Israeli spyware company NSO Group placed on US blacklist

NSO Group has been placed on a US blacklist by the Biden administration after it determined the Israeli spyware maker has acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US”.

The finding by the commerce department represents a blow to the Israeli company and reveals a deep undercurrent of concern by the US about the impact of spyware on national security interests.

It comes three months after a consortium of journalists working with the French non-profit group Forbidden Stories, including the Guardian, revealed multiple cases of journalists and activists who were hacked by foreign governments using the spyware.

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Hijab campaign tweets pulled by Council of Europe after French backlash

The Hijab is cult attire and in no way represents freedom or diversity.

Europe’s top human rights organisation has pulled posters from a campaign that promoted respect for Muslim women who choose to wear headscarves after provoking opposition in France.

The Council of Europe released the images last week for a campaign against anti-Muslim discrimination.

A slogan on one advert read: “Beauty is in diversity as freedom is in hijab”.

Several prominent French politicians condemned the message and argued the hijab did not represent freedom.

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Opposition parties want documents on Communist Chinese scientists who infiltrated Winnipeg virus lab when Parliament resumes

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

Opposition parties plan to resume their parliamentary battle for the disclosure of documents on the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory, a dispute that has pitted the Trudeau government against the House of Commons.

In June, the federal government took House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to court in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of documents to MPs that could offer insight into why Ottawa expelled and then fired Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

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Whistleblower says Pfizer vaccine trial included ‘falsified data’

“… Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails.”

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Dan Aykroyd Supports Cancel Culture in Comedy: Offensive Material ‘Should Be Rightly Canceled for Its Hurtfulness’

By his own standards, Aykroyd would have to renounce some of his most famous performances and their lucrative residuals. They include the 1983 movie Trading Places, in which he appears in black face, and NBC’s Saturday Night Live, in which he famously used the phrase “Jane, you ignorant slut” to demean a woman during the “Weekend Update” segment.

h/t Marvin

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With COVID, Elites at Least Bother Virtue-Signaling. With Climate Change, They’re Not Even Trying.

Leaders and activists fly to the climate summit in Glasgow on private jets without even blinking.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began circulating the globe, the elites hunkered down in their homes. Late-night hosts streamed from the comfort of their dining rooms, enlisting their children for help. Elbow bumps aplenty were exchanged between world leaders. And the rich and famous paraded around in masks, when the cameras were rolling anyway.

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Dad charged with killing man who allegedly sex-trafficked his daughter

A Washington state father was arrested for allegedly killing a man who he claimed had sex-trafficked his teenage daughter.

John Eisenman, 60, of Spokane, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Andrew Sorensen, whose rotting body was found in the trunk of an abandoned vehicle on Oct. 22, police in Spokane said Monday.

Cops said Eisenman learned back in October 2020 that his underage daughter was sold into a Seattle-area sex-trafficking ring, apparently by Sorensen, her then-boyfriend.

Justifiable homicide.

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Yale Law Diversity Director at Center of ‘Traphouse’ Controversy Got an Anti-Semite Invited to the Yale Law Journal

The Yale Law School administrator caught on tape pressuring a student to apologize for an allegedly racist party invitation pushed the Yale Law Journal to host a diversity trainer who told students that anti-Semitism is merely a form of anti-blackness and suggested that the FBI artificially inflates the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes.

The comments from diversity trainer Ericka Hart—a self-described “kinky” sex-ed teacher who works with children as young as nine—shocked members of the predominantly liberal law review, many of whom characterized the presentation as anti-Semitic, according to a memo from Yale Law Journal editors obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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‘From the River to the Sea’: Hamas Explains What British Students Want

“Free, free Palestine — from the river to the sea.” I was met, as so often elsewhere, by this ubiquitous chant from the standard issue protesters when I arrived at the University of Essex in the UK to give a talk last week. What river? What sea? I doubt many of them knew. Most of these students are fed such slogans when they are coaxed to come out and demonstrate by the campus rabble-rousers — a little bit of animation to distract from the monotony of student life on an autumn evening.

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Maine referendum deals blow to Hydro-Québec project

That unusual alliance seeking to stymie the project included nature-lovers and fossil fuel companies, which funded the campaign against their common hydroelectric foe.

Democrats weren’t the only losers in elections held Tuesday in the U.S. So was a Canadian-led energy project, rejected by voters in one state referendum.

This spurned project doesn’t involve oil or pipelines or Western Canada.

It involves a Hydro-Québec transmission line between Quebec and New England — and now its future is in doubt.

Voters in Maine voted about 60-40 to halt construction of the project and force its backers to obtain two-thirds support in the state legislature if they want to complete it.

Justin’s best friend Joe Biden just pegged his butt again.

h/t SM

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Cher Freaks After Youngkin Election: ‘GOP Are Nazis,‘ will Make America a ‘Whites Only Club‘

She is certifiable.


Meltdown: A Collection Of The Most Insane Tweets From Election Night

Left-wing political and cultural commentators were upset Tuesday night when Republicans swept key races in Virginia.

The most outrageous reactions included accusations of racism against Virginia voters and specific charges of “white supremacy.”

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