“What the results show is that the little advantage that the Conservatives picked up in the fall of last year when they elevated Pierre Poilievre to the position of leader has gone away. The Liberals and Conservatives are basically tied again,” he said.
Something is very wrong somewhere when you can’t beat Blackie.
A Russian military aircraft has been blown up by anti-war activists in Belarus in what has been described as the most successful act of sabotage since President Putin invaded Ukraine.
The Beriev A-50 surveillance aircraft was targeted with drones operated by members of the Belarusian resistance, according to Bypol, an opposition movement. The attack took place at the Machulishchy air base near Minsk, the capital.
#Ukraine: Another Russian BMP-2 IFV was destroyed by Ukrainian forces at the infamous crossing point in Mykilske near Vuhledar, #Donetsk Oblast- apparently by running over an anti-tank mine and being hit by an ATGM. pic.twitter.com/twvYwl3T84
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) February 27, 2023
The time has come for yet another media reckoning. The U.S. Department of Energy has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory leak, according to a new Wall Street Journal report that offers the latest piece of evidence that the media were wrong to roundly dismiss the theory as a conspiracy for much of the last three years.
Embattled Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was slammed Monday ahead of this week’s election for claiming that critics of her four-year tenure just don’t want to see “a black woman” in leadership.
Lightfoot, 60, the first black female and first openly lesbian mayor of the Windy City, told the New Yorker in a piece published Saturday that she bristles at her portrayal by the media, even as she has struggled to battle Chicago’s decades-high murder rate.
“I am a black woman — let’s not forget,” she told the outlet. “Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles.”
The election is today. To be honest I’ll miss her if she’s voted out.
Humza Yousaf, a senior Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who brought a fugitive Hamas commander to meet with Scottish ministers, worked for a radical charity condemned by Western governments for its antisemitism and terror ties, and advocated for “progressive political Islam” is the front-runner to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader, and become Scotland’s new First Minister.
Yousaf first came to the public’s attention in the late 2000s while serving as an aide to former SNP leader Alex Salmond and other senior party leaders. At this time, Yousaf was also running the Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF), along with his cousin, Osama Saeed.
What the hell happened to the Scottish?
Google “fundamentally started as a CIA project,” according to journalist and author of Propaganda in the Information Age, Alan MacLeod, who has warned that tech giants’ ties with intelligence agencies pose big problems for freedom of information as well as freedom of speech.
MacLeod, who has extensively researched the ties between the national security state and Big Tech, explained to journalist Whitney Webb on the Unlimited Hangout podcast how a prior investigation by Dr. Nafeez Ahmed found that the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) were “bankrolling” research by Sergey Brin at Stanford University, which “produced Google.”
Imagine living in a country so religiously uptight that even making a smudge on a copy of the Quran could turn into a police matter. A country so nervous of offending Islam that even kids could be punished for allegedly disrespecting that religion. A country so determined to ringfence certain religious beliefs from scrutiny or mockery that you might hear actual politicians denouncing as ‘provocative’ and ‘terrible’ any slight against those beliefs.
Across the United States, critical infrastructure is breaking down and blowing up in plumes of toxic smoke
Last year the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed hours before a planned visit by President Joe Biden; he was scheduled to give a speech addressing America’s infrastructure. About an hour’s drive northwest of Pittsburgh sits East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying hazardous materials derailed earlier this month, leading to the town’s evacuation and causing a public health crisis that has yet to be resolved. The two incidents, one year and roughly 50 miles apart, are not disconnected: They point to a widespread rot afflicting America’s transportation networks, public schools, health care facilities, energy grid, and other critical infrastructure that is already causing dangerous failures like the ones in Pittsburgh and East Palestine, and which appears likely to get worse before it gets better.
Tax rises and pension changes will make the economic costs more visible
Prague was a sea of blue-and-yellow this weekend to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Light displays, public demonstrations and concerts combined an atmosphere of solemnity with bittersweet celebrations of Ukraine’s continued survival.
Women’s rights campaigners like Kellie-Jay Keen are being questioned by police for offending trans activists.
Crime must have been swept from the streets of Brighton, with domestic abuse and muggings happily consigned to the past. Because there is surely no other rational explanation as to why officers from Sussex Police took a 300-mile round journey from the south coast to the rural town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire last week.
Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of smokestacks and litter taking over a once unblemished landscape has become an indelible piece of TV pop culture.
It’s been referenced over the decades since on shows like “The Simpsons” and “South Park” and in internet memes. But now a Native American advocacy group that was given the rights to the long-parodied public service announcement is retiring it, saying it has always been inappropriate.
The so-called “Crying Indian” with his buckskins and long braids made the late actor Iron Eyes Cody a recognizable face in households nationwide. But to many Native Americans, the public service announcement has been a painful reminder of the enduring stereotypes they face.
A transgender woman’s victory in a 1,500m running event in Canada has added fuel to the debate around trans women competing in women’s sports.
Tiffany Newell, 50, placed first in the W50 1,500m, which is open to women aged 50 to 54, at the Canadian Masters Indoor Championships in Toronto, which took place over the weekend.
While only one other person in that age group competed, Newell has repeatedly placed first in women’s events, and has set global records in her age category, since transitioning in 2017.
In common with many others, I have always thought Justin Trudeau’s receptiveness to China was down to naivete.
But, unless he is more transparent about the Liberal party’s dealings with Beijing in the last two elections, it looks like his sympathies were at least in part driven by partisan considerations.
There was an air of desperation in his reaction to media questions on the foreign interference story on Monday, as he maintained the line that the media reporting has been false, and that even discussing the issues is damaging to Canadian democracy.
Man wanted after sexual assault at Kipling subway station
So – here’s the video.
Zelensky with Biden and…Zelensky?
Seems there is a glitch in the Matrix pic.twitter.com/fEOBBIeQ6F
— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) February 26, 2023
h/t Mauser
