Canadian psychology professor and author Jordan Peterson responded to ratings numbers showing that Joe Rogan’s podcast has more than triple the number of views of legacy media prime-time shows such as The Rachel Maddow Show and Tucker Carlson Tonight.
In response to Q3 media ratings posted to Twitter, Peterson argued that the reason Rogan’s show beats cable talk shows in the ratings is because he “doesn’t lie.”
University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas received new support in an Ivy League statement on Thursday. The move comes ahead of a meet this weekend where Thomas is set to compete as a biological male swimmer on the school’s women’s swimming team against conference members Yale and Dartmouth.
As Omicron continues to surge through global populations with unprecedented speed, health officials in one of the world’s harder-hit countries are already sounding a note of optimism that the variant could spell humanity’s deliverance from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preschool teacher in WA brags about teaching that white people are problematic and there is no gender binary pic.twitter.com/2xAImjxrjb
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 7, 2022
Steve Bannon asked me to step you through it. I’ll do that and tell you how this is validated using independent methods and also why VAERS was deliberately set up to make all vaccines look safe.
h/t Mauser98
With the announcement that there will not even be a streaming presentation this year, the collapse of the Golden Globes is complete.
In just one year, what had been the most prestigious movie award show, second only to the Oscars, is now a Big Nothing. Hollywood’s Woke and Social Justice Nazis went to town on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) over diversity issues last year, and now it’s an asterisk barely hanging on.
A Niagara judge has questioned why a violent criminal, who had amassed more than 40 convictions since arriving in Canada from Syria, is still in the country.
“He has lived a life in Canada of persistent criminality,” Judge Joseph De Filippis said in Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines Thursday.
“As an aside, and respectfully, I don’t understand why he’s still in Canada. He is not a Canadian citizen, he’s a permanent resident, and there are rules around permanent residents who commit crimes.”
Mohammed Al-Samaneh, who originally came to Canada as a refugee, has 44 criminal convictions for multiple offences including assault and forcible confinement. His name is on the National Flagging System which identifies high-risk, violent offenders.
h/t RM
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Newly discharged conscripts to hand back items including socks and bras, to be washed and reused
Norwegian conscripts are to return their underwear after completing military service for the next recruits, as the army struggles with dwindling supplies due to Covid.
Norway, which guards Nato’s northern borders and shares a border with Russia, calls up about 8,000 young men and women for military service every year and until recently allowed newly discharged conscripts to leave barracks with the underwear they were issued.
Last month the UN General Assembly re-affirmed its implacable hostility to one of its own member states. It voted overwhelmingly — 125-8, with 34 abstentions — to fund an unprecedented permanent Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission of inquiry (COI) into allegations of war crimes and human rights abuse by Israel. Taxpayers’ funds will pay an eyewatering $5.5 million budget in the first year alone, well over twice that of the UNHRC commission investigating the Syrian civil war.
NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) – The possible failure of a juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial to disclose that he was a victim of sexual abuse may not be enough to overturn the British socialite’s sex trafficking conviction and warrant a new trial, legal experts said on Thursday.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted last week on sex trafficking and other charges for recruiting teenage girls to have sexual encounters with Jeffrey Epstein. Her lawyers asked for a new trial after the juror told Reuters and other news outlets that he shared his experience of sexual abuse during deliberations.
When the pandemic begin in 2020, larger cities across Canada saw an exodus of people to small towns and rural areas. One company keeping track of such movement is U-Haul, the truck rental company for DIY movers.
Incriminating statements made by a British national charged with a significant role in the torture and beheading of American and British hostages held by ISIL (ISIS) can be used against him at trial, a judge in the United States has ruled.
El Shafee Elsheikh sought to have statements admitting his role in the scheme tossed out, claiming they were obtained through torture after he was captured.
The three white Georgia men who chased and gunned down Ahmaud Arbery were each given life sentences Friday for what the dead jogger’s dad called a modern-day lynching “in broad daylight.”
Ex-cop Gregory McMichael, 66, his son Travis McMichael, 35, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, had potentially faced the death penalty after being found guilty in late November of the horrific caught-on-camera 2020 slaying.
A year on from the Capitol attack by loyalist supporters of Donald Trump, many families are still reeling from members outing each other to law enforcement and offspring traumatized by their parents’ involvement in the insurrection.
Jackson Reffitt, a 19-year old from Texas, called the FBI weeks before his father, Guy Reffitt, stormed the US Capitol on January, saying that his father had been hinting at doing “something big”, Teen Vogue reported.
In text messages obtained by the magazine, Jackson’s younger sister texted their father in a family group chat, writing: “Dad, please be safe!! You know you are risking not only your business but your life too.”
