Sheriff’s detective turns active shooter and kills three at Austin apartment complex after being fired over child sex assault

A sheriff’s detective has turned active shooter and killed three adults in Austin after being put on unpaid leave over child sex claims, as SWAT teams and FBI agents issued a shelter at home order amid fears the gunman could take a hostage.

Joseph Chacon, Chief of Police at Austin Police Deportment, named the ‘armed and dangerous’ suspect as 41-year-old Stephen Nicholas Broderick, who allegedly shot the trio at an apartment complex near The Arboretum in the north-west of the city in what officers called a ‘domestic situation’.

Police say a child was involved but is safely in custody.

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Sweden: Muslim migrant who received medal from king convicted of honor violence against his daughter

When he received his award, Rasoul Zarar Ibrahim was clearly considered a model of assimilation. But as this account notes, he still carried attitudes and assumptions from the Islamic culture of violence in his mental baggage. His daughter has paid the price. Will Swedish authorities try to protect women and girls in similar situations by working to eradicate such attitudes from Muslim migrants? Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.”

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George Floyd killing: protests flare as Americans await verdict in Chauvin trial

George Floyd killing: protests flare as Americans await verdict in Chauvin trial

Outcome is expected to resonate nationwide, particularly in cities that have seen continuing demonstrations over police violence

Protests against police killings flared across the US this weekend, from Minneapolis to Chicago to Portland, as Americans wait for a verdict in the trial of the white police officer charged with murdering George Floyd last year.

Closing arguments are expected in the Derek Chauvin trial on Monday. The most serious charge the former Minneapolis officer is facing in Floyd’s death is second-degree murder, but the jury might choose to find him guilty on third-degree murder or manslaughter, or acquit him altogether.

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The never-ending story: Rioting and arson in Portland

Portland: Antifa attacked the Historical Society

There was a fatal police shooting at a park in Portland Friday morning. It started when a call was placed to police reporting a white man pointing a gun in the park. Police arrived and, according to a witness who filmed the encounter, the man became irate. He was shirtless and didn’t appear to be armed at that point, though the witness said he’d seen him with a gun earlier. 

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Madonna calls for end of due process for police officers to avoid ‘corrupt justice system’

Singer Madonna called for police officers involved in fatal shooting incidents to be stripped of their due process following the fatal police shootings of Adam Toledo and Daunte Wright.

“Adam Toledo was 13 years old, Daunte Wright was 20! The Officers who killed them are only being charged with manslaughter. This is insanity. Horrific,” she said in one Instagram post on Saturday. “And yet it has become normalized in our society.”

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Stage set for historic federal budget as COVID-19 third wave rages

OTTAWA — The stage is set for arguably the most important federal budget in recent memory, as the Liberal government prepares to unveil its plan for Canada’s post-pandemic recovery even as a third wave of COVID-19 rages across the country.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will present the budget to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, more than two years after the Liberals’ last such spending plan was unveiled.

The differences between then and now can’t be understated, as not only did the Liberals lose their majority government in the interim, but COVID-19 has upended the lives of Canadians everywhere.

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Attack of the drones: the mystery of disappearing swarms in the US midwest

At twilight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, Placido Montoya, 35, a plumber from Fort Morgan, Colorado, was driving to work. Ahead of him he noticed blinking lights in the sky. He’d heard rumours of mysterious drones, whispers in his local community, but now he was seeing them with his own eyes. In the early morning gloom, it was hard to make out how big the lights were and how many were hovering above him. But one thing was clear to Montoya: he needed to give chase.

As he approached the drones in his car, they “took off very fast” and Montoya tried to follow. He confesses hitting 120mph before losing track of them. “They were creepy, really creepy,” he says. “I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s almost as if they were watching us.”

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Mission Accomplished: Toronto Star Very Pleased With Erin O’Toole’s Carbon Tax – Conservatives Too Dumb To Appreciate It

Mission Accomplished: Toronto Star Very Pleased With Erin O’Toole’s Carbon Tax – Conservatives Too Dumb To Appreciate It

Erin O’Toole takes one for the team with his carbon-pricing plan

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s about-face on carbon pricing may not improve the odds that he will become prime minister. The opposite is just as likely. But come what may in the next election and beyond, he will be leaving his party a legacy most Conservatives should eventually come to appreciate.

