Orders for PCR test kits spiked in the Chinese province where Covid originated seven months before the first case was reported, it has emerged, providing fresh evidence that the disease was circulating for months before Beijing reported it to the world.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Wuhan University of Science and Technology and the Hubei CDC were all among institutions placing unusually-large orders for PCR test kits starting in May 2019, according to new research.
A geophysicist has slammed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for caving to cancel culture after his upcoming science lecture was axed due to outrage from a “Twitter mob” who opposed his views on diversity.
Dorian Abbot, an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, wrote in an op-ed on Bari Weiss’ Substack on Tuesday that MIT contacted him last week to say his Carlson Lecture was being canceled to “avoid controversy.”
Scenes of furious motorists clashing with eco-snobs make it all crystal clear.
Modern politics starts to make a lot more sense when you realise that a lot of the mad movements that have sprung up of late are just waging a class war by other means. The woke middle classes demonise working-class people as unreconstructed bigots, Remoaners rail against the ‘uneducated’ throng, and bourgeois environmentalists block roads in an attempt to make the lives of the drivers they’re blocking tougher and more expensive.
His death drew repulsive reactions worldwide.
When Donald Trump suggested in 2015 that some American Muslims had cheered the destruction of the World Trade Center, he was roundly denounced. For career politicians of both parties, and for almost everybody in the mainstream media, the notion that any Muslim, anywhere, had celebrated the attacks of 9/11 was appalling.
Surely millions of them had rushed to mosques to pray for the victims. Theirs, after all, is a Religion of Peace that teaches love, compassion, and forgiveness — just like Christianity, only with hijabs, tabouleh, and prayer rugs. And of course they’re all every bit as patriotic as any other American.
While the rest of the country comes to its senses and realizes that “Jan. 6” was a way overblown example of fake news intended to crush dissent from the vantage point of wokedom, here comes The New York Times to assert that “Jan. 6 Was Worse Than We Knew.”
Methinks the dissembling Times is desperately employing a smokescreen, the better to divert attention from the disaster the Biden presidency has proven to be, from the unconditional surrender to the Taliban to Biden’s failure, thus far, to rally the country to the banner of his “spend until economic ruination” paralyzes the country into totalitarianism.
A former inmate of a Uighur detention camp has revealed how he was ordered to bend over by prison guards so that other detainees could gang rape him.
The whistleblower gave his account to CNN who also interviewed an ex-cop who described how he would beat children as young as 14 and that he regularly witnessed both men and women being battered by guards.
Torture methods included chaining inmates to metal chairs, hanging them from the ceiling, sexual violence, electrocutions and waterboarding.
Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools
When future historians congregate to conduct their postmortem of the short-lived Biden administration, what date will they pick to mark the crisis that signaled the beginning of the end? I’d like to offer October 4, 2021 for consideration.
Are those with the power to cancel people wielding that power responsibly?
For all their romance, adventure, and happily-ever-afters, fairy tales have a way of illuminating the everyday frictions of life in a crowded world — and particularly how things can go wrong when a person primed for grievance meets someone who’s not at his best. Hence the perpetual presence in these stories of the conflict-seeking, hypersensitive fairy, who roams the countryside, often in disguise, testing the manners of the peasants and princes and rewarding the ones who prove polite — but also, more importantly, unleashing magical hell on the ones who don’t.
In a recent article, the New York Times outlines why the recently leaked internal Facebook documents indicate that the company is in more trouble than previously believed. The Times forecasts a storm brewing in Facebook’s future, and that was before the Masters of the Universe suffered a catastrophic outage of services that lasted about seven hours on Monday.
“The footprint of people in high income countries such as the UK would have to fall by more than 90 per cent by 2050, according to the report co-written by scientists from the Universities of Oxford, Sussex and Lausanne and published by the Hot or Cool Institute think tank. It says that the 1.5C target means that the UK’s average lifestyle carbon footprint per person has to decline from 8.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2019 to 0.7 tonnes by 2050. It identifies four “especially problematic” lifestyle choices: “Eating meat, using fossil fuel cars, flying and large and high energy-consuming houses.”
If Canadians think China’s hostage diplomacy with the two Michaels was bad, they need to understand that the communist regime could hold all of Canada hostage if our country’s federal government allows Huawei Technologies to provide any part of our 5G wireless network.
Fifth-generation wireless technology will make driverless cars, remote surgeries and other marvels of technology possible — as well as simply faster entertainment downloads. But it could also unleash devastation at the hands of a hostile regime, as China has proven to be over the past few years.
The Canadian company Enbridge has reimbursed US police $2.4m for arresting and surveilling hundreds of demonstrators who oppose construction of its Line 3 pipeline, according to documents the Guardian obtained through a public records request.
Enbridge has paid for officer training, police surveillance of demonstrators, officer wages, overtime, benefits, meals, hotels and equipment.
Enbridge is replacing the Line 3 pipeline through Minnesota to carry oil from Alberta to the tip of Lake Superior in Wisconsin. The new pipeline carries a heavy oil called bitumen, doubles the capacity of the original to 760,000 barrels a day and carves a new route through pristine wetlands. A report by the climate action group MN350 says the expanded pipeline will emit the equivalent greenhouse gases of 50 coal power plants.
The sheer narcissism. Incredible pic.twitter.com/iMiWLJHmFp
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 5, 2021
The Canadian government is considering new rules to regulate how social media platforms moderate potentially harmful user-generated content. Already, the proposed legislation has been criticized by internet scholars — across the political spectrum — as some of the worst in the world.
Oddly, the proposed legislation reads like a list of the most widely condemned policy ideas globally. Elsewhere, these ideas have been vigorously protested by human rights organizations and struck down as unconstitutional. No doubt, the federal government’s proposed legislation presents a serious threat to human rights in Canada.
Instead of using the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — his federal holiday creation — to listen to Indigenous survivors about the cross-Canada indignity of residential schools, Trudeau spent most of the day jetting to Tofino for a family surfing holiday.
His PMO itinerary had him in Ottawa in private meetings.
