A 13-year-old drag queen performs at an event as adults cheer him on pic.twitter.com/ovzpR22jvP
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2023
France is on a knife edge
It’s no surprise that King Charles’s state visit has been cancelled
Yesterday was a day of anarchy in France – and the protests overnight have led to King Charles’s state visit to France, which was due to start this weekend, being cancelled. The King had been due to visit Paris and Bordeaux, two of the cities hit by the most extreme violence. In Bordeaux, a town hall was sacked. In Lorient, a police station was attacked – and in Nantes a court was vandalised. The worst of the violence was in Paris. Hundreds of thugs clad in black fought running battles with police, 149 of whom were injured, and they also smashed and looted shops, banks and restaurants. Gérald Darmanin, the Interior Minister, attributed the violence to far-left extremists to whom he addressed a message on Thursday evening: ‘I want to tell them that we are extremely determined, that violence will not succeed.’
Des pêcheurs en colère bloquent le port de plaisance de #Lorient. Le siège de l'organisation des producteurs pêcheurs de Bretagne a été investi et saccagé (Ouest-France) #greve28mars #manifestation #Revolution #France pic.twitter.com/8X44Cs7aPo
— Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) March 24, 2023
Manifestation spontanée et barricades également dans les rues de Grenoble hier soir (@villermet_b2) #greve23mars #Revolution #greve24mars #manif23mars #revolution2023 #manifestationpic.twitter.com/S0M0Hnash3
— Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) March 24, 2023
Chaos dans les rues d'Angers aujourd'hui #greve23mars #Manifestation #Revolution #Macron13h #manif23mars #revolution2023 pic.twitter.com/w3yn8soSjp
— Anonyme Citoyen (@AnonymeCitoyen) March 23, 2023
The Real Reason for Vinyl’s Resurgence
Algorithms do not control the choices of everyone.
Music on vinyl outsold compact discs in the United States last year. The last time that happened the Soviet Union, Eastern Airlines, and Roy Orbison still existed.
The grooved disc record, whatever the size or speed, essentially spent a human lifetime as the primary way Americans purchased recorded music.
He’s right about “Modern music”
At death’s door: A dispatch from a once-great American city
Smoke bellows skyward near an overpass on the outskirts of this Pacific Northwest city.
Flames become evident as you get closer, as do the fire trucks and the firefighters putting out the blaze at the centre of a homeless encampment that is affixed, favela style, to the under-shoulder of the crossing.
A good article on Seattle, it bodes ill for Toronto and elsewhere in Canada as does the following Star report on the Homeless camp clear-outs, one of the things Tory got right.
Forces are at work to make Toronto’s homeless camps as big and ugly as they are in the US.
The goal? Millions of dollars will flow to the hucksters who promise to deal with the very “crisis” they perpetuate.
Process behind 2021 encampment clearings ‘unacceptable’, finds ombudsman report
The clearings of three large Toronto homeless encampments in the summer of 2021 prioritized speed over the well-being of homeless people, Toronto’s ombudsman has found.
In the report, which comes nearly two years after the city-led, police-and-security-enforced operations, ombudsman Kwame Addo found the process by which city hall displaced people from Trinity Bellwoods, Alexandra Park, and Lamport Stadium was “unacceptable” — pointing to “unclear, confusing” and insufficiently transparent communication. It noted the city’s operational plans made no mention of the mental health of displaced people.
The camps were cleared quickly and efficiently with a minimum of activist triggered violence. This is why Toronto can’t have nice things.
Because it’s better to have drug addicted mentally-ill people wandering your streets. They add colour!
Legal group in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside cautions B.C. against involuntary care
A legal group representing marginalized people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has issued a stern rebuke of the provincial government’s plans to force mental-health and addictions treatment on people who present a danger to themselves and others.
Pivot Legal Society released a report Thursday calling on British Columbia to halt its proposed expansion of “involuntary care” beds, arguing such treatment is an outdated approach that is harmful, degrading and often discriminatory.
‘I’m not racist – I’m anti-incompetent!’ Black Minnesota official slams ousted ‘racial equity’ boss who claimed she was made to work near crying inmates and demanded taxpayer-funded trip to yoga and snow-kiting retreat
An ex-racial equity boss at Minneapolis City Hall who asked to go on a taxpayer-funded leadership retreat and reportedly oversaw a near $500,000 underwhelming Black Expo event has accused her former colleagues of racism.
Tyeastia Green alleges the City had a ‘toxic work culture’ and claims she was made to work in an office where she could hear nearby jail inmates crying through the walls.
She has also accused several senior black officials – including President Andrea Jenkins and member LaTrisha Vetaw – of being ‘anti-black.’
