Links - 18th April 2025 (2 - Migrants: Continental Europe)

Ian Miles Cheong on X - "BREAKING: According to reports from UAE and Saudi Arabian 𝕏 users, the perpetrator of the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, Germany is a fugitive from Saudi Arabia. The German government refused to extradite him despite requests from the Saudi government, citing human rights concerns. Translation by @AD_GQ : “Reports suggest that the perpetrator of the Germany attack is a well-known fugitive traitor named Talib Al-Abdulmohsen. He fled from Saudi Arabia, where he is a wanted individual, and was granted asylum and citizenship by Germany, which refused to extradite him to Riyadh under the pretext of human rights and freedom of expression. He repaid this favor today by committing a massacre. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Europe is destroying itself from within.) End.”"

Saudi Arabia alerted Germany about Christmas market attack suspect four times, but no action was taken - "Saudi Arabia had issued multiple warnings to Germany regarding Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the man accused of driving into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing five people and injuring over 200. Despite these alerts, German authorities failed to act, sparking calls for accountability. Al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi-born psychiatrist, was arrested at the scene of the attack... The Saudi government claims there was no response from German officials. The attack occurred when al-Abdulmohsen drove a rented BMW SUV through a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg in just three minutes. Four women and a nine-year-old boy were killed, and 200 others were injured... The warnings from Saudi Arabia raise questions about Germany’s intelligence and law enforcement systems. Al-Abdulmohsen’s radical views were flagged by Saudi officials as early as 2007."

Meme - Dixon Uranu @RealDixonUranu: *Family Guy Okay Not Okay*
*White skin - Man. Dark skin - Car*
The Associated Press @AP: "A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany"
Readers added context: ""A car has driven" implies the car drove itself, which is factually incorrect. A man from Saudi Arabia intentionally drove the car into the Christmas market as a terror attack."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Following a Saudi national ramming his car through a Christmas market, Pro-Palestinians are now out in the streets of Germany calling for an "intifada." How morally depraved can these people be?"
Noah Smith 🐇 on X - "I think European liberals had better come up with a solution to this fast, because currently the rightists seem to be the only ones proposing "solutions" to this."

Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Let's say you are a European standing with about a dozen other people. And you have a choice, either (a) one of you at random get half a million euros paid out over your lifetime, or (b) another Muslim immigrant is allowed to immigrate into the country. What would you prefer? This is not far from the real situation. Each Immigrant from Northern Africa and the Middle East cost ~€500,000 on average over a lifetime."
"Table 0.2 Average net contribution of immigrants to public finances, by immigration motive and region, including the cost for the second generation"

Denmark, Sweden and Germany have analysed impact of low skilled mass migration - their findings are ALARMING... - "Academics across Europe have collected and analysed data for over a decade to find the impact of low-wage, low-skilled mass migration on their nations. Advocates for mass immigration argue it drives growth, makes us more productive, makes our societies more prosperous and improves living standards. But research in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and other countries has found that mass immigration through low-wage, low-skill and non-European migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa is a net fiscal cost to economies in Europe. For Denmark, a study called ‘Immigration, Integration and Fiscal Sustainability’ from 2005 predicted that increased immigration would “generally worsen” the Danish fiscal sustainability problem. The study by Poul Schou used the large-scale computable general equilibrium model Dream to examine the consequences of various immigration scenarios. Ultimately, the report found that “increased general immigration will not solve the demographic problems of the ageing welfare.” However, it argued that improved integration of existing and future immigrants could be an “important tool” to ease future financing problems. In 2002, a study from the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University found that “immigrants to a typical welfare state such as Sweden represent, on average, a substantial fiscal burden, and is an order of magnitude less beneficial for public coffers than immigrants to the U.S.” However, it also found young immigrants “still represent a large net gain”. A recent 2024 German studytitled: ‘Honourable State? Focus on Migration: The Fiscal Balance of Immigration’ also found that while migration can have some positive fiscal effect, especially if migrants are highly qualified, it is not enough to ensure fiscal sustainability on its own. It found that the fiscal balance of future migration is negative and assuming an integration period of six years, future migrants are expected to make lower net payments compared to the native population. This results in an increase in the sustainability gap from 447.8 per cent to 497.1 per cent of GDP... in the Netherlands, another study, the Borderless Welfare State from the University of Amsterdam, found evidence that much immigration flooding the country is undermining the welfare state and imposes big costs on the economy. Jan van der Beek’s research shows the share of poorly educated people in the 25-65 age group among non-European immigrants (34 per cent) is twice as high as among the native Dutch (17 per cent). Furthermore, because the poorly educated are more likely to rely on welfare this is increasing the proportion of net recipients in the population, upsetting the balance. Jan van der Beek also finds that while poorly-educated immigrants are a net fiscal cost on Western economies, so too are immigrants who are moving into the West to join family members, study or seek asylum. In the Netherlands, it’s estimated that granting one asylum request to one migrant costs Dutch taxpayers about £1.1 million —to cover the asylum-seeking migrant, their family members, and the impact of the second generation. Research in Finland, too, shows that immigrants from “the greater Middle East” - a region that includes the Middle East, Central Asia, Pakistan, North Africa and countries such as Sudan and Somalia - have by far the greatest negative fiscal impact in Finland."

