A columnist for the Washington Post is taking the media to task for ignoring Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ties to research that may have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.
Josh Rogin appeared on Megyn Kelly’s podcast Wednesday, where he countered the public love for Fauci since the start of the pandemic last year.
‘I often talk to scientists who say the same thing, who say, “Listen, we really want to speak out about this, but we can’t do it,” Rogin said on the podcast.
Once more unto the breach.
On Thursday, Facebook decided its users should not be able to share a New York Post article about the property buying habits of one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.
Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe Is Suing Twitter After He Was Permanently Banned
Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe announced he is suing Twitter Thursday after the social media platform permanently banned the investigative journalist over claims he set up fake accounts.
Ont. sets single-day record for new COVID-19 cases for second day in a row as number of ICU patients surpasses 700
For the second consecutive day, Ontario is reporting another single-day record for new cases of the novel coronavirus as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care surpasses 700.
Ontario health officials logged 4,812 new infections today, topping the previous record of 4,736 set on Thursday.
The rolling seven-day average of new cases is now 4,292, up by more than 1,000 cases week-over-week.
Further COVID-19 restrictions likely for Ontario as 3rd wave worsens
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet are set to meet again Friday morning to consider further COVID-19 restrictions to combat a worsening third wave that is pushing the province’s health-care system to the breaking point.
The meeting comes ahead of a scheduled briefing from the province’s COVID-19 science advisory table that is expected include stark new forecasts for the weeks ahead.
A government source told CBC News revised modelling suggests Ontario could see up to 18,000 daily cases of COVID-19 by the end of May if current trends continue unabated, even with help from the province’s ongoing vaccination campaign.
They make furniture and sports uniforms, sell cars and build condos. All remain open as Ontario’s third wave worsens
A retail marketing firm. An Amazon warehouse. A maker of sports uniforms. A metal polishing firm. All of these workplaces remain open in Canada’s largest city – and all had more than 20 COVID-19 cases among their workers in recent weeks, according to data analysis by The Globe and Mail.
As Ontario sets new records for increases in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and people in ICUs – all driven by the spread of more infectious variants – some medical experts say further restrictions, in areas such as manufacturing and construction, are now warranted.
Basically they’re saying we screwed up, the 1st lockdown was too lenient resulting in a significant uptick in Covid infections so now we’re gonna double down and see if that helps.
OTTAWA–There was no hint when Conservative caucus met Wednesday that Erin O’Toole was about to reverse party orthodoxy and propose a carbon levy.
Sources who spoke to the Star said Conservative MPs were blindsided by O’Toole’s announcement Thursday that his climate change plan included a consumer carbon price of $20 per tonne, rising to $50 per tonne in 2030.
It was a stunning reversal for the Conservative leader, who pledged to scrap the Liberal government’s carbon levy — which Conservatives have routinely labelled a “carbon tax” — throughout the party’s leadership contest last year.
But in speaking to Conservative MPs, and later at an Ottawa news conference, O’Toole steadfastly denied that his proposed price on carbon amounted to a “carbon tax.”
Last summer, @erinotoole told us he would repeal carbon taxes. Today, he’s breaking that promise. #canpoli #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/oXiZfnjjHp
— Taxpayer.com (@taxpayerDOTcom) April 15, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic.
Five people were hospitalized after the Thursday night shooting, according to police. One of them had critical injuries, police spokesperson Genae Cook said. Another two people were treated and released at the scene. FedEx said people who worked for the company were among the dead.
A witness said that he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.
Police: 8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis
Twitter – Indianapolis
Here's a look at the @FedEx facility near the Indianapolis International Airport where multiple people were shot tonight. @wrtv has crews on the way to the scene. #WRTV https://t.co/ZoOuknFgWi pic.twitter.com/rpavdWhKBz
— Michael R. Hartz (@MikeThePhotog) April 16, 2021
Worst witness interview ever…
Indianapolis FedEx facility shooting witnesses partial interview. pic.twitter.com/fYWs9KiAOw
— John Curtis (@Johnmcurtis) April 16, 2021
In the sleepy south-west London suburb of New Malden, the local Waitrose butts up against Seoul Plaza, a supermarket catering to the neighbourhood’s estimated 20,000 South Koreans.
