Condemnation from Democrats over the Texas abortion law which recently went into effect has been strong and swift. It was very much a theme of the Sunday morning shows.
No mention of Afghanistan or other foreign affairs issues in Leaders’ Debate topics list
A recently released theme list of the upcoming English Leaders’ Debate completely left out any mention of Afghanistan, the two Michaels or other pressing foreign affairs matters.
Australians erupt after PM takes advantage of COVID double standards to see family while millions remain in lockdown: ‘What a disgrace of a leader’
Morrison traveled to New South Wales over the weekend in a private jet to visit family on Australian Father’s Day even as millions in the country remained in lockdown and were unable to visit out-of-state family members, the New York Times reported.
The prime minister spent time in Sydney before returning to Canberra to partake in a national security meeting, an action which critics immediately labeled as an example of double standards.
Yet instead of owning up to the blunder, Morrison defended the move in an interview published Tuesday, telling Sky News that while he understood people’s frustration, his trip did not violate any lockdown rules.
Meanwhile, in Australia. Quarantine camps. They are so far down the rabbit hole now. pic.twitter.com/nrZnIc9cV6
— James Melville 🌸 (@JamesMelville) September 7, 2021
Continental Breakfast
Why Trudeau Elevated Racism To Canada’s Number One Social Issue
No matter a citizen’s position on politics, one observation remains irrefutable: the topic of racism has risen to the pinnacle of Canada’s social concerns.
LEVY: The government’s mismanaged and glitch-filled COVID response system
Toronto lawyer Lois Winstock was fully vaccinated and had a negative COVID test when she visited her daughter in Charlotte, N.C. a week ago.
The same was true for her lawyer husband, Ian Kirby.
In other words, they were considered exempted international travellers not subject to a hotel or a 14-day at-home quarantine according to the revised Aug. 9 federal edict for Canadian travellers.
But after returning from the trip, they were harassed with letters from both the federal and provincial governments advising them they need to quarantine for 14 days.
Why vaccine passports make things worse: Full Comment with Anthony Furey
The majority of Canadians have been clamouring for vaccine passports as a way to make them feel safer about COVID-19. But while feeling safe isn’t the same as actually being safe, politicians are rushing ahead with these polarizing policies anyway. Christine Van Geyn, litigation director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation, talks to Anthony about why passport policies probably won’t work, but they will likely cause serious harm both to individuals and to our society.
Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance laws
A new law gives Australian police unprecedented powers for online surveillance, data interception and altering data. These powers, outlined in the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill, raise concerns over potential misuse, privacy and security.
Florida doctor REFUSES to treat patients who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 as Indian ‘Delta’ variant surges
The policy goes into effect on September 15, and patients who refuse to get vaccinated, she says, have the option of remote telemedicine treatment or finding another primary care doctor.
Nursing baby died with blood clots, inflamed arteries following mother’s Pfizer shot, VAERS report says
A six-week-old breastfeeding baby became inexplicably ill with a high fever after his mother received a COVID-19 vaccine and he died weeks later with blood clots in his “severely inflamed arteries,” according to a vaccine adverse event report filed with the U.S. government.
Is COVID a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated? Not Quite.
Physicians spreading medical misinformation, particularly about COVID, “are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards” due to their “high degree of public trust” and their “powerful platform in society.” One could say this applies more so to the president of the United States, the CDC director, and to major newspapers and media organizations, all of whom have a far larger platform than any single doctor.
For example, will Rolling Stone face disciplinary action over their recent false story about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin?
Corruption In Elite Places
The fall of Arif Naqvi, accused of stealing Bill Gates’s money and yours, exposed more corruption than just his own.
… The book implies that Trump doomed Abraaj by making anti-globalization fashionable. “Trying to raise money from the pension funds and money pots of the Western world, Trump’s isolationism was becoming a real threat to [Naqvi’s] vision and his marketing pitch,” Clark and Louch write. “As Trump established himself in power, opportunities diminished for globalists who believed in win-win outcomes,” even though “Arif took every opportunity to preach globalization to America in a bid to drown out the president’s words in the ears of the people he needed most.”
That’s nonsense. Trump’s words never counted for much with the people Naqvi was courting. They believed in globalization before 2016 and still believe in it today. Their minds didn’t change, only their access to power. If The Key Man is right and Abraaj came crashing down not because the music stopped the way it does in any Ponzi scheme but because the firm’s political allies lost the 2016 presidential election, then the corruption it exposed was something much bigger than Naqvi’s peculations—and Trump’s victory was a bigger blow against our crooked global elite than we realized.