Asylum seekers 'drain money from Dutch state for generations', says new study - "Asylum seekers arriving in the Netherlands become a burden on the state for generations, a new study has found. Immigrants entering the country as students or to reunite with their families were also found to “bring negative net contributions”. A discussion paper by IZA, the Institute of Labor Economics, said the burden on the state was not from government spending on these groups, but from lower tax and social security contributions. The study by researchers from the institute’s international network was published as the Dutch government plans to cap the country’s population at 20 million by 2050. Its Right-wing coalition, led by Dick Schoof, the prime minister, has vowed to implement the Netherlands’ strictest-ever policy on asylum, cutting the number of arrivals by 100,000 people per year. Findings from IZA’s research will bolster arguments that failure to curb migration to the Netherlands will put pressure on public services, including healthcare and housing. Asylum seekers arriving in the country are expected to cost the state €400,000 (£330,000) over their lifetimes, according to the study. “The negative contribution is especially large for asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East,” say authors Jan van de Beek, Joop Hartog, Gerrit Kreffer and Hans Roodenburg. The burden on the taxpayer for each “family migrant” that comes to the Netherlands is €200,000, according to their report. But the report also found that the country benefits to the tune of €100,000 from every economic migrant that arrives in the country. “Labour migrants who enter before age 60 make a positive net contribution to the government budget, more than €100,000 per immigrant when they arrive between ages 20 and 50,” the report says. The children of migrants who make a “net positive contribution” are also expected to have a beneficial impact on the Dutch economy. But the children of asylum seekers also tend to be a drag on the state’s finances... “the adage ‘it will all work out with the second generation’ does not hold true.”... Western migrants made a total contribution of €900 million to the Dutch economy in 2016. Migrants arriving from countries like the UK, US and Japan are expected to contribute more to the Dutch economy than they take out. In comparison, those arriving from non-Western countries received €18.2 billion in the same year. Those arriving from Sudan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria were said to have cost the Dutch taxpayer the most. Last year, the Dutch government recorded the arrival of at least 29,900 asylum seekers, according to official figures, which exclude December. They were followed by some 10,705 family members."

Crémieux on X - "Pakistani overrepresentation in rape statistics is not just a U.K. thing. It also shows up in Germany. Bad immigrant outcomes like this are less common in America, signaling that Europe is failing to adequately screen its immigrants."
i/o on X - "Foreigners commit 42% of homicides and 37% of rapes in Germany. But this doesn't tell the whole story. Crime rates are also higher for persons from developing nations who have become German citizens."

Elon Musk on X - "Soros really was a genius at arbitrage, whether finance or politics. He also figured out how to take a small amount of private funding and leverage that into massive government funding. Brilliant. I just wish he loved, rather than hated, humanity."
Mario Nawfal on X - "🚨🇭🇺🇪🇺GEORGE SOROS, THE BILLIONAIRE BEHIND THE EU MIGRANT CRISIS Hungarian PM Viktor Orban exposed how Soros told the EU it had to accept millions of migrants: “Mr. George Soros published his plan in English in the Project Syndicate publication in 2015. He said very clearly that, quoting again, the EU has to accept at least a million asylum seekers annually. So this is why the story is not just about migration, but it's about how this European Union is working and how George Soros was able to capture the main positions inside many institutions of the European Union, buying out MPs and other leaders and in order to execute the plan.” Source: @AdamMoczar"
Foreign interference is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

Meme - Whyvert @whyvert: "Norway: the Progress Party forced Statistics Norway to release ethnic crime data. Almost half of young Somali men in Oslo (483 out of 1000) got caught and charged with violent crime. Prosecution rate for violent crime in Oslo among men age 15-24, 2021-23."
"Siktelser for vold per 1000 innbygger Siktelser for vold og mishandling, per 1000 innbygger. Norge Pakistan Syria Russiand I Afghanistan Eritrea Etiopia 289 Somalia 483 Grafikk: Espen Kilde: SSB Last ned data Laget med Datawrapper"
Clear proof of structural racism!

