$4.6 billion in COVID-19 financial aid overpayments went to ineligible recipients, audit finds

Canada’s auditor general says that while the federal government effectively delivered emergency COVID-19 benefits during the pandemic, deciding to not front-end verification resulted in $4.6 billion in overpayments to ineligible individuals.

After sending out an estimated $211 billion in COVID-19 aid, a performance audit tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday found that the Canada Revenue Agency and Employment and Social Development Canada are “falling short” when it comes to following through on belatedly verifying recipients’ eligibility.

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Government–Tech Collusion Threatens Free Speech

Three plaintiffs credibly allege that Twitter became a government tool by censoring their speech at the behest of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Mark Changizi, Michael Senger, and Daniel Kotzin became active Twitter users in March 2020, focusing on criticism of government pandemic policy and rapidly gaining large followings. Many of their more-controversial contentions—for instance, that lockdowns and mandates for masks and vaccines would be ineffective at curbing viral spread while having deleterious societal effects—have turned out to be true.

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Propaganda Czar: Soros Bankrolls 253 Groups to Influence Global Media

Leftist billionaire George Soros used his charities to build ties with hundreds of media organizations around the world involved in news and activist media. The journalism and activist media groups Soros supports mold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages. They also insulate him from inquiry because reporters see him as an ally, not a target for investigation.

The 92-year-old philanthropist’s multimillion-dollar efforts promoting his bizarre “open society” agenda encompass some of the most radical leftist ideas on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism.

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Culture war: Russia ransacks art to rub out Ukraine’s history

Moscow’s looting and destruction of artifacts is ‘a fight against our identity,’ says Ukrainian culture minister.

KYIV — In late April, Tetiana Buliy, head of the Arkhip Kuindzhi art gallery in Mariupol, was living near Kyiv when her phone rang.

It was the gallery’s caretaker, who had remained in Mariupol, asking where the keys were.

Buliy had locked the building on February 25, the second day of Russia’s massive bombardment of the southern Ukrainian city. By late April, Mariupol was almost entirely under Russian control.

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Just Stop Oil Assholes guilty of John Constable masterpiece damage

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been found guilty of causing criminal damage to a John Constable masterpiece.

Eben Lazarus, 22, and Hannah Hunt, 23, both from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, taped a “dystopian version” of The Hay Wain on to the original artwork on 4 July.

They then glued their hands to its frame in The National Gallery, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.

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Jack Smith, Clinton’s DOJ Hit Man, Comes After Trump

When Jack Smith became a Wasserstein Fellow, even while, unironically, serving as head of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section, seemingly soliciting and accepting a grant funded by a leftist billionaire, he joined a list of leftist activist lawyers working for the ACLU, Earthjustice, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Soros’ Open Society, Catholic Charities and the UN.

The mission of the Wasserstein Fellows was to gather “a diverse group of accomplished public interest lawyers who are enthusiastic about sharing their passions with law students on how to utilize their legal education to promote social justice.” Those passions included illegal migration, letting criminals get away with committing crimes and dismantling America.

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Gmail creator predicts ‘total disruption’ for Google as new chatbot ChatGPT challenges tech giant’s monopoly on internet searches

‘AI will eliminate the search engine result page’

The computer developer who created Gmail is predicting Google may have only a year or two left before ‘total disruption’ of its search engine occurs after the release of a sophisticated chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI).

Last week ChatGPT was released by OpenAI, a company co-founded by Elon Musk in 2015. It responds to text prompts from users and can be asked to write essays, lyrics for songs, stories, marketing pitches, scripts, complaint letters and even poetry.

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OG Anti-Semite Al Sharpton Somehow Has the Gall to Criticize Donald Trump

The nerve of this guy.

For some reason, Al Sharpton imagines he has moral standing from which to denounce Donald Trump as an anti-Semite. Sharpton is piling onto the latest Two Minutes Hate against the former president, spawned by Trump having supper with his old friend, Ye (aka Kanye West). In the latest Worst Scandal Ever, the meal had been in the works since before West started yaking up a bunch of vile Jew-hate. When the get-together finally happened just before Thanksgiving, Ye brought two uninvited guests. One was Milo Yiannopoulos, whom Trump surely knew, and the other was Nick Fuentes, who I never heard of before, so I doubt Trump had either. The host graciously invited the extras to join the party, the men ate and chatted, the guests departed — and Big Left blew up in righteous dudgeon. Apparently, Fuentes is one of those white-nationalist-super-Nazis we’re always hearing about.

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Fauci Admits Daughter Worked for Twitter and He Spoke Directly to Zuckerberg

Dr. Anthony Fauci feigned ignorance throughout his November 23 deposition as part of Louisiana and Missouri’s lawsuit against the Biden administration and federal officials, asserting that he is disassociated from social media. Yet, the public health official admitted he talked to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg about pushing vaccines and noted that one of his daughters worked as a software engineer at Twitter.

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Jan. 6 Committee Plans Criminal Referrals, Chairman Says

WASHINGTON—The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol plans to recommend that the Justice Department make criminal charges tied to the assault, according to panel Chairman Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.).

Mr. Thompson, speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, said a formal decision hadn’t yet been made, and that the committee hadn’t decided on a range of details surrounding the referral, including whom it planned to refer and whether the referrals would include former President Donald Trump.

“We’ve not made a decision as to who, but we have made decisions that criminal referrals will happen,” he said.

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Crackpot Guilbeault Makes Crackpot Statement At Crackpot Conference

Canada leads calls to protect 30% of Earth as Cop15 opens in Montreal

Conserving 30% of Earth for nature would be equivalent to the 1.5C climate target, Canada’s environment minister has said, as senior UN figures warn action on nature loss at Cop15 this month is key to helping solve the biodiversity and climate crises.

Steven Guilbeault, a former environmental activist who is now Canada’s climate minister, said that agreeing to conserve nearly a third of the planet by the end of the decade is a key aim for his country at the biodiversity summit, which is being held in Montreal over the next two weeks.

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Al Jazeera submits case of journalist’s killing to the International Criminal Court

The media network and the family of the victim claim Israeli forces deliberately targeted the veteran reporter, and are calling for a formal investigation through the International Criminal Court.

Media network Al Jazeera took the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Tuesday, following an investigation by its lawyers that allegedly showed the veteran reporter was deliberately shot by Israeli forces.

According to the network, its legal team had conducted “a full and detailed investigation into the case and unearthed new evidence based on several eyewitness accounts, the examination of multiple items of video footage, and forensic evidence pertaining to the case.”

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