Denmark Passes the World’s First ‘Burp Tax’—But This Is No Laughing Matter

Denmark, according to The New York Times (NYT), is going ahead with its livestock “Burp Tax.” Though hotly contested, the Danish government has nevertheless finally settled on levying farmers 300 kroners (~$43) per ton for carbon dioxide emissions, ramping to $106 per ton by 2035. As is the case with many of these farm-targeted green interventions, the action is ludicrously ineffectual at addressing the trumped-up problem, while remarkably effective at further cementing state controls over economic production.

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No Whites, Please.

“No whites” Birmingham

The next James Bond is increasingly unlikely to be representative of the British Isles, thanks to the British intelligence services (MI5, MI6, and GCHQ) who are offering final year university students a 2025 summer internship, provided they have the good taste not to be ‘White British’:

For the 2024/25 academic year, if you’re in your final or penultimate year of university and from a Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or economically disadvantaged background*, this Internship will help you discover if a career in intelligence is right for you. You won’t just be sitting on the sidelines – this is your opportunity to get unique access to our operations, gain experience, and make key contributions to real projects.

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The ‘fire-breathing’ Texan lawyer suing rap’s royalty for millions: ‘I’m going to win’

Twenty years ago, when Tony Buzbee started making his fortune as a personal injury lawyer, reaping the spoils from his lawsuits against oil and gas companies around America’s Gulf Coast, he had a particular liking for rap music.

At the time, Buzbee was driving a Mercedes SLR McLaren Convertible (cost $500,000). “I’d drive around in my fancy car,” he remembers with a laugh, “playing the music real loud, make sure everybody could see me – then come back around again in case you missed me the first time.”

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Were Boney M the weirdest pop act of all time?

50 years on, their wild success seems like a strange dream

For a spell in the late 1970s there were two pop groups which dominated the UK singles charts – both, coincidentally, vocal quartets from continental northern Europe. But while one, Abba, have since become a billion-pound industry with an apparently permanent hologram-shaped presence on the London concert scene, their then rivals for pop supremacy, Boney M, have almost completely disappeared from public consciousness. And this is a shame because Boney M remain uniquely noteworthy in one field in particular: weirdness.

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HANNAFORD: Trudeau’s desperate shuffle brings no aces to the top

It was then, as we thought… A major shakeup of the cabinet, rather than a few surgical transplants, as Prime Minister Trudeau takes the opportunity to widen his declared support base within his own Liberal Party.

Widened, but diluted… Most of the newbies are people that only their constituents could be expected to have ever heard of. In military terms, it is the deployment of reserves and raw recruits, the main force having been battered into ineffectiveness.

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Terry Newman: Trudeau dare not offend the antisemites who vote Liberal

You know you’re probably not doing your best as a leader to stem an ever-growing wave of hate in your country when another leader has to personally phone you up to tell you so. That’s what happened Thursday after a repeated attack on Beth Tikvah synagogue in Montreal. That’s the message that was delivered.


Here’s a JNS write-up on Herzog’s statements.

Herzog slams ‘vile’ wave of violence against Canadian Jewry

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Canada looks more like a failed state the longer Trudeau fails to act

One characteristic of a failed state is that it has no functioning national government. By that standard, Canada is failing pretty badly.

At the very moment when the country faces an existential tariff threat from the incoming administration of president-elect Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are self-consumed with division, leaving the Prime Minister essentially powerless.

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The Brilliance of Trump’s New Campaign Suing Fake News

Trump’s legal action against the media is not about revenge, payback, or getting even — it is justice.

Every American to the right of Ocasio knows that the mainstream media lie and lie. Even much of truth and facts can be honestly, inadvertently tilted. Other facts can be deliberately slanted, though technically true. That is why Kellyanne Conway was right when she uttered her much-mocked assertion that there are “alternate facts.” Certainly, facts are facts, and they do not care about your feelings. But facts indeed can be slanted into alternate facts. Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure. And the media often go beyond reporting facts into concocting outright lies. Think of the Charlottesville lie. It will never stop being spread, even though the video exists all over YouTube, even though left-wing Snopes declared it a lie. Yet, Biden lied, saying that the Charlottesville press conference was why he ran for president. Such a liar, from his first gulp of mother’s milk to his future final injection of morphine. Then Harris repeated the same debunked lie in her presidential debate with Trump. The moderators, who kept fact-checking Trump throughout the debate, never fact-checked Harris, even though Charlottesville is the most famous lie since Gamal Abdul Nasser announced in June 1967 that Egypt had just wiped out the Israeli air force. So, even “fact-checking” often is rooted in and based on lies.

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Trump’s mockery of Trudeau may topple Canadian government

President-elect Donald Trump is several weeks away from taking the oath of office, but his influence on the world stage is already making life difficult for embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The longtime premier of Canada has become a favorite punching bag for Trump, who has mocked Trudeau as the “governor” of the “great state of Canada” and repeatedly insinuated that Canada should become the 51st state of the United States.

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Reader Fave Christmas Carols – Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of Reader Fave Christmas Carols everyone!

Leave your faves in the comments and we’ll run them every evening through Christmas. Enjoy and thank you all for making this a special annual treat!

Cradle Song – From Paul Loewen

Two from Seaoh – Harvey The Chronically Depressed Snowman

Christmas Truce of World War I — Joyeux Noel

Two from quanga – Angels are singing Christmas carols

Christmas! Christmas!

Elvis Presley – Blue Christmas – From Norman in New York

From blackglass – Chuck Berry – Run Rudolph Run

The Huron Carol – From Frances

The Wexford Carol – from Osumashi

August Burns Red “Flurries” from freddiegomez

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Five men from Chile charged in series of Toronto, GTA break-and-enters

Five men from Chile have been arrested and charged in a series of alleged residential break-and-enters across Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

York Regional Police officers launched an investigation on Dec. 13. The suspects were identified after allegedly committing a residential break-and-enter on Avenue Road and Wilson Avenue in Toronto.

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