Kaizen D. Asiedu on X - "The irony of this multiculturalism/mass migration push in Europe is that it will actually produce less diversity, not more. England won’t be English. Germany won’t be German. Italy won’t be Italian. Every country will just be an indistinguishable mix of different cultures."

Meme - William Meijer @williameijer: "New data 🚨 In Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Greece 🇬🇷, Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, and Sweden 🇸🇪, non-EU immigrants are a net fiscal drain. 🧵"

Meme - Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf: "These refugees ‘lost’ their passports and ID, but somehow managed to keep their phones and cigarettes. Fascinating!"

Sarah Stock ✟ on X - "When non-Europeans want to preserve their culture, it’s ‘stunning and brave’ When Europeans want to preserve their culture, it’s ‘xenophobia’"

Thread by @CV_Dalcher on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Of all the horror stories in Douglas Murray’s THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE, this was the most horrifying: A victim of sexual assault lied about the ethnicity of her attackers because she—get this—didn’t want citizens to view the men who attacked her “as the problem.” 🧵
Imagine the poor self image of a woman who would lie to the police to protect the public image of three men who assaulted her. But it gets worse. Much worse. 👇
In a nightmarish manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome, the woman says in her open letter: “You’re not the problem. You’re usually a wonderful human being” Tip: wonderful human beings don’t force women to perform sex acts on them. And there’s still more…
They’re no better or worse—they’re only different “They are alone and looking to banish their humiliation of flight with confirmation of their masculinity.” The left has been force-feeding the world these lies for decades. Don’t dare argue, lest they call you ‘racist.’
Here’s a true thing: Not all sexual assaults are committed by men of a certain ethnic group / nationality / religion. Here’s another true thing: When any crime is committed, the identify of the perpetrator should be reported. INCLUDING ethnicity, religion, nationality.
Our anti-racist friends (AKA We The Undersigned) are all for reporting the correct sex of a criminal, often citing the importance of accurate statistics. Is there less of a need for accuracy with respect to other demographic data? If we don’t want crime statistics to make it appear that women commit more crimes of a certain nature than they actually do, wouldn’t we also be concerned about statistics that make it appear that a particular group doesn’t commit FEWER crimes of that nature?
On top of the behaviour of victims who wish to protect their abusers in the name of ‘let’s all get along,’ we’re witnessing contradictory opinions with respect to accuracy in criminal records. Chilling, but not surprising."
On Selin Gören. Women are seen as victims, and so are "refugees". It's only because transwomen are suddenly bigger victims that the "TERFs" are rebelling

JD Vance had a point on migration, Denmark’s prime minister warns EU leaders - "There’s not much the socialist Danish prime minister agrees on with the Trump administration. For one, U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to annex Greenland, an autonomous Danish dependent territory. He’s also shown a particular desire to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin when it comes to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, a sentiment Mette Frederiksen has ardently opposed. Surprisingly, though, the center-left Frederiksen told POLITICO in an interview that the Trump administration’s Vice President JD Vance was right when it comes to migration and limiting the mass arrival of foreigners. “I consider this mass migration into Europe as a threat to the daily life in Europe,” said the leader of the wealthy Scandinavian welfare state, echoing what Vance said weeks earlier at the Munich Security Conference. Frederiksen used mass migration interchangeably with irregular migration... “There is nothing more urgent than mass migration,” Vance told a partly shocked audience of Europeans Feb. 14, saying the threat was bigger than Russia... The center-left politician stands out in a sea of conservatives in Europe as one of the only socialist leaders remaining in power across the bloc, in large part due to her severe policies on migration. Elected in 2019, she doubled down on a wholesale turnaround of Denmark’s immigration policy, which moved from openness to one of the strictest migration policies in Europe, if not the world. But while Danish voters have embraced her tough stance on accepting foreign nationals, human rights organizations and refugee advocates have accused the government of “racism” and “discrimination.” Conservative leaders across Europe, from Austria and Hungary to Germany and the Netherlands, have embraced similar viewpoints on migration with relative success while the popularity of Frederiksen’s socialist counterparts has waned. Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have pulled the other way when it comes to immigration, arguing against hardline policies at the EU level... “The message that our populations in almost all European countries have tried to send to politicians through the years: Please get in control [of] our borders and be decisive on migration,” Frederiksen said. Frederiksen, like Trump, has found that her voter base embraces her stance on migration. To limit migration, Denmark has deployed a potent cocktail of policies dubbed “zero” refugees including negative advertising in source countries urging migrants not to make the trip; confiscating valuables from migrants to offset the cost of their stay; threatening rapid deportations for settled Syrians during the reign of Bashar Assad; and the controversial “No Ghetto” laws aimed at reducing the proportion of foreign-born people in Danish neighborhoods. The country also passed a law in 2021 that could allow refugees to be moved to centers in partner countries outside the EU, such as Rwanda, a proposal that the European Commission later criticized... “No matter if you look at statistics on crimes or if you look at problems on the labor market, insecurity in local communities, it is the most vulnerable who experience the consequences” of uncontrolled migration, Frederiksen said... “No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants. But you know what they did vote for? In England, they voted for Brexit. And agree or disagree, they voted for it. And more and more, all over Europe, they’re voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration,” Vance said... The “No Ghetto” law was found, just last month, of being “directly discriminatory on the basis of ethnic origin” by an adviser to the EU’s top court... Critics have noted that similar policies would not work in larger, less homogenous EU countries such as Spain or France, which have much bigger immigrant populations going back generations linked to their colonial histories. What’s more, Denmark has carve-outs from Europe’s justice and home affairs treaty, which grants Copenhagen wide latitude to enact policies that might be illegal elsewhere... For Frederiksen, such outlays don’t clash with Europe’s other big focus — defense. Instead, they’re all part of the same effort to make Europe more secure for its citizens. “If I ask people about security and their security concerns, many of them will reply that Russia and defending Europe is top of mind right now. But security is also about what is going on in your local community,” Frederiksen said. “Do you feel safe where you live? When you go and take your local train, or when your kids are going home from school, or whatever is going on in your daily life?”"
Clearly, Rwanda is a dangerous country and all self-declared refugees have a right to live in a Western country because they're afraid for their lives
Not allowing unelected elites to control public policy but instead listening to what the people want is a Danger to Democracy
Countries need more diversity, to make it impossible for them to implement the kind of policies that Denmark has

