Ask yourself: suppose you belonged to a social group that led the world in drugged-out losers resisting arrest and teenage knife fighters?
How would it make you feel?
The answer is obvious. You would feel humiliated.
Now you understand what America’s blacks are feeling in the wake of the righteous Chauvin conviction and the tragic death of Knife Girl.
The meme of the First World Problem first hit the internet a decade ago, to satirise what pampered pooches we’ve become — “can only get 3G not 4G”, “had to stand on public transport” — when, really, we should all be pathetically grateful for our tech-enabled, progress-enriched lifestyles. Into this category, you could also tip many of the ‘problems’ that have come to dominate our news cycle. How should Afro hair be incorporated into British schools’ dress codes? Is it a ‘sexist’ fabrication that Carrie Symonds tried to get a minister fired — or is it just a fabrication? Should The National Trust celebrate LGBTQI+ culture, or should it perhaps get on with preserving historic buildings?
They needed a cause as epic as the damage — and they needed a villain.
Although he made up his mind before jury did, President Joe Biden quickly went public once he learned that the Minneapolis jury had, in fact, convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on all charges.
“It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism the vice president just referred to — the systemic racism that is a stain on our nation’s soul.” So said the only president to have given a eulogy at the funeral of an Exalted Klan Cyclops, and that just 10 years before Floyd’s death.
Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson questioned so-called health experts and public official’s insistence on mask mandates, even after dubious science and double standards for individuals based on political circumstances, including Black Lives Matter protests that took place in 2020.
Carlson urged his viewers to question and speak about the efficacy of masks and against mask mandates when possible.
Hooray for Hollywood! Vox called the Oscars broadcast on ABC on Sunday night “historically weird.” That’s one way of putting it. “Interminable,” “insufferable,” and “painfully woke” might be more descriptive of an event that featured films literally no one had ever heard of, with a cast of nobodies, and directed by non-entities who were congratulated more for their sex and their color than for any achievement whatsoever.
“The rate at which we’re growing the industry is absolutely scary,” says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University.
He’s talking about the market for electric cars in Europe.
By 2030, the EU hopes that there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads.
“It’s something that’s never really been done before at that rate of growth for a completely new product,” says Dr Anderson, who is also the co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials.
While electric vehicles (EVs) may be carbon neutral during their working lifetime, he’s concerned about what happens when they run out of road – in particular what happens to the batteries.
“To Serve and Protect” is more than a mere police slogan – it is a police duty. And in the case of the shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, Officer Nicholas Reardon was clearly carrying out his duty to protect the life of another.
The Trudeau government’s incompetence is causing death and economic dysfunction
Canada’s provincial health-care systems are in crisis, the economy is locked down and the Liberal government’s dose-delay edict is putting lives at risk. And yet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks about progress, about his big “portfolio of vaccines” and about how many millions of doses are on their way.
“I’m upset every time the media repeats the government’s claims about the number of vaccines that are planned or expected to arrive at the start of any given week, rather than reporting at the end of a given week on how many vaccines had actually been received,” said one health-care professional who asked to remain anonymous.
US Census officials have completed their once-a-decade count of the American population, showing the second slowest growth in recorded history.
Texas and Florida, two Republican titans of the Sunbelt, will gain congressional seats, while two Democratic giants, California and New York, are losing political influence.
The census shows the US population currently stands at 331,449,281 – an increase of 7.4% over 2010’s count.
The number is the slowest since the 1930s during the Great Depression.
Colorado Senate Bill 62 exemplifies just how radical criminal justice reform proposals have become. Ostensibly about bail reform and managing jail populations across the state, the bill, on closer reading, reveals its real aim: to eliminate police discretion to make arrests—even for serious felonies.
The only thing the province has been consistent about during the pandemic is its inconsistency in health orders.
There were few surprises in the new health orders issued by Manitoba Health on Monday. As expected household gatherings were the sacrificial lambs.
After Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s almost week-long recent tour of the Middle East, there can be little doubt that China is actively seeking to expand its influence in the region, not only economically but also militarily, diplomatically and politically, actively challenging the long-standing role of the United States as a dominant power in the region.
China’s influence in the Middle East has been growing for years, especially through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a gigantic global infrastructure and economic development project that Chinese President Xi Jinping launched in 2013. Its aim is, it appears, to build an economic and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe, Africa and beyond. This mega development and investment initiative seeks dramatically to enhance China’s global influence from East Asia to Europe by making countries worldwide increasingly dependent on China.
An attempt by the UK government to encourage countries and businesses around the world to quit coal for power generation is failing to make an impact, and in danger of being used as “greenwash”, an assessment has found.
The Powering Past Coal Alliance, led by the UK and Canada, with 111 members including 24 governments, local governments and businesses, is a key plank of Boris Johnson’s strategy for vital UN climate talks to be hosted in Glasgow in November.
One Texas sheriff has had it with loud-mouthed activists blaming police officers for the inevitable result of bad parenting – and now, he’s saying it.
According to local reports, the Thorckmorton County Sheriff’s Office is putting on blast parents who want to hold public authority figures accountable for their own failures in raising their kids to be law-abiding members of society, telling them quite blunty that “it is not the job of the officer to raise your kid.”
“IT IS NOT THE JOB OF THE OFFICER TO RAISE YOUR KID,” Throckmorton County Sheriff Doc Wigington wrote on Facebook. “Parents need to take responsibility for the actions of their FAILURE to raise their child to be respectful, responsible and listen to authority figures.”
