The U.S. Army is getting mercilessly mocked on Twitter for using a quote by pop singer Lana Del Rey as a means for recruitment. “We’re gonna lose a major war,” one user said. “Please God, don’t let China see this tweet,” said another.
Thanks Biden! Guess Who We’re Buying More Oil From Now?
One of the first things Joe Biden did upon taking office was kill the Keystone XL pipeline. For good measure, he also aggressively sought to limit new drilling permits, and despite some legal setbacks, Biden managed to reverse Trump’s progress in making the United States energy independent.
Vaccinated Nike employee fired for denying vax proof to third party: report
A vaccinated Nike employee claims he was fired for refusing to upload proof of his vaccination status to a third-party verification service used by the sportswear giant, a report said.
Dex Briggs, 53, was let go from his job as a marketing manager at Nike’s headquarters in Portland, Oregon, last month for not complying with the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, The Oregonian reported.
Trudeau cabinet will weigh further support for Ukraine during retreat – Daring Putin Caricature With Stink Vapors Rumoured To Feature Prominently On Revamped #StandWithUkraine Campaign
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says how Canada will respond to continued Russian threats against Ukraine will be on the agenda for a three-day virtual cabinet retreat set to get underway Monday.
The federal cabinet is meeting as tensions remain high over a potential Russian incursion into Ukraine. NATO officials announced earlier in the day that additional forces from the military alliance are being put on standby to deploy into eastern Europe as part of a bid to deter Russia.
Senior Toronto police leader allegedly gave ‘confidential’ exam information to six officers competing for promotion
… According to the documents, Clarke had been acting as a mentor to candidates throughout the fall of 2021, and was also a member of the interview panels for officers seeking a promotion to sergeant.
On Nov. 10, Clarke was directed in an email to cease all contact with applicants she’d been mentoring by Nov. 25, according to police.
Despite that directive, Toronto police allege Clarke continued to help a number of applicants, including transmitting photos of the interview questions for the promotional process to six candidates, the documents allege. This provided these officers with “confidential information to advance their position in the process,” the police documents say.
… Clarke is also alleged to have met with one officer, identified only as H.H., in her home on three occasions in December.
Why some German church windows depict Hitler
Weil der Stadt is a town of about 20,000 people in southwestern Germany, west of Stuttgart. At the Catholic church of St. Peter and Paul, pastor Anton Gruber has been welcoming his congregation as well as many curious visitors for the past 11 years.
Some people stop by the church because it is right on a popular bike path, while others have come to peer at one particular stained-glass window. They often say “the features of Hitler are recognizable,” Gruber told DW. “Most people are simply curious, no more and no less,” the clergyman says about the pane that dates from 1939/40.
Vaccine mandates: ‘I lost my job for being unvaccinated’
Danielle Thornton was in the school pick-up line waiting for her children when she learned she would face a life-changing choice: get the Covid-19 vaccine or lose her job of almost nine years at the bank Citigroup.
She and her husband had watched for months as bosses across the US introduced vaccine mandates, knowing the family might face this moment. Then, in the form of an email on her phone, it arrived.
“We had many, many conversations about it,” she says. “But ultimately we decided that our freedom was more important than a pay cheque.”
Bataclan survivor shocked as surgeon tries to sell her X-ray as NFT
A French woman who survived the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris was “extremely shocked” after learning that her surgeon was attempting to sell an X-ray of her injuries online, her lawyer has said.
A senior orthopedic surgeon at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris was revealed at the weekend to be offering an image of the woman’s forearm, showing a Kalashnikov bullet lodged near the bone, as an NFT digital artwork.
Hundreds of ISIS children held by ISIS in besieged prison in Syria
Fears are growing over the fate of hundreds of children believed to be held by jihadist extremists inside a besieged prison in north-east Syria.
Nearly 850 children are inside Ghwayran prison in Hasaka, which was stormed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters on Thursday, triggering days of battles.
At least 136 people have been killed since the jihadists launched their assault to try to free jailed fighters.