Fury in Portugal as thousands protest 'illegal and uncontrolled' immigration - "The number of foreigners living in Portugal jumped by 33.6 percent last year to reach more than one million, about one-tenth of the total population, according to the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum. The centre-right government toughened migration policy in June. It scrapped a measure allowing immigrants to apply for regularisation if they could prove they had been working for at least one year even if they had entered the country illegally."
Albufeira to celebrate diversity in response to “racist” protest - "Albufeira will celebrate diversity on Saturday, February 8 in response to a protest against “increasing criminality and immigration” called for the same day by Grupo 1143, a nationalist group linked to Neo-Nazism. This counter-protest, due to take place at 3pm at the Praça dos Pescadores beachside square, is being organised by a group of local citizens calling themselves ‘Frente Anti-Discriminação Algarve’ (Anti-Discrimination Front). “There is no evidence linking an increase of crime in Albufeira to immigration. On the contrary, the Algarve is historically a region of cultural diversity,” the group says. “What has in fact increased in recent years is inequality, affecting people from all backgrounds.” The group insists that the “true problem that is not discussed is the lack of essential public services, such as health and education, and the complete lack of a right to housing.”"
One dead, two seriously injured, in stabbing in Óbidos - "32-year-old foreign national in police custody. A 32-year-old man killed a 72-year-old man in the early hours of this morning in a house in Óbidos, in the district of Leiria. He also seriously injured two other people"
Visegrád 24 on X - "Outrage in Portugal today after an illegal migrant broke into a home of a family last night in Obidos and stabbed a mother, father and their son. The father died from his wounds, the other two victims are in critical condition. 🇵🇹"

Spain: 71.4% of all new jobs in the last 5 years went to foreigners while young Spaniards flee the country - "Spain is following trends seen across the Western world, which involve young rudderless people increasingly shunned from the job market, especially if they are natives, and jobs increasingly going to foreigners. The data from Spain shows the extreme trend line, where of all the jobs created between 2019 to 2024, 71.4 percent of them went to foreigners, according to a study by the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea). “We are importing waiters and bricklayers while exporting doctors and engineers, which is a tragedy because we have spent a fortune training them, and they represent the great talent on which the country’s growth and the concentration of high-value-added companies depend,” said Jesús Vega, former Director of Human Resources at Inditex and Banco Santander, in an interview with El Debate. He argued that Spain’s labor policies “are driving away those salaries that truly contribute to the country.” Now, foreigners account for 20.7 percent of all workers in the country, with these workers flowing into the construction, hospitality, and elementary occupations, along with technical positions, although to a lesser extent. These are generally considered low-skill positions, which the experts behind the study said is tied to the fact that foreigners coming into Spain generally have lower education levels than Spanish natives. During that time period, the study notes that there has been an increase of nearly 2 million workers and a decrease in unemployment of 438,000 people. However, nearly all of those jobs went to people over the age of 50, amounting to 74.7 percent. Meanwhile, 634,000 jobs were lost over five years for those in the 30 to 44 age group... Spain, which has already struggled for decades with youth unemployment, is only getting worse in this regard. Now, the number of workers over 50 rose by five points, to 35 percent in the last five years. What the experts behind the study argue is that while foreigners are increasingly taking jobs, along with older workers, young workers are increasingly dropping out of the labor force. Some of these young workers may also simply be moving away from Spain entirely, which the data appears to support... .. These same trends are being seen across the West, with low-skilled migrants flooding countries and driving down wages. In many cases, this influx of foreigners also leads to soaring housing prices, which in turn leaves native-born young people unable to purchase a home... Big Business has traditionally seen mass immigration as a positive, as it drives down wages, creates competition for jobs, and also lowers the chances of labor unions forming due to differences between culture, religion and ethnicity amongst workers."
Misinformation! Everyone knows that migrants increase jobs for locals
Time to "Tax the "rich""

