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Author: Blazingcatfur
The Human Rights Industry Has a Favorite Kind of Victim
The human rights industry’s favorite kind of victim is the politically useful one: the victim whose suffering can be attached to an adversary — a designated “villain” — preferably one that Western activists already know how to hate, pressure and organize against.
That is why Palestinian victims, when Israel can be cast as an alleged perpetrator of wrongs, generate an extraordinary machinery of outrage, while Sudanese victims of genocide, Afghan women under the Taliban, Iranian protesters murdered by their own regime, or persecuted Christians in Nigeria largely do not.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Upset: Democrat’s Claim of Assault Isn’t Holding Up
Was there a threat of political violence against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the Labor Day weekend? Or was it much ado about nothing? Acton was speaking to Democrats in a tent in Mahoning County when a man moving toward Acton caused several senior citizens to fall down.
Acton’s campaign put out a statement “praying for the recovery of those injured” and argued “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio.”
Sankofa Square’s smouldering TTC trash heap really burns candidate up
What a flaming pile of garbage!
Daniel Tate, a candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 13, said on Friday that he was “infuriated” to see a pile of TTC trash bags ablaze at Sankofa Square in a social media video, shot by the TMU station entrance Thursday night.
Carnegie Mellon Probes Professor’s ‘Die first, white man’ Post Amid Backlash
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is reviewing recent social media posts by Nigerian-born academic Dr. Uju Anya, calling the remarks “hostile and threatening” following intense backlash. The controversy escalated Friday after an X user shared screenshots of an exchange involving Ms. Anya. The user quoted an old post from Ms. Anya on February 17, 2021, about the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. “Rush Limbaugh finally did something positive in life by dropping dead. Good Riddance to bad rubbish,” she wrote then. On Friday, the X user replied, “Weird how you only celebrate the deaths of white people. Why is that?” Ms. Anya responded, “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”
Michael Taube: Carney’s EU mistake is nearly complete
Prime Minister Mark Carney described Canada as the “most European of non-European countries” at a joint summit in Brussels last summer. This eye-raising remark led some political pundits and columnists (including me ) to speculate that his personal mission wasn’t to improve relations with the U.S., but to jump into the “waiting arms” of the European Union.
If that was his ultimate goal, it seemed rather unrealistic from the very beginning.
The Lindsay Clancy case horror: When empathy becomes child sacrifice
The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds.
One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian world was the outlawing of child sacrifice. The Judeo-Christian teaching that every individual is created in the image of God meant that one’s children are not one’s property — they are not items to do with as one pleases. The teaching that all individuals are created in the image of God meant that children are equally infinitely valuable as their parents, and therefore parents have no right to sacrifice them to appease the gods, or God, no matter how spiritually or psychologically pressed the parent may feel.
As Poilievre tours U.S., Conservative MP bemoans lack of ‘alternative to the Liberals’
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani posted a video on social media bemoaning a lack of “an alternative to the Liberals” on Thursday, the same day that his party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, launched a U.S. tour to argue for tariff-free trade.
“You have people who should be offering an alternative to the Liberals, instead going out there to appease people in positions of power,” Jivani said in a video posted on X.
The MP went on to say it’s his job and the job of the Conservative Party to offer an alternative in Ottawa.
Americans Were Hungry. FDR’s Government Was Killing Pigs to Raise Prices.
In 1933, about one-quarter of America’s workforce was unemployed. Hunger and malnutrition were widespread, families had lost homes and savings, and millions were trying to survive an economic catastrophe.
Franklin Roosevelt’s government responded to part of that crisis by paying farmers to destroy things Americans could use.
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Naomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty. The opening scene of End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, is not a metaphor, however. The men are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The year is 2026, the mountain is Davos. The paradise city will be called New Gaza.
The World Economic Forum get-together in Davos, Switzerland, has always had a twin purpose – to provide a platform for the super-rich to describe all the good they are doing on poverty and climate, and to give us a glimpse into their enviable lives. This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave.
Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast
Three of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence executives endorsed slowing down the blistering pace of technological advancement, revealing the growing unease with its potential dangers at the industry’s very highest levels.
The call was first made in an essay Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei posted online Saturday. The idea has gained ground in recent weeks as AI companies have struggled in some cases to keep their creations under control, even as they usher in an age in which AI systems themselves can build the more powerful next generation of the technology.
Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
Shortly after Canada and America became embroiled in the worst bilateral trade war in their modern history, the secure phones of Europe’s top leaders lit up with a trans-Atlantic call. Mark Carney was pushing to take Canada’s relationship with the EU to the next level—a bold gambit to rewire the economic cabling of the Western alliance.
For months, the Canadian prime minister had held private conversations with almost every major European leader—from France to Italy, Germany and Scandinavia and even some of the continent’s lesser-known royals—on how to more deeply plug Canada and its 41 million people into Europe’s 27-nation club.
Now, Carney was accelerating Canada’s pivot to Europe, matchmaking a shotgun marriage to offset the pain of its divorce with America. In effect, a threat to make Canada the 51st state is pushing America’s northern neighbor so close to Europe that leaders have begun to half-in-jest dub it the EU’s newest member.
The far right is becoming normalised in Germany – and winning. Australia should take heed
The recent win for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany is shocking, except it’s not shocking. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
Last Sunday, the far-right, pro-Russian and anti-immigration AfD won almost 44% of the vote in the election in Saxony-Anhalt, a largely rural state in the former East Germany, more than doubling its previous result and finishing far ahead of the Christian Democrats.
Vote Far Right OZ!
When calling terrorism by its name becomes controversial
On September 11, 2001, Canadians, along with much of the rest of the world, were shocked as they watched the second plane, at 9:07 a.m. EST, fly into World Trade Centre Tower 2 that fateful morning. What came next was a response by America and its allies that would change the world forever. The ensuing War on Terror has been documented for the past 25 years, and yet the war on terror and jihadi fundamentalism continue today. In fact, as Phil Gurski, a former senior counterintelligence analyst who worked on the Iran and jihadi terrorism desks at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), says, “the battle is far from over”. But another battle is taking place in Canada over how a news organisation might somehow soft-pedal the truth and rewrite the narrative about the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The CBC then reclarified its position by suggesting that, if the term ‘terrorist’ is used, it should be attributed to a government, military or commission findings, as if a journalist could not determine on his or her own that an incident qualified as a terrorist attack. This sparked an angry tweet from FBI Director Kash Patel and, for a short period of time, may have jeopardised security inside Canada. The CBC did issue another clarification, but the damage was already done. With a full-scale trade war taking place between Canada and the US, tensions are high as Pete Hoekstra heads for Gander, Newfoundland, where thousands of stranded travellers landed on that fateful day. With that in mind, I offer you a column by Phil Gurski, who has just launched his new book his ninth 9/11: The Unfinished Battle, Why Jihadi Terrorism is Stronger, Wider, and Far from Over.
Afghan woman deported from US in first use of ‘alien terrorist’ court
An Afghan woman living in Texas with legal US permanent residency has been deported from the country in the first-ever use of a secretive court.
Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the US rather than continue to argue her case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and her lawyers.
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but had never heard a case before the proceedings in July. It is meant for non-US citizens facing terrorism-related charges when the evidence is confidential and related to national security.
They should just try them on the bus as it heads toward the airport.