Hollywood: No Man’s Land

Only beggarly “male feminists” and posturing macho women survive — barely.

Sherlock Holmes may have deduced where we would be a hundred years later:

“There’s an east wind coming, Watson.”

“I think not, Holmes. It is very warm.”

“Good old Watson. You’re the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it’s God’s own wind nonetheless, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”

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BBC Says Jesus Was a Black Palestinian

As I noted in discussing Hilaria Baldwin yesterday, to be white today is to be evil, as far as the Western intelligentsia is concerned. And so it was not a big surprise when, a week before Christmas, the BBC World Service radio show Heart and Soul aired a segment called “Black Jesus,” and has since then rerun it more than once. It’s more “realistic,” the BBC assures us, to see Jesus as a “darker skinned Palestinian.” Realistic or no, it’s certainly in line with the mythology of the age, in which only those who are darker skinned could possibly be righteous. In such a context, how could the one whom Christians worship as the Savior of the world have anything but the darkest possible skin?

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UK hits daily virus record, is urged to keep schools closed

UK hits daily virus record, is urged to keep schools closed

LONDON (AP) — With daily coronavirus infections surging as a result of a new virus variant, the British government faced mounting pressure Saturday from teachers’ unions to keep schools in England closed for at least another two weeks.

The government, which oversees schools in England, has already decided to keep all schools in London closed next week to try to stem new infections. Unions want the policy extended across the whole of England, expressing fears about the health of both teachers and children.

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Judge reinstates execution of federal death row’s only female inmate

Judge reinstates execution of federal death row’s only female inmate

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

The ruling, handed down Friday by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, concluded that a lower court judge erred when he vacated Lisa Montgomery´s execution date in an order last week.

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Hundreds Detained After ‘Super-Spreader Task Force’ Shuts Down New Year’s Eve Parties Across Los Angeles County

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department fully mobilized the agency’s “Super-Spreader Task Force” on New Year’s Eve to target underground parties that violated public health orders.

According to FOX 11, the operations resulted “in at least 900 people being detained, 90 arrests and/or citations, and the recovery of at least six guns.”

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Adam Carolla: Mainstream Media, Big Tech Rigged Election for Biden

Adam Carolla: Mainstream Media, Big Tech Rigged Election for Biden

Adam Carolla never jumped aboard the Trump Train.

The two worked together on Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice years ago, a union which gave the podcaster a unique perspective on the future President.

Still, it wasn’t enough for Carolla to don a MAGA hat. Partisan politics isn’t his style, and his eclectic positions put him all over the ideological map.

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Police Officers Were Shot At. Ilhan Omar Called Their Response ‘Murder’

Ilhan Omar called the shooting of an armed suspect who shot at police “murder” in a Thursday tweet.

In response to a tweet from a news reporter, Omar, a Minnesota House Democrat, denounced the shooting of 23 year-old Dolal Idd as “state-sanctioned murder.” She further complained, “MPD is a joke, this isn’t transparency or accountability.”

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Portland Mayor Admits Failure in Dealing with Antifa, Asks for Federal, State Help

Portland Mayor Admits Failure in Dealing with Antifa, Asks for Federal, State Help

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler admitted his policies in dealing with Antifa anarchists failed. He called for new enforcement actions and asked for federal and state assistance in dealing with the lawlessness.

“My good-faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists,” Wheeler said in a New Year’s Day press conference. “In response, it will be necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring the criminal destruction and violence to an end.”

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Communist China: Paying US Media to Publish Propaganda

Communist China: Paying US Media to Publish Propaganda

‘Borrowing a Boat to Go Out on the Ocean’

The Chinese government-controlled English language newspaper, China Daily, in 2020 paid a variety of US media outlets nearly $2 million for publishing propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a disclosure that China Daily filed in late November with the US Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), according to Daily Caller.

China Daily has reportedly been registered as a foreign agent under FARA since 1983, which means it is required to report its activities and financial transactions to the Justice Department.

In June, China Daily filed a disclosure with the Justice Department showing that, since November 2016, it had paid $19 million to U.S. media outlets, including $12 million to newspapers such as the Washington Post and New York Times. Other newspapers included the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago TribuneBoston GlobeSeattle TimesHouston Chronicle and Foreign Policy.

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Georgia Election Data Shows 17,650 Votes Switched From Trump to Biden: Data Scientists

Georgia Election Data Shows 17,650 Votes Switched From Trump to Biden: Data Scientists

Georgia election data indicates 17,650 votes were switched from President Donald Trump to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, data scientists testified on Wednesday during a state Senate hearing.

A team led by Lynda McLaughlin, along with data scientists Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, presented the results before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections.

Mealey worked as an electronic warfare technician in the U.S. Navy for nine and a half years and was a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor as a data analyst and programmer for the National Counterterrorism Center. He currently works for one of the “Big Four” accounting firms as a programmer.

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Asking questions is ‘not responsible behaviour,’ says Chrystia Freeland

Asking questions is ‘not responsible behaviour,’ says Chrystia Freeland

Freeland: “Mister Chair, as I said earlier, I am a very strong believer in the importance that the independence of the Bank of Canada plays in our economy … and in our financial system … and I would urge members to ask questions … pertaining to the Bank of Canada, of the Bank of Canada.”

Poilievre: “Well, the minister says that the bank is accountable to the people. We are the people’s representatives. Surely, we should know. So, where did the $180 million go?”

Freeland: “Mister Chair, I want to be very clear that it is undermining of our economy … to be … raising questions in the minds of Canadians about the independence of the Bank of Canada. That is not responsible behaviour.”

h/t all of you who sent this in.

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Howard Levitt: Get vaccinated or get fired — and seven other workplace struggles waiting for us in 2021

Howard Levitt: Get vaccinated or get fired — and seven other workplace struggles waiting for us in 2021

2. Some employers will provide employees with a choice. Return to work or continue to work remotely but with a 30 per cent cut in salary (or any amount the employer selects). If the employee has the option of coming to the office at the same remuneration, there is nothing illegal, nor is it a constructive dismissal for employers to offer this alternative.

Interesting how the pandemic has made things “easier” for the corporate class.

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