Pictured: Asylum seeker 'who stabbed toddler and man to death' - as it's revealed he was regularly reported to German police for 'mental problems' and violent knife crime - "The Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed a two-year-old boy and a passerby to death in a German park has been pictured for the first time since the attack. Enamullah O., 28, was arrested near the scene after attacking a group of children in a park in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. Two people were killed and three injured, police said. The adult victim, a 41-year-old German, died while intervening to try to shield the children in Schoental Park from the kitchen knife-wielding attacker. Regional interior minister Joachim Herrmann said the suspect had already come to the attention of authorities for violent behaviour on three separate occasions and was referred for psychiatric treatment... The suspect had entered Germany in 2022 and unsuccessfully sought asylum. He was meant to have left late last year after offering to leave the country voluntarily, Herrmann said... The suspect is believed to have tried to escape by running across nearby railway tracks, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. In November, police classified parts of the city centre park as a 'dangerous place' due to an increase in 'drug-related crimes', which reportedly included robbery and assault."

Dan Burmawi on X - "The last time I visited Amsterdam was in June 2023. I ordered an Uber to take me from my hotel to Dam Square. The driver was a Dutch-born man of Turkish origin. We started talking about the immigration crisis in Europe. And with complete confidence, he looked at me and said: “By Allah, we will take over Europe.” I asked him, “But you were born here. You’re Dutch. How can you talk like this?” He replied without hesitation: “What unites us is Islam. The world must submit to Islam. We don’t see borders.” I tried to talk to him rationally about the ideology of Islam, its historical violence, its authoritarianism, its rejection of pluralism. And I shared with him that I was a former Muslim. He got visibly angry. And God knows I’m not exaggerating, he threatened me. He told me, flat-out, that I deserve to die and he would do it himself. This wasn’t in Syria, Iraq, or Iran. This was in Amsterdam. A liberal, Western European city. Supposedly free. Supposedly safe. This is the consequence of importing ideology without accountability, Islam wrapped in Western citizenship. They may hold European passports, but their allegiance isn’t to Europe, it’s to a global Islamic identity that rejects your freedoms, your values, and your existence if you dare question it."

Angelo Plume on X - "It has started. Young men are taking control, rising up where the police and politicians have fallen. Let me tell you about Articolo 52. Articolo 52 is an urban patrol unit that has recently formed in Milan. The name is a reference to Article 52 of the Italian constitution, which declares that Italians have a sacred duty to defend their homeland. The young men of Articolo 52 have accepted their duty. They are a movement against the crime and degradation plaguing their city. Their enemies are the "maranza": criminal gangs of other youths, often from North Africa. In Italy, 39% of the inmates in Italian prisons come from North Africa, the same Maghrebi countries from which the majority of recent migration into Italy originates. At the level of juvenile crime, it’s even more alarming. As of January 2024, 51% of juvenile detainees are foreign. Of that 51%, 77% are from North Africa. Articolo 52 is taking them head on. When one of the maranza is known to have committed a crime, such as theft or sexual harassment, Articolo 52 respond like real-life comic book heroes. Recently, a video went viral wherein they meted out justice to a North African who had stolen a girl's necklace. Another of their exploits: 12 boys from Article 52 went headfirst into a neighbourhood terrorised and degraded by North African drug dealers and petty thieves. The city authorities were doing nothing. Articolo 52 took care of it themselves, chasing out the criminals and giving at least a temporary breath of fresh air to the community. The members of Articolo 52 have been threatened with investigations by the local magistrates, but they haven't backed down. Just days ago, they called for the mayor of Milan's resignation, adding: "We no longer want to see drug dealers dealing on the streets and we ask for the cleaning of Via Padova and Corvetto where the situation has become unlivable. Stop building mosques, instead we want more public housing for our fellow citizens. Don't waste time finding out who we are. Because we Italians are all Article 52." The fire rises. Expect more of this. And good luck to these boys."
You get vigilantes when people have lost faith in the state

Ada Lluch on X - "Spanish police have just arrested the Press Secretary of Vox for reading a list of the names of people arrested in Barcelona over the weekend. They arrested him for hate speech because the names were Arabic. Stating facts is now a crime?"
Damn hate facts!

