
If a politician can decide on their whim whether someone can cross a border, and makes that decision based on how famous or popular somebody is, how can we keep pretending we have rights?
h/t Marvin

If a politician can decide on their whim whether someone can cross a border, and makes that decision based on how famous or popular somebody is, how can we keep pretending we have rights?
h/t Marvin
Anti-lockdown march in Montreal draws several thousand protesters
It drew a diverse group of people, including young parents with their children (none wearing masks), 5G conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, motorcycle gang members and right-wing extremists
A beautiful and peaceful protest in Montreal that ended up with the police pepper spraying woman and children.
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— Alexa Thevoice (@ThevoiceAlexa) June 5, 2021
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today announced that it obtained 280 pages of documents from the Department of Health and Human Services revealing that from 2014 to 2019, $826,277 was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The documents, some of which were redacted or withheld in their entirely, were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-00696)). The agency is only processing 300 pages records per month, which means it will take until the end of November for the records to be fully reviewed and released under FOIA.

Anybody with even the slightest appetite for the history of the Second World War is aware of the Enigma machine, a fiendishly complicated mechanism the Germans devised for their top-secret communications. The hero of the story was Alan Turing, a polymathic genius of the highest order. Turing received substantial help from three Polish mathematicians who had broken a version of the code in the early 1930s. The code-breaking project, at the famous Bletchley Park, went under the beautiful name — for a spy story — Ultra.

The Pentagon gave $39 million to a charity that funded controversial coronavirus research at a Chinese lab accused of being the source for Covid-19, federal data reveals.
The news comes as the charity’s chief, British-born scientist Dr. Peter Daszak, was exposed in an alleged conflict of interest and back-room campaign to discredit lab leak theories.
The charity, EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), has come under intense scrutiny after it emerged that it had been using federal grants to fund research into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Ontario reports 744 new COVID-19 cases, 24 more deaths
Ontario is reporting a dip in the number of new COVID-19 infections today after a slight uptick in daily case counts over the past couple of days.
Provincial health officials logged 744 new COVID-19 cases today, down from 914 on Friday and 870 on Thursday.
Race between vaccines and variants is back on as B.1.617 takes hold in Canada
A new coronavirus variant is taking hold in Canada, leaving experts divided over whether it will expose the weaknesses in our strategy to prioritize first doses of COVID-19 vaccines and jeopardize reopening in much of the country.
Some worry that’s the case, but with Canada’s vaccine supply ramping up and second doses accelerating across the country, others believe fears over B.1.617 may be overblown.
So how at risk are we from B.1.617, the variant first identified in India also known as delta, and how concerned should Canadians be as we inch closer to reopening much of the country?
I can now schedule my second Jab as of Monday. Let’s hope it works.

A person believed to be among the highest-ranking defectors ever to the United States from the People’s Republic of China has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for months, sources inside the intelligence community have told RedState on condition of anonymity. The defector has direct knowledge of special weapons programs in China, including bioweapons programs, those sources say.

On the menu today: A Los Angeles Times columnist decrees the lab-leak theory to be “garbage” and says the real lesson of the pandemic is that the United States needs to “cooperate with China” more; a “3.6 Roentgen reading” of a jobs report; a Chinese-government spokesman suffers a bitter defeat; and an appreciation for some kind words.

Nearly 50 years ago, two iconic Tennesseans posed the pivotal question that led to the unveiling of one of the biggest political cover-ups in American history. Fred Thompson, then-counsel to the Watergate Committee, wrote the question for then-Sen. Howard Baker, who asked, “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”
Today, we must ask: What did Dr. Anthony Fauci know, and when did he know it?

Anti-Trump sentiment has been one of the factors that contaminated the debate on the origin of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, has said.
Efforts seeking a full inquiry into the origins of the CCP virus have been growing recently, including a letter signed by 18 international researchers pushing for a “proper investigation.”
A Chinese virologist who was among the first to suggest COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab has said that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails prove she was right all along.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan was one of the first to research the emerging coronavirus and previously revealed she was forced into hiding after accusing Beijing of a cover-up.

For the first time in history, one country has attacked — at the same time and in one audacious move — all the other ones.
China committed that horrific crime by taking steps, in December 2019 and January of last year, to deliberately spread COVID-19 beyond its borders.
The international community must now impose the most severe costs on the Chinese regime to, among other things, establish deterrence. Why? China’s regime committed the crime of this century and may well be planning another horrific act.

Former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on the “Ingraham Angle” last night with Laura Ingraham and said that officials from the National Institutes of Health had tried to suppress the work that his people had been doing in the State Department to uncover the question about a potential Wuhan lab leak.

The whereabouts of two scientists at the centre of a parliamentary showdown over alleged national-security breaches at a high-security laboratory remain unknown, as Ottawa’s explanation for their firing has shifted.
Xiangguo Qiu, a former head of a key program at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, and her husband, Keding Cheng, have not publicly commented on why they were fired. Nor have they responded to questions from The Globe and Mail about whether their dismissal was related to the transfer of highly infectious viruses to China’s Wuhan Virology Institute.
The Globe has found that the scientists are no longer living in Winnipeg, and it is unclear if they are still in Canada. The RCMP would not say if they know where the couple are located.
(Go incognito)
Ontario reports 900+ new COVID-19 cases; 19 additional deaths
Ontario reported more than 900 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and 19 deaths, the fourth day of a slow rise in cases that officials said may keep them from accelerating provincial reopening plans.
The province reported 914 new cases on Friday.
Hooray for Lockdown!
Canadian economy lost 68,000 jobs in May as COVID-19 lockdowns continued
Statistics Canada says the economy lost 68,000 jobs in May as lockdowns to slow the COVID-19 continued.
The unemployment rate was 8.2 per cent in May, little changed from the 8.1 per cent in April because the number of unemployed people in Canada overall stayed relatively steady.
What changed is that more people dropped out of the labour force in May, including workers who simply got discouraged and gave up looking for work.