in recent media leaks is only the “tip of the iceberg,” and anti-Beijing activists say they have a good idea who its favoured candidates are, a Commons committee heard on March 10.
“If we want to say who are the 11 potential nominees that CSIS had kind of mentioned, I can pretty much guess who they are,” said Cheuk Kwan, co-chair of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China.
Kwan was referring to media reporting that the Chinese regime had funded at least 11 candidates in the 2019 election.
Cops likely stole thousands in cash from Toronto man during drug bust, judge finds
The court case for a man accused of drug trafficking has been tossed out after an Ontario judge found it “reasonable” to believe that Toronto police stole approximately $6,000 in cash seized while executing a warrant at the man’s apartment.
The Toronto police officers who searched and seized a quantity of cocaine and money from the accused’s apartment on Weston Road claimed they found a total of $19,390, according to court documents reviewed by CTV News Toronto.
Toronto is really starting to suck.
Veterans Affairs report confirms 4 inappropriate cases where MAID raised with veterans; other allegations ‘unfounded’
An investigation by Veterans Affairs Canada has confirmed a now-former employee had inappropriate conversations with four veterans about seeking medical assistance in dying (MAID), while all other allegations were determined to be “unfounded.”
Veterans Affairs released its findings on Friday from an investigation it carried out into the inappropriate conversations.
Altercation at Arizona hotel led to complaint about Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown
A complaint about the conduct of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown, who has been on leave with pay since Feb. 1, relates to an altercation at a hotel in Arizona.
Justice Brown, in a statement through his lawyers on Friday, said he was assaulted in the Jan. 28 incident.
Beavers are tormenting Britain
The romanticism of rewilders threatens our environment
The champagne corks must be popping pretty much continually at Beaver Trust HQ. Having been reintroduced to these isles in 2008, there are now about 2,000 Castor fiber out and about in Great Britain, swimming and munching trees from Cornwall to Scotland. Last year, two pairs were even released in London, the first introduction of the animal into a British urban area. Meanwhile, the Government has granted beavers protected species status, classifying them as “native”. All of this has been greeted with positive, if platitudinous, press.
US taxpayer dollars ‘helped cause greatest pandemic our world has seen’
US tax dollars paid for “gain-of-function” research that caused the “greatest pandemic our world has seen”, the former head of America’s national public health agency told Congress.
Dr Robert Redfield was director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention at the start of the pandemic and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
He told a Congressional committee that “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been funded in part by the US government and that the virus “looked engineered”.
Dr Redfield also said his initial analysis that the pandemic resulted from a laboratory leak had been “squashed” early on.
The virologist said he was excluded from a phone call on the origins of the pandemic in February 2020 by Dr Anthony Fauci and others, because they “wanted a single narrative” and he had a “different view”.
The fight between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre is taking Canadian politics to a dark place
The fight between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre was never going to be pretty, but this week both politicians fired off some words that could define not just their own fates, but the state of future Canadian political debate.
Poilievre, the Conservative leader, has gone where few, if any, opposition leaders have gone before, accusing the prime minister and his government of collaborating with a hostile foreign power — China, in this case.
Leaks to the media of Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents about China’s electoral interference, Poilievre contended, are evidence that the country’s top spies are worried about the loyalty of the leader of government.
From the paper that routinely labels conservatives as racists or racist adjacent etc etc
WTF?
This is what teachers are most concerned with… making sure there’s progress pride flags hanging in middle school classrooms pic.twitter.com/fYJgrncVpk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 10, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank Closed by Regulators
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. takes control of tech-focused lender following run on deposits
Regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank Friday after a run on deposits doomed the tech-focused lender’s plans to raise fresh capital.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it has taken control of SVB via a new bank it created called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. All of the bank’s deposits have been transferred to the new bank, the regulator said.
Insured depositors will have access to their funds by Monday morning, the FDIC said. Depositors with funds exceeding insurance caps will get receivership certificates for their uninsured balances.