It’s time to wind down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
My preference would be if the federal government axed the whole thing – English and French services, radio and TV.
Hey Elleniot, aren’t you a bit too old for this?
Page seems to embody a sort of boutique transgenderism we’re all now accustomed to seeing
Americans found themselves divided into two camps this week — the mildly skeptical and the fervently disinterested — when the actress formally known as Ellen Page announced she was a boy called Elliot and, in fact, always has been a boy.
In the proclamation, posted to Instagram, Page not only came out as transgender — meaning she was born one sex but identifies as the other — but also as non-binary — which means she actually has no sex. Yes, it makes no sense. But try not to think too much about, she clearly hasn’t either.
She’s a girl playing a non binary playing a boy who has a wife. Yea I follow that.
The New Untouchables: Seattle policymakers want to provide the city’s underclass with blanket immunity for misdemeanor crime.
In October, the Seattle City Council floated legislation to provide an exemption from prosecution for misdemeanor crimes for any citizen who suffers from poverty, homelessness, addiction, or mental illness. Under the proposed ordinance, courts would have to dismiss all so-called “crimes of poverty”—which, according to the city’s former public-safety advisor, would cover more than 90 percent of all misdemeanor cases citywide. In effect, the legislation would create a new class of “untouchables,” protected from consequences by the city’s powerbrokers.
Multiple Brawls Break Out Between Trump Supporters and Antifa in Olympia
Multiple fights broke out at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia on Saturday between patriots and black-clad members of Antifa.
Supporters of President Donald Trump were at the Capitol holding a pro-Trump and “Back the Blue” rally, while Antifa were holding an event titled “Squash Fascists.”
Will a vaccine give us our old lives back?
… Immunising a large chunk of the UK’s 68 million people will be an immense task, never mind reaching most of the globe’s 7.8 billion residents.
Nothing on this scale has ever been attempted before.
The vaccines and their equipment – such as the vials to house them – need to be manufactured in mass quantities. Vaccine supply may not be able to meet demand for some time.
The vaccines then need to be transported from factories and delivered to health centres – including those in isolated, hard-to-reach communities across the world.
A long read but informative, short take – no return to normal next year.
Erdoğan’s New Charm Offensive: Bogus Democratic Reforms
It is his favorite cycle: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recklessly widens Turkey’s democratic deficit, weakens institutions, refuses to acknowledge democratic checks and balances. He isolates Turkey mostly from its Western alliances and follows an irredentist foreign policy of trying to reclaim supposedly “lost” land. Turkey is at odds with both the United States and Europe.
Inevitably, political isolation causes economic isolation. The economy is on a downfall. Investors flee the country. Voters start to complain about the double-digit inflation and interest rates; the lira falls and falls; unemployment rises sharply. Erdogan rediscovers his reformist self and promises to democratize — presumably hoping, in vain, that he can reverse the economic downfall.
Facebook to rank anti-black hate speech over anti-white comments
Facebook has updated its hate speech algorithm, reversing years of neutrality to prioritize anti-black comments while making anti-white slurs the lowest priority.
The tech giant’s new system for detecting hate speech, known internally as the WoW Project, will automatically delete hateful language directed at the LGBTQ community, Jews, Muslims and African Americans — which has been dubbed by Facebook engineers as the “worst of the worst,” the Washington Post reported.
The company will now begin scoring hate speech and offensive posts, and remarks about “men,” “whites” and “Americans” will be marked “low sensitivity,” the report said.
A few riots and some low sensitivity shopping should change that.
‘Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by microwave energy, government study finds
The mysterious neurological symptoms experienced by American diplomats in China and Cuba are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy, according to a long-awaited report by the National Academies of Sciences that cites medical evidence to support the long-held conviction of American intelligence officials.
The report, obtained Friday by NBC News, does not conclude that the directed energy was delivered intentionally, by a weapon, as some U.S. officials have long believed. But it raises that disturbing possibility.
Chinese Professor Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI in Huawei-Related Case
A Chinese professor accused by U.S. prosecutors of helping steal American technology to benefit China‘s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Dec. 4 pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, but is expected to be allowed to return home after prosecutors decided not to pursue a more serious charge.
The professor, Bo Mao, had been charged with conspiring to defraud Silicon Valley’s CNEX Labs and faced up to 20 years behind bars. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas when he was arrested in August 2019.
Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley Give Up on California, Move to Texas
This is becoming an all-too-familiar refrain. XYZ Company pulls up stakes in California and expands or moves to Texas or Tennessee. But even for the arrogant California commissars in Sacramento, who have seen more than 13,000 companies leave on their watch in the last few years, this one has got to hurt.
Riots in Paris as furious masked mob set cars on fire and throw Molotov cocktails during anti-violence rally
Riots in Paris as furious masked mob set cars on fire and throw Molotov cocktails at police as thousands march against law making it illegal to film police
Cars were ignited by furious gangs of rioters in Paris today as thousands marched against a new law making it illegal to film the police.
Flames and thick black smoke filled major streets in the French capital on Saturday as youths wearing black masks and balaclavas threw missiles including Molotov Cocktails at the police.
By early evening there had been 22 arrests of ‘very violent suspects’ in the area around Avenue Gambetta, said a local police spokesman, who said highly organised rioters had put numerous shop windows in.
Tirs de lacrymogenes alors que la police fait evacuer l'ile de #Nantes alors que la #MarcheDesLibertés prend fin, 2 policiers au sol apres l'explosion d'un cocktail molotov à leurs pieds #StopLoiSecuriteGlobale #PPLSecuriteGlobale #PPLLoiSecuriteGlobale pic.twitter.com/uNv9Rv3ofM
— TheoPrn (@Theop_rn) December 5, 2020
French Thalys train attacker ‘tried to kill me three times’
One of three Americans hailed as heroes for overcoming a gunman on a train travelling to Paris has told a French court his main aim was to survive.
Spencer Stone, a 28-year-old ex-serviceman, described via video from the US how he and his friends saw Ayoub El Khazzani pick up a Kalashnikov rifle and prepare to open fire.
He counted three separate attempts the gunman made to try to kill him.
Mr Stone was one of two people wounded in the August 2015 Thalys train attack.
Canadian Forces reject recruitee over a 2019 op-ed he wrote about diversity
Last year, an op-ed appeared in the Vancouver Sun titled “Ethnic diversity harms a country’s social trust, economic well-being, argues professor.”
The author of the piece, Mount Royal University geography instructor Mark Hecht, reviewed current research on the issue of ethnic diversity and social trust, and posited that immigration policy should be informed by norms of cultural compatibility and cohesion.
Who would want to join the CAF nowadays? Only a masochist perhaps as they are likely a protected group.
Below is a link to the original piece written for Post Media and subsequently spiked;
Mark Hecht: Ethnic Diversity Harms A Country’s Social Trust, Economic Well-Being, Argues Professor
Protest erupts in Senate after Justin Trudeau The Bribetaker Was called a Bribetaker in reference to the We Charity scandal
Them’s fighting words.
Quebec Senator Leo Housakos called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a bribe taker in the We Charity scandal, prompting a chorus of “Shame! Shame!” from other senators in the chamber, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The accusation came while they were debating a motion to investigate federal funding for the organization.