This teacher also allegedly made her students participate in a “privilege walk” pic.twitter.com/AoUOA4Pe9C
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 1, 2022
City of Ottawa considering legal action to recoup protest costs, Mayor Karen suggests GoFundMe shuts down Freedom Convoy account
Ottawa’s mayor says the city is contemplating legal action against the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, arguing that Ottawa taxpayers shouldn’t be left to pay costs associated with the convoy protest now snarling traffic in Canada’s capital.
Mayor Jim Watson said he also would like to see GoFundMe disassociate itself from the convoy’s fundraising campaign and the “rogue activity” of protesters pushing for an end to pandemic measures.
“I think it’s disgraceful that that any company would want to be associated with what kind of action we’ve seen here in Ottawa,” Watson told CBC News.
Instead of trying to quell convoy tensions, Trudeau inflamed them
In 2016, then-U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made an off-the-cuff comment about how half of Donald Trump’s supporters could be put in a “basket of deplorables,” for their racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic views.
“Some of those folks – they are irredeemable,” she said. “But thankfully they are not America.”
The Need for a Focus on Western Islamism
Why this website, why this publication? Because the West needs it.
Some background: Islamism in the West burst into public attention with the book burning and radical statements that accompanied the 1988-89 attacks on Salman Rushdie and his novel, The Satanic Verses. Ayatollah Khomeini’s death edict made Western publics aware for the first time, and with due shock, that quietly growing populations of Muslims presented civilizational problems that, say, Chinese, Hindus, and Christian Africans did not. These boiled down to a minoritarian but powerful desire to apply medieval-style Islamic laws (the Sharia) in the West, with all their dire implications for non-Muslims and females, and to transform Western societies.
Lockdowns had little or no impact on COVID-19 deaths, new study shows
Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies.
“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the researchers wrote.
Biden’s Borders: The Threat to America and the Threat to the Free World
A lot of Internet bandwidth has been dedicated to news reports of Russia’s military activities along the Ukrainian border. President Biden has promised “severe sanctions” against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia, should the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Ukraine be infringed upon (again) in any way.
In 2014, when Putin responded to a coup that ousted a pro-Russian regime in Kiev by occupying Crimea, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden did nothing. Strongly-worded diplomatic notes? Sure. But it was still “nothing.” When Putin aided anti-government separatist groups in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, collectively called the Donbas region, once again Obama and Biden did nothing. Putin seems to understand Biden. Putin also seems to understand hollow threats and ineffective sanctions. Putin, in addition, reduced natural gas exports to Europe by 41% last month in order to get the attention of NATO allies. It appears to be a “squeeze play.” Putin would appear to be choking off natural gas supplies to Europe as a wedge, to divide the United States from NATO allies over the threatened “severe sanctions.”
Trudeau warns Moscow of ‘serious consequences’ over Ukraine – Threatens to scold on proper pronoun usage!
Members of Parliament exchanged their concerns and ideas about how to support Ukraine during a special debate at the House Commons that ran for more than two hours Monday evening.
The discussion was part of a “take note” debate about the situation in Ukraine, a format that allows MPs to address national issues in a more wide-ranging, detailed fashion when compared to typical debates on specific legislation.
‘Fringe Minority‘? Crowd-Funding for ‘Freedom Convoy‘ Truckers Outraises Canada‘s Top Political Parties
The massed ‘Freedom Convoy 2022’ of Canadian truckers currently stationed around the capital Ottawa is close to raising $10m to support its cause of defeating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “political overreach,” according to the protest GoFundMe page.
RCMP begins removing protesters, vehicles at Coutts border blockade
… “What may have begun as a peaceful assembly quickly turned into an unlawful blockade. While the Alberta RCMP has been in a position to conduct enforcement, we have been engaged with protesters at the Coutts border crossing in an effort to find a peaceful and safe resolution for all involved. We thought we had a path to resolution, the protesters eventually chose not to comply,” RCMP said in a release.
Twitter – Coutts Border Blockade
As anti-vaccine mandate protest enters 5th day in Ottawa, some worry about how it might end
Experts suggest containment, fines and giving protesters a deadline to leave
As anti-vaccine mandate protesters continue to gum up downtown Ottawa, many are wondering how long police will let the protesters stay — and how they might eventually move them out.
While many residents have been calling for an end to the noise and disruption caused by raucous demonstrations, observers are calling on authorities to avoid public displays of force.
“It’s in everyone’s best interest that they bring this to some type of peaceful closure,” said Jack Rozdilsky, an associate professor of disaster and emergency management at York University.
Child sexual grooming report points to failure to identify ethnicity of abusers and victims
Child sexual abuse: Extensive failures in tackling grooming, says report
Police and councils are still failing to properly identify and investigate child grooming gangs, a report warns.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said officials often denied the scale of the issue, thinking incorrectly that it was “on the wane”.
Data such as the ethnicity of abusers and victims was not collected and could have helped identify offenders.
… The report said that in some cases authorities might be potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns about the negative publicity.
It said local authorities “don’t want to be labelled another Rochdale or Rotherham” – referring to high-profile grooming gangs.
Freedom Convoy Protest Reflects Canadians’ Democratic Spirit
No one should downplay, much less deny, the acts of idiocy that went on during the self-styled Freedom Convoy of big rigs in Ottawa.
Making buffoons of themselves by trying to coerce a homeless shelter to provide food or urinating on and otherwise mocking monuments in the Parliament Hill precincts, some (operative word some) did diminish the nobility of the protest. To paraphrase a long-ago colleague of mine in the newspaper business talking about the woo-woo cohort of our subscribers, “some of our fellow citizens are idiots, but those idiots are our fellow citizens.”
Politicians keep silent on Muslim antisemitism to garner Muslim votes
“In Molenbeek, in an area of 6 square kilometers, there are 25 mosques and lots of voters praying. So what if they say ‘burn the Jews’.
Ahmed El Khannouss, powerful municipal councilor of Molenbeek and local head of the Humanist Democratic Center party, defended Imam Mohamed Toujgani, whose residence permit and access to Belgian territory have just been withdrawn for the next ten years. The decision was made by the Minister for Immigration, Sammy Mahdi, based on information from the security services indicating “a serious danger to national security”.
The reason? Imam Toujgani, among other accusations, called for “burning the Zionists”. Municipal Councilor Khannouss became famous in the media around the world after the Paris attacks, practically all of whose terrorists came from Molenbeek, of which he was deputy mayor at the time. In the meantime, none other than the socialist mayor of Molenbeek, Catherine Moureaux, arrived to speak out in defense of Mohamed Toujgani: “Given Toujgani’s function as President of the League of Imams of Belgium, I dare to hope that the minister has a really important new element to explain the adoption of this decision “.
Just like in Canada! See we are world class!
Doug Ford tells truckers convoy to go home: ‘I support vaccinations’
Premier Doug Ford’s patience for the truckers convoy is wearing thin.
One day after saying he was “extremely disturbed” with the actions of some of those gathered in Ottawa, Ford urged remaining members of the truckers convoy to go home and “let the people of Ottawa get back to their lives.”
“On the truckers side, I’ve always supported truckers from day one,” Ford said. “But I support vaccinations. It’s very simple. That’s how we have been able to slowly get out of this, and that’s how we’ll continue to slowly get out of it.”
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors tied to other groups with spending ‘red flags’: report
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors — who resigned in the wake of a Post expose of her spending spree on lavish homes — is tied to several other fundraising organizations whose finances raise “potential red flags,” according to a new report.