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Trains are backed. It is already starting to look like India. pic.twitter.com/eDxGrVSBFo
— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) January 4, 2024
Toronto – Was this on NYE?
U of T notice claims masturbation is ‘violation of student code of conduct’
A “masturbation notice” in a washroom at the University of Toronto has many people questioning its authenticity.
Antisemitic Messages Circulated Within Amazon Workforce
Internal communications leaked by a whistleblower reveal how employees of Amazon have been spreading pro-Hamas and anti-Israel messages at work. The revelation comes after the tech giant was itself accused of selling antisemitic materials online.
By leaking from one of the company’s internal Slack channels—an internal communications platform used by many businesses—an Amazon whistleblower has publicised messages that contain pro-Hamas sentiments and defamatory statements toward Israeli hostages captured by Hamas. Some employees shared posts accusing Israel of crimes, including organ theft, rape, and placing explosives in the belly of a child. Other posts claimed that Israeli hostages kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorist group on October 7th were treated well.
Danielle Kubes: Funding UNRWA has only served to perpetuate violence in the Middle East
My grandmother used to talk endlessly of the old country. Her beautiful house, her St. Bernard dogs, hiding in the forest to escape the Germans …
When my grandparents and father came to Canada as refugees, fleeing authoritarian communism, life was hard. Yet their struggle mirrors the tens of millions of other refugees in the 20th century — working tirelessly to establish themselves, overcoming trauma and teaching themselves new customs. Now, my children and I are proud Canadians. The old country is just a memory of a memory, mostly captured in my grandmother’s cabbage rolls. Our lives are here now.
McDonald’s chief says anti-Israel boycotts hurting sales
“Misinformation” about McDonald’s support for Israel is having a “meaningful impact” on its sales in the Middle East, the fast food restaurant’s chief executive has said.
Chris Kempczinski said calls from pro-Palestinan groups to boycott McDonald’s over the Gaza conflict were harming operations.
McDonald’s has been targeted by pro-Palestinan campaigners after photos and videos on social media showed franchised stores in Israel giving free meals to the nation’s soldiers following the October 7 Hamas attack.
The batshit crazy, pro-terrorist left now thinks @McDonalds is part of the Zionist conspiracy. pic.twitter.com/nmT9VQSNAj
— Richard Klagsbrun (@anunsafespace) January 2, 2024
Florida Surgeon General’s Warning to Halt Use of mRNA Shots Based on Canadian Study
Florida’s Surgeon General is warning against using mRNA COVID-19 vaccines amid concern about potential links to cancer, citing a Canadian study that found the presence of DNA fragments within Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo said the Canadian pre-print study discovered “billions to hundreds of billions” of DNA molecules per vaccine dose, which exceeds the guidelines set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
h/t Mauser
SWIFT: Why Eastern Canada needs to support Western provinces
The federal Liberal government’s approach to energy policy has created problematic regional divisions across Canada. It’s time for the East to reject these crass politics and show greater support for the West.
Officials Now Admit the Disaster of Their Covid Policies
Four years after the pandemic hit, officials are just starting to tell the truth about their panicked and destructive reaction to it.
The lockdowns that were imposed worldwide (with the exception of Sweden and a few other countries) ran contrary to the longtime conventional wisdom that the main responsibility of the public-health system in a pandemic is to keep people calm and society functioning. Our public-health officials did the opposite. Intentionally. The hysteria they generated led to hundreds of thousands of non-Covid excess deaths, massive economic and social harms, and, worst of all, an unprecedented disaster in education.
ISPK: Who Are the Jihadists Behind the Christmas Cathedrals Plot?
Following the arrests of three men suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Cologne and Vienna, details of the plot have emerged showing that the Islamist terrorist group’s plans included buying an anti-aircraft missile in Ukraine.
The Vienna police arrested the three suspects at an asylum shelter in Ottakring, Exxpress reports. They are believed to belong to the terrorist militia Islamic State in the Afghan province of Kohrasan (ISPK).
The group is a UN-designated terrorist organization and analysts consider it the most dangerous of the Islamic State groups.
Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine
Is Vladimir Putin trying to end his war in Ukraine? According to recent reports, the Kremlin has launched a new ‘back-channel diplomacy’ to reach out to senior officials in the Joe Biden administration. Putin’s message: to signal that he could accept a ceasefire that freezes the fighting along current lines.
Reactions to the story have been furious. Some Ukrainians, sheltering from Russia’s biggest-ever missile and drone assaults of the war over Christmas, saw it as evidence of a nefarious Washington insider plot to sell Kyiv down the river. President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Putin’s initiative as disingenuous, saying that he saw ‘no sign’ Russia genuinely wanted to negotiate. ‘We just see brazen willingness to kill,’ he told the New York Times.
The electric vehicle doom loop
The inevitable, planet-saving, path to universal electric vehicle (EV) ownership is becoming increasingly cratered. Some 4000 dealers recently begged President Biden to stop pushing EVs. They can’t give them away. About half of all Ford Dealers refuse to stock them, and more than 50% of Buick dealers recently went out of business rather than sell them. Ford has largely bet its EV future on the F-150 Lightning pickup. It’s a sucker’s bet. Ford recently announced it was cutting its EV production plans in half. Articles like Motor Trend’s “Our Last Ford F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Road Trip Was A Nightmare” explains why…
Why the right is eating the left’s lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is the shift to an economy dominated by information industries, technology, finance and media. This new economic order, just like that which arose a century ago, is creating a highly disruptive political dynamic and a shift in historic class allegiances.
We need to free Greta Thunberg
She is now too old to serve her purpose
Greta Thunberg has never been a party animal. In a 2021 podcast, she said she had never been in a bar, spending “all my waking hours when I am not in school constantly working and being an activist”. She also said she had no desire to ever get drunk as this is “not who I am as a person”. So when she turned 21 on Wednesday, it feels safe to say that celebrations won’t have been raucous. And there definitely won’t have been candles — just think of the carbon footprint.
Epstein files could not have come at a worse time for Prince Andrew
In many ways, this could not have come at a worse time for the Duke of York.
There he was, strolling to church on Christmas Day, back in the bosom of his family. Not only had he been publicly welcomed back into the fold but his former wife the Duchess of York, with whom he still lives, was also invited to join the annual show of family unity for the first time since 1992.
While most observers noted the presence of a visibly delighted Fergie, Prince Andrew barely got a mention – and this, after years of hugely damaging headlines concerning his ill-advised relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of sexual abuse, was progress.
Why Change the Law When You Can Change How It’s Applied?
The political class wants to demoralize opponents, disenfranchise citizens, and demonstrate power.
Elon Musk said the following on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan podcast:
[George Soros] had a very difficult upbringing, and, in my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity … He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization … Soros realized that you don’t actually need to change the laws; you just need to change how they’re enforced. If nobody chooses to enforce the law or the laws are differentially enforced, it’s like changing the laws.
This is crucial and explains why much of what the political class does appears so gratuitously provocative.