Author: Blazingcatfur
Twitter Censors Tucker
Fox News host and Daily Caller cofounder Tucker Carlson was censored by Twitter after pointing out the factual accuracy of tweets regarding transgender Assistant Secretary for Health and “Woman of the Year” Rachel Levine.
Going out on a fossil fuel bender
We need energy and renewables can’t provide, so best to just lean into it
Covid rates are abating just in time for surging gas prices to eclipse the pandemic as our crisis du jour, and people from both sides of the political aisle are crying out in unison: something must be done!
The current energy crisis debate consists of a few camps: one group professes that they can’t abide fossil fuels being used at all, while another can’t imagine living without them. The third group makes up the middle of the Venn diagram, and though a paradoxical state of mind, it contains the most members.
‘A Sign Of Disrespect’: New Book Claims VP Wanted Biden’s Staff To Stand Whenever She Walked In
Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new book from New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, took offense when West Wing staffers — who stood to greet President Joe Biden — failed to do so as she entered the room.
h/t RM
“Dark Money” Affecting Elections in Revolutionary Ways
Dark money. The words evoke sinister plots, secret organizations and conspiracies fit for a James Bond villain. We hear about dark money in politics, dark money in the elections and dark money supporting a web of organizations dedicated to undermining the American experiment.
Dark money seems to be everywhere — and it is.
Dark money has become the most important fuel driving the debate on every single public issue. In fact, dark money is being deployed in new and revolutionary ways to affect our elections. Seemingly unlimited streams of philanthropy are pouring into organizations and mechanisms that just three years ago seemed fanciful and beyond the wildest imagination of activist strategies.
The three Russian cyber-attacks the West most fears
US President Joe Biden has called on private companies and organisations in the US to “lock their digital doors”, claiming that intelligence suggests Russia is planning a cyber-attack on the US.
The UK’s cyber-authorities are also supporting the White House’s calls for “increased cyber-security precautions”, though neither has given any evidence that Russia is planning a cyber-attack.
Russia has previously stated that such accusations are “Russophobic”.
However, Russia is a cyber-superpower with a serious arsenal of cyber-tools, and hackers capable of disruptive and potentially destructive cyber-attacks.
Toronto releases first ever Reconciliation Action Plan to repair relationship with Indigenous Peoples
Toronto has unveiled its first ever Reconciliation Action Plan which lists 28 targets to restore truth, justice and prosperity to Indigenous people in the city.
Mayor John Tory released the plan Wednesday morning which aims to guide the city’s actions to advance reconciliation through to 2032.
The 28 goals are spread through five themes, including actions to restore truth, actions to right relations and share power, actions for justice, actions to make financial reparations and actions for the Indigenous Affairs Office.
My Hero!
Trudeau’s address to European Parliament focuses on the rising threats to democracies
PM Trudeau, in recent months, under your quasi-liberal boot, Canada 🇨🇦 has become a symbol of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many citizens around the🌎it seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind. pic.twitter.com/FZuc6aDZ1I
— Mislav Kolakusic MEP 🇭🇷🇪🇺 (@mislavkolakusic) March 23, 2022
h/t Clink
Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson refuses to define the word ‘woman’ because she’s ‘not a biologist’
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to define the word ‘woman’ during the fiery second day of her confirmation hearing conducted by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee.
The moment came during a tense exchange with Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) who pressed Jackson on sex and gender issues amid the fallout of biological male swimmer Lia Thomas storming to victory in the NCAA championships against female competitors.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?”
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I can’t… I’m not a biologist.”
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 23, 2022
‘You’re a Guy… Go to War’ – Fleeing Ukrainian Trans Woman Turned Back
Another transgender woman — born as a biological male — has been turned back by Ukrainian officials at the Polish border and told to fight for the country.
Labour struggle hero of Canada’s downtrodden journalists Jerry Dias pocketed 50 Grand from COVID-19 rapid test supplier, Unifor alleges
TORONTO – Unifor says former national president Jerry Dias accepted $50,000 from a supplier of COVID-19 rapid test kits that he promoted to employers of Unifor members, several of whom purchased those test kits.
After an internal investigation, Unifor national secretary-treasurer Lana Payne says he stands charged with violating the code of ethics and democratic practices of the Unifor constitution.
‘We’re going back to a USSR’: long queues return for Russian shoppers as sanctions bite
The lines for sugar in Saratov were hard not to compare to the Soviet era, part of a recent run on Russian staples that have revived fears that the Kremlin’s invasion in Ukraine will lead to a virtual slide back to the shortages or endless queues of the Soviet Union.
Bags of sugar and buckwheat began disappearing from local markets in early March, just a week after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. And when the local mayor’s office announced that it would hold special markets for people to buy the staples last week, hundreds showed up.
Andrew Richter: I’m not holding my breath defence spending will increase
One of the many unexpected effects of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal attack on Ukraine is that Canada’s (perennially) low defence spending is attracting renewed attention, including numerous calls for it be to increased. As long-time observers of Canadian defence policy know, convincing governments to act on this file is no simple task. Perhaps these calls will result in significant and permanent changes. But I’m not holding my breath.
As the World Watches Ukraine, Afghanistan Goes Full Taliban
The Taliban are using detentions, repression, censorship, and killings to tighten their grip on power.
While the world’s attention is focused on Ukraine, Afghanistan has plunged into darkness. The Taliban are tightening their control amid growing reports of detentions, rapes, and summary executions of minorities, rights advocates, women, and people associated with the old government or the new resistance.
In the weeks since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, the Taliban have extended bans on many parts of what was once normal life before they took over the country last summer. Clampdowns on media, entertainment, and traditional holidays have been extended as the Taliban revive old practices, such as kidnapping foreigners for political leverage.
I remember the new and improved “Taliban light” yarn the media was telling just last year.
Ottawa to develop procedure to preserve items from public memorial to hallucinatory residential school graves mania
Behind the scenes of the removal of residential schools memorial from Parliament Hill
OTTAWA — The federal government had originally hoped to remove a Parliament Hill memorial dedicated to Indigenous children who died and went missing from residential schools months earlier than actually happened last year, according to newly released documents.
Hundreds of tiny shoes, stuffed animals and flowers began appearing around the Centennial Flame in front of Parliament’s Centre Block last spring, after the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Nation announced ground-penetrating radar had found the possible remains of about 200 children on the site of a former residential school near Kamloops, B.C.
Maybe they could put the items in a church and burn it down!