The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer offers a prestigious fellowship that bars whites and Asians from applying. Trumpeted on the company’s website as a “Bold Move” to “create a workplace for all,” civil rights lawyers are characterizing it in a different way: as a blatant violation of the law.
“This Pfizer program is so flagrantly illegal I seriously wonder how it passed internal review by its general counsel,” said Adam Mortara, one of the country’s top civil rights attorneys.
LYTTON, British Columbia — Nothing has been rebuilt since flames devoured the tiny village of Lytton last year, turning it into a national symbol of climate change. It was in Lytton, about 90 miles northeast of Vancouver, that temperatures set a national record of 49.6 degrees Celsius — 121.3 Fahrenheit in Canada! — before the deadly fire erupted.
Blue fencing on either side of Main Street blocks off access to the ruins of the village. Charred trees, flattened roofs, collapsed walls and piles of debris stretch over the full length of the village center, the silence broken only by helicopters dumping water to try to extinguish more recent fires in the nearby mountains.
A woman has detransitioned after identifying as a transgender man for 15 years – due to experiencing ‘nausea and heart palpitations when taking testosterone’.
Singer Cat Cattinson, 30, from Santa Cruz, Northern California, grew up as a female but identified as male from the age of 13.
She started to transition to become a man in March 2020 after spending years struggling with gender dysphoria; she took testosterone which saw her voice drop and she went by the name of Tony.
Joan Collins makes an Omelette* (with a surprisingly accommodating and apologetic Gordon Ramsay).
Backstory: In 1998 a publicity-shy Gordon Ramsay dramatically kicked restaurant critic A. A. Gill out of one of his restaurants. Ms Collins was A. A.’s guest. (Apparently Gordon’s mum is a huge Joan Collins fan.)
*(She actually pronounces it “omelette”.)
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A mural in Westchester, New York, that celebrates Black history and the Black Lives Matter movement has stirred controversy for featuring antisemite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
The 2,500-square-foot mural, located on the Manhattan Avenue underpass of the I-287 highway in the town of Greenburgh, depicts dozens of influential Black leaders including Bob Marley, Mohammed Ali as well as Farrakhan, who is illustrated speaking with an accusatory raised finger.
Due to advances in technology, there is now renewed interest in manned space flight. I hope I’m not alone in asking, “What’s the point?” For extraterrestrial scientific discovery, robots do a much better job at a significantly lower cost.
Tom Wolfe, in The Right Stuff, laid it all out. Sending astronauts up into space, during the Cold War, was a return to the medieval practice of single warrior combat. Rather than having whole swarms of fighters slashing and bludgeoning each other, the two opposing forces would, on occasion, send only their best champions to fight, one on one, while the rest would just watch and await a symbolic victory.
The Cold War, however, is over.
Security forces reportedly lashed the orphanage residents with belts and sticks after they staged hunger strike over poor living conditions
Saudi Arabia is investigating a disturbing video that shows security forces beating young women and dragging them around by their hair, after they reportedly staged a hunger strike over poor living conditions in an orphanage.
It came as a Saudi woman was sentenced to more than 40 years in jail for comments posted on social media, the second harsh sentence to be passed down this month to female online activists.
The video, which has shocked Saudis after going viral, shows the group of men holding down women dressed in black abayas while they are lashed with belts and sticks.
Saudi regime security forces attacked an orphanage and brutally abused orphan girls with tasers and sticks because they dared protest for better living conditions. Not in Russia, Syria, China or Iran so the “Humanitarian”West have nothing to say.pic.twitter.com/HMu43EBgQH
— Hadi Nasrallah (@HadiNasrallah) August 31, 2022
The PM was quick to condemn a protester’s tirade against Chrystia Freeland. But where has he been on the Laith Marouf scandal?
Since we seem to be amidst something of a — wonderful phrase this — “teachable moment” about nasty and vulgar terms tossed at political figures, and we have had the obligatory lecture from the impresario of what is correct to say and what is not, “personkind” Justin Trudeau, let’s have a go at it.
… Yet, the environmental harms of electric vehicles have been well documented: mining for the materials to make the batteries causes devastation to local ecosystems. Their production is also harmful to the people who live where they are built, leading to increased toxicity levels compared to traditional car manufacturing.
Even their emission reductions are modest. In provinces that use renewable energy, like Manitoba, electric cars reduce emissions by 70 per cent, but in most places in the world where electricity still mainly comes from fossil fuels, that number falls to 30 per cent.
Takeaway: EV’s are pretty much useless but we should build em anyway.
After FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club looking for evidence of multiple federal crimes and documents Trump was never supposed to have in his private possession, some of Trump’s supporters struck a striking, but familiar, refrain: It’s time to kill government officials.
Research shared with The Daily Beast by the Advance Democracy Institute fills in some of the landscape of what the FBI has characterized as an “unprecedented” threat environment, a reaction to what some legal experts consider the most serious legal threat facing the former president.
Two weeks ago you may have seen a lot of news segments surrounding Boston Children’s Hospital. Deleted videos and archived web pages pointed to the fact that they were providing “gender affirming” care to young people including puberty blockers, double mastectomies, phalloplasties, and hysterectomies.
The Left immediately seized upon the wording of one tweet in regard to hysterectomies and argued that it’s only done on 18-year-olds. Because they apparently think that’s okay. They attacked myself, Matt Walsh, Chris Elston, and Christina Buttons for a week straight. So much so that one would believe they are actually very much against “gender affirming” hysterectomies! Just as any sane person with a few brain cells would be.
Asked if CSIS went too far and if there would be an inquiry, Justin Trudeau said ‘rigorous oversight mechanisms’ monitor CSIS operations
Ottawa is accused of covering up its handling of a double agent who smuggled British teenagers into Islamic State territory to join the terror group while he was spying for Canada.
Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, did not deny Ottawa’s work with an operative smuggling Western children to a dangerous battlefield, as outlined in a new book, saying that Canada’s spy agency must “be flexible and be creative” in the war against terrorists.
Peel Regional Police are looking for help to identify a number of men involved in a brawl where even a sword was in play.
Just a casual sword fight in Brampton, Ontario
Multiple injuries have been reported #Brampton #OnPoli pic.twitter.com/uwVrwuuDUM
— RealKrisKo🇨🇦 (@RealKrisKo) August 30, 2022
This is how legends are made. pic.twitter.com/uomKkbWXhl
— Funny Videos / Viral Videos (@SeeFunnyVideo) August 7, 2022
LibsOfTikTok is still suspended on Twitter.
Covid, suicide and drug overdoses blamed for decline
American life expectancy has fallen for a second year, and is down by almost three years since the start of the pandemic due to Covid, drug abuse, record suicides and stubborn levels of chronic disease.
In 2019, the average US life expectancy was more than 79 years. In 2020, because of the pandemic, that dropped to 77 years. According to provisional official data released today, Americans born in 2021 will on average now live to 76 years and one month — a level last seen in 1996.
