Terrorists have joined an arms race we cannot afford to lose
Summer days in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, are unbearably hot. But this year, for the city’s residents the 44-degree heat is the least of their concerns. In recent weeks, this usually safe municipality has become a chaotic front in the Middle East’s increasingly deadly drone wars, as new technologies are exploited by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias.
So it’s come to this, has it? Trans activists are now defending the right of men to show their penises to seven-year-old girls? That is the properly mental take-home message of the Wi Spa scandal, in which a heroic woman marched to the front desk of an LA spa and demanded to know why there was a person with a penis – what we used to call ‘a man’ – parading around the women’s changing rooms.
The southern French city of Toulouse has refused to cancel an exhibition of a famed 1970s provocateur fashion photographer that feminist groups say glorifies violence against women.
Feminist groups protested outside the Poster Museum of Toulouse on Wednesday. They demanded that the exhibition of the works of French fashion and commercial photographer Guy Bourdin be shut down.
I thought pornography and Sex-Work was supposed to be liberating.
“… The fundamental principle underlying the idea of systemic racism in our time is that every white person, whether explicitly racist or not, is a participant in America’s systemic oppression of black people. This infinite regression of culpability—in which, if a white person confesses to racism, he is a racist, and if he doesn’t, he is even more a racist—is a construction of systemic accusation created out of the fabrication of systemic racism. It is so contrary to ordinary experience and common intuition that it could only thrive in a framework of punishment and reward based on status, power, opportunity, ambition, and fear.
Unlike every social movement in modern history, the woke movement was created by, for, and deep within the media.”
The black and white picture shows a small formation of troops in uniform, standing at attention. They are arranged in front of a white flag emblazoned with a single character: fo, or Buddha.
It’s a moment in distant Chinese history, but one the country’s Communist Party is eager to once again bring to life.
In 1936, Buddhist monks took up arms against Japanese forces. In Shanghai, 120 monks fought “against the god of death and Japanese invaders,” according to an interpretive panel displayed by the image in the Ya’an Religious Sinicization Exhibition Hall. The monks fought, the exhibit says, under the credo: “If I do not descend into hell, who will?”
Go incognito.
Here’s an amazing story. A married-with-children British cabinet minister is caught on camera kissing his married-with-children aide and has to step down for violating COVID protocols. And now Canadian readers are shaking their heads and saying, “A cabinet minister had to step down?”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday night that “about 99%” of the criticism she receives over her temperament is due to the fact she’s a Black woman.
The mayor made the comment during an interview on WTTW-Ch. 11 after being asked about questions people have raised over temperament and how she reacts to criticism. The mayor has been known to be tough on staff and confrontational with critics, contributing to significant staff turnover.
When asked how much of the criticism has to do with the fact she’s a Black woman, Lightfoot said, “About 99%.”
Banning flavours for adult smokers trying to quit tobacco is a huge mistake, one that could have deadly consequences
Earlier this month Ottawa submitted new regulations for vaping products to the Canada Gazette. It wants to ban all vape flavours with the exception of tobacco, mint and menthol.
This lady is mental! Her videos get worse and worse by the day pic.twitter.com/v3jq79Ljsh
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) June 30, 2021
Maddie de Garay, a 12-year-old girl from Cincinnati, Ohio, was hospitalized several times after receiving her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. She participated in a clinical trial from December 2020 to January 2021. In a now-censored clip shared on Twitter, Maddie’s mother Stephanie discussed what happened after Maddie was vaccinated.
h/t Marvin
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she was “surprised and disturbed” to learn Vice-Adm. Craig Baines will be keeping his job as head of the navy despite a widely condemned decision to go golfing with Gen. Jonathan Vance while the former top solider remains under military police investigation.
Investigators from around the world have flown in to try to explain the sudden, middle-of-the-night collapse of a nice enough, but largely unremarkable luxury condo building, one that stood for several decades before collapsing but wasn’t nearly as old as some nearby buildings that still stand. It’s nearly unprecedented mystery that experts are struggling to explain.
“It’s really rare to have this kind of failure that a building is doing all well and all of the sudden it just collapses,” said Mohammad Ehsani, engineer and concrete-shoring expert. “It’s not something that should happen or does happen.”
It seems hyperbolic to say “40-year-old buildings don’t just collapse” but it’s not.
Back in March, the government of China scandalously used the death of George Floyd to deflect from criticisms of the systemic human rights abuses that persist all throughout its own country.
“The United States has mountains of human rights problems in its own country,” said Li Xiaojin, a human rights official from China’s State Council Information Office, upon the release of the Chinese government’s 28-page report on supposed human rights violations in the United States.
RCMP investigating Winnipeg scientists fired from lab for possible transfer of intellectual property to China
The RCMP are investigating whether two scientists dismissed from Canada’s top-security infectious-disease laboratory passed on Canadian intellectual property to China, including to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The investigation centres on the possibility that materials such as plasma DNA molecules, which could be used to recreate vaccines or viruses, were transferred to Chinese authorities without the approval of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The Globe and Mail has also learned that the RCMP have been informed that Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, recently relocated to China after they were fired in January from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.
Good work Dudley Do-Right. This is a little too convenient. No?
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