Elon Musk’s pledge to make Twitter (or “X”) a free-speech-friendly “digital town square” has been brought into question following reports that the social media account of a leading AfD politician and MEP has been shadowbanned.
The Trudeau gov’t has destroyed Canadian news. Was it incompetence or malevolence?
One summary of the tenure of Canada’s progressive-feminist, euthanasia loving Liberal government is that it gives Hanlon’s razor – the supposition that one should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity – a real run for its money.
Pig kidney keeps working for over a month in brain-dead man’s body
A pig’s kidney transplanted by surgeons into a brain-dead man has continued to function normally for more than a month – a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
The latest experiment, announced on Wednesday by New York University Langone Health, marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one, and it’s not over. Researchers will track the kidney’s performance for a second month.
Tres Joly!
This woman needs a reality check! Instead of a “game plan” regarding the USA she might want to tell us ( the USA) about her game plan with the CCP. Her government has not gone far left or right, it appears it is leaning Communist. -Lthttps://t.co/asOSYWxJVn via @nationalpost
— Lt Steven Rogers (R-NJ) (@LtStevenRogers) August 17, 2023
NDP MP, Beijing critics call on Ottawa to launch foreign agent registry quickly
NDP MP Jenny Kwan and vocal critics of China are calling on the federal government to swiftly introduce — and on Parliament to quickly pass — foreign agent registry legislation to safeguard the next federal election.
In a new petition, Kwan and a coalition of human rights and pro-democracy groups are urging the House of Commons to pass the yet-to-be introduced legislation as soon as possible.
Under intense scrutiny over its handling of alleged Beijing-backed interference operations in the last two federal elections, the Liberal government launched public consultations on a proposed foreign agent registry in March.
Hate-motivated vandalism to rainbow crosswalks in Ontario a growing trend
It’s become a growing trend in recent years.
Rainbow crosswalks in the province meant to show a town’s support toward its 22SLGBTQQIA+ community are being vandalized as the country sees an overall spike in hate incidents involving sexual orientation.
The vandalism is usually by either tire track skid marks or some paint, with the latest reported hate-motivated incident taking place in Smiths Falls.
People are understandably fed up with GAY GAY GAY all the time.
But I suspect an LGB without the T design might mitigate tensions. Anyone who supports child sexual mutilation deserves public scorn.
The Hunter Biden Scandal Is Breaking Through
Buried at the bottom of ABC News’s write-up of the poll it commissioned with Ipsos — a dispatch that covers the waterfront of public opinion surrounding all the many sordid affairs that involve Donald Trump — lies a shocking bit of news about how the public is responding to Hunter Biden’s scandalous conduct and how his father’s administration is handling it:
A plurality of Americans (48%) are not confident that the U.S. Justice Department is handling its investigation of Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan manner, while only 32% express confidence in the investigation.
How pornography forged the trans movement
Womanhood has been turned into a fetishised commodity.
It is impossible to separate the influence of pornography from the gender-identity movement, as both are aspects of the sex industry. The gender-identity industry sells ‘sex’ as a noun – supposedly allowing a male to ‘become’ a female (and vice versa) through surgeries and hormones. Whereas the pornography industry sells ‘sex’ as a verb.
Religious persecution in a first-world country
In February, an FBI whistleblower from their Richmond, Virginia field office leaked a report about spying on “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” labeling them as “potential domestic terrorists.”
FBI director Christopher Wray claimed the report was “a single product by a single field office.”
An Arab writer admits the truth.
A Palestinian journalist, Radwan Abdullah, does not mince words: We Muslims do not merely hate Israelis; we hate all the Jews, who have been our enemies since the beginning of Islam.
Here come the female Andrew Tates
It’s not just male influencers who preach manipulation
“Men do not love you, okay? So stop thinking that they do. They tolerate you. They lust you. That’s it.”
The YouTube influencer SheRa Seven’s advice for young women is as sharp as the wings of her black eyeliner. To single ladies, she offers the following on sex: “The longer you hold off, the more that he will like you.”
To married ones: “Don’t give it up every time he want it. Make him wait, make him work for it still. Gotta make him chase!”
Does AI Just Suck?
“I’ve written a bunch about how likely it is that this AI revolution is going to go up in smoke, such as here or here. In these pieces I’ve tended to focus on the broader philosophical questions and the terrible record of humanity’s efforts to predict the future. Typically I’ve left the actual generative powers of these existing systems alone. But what if this software just sucks? What if we’re all so desperate to move to the next era of human history that we talked ourselves into the idea that not-very-impressive predictive text and image compilers are The Future?”
Ukraine Considers Suspending Israel Visa Deal Amid Espionage Suspicions
Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Yevhen Korniichuk, has confirmed that his country is considering suspending its current visa-free travel arrangements with Israel after reports surfaced that Israeli officials had leaked high-level intelligence to Russia. The intelligence had reportedly been garnered at the Ramstein Air Base forums where Western allies gather to discuss how to respond to the ongoing invasion.
Tensions between Kyiv and Tel Aviv have been gradually coming to a head over the past year due to Israel’s perceived inaction regarding the invasion as well as a clampdown on Ukrainian refugees in recent months.
#Ukraine: Footage showing the shootdown of this Ka-52 attack helicopter by the 47th Brigade of the Ukrainian Army- presumably using a Swedish RBS-70 short range air defense system. The helicopter crashed North of Novoprokopivka, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast.https://t.co/SyCMVGb6og pic.twitter.com/g5ywQoox1t
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) August 17, 2023
A fight for the soul of the West – How the suits are emasculating the boots
As if straight out of Roger Ramjet, when United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley admits Ukraine’s counter-offensive ‘hasn’t been a total failure’, you know it’s not long until this proxy war against Russia is exposed as a disaster. Just like the fall of Rome, it wasn’t the boots who lost Ukraine it was the suits. Right now, on so many levels, we are in a fight for the soul of the West. This is what the suits miss. That’s what is at stake. And Ukraine is a good example of how much damage can be done by so few to the lives of so many.
UK population collapse ‘good for the planet’ as number of births hits 20-year low … says expert
Britain’s top demographics expert has said the falling number of babies born in Britain is a “good thing” after new data showed the number of births had hit a 20-year low.
Professor Sarah Harper CBE, founder and director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and a former government adviser, said falling birth rates in the West were “good for… our planet”.
Her comments came after official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed there were 605,479 live births in England and Wales last year, the lowest number since 2002.