Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter, assuming he still actually wants to do it, ran into a serious snag in the past couple of weeks. Musk insisted that Twitter turn over all of it’s user data to him so he could verify how many “real” users they have and how many accounts are spam bots. A failure to do so would, according to Musk and his attorneys, constitute a breach of the merger agreement they had previously reached.
Cases of desertion are growing every week in the Ukrainian army, according to a leaked intelligence report, as up to 200 of its outgunned soldiers are being killed every day in the eastern Donbas region.
Kyiv’s troops are outnumbered 20 to one in artillery and 40 to one in ammunition by the Kremlin’s forces in the area, the leaked Ukrainian intelligence report reveals.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior aide to the Ukrainian president, on Thursday said the battle over the war-town country’s industrial heartlands was so intense that Kyiv is suffering up to 200 military casualties per day. The previous upper limit was given as 100 soldiers.
Israel is “overwhelmingly” to blame for the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian terrorism, a controversial United Nations probe concluded on Tuesday.
“The findings and recommendations relevant to the underlying root causes [of the conflict] were overwhelmingly directed towards Israel, which we have taken as an indicator of the asymmetrical nature of the conflict and the reality of one state occupying the other,” stated Navanethem Pillay, who is heading the UN’s Commission of Inquiry investigating Israel.
In the wake of every mass shooting, the liberal response is always the same: the proposal of new laws. But even as liberals push new laws, they support prosecutors, such as the now-recalled Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, who refuse to enforce existing laws. Liberals also support an undisciplined culture that renders the populace increasingly incapable of following the law.
An American tourist has caused €25,000 (£21,000) worth of damage after hurling her electric scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps.
The incident was filmed by a passerby in the early hours of Friday. Police later caught up with the 28-year-old and fined her and a 29-year-old male companion, who had wheeled his e-scooter down the 18th-century marble steps, €400 each.
High house prices and debt loads associated with them are a major vulnerability to Canada’s economy, the Bank of Canada said Thursday, warning buyers who bought during the pandemic that the impact of even slightly higher mortgage rates could be dramatic.
In its Financial System Review, the central bank said that while the country’s financial system is strong and weathered the pandemic well, the economy remains vulnerable because of elevated debt levels tied to the country’s increasingly expensive housing market.
“Even as the average household is in better financial shape, more Canadians have stretched to buy a house during the pandemic,” Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said Thursday. “And these households are more exposed to higher interest rates and the potential for housing prices to decline.”
This is an elementary-middle school art school teacher who “creates art that challenges how we depict gender, sexuality, and race.” https://t.co/uYA7aIY0KX pic.twitter.com/HVUc2wyoX0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 7, 2022
“It amazes me. It really amazes me. I would like to know what the City of Ottawa thinks it is doing,” Josh Korn told me. The 70-year-old retired software engineer and active member of Ottawa’s Jewish community is not alone in wanting to know why a man identified by Israeli intelligence as a high-ranking member of a notorious Palestinian terrorist group was allowed to give a speech in a city-owned facility last week.
This should not “amaze” anyone. Preach multicult and diversity? Import a backwards death cult and coddle it beyond all reason? Reap what you sew.
Palestinian TV Host Dina Al-Assi Praises Japanese Red Amy Terrorist Kozo Okamoto, Who Participated in the 1972 PFLP Lod Airport Massacre in Israel: A Great Model, Arigato! #terrorism #Palestinians #Japan #Lebanon pic.twitter.com/cyEEdQcjwr
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) June 9, 2022
This graffiti was found on a wall near Toronto’s York University.
This type of intimidation is driving Jewish students across North America to hide their identity. pic.twitter.com/zqaWTWkdvG
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 9, 2022
Imagine picking up a copy of the Washington Post (as if you ever would) and reading the headline, “Why White people are afraid of ‘crazy’ Black people.” Setting aside the obvious reasons that would come to mind, you’d immediately realize you were dreaming and wake up, because the Post would never run such a thing.
But it would and did publish the inverse in a column this week by the thickly spectacled Jonathan Capehart. “Black people are not afraid of White people,” he wrote. “We’re afraid of ‘crazy’ White people.”
In every government, there are cabinet ministers who cause us to roll our eyes in disbelief pretty much every time they open their mouths. In Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, for many Canadians, that’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.
The enemies of peace in the Middle East are continuing their efforts to destroy any effort to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab and Muslim countries.
The enemies of peace want Arabs and Muslims to remain in a continual state of war with Israel. They want more violence and bloodshed, not Arabs and Muslims and Jews working together in various fields, including technology or anything that might bring economic prosperity.
Does the Biden administration really want as its legacy that it was the first in American history to be for oppressors and against human rights, freedom and prosperity for the downtrodden?
President Duda excoriated Germany’s Scholz and France’s Macron for warning against “humiliating” Putin over the invasin of Ukraine. He accused them of legitimizing Russian atrocities.
Polish President Andrzej Duda slammed the leaders of both Germany and France for their phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, comparing it to maintaining a direct line with Adolf Hitler during World War II.
In an interview published in Thursday’s edition of German best-selling newspaper Bild, Duda questioned what Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron thought was to be gained by the calls as Russia continues to bombard civilian targets in Ukraine.
A number of people were killed during a “mass shooting” at a factory in Maryland on Thursday, reports said.
There were “multiple fatalities” in the shooting that took place around 2:30 p.m. at Columbia Machine in Smithsburg, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect was also shot at the scene by police.
Reports indicate 3 dead with the shooter wounded and in custody.
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Thirty-six years after flying high in the 1980s original, Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the adventure-thriller film in which Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer fight baddies for the US Navy, is breaking box office records in America.
Besides spectacular dogfights with fighter jets, it is getting praise for another reason. When a trailer for the film was released in 2019, Taiwanese and Japanese flags were removed from Cruise’s bomber jacket – appeasing Beijing (which claims Taiwan and disapproves of Japan) but upsetting Americans.
But when Paramount released the film late last month, it had reinstated the flags. Americans and Taiwanese cheered. Some critics claimed this was evidence Hollywood was finally standing up to China.
While Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre has called for his removal, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he will “leave the politics to the politicians.”
“We welcome diverse views, we welcome analysis, we welcome criticism of our work and our decisions,” said Macklem. “Canadians should be asking us tough questions.”
Poilievre has said he would fire Macklem if he became prime minister, criticizing him for record high inflation, record high housing prices and the bank’s quantitative easing program, which Poilievre says is “money printing.”
