This is San Francisco. But they’re more worried about Twitter employees taking naps on sofas at work. pic.twitter.com/IVD4nVzGBH
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 8, 2022
Author: Blazingcatfur
Down with the American morality police
Unlike Iran’s, they are not so easy to disband
When, oh, when will the United States catch up with Iran? Those bearded, bomb-building, Koran-quoting clerics — we underestimate them at our peril. They know enough, the ayatollahs, to get rid of their morality police who have for decades subverted Iranian civic life, as they’ve reportedly done this week after protests in that country continued.
The morality police in Iran were known for harassing Iranians — women especially — who were deemed insufficiently devoted to Islamic purity. Yet when the morality cops apparently killed a young women for her gall in showing too much hair, public protests erupted.
What’s At Stake in Ukraine
A new documentary shows why Russia is losing the war.
Afew years ago, I found myself in Amsterdam watching the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy debate Russian intellectual Aleksandr Dugin on the subject of American hegemony and the global order. Before an ambivalent audience at this public symposium, Lévy began with a rousing defense of the liberal creed. Dugin, whose philosophy supports Moscow’s aggressive foreign policy, submitted that liberalism was a species of “totalitarianism.”
Abortions Drop Drastically in U.S.
Abortions have dropped drastically in the U.S. state of Texas since the procedure became almost completely illegal in the state approximately five months ago.
Statistics from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission show that in the month after the state’s nearly complete ban on abortion went into effect, abortions in the state dropped from approximately 2,500 per month to just 68.
In June 2022, a U.S. Supreme Court decision returned the right to regulate abortion to state governments, ending over 40 years of nationwide court-imposed abortion on demand up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. In Texas, one of several states with a law criminalizing abortion still on the books, this meant abortion automatically became a crime unless the procedure was done to save the life of the mother.
2 More Secret CCP Police Stations Discovered in LA, New York: Report
A nonprofit group has discovered 48 new overseas police stations with ties to China’s communist regime, including two previously unknown facilities in Los Angeles and New York City.
The newly identified sites are among more than 100 police outposts that are spread out across 53 nations.
The facilities have been used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to carry out an illicit campaign of transnational repression, according to Safeguard Defenders, a nonprofit organization that published a Dec. 5 update to its findings from a previous investigation released in October.
Harry’s latest attacks on his father may mean no way back
He may be the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and the head of the Commonwealth, but Charles was a virtual ghost in the first three episodes of the Netflix “reality” series Harry & Meghan.
Montages showed Charles and Diana with their young sons, Harry and William, and there was a glimpse of Charles shooting pheasants with Harry. Whenever Diana was shown, Prince Harry showered her with praise for her mothering and her “compassion, empathy, confidence, and warmth”, qualities that he said his wife Meghan also embodies.
This is just nasty and unbecoming. Meghan looks like a school bully. pic.twitter.com/4O11NqyZnU
— Benjamin Butterworth (@benjaminbutter) December 8, 2022
A Shameful Prisoner Swap – ‘Antiracism’ is no way to conduct foreign policy
Not three years ago, Brittney Griner refused to take the floor when the WNBA played the national anthem before tipoff. “I think we should take that much of a stand,” she said at the time, arguing that “basketball doesn’t mean anything in a world where we can’t just live. We can’t wake up and do whatever we want to do.” Such is the plight, she said, of being black in America.
Yet it was in part Griner’s race, as well as her sexual orientation—she is a lesbian—that made her detention by Russia in February a high-profile news story and turned her case into a cause célèbre for activists and journalists, but we repeat ourselves.
George Soros: The Money Behind Leftist Media & Censorship
George Soros’ globalist influence extends across time and borders. His charities fund hundreds of media organizations worldwide.
This week’s episode of CensorTrack with Paiten featured MRC Business & MRC Free Speech America Associate Editor Joseph Vazquez, who covered the first part of a new MRC Business report: “Propaganda Czar: Soros Bankrolls 253 Groups to Influence Global Media.”
Boost what?
As Dr Paul Alexander notes the continued rollout of bivalent boosters will do nothing more than keep this pandemic going for many years.
It’s not just the negative efficacy there is also the danger of a more lethal strain developing.
An abject failure which must be stopped. pic.twitter.com/geKB4a2GX6
— Kat A 🌸 (@SaiKate108) December 8, 2022
h/t Mauser
‘This is election interference’: Republicans demand hearings and urge Elon Musk to reveal the GOP candidates who were ‘shadow banned’ before elections
Republicans are demanding hearings on Twitter and more information on whether GOP candidates were blacklisted before elections, after the second release of internal documents showed conservative accounts were suspended or suppressed despite not violating any policies.
The calls for more accountability come as Elon Musk responded ‘yes’ when a user asked him if any political candidates were ‘subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election?’
Ontario reveals how many people were impacted by COVID-19 vaccine portal breach
A security breach linked to Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine portal exposed the personal information of approximately 360,000 people in the province.
Those who are impacted will start receiving email notices on Friday if their personal information was part of this breach.
“In over 95 per cent of cases, only names and/or phone numbers were impacted,” Ontario’s Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery said in a statement on Friday.
The AP Stylebook: Don’t Call Them ‘Late-Term Abortions’!
George Orwell warned us about how the manipulation of language could be used to control people, and we are now seeing how dictionary publishers and the Associated Press Stylebook have been making Orwell’s vision a reality.
‘I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to be homeless’: Canadian man, 65, has a doctor’s approval that poverty qualifies him for euthanasia
A Canadian pensioner seeking euthanasia because he fears homelessness has received approval from a doctor despite admitting poverty is a major factor in the decision to end his own life.
Les Landry, 65, told assessors for the procedure he ‘doesn’t want to die’ but has applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID) because he can’t afford to live comfortably.
Astonishingly, a doctor has given one of the two signatures required for Landry to end his own life, despite knowing that financial hardship – not illness – is a leading reason for the profound decision.
Nolte: Trevor Noah Exits ‘The Daily Show’ a Total Failure
Trevor Noah exited The Daily Show Thursday night, leaving tens of people wondering what they will do without him and 329,632,000 people asking Who?
About that worker ‘shortage’: Why are governments helping drive down wages?
For almost 50 years Canada has done a thoroughly crappy job – to use the technical term in economics – of fostering a labour market that would provide for steady, year-over-year increases in real pay for working Canadians. I calculate that in 1976 it would have taken a worker earning the median employment income six years to save enough for a down payment on a typical single-family home. In 2020 it would have taken 17 years. If that worker lived in Greater Toronto or Vancouver, it would have taken 28 and 30 years, respectively.
Canada’s immigration policy in a nutshell: Corporate Canada wants fear ridden malleable wage slaves and our politicians dutifully provide them.
How brazen is corporate Canada? Recall that Tim Horton’s incorporated the import of foreign labour under the TFW into their business model.
“A growth model that relies on opening vast numbers of new stores every year also relies on nearly unfettered access to cheap labour to keep profit margins from getting crushed. Tim Hortons has regularly said as much in its annual reports, in the section where it lists all the potential risks to its business: Any labour shortage due to “the cessation or limitation of access to federal or provincial labour programs, including the temporary foreign worker program,” could lead to declining revenues, profits and brand reputation.”