Crowds of hundreds and thousands of people gathered in front of Australian embassies and consulates across Europe, Asia, and North America to increase the visibility of the country’s harsh COVID measures.
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Government report warns against Moderna for young men
A report by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) warns against the use of the Moderna vaccine for boys and men between the ages of 12 and 29 due to the risk of heart inflammation.
In Canada, over four million people have already received a shot of the Moderna vaccine.
China’s Influence On Canadian Media “Has Become Normalized” Says CSIS
Canada’s Security Intelligence Service(CSIS)is warning that China’s efforts to distort the news and influence media outlets in Canada “have become normalized.”
According to CBC News, the warning is included in briefing documents drafted for CSIS Director David Vigneault regarding a meeting he had with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in early 2021.
Liberals bring back bill to tackle over-incarceration of Indigenous and Black people
The bill would repeal mandatory minimum sentences for all drug offenses and some firearm offenses; expand the use of conditional sentences, such as house arrest, and require police and prosecutors to use their discretion to keep drug possession cases out of the courts.
Covid vaccination consent forms in Quebec. 14-year-olds do not need parental consent. I am somewhat torn on how I feel about this… I know what I was doing at 14 years of age. I also know the awareness & thought process – or lack thereof – of my decision-making at the time. pic.twitter.com/zNZmv1lRBp
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) December 7, 2021
Media Companies ‘Meet In Secret’ With Biden White House To Discuss More Favorable Economic Coverage
The White House has been working with major news outlets “behind the scenes” to “reshape coverage” on the economic crisis, according to CNN.
The administration has been “briefing major newsrooms over the past week” while “discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more,” CNN reports, citing an anonymous source.
Earth to White House: Idiotic Ron Klain claims press is tougher on Biden than Trump
In a sign of just how detached from reality this White House has become, presidential Chief of Staff Ron Klain urges you to consider the idea that the press is being tougher on President Joe Biden than on his predecessor.
Klain tweeted “for your consideration” with a link to Dana Millbank’s latest Washington Post column — which warns that “the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy” by writing critically about Biden’s performance.
It Never Ends: Feds Investigating Donald Trump’s Media Company
The Biden administration says the federal agencies under its control are not being used as political cudgels aimed at former President Donald Trump and his allies and interests, but then the White House proves itself wrong almost in the same breath.
Case in point: Trump’s new social media venture has not officially launched to the general public yet, but it is already under federal investigation, though there has been absolutely no public evidence thus far that would justify the probe.
Critical Crat Theory: When intersectionality intersects with reality
When drug dealers complain about the lack of law enforcement protection, the boomerang has come full circle and hit us in the back of the head.
Gangs of smash-and-grab thieves have targeted cannabis shops in the San Francisco Bay Area while firing 175 shots and stealing about $5 million’s worth of products. Alphonso “Tucky” Blunt, owner of a legal cannabis shop, criticized poor police protection and the bureaucratic details of business in Oakland: “I was safer, and had more money, [selling] on the street, illegally.” Such is the economic reality of the Bay area.
The Decline and Fall of Kamala Harris
She thought she was a queen, but she was only a pawn.
The end of the Obama era renewed the civil war between the Democrat establishment and the Socialist insurgents. Hillary Clinton, the establishment woman whose loss to Obama had inaugurated 8 years of insurgent rule, faced down a new challenge from the Sanders insurgency.
Abortion warriors mass on U.S. Supreme Court
Already arrayed against one another on any number of fronts, Americans are massing for a new battle along an old fault line.
On one level it’s about abortion, an old and intractable debate. But with a new ruling in the works that could produce a fundamental shift in U.S. laws, a second argument is underway: does the Supreme Court have the right to change its mind?
Can Biden and Putin Avert War Over Ukraine?
President Joe Biden held a virtual summit meeting that lasted two hours with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday amid mounting military tensions over Ukraine. Though the Biden administration has been eager to focus on China rather than Russia, Putin is adroitly ensuring that Moscow remains a central player in world politics. The summit itself was a potent sign of the Kremlin’s influence.
“Greetings, Mr. President!” Putin reportedly said at the start of the call. “Good to see you again,” Biden responded. “Unfortunately last time we didn’t get to see one another at the G20. I am hoping next time we meet we do it in person.”
The hypocrisy of America’s terror debate
Experts are blinded by the threat of the far-Right
… What is even more curious is the incuriosity of the elite media and extremism experts about the Brooks case. Had he been a white male who had expressed misogynistic views about women it is certain that they would have staged a giant moral panic about the global menace of incels and the far-Right.
But Brooks, who is a registered sex offender and trader in online hate, has attracted little sustained discussion or concern. To be clear: I’m not saying that the Brooks case should occasion a moral panic, or that he be given a terrorism charge. There’s still much that we don’t know about him, his state of mind, motives and indeed mental health. But I do think we should ask questions about the selection bias of the credentialed commentators and experts who command so much of our attention.