Teen suspect in stabbing Holocaust memorial 'planned for weeks to kill Jews' - "The suspect is a 19-year-old Syrian refugee, prosecutors said following the attack on Friday... The suspect, who is Syrian, applied for asylum in 2023 as an unaccompanied minor. He was granted status and lived in a refugee shelter in Leipzig, a city 120 miles south of Berlin... Three weeks ago a 36-year-old destroyed wreaths at the memorial and injured two people before being arrested."

Dutch princess fled country after crime groups plotted to kidnap her - "The heir to the Dutch throne, Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, has revealed she spent more than a year in Spain after security service warnings that she was under threat from her country’s drug mafia. According to the De Telegraaf newspaper, Princess Amalia, 20, lived in Madrid while continuing her studies at the University of Amsterdam via “distance learning”. In September 2022, Dutch intelligence found that Amalia was mentioned in intercepted communications between underworld figures that indicated possible plans for an attack or kidnapping. Fleeing her shared student flat in Amsterdam, she spent the first months of her studies with her parents at their palace in the Hague before heading to Madrid, where her Spanish-speaking mother, Queen Maxima, who is Argentinian, often goes on shopping trips. “She can hardly leave the house,” said Queen Maxima, referring to the Huis Ten Bosch royal residence in the Hague, on a state visit to Sweden. “It makes me a bit emotional. It has huge consequences for her life. It’s not nice to see your child live like that.”... Her name and that of the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, came up in intercepts between figures close to Ridouan Taghi, the notorious Dutch “Mocro-maffia” boss recently jailed for life over gangland killings."
βόρειος βαρύς on X - ""The heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands can't live in her own country because the Moroccan mafia has put a price on her head" is a headline that perfectly describes Europe's security situation, created by our rootless politicians."

Somali immigrant accused of dressing up as nurse, sexually assaulting woman in labor - "A Somali immigrant allegedly donned a nurse's uniform, broke into a delivery room in a Rome hospital on New Year's Eve and sexually assaulted a woman in labor, in the latest case of migrant crime to shock Italy. La Stampa reported that 38-year-old Ali Abdella is accused of barging into the delivery room at Sant’Eugenio hospital on after stealing a set of scrubs. Once he got into the delivery room, he is alleged to have groped the woman’s leg and genitals and then masturbated in front of her."

Voivod on X - "🇪🇸 INSANITY IN SPAIN: Spanish activist Isabel Peralta sentenced to one year in prison for statements like "This is not migration, it's an invasion" and "Spain is Christian, not Muslim" The court claimed that Peralta "attacked the dignity of Moroccan migrants""

Gender-critical activists 'tracked by terrorism unit'

For some reason, this article from The Times is not online. I have transcribed it:

Gender-critical activists 'tracked by terrorism unit'

Liz Harris, Jonathan Ames Legal Editor

Feminist groups that argue men cannot become women were being monitored by counterterror police, a tribunal has been told.

The revelation emerged as part of a claim by a Scotland Yard detective that she suffered discrimination for her so-called gender-critical beliefs while attending two Metropolitan Police training sessions. It has also emerged as part of the legal action that Scotland Yard paid nearly £26,000 for advisory services on gender and race.

Melanie Newman, a detective constable who joined the force three years ago, accused an officer who ran one of the courses of referring to "terfs" - an acronym meaning trans-exclusionary radical feminists- as "a bunch of lesbians who wrongly think it is rape if a trans woman has sexual intercourse with a woman without the trans woman revealing their biological sex".

During the hearing in Croydon, south London, an employment tribunal heard evidence relating to a meeting of the force's trans and non-binary forum that was held in late 2022.

One attendee at that meeting was said to have reported that while the "anti-trans movement may not look offensive to the average onlooker" they were "heavily resourced and are dam- aging to minority groups".

That person was said to have gone on to tell the meeting that a community engagement officer from SO15 - the Met's counterterrorism command - who was responsible for assessing potential threats from right-wing groups, "echoed" the view that the feminist groups were "extremely smart".

The hearing was also told that Scotland Yard had paid £25,817.14 to Saba Ali, who describes herself as a "distinguished advocate with extensive expertise in addressing intersectionality, cultural abuse, and the complexities marginalised communities face".

Newman, a former journalist, is suing the Metropolitan Police for harassment under equality legislation on the basis of her gender-critical beliefs.

The hearing continues.