The high street boasts every Korean business you could dream of: from the Kang Nam barbecue takeaway and Hanatour travel agent, to a fully-fledged hypermarket, with its own section for K-pop merchandise. (In BBC drama Killing Eve, Eve Polastri —played by Sandra Oh, who has Korean parents — quits MI6 to lie low making dim sum in the local Han karaoke restaurant.)
On a summer afternoon nearly four years ago, Maryam Muhammet thought her family’s long journey to freedom was almost complete. The Uyghur woman had arrived in Istanbul from Egypt weeks prior with her two sons, a toddler and an infant, after fleeing the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Her husband had not yet joined the family in Turkey. The couple had heard from others in their community that Egyptian immigration officials—ostensibly acting at the behest of the Chinese government—were hassling Uyghur men as they left, so they decided he would come later, on his own.
But what’s the real purpose of the show?
A new Democrat administration and two recent mass shootings mean it’s time for another episode of the gun-control melodrama that’s been running for decades. We all know the scenario: an obviously deranged person murders several people, Dem pols and pundits start fulminating about our lax gun control laws and gun-obsessed white males, followed by a bunch of ineffective proposals and policies that will do nothing about crime, but will annoy law-abiding gun-owners, which is ultimately the real purpose of the show––demonizing a political enemy.
The radical Biden Justice department has closed the books on the Capitol Hill investigation into the Jan. 6. police killing of unarmed protestor Ashli Babbitt, just as leftist Minnesota prosecutors have opened the books on prosecuting another police officer for killing a man with a warrant out for violent assault who was at the time resisting arrest.
Ian Byrne, assistant manager of Highfield Garden World in Whitminster, said there had been a “massive upswing” in the sales of garden gnomes.
“We haven’t seen a gnome in six months now unfortunately,” he said.
Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of Blacks Lives Matter. About her background, she said in 2015: “The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia (Garza, BLM co-founder) in particular are trained organizers.” Cullors also said: “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.”
DTLA: BLM protestors for #DaunteWright are spray painting buildings and marching in the streets.
One of the spray painting tags says “no more white babies” pic.twitter.com/L5zJRgu7sY
— Tomas Morales (@TomasMorales_iv) April 15, 2021
And Facebook is censoring the NY Post’s story.
The President’s policy is identical to Donald Trump’s — but that’s not how CNN sees it
This week Joe Biden announced that the United States would begin withdrawing it’s military from Afghanistan in May, with the aim of leaving the country entirely by September 11th.
Biden is not the first President to announce this move. President Trump did so in 2019, and again in 2020.
Given that Biden is enacting exactly the same policy Trump wanted to pursue, you might expect the media coverage of these announcements to be similar.
“Some of the people who work at the theater, they said, ‘they were kind of offended last night, and I said, ‘f*** ’em. What are you gonna do? You asked for a comedian to come in here. You can’t ask for a guy to change what he does. Lenny Bruce, George Carlin … they went to jail for comedy. We’re not going back to those days when we tell somebody what they can and cannot do,” he said.
Via Instapundit
Over the past two months, downtown resident Edwina Taborsky has watched a large blue tent structure take up residence in St. James Park, near King St.
She said the tent is so large, it seems the size of a “small studio” apartment, and it looks to be permanent — situated on a platform with a table pulled outside to use sometimes
A video of dancers twerking in hotpants at an Australian military event has sent the country into a spin.
The scene was incongruous, bizarre and funny. So of course it went viral when it emerged on Wednesday.
But the music video-style choreography – featuring thumps, thrusts and butt shakes – also came under attack. Conservative lawmakers led the chorus of those calling it “inappropriate”.
Tabloids splashed headlines slamming military standards. But others found offence elsewhere – projecting shame onto the dancers, and labelling their routine as too “sexualised”.
