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In order to go from 'zero' to 'hero' very rapidly and give Canadians a good shot at acquired immunity, Trudeau should: > Acknowledge the good intention of the truckers' protest, > Apologize to the nation for his dereliction of duty on the whole issue of VAXX Passports, > Declare an end to all COVID mandates and > Empower the Canadian health services to explore and use all tested and promoted therapeutic treatments (HCQ, Ivermectin*, zinc, vitamins C, D, and E, etc). *The Nobel Prize version, not the 'horse paste' version, of course (sarc) His next step would be to retire...

In a January 28 interview with the Russian media about the Ukraine crisis, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said, “if it depends on the Russian Federation, there will not be a war.” He also suggested that there were “kernels of rationality” in the formal responses to Russia’s demands that the United States and NATO had delivered a few days earlier. To some Western commentators, Lavrov’s comments were a hopeful sign that the Kremlin had achieved its intermediate aims and might be shifting course. According to this analysis, Russian President Vladimir Putin had the West exactly where he wanted it:...

Rep. Cedrick Frazier (D-MN) is giving single-payer health care advocates new hope in Minnesota after California’s $400 billion single-payer bill died in early February. Although Frazier’s bill has not yet been scored by Minnesota fiscal analysts, assuming California’s $10,000 per-person cost, and $163 billion tax increase were cast proportionally across 5.7 million Minnesotans, it would create a $23.2 billion per year tax increase and more than double Minnesota’s entire budget. And that’s only part of the problem.Frazier’s proposal would replace private health insurance in Minnesota with an unelected board to “cover all necessary care, including dental, vision and hearing, mental...

Activists are promoting the idea that pedophilia is a sexual identity that should be destigmatized, not an activity. Media outlets are amplifying activists’ efforts to redefine and destigmatize pedophilia. Some commentators see a relationship between this effort and the push to indoctrinate children about LGBTQ issues. Media outlets have provided a microphone to activists who want to destigmatize pedophilia and redefine it as a sexual identity separate from any criminal activity. At the same time that activists push for a respectable place in society for pedophiles — who are called minor attracted people — some conservative commentators and concerned parents...

The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin on Tuesday that sounds precisely like a prelude to a totalitarian crackdown on political dissent from the preferred narratives of the Biden regime and the Deep State. Read the opening of the summary:The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in...

Microlensing strikes again. Astronomers have been using the technique to detect everything from rogue planets to the most distant star ever seen. Now, astronomers have officially found another elusive object that has long been theorized, and that Universe Today first reported on back in 2009 but has never directly detected – a rogue black hole. That detection comes at the end of a 6-year observational campaign, with dozens of authors collaborating on a paper recently published in arXiv (meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed). Those six years of painstakingly gathered data all started back in 2011, when a star...

HOW THE NATION OF UKRAINE RANKS: 1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores; 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves; 2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves); 2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons); 2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves; 3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters) 4th in the world by the total value...

The new McDonald’s menu hacks do not actually feature any new items you can order on the menu. Instead, they are permission slips for you to become fast food Ozymandias, building carb-laden meat monuments to hedonism. Look, ye mighty, and despair as these works crumble in your hands because you basically just smashed three cheap sandwiches together -- all because travelers from an antique land called TikTok said it was cool. To be clear, you get absolutely nothing special if you try to order these items on the menu. If you order a Surf +Turf, all that’s going to happen...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians say they are concerned political strife in the United States will undermine security and economic growth at home, according to a new poll, as an anti-vaccine mandate protest praised by former U.S. President Donald Trump gripped the capital and affected the border. The anxiety captured in the Angus Reid Institute survey provides a backdrop to protests across the country, at the international border, and especially in Ottawa. The Ottawa protest, now in its 13th day, has been marred by the appearance of hateful symbols, like the Confederate flag, associated with the aggressive populism embraced by Trump...

Someone really should do something about all the racism on college campuses. ... Take the recent Southern Illinois University Edwardsville incident, in which a black female student discovered sticky notes scrawled with racist messages on her dormitory door. A racist sent the student racist text messages and someone even sent racially insensitive death threats. Horrible. ... The perpetrator, it turns out, is also the victim.

