The moral of this story appears to be … choose your business partners carefully. A group of attorneys have filed suit in Minnesota against their former senior partner for cashiering them and others over social-media posts supporting Donald Trump. Wesley Scott allegedly accused them of plotting a “coup” against him as well…
America’s Overdue to Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg
The tech boss is finally being recognized as the American villain he is, rather than the folk hero he’s tried to present himself as.
Many have understandably applauded Facebook’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the site for the next two years, but the ability of a company to decide who should be in the public square, which the social network has effectively become, raises troubling questions about the future of our tattered democracy.
The decision was announced by Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom who’s now the vice president of global affairs at the social network, but there’s no question that the final call here belonged to Facebook’s co-founder, chairman, CEO, and controlling stockholder.
(A little surprised this is from the Daily Beast – Go incognito)
As Nashville officer’s murder trial looms, video showing the criminal holding a gun has mysteriously vanished
Prosecutors say Officer Andrew Delke, 27, broke the law by shooting Daniel Hambrick, 25, in the back while he was running away in July 2018. A grand jury indicted the officer on one count of premeditated first-degree murder.
Vaccination status cards may be the ticket to reopening the Canada-U.S. border
EDMONTON — As pressure mounts on the Canadian government to reopen the land border with the U.S., experts say incentivizing Canadians to become fully vaccinated by providing greater freedoms and less restrictions to those who are is a good place to start.
“We know from evidence and experience the world round that two weeks beyond a full vaccination status, the risk of transmitting this virus is next to zero,” Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, infectious disease expert, told CTV’s Your Morning Wednesday.
People Fleeing Collapsing Economies of Blue States Advise Those Who Remain: ‘Start Making Better Decisions on Who You Vote For’
According to the National Association of Realtors, an estimated 8.9 million people have relocated to Florida from states like New Jersey, New York, and California since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the economies of these states continue to crumble under the stress of continued lockdowns and other destructive policies, fleeing former residents offer advice to those who remain: “Start making better decisions on who you vote for.”
According to the website move.org, Florida was the number one relocation destination for Americans in 2020. New York and California took first and second place in the contest for being the states the most people chose to leave.
No one will care about the Hunter Biden N-word scandal
He’s the President’s son, not some anonymous high-schooler — so he gets a pass!
Newly published text messages from Hunter Biden reveal that Hunter Biden…is an American with actual freedom of speech! How lucky for him! He might be the last one.
The Daily Mail, one of the last publications willing to publish interesting things about Democratic US presidents, has published several unflattering messages between Biden and his lawyer George Messires. In the messages, Biden says a bunch of things that would be a big story if he were literally anybody other than the son of a Democratic president.
An unlikely genome sequence is evidence that COVID-19 leaked from a lab, two U.S. experts say
A natural emergence is still possible, but COVID-19 has a genetic footprint that has never been seen before in a natural coronavirus and suggests the virus originated in a lab, say two U.S. experts.
Dr. Steven Quay and Richard Muller made the assertion Sunday in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal and based it on the genomic sequencing patterns of COVID-19 and large discrepancies in its genetic diversity compared to the other coronaviruses responsible for SARS and MERS.
U.S. withdrawing Trump executive orders that sought to ban TikTok, WeChat
President Joe Biden is withdrawing a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok and ordering a new Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps, the White House said Wednesday.
The administration of former President Donald Trump had attempted to block new users from downloading the apps and ban other technical transactions that Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat both said would effectively block the apps’ use in the United States. The courts blocked those orders that never took effect.
Keystone XL pipeline project cancelled by TC Energy after over a decade of delays
CALGARY – TC Energy Corp. is walking away from the Keystone XL pipeline project, ending a decade-plus battle that pitted the energy industry against environmentalists as oilsands producers sought to export Canadian crude.
Construction on the pipeline was suspended earlier this year after newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to cancel its presidential permit in January.
TC Energy last month took a $2.2-billion writedown on the cancelled project, which pushed the company to a loss in its most recent quarterly earnings.
The Poisonous Fruit of Appeasing Iran’s Mullahs
Iran is continuing to exploit the Palestinian issue to promote its expansionist schemes in the Middle East and meddle in the internal affairs of Arab countries, including Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain.
Iran is doing so while its representatives continue to conduct indirect negotiations with the US administration in Vienna on reviving the 2015 “Iran nuclear deal,” which Iran never signed.
Diplomats from Britain, France and Germany who are negotiating with the Iranians seem oblivious to the growing concern in the Arab world over Tehran’s support for terrorism and its ongoing intervention in the internal affairs of several Arab countries.
One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
A major internet blackout that hit many high-profile websites on Tuesday has been blamed on a software bug.
Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings.
The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run the vast infrastructure that underpins the internet.
Fastly apologised and said the problem should have been anticipated.
Breaking — Trump Cleared
“Thank you to the Department of the Interior Inspector General for Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!”
Thanks to today’s IG report, we now know that last year’s Lafayette Park fiasco not caused by Trump.
Every single outlet botched the story. Facts were irrelevant because it confirmed their priors and the narrative of their furious readers was not to be questioned.
A thread: pic.twitter.com/NiYL14HlAE
— Watchdog (@LibWatchdog) June 9, 2021
Great thread, lots of good info.
‘Good Riddance’: Country Music Fans Trash CMT For Touting Gun Control Campaign, Promise Boycott
Viewers of Country Music Television, known as CMT, are slamming the company and promising to boycott its upcoming awards show after it urged viewers to “wear orange” for a gun control campaign.
WE in hot water again — this time with the CRA over donation receipts
The WE Charity is in hot water again, this time with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), which has levied penalties against it for improperly issuing donation receipts of $1.8 million. The charity has filed an appeal with the tax court and a trial date must now be scheduled.
One for the road: German troops bringing back 65,000 beers, 340 bottles of wine from Afghanistan
German troops won’t let a single drop of booze go to waste as they withdraw from Afghanistan.
About 65,000 cans of beer and at least 340 bottles of wine are being shipped back home as German forces exit the country, according to Der Spiegel magazine.
The logistical undertaking stands in stark contrast to the fact that German troops reportedly are leaving some military equipment behind as they exit Afghanistan.