After years of Canadians being lectured to by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his various and sundry environment ministers that the only way to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions is through a national carbon tax, the United States has just passed a US$370 billion climate bill that says it doesn’t need one.
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Rex Murphy: Trudeau, Biden won’t name actual threat to Salman Rushdie
It is welcoming to see and hear so many Western leaders, writers and newspapers offering condolence and support for Salman Rushdie after the savage and barbarous knife attack on the famous author.
Who could not be both outraged by the attempted murder and deeply sympathetic to the victim? Think about it. Here was a 75 year old man gracing something as innocent as a talk about books and writing in the heart of a great democracy and he was stabbed at least 10 times.
L.A. Claims 27% Error Rate in Gascón Recall Signatures; < 1% Error Rate in Mail-in Ballots in 2020
Los Angeles County reported Monday that over 27% of the signatures submitted on petitions to recall District Attorney George Gascón were invalid — after reporting that less than 1% of mail-in ballots were invalid in the 2020 election.
h/t Trudeau Stupid
Mar-a-Lago: FBI warns of increased threats after Trump search
US officials have warned of an increase in violent threats to law enforcement following the search of Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to law enforcement around the country.
It said there had been an “increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials”.
The FBI search last Monday was the first time a former president’s home had been searched in a criminal probe.
America is forgetting how to make stuff
These skills are a matter of national security and social stability
Articles about the future and “progress” have been popping up a lot lately, with conversations revolving around the inevitable advancements in technology and automation. Where we should head next is the collective theme. To the metaverse? To outer space itself? But instead of setting our sights on colonizing Mars or creating a perfect alternate reality, we should slow our roll, focus on the here and now and consider whether the frenzied “progress” we’re in such a rush to make has demonstrated any benefit to real-life people.
Biden’s CIA Director Employed Undisclosed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite DC Think Tank
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns formerly headed an influential D.C. think tank while it employed undisclosed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members as well as individuals with Chinese government ties, the Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
Mom of Salman Rushdie stabber Hadi Matar disowns son, says he ‘changed’ after Mideast trip
The mom of the New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie says her son was a basement-dwelling loner who barely worked, never had a girlfriend — and “changed” after visiting the Mideast.
Silvana Fardos, the mother of suspect Hadi Matar, 24, added to the Daily Mail on Sunday that she is disowning her son over his alleged crime and hopes Rushdie gets well.
“’I feel sorry for Mr Rushdie,” Fardos said.
The Rushdie Attack
The man suspected of the attack on Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, grew up in the United States and was born nine years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued his notorious fatwa. Little else is known of him, though some people acquainted with him earlier in his life have told reporters that (as is often the way in such cases) that they were surprised by his action, for he seemed a normal and friendly person.
If Matar’s profile is confirmed, it will demonstrate once again the effect that a violent, aggressive, and totalitarian ideology may exert on people, though the question remains as to whether ideologies choose men, or men choose ideologies. No doubt a dialectical relationship exists between personality and ideology.
Is America burning? Depends who you ask
Those who read only the NYT or watch the likes of CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS don’t know much about Hunter Biden, illegal migrants and such
For some, the raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is further proof that America operates on a one-party system…run by the Democrats.
The Democrats, they say, have a free hand to do whatever they want by reason of their ownership of Congress, the White House and the media.
Who says this? Mostly people who get their information from Fox News and the New York Post.…which provide news reliably accurate.
IRS: Criminal Investigations annual report 2021 offers a glimpse into what a weaponized IRS looks like
After the Senate passed the “Inflation Reduction Act” aka the pour gasoline on the burning economy act, everyone reeled at the tax increases included in the bill, but what really set off alarms was the bit about hiring 70,000 armed IRS agents.
Salman Rushdie off ventilator and able to speak following stabbing
Salman Rushdie was on Saturday taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in New York.
Rushdie remains in hospital with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted on Saturday evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details.
Oberlin College’s ‘Professor of Peace’ endorsed fatwa to murder Salman Rushdie
Jerusalem, Israel – An Islamic studies academic dubbed the “Professor of Peace” at Oberlin College in Ohio endorsed the campaign to assassinate U.S. and British writer Salman Rushdie because the famous novelist depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad irreverently.
A 24-year-old man named Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed Rushdie on Friday in the neck and liver during the author’s speech in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie is on a ventilator and cannot talk.
How Domestic Violence Spilled Over Into Albuquerque Terror
As more details emerge about the criminal history of Muhammad Syed, 51, charged in the murders of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, and a prime suspect in the killing of two more, the family of one of the victims has blamed police for not intervening sooner.
Sharief Ahmadi Hadi, the brother of murder victim Mohammad “Zahir” Ahmadi, says that prime suspect Syed regularly harassed his family and slashed the tires of his wife’s car in the years before his brother’s murder. Hadi says he believes Syed targeted his family because they are Shiite Muslims.
Mohammedan assassin who stabbed Salman Rushdie had fake driver’s license in name of Hezbollah commander and praised Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on social media
The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie held a fake driver’s license bearing the surname of an infamous Hezbollah commander, it has been claimed.
That driver’s license, which was was found on 24-year-old Hadi Mater bore the name Hassan Mughniyah. Both the first and second names are linked to infamous terrorist organization Hezbollah. The group’s current leader is named Hassan Nasrallah. While one of the group’s most notorious figures was Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a CIA-linked assassination in Syria in 2008.
NBC New York reports that Mater’s social media accounts showed that he was sympathetic to Shia causes, including supporting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Today the man with a loaded AK47 who got arrested in front of my home in New York, has been indicted on a weapons count.
The authority moved me to a safe house.
But to be honest the word “safe” is too luxury for those of us who speak up against Islamists. @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/Wx5QsosweR— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) August 12, 2022
Salman Rushdie on a ventilator, likely to lose an eye after on-stage attack by Mohammedan cultist
Author Salman Rushdie is likely to lose one of his eyes and is currently on a ventilator after he was attacked on stage at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday, a report said.
“The news is not good,” the 75-year-old writer’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times.
“Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” said Wylie.
