Shooting guns in weddings is very common in the Arab world.
It doesn't always end well…
(especially when you give the gun to a toddler) pic.twitter.com/KS9I8bSyP2— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) August 21, 2024
AOC ripped for ‘fake’ accent during fiery DNC speech
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been mocked as “cringe” and “bizarre” after she was accused of putting on a fake new accent during her fiery Democratic National Convention speech.
The lefty congresswoman, 34, was ripped on social media in the wake of her rousing, minutes-long address to delegates in Chicago on Monday night — with many asking, “What accent is AOC using here?”
Where did @AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get the new accent during her screamfest? #Democrats scream speeches because they're not saying anything important so they don't want you to understand. Occasional Cortex is no different. Remember when she cost her district all those jobs? https://t.co/RyXSHkoFzB
— Kira (@KiraWal13810301) August 20, 2024
U.S. military announces $20M US grant to build cobalt refinery in Ontario
The U.S. military has made its largest move so far in a novel national-security effort to fund mining initiatives in Canada.
The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a $20 million US grant to create a cobalt refinery in northern Ontario’s Temiskaming Shores. The money will go to the Toronto-based Electra Battery Materials Corporation; the government of Canada is adding $3.6 million US ($4.9 million Cdn) of its own to the project.
Do they not know the US Military is armed?
Rioter who shouted in a police dog’s face jailed for 20 months
A rioter who shouted in a police dog’s face has been sent to prison for 20 months.
Bradley McCarthy, 34, joined an anti-immigration march and was involved in clashes with counter-protesters and police in Bristol.
McCarthy, who was heard to have a “stable family life” was one of more than 490 people to be charged in connection to the riots that spread across the country earlier this month.
Arbitrator awards compensation to Toronto healthcare workers dismissed for refusing COVID jab
A Toronto arbitrator ruled a Toronto hospital must compensate 40 healthcare workers who were fired “with cause” for refusing the COVID-19 injection and 42 who were suspended.
The proceedings covered the 82 personal grievances as well as a policy grievance.
Kursk incursion mapped: tracking Ukraine’s invasion of Russia
Few were privy to the battle plans being hatched in the heart of the Ukrainian government for the largest foreign invasion on Russian soil since the Second World War.
At 3am on Tuesday, August 6, Ukrainian soldiers crossed the border into Russia in a highly co-ordinated assault that regained the battlefield initiative from Moscow.
The invasion of the Kursk region by several thousand of Kyiv’s troops may have changed the narrative of a slow, grinding attritional war in the east of the country — although it remains uncertain how much it could ultimately change the course of the conflict.
Canada Has Long Had Laws Against ‘Systemic Racism,’ Study Says
Mark Milke, president and founder of the Aristotle Foundation, says they decided to undertake the study partly to educate that “prejudice” and “actual institutional racism” are two different concepts and shouldn’t be conflated.
… He adds that another motivation for the study was to point out that the modern “so-called ‘anti-racism’ movement is not that.”
“It is instead about trying to address past wrongs with new, additional wrongs. That is anti-individual and illiberal,” he said.
‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers were not in criminal cahoots: defence
OTTAWA – The legal team for “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich says she wasn’t part of any conspiracy to break the law when she helped organize a massive protest against pandemic restrictions in Ottawa.
The Crown alleges Lich and another organizer, Chris Barber, were in cahoots to block roads and disrupt locals in a bid to pressure the federal government to drop COVID-19 vaccine mandates in 2022.
The Media Bristle at Inconvenient Facts on Immigration
They can’t handle the truth.
The media are on the case.
The NewYorkTimes just published a report headlined “In JD Vance’s Backyard, Conspiracy Theories About Migrants and Voting Abound.”
A new, exhaustive Washington Post report finds, as the headline puts it, “Republicans flood TV with misleading ads about immigration, border.”
Meanwhile, the press has deemed a Trump claim about immigrants and jobs “debunked.”
Democrats Demand ID To Get Into Their Convention But Not To Vote For President
The Biden-Harris administration has called voter photo identification laws “burdensome” and “unnecessary.” The administration has let hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants pour across the border with no questions asked about who they are. But the administration’s political party has implemented identification requirements for anyone who wants to attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
Sam Bankman-Fried, a personal verdict
A few thoughts on how Americans thought about the crypto trial of the century.
When I first started chasing around after Sam Bankman-Fried, I had no idea where he might lead me. I certainly had no sense that I’d wind up with a ringside seat to a financial catastrophe. I had no slant or angle, much less a theory of the case. I was just curious about Sam and his bizarre situation. Inside of three years, he’d gone from socially and emotionally isolated 25-year-old with an upper-middle-class bank account to leader of a small army of math nerds and (according to Forbes magazine) not merely the world’s richest person under 30 but maybe the fastest creator of wealth in recorded history. The leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties solicited his money and his thoughts. The heads of big Wall Street banks felt a need to know him, and the leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists felt a need to invest in him. Tom Brady was hanging out with him, Taylor Swift was negotiating to endorse his crypto exchange, Shaquille O’Neal wanted to partner with him to solve the homeless problem in the Bahamas, and Orlando Bloom was asking to play him in a movie. He’d gone from having no friends as a child to having too many as an adult without ever developing a capacity for friendship.
Nightmare in Iowa: Three sequential wind turbine disasters leave millions of dollars in damages for one local farm family
The environmental and economic impact of one downed turbine cannot be overstated, but one Iowa farm is reeling from the destruction caused by three downed turbines, in a span of less than 18 months.
Kamala, Antifa, Pedophiles and Terrorists Share Platform
“Free All Antifa Prisoners” and “Harris-Walz” get cozy.
During the 2020 election, the DNC announced a partnership with the Action Network, a leftist nonprofit, aimed at raising money to “elect Democrats up and down the ballot”.
Now the Action Network is boasting that “in the first 24 hours after President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris, organizations raised over $70 million using Action Network.”
Expressing an opinion is not incitement to violence
‘Don’t protect the mosque. Blow the mosque up with the adults in it.’
That Facebook comment has earned a Cheshire woman 15 months in prison. Julie Sweeney was reacting to a photo of people helping to repair a mosque in the aftermath of the riots triggered by last month’s stabbing attack in Southport that left three children dead. The prosecutor conceded that Sweeney was posting out of anger and not making a genuine threat, but the judge said that ‘so-called keyboard warriors like her, have to learn to take responsibility for their inflammatory and disgusting language’.
Palmdale UFO Scare Leads To Revelations About Mystery Drone Incursions Over Secretive Skunk Works
The U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 in California, America’s premier hub for advanced aerospace development work, especially highly classified military programs, has seen a wave of mysterious drone incursions in recent months. The incidents have now become serious enough to prompt the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to impose new, if temporary flight restrictions around the sprawling high-security facility. The Air Force acknowledged these incidents in response to our questions about purported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the area which became viral on social media over the weekend and that local law enforcement appears to have received no reports about.