Does the CCP control Extinction Rebellion?

 

Western activists are blind to President Xi’s ambition

A few blocks away from Tiananmen Square, amid the cavernous splendour of the Beijing Hotel Convention Centre, an array of senior Communist Party officials gathered in September to proclaim a clear message: by “focusing on cutting carbon emissions… China will promote green development, and continuously improve its ecology”. The annual general meeting of the China Council for International Co-operation on Environment and Development (the CCICED) was in full swing.

Share

NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace Stands by Discredited ‘Noose’ Incident in New ESPN Documentary

Last year, a member of African-American NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s team reported that he had happened upon a noose in Wallace’s garage ahead of the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

In the immediate aftermath, Wallace received an outpouring of support for the purportedly racially motivated incident. In the intermediate aftermath, an FBI investigation determined that the “noose” was a pulldown rope that had been in the garage since 2019. NASCAR released a statement professing to be “thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba.”

Share

ChiCom 5th Columnists! Conservatives believe 13 ridings were targeted by foreign interference in 2021 election

The Conservative Party has identified 13 federal ridings where they suspect their candidates were targeted by foreign influence campaigns in the recent federal election, Global News has learned.

The party was briefed by Canada’s two main intelligence agencies about potential foreign interventions against their candidates during the election, two party sources told Global News.

Share

So, Adam Schiff Doctored Text Messages for Anti-Trump Witch Hunt Jan 6th Committee?

Well, this isn’t the first time Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been caught in a lie. He said he had zero contact with the Ukraine whistleblower that set off the second impeachment circus that led to nowhere except a slew of distractions, time that could have been devoted to preparing the country for the pending COVID pandemic. Democrats wanted an impeachment spectacle and got one that was again based on zero evidence. This time it was a quid pro quo scheme involving Ukraine, Trump, alleged dirt on Joe Biden, and tying all of that up in military aid. It was a crock—and Schiff’s staff had direct contact with the whistleblower. Now, we have fresh evidence that Schiff is just a terrible person.

Share

Kim Jong-un hates K-Pop as much as you do

They don’t look that happy.

Kim Jong-un’s firing squads have publicly executed at least seven North Koreans in the last ten years for watching or sharing K-pop, rights group claims

North Korea has executed at least seven people by firing squad in the last ten years for sharing or watching South Korean K-pop, a rights group has claimed.

Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, has previously described the genre as a ‘vicious cancer’, with the executions coming as part of a crackdown on the music.

Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group conducted interviews with 683 North Korean defectors over six years – since 2015 – to map places where North Koreans were killed and buried in state-sanctioned public executions.

Share

‘Please get me out’: Wannabe ISIS Suicide Bomber with tenuous connection to Canada tells official he would take Siberia, Guantanamo over Kurdish jail

Jack Letts – right where he should be.

Jack Letts’ message to the Canadian government official was simple: “Please get me out of this place.”

In fact, the alleged former ISIL follower and Canadian citizen said in the recorded phone conversation he’d rather be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Siberia or a Canadian penitentiary than continue to be held by Kurdish forces in northern Syria.


He is not an alleged ISIS member: I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits

Jack Letts has told how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State as he admitted fighting with the terrorists.

“I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain,” he told the BBC in an interview recorded in October and released yesterday. “I did what I did. I made a big mistake and that’s what happened. I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.”

Share

Police taser expert in Kim Potter trial is 3rd prosecution witness to testify that Daunte Wright’s fatal shooting was an error not a criminal act

A Taser expert testifying for the prosecution in Kim Potter’s trial has told jurors in the that, ‘mistakes happen’ in policing and described the former cop as ‘peaceful and law-abiding.’

Brooklyn Center Police Department Sgt Mike Peterson was giving testimony at the start of day six in the high-profile trial as defense attorney Paul Engh stepped up to cross examine the witness who began his testimony yesterday.

On Tuesday jurors in Minneapolis’s Hennepin County District Court heard about BCPD police department’s taser training at such length under direct examination by Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank, that Judge Regina Chu suggested that flagging jurors stand and stretch their legs.

Share

The Threat of a China-Centric New World Order

Writing in the January/February 2022 issue of Foreign Affairs, the Hoover Institution’s Elizabeth Economy explores Chinese President Xi Jinping’s efforts to shape the international order by “fundamentally transforming the global system” to reflect Beijing’s interests and values. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), she explains, seeks nothing less than to replace the U.S.-led post–World War II global order with a “China-centric order with its own norms and values.” To understand what is at stake here, let’s talk geopolitics.

Share

Florida’s DeSantis Proposes Legislation to Allow Parents to Sue Schools Teaching Critical Race Theory

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that legislation he’s proposing would allow parents and teachers to sue schools and employees to sue employers who make them participate in policies or teaching involving the principles of critical race theory (CRT).

The Republican governor has already banned CRT teachings in public schools. The proposed Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (Stop WOKE) Act would be the first legislation of its kind in the nation, “going on the offense against both corporate wokeness and critical race theory in our schools,” a prepared statement from the governor’s office said.

Share

CAIR backs leader after ‘virulently anti-Semitic’ speech attacking mainstream Jewish entities

“As someone who has been repeatedly attacked by Zahra Billoo for almost 15 years, I am amused that the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federations, Hillels and ‘Zionist synagogues’ only become upset with her when she called them out as ‘polite Zionists,’ ” said Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum. “Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”

The ADL etc just end up looking bad.

“This is textbook vile, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-laden garbage attacking the mainstream U.S. Jewish community. It sounds like something you would expect from white supremacists,” tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO.

He’s just discovering their true nature now? What a bullshit charade.

Share

Inside the hypocrisy of media manipulators, censors who claim to fight misinformation

There is a new scourge befouling the media landscape, one that our self-appointed mandarins have declared themselves eager to combat: misinformation.

The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recently released a report that blamed misinformation for a range of social problems: “Information disorder is a crisis that exacerbates all other crises . . . Information disorder makes any health crisis more deadly. It slows down our response time on climate change. It undermines democracy. It creates a culture in which racist, ethnic, and gender attacks are seen as solutions, not problems. Today, mis- and disinformation have become a force multiplier for exacerbating our worst problems as a society. Hundreds of millions of people pay the price, every single day, for a world disordered by lies.”

Share

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Microbes in oceans and soils across the globe are evolving to eat plastic, according to a study.

The research scanned more than 200m genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 different types of plastic.

The study is the first large-scale global assessment of the plastic-degrading potential of bacteria and found that one in four of the organisms analysed carried a suitable enzyme. The researchers found that the number and type of enzymes they discovered matched the amount and type of plastic pollution in different locations.

I know there’s a joke in here somewhere.

Share