Paralysed from the shoulders down, 30-year-old Noland Arbaugh relies on technology to make his life easier.
He has a power wheelchair, which he controls by blowing or sucking through a straw. His remote-controlled mattress will sit him up and keep ripples of air circulating at all times to prevent pressure sores building up.
A motorised lift gets him out of bed, while voice-controlled technology around the room helps him control lighting, his fan, TV and sound bar.
h/t XC
When the crimes, costs, and cultural decay caused by mass immigration are so obvious, why relitigate its non-existent merits instead of acting?
As the civil unrest that erupted in Labour constituencies after the son of Rwandan migrants murdered three girls in Southport subsides, pundits race to regain lost rhetorical ground on immigration. Maya Goodfellow gaslit the Guardian’s few remaining readers by declaring that there are no “legitimate concerns” about immigration. Another favourite of the BBC, communist outlet Novara Media asserted that “We don’t need to talk about immigration.” But these status quo apologists understand something their critics do not. While Reform UK’s Richard Tice has courageously called out Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s two-tier justice system, his belief that a “proper debate” and another referendum on immigration is the solution is misguided. We have abundant evidence cataloguing the crimes, costs, and cultural decay caused by mass immigration. Why relitigate its non-existent merits?
The Machine Stops,” a 1909 short story by E. M. Forster, uncannily imagines our technology-dependent world—and what might happen when the tech breaks down.
In 1909, Edward Morgan Forster published a story, “The Machine Stops,” which now seems astonishingly prescient. One does not normally associate E. M. Forster with science fiction: he is considered more a chronicler of the etiolated emotional life of the English upper-middle classes of the Edwardian era. But his one foray into science fiction seemed to foreshadow exactly the kind of scenes that followed last month’s brief disruption to 3 million computers worldwide by the intrusion of a faulty new update into Microsoft programs.
There was as an overload of absurd, obnoxious and over-top outbursts from leftist journalists during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The NewsBusters team worked literally day and night to track them down.
John Carpay is a rugged veteran of the beleaguered Canadian civil rights movement as founder and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. Over the years he’s been the target of frequent unjust harassment, but is now in the throes of a particularly odious and hypocritical persecution, which should concern all Canadians. At the worst of the Covid pandemic, with oppressive lockdowns and requirements of vaccine passports, mask-wearing, distancing, and belligerent and unctuous enforcement of all these rules, most of which we now know to have been medically superfluous if not counterproductive, with disastrous results in all other respects, John Carpay was one of the great many Canadians who was disgusted by the hypocrisy of politicians and public officials rigorously imposing Covid rules while ignoring them themselves. Unlike most of the vast number of people who objected to these practices, he determined to do something about them. In 2021, he engaged a private investigator to see if the widespread rumours about the premier of Manitoba, its chief health officer, and its chief justice were in fact breaking Covid rules, were true. The investigator followed these men around but did not otherwise bother them, but in consequence of this activity, which was designed as a legitimate pursuit of the public’s right to know, John Carpay was briefly prosecuted in a spurious and politically motivated criminal action in the course of which he was briefly incarcerated, and the Manitoba Law Society inflicted upon him more than two years of disciplinary proceedings. Carpay agreed to a lifetime ban on practicing law in Manitoba and payment to the Manitoba Law Society of $5,000.
Canada “will always stand up for democracy and against hate.” So reads a statement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Black Ribbon Day, August 23, the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Observance of the day acknowledges the more than 100 million people who died in Europe because of war, genocide, starvation and other crimes against humanity under both Communism and Nazism.
In the theatre of social media, most individuals who express views that are racist, sexist, discriminatory or out of sync with social norms are shamed into retracting their views — at least publicly. The exception to this rule seems to be Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario president Fred Hahn.
#WATCH: Woman fights off 4 men allegedly armed with 2 guns trying to abduct her in Vaughan Mills parking lot; York police initially classified this as an attempted carjacking. pic.twitter.com/pBZBC0uAuG
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) August 24, 2024
This week, Jagmeet Singh called Justin Trudeau “cowardly” over his position on the railway work stoppage. Last week, Singh was saying life for Canadians under Trudeau has gotten much worse.
But don’t expect the NDP Leader to do anything about a government he clearly doesn’t think is working for Canadians.
This message is for Donald Trump. If you are not Donald Trump then keep scrolling. pic.twitter.com/IxLt4FQNVb
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 24, 2024
A web of anti-Jewish activists, Muslim radicals, a fringe Jewish group, and Marxist organizations (including the Canadian government) are cooperating in a red-green alliance as a strategy to advance the pro-Hamas cause. Recent efforts to undermine Canadian-Israeli charities, demoralize Jews, and facilitate funding to pro-terrorist “Palestinian” charities have not gone unnoticed amid the backdrop of over 300 days of pro-Hamas rallies on Canadian city streets. This trend is evident in recent Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) decisions to revoke the official charitable status of two Jewish charities: the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of Canada and the Ne’eman Foundation.
Trudeau's cultural enrichment at Centennial Beach in Barrie ON filming young girls at the beach, welcome to your new culturally enriched Canada… https://t.co/7Y1pocpsq7
— Rex Glacer (@rexglacer) August 24, 2024
h/t Auntie Polly
( JNS) Lauren Holtzblatt, a Conservative Movement spiritual leader in Washington, D.C., caused outrage at her synagogue earlier this month when she declared that American Jews need to elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States to comply with “sacred texts.”
She told Harris supporters at a Jewish Democratic Council of America meeting held on Zoom: “I could tell you that we need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris because as Jews our sacred texts tell us we need to build a world where we feed the hungry, where we care for the sick, where we love the stranger, where we guard and nurture this planet. Those are her values. That is what her policies seek to achieve.”
