Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on June 10 that “hundreds” of military whistleblowers have reported being forced to receive “anti-American indoctrination” training, including critical race theory (CRT).
In a Senate hearing with Austin, Cotton claimed that within the military, there’s “plummeting morale, growing mistrust between races and sexes where none existed just six months ago and unexpected retirements and separations based on these trainings alone.”
Kim Jong-un calls K-pop a ‘vicious cancer’ and threatens anyone caught listening to it with 15 YEARS in a labour camp
Maxime Bernier arrested in Manitoba for violating public health orders
A federal party leader and former member of Parliament has been arrested in rural Manitoba.
People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, who is currently on what he has dubbed the “Mad Max Manitoba Tour,” was holding rallies in several rural Manitoba towns starting Friday and was planning to move onto Winnipeg Saturday.
Our headlong rush to embrace communism/fascism continues unabated! Political dissent becomes-political prisoners under authoritarian rule. Should have called the Mad Max Manitoba vigil. #onpoli #cdnpoli #wearelivingalie #NoMoreLockdowns https://t.co/f2VzcvsT8i
— Randy Hillier (@randyhillier) June 11, 2021
A charity has been told it cannot sponsor an under-15 football team because it has the word “firearms” in its name.
The Police Firearms Officers’ Association (PFOA) wanted to buy new kit for Chatteris Town FC’s youth team.
But Cambridgeshire FA said regulations deemed the sponsorship “detrimental to the welfare, health or general interest of young persons”.
A BBC journalist who tweeted that “Hitler was right” has now left her job following the conclusion of an internal probe, the JC can reveal.
Tala Halawa, formerly a Palestine Specialist for BBC monitoring, wrote in 2014 that “Israel is more Nazi than Hitler” and that the Israeli Defence Force should “go to hell”.
Well she has a future at the CBC that’s certain.
Hotline will now help immigrant victims get visas, file complaints about ICE treatment
President Trump gave an unprecedented voice to victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, creating an office in ICE to highlight their plight.
The Biden administration on Friday announced a new policy to expand the office’s purview in a way that victims say drowns out their voice.
A lawyer today accused Oxfam of suggesting reporting rape is ‘contemptible’ after a training document said ‘privileged white women’ were supporting the ‘root causes of sexual violence’ for wanting offenders jailed because it disproportionately affects minorities.
The charity, which has been hit by a slew of sex scandals including claims that employees used teenage prostitutes in Haiti, compiled the PowerPoint presentation through its LGBT network after the group complained to bosses that the debate about women’s rights was part of a ‘patriarchal and white supremacist narrative’.
Accompanied by a cartoon of a crying white woman, the PowerPoint claims that mainstream feminism supports ‘the root causes of sexual violence’ by painting white women as ‘victims’ and that this in turn justifies excessive punishment for ‘black and other marginalised people’.
h/t cd
Police in Italy are hunting the relatives of a Pakistani girl who they think was strangled to death and buried in a shallow grave in a so-called honour killing.
Saman Abbas, 18, has been missing since May 1 when she was last seen on CCTV at a farm near the city of Reggio Emilia, central Italy, where father Shabbar, 46, worked.
Police says Shabbar conspired with Saman’s mother Nazia Shaheen, 47, uncle Hasnain Danish, 33, and cousins Nomanulhaq Nomanulahq and Ijaz Ikram, 33 and 28, to kill her and bury her body behind the farm before fleeing the country.
“The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths”, Deng Xiaoping said in 1992. Nearly three decades later, the world is almost completely dependent on China for rare earth materials. They constitute key elements in large swaths of modern technology from consumer electronics to military equipment and green technology: Mobile phones, computers, fighter jets, guided missiles, solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles, among others. While demand is soaring, China is virtually their worldwide exclusive producer. “To extend Mr Deng’s comparison, it is as if the Middle East not only sat on most of the world’s oil but also, almost exclusively, refined it and then made products out of it,” wrote The Economist in 2019.
…. The bigger story of the bill is an economic one: That the era of free markets is falling out of fashion, replaced by government-mandated industrial policy.
The trend appears bipartisan.
The shift in attitude began under Donald Trump, whose trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, wrote in an essay that ideal trade policy had to be about more than cheap goods and should prioritize domestic manufacturing and working-class jobs.
A new strategy paper released this week by the White House underscores the extent to which the Biden administration shares this view.
The China class will ensure it’s all bullshit.
The Supreme Court on Friday lifted sealing orders on the estate files of slain billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman in a unanimous decision, paving the way for the Toronto Star to access the files and capping off a three-year legal battle.
The couple was found killed in their Toronto home in 2017 — a high-profile case in which police have never named suspects or publicly revealed a possible motive.
The court files involve the last will and testament of Barry Sherman, the billionaire founder of generic drug giant Apotex, and the estate of his wife, Honey. (It is not known if she had a will.)
The lone full-time detective on the case told a Toronto courtroom in May that police have been pursuing a single “theory of the case” since four months after the murders.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, the former program director at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) who transferred deadly pathogens to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and her husband, Keding Cheng, are missing from Winnipeg and may no longer even be in Canada, according to John Woods of the Canadian Press.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) “wouldn’t say if they know where the pair is,” and the case remains shrouded in secrecy. On the other hand, some fascinating facts have already emerged.
The father of the suspect accused of killing four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., called it an “unspeakable crime” in a statement Thursday.
“It was with utmost shock and horror that I came to hear of the unspeakable crime committed last weekend,” Mark Veltman said.
“There are no words adequate to properly express my deep sorrow for the victims of this senseless act.”
Ontario is reporting 574 cases of #COVID19 and over 28,900 tests completed. Locally, there are 109 new cases in Toronto, 84 in Peel, 79 in Waterloo, 51 in Porcupine and 31 in Hamilton.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) June 11, 2021
Most of Ontario enters first stage of reopening, loosening COVID-19 restrictions
Outdoor dining and shopping at non-essential retail stores can resume in most of Ontario today as the province enters the first stage of its economic reopening plan.
New COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have dropped in recent weeks, allowing the province to loosen some pandemic restrictions.
Outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people and patio dining of up to four people per table are among the activities now permitted.
The unidentified woman was filmed using purple spray paint on Tuesday to deface the bust of York at Mount Tabor Park in Portland, Willamette Week reports.
York was a slave who became the first black man to cross America as part of the Corps of Discovery with explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early 1800s. He was enslaved by Clark at the time.