Far from making the party politically bulletproof on an issue that is increasingly stunting his party’s growth outside of the Prairies, O’Toole’s climate plan — at least in the short term — puts the Conservatives right in the middle of the climate change crossfire.

This I suspect lays out the thinking behind the CPC’s decision to ape LPC policy. Fuck the rest of Canada and concentrate on Ontario and Quebec for electoral success, somewhere down the road. Perhaps not this century but surely maybe some time. It’s worked for the Liberals after all.

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In San Francisco, Drug Overdoses Claimed Twice as Many Lives as COVID-19

More than twice as many people died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020 than from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, according to preliminary data released by the city’s office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

A total of 713 people died from drug overdoses in the city in 2020 compared to 255 who died from the CCP virus, commonly known as the coronavirus.

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Maxine Waters foments insurrection tells Minnesota BLM protesters ‘to get more confrontational’ one day after violent anti-police clashes erupted across US

California Representative Maxine Waters joined protesters in Minnesota as demonstrations entered a seventh night on Saturday after the death of Daunte Wright.

Waters told the protesters at Brooklyn Center that she will fight for justice on their behalf and urged them to ‘to get more confrontational’ – just one day after protests descended into violence.

‘I am not happy that we have talked about police reform for so long,’ Waters said. ‘We’re looking for a guilty verdict,’ she added in regards to the Derek Chauvin trial. ‘If we don’t, we cannot go away.’

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Carbon Tax Not A Tax Says The Not Conservative Leader Of The Not Conservative Party … Money Collected By Magic Carbon Elves Not Gov’t!

‘Not a tax at all’: O’Toole on party’s carbon price loyalty program

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is pushing back against criticism by some that a key pillar of the party’s new climate plan is akin to a carbon tax, a Liberal-instituted policy he has long criticized.

In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, O’Toole says the party’s proposed carbon pricing mechanism is “not a tax at all” because money is not collected by the government.

It’s just like Interac says O’Toole! Really he said that.

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Ontario reports 4,250 new Covid cases … Big Doug Backs Down & Wuhan Flu is Airborne … this week … Next week spread by masks

Ontario reports 4,250 new Covid cases … Big Doug Backs Down & Wuhan Flu is Airborne … this week … Next week spread by masks

Ontario reports 4,250 new COVID-19 cases as hospitals set new occupancy record

Ontario reported 4,250 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday as well as 18 additional deaths, as overall hospital admissions and ICU occupancy increased to new whole-pandemic highs.

Ontario reported 4,362 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, and hospitalizations as counted by the Ministry of Health surpassed 2,000 for the first time in the whole pandemic.


Ontario walks back new pandemic police powers following widespread backlash

TORONTO — TORONTO – Ontario reversed course on sweeping new police powers Saturday, just one day after Premier Doug Ford announced the measures that triggered a swift and furious backlash.

Officers will no longer have the right to stop any pedestrian or driver to ask why they’re out or request their home address, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said in a written statement on Saturday evening.

Instead, she said, police will only be able to stop people who they have reason to believe are participating in an “organized public event or social gathering.”


Experts find more evidence COVID-19 is airborne, that we need to rethink indoor spaces

The authors of a new paper that found increasingly concrete evidence that COVID-19 is “predominately” airborne say that we need to be focusing on preventing infections in indoor settings, and rethinking how ventilation systems either help spread or dissipate the virus.

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Racism in America: A one-way street

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but everyone is painfully aware of the fanatical obsession with racism that’s tearing this country apart. Thanks to BLM/Marxist activists (some of whom are anti-capitalists who purchase million-dollar homes), so-called social justice warriors, and power-mad (mostly) Democrat politicians, the scarlet letter R is almost always branded on white people. They are aided and abetted by the propagandists in the mainstream media. But an examination of Department of Justice crime statistics, which anyone can access, paints a very different picture from what you’ll hear on CNN. Real-life experience can help as well, especially for those who have spent even a moderate amount of time in urban America.

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