In case you weren't aware, last week was "Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action." Apparently, this is now an annual event. According to BLM's website, the organization devotes the first week of February, Black History Month, to activities that will "make our schools more racially just."

@RepThomasMassie Good News: Indiana State House passed constitutional carry! Bad News: @GovHolcome and @INSenateGOP are dragging their feet and not displaying leadership. Are they pro-second amendment or not? The nation is watching.

Beijing (AFP) – The Covid lockdown this week of a relatively unknown Chinese city sent global prices of aluminium rocketing to a 14-year high. Located near the border with Vietnam, Baise is nicknamed the "aluminium capital of southern China". Home to around 3.5 million people, Baise is a hub for aluminium mining and production. It produces about 2.2 million tonnes of the commodity per year -- more than 80 percent of the output in the resource-rich Guangxi region. Guangxi is China's main alumina-exporting region, shipping out around 500,000 tonnes of the aluminium component per month. China is the world's biggest...

Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related to the virus, as well as to resultant vaccines masking and government policies. MRC Free Speech America tallied a whopping 808 total cases of COVID-19 censorship across a litany of Big Tech platforms between March 17, 2020, and Feb. 3, 2022, in its unique CensorTrack database. Those included Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Ads, TikTok and YouTube. The platforms restricted anyone from...

PLEASE VIEW THE VIDEO Senator Marco Rubio Washington, D.C. 284 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC, 20510 Phone: (202) 224-3041 Toll free in Florida: (866) 630-7106 Florida Senator Marco Rubio wrote amendments to the Lacey Act, approved by the House and now before the Senate, that creates a White List of approved species. 1500 species of all animals and wild collected plants will be legal to ship. All the rest are banned. This ends the collection and protection of rare and endangered species and guarantees their destruction. Politics just bit us on the nose. What are we going to do...

Benny @bennyjohnson After the “fuel ban” it is now illegal to bring gas cans to the Freedom Convoy Peaceful Protest — here is what the streets of Ottawa looked like tonight. God bless these people

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s diplomatic priorities will tilt toward addressing the threat of climate change as one of the key global challenges of the 21st century, Germany’s foreign minister announced Wednesday. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, a member of the environmentalist Green Party, said Germany’s 226 diplomatic missions worldwide will become “climate embassies.” This will require some “reorganization and reallocation of resources,” she said, including with the appointment of a new German climate envoy, the former Greenpeace chief Jennifer Morgan. The announcement Tuesday that Morgan would take on a senior government position prompted some grumbling in Berlin, including from opposition politicians...

NEW YORK (AP) — When the pressure gets intense, law student Jasmine Marchbanks-Owens likes to wander the hallways of Howard University, examining the faded, framed photos of prominent Black graduates of decades past. “It’s just really inspiring to be able to see people that look like me that attended this university and became attorneys,” says the first-year student, whose great-great grandmother was born into slavery. “So, when I get stressed out, I like to walk down here and look at all the names and see all the faces.” Black women, Marchbanks-Owens points out, have been the backbone of social justice...

The Bureau of Animal Protection has a new director, selected from a pool of candidates that included two animal rights attorneys and a wolf introduction and “humane food choice proponent.” The final choice to lead the bureau, announced today by Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture Kate Greenberg, is Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Niemiec (pronounced “Knee-Mick”) an assistant professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department at Colorado State University and the director of the Conservation Action Lab. ... The BAP falls under the umbrella of the Colorado Department of Agriculture, but open records requests by The Fence Post indicate governor Jared...

Any parent can tell you why you shouldn’t indulge toddlers. Neil Young — memorably described by my twentysomething colleague Alexandra DeSanctis Marr as someone “I can’t remember having heard of” until he announced he didn’t like sharing the same electronic continent as Joe Rogan — is a toddler. He has the same grasp of reality as a toddler and, as of this winter, the same expectation that his demands will result in immediate actions. Indulge a temper tantrum, expect another. Young is 76 and hasn’t been in the national conversation in 30 years. He’s having the time of his life....