MSNBC’s Ali Velshi took his trademark cowboy hat and Saturday show to Phoenix from where he interviewed PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel about a Los Angeles Times op-ed she wrote entitled, How Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could threaten free speech. Nossel warned that if Musk’s vision is ultimately realized, Twitter risks becoming the Tower of Babel.
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Olaf Scholz won’t dump China. Will Europe ever learn?
It was early fall, 1959. A senior official from Mao’s China was leading a mission to Kyiv, then part of the Soviet Union. He inspected factories, learned about state planning, and took an afternoon boat trip on the Dnipro River with his 30-plus comrades. It’s nothing like the Ukraine his son has to deal with today.
Xi Zhongxun, father of the current Chinese President Xi Jinping, led the visit. As secretary-general of the State Council, the government arm of the Communist Party, Xi the senior spent a total of four days in what is now Ukraine’s capital. The trip also took him to Moscow and Prague, and apparently left a mark on the boy who would one day run the only powerful Communist Party left standing on earth.
Iran trembles as Clinton, Freeland, Winfrey and others publish strongly worded letter demanding UN boot Mad Mullahs off Status of Women commission
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s preeminent women leaders in business, politics, advocacy and the arts published an open letter in Sunday’s New York Times calling for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
Signatories of the letter include Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Media Leader & Philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Education Activist Malala Yousafzai, Economic & Political Leader Christine Lagarde, former First Lady of the United States & advocate of girls education Michelle Obama, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Executive Director of UN Women, Christiana Figueres DBE, former head of UN Climate Change Convention, former First Lady of the United States & Education Advocate Laura Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Human Rights Activist Nadia Murad and women in leadership positions from 14 countries (and counting).
Who wants anything to with an organization like the UN that put Iran on the Status of Women thing to begin with? Next they’ll try to get Elon Musk deported!
South Korea Halloween crush: ‘I was trapped on ledge, watching people die’
Survivors of the deadly Seoul Halloween crush have been speaking of their horror at watching friends and strangers suffocate in an alleyway as dance music blared into the night.
At least 153 people died when crowds thronged the Itaewon district of South Korea’s capital.
“People began pushing from behind, it was like a wave – there was nothing you could do,” Nuhyil Ahammed told the BBC.
“I couldn’t sleep last night. I can still see people dying in front of me.”
Scores killed in Halloween crush disaster in South Korea capital, Seoulhttps://t.co/IdGfM5mYF0 pic.twitter.com/e2ayNt0rVk
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 30, 2022
Car bombings kill at least 100 in Mogadishu, says Somali president
Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed on Saturday in two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital, Mogadishu, and the toll could rise in the country’s deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the site of the explosions in Mogadishu, told journalists that nearly 300 other people were wounded. “We ask our international partners and Muslims around the world to send their medical doctors here since we can’t send all the victims outside the country for treatment,” he said.
How can they tell when a bomb goes off? Does the place look better post detonation?
WaPo’s Bob Woodward Releases ‘Raw’ Audio of 20 Interviews He Says Prove Trump Is an ‘Unparalleled Da
In its simplest terms, Trump Derangement Syndrome is “a neurotic obsession with Donald Trump.”
Officially at least, TDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable mental disorder, but to deny its existence is to deny the reality of the last seven or more years. Not to intentionally set anyone’s hair on fire, but two types of TDS have existed since Trump formally announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, with a campaign rally and speech at Trump Tower in New York City. From that moment, it’s been game-on ever since.
Europe’s Green Future Is Cold and Dark
Relying on clean energy sources such as wind and solar while ignoring energy security has proven to be disastrous for Europe
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, European Union (E.U.) nations are scrambling to source fossil fuels to run their factories and heat their homes this winter. They vigorously boycotted Russian natural gas and levied sanctions, you’ll recall, as a way of punishing Russia for its evil warring ways.
No Boys Allowed? New CyberStart Canada Program Will Cater Only to Girls and Non-Binary Students
… Canadian liberals have decided to follow America’s lead on creating their new cyber initiative that reeks with overtones of overt anti-male discrimination, as Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, which is Toronto Metropolitan University’s National Centre for “training, innovation, and collaboration in cybersecurity,” has recently announced a new program called CyberStart Canada.
The program, which is funded by Canadian taxpayers via Public Safety Canada’s Cyber Security Cooperation Program, will initially provide services and education to 700 girls and non-binary students from Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia in 2022-23 in what is being described as a “gamified environment,” and then throughout Canada the following year.
According to the eligibility requirements listed on the program’s website, “Priority in 2022 will be given to students in Ontario, Alberta or British Columbia who self-identify as girls or non-binary. Students must be over the age of 13 to participate.”
