Spy vs Spy

Claws of the Panda 5 Comments

Spectator- The Xi files: how China spies

Most states spy. In principle there’s nothing to stop them. But China’s demand for intelligence on the rest of the world goes far beyond anything western intelligence agencies would typically gather. It encompasses masses of commercial data and intellectual property and has been described by Keith Alexander, a former head of America’s National Security Agency, as ‘the greatest transfer of wealth in history’. As well as collecting data from government websites, parliamentarians, universities, thinktanks and human rights organisations, China also targets diaspora groups and individuals.

Aboriginal Crimes

Little Known Facts More Pavilions At Folkfest We Are All Treaty People 31 Comments

I can’t help think what the reaction might be if someone published a study on Auschwitz and termed the facility “terrifyingly humongous” and otherwise never mentioned that it was a venue for mass murder.

Archaeologists have discovered a new section of the historic site, which was first uncovered in 2015. The new find adds 119 skulls to the previously known 484, for a hair-raising total of 603 skulls, stacked atop one another and mortared together.

The tower is believed to be one of seven similar structure that once stood in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City).

 

The Libranos: Have A Holly Joly Contract!

Shiny Pony The Libranos 12 Comments

Because for Liberal consultants, every day is Christmas;

Auditors have uncovered routine irregularities in the hiring of consultants in Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s department. The review followed a public outcry over billions spent on consultants government-wide, said an internal audit report: “In the last five years the department signed more than 8,000 consulting service contracts totaling $567 million.”


… including contracts signed improperly or broken up into smaller parts to bypass competitive bidding requirements.

Leader Of The Free World

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Axios has a Scoop!

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he’s now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists’ camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old’s halting and stiff gait.

Good work there, journalist people.

Is Our Children Hating?

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Ground Zero for Jew-hatred in America.

Use the wrong pronoun or wear a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo, and your university will consider bringing out the firehoses and German shepherds; but assault Jewish students and call for their extermination (along with the eradication of a sovereign nation), and the same university will defend your actions as representing the sacred right to free and open speech. Antisemitism has spread like ebola across American Academia. But there are at least three good reasons to single out Columbia.

The President of Columbia University has only has 1 well-cited publication in her life, in Oxford Econ Papers 1994. This paper is lifted almost entirely from a 1992 report coauthored with consultant not credited in the publication. This is wholesale intellectual theft, not subtle plagiarism.

Via Instapundit: The Weather Underground you say?

Friday On Turtle Island

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Dementia Joe’s America:  The Anglican Church in America.  A drag queen for Hamas.  Four more years.  The heroic Biden family.

Blackie’s Canada:  Sharia mortgages.  Trudeau trashes populism.  Today Dear Leader takes his taxpayer funded election tour to Quebec.  Immigration minister calls Canada an ‘open country’.  Another Black scam.

Today In Islam:  Australia tries to censor video.  Converting kids in Germany.  Islamic weather science.

Your morning meme.  Another meme.   A cartoon.

“famed medical misinformation expert Allison Neitzel is not now, nor has she ever been, a physician.”

Media There Goes The Narrative 23 Comments

Promoted to national prominence by a coterie of reporters tackling pandemic misinformation, physician Allison Neitzel took a hard fall last week when she was forced to atone for promoting misinformation and defaming medical experts—by posting an apology on her website, and pinning the same to the top of her social media X account. But unless you hang on every word of Democratic Party aligned reporters with a knack for labeling everyone they don’t like a “conspiracy theorist,” you likely don’t know physician Allison Neitzel.

If you haven’t heard of her, you should know her name and story.

Revolutionary Justice

Canada’s Bolsheviks Freespeechers We Are All Treaty People 16 Comments

If I had a dime for every time I found something “hard to listen to” I’d be a billionaire. That said, Mao’s Little Red Guards were out in full force in Dauphin when, God forbid, a school trustee expressed his opinions on the residential school system. I’m sure the anti-racism struggle session that followed his remarks must have been a real treat.

A school trustee in western Manitoba is facing calls to resign, and the province says it’s launching a review, after a presentation in which he made comments decried as hateful, including questioning the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.

The trustee also said reference to white privilege is a “racist comment” because groups shouldn’t be labelled based on the colour of their skin, and argued acronyms such as BIPOC and LGBTQ are “degrading.”

 

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy Roadkill 41 Comments

Sales down down 20% YOY;

Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall.

Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to shift from traditional gas-powered vehicles to EVs in coming years. But it is the only traditional automaker to break out results of its retail EV sales. And the results it reported Wednesday show another sign of the profit pressures on the EV business at Ford and other automakers.

Abbey Gate

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New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan

The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, leaving dead 13 United States military service members and about 170 Afghans who were desperately seeking US help to flee the Taliban takeover of Kabul. For two years, the US military has insisted that the loss of life was caused by a single explosion, and that troops who reported coming under fire and returning it were likely confused in the chaotic aftermath, some suffering from the effects of blast concussion.

But video captured by a Marine’s GoPro camera that has not been seen publicly in full before shows there was far more gunfire than the Pentagon has ever admitted. A dozen US military personnel, who were on the scene and spoke to CNN anonymously for fear of reprisals, have described the gunfire in detail. One told CNN he heard the first large burst of shooting come from where US Marines were standing, near the blast site. “It wasn’t onesies and twosies,” the Marine said. “It was a mass volume of gunfire.”

Don’t Worry, It’s Transitory

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Financial Post:

Wall Street was rattled by economic figures that showed exactly what stock traders did not want to hear: a significant slowdown in the world’s largest economy and persistent inflation pressures.[…]

Gross domestic product increased at a 1.6 per cent annualized rate, trailing forecasts. A closely watched measure of underlying inflation advanced at a greater-than-expected 3.7 per cent clip.

“This report was the worst of both worlds: economic growth is slowing and inflationary pressures are persisting,” said Chris Zaccarelli at Independent Advisor Alliance. “The Fed wants to see inflation start coming down in a persistent manner, but the market wants to see economic growth and corporate profits increasing.”

If neither are headed in the right direction, he said, then that’s going to be “bad news” for markets.

Related!

Lithium, geothermal, carbon tax, drilling, plastics, loans – a bit of everything

Climate Cult 13 Comments

Geothermal project near Estevan has major update, with a greenhouse now in the works to make use of surplus heat that would otherwise go to waste.

First Nation wants voice in plastics treaty. Guess they don’t like plastics.

This might have been posted yesterday. Trudeau calls out Moe on carbon tax fight. (Yes, I use the Canadian Press – as a one man band, I can’t do everything!)

More on carbon tax fight, from Trudeau

Quick Dick McDick puts the old farm truck out to pasture. It makes me sad, because my gas guzzling Canyonero of a Ford Expedition is nearing its end of life, too.

For some reason, this didn’t post yesterday:

And when they’re not working on lithium, ROK Resources plans on six oil wells after breakup

Lithium in SK, Part 28: Hub City Lithium operating direct lithium extraction pilot in Estevan

Trudeau says Saskatchewan to get carbon rebates despite province not paying levies

Freeland says $5 billion just a start for Indigenous loan guarantee program

Minister Guilbeault issues statement on high-level meeting as INC-4 begins, verbatim. This is that plastics ban thing. In Pipeline Online’s never-ending quest to ensure the Canadian Public knows exactly what Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault is telling us on how to save the planet, here is his verbatim statement issued on April 23 about the evils of plastic.

An ‘ambitious’ global plastic treaty demands limits on production, Guilbeault says

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