Disasters in Turkey
Compare the response of two countries, one Middle Eastern, the other European.
In Turkey, twin earthquakes on February 6 took more than 50,000 lives, even though there was warning about the impending earthquake.
In Greece, a train crash on March 1 killed more than 50 people.
Stop teaching hopelessness to children of color
Testifiers spoke out against Gov. Tim Walz’s education policy bill during a committee hearing Tuesday, saying its emphasis on “ethnic studies” will teach black students “they can’t succeed.”
Sounds like the TDSB.
Ontario crypto king kidnapped, tortured in an attempt to get millions in ransom, documents say
Ontario’s self-described crypto king was abducted, tortured, and beaten for days as his kidnappers looked to solicit millions in ransom, his father told a court in December.
New documents, obtained by CTV News Toronto, include details of the December incident where Aiden Pleterski was allegedly abducted from downtown Toronto and driven around southern Ontario for about three days.
The nearly 750-page report, released on March 14, also contains the latest findings in a months-long pursuit to trace millions of dollars invested into cryptocurrency and foreign exchange with the 23-year-old before he was petitioned into bankruptcy.
ISIS recruiter and marriage fixer Shaikh Abdullah Faisal sentenced to 18 years in prison
Convicted ISIS recruiter and marriage broker Shaikh Abdullah Faisal was sentenced to 18 years in New York state prison on Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced.
“Shaikh Faisal’s advocacy, recruitment and provision of material support to ISIS helped the terrorist organization perform horrific acts, including the murder and kidnapping of innocent people,” said District Attorney Bragg in a statement.
Will they be seated next to Han Dong? Two Michaels to attend Biden’s speech to parliament and Trudeau dinner
Two Canadian citizens whose detention in China sparked an international firestorm will be guests during President Joe Biden’s visit to Ottawa on Friday, a nod to the solidarity between the U.S. and Canada over rising tensions with Beijing.
Sad News for the ‘Africa-Invented-Everything’ Woke Lie
I previously covered a clip in which a clearly British Person of Color™ in absurd-looking ethnic garb parroted the oft-repeated lie, manifesting in various forms, that Africans “basically invented everything.”
Nolte: Woke-Poisoned Hollywood Has Doomed the Once-Unbeatable Movie Industry
Hollywood, specifically the film industry, is going through a legitimate, serious, and potentially fatal phase.
No one likes the movies anymore.
The key to a healthy industry—audience goodwill—is evaporating quickly.
Funny dressed men complain they are no longer allowed to dominate women in female sporting events
Transgender athletes condemn ban on inclusion in female events
SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES, March 24 (Reuters) – Transgender athletes have condemned World Athletics’ exclusion of transgender women from elite female competitions, while the decision was welcomed by some sportswomen as a win for fairness.
Athletics’ global governing body on Thursday voted to ban transgender women who have gone through male puberty from competing in women’s events, citing a “need to protect the female category”.
Who really blew up Nord Stream pipelines? The 4 key theories
Six months after the explosions fragments of clues have emerged but the whodunnit is far from being solved
One evening last September the P524 Nymfen, a Danish naval vessel that tracks suspicious Russian shipping, made an unexpected detour from its usual patrol route.
For the first time in years, it skirted the Baltic island of Bornholm and made its way northeast to the outer fringe of Denmark’s estimated radar range. It paused for half an hour, turned around and switched off its transponder, vanishing for several hours from international tracking systems.
Minutes later a Swedish air force surveillance aircraft began prowling back and forth nearby and a Swedish corvette set off for the site at considerable speed before circling the surrounding waters.
Kremlin eyes object found next to Nord Stream pipeline
MOSCOW, March 24 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Friday said it was important to identify an object discovered next to one of the Nord Stream pipelines, and said the ongoing investigation into blasts that struck the pipelines last September must be conducted with full transparency.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also told reporters it was a positive sign that Denmark had invited the Russian-controlled operator of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to help salvage an unidentified object found close to the Baltic Sea pipelines.
We can’t lose China, EU leaders say
BRUSSELS — European leaders are suddenly falling over each other to get to China.
Amid growing concern that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is hardening his support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Thursday he will fly to Beijing for talks next week. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, will follow on a longer-planned trip on April 4.
A succession of European Union leaders used a summit in Brussels to raise the alarm about China’s ostentatious backing for Vladimir Putin this week, warning that they could not stand by while Beijing and Moscow cement an alliance that risks tipping the world deeper into crisis.
China is supporting Russia in its war with Ukraine did the EURO’s not get the message?
It’s bad enough the Liberal Party and our Corporate elite has sold Canada out to Communist China but it appears the majority of our NATO allies are also turncoats.