Who will win the midterms? Ask bettors, not pollsters
Some pundits say that Democrats will win the midterms.
MSNBC tells us, “Democrats are seeing momentum headed into midterms.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims, “We will hold the House by winning more seats!”
Really? Want to bet?
This is an interesting column. Gaming sites do better than pollsters and pundits.
Man hurled three petrol bombs at Dover immigration centre before driving to a nearby petrol station to ‘kill himself’
A man threw petrol bombs attached with fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the port of Dover today and then killed himself, witnesses said.
The attacker, a white man wearing a checked shirt, drove up to the centre in a white SEAT sports utility vehicle.
He got out and threw three petrol bombs, one of which did not go off, a photographer said.
🚨Breaking News🚨
A man threw a petrol bomb at a Dover immigration centre and then committed suicide. pic.twitter.com/O42Ek7yPSo
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 30, 2022
Opposition growing to Trudeau’s dangerous censorship bill
The chorus of Canadians from all walks of life calling on the Senate to kibosh the Trudeau government’s censorship bill is growing louder by the day.
Last week, a letter from over 40,000 Canadian content-creators urged senators to reject Bill C-11 in its current form, sounding the alarm on what they see as a very dangerous piece of legislation.
The COVID coverup begins to unravel
COVID likely started circulating in China is late 2019–now 3 years ago–and its effects have dominated our lives for 2 1/2 years.
Yet for much of that time the Establishment™ has been gaslighting us about its likely origins. You know that. The Establishment™ knows that you know.
Elon Musk ̷b̷i̷z̷a̷r̷r̷e̷l̷y̷ responds to Hillary Clinton after she links ‘hate and deranged conspiracy theories’ from GOP to Paul Pelosi’s attack: ‘There might be more to this story than meets the eye’
Elon Musk, fresh off his acquisition of Twitter, said there might be “more to the story” on Paul Pelosi’s assault, which left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a skull fracture and serious injuries.
In a tweeted reply to Hillary Clinton, Musk shared a link to a site with conspiracy theories about the attack.
Clinton condemned the assault, accusing the “Republican Party and its mouthpieces” of regularly spreading “hate and deranged conspiracy theories.”
There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye https://t.co/HCaF5DrRjP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2022
WARMINGTON: New approach enables cops to track people on bail for gun charges
With 1,100 people before the courts on firearm charges currently free on bail instead of sitting in jail, few are surprised when they end up involved in a shooting.
You read it right — 1,100 people on gun charges are currently free from custody on bail until their case makes it way to trial or is resolved.
Toronto – aspiring to become Canada’s version of a shithole Democrat Run City.
Wanna bet we’ll never see a demographic breakdown of the “1100?”
Only 29% per cent bothered to vote in the last election that saw John Tory swept to victory in a sort of reverse landslide of the couldn’t be bothered.
What explains this level of absenteeism?
Are people happy with the status quo?
Are rising taxes and deteriorating services simply accepted as normal?
“Putting in time until I can afford to get out” has become a common discussion.
What’s behind it? Are we so balkanized by diversity that a shared connection to the city is no longer possible?
Do you consider Toronto or some other GTA city home? Reading about recent events in Brampton brought to mind Chamberlain’s reference to the Czechoslovakia crisis as a “quarrel in a far away country, between people of whom we know nothing.”
Maybe as Trudeau might suggest Toronto is Canada’s first Post-City City, nothing more than a mass of transients, a settler pit stop to be exploited until greener pastures come along.
The specter of Leicester looms over Toronto & the GTA, it too was portrayed as a beacon of diversity.
The MP to mayor pipeline: Why so many provincial and federal politicians are heading to city hall
Poke your head into any city hall across the country, and there’s a chance you’ll find a former MP or member of the provincial legislature sitting in the mayor’s chair.
Recent municipal elections in B.C., Ontario and Manitoba saw scores of seasoned politicians making the jump — or the return — to the local level.
Andrea Horwath is among them. The former Ontario NDP leader is the newly elected mayor of Hamilton, Ont.
”Certainly I had accomplishments that really did affect all of Ontario, as an opposition leader,” she told CBC Radio’s The House. ”But the municipal order of government really is the closest to the people.”
What horseshit. They’re Lifestyle Politicians leveraging whatever name recognition they may hold into yet another chance at the Public Tit. Tory was reelected with 29% voter turnout. It doesn’t take much to cross the goal line in municipal politics.
It’s what they do because it’s lucrative and feeds their sense of self-importance and entitlement.
We need term limits and reduced benefits.