NEW: California liquor store employee gets jumped by a mob of teens before pulling out a handgun, sending the wild mob scurrying.
The incident happened outside of Golden Hours Liquor in Oakland, California.
The employee got in a verbal spat with the thugs before he was… pic.twitter.com/2bbCkoHtgE
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 27, 2024
A prominent Jewish human rights group is calling out a UofC professor for posting what it says are inappropriate and “troubling” online posts it says are “unbecoming” of the institution.
According to B’Nai Brith, faculty member Prof. Tawab Hlimi has spread “misinformation and hatred causing stress and confusion” to the local Jewish community.
Following the example of other European Union member states, Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders called for parts of Syria to be also designated as “safe” by the Netherlands, in order to further reduce the intake of migrants from the Middle East—while increasing deportations.
While other EU leaders equivocate on deporting Syrians, even ones who commit horrific crimes, Wilders is working on a solution. In a post on X, he argued that since other countries have changed Syria’s designation as well, there’s no reason for the Netherlands to continue automatically granting asylum to Syrians either.
A suspected bot campaign surrounding a recent Pierre Poilievre event shows that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are easily accessible to anyone looking to influence political messaging online, researchers have found.
In July, the social media platform X was inundated with posts following the Conservative leader’s tour of Northern Ontario.
The posts claimed to be from people who attended Poilievre’s event in Kirkland Lake, Ont., but were actually generated by accounts in Russia, France and other places, and many of them had similar messaging.
Canadian Jewish organizations are denouncing Fred Hahn’s refusal to resign as vice president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), over an antisemitic video he shared on social media, with a protest planned for Tuesday afternoon outside the union’s Ontario office in Thornhill.
Hahn, who has also led CUPE Ontario, a political branch of CUPE National, since 2010, shared a video on social media earlier this month that has been widely condemned by Jewish communities and government officials as antisemitic.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged Monday that Biden administration officials pressured Facebook into censoring Covid-related content and conceded that his platform was mistaken when it censored the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.
In an explosive letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), Zuckerberg owned up to Facebook’s decision to go along with the White House’s censorship demands and expressed regret for suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Effective July 2025, teacher licensing rules passed last year in Minnesota under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz will ban practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools. Walz is now the presidential running mate of current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. His resume includes a stint as a high school social studies teacher who sponsored a student queer sex club in 1999.
Starting next July, Minnesota agencies controlled by Walz appointees will require teacher license applicants to affirm transgenderism and race Marxism. Without a teaching license, individuals cannot work in Minnesota public schools, nor in the private schools that require such licenses.
Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and private security researchers.
The unusually aggressive and sophisticated attacks include access to at least two major providers with millions of customers as well as to several smaller providers, people familiar with the separate campaigns said.
“It is business as usual now for China, but that is dramatically stepped up from where it used to be. It is an order of magnitude worse,” said Brandon Wales, who until earlier this month was executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA.
After a stabbing attack that prosecutors say was committed by a Syrian who was rejected for asylum, the city of Solingen finds itself at the center of a longstanding debate.
Two days after a deadly knife attack in the German city of Solingen, the youth wing of the far-right AfD party put out a call for supporters to stage a protest demanding the government do more to deport migrants denied asylum.
The authorities had identified the suspect in the stabbing spree that killed three people and wounded eight others as a Syrian man who was in the country despite having been denied asylum and who prosecutors suspected had joined the Islamic State. The attack tore at the fabric of the ethnically diverse, working-class city in the country’s west.
The NYTimes is so full of shit pretending hordes of Islamist asylum seekers are a “good thing”.
A long time ago, Charles Martel, uncrowned ruler of the Franks, led his Christian army to victory over the forces of Arab commander Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours (October 10, 732 C.E.).
The defeat of the Muslim invaders, especially dreaded for their heavy cavalry, marked a turning point in the long-standing war against the Umayyad Caliphate. After crushing the Visigoths at the Battle of Guadalete (July 19, 711 C.E.), they had earned a reputation for being invincible as they expanded their dominion toward the north of the Iberian Peninsula, founding the province of al-Andalus. At one point, it seemed inevitable that they would march on Paris. It is stated by historians, however, that the Frankish infantry finally succeeded in stemming the Islamization of Western Europe. At least for the time being.
…Cheap holidays, over-priced housing, educations that no longer buy security…
…[The middle classes] are the new proletariat, like factory workers a hundred years ago…
…Anyone earning less than £300,000 a year scarcely counts. You’re just a prole in a three-button suit…”
These lines from J.G. Ballard’s 2003 novel Millennium People were thought-provoking, yet not wholly convincing 21 years ago. They have, however, become more and more plausible with the passing of time. In a development whose causes and significance have been obscured by the reign of identity politics, the middle classes have been struggling to resist downward mobility and proletarianisation. It’s felt especially by the young as graduates have found themselves saddled with increasingly oppressive debt burdens while education and housing costs are soaring. Meanwhile, offshoring and automation have meant that middle-income jobs have become scarcer — resulting in something referred to online as “the overproduction of elites”. It’s a trend in which, according to a 2019 OECD report, “the middle class looks increasingly like a boat in rocky waters”.
65% of Muslim students either hate Jews or Israel.
Campus antisemitism is a problem, but reports focus on the experiences of Jewish students rather than the identity of the perpetrators. Media reports hesitate to name anyone. Jewish organizations zero in on campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, but that only tells us so much about why antisemitism has become so widespread at certain universities.
HALIFAX—There was one unusually candid moment as a parade of Liberal ministers went before cameras at a cabinet retreat in a soulless downtown conference centre.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller, a friend of the prime minister’s, knew he’d be asked about the party’s prospects under Justin Trudeau and whether the Liberals had learned any lessons from a summer of talking to cranky voters or from the fluid presidential race south of the border.
Miller’s blunt answer: Sure. But it’s not for public discussion.
In the span of less than a single hour on August 26 — two different addicts in two different parts of Calgary — jumped in front of my motorcycle and intentionally tried to get run over.
One addict in Calgary’s increasingly dystopian downtown I can write off as a death wish. But a second — roughly 50 minutes later? I fear something more sinister could be afoot.
Here’s the story in short.
Since it’s become a fun-filled dodge for Canada’s public sector union leaders to use their soapboxes to play Model United Nations instead of doing their actual jobs, some members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) have stepped up to add a dash of foreign policy to their union’s agenda.