Lily Maynard on X

""Gender-critical activists tracked by terrorism unit" I'm not surprised, as the police seem to think their primary duty these days is to cheerlead for genderwoowoo, but interesting to see it in writing."

Ermine aka Stoat💚🤍 💜Courage is contagious 🟥 on X

"Why is this not on the Times online? Police censorship because "terrorism"? The extremely smart law abiding women of YTerf Island want to know. @JournalismSEEN @WomensRightsNet @WeAreFairCop"

Charlie Moloney on X

"No conspiracy here. Lost count of the number of times an article of mine has been print only and never appeared online. There is no particular logic to it other than the layout of the online homepage."

Links - 18th April 2025 (1 - Mark Carney)

Meme - Mike Myers: "You were Trudeau economic adviser ?"
Mark Carney: "Yes and I did a great job"
"How much has GDP per capita grown in the past ten years?
US: +20.7%
Italy: +13.2%
Japan: +8.7%
France: +8.2%
UK: +7.7%
Germany: +4.7%
Canada: +0.5%"

Brookfield’s Deep Ties to Chinese Land, Loans, and Green Deals—And a Real Estate Tycoon With CCP Links—Raise Questions as Carney Takes Over from Trudeau - " review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing."

Canada's housing bubble can be traced to Mark Carney and his bias for easy policy: Jared Dillian - "After it became clear in 2010 that the developed world had exited the financial crisis, Carney raised rates just a little, to 1 per cent, and then left them there until 2013, when he joined the Bank of England. It is true that other central banks never got off the zero bound at all, but Canada’s recession was shallower and the recovery stronger. It has now been almost nine years since the overnight rate was last above 1 per cent. You can guess what happened next: a long period of negative real interest rates that led to an enormous misallocation of capital — again in residential real estate.  A few years later, huge housing bubble — the same exact mistake as Greenspan. This is a little frustrating for central-bank watchers like me. The conventional wisdom is that if you leave rates too low for too long it leads to inflation in the prices of goods and services. That is what happened in the 1970s, but is not what is happening today. Lately, long periods of negative real interest rates haven’t led to goods inflation, it has led to asset price inflation in stocks, bonds and houses. So perhaps a different framework is needed for central bankers."

Meme - "I think the government is on THE RIGHT TRACK" - MARK CARNEY APRIL 30, 2023
"> 2 MILLION FOOD BANK VISITS in a single month
> DOUBLED rents, mortgages, and downpayments
>50% INCREASE in violent crime
> WORST DECLINE IN LIVING STANDARDS in 40 years
>OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING
>Immigration CRISIS
> 250% INCREASE in hate crimes
>HIGHER TAX
>BLOATED bureaucracy"

Meme - Mark Carney to Canadian passing him money: "Keep it! I scrapped the consumer carbon tax!"
Canadian: "Gee, thanks!"
*Carney's long hand taking money out of Canadian's bag with the Industrial Carbon Tax*

Dave Botterill on X - "he is full of crap. Friday fact check.. yesterday Mark Carney said "in 2008/9 when I was bank governor we avoided a recession" and in 2008 he said " We are now in a recession"."

Meme - "CHRISTIA FREELAND HAS BEEN THE FINANCE MINISTER FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS. MARK CARNEY HAS BEEN TRUDEAU'S ECONOMIC ADVISOR FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS. THE LAST 5 YEARS HAVE BEEN THE MOST DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES IN CANADIAN HISTORY. IF YOU SUPPORT ANY OF THEM.. YOU CLEARLY HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE."

Meme - *Canada as crashed car on fire*
Trudeau passing Carney keys: "Finish it"

Carney lobbied mayor of Beijing ahead of Liberal leadership race - "Mark Carney only weeks before seeking the Liberal leadership lobbied Beijing’s mayor to “deepen cooperation,” according to official Chinese records.  Carney on October 20 lobbied the Beijing mayor as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, according to an official account by the People’s Government of Beijing... Carney, the longtime economic advisor to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sought to explore “growth potential of investing in China” — yet, according to Blacklock's Reporter, cabinet at the time had censured the Chinese Communist Party for unfair trade practices that would “cripple our own industry.”... Carney, selected by the Liberals on March 9 as party leader, and by default replacing Trudeau as prime minister, made no mention of lobbying the Mayor of Beijing."

Carney's former firm Brookfield has been accused of breaching Indigenous rights in 4 countries - "Under Mark Carney's leadership, global investment firm Brookfield was accused of breaching Indigenous rights or harming the environment in at least four countries, CBC Indigenous has found."

Firms should pay more for pollution, UN special envoy for climate Mark Carney - "According to the International Monetary Fund, the global average carbon price in 2019 was $2 per ton — and Carney said the charges need to be much higher."

