Spring break in Florida: a group of about 40 kids mobbed a Walmart and trashed the entire store. Just for fun. pic.twitter.com/W63Y6hyizY
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 27, 2022
Author: Blazingcatfur
Why Biden’s off-script remarks about Putin are so dangerous
Over the past week, US President Joe Biden has made a series of unscripted remarks that have upped the temperature of US-Russia relations to near boiling point.
However, his ad-libbed line at the end of what was billed as a “major speech” in Poland on Saturday – seemingly calling for President Vladimir Putin to be removed from power – may have landed the hardest.
In his speech to a crowd of assembled Polish government officials and dignitaries at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the US president once again warned that the world was in the midst of an era-defining conflict between democracies and autocracies.
Pioneer or squatter? YouTuber’s cabin sparks fight over Canada’s wilderness
As much of North America was locked down during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Matty Clarke was in a boat full of supplies, motoring up the Yukon River. He was searching for wild lands where he could strike it rich.
“Getting myself a goldmine,” he told viewers on his YouTube channel. “Everyone’s heard about all this gold up there. You must be curious yourself – what’s actually going on up there? Can I just show up with all this stuff and end up having a goldmine? I think so.”
Experts disagree on violent threat posed by incels in Canada
VANCOUVER — Some experts say violent online rhetoric among so-called involuntary celibates is a concern as pandemic rules lift, but others say the threat of violence is overstated among a group of men who need mental health support.
Involuntary celibates or incels are made up predominantly of young heterosexual men who feel they are unable to attract romantic partners because of their looks or social status, says the think-tank Moonshot CVE. They often blame women, sexually active men and “oppressive societal structures” for their feelings of rejection and isolation, it says.
As attacks linked to the so-called movement mounted in recent years, authorities around the world began treating it as a terrorism threat.
Incels? Seriously? This was only ever a ludicrously overblown “threat” designed to smear the “right.”
From Guernica to Mariupol
Whatever the outcome of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the crisis it triggered may have one lasting effect: the return of war as a routine instrument of politics on a global scale.
Before the invasion, there was an implicit consensus that war was something that happened in the so-called “developing world,” where Arabs fought Israelis, Africans slaughtered Africans, and Indian and Pakistanis were at each other’s throats.
Europe, however, was believed to have closed its book of wars for good. The Balkan wars of the 1990s were regarded as a multi-layered civil war involving component parts of the failed Yugoslav state.
‘Our voices are louder if we stay’: Russian anti-war activists refuse to flee
Despite reaching one of the darkest moments in more than 40 years as a dissident and human rights activist, Oleg Orlov says that he has no plans to flee Russia. “I made a decision a long time ago that I want to live and die in Russia, it’s my country,” Orlov told the Observer. “Even though it’s never been so bad.”
That’s saying something for Orlov, who can recall printing homemade anti-war posters in the late 1970s to protest against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan or in support of Poland’s Solidarnost movement, and was an observer and negotiator during the bloody war in Chechnya in the 1990s.
Jury awards $14MILLION to Black Lives Matter protesters in Denver after finding police used excessive force when they fired rubber bullets, tear gas and beanbag rounds
Jurors on Friday found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020 – and ordered the city to pay a total of $14 million in damages to 12 who sued.
The jury of two men and six women, largely white and drawn from around Colorado, returned its verdict after about four hours of deliberations.
The verdict followed three weeks of testimony and evidence that included police and protester video of incidents.
Ukraine prepared to discuss neutrality status, Zelensky tells Russian journalists
Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but it would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks broadcast on Sunday.
Zelensky was speaking to Russian journalists in a 90-minute video call, an interview that the Russian authorities had pre-emptively warned Russian media to refrain from reporting. Zelensky spoke in Russian throughout.
Zelensky said Russia’s invasion had caused the destruction of Russian-speaking cities in Ukraine, and said the damage was worse than the Russian wars in Chechnya.
#Ukraine: In the same location in #Donetsk Oblast, other Russian vehicles also ran into mines or Ukrainian fire, and were totally destroyed. This includes two more BMP-2, and three T-72 tanks. https://t.co/OkQaJ1hYoc pic.twitter.com/b01rhZZoDP
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 27, 2022
Hadera terror attack: 2 Israelis killed, 6 wounded
A shooting was reported in the northern Israeli city of Hadera on Sunday, and several people were wounded – including a number of police officers.
At least six people were wounded in the attack – including three police officers – and two Israelis were killed.
With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan (AP) — The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are pinning their hopes on Beijing to turn that rich vein into revenue to salvage the cash-starved country amid crippling international sanctions.
The fighters standing guard by the rocky hillside may once have considered destroying the terracotta Buddhas. Two decades ago when the Islamic hard-line Taliban were first in power, they sparked world outrage by blowing up gigantic Buddha statues in another part of the country, calling them pagan symbols that must be purged.
Say what? China plans to destroy an ancient Buddhist city to get the copper buried there
Working Out Is ‘White Supremacist’ According to MSNBC
What isn’t a sign of white supremacy to the left? Apparently “fascist fitness” is all the rage, if you believe the wackjobs at the Pravda-esque MSNBC.
Pope Francis: ‘The Time Has Come to Abolish War’
ROME — Pope Francis renewed his appeal for an end to war Sunday, condemning the “bestiality” of the Russian war on Ukraine.
“More than a month has passed since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, since the beginning of this cruel and senseless war which, like any war, represents a defeat for all, for all of us,” the pontiff told the 30,000 pilgrims gathered in the Vatican for his weekly Angelus address.
Pointing to Ukraine war, arms lobby pushes for ‘sustainable’ label
Weapons have played a key role in helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s invading forces. Now the arms lobby is pushing for investors and EU regulators to classify the industry as “sustainable.”
Troll level: Expert
Ukraine: UK and France distance themselves From Biden’s flaky ramblings
UK distances itself from Biden saying Putin ‘cannot remain in power’
A UK cabinet minister distanced the government from Joe Biden’s call that Russia’s Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” amid criticism that the comment could bolster the Kremlin.
Though no government figure has been overtly critical of the comments, unlike the French president, Emmanual Macron, Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, said it was “for the Russian people to decide how they are governed” after the unscripted remark from Biden at a speech in Poland on Saturday, which the White House later said was not a call for regime change.
Macron distances himself from Biden’s Putin comments
French President Emmanuel Macron said he “would not use those words” after US President Joe Biden called the Russian leader a “butcher” over the war in Ukraine.
Biden’s barbed remark about Putin: A slip or a veiled threat?
… Several of the administration’s most ardent supporters in the foreign policy world quickly chided the president for seeming to seek Mr. Putin’s removal. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, called it a “bad lapse in discipline that runs risk of extending the scope and duration of the war.”
Biden is not all there.
Convoy protesters were expected to leave Ottawa during 1st week, city says
A new City of Ottawa memo is shedding more light on the early days of the truck convoy protest and when officials thought participants in the disruptive occupation were going to leave town.
The so-called Freedom Convoy, which occupied large swaths of downtown Ottawa for weeks, was dispersed by police from several agencies on Feb. 19, after protesters ignored many orders to leave.
Three days earlier, the councillor for Ottawa’s Rideau-Vanier ward, Mathieu Fleury, peppered the city with questions about its response up to that date.