Biden Immigration Policies Becoming Trump’s Second Term
Joe Biden can’t avoid reality anymore. As a candidate for president in 2020, Biden railed against Donald Trump’s “inhumane” immigration and border policies. He promised that when he became president, illegal immigrants would be welcomed into the United States, asylum seekers would be given shelter, and the U.S. would take its place as the number one destination for immigrants — legal and illegal — from around the world.
The Roots of America’s Defeat
It was laid in the days, weeks and months that followed 9/11.
Even before the suicide bombings outside the Kabul airport on Thursday evening, the US media was acting with rare unanimity. For the first time in memory, US media organs across the ideological and political spectrum have been united in the view that US President Joe Biden fomented a strategic disaster for the US and its allies with his incompetent leadership of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some compare it to the 1961 Bay of Pigs; others to Saigon in 1975; others to the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. Whatever the analogy, the bottom line is the same: Biden’s surrender to the Taliban has already entered the pantheon of American post-war defeats.
US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression
BOSTON (AP) — Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal: Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged land.
But in the Taliban’s lightning seizure of power, most of that digital apparatus — including biometrics for verifying identities — apparently fell into Taliban hands. Built with few data-protection safeguards, it risks becoming the high-tech jackboots of a surveillance state. As the Taliban get their governing feet, there are worries it will be used for social control and to punish perceived foes.
Putting such data to work constructively — boosting education, empowering women, battling corruption — requires democratic stability, and these systems were not architected for the prospect of defeat.
Harrowing unseen footage from 9/11 attacks
New doc shows moment couple with baby struggle with decision to flee or stay put as dust and debris envelops their building six blocks from Ground Zero
A new 90-minute documentary for British network ITV unveils unseen footage from families in Manhattan, including a young couple with a new baby, during the 9/11 attacks.
Anthony and Kyra Paris, with their new baby Daschiel, were at their apartment six blocks from Ground Zero when the twin towers were struck.
Video newly released by the Paris family shows their panic as bodies all from the World Trade Center and debris begins to envelope their neighborhood.
The Star wants to know why we don’t have diplomatic relations with a Terrorist State that just elected a mass murderer as its President
It’s been nine years since Canada severed diplomatic ties with Iran. How long can this go on?
Today marks nine years since Canada severed all diplomatic ties with Iran. The freeze in relations has persisted, despite the 2015 nuclear deal, the global battle against Islamic State group militants in Syria and Iraq, and even last year’s tragic downing of Flight 752. Although it plays host to the second-largest community of Iranians outside the country, Canada remains among the few states with no diplomatic links with Tehran. How long can this go on?
The Trudeau Liberals’ only philosophy is to spend, spend and spend some more
The Liberal party has so embraced increasing the size of government that even the appearance of principles to justify profligacy has been abandoned. After nearly doubling the size of public debt while in power, the party’s platform promises to grow the budget by another $78 billion, with new revenue to cover hardly a third. Barely any of this new spending would be in service of a coherent set of beliefs honestly held about the role of government. When faced with two competing, or even contradictory, policy options aimed at achieving the same goal, the Liberals will inevitably refuse to decide and instead choose both.
Evening Visuals
Not exactly photos but quite cool to look at:
Awesome.. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/o1P9NmDiLw
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 4, 2021
This is what Twitter is meant for.. pic.twitter.com/wY8r1IWyrw
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 2, 2021
Seattle could lose 200 cops over city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate: report
Some 200 Seattle police officers may lose their jobs due to their resistance to getting vaccinated against COVID-19 or handing over personal medical data, according to a report.
That represents about 20 percent of the department’s deployable staff and the ailing agency has already lost 300 cops following last year’s push to defund law enforcement organizations, KTTH conservative talk radio host Jason Rantz reported Monday.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced a sweeping order in August requiring most state employees to get vaccinated by Oct. 18 or face termination.
The West is being played by the Taliban
Our politicians and media are treating the Taliban’s pronouncements as if the group can be held to account
There were some curious juxtapositions in Afghanistan last week. On the one hand, the under-19 Afghan cricket team was allowed to leave for a planned tournament in Bangladesh, as if things were normal, while on the other there was a sinister military parade taking place in Kandahar this week. After the lines of horsemen in flowing white robes, a deliberate image of Islamic warrior superiority, came the fleets of captured Humvees. And at the side of the procession lay a car packed with a bomb, suicide vest, and large plastic bottles of explosives from a roadside bomb.
The same grifters who lied for 20 years have found a new lie.