California School Bribes Boy to Get COVID Vaccine and Not Tell His Parents
A 13-year-old boy was bribed with pizza from his school to get a COVID-19 vaccine without parental consent, reports NBC Los Angeles. According to the report, the school not only gave the minor child the vaccine without parental consent but instructed the boy not to tell his parents.
That’s cruel.
Google sues alleged Russian cyber criminals
Google has sued hackers believed to be part of a cybercrime gang that has stolen user information from around the world.
A complaint names two Russians and 15 unknown individuals said to be behind Glupteba, a malicious “botnet” that has infected over a million computers.
Criminals use these systems of compromised devices to hack private data.
It is the first case Google has launched against a botnet.
According to a lawsuit filed in New York and unsealed on Tuesday, the botnet built by Dmitry Starovikov, Alexander Filippov and their associates has become a “modern technological and borderless incarnation of organised crime”.
Kinda hard to pick out the bad guys here.
Just 22% Of Americans Want Joe Biden To Run For President Again
Just when it seemed President Joe Biden could get no lower in the public’s political esteem, a new I&I/TIPP Poll of Americans’ preference for the 2024 Democratic presidential ballot is a shocker: Just over one out of five want Joe Biden back at the top of the Democrats’ ticket in three years.
A number of recent I&I/TIPP Polls (here and here) have documented Biden’s sharp decline in favorability with the public due to a number of issues, ranging from his leadership of the military, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the recent inflation surge and supply-chain crisis, the border crisis, and a number of other vexing White House issues.
Small wonder, Biden is a sad joke – Biden-Putin summit opens with mic problems amid Russia-Ukraine tensions
“Remember Pearl Harbor,” but Have We Forgotten?
December 7 will mark the 80th anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack that killed 2,403 American service members, dealt a grievous blow to our fleet, and forced the United States into World War II. As we mark this anniversary, our inadequate response to China’s military build-up shows that we are not taking the lessons of that infamous day seriously.
Nine years ago, while stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, I put on my whites and took part in the annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day commemoration. Watching the ceremony, I must admit that the horrors of that attack seemed quite distant. More than the beautiful tropical setting, I knew that I was a part of the most dominant naval force in human history. With the Cold War long past, no other country could threaten America’s fleet.
The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor – Why Japan’s attack on the US 80 years ago was not a surprise.
In a straight line between the US and Japan, Hawaii is the first piece of land due west of San Francisco. In 1941 its shallow-water port, Pearl Harbor, provided the best place to anchor in the whole Pacific. There, at 7.49am (local time) on 7 December of that year, a first wave of torpedo bombers began to destroy the US Pacific Fleet.
The Second World War revolved around not just Europe and the Atlantic, nor even the Pacific, but the whole of Asia, too. Japan occupied Korea from 1905 to 1945, and in 1931 it used Korean troops when invading Manchuria, a vast territory of China north-east of Beijing. By 1937, in the then capital of China, Nanjing, Japan had killed 300,000 inhabitants in six weeks. By 1939, it had taken over the large island of Hainan, off China. By the next year, it had invaded French Indochina (now Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia).
Liberals plan to expand COVID-19 vaccine mandate to cover banks, telecoms sectors
OTTAWA — Canada will soon crack down on COVID-19 mandates, forcing banks, telecommunications companies and all other federally regulated workspaces to ensure their employees are inoculated, Ottawa said on Tuesday.
Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan made the announcement two months after the government said it would oblige the public sector and employees working in the federally regulated air, rail and marine transportation sectors to get their shots.
I suspect this will be as full of holes as the original civil service mandate.
‘F**k you LeBron’: Kyle Rittenhouse tears into star for doubting his tears during Kenosha testimony and says he is now no longer a Lakers fan
Kyle Rittenhouse lashed out against NBA star LeBron James for poking fun at his tearful testimony during the Kenosha shooting trial on Twitter last month.
Rittenhouse, 18, who was dramatically acquitted in the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year, appeared on the You Are Here conservative podcast on Monday, when the hosts began bashing James.
During the trial, the Lakers player mocked Rittenhouse for breaking down while giving testimony. In a Twitter post, he wrote: ‘What tears? I didn’t see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court.’
Catholic church sexual abuse must be seen in ‘historical’ context, Pope says
Pope Francis has called for caution in the “interpretation” of a damning report released in October that found as many as 330,000 children may have been sexually abused by clergy and lay members of the Catholic Church in France.
The pontiff said on Monday that the “historical situation” must be framed in context when conducting studies that explore incidents dating back decades. The inquiry behind the report, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), examined allegations of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic church in France from the 1950s to 2020.
Vice-Admiral Edmundson charged with sexual assault, indecent acts
Vice Admiral Haydn Edmundson has been charged with sexual assault and indecent acts, the Department of National Defence announced Tuesday.
… Stéphanie Viau told CBC that Edmundson, who was a lieutenant commander at the time, exposed his genitals to her while on a navy ship during an exercise. Viau, at the time, was a 19-year-old member of the Canadian Navy.
She alleges that several days later Edmundson raped her onboard HMCS Provider while the ship was docked in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Edmundson has denied the allegations.