Putin sets sights on a new ‘western enemy’ — the devil

Not content with outlawing the fictitious “international LGBT social movement” and clamping down on teenagers who like to dress up as furry animals, Russian MPs have now set their sights on another formidable foe — Satan himself.

“Satanism and everything connected with it must be considered as a direct threat to Russian statehood!” Andrei Kartapolov, a senior MP who heads the Russian parliament’s defence committee, said at a meeting in Moscow. He also alleged that satanists in Russia were funded by the West.

“We need to look at what money and what means these satanists live on. Where are their books and posters printed, who pays for their concerts, shows, performances, the renting of halls, bars, and clubs?” Kartapolov said. “This is nothing more than a form of warfare waged by the united West against our country.”

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LILLEY: When it comes to difficult questioning, Carney crumbles under pressure

Mark Carney was asked some tough questions on Tuesday and he had no good answers for any of them. That goes against his sales pitch to voters that he’s the guy you need in a crisis, in a pinch.

The thing is the crisis can change and it often does with governments.

While governments come to power with big plans, they often end up lurching from crisis to crisis, not of their own making. They need to be nimble, they need to be able to respond to changing circumstances quickly and Carney doesn’t appear to be able to do that.

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The Birmingham bin strike is a symptom of British decline

For nearly five weeks, piles of rubbish taller than most people have lined the streets of Birmingham – what is supposed to be the UK’s second city. Rats, some reportedly the size of kittens, have begun to roam the streets like they own the joint. Last week, locals became so desperate that they mobbed a bin lorry, hurling uncollected rubbish at it out of frustration. The city is, nearly by definition, a dump – much to the chagrin of proud Brummies who have always, quite rightly, rejected that tag.

Toronto is overrun with rats and we didn’t need no strike!

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Canadians weigh in on issues influencing their election day decision in a new poll

A new poll from Abacus Data found that there appears to be a stark difference in the “emotional drivers” influencing Canadians’ voting intention in the upcoming federal election. The firm also said those factors are spilling over into who voters see as best suited to become the next prime minister.

“The Conservatives resonate with those in a scarcity mindset — voters seeking immediate relief and system disruption — while the Liberals connect with those in a precarity mindset, who are more focused on navigating uncertainty and restoring long-term stability,” Abacus’s Eddie Sheppard and CEO David Coletto wrote.

In a national survey of 2,000 adults between March 20 and 25, respondents were asked about the issue weighing heaviest on their April 28 election day decision.

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Labour drops plans for Muslim rape gang inquiries

Labour has dropped its plans for five local grooming gang inquiries.

In January, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, told MPs that the Government would provide £5 million to support up to five initial local inquiries modelled on the judge-led one into grooming gangs in Telford.

However, on Tuesday Jess Phillips, a Home Office minister, announced that “following feedback” the Government would adopt a “flexible approach” where the money would be available for local councils to use as they wished to support grooming gang work.

This is evil.

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Antifa ‘Hammer Girl’ and Her Accomplice Escape Justice Once Again

The European Parliament is quick to remove the diplomatic immunity of its conservative members who are persecuted at home even for a tweet, but left-wing MEPs seem to escape the same treatment even if charged with much more serious offenses, such as assault bordering on attempted murder.

After all this time, the fate of Italy’s Green MEP Ilaria Salis—known as the ‘Hammer Girl,’ and charged with three counts of attempted assault in Hungary—remains undecided. On Wednesday, April 9th, the EU Parliament’s Legal Affairs (JURI) committee once again delayed the debate on whether to revoke her immunity and allow authorities to continue her prosecution.

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Joe Oliver: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me four times? Seriously?

In Mark Carney’s first month as Liberal leader and prime minister, a picture has emerged of who he is: a technocratic version of Justin Trudeau, without the charisma, great hair or ability to communicate comfortably in French, but with many of his banished predecessor’s other personality characteristics and policy propensities.

Like Trudeau, Carney is a left-leaning, climate-obsessed globalist — a Laurentian elitist who sees big government as the solution to most problems, whether real, imagined or self-imposed. He appears ambitious and narcissistic, is often casual with the truth, is compromised by conflicts of interest and seems beholden to the “basic Chinese dictatorship.” He is advised by Trudeau’s coterie of political operatives , led by Gerald Butts, and presides over a reshuffled Trudeau cabinet. The fourth Liberal term he seeks would, with one or two exceptions, pursue the same dysfunctional policies that inflicted a lost decade on our long-suffering yet credulous electorate. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me four times? Seriously?

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Wait, We Outsourced the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Global Warming Research to Crackpot Climate Consultants?

We touched upon this briefly in March: liberals were going haywire that Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, would take a hatchet to the “crown jewel” of the climate change cult. The National Climate Assessment is a U.S. Global Change Research Program project. It’s a multi-billion-dollar operation sanctioned by Congress, but it only has two employees. They don’t do the study, so what’s the deal?

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Braid: Conservatives see rebound as Trump goes quiet about Canada

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives aren’t done yet. The campaign may finally be turning in their direction, despite polls showing Liberal leads.

Poilievre has drawn 16,000 people to a rally outside Edmonton, 5,000 in Surrey, B.C., 6,500 in Oshawa and 3,000 in Kingston, both in Ontario.

These are enormous numbers for Canadian political rallies. The Conservatives aren’t making them up.

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KLEIN: Canada’s media is failing you and protecting the Liberals

There was a time when journalists were watchdogs. They held governments to account. They followed the facts, not the noise. That time feels long gone.

Instead of grilling those in power with substance, far too many media outlets in this country now act like junior high debaters, tossing out childish, irrelevant questions designed to trap or embarrass people they don’t like, while giving others a free ride.

h/t XC

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Eurabia: if AI is more real than journalism

If you ask Wikipedia, the great lying and manipulated encyclopedia, how many Muslims there are in France, it will answer “from 3 to 5.7 million,” but the PM says there are 9 million….

I have never understood not only why Chat gpt and other kinds of AI should be used, but why anyone should read anything if there is a suspicion that there is an algorithm behind it.

Then I saw a provocative video made with AI in which they imagine the country in which, if nothing changes, European children and grandchildren will live. And it was more realistic than any newspaper article.

Paris, 2050. Thirty seconds.

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