Meme - "FUN FACT: If you flew from Toronto to London, England and back ONE MILLION TIMES, you still would not produce as much emissions as that one time Mark Carney decided to deforest the Amazon for profit. SOURCE; BBC, December 15, 2022"

Lorne Gunter: Mark Carney contradicts himself on pipelines question - "Remember last week when Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised a Calgary audience that his Liberal government would make Canada “the world’s leading energy superpower?”  First of all, I don’t know how many times we Albertans are going to have to hear some Liberal politician come to our province and promise to advance our energy industry before we immediately break into gales of laughter. Article content  No Liberal means it. They all either want to take over our oil and gas industry or shut it down. None of them are up to any good when it comes to Alberta or energy.  And if you want instant proof Carney was following this same pattern with his “superpower” pledge, consider what he said in an interview that aired Sunday on the Radio-Canada program Tout le monde en parle (the Whole World is Talking), a sort of French-language 60 Minutes. When asked about energy projects and pipelines Carney said (in French), “We have to choose a few projects, a few big projects, not necessarily pipelines, but maybe pipelines. We’ll see.”  That’s where his real heart lies on pipelines. “We’ll see.”  He didn’t say, “we’re going to build pipelines east and west to get our oil and gas to new markets so we don’t have to be as reliant on the Americans.”  Nope. His commitment on pipelines was, “We’ll see,” which, of course, is no commitment at all.  You’ll recall that when he was running to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader, Carney told an audience in Kelowna, in English, he would use federal emergency powers to push major energy projects through, then just days later told Quebec reporters, in French, he would not impose any such projects on that province if it didn’t want them. Since becoming prime minister, Carney has also promised a transportation corridor from one coast to the other, but has added that he would not repeal the No More Pipelines Act (officially the Impact Assessment Act) that requires First Nations’ approval, Quebec’s approval and gender balance in any megaproject workforce.  Carney also made Trudeau’s radical former environment minister Steven Guilbeault his senior minister from Quebec. And guess who’ll get to decide whether or not Quebec approves of any future pipeline. In other words, Carney has made big promises about turbocharging our energy sector, while at the same time clinging to Trudeau-era “green” policies and Quebec favouritism... Article content  My guess is that Carney is every bit as hostile to our oil and gas as Trudeau ever was, and what he means by Canada becoming an “energy superpower,” is a superpower in wind, solar and other “green” alternatives.  If his Liberals are re-elected on April 28, they will shortly afterwards declare that Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy is going so well we don’t need more oil and gas. Therefore, we just don’t need to build any more pipelines.  Carney will insist there is no business case for pipelines the same way Trudeau claimed there was no business case for selling LNG to Germany, Japan and elsewhere.  On the day Carney made his superpower pledge in Calgary (insert gales of laughter here), his Liberals released their energy platform which called for kickstarting “the clean energy supply chain,” getting “clean energy projects built quickly across Canada,” and building “an East-West electricity grid.”  But no mention of pipelines.  Believe if you want that Mark Carney is a different kind of Liberal — one who intends to jettison the foolish, woke, “green” obsessions of the last 10 years. But I won’t."

Former prime minister Stephen Harper accuses Mark Carney of exaggerating role during financial crisis - "“Carney’s experience is NOT the day-to-day management of Canada’s economy during the global financial crisis. I have listened, with increasing disbelief, to Mark Carney’s attempts to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with back then,” Harper wrote.  “He has been doing this at the expense of the late Jim Flaherty, among the greatest Finance Ministers in Canada’s history, who sadly is not here to defend his record. But let me be very clear: the hard calls during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis were made by Jim.”  Harper added that Carney wants to talk about his role in the financial crisis to avoid shining light on his recent work advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals. It’s a record that Harper said includes carbon taxes, blocking pipelines, large deficits, huge increases in the money supply and the “‘Century Initiative’ on immigration that aimed to rapidly increase Canada’s population to 100M.”  “Carney has advocated for every one of these bad ideas,” Harper wrote.  “So, the choice is indeed about ‘experience’ – Mark Carney’s experience in being wrong on all the big issues – versus Pierre Poilievre’s experience in being right on those same things. That’s why Pierre Poilievre, not Mark Carney, needs to be Canada’s prime minister.” Carney’s leadership campaign has largely focused on his economic credentials, pointing to experience leading the Bank of Canada during the global financial crisis, and later the Bank of England."
Some of the people touting Carney's experience in the private sector and who also slam PP for being in government all his life, so he doesn't know how the world works, were also upset that Trump was the first President with no government/military experience.

Why I would not hire Mark Carney - "If you were on the recruitment committee selecting the chