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Elon Musk has compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler in a meme criticizing his crackdown on Freedom Convoy protests. Musk, the world's richest man and a cryptocurrency advocate, posted the meme on Twitter early Thursday, responding to reports that Mounties are seeking to freeze crypto wallets tied to the protests. The image depicts the Nazi dictator Hitler with the text: 'Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau... I had a budget.' The reference to a 'budget' is unclear and suggests the meme is recycled from some prior controversy over Canada's government spending. Musk was responding to a report...

Houston RCMP is presently investigating an incident where individuals allegedly engaged in a violent confrontation with employees of Coastal GasLink, and with attending police officers along the Morice River Forest Service Road near Houston, BC. On Thursday, February 17, 2022, shortly after midnight, Houston RCMP was called to the Marten Forest Service Road (FSR) after Coastal Gas Link (CGL) security reported acts of violence at their work site. It was reported approximately 20 people, some armed with axes, were attacking security guards and smashing their vehicle windows. It was initially reported that some CGL employees were trapped, but all had...

Cassidy Ward Wed, February 16, 2022, 11:09 AM CST Released in 1973, Soylent Green imagines a dystopian nightmare version of 2022 in which overpopulation and climate disaster have made the Earth nearly unlivable. Resource and housing shortages have exacerbated class stratification, with the wealthy living in lush, reinforced houses while the rest of the population is scrounging for scraps just to survive. With not enough to eat, half of the world's population is sustained only by a staple food source created and sold by the Soylent Corporation. It comes in various colors, the best of which is the titular Soylent...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned on Thursday that he will block quick passage of a symbolic resolution supporting Ukraine and sending a warning to Russia unless it incorporates changes he wants. “We have some amendments to it. We believe that it should say nothing in this resolution is to be construed as an authorization of war and nothing in this resolution is to be construed as authorizing the use of troops into Ukraine,” Paul said. Paul said that he offered the amendments to sponsors of the resolution on Wednesday night but they were rejected. He said that he would object...

The highly dangerous gain-of-function (GoF) research and funding managed by EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), “began before Fauci’s NiH or NIAID became involved,” says whistleblower, Andrew Huff, Ph.D., MS who is the former VP of Data and Technology at EcoHealth Alliance (EHA). Moreover, says Huff, EcoHealth Alliance under the direction of its “President, Peter Daszak, was not adhering to its mission of conservation work…EcoHealth was not collecting the right data nor was it employing the methods or models necessary to forecast or prevent pandemics as it states in its mission,” says Huff. What was it doing? Huff says it was largely...

The tide is turning as schools across the country are empowering parents to make the decision of whether their children will wear masks in the classroom, rather than mandating them. This includes Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Wednesday signed SB 739, which includes a provision on optional masking. Even more liberal states, such as New Jersey, are lifting their school mask mandates. Yet Dr. Anthony Fauci, medical director for the NIAID who serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, said it was "risky" in a clip that CNN aired on Thursday morning. The comments came during a...

Attorneys for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign lawyer filed a motion Thursday to dismiss special counsel John Durham’s case against him, calling the matter “extraordinary prosecutorial overreach.”The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, was charged last year in Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation after he was accused of lying to an FBI agent when he told the bureau he wasn’t advising Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.In the motion to dismiss, Sussmann’s legal team said he did not make false statements to the FBI — and argued that prosecutors were pursuing him on a technicality.His lawyers argued that Sussmann voluntarily met with FBI agents in September 2016 to...

Tammy Giuliani, owner of Stella Luna Gelato Café in Ottawa, Canada, was forced to shut down her business after an onslaught of threats was made because of her donation to the Ottawa trucker convoy protesting against coronavirus restrictions. Giuliani donated $250 to the Freedom Convoy via fundraising platform GiveSendGo. After the site suffered a data breach, Giuliani's contribution was made public, and her restaurant began to receive phone calls threatening vandalism and violence. "We got a call from the team saying, ‘We’re getting phone calls here,'" Giuliani told the Ottawa Citizen. "I said, ‘What’s going on?’ and they said, ‘They’re...

A few unpatriotic athletes may not destroy our nation, but a complete lack of national culture and purpose will. In an ideal world, Gu would be seen as the embodiment of the American dream and fill the hearts of every patriot with pride as she ascended the medal podium. Unfortunately, Americans will get no such opportunity. Gu has decided to represent geopolitical rival China in this year’s games. Gu has said she feels “just as American as I am Chinese ” but chose China over America on the world stage. Gu is not alone. Many American-born athletes, some with no...

SANTA FE — A grueling push to enact voting legislation backed by Democratic leaders at the Capitol died in the final minutes of a contentious 30-day session Thursday, with a Senate Republican using a filibuster to run out the clock. The standoff came after lawmakers worked through the night, agreeing in the final hours to send a hefty tax cut package and a broad crime bill to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. A proposal to enact a clean fuel standard, meanwhile, failed on a rare tie vote in the House. Much of the last-minute drama centered on voting legislation that would...

Ukrainian state media outlet Ukrinform ran an editorial on Wednesday arguing that Ukrainians are unfazed by the war hysteria gripping many Western politicians and media outlets because Russian forces have been in their country for eight years. Ukrinform billed the lengthy article as “an editorial, aiming to convey to the Western audiences, including journalists, what’s on the mind of the Ukrainian people these days, why they have no fear, and what is the main motivation driving the nation.” The gist of the editorial was that life continues as normal for Ukrainians, who are certainly aware of the Russian threat but...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the ‘man behind the curtain’ that directed Facebook’s censorship campaigns against people ‘questioning the science,’ while surreptitiously amplifying government propaganda regarding its Covid pandemic policies. Such are the new revelations from a lawyer who is suing the Food and Drug Administration for hiding its Pfizer clinical trials data from the public: Attorney Aaron Siri. “Emails between CDC and Facebook, obtained on behalf of @ICANdecide, show CDC guiding FB’s messaging,” Siri tweeted. “For example, CDC tells FB the ‘focused messaging for the next week’ includes ‘Rethink travel, gather virtually, wear a mask’ followed...

The beleaguered Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been kicked off Amazon’s charity platform for its failure to disclose where tens of millions in donations it received nearly two years ago have ended up. AmazonSmile, which gives a portion of eligible purchases on the online shopping site to charities, said it “had to temporarily suspend” the group today, an Amazon spokesperson told The Post. “States have rules for nonprofits, and organizations participating in AmazonSmile need to meet those rules,” the spokesperson said. “Unfortunately this organization fell out of compliance with the rules in several states, so we’ve had to...

Until Nov. 16, 2010, Los Angeles entertainment executive Don Rosenberg considered himself a lifelong liberal and supporter of the Democratic Party. But the minute he picked up the ringing phone, his life changed forever. The caller was from San Francisco General Hospital. She told him that his 25-year-old son, Drew, a second-year student at Golden Gate School of Law, had been mowed down on his motorcycle by a car that, Rosenberg would later learn, was driven by an illegal immigrant without a license. The man, Roberto Galo, from Honduras, hit Drew, who was thrown from his motorcycle. Galo reportedly drove...

Explanation: Dark markings and bright nebulae in this telescopic southern sky view are telltale signs of young stars and active star formation. They lie a mere 650 light-years away, at the boundary of the local bubble and the Chamaeleon molecular cloud complex. Regions with young stars identified as dusty reflection nebulae from the 1946 Cederblad catalog include the C-shaped Ced 110 just above and left of center, and bluish Ced 111 below it. Also a standout in the frame, the orange tinted V-shape of the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula (Cha IRN) was carved by material streaming from a newly formed low-mass...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia is signaling it isn’t willing to pump more oil and won’t push for changes to an agreement with Russia and other producers that has kept a lid on oil production levels. This has Washington concerned as gasoline prices rise and tensions with Russia over Ukraine fuel market uncertainty. The Biden administration dispatched Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s Middle East coordinator, and the State Department’s energy envoy, Amos Hochstein, to Riyadh on Wednesday to talk about a range of issues — chief among them the ongoing war in Yemen and global energy...

Everything Justin Trudeau has done since the protests began has made a confrontation between protesters and police all but inevitable. The only way to understand the actions of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the past two weeks is that he wants the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, which so far have been entirely peaceful, to descend into a violent confrontation between protesters and police. Everything Trudeau has done, from his initial dismissive remarks about the protesters being a “small, fringe minority” with “unacceptable views,” to his ongoing refusal to meet with them, to the unprecedented invocation of the Emergencies...

Since 30,000 vehicles converged in Jerusalem on Monday, more than 50 tents have been set up around the Knesset and hundreds of people are planning to stay until the Special Powers Law – which gives the government the ability to declare a state of emergency – is repealed.....and another convoy is expected to arrive on Friday bringing reinforcements. Meanwhile, supporters of the demonstrators have been bringing food and other supplies to those sleeping outdoors amid a cold Jerusalem winter. (Video at site)

Legislation that would ban so-called “high capacity magazines” in Washington State—scheduled for a public hearing Wednesday morning before the state House Civil Rights & Judiciary committee—had garnered almost 15,000 “con” notifications prior to the hearing, while less than 1,000 “pro” notifications had been logged. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5078 would prohibit ammunition magazines for rifles or pistols exceeding 10 rounds . . .

San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education President Gabriela López, who was voted out of office this week along with two other progressive board members, has claimed that white supremacists are behind the recall.