White House Reassures Gun Control Groups It Will Fulfill ‘Ambitious’ Gun Control Agenda

White House Reassures Gun Control Groups It Will Fulfill ‘Ambitious’ Gun Control Agenda

With control of the House, Senate, and White House as a backdrop, Biden administration officials in their meeting with gun control advocates conveyed confidence about enacting gun control legislation through legislative and executive actions that in the past had not gotten the votes.

On Wednesday, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice and White House Public Engagement Director and Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond held a virtual meeting with leaders of gun control groups, including Gifford’s Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, and Brady, during which they discussed gun violence in America.

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U.N.: Iran Electrocuting Children to Prevent Them from Being Gay

The United Nations (U.N.) has condemned reports from Iran that LGBT youth suffer electric shocks and other mistreatment from state authorities, saying the practices amount to “torture,” the Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.

The U.N. is “concerned at recent reports that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children [LGBT] were subjected to electric shocks and the administration of hormones and strong psychoactive medications,” in Iran.

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Police investigate after door handles removed from suites of residents battling COVID-19 at Ontario retirement home

Police investigate after door handles removed from suites of residents battling COVID-19 at Ontario retirement home

Police say they are investigating reports that door handles were removed off the suites of residents who tested positive for COVID-19 at a retirement home in Courtice, Ont.

Officers in Durham Region said the incident took place at Cliffe Terrace Retirement Residence, and that police became aware of the issue after someone came forward.

CP24 and CTV News Toronto have obtained a copy of a letter that Verve Senior Living, the company which runs the home, sent to families of residents on Feb. 10.

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Watch a Dramatic Use of a Gun in Self-Defense That Didn’t Make News

If a defensive use of a firearm goes unreported in the media and nobody hears about it, does it really count?

I’m happy to report that the answer is a resounding “yes,” and I have evidence to prove it.

A man who was patrolling his employer’s property to protect it from thieves, confronted by an apparent carjacker, drew his legally carried firearm and subdued the stranger as police officers arrived and arrested the man.

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The Lincoln Project Devours Itself

Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt resigns amid scandals at anti-Trump super PAC

Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt is stepping down from its board as scandals continue to mount against the anti-Trump super PAC.

The veteran Republican operative’s departure comes after other leaders at the big-money political action committee accused him of fumbling sexual harassment allegations against another co-founder, according to Axios.

Leaders at the Lincoln Project — best known for raising millions to fund the GOP “Never Trump” movement — were reportedly informed in writing and phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against John Weaver as early as June.

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EU’s Covid-19 Vaccination Debacle: “Epochal Failure”

The European Union’s much-touted campaign to vaccinate 450 million Europeans against Covid-19 has gotten off to an inauspicious start. The vaccination rollout has been plagued by bureaucratic sclerosis, poorly-negotiated contracts, penny-pinching and blame shifting — all wrapped in a shroud of secrecy. The result is a needless and embarrassing shortage of vaccines, and yet another a crisis of legitimacy for the EU.

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Leading figure on Sadiq Khan’s diversity commission is a Commie anti-vaccine activist who wants to topple Britain’s racist statues

A leading figure in a campaign to topple Britain’s statues is a hard-left fanatic who previously expressed scepticism around the Pfizer vaccine, his social media posts have revealed.

Toyin Agbetu, 53, joined Sadiq Khan’s new diversity commission this week to help investigate whether to remove statues and road names of prominent historical figures connected to the slave trade.

Mr Agbetu was previously known for his 2007 outburst in front of the Queen in 2007, when he shouted ‘you should be ashamed’ during a service at Westminster Abbey.

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UK: New ‘do not resuscitate’ orders imposed on Covid-19 patients with learning difficulties

People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite of widespread condemnation of the practice last year and an urgent investigation by the care watchdog.

Mencap said it had received reports in January from people with learning disabilities that they had been told they would not be resuscitated if they were taken ill with Covid-19.

This is a feature not a bug, I have witnessed the callousness of our own medical bureaucracy.

Pray you don’t become an undesirable cost.

The language of our bureaucracy is chilling; Dying is referred to as “transitioning” due to “life limiting causes.”

Starvation is called “Allowing nature to take it’s course.”

If you decline an assisted death they will offer a sleep drug which will accomplish the same thing, just a little more slowly.

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“It’s horror”: The green urinals of Paris turn into a fiasco – thousands of Euros pissed away!

(Note – Google translate) Installed in the summer of 2020 in the Chapel district, the “Naturinoirs”, which were to aid in the greening of the district, turned into a total fiasco. Dilapidated, unsanitary and inefficient, they are now closed to the public.

It was a foregone conclusion. Less than six months after their installation, the “Naturinoirs” of Paris have already become giant bins. Basically, reports Le Parisien , the three installations – two urinals and a cabin – were to allow urine to be recycled, in order to transform the latter into fertilizer. Unfortunately, the “Naturinoirs” do not work, the shadow of the neighborhood prevents the solar panels powering the equipment from working. Worse, the huge tanks, which can contain 1000 liters of urine, leak … After barely a few weeks, the “Naturinoirs” are extremely damaged, and no longer work at all. And local residents describe the unpleasant consequences of this failure to the Parisian :The vespasians never worked! says a local resident. It was horror. Liters of piss flowing on the pavement and no one to clean up. The horror! “ 

Sophisticated French Design

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Why Canada is at the mercy of vaccine nationalism during the COVID pandemic

Why Canada is at the mercy of vaccine nationalism during the COVID pandemic

OTTAWA – For the better part of a month, Canada’s vaccine effort has plummeted down international rankings, as little vaccine has arrived on our shores.

Americans, Britons and Israelis, along with those living in tiny nations like the Seychelles and Malta, are much more likely to have received a shot than people living in Canada, where as of this week only 2.4 per cent of people have received even one shot of a COVID vaccine.

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