The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has re-awoken to a profound truth: Rich, secure capitalists are the natural enemies of authoritarian regimes. In a hybrid autocratic-capitalist model, capitalism is the means to generate wealth, but power is the end goal. Successful capitalists naturally begin to demand that their personal and property rights be protected from authoritarian fiat. Capital in the hands of entrepreneurs is a political resource; it poses a threat to the implementation of centralized plans.
Biographer slams Prince Harry for following Meghan Markle’s ‘woke’ ways
Prince Harry’s biographer has accused the royal of “meekly” following wife Meghan Markle’s “woke” ways — tossing his “life as an action man to become an airy-fairy do-gooder.”
Angelia Levin said in an op-ed for the Sunday Telegraph that while Markle “has blossomed back in her native” California, Harry “has become a shadow of the prince I once knew.”
“Of course, he would not be the first man to be besotted with a beautiful woman with a different agenda that he then meekly adopts as his own,” Levin wrote, insisting Harry “seems to accept being second to Meghan.”
The Salt That Has Lost Its Savor: The Woke Church and the Undoing of America
If abortion, infanticide, violence in our streets, election-rigging, and the evils of Marxism aren’t enough to rouse some churches, for what purpose do they exist?
When editors at The American Spectator asked me to write a column for their exceptional magazine about the liberalization of the American church in the age of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and what parades as social justice, I liked the idea. My mind had been ranging over that ground for some months, and their call was confirmation that the idea was worth pursuing. But rather than an article addressing that topic in merely impersonal, philosophical terms, I suggested giving it a face: Pastor Timothy Keller.
Woke BBC Viewers Deride ‘Grease‘ as ‘Racist, Rapey, and Homophobic‘
Some UK viewers who caught the BBC’s airing of the classic hit 1970s musical Grease over Christmas were aghast at its content, slamming the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John-starring musical as an affront to their sensibilities.
Forty-two years after its cinema release, the movie was met with damning critiques from some calling it “misogynistic,” “rapey,” and encouraging “slut-shaming” amongst a host of other putdowns.
The Cheat In Plain Sight
It’s in the data. It was “certified.” It was “recounted.”
Independent data scientists who are able to spot much more complex data manipulation for clients—who have the most to lose (banks and financial institutions)—were able to easily contextualize and explain the proof from the data itself.
Proof of what?
Election cheating—the data proves it!
The Manufactured Consent of the Elites
The film is a critique of social status both in the West and the East, but it is also a wake-up call about the manufactured consent of elite journalism.
Juxtaposed with passages from George Orwell’s 1945 allegorical novella Animal Farm, “Mr. Jones” tells the story of the real-life Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who uncovered the horror of the Holodomor, Ukraine’s great famine of 1932-1933. If we are to believe that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” it makes sense that Jones would have been hunted down in Ukraine and discredited in the West. To this day, Gareth Jones remains an obscure figure.
Two Liberal MPs resign from government roles after traveling abroad amid coronavirus
Two Liberal MPs have resigned from their government and House of Commons roles after admitting to recently traveling overseas despite strict travel restrictions due to the spread of the coronavirus.
Pierrefonds—Dollard MP Sameer Zuberi stepped down from multiple committee roles while Kamal Khera, who represents Brampton West, resigned as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of International Development, according to a statement from the chief government whip.
I think they’re talking about Canada.
“Cop Karen” TASES man near his heart over refund at YMCA in Cobourg, Ontario
As the aggressive enforcement of mask mandates continues, with increasing disregard for exemptions or exceptions, I’m not sure if any of these stories are surprising anymore.
Trump reportedly urges Raffensperger to ‘find’ 11,000 votes to give him Georgia
President Trump isn’t giving up on Georgia, reportedly telling Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find the votes needed to overturn the state in his favor.
Trump reiterated claims that election integrity was undermined in Georgia, prompting its 16 electoral votes to go to President-elect Joe Biden, according to audio released by the Washington Post. Trump reportedly accused Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, of knowing what was happening but not doing anything about it.
“You should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican,” Trump allegedly said in a call to Raffensperger and Ryan Germany, a general counsel in the secretary of state’s office. “… You know what they did, and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal offense, and you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk.”
LA activists call for arrest of ‘Soho Karen’ in march to police station
Civil-rights activists marched on a Los Angeles police station over the weekend calling for the arrest of “Soho Karen,” the woman who falsely accused a black teen of stealing her cell phone in Manhattan last month.
The protesters assembled outside the LAPD’s North Hollywood Police Station on Saturday demanding the arrest of Miya Ponsetto, who has been laying low in California since the Dec. 26 incident, according to New York’s ABC-7.
Ponsetto shot to viral infamy when video emerged of her going off on 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. in the lobby of Soho’s Arlo Hotel.
This is over the top, but then so is she evidently – New details emerge about ‘Soho Karen’ Miya Ponsetto’s penchant for going berserk in hotels
Dallas police rescinds memo for officers to ignore stolen vehicle, criminal mischief calls after it’s leaked online
Police in Dallas, Texas, has backtracked on its memo for officers not to respond to 911 calls about an array of offenses, including car theft, criminal mischief and reckless damage, saying it was sent “prematurely” after outcry.
The Coming Assault on Religious Freedom
Modern-day Thomas Beckets are needed to stop it.
Joe Biden’s view of religious freedom is exceedingly narrow. Where religious freedom conflicts with the goals of liberalism, he supports suppressing it. He has promised Planned Parenthood that he will resume the Obama-era harassment of the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious groups if they don’t conform to his mandates. During the campaign, he opposed “broad exemptions” for those who resist his view of LGBTQ rights.
Defunding police, segregation, and speech crackdowns: 2020’s craziest campus stories
2020 was the year that unleashed COVID-19, the “defund the police” and Black Lives Matter movements, and an intense presidential election.
The year was no less chaotic on college campuses, despite most in-person courses shifting to online-only classes.
Campus Reform compiled a list of the craziest campus stories of 2020.
Those were the days… Pic – Delta Delta Delta, Texas University of Texas, Austin 1944
Breaking Canada’s Quarantine Rules Could Result In 6 Months In Prison & $750K Fines
If you want to avoid hefty fines or even prison time, it’s probably best to follow Canada’s quarantine rules if you decide to travel.
In a tweet shared on January 2, just days after officials promised to crack down on rule-breakers, Health Canada warned that “violating any instructions provided when you entered is an offence under the Quarantine Act.”
Per their notice, failing to quarantine for 14 days as directed could result in “up to six months in prison and/or $750,000 in fines.”