Actress Gina Carano has been fired by Disney for purportedly controversial remarks she made in social media comparing the treatment of conservatives by progressives to how in its beginning years the Nazis mistreated Jews. No doubt the oppression against Jews during the 1930s was of a much higher degree and based on a pronounced bigotry exclusively against Jews.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday offered a sweet option for those who need a “last-minute” Valentine’s card, “winking” to Tel Aviv’s long-time adversary, Hezbollah, and its current secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah.
REDDING, California — Mark Baird is a third-generation Californian who hopes to one day be a first-generation Jeffersonian.
Baird, like many in California’s sprawling, mostly rural north, is disillusioned with his state’s Sacramento-based government, which he believes no longer represents northern interests.
That’s why Baird and many others in the 23 counties above Sacramento have officially declared the reclamation of their state, even if it means breaking away and starting anew in the proposed 51st state of Jefferson, named for the third U.S. president.
(JNS) It’s hard to exaggerate the hypocrisy, malice and sheer absurdity of the decision by the International Criminal Court last week that the Palestinians have the authority of a state to bring a case against Israelis for war crimes.
The 60-page ruling piled nonsense upon malevolence. It constituted the response to a question posed by the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, who wanted a green light for the criminal investigation of Israel and the Palestinians that she announced in 2019.
Captain Robin Rowland was 22 when his regiment was deployed to the north-eastern Indian town of Kohima. It was May 1944, and a small group of British-Indian soldiers was under assault by an entire division of Japanese forces.
Capt Rowland, now 99, vividly remembers approaching the town, following a trail of devastation to the front line.
“We saw abandoned trenches and destroyed villages, and as we moved forward the smell of death was everywhere,” he said.
I read this book late last year – Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire
The battle was a major feat of arms for the vastly outnumbered British and Indian troops but also for the Japanese if you consider the terrain they had to cross and the fact that their generals lied to them about resupply. They really did starve and the author provides an excellent glimpse into the Japanese view of things much of which was every bit as rancid as we’ve come to understand. I was surprised to discover the “Traitorous General” Kōtoku Satō who ignored his commanders and ordered his soldier’s to retreat back into Burma was not executed though he did endure bouts of public shaming initiated by the truly guilty long after the war. His post-war personal journey of atonement to his troops for having lead them to a disaster he foresaw is recounted revealing him to be anything but typical of Japanese militarism.
“Face” and emperor worship played such a significant influence in Japanese lives that the depth of belief is difficult for me to grasp. In another book dealing with the battle of Okinawa I read in disbelief that a Japanese army officer held on to the hope that the Imperial Navy would arrive to blast the American fleet laying siege to the island. He had never heard of Midway or knew that the Japanese Navy was long defeated by that stage of the war. A stranded naval officer he befriended told him the truth of Japan’s situation. Still he fought on to the bitter end surviving only because he was captured having passed out from wounds.
The book gives a good sense of the pending collapse of Britain’s empire in India. Many saw it coming others not so much. The common soldier seemed to understand better than most that Indian independence was a foregone conclusion and they simply weren’t wanted there. In fact the Japanese had their own “Indian Army” on their side. Still they fought and triumphed against great odds because they were good soldiers fighting not for ideology or empire but only to get it done and go home.
It’s a worthwhile read.
One of the key members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team looking into where COVID-19 originated has a lengthy history suggesting he may hold a vested interest in determining the virus did not leak from a lab – and the media is hardly talking about it.
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said the federal government’s contracts with key coronavirus vaccine suppliers like Pfizer and Moderna forbid those companies from selling in separate deals to provinces.
In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Pallister said recent comments by Procurement Minister Anita Anand that provinces are free to pursue their own deals with coronavirus vaccine suppliers are “false.”
White House doesn’t list Israel as American ally
President Joe Biden is the first American leader in 40 years not to contact Israel’s leaders as one of his first actions in the White House, setting up what could be four years of chilly relations between America and its top Middle East ally.
Biden has already phoned multiple world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping, but during his 23 days in office has yet to speak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu—making Biden the first president in modern history to punt on bolstering U.S.-Israel relations during his initial days in office. Every president going back to at least Ronald Reagan in 1981 made contact with their Israeli counterpart within a week of assuming office, according to a review of news reports.
This is Obama 2.0
Border Patrol agents are being overwhelmed with a surge of migrants in parts of Texas and have had to restart “catch-and-release” policies, turning people loose into the U.S. as the first signs of a migrant surge emerge under President Biden.
Agents, officials and analysts say a combination of relaxed Biden border policies, coronavirus restrictions on holding people and deteriorating levels of cooperation from Mexico have left parts of the border in Texas unable to handle the surge.
It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you. For conservatives, Republicans, and pretty much anyone not sufficiently “woke” enough, the “progressive” left has made it clear they’re slapping targets on their backs. They are coming for you, if not right now, very soon. If you aren’t one of them, Democrats hate you. It’s time to hate them back.
The Guardian has amended an article decrying the “phallic” necktie as a symbol of “white male power” to correct an erroneous assertion that it is based on the codpiece.
For years whenever China told Hollywood to jump, the industry had but one answer … how high?
Studios drooled over China’s vast theatrical marketplace, with millions of movie goers eager to watch American popcorn franchises like “Fast & Furious.” And they did just that while filmmakers followed the country’s strict rules at every step.
China refused to hand over key data to the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of Covid-19, one of its members has said.
Microbiologist Dominic Dwyer told Reuters, the Wall St Journal and the New York Times the team requested raw patient data from early cases, what he called “standard practice”.
He said they only received a summary.
China has not responded to the allegation but has previously insisted it was transparent with the WHO.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Transgender athletes would be banned from competing in girls’ or women’s sports in Mississippi schools and universities, under a bill that comes at a time of renewed focus on transgender rights.
Mississippi is one of a dozen states with lawmakers proposing restrictions on athletics or gender-confirming health care for transgender minors this year. Democratic President Joe Biden signed an executive order Jan. 20 — the day he took office — that bans discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere.