Thousands of IS suspects are held in prisons run by Kurdish authorities.
Majority of Canadians are open to assisting Ukraine, poll finds
A national poll shows that a majority of Canadians support or are open to providing assistance to Ukraine as Russia threatens invasion.
A survey of 1,000 Canadians done by Abacus Data between Jan. 20-21 and organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress found that 83 per cent were in favour or neutral towards Canada helping Ukraine protect its borders.
Seventy-five per cent also said they supported or could accept providing weapons to Ukraine.
I think the poll is a realistic reflection of Canadian expectations, do something knowing we really can’t do much.
Ukraine slams Biden’s ‘excessive caution’ for withdrawing embassy staff
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson blasted Joe Biden on Monday for pulling US embassy personnel and relatives of staff out of Kyiv.
‘We have taken note of [the State Department]’s decision re departure of family members of [US Embassy in Kyiv] staff,’ spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Monday morning.
‘While we respect right (sic) of foreign nations to ensure safety & security of foreign nations to ensure safety & security of their diplomatic missions, we believe such a step to be a premature one & an instance of excessive caution.’
No word on whereabouts of Prince…
Heidelberg university shooting: Gunman dead after injuring several
A lone gunman is dead after injuring several people inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, German police have said.
They said the gunman was in possession of a “long gun”, and that a large operation including emergency services was under way at the university’s campus in Neuenheimer Feld.
It is not yet clear how many people have been injured, or how badly.
Heidelberg is a university town in the southwest of Germany.
Ontario reports lotsa new Covid cases ….. and Majority of Canadians support more COVID-19 restrictions for unvaccinated: poll
Ontario’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 11,000 today
Ontario’s COVID-19 death toll has now surpassed 11,000 with 36 net new fatalities confirmed on Monday.
Provincial health officials say there are now 3,861 patients in hospital with COVID-19, including 615 in intensive care, up from 578 one week ago. Last Monday, the province said there were 3,887 patients with COVID-19 receiving treatment in hospital.
3,861 people are hospitalized with #COVID19. Please note that not all hospitals report on weekends.
There are 615 people in ICU with COVID-19.
There are 4,790 new cases of COVID-19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 24, 2022
Majority of Canadians support more COVID-19 restrictions for unvaccinated: poll
With less than 20 per cent of the eligible population still unvaccinated against COVID-19 and concerns around the Omicron variant wave rising in the country, a majority of Canadians are in favour of imposing more restrictions on those who have not gotten the shots yet, according to new polling.
An Ipsos poll published Monday and conducted exclusively for Global News showed that 67 per cent want the government to impose further measures on the unvaccinated population, with nearly half (49 per cent) of the respondents blaming the unvaccinated for prolonging the pandemic – now entering its third year.
Biden family received $31 million from Chinese officials with links to the highest levels of Chinese intel
The Biden family received $31 million from Chinese officials with links to the highest levels of Chinese intel.
Peter Schweizer on Life, Liberty and Levin: “The Biden family, while he was vice president and continuing when he became president, received some $31 million from Chinese individuals who we’re linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.”
Hunter Biden reportedly had such a robust relationship with a Xi regime-linked Chinese language businessman that he dubbed him the “Superchairman,” in line with Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer.
Where’s the pandemic exit strategy?
Ontario’s new reopening roadmap has no projected end for mask mandates or vaccine passports. In Alberta, Premier Jason Kenney has not said anything more specific than “soon” when asked how long he plans to keep vaccine passports and mask mandates in place. True North’s Andrew Lawton says it’s clear there’s no exit strategy for pandemic restrictions in most of Canada, which is bad news for those of us unwilling to adopt the new normal.
Lockdowns, Masks, and Vaccines Have All Been Complete Failures, But That’s Not the Real Problem
There’s never been any convincing evidence that wearing a loose-fitting rag over your face stops viral spread, but if that doesn’t give one pause to question the efficacy of the practice, then there’s always the incontrovertible fact that there isn’t a single place on the planet which can be pointed toward as the beacon of evidence for the efficacy of mask mandates.