California got through the biggest heat wave of the year without having to order any blackout but only just barely. Gov. Newsom is praising the state’s shift to renewable energy as if avoiding the blackouts is proof that the shift to renewables is working.
IRAN has deployed an all-female unit of police commandos in bid to break protests sweeping the country after the brutal killing of a young woman over her hijab.
The Islamic Republic has been plunged into chaos after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was beaten, arrested and left in a coma by the regime’s morality police – The Guidance Patrol.
Online personalities are causing trouble in the Midlands
In the digital age, conflict travels quickly. Last weekend’s Muslim-Hindu violence in Leicester later spilled into Birmingham, driven on by social media rumours, and amid claims that an incendiary Hindu preacher, Sadhvi Rithambara, was due to appear at a temple there. As it happened, Rithambara was too ill to attend, but the temple in question had already moved to cancel her appearance once local Muslims informed them about her record. But the rapid spread of violence through social media shows how sectarianism has evolved with technology.
Islamic scholar Mohammed Hijab is inciting Muslims to attack Hindus in the UK. (obviously, he is following the example of his "prophet")
Police continued to allow him to raise an Islamic army against non-Muslims after he threatened to kill dogs and Jews last August in London. pic.twitter.com/juX0nIY84r
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) September 22, 2022
Long lines of vehicles continue to form at Russia’s border crossings on the second full day of Vladimir Putin’s military mobilisation, with some men waiting over 24 hours as western leaders disagree over whether Europe should welcome those fleeing the call-up to fight in Ukraine.
The Russian president’s decision to announce the first mobilisation since the second world war has led to a rush among men of military age to leave the country, likely sparking a new, possibly unprecedented brain drain in the coming days and weeks.
Witnesses on the border with Georgia, a popular route used by Russians to leave the country, said that some men resorted to using bicycles and scooters to skip the miles-long queue of traffic jams.
Former foreign affairs minister John Baird was recently Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign co-chair. He tells John Ivison that his protégé has the ability unite the Conservative Party, reach across the aisle in Parliament and to engage with a hostile media.
OK. Do a comparison of LPC and CPC policy when an election is called see if there is any significant difference.
With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally removing most COVID-19 travel restrictions this month, many Canadians are left wondering who can claim credit for these changes.
Alberta MLA Kaycee Madu, who was Canada’s first-ever Black provincial minister of justice, made headlines this week when crediting “freedom convoys” for the partial return to normalcy.
Teacher coordinates wearing pronoun shirts with 2 students and hopes by end of year there are more students joining pic.twitter.com/9wHDM4CFE2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 23, 2022
WEF transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari – who recently declared that the techno-hell he’s constructing doesn’t need “the vast majority of the population” – has returned to demand that the serfs offer more tribute to their overlords for “climate change.”
The show-business trade press became politicized sometime during the Obama administration, around the release of the guilt machines Precious and 12 Years a Slave. I learned this from personal experience of how liberal self-righteousness overpowered fairness, yet I must point to a recent instance of straightforward reporting by trade media: On July 28, Variety detailed the news of an industry-wide pro-abortion stance, but the article stopped short of saying that this is Hollywood’s most authoritarian gesture since its infamous 1950s anti-Communist blacklist.
Indigenous student sent home with ‘offensive’ worksheet, prompting audit at Niagara school
Warning: This story contains the image in question. (CBC Trigger warning so you know it’s scary!)
A Niagara-area school is auditing the materials of a teacher who’s facing undisclosed “disciplinary action” after a student was sent home with a worksheet depicting two cartoon characters in stereotypical Indigenous clothing, including feathered headbands.
OMG! Those Little Indians are the stuff of nightmares!
Mothers at Oakville Trafalgar High School hold signs that read “Inclusivity is no excuse for depravity” pic.twitter.com/Hj8tA2NsnZ
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) September 23, 2022
Jay Patel was running a busy dinner service at his vegetarian restaurant, Shiv Sagar, on Leicester’s famous Golden Mile, on Saturday night. The dining room was packed with about 80 customers – couples, families, even a local councillor – when suddenly, huge crowds of young men marched past.
It’s estimated there were hundreds of men out that night. Most were masked and dressed head-to-toe in black – and some appeared to be armed. It was terrifying, Mr Patel tells me.
“People were running on this side, on that side, banging on the door… we closed all the lights and all the curtains,” he says. “It was very scary.”
“Europe Should Be Grateful to Erdoğan”: The quote is the praise Russian dictator Vladimir Putin bestowed upon Turkey’s Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Translated into realpolitik, what Putin is saying is: “Russia is grateful to Erdoğan’s anti-Western ideology.” He is right. Erdoğan is bringing NATO member Turkey more and more into Russia’s orbit.
A B.C. nurse is facing a disciplinary hearing after the province’s regulator for nurses and midwives alleged that her remarks about “sex-based rights” were “discriminatory” to transgender people.
The hearing, which began on Sept. 21, raises concerns that Canadian regulatory bodies are “policing the speech” of professionals, a legal advocacy group says.
The eternal question: can non-subscribers to the U.K. Spectator read a few articles for free per month? (I’m pretty sure you peasants don’t have access to the comments, but still.) This one is very good. It reproduces an essay Mantel wrote on Saudi Arabia in 1987. I couldn’t find the piece anywhere else online.
Good historical fiction is very hard to pull off. You have to immerse yourself in a very alien place. (“Hey, what if I did a Sam Spade character but he’s in, like, ancient Rome!?! Did they have police in ancient Rome? I could totally look that up!” doesn’t work.)
Her Wolf Hall trilogy was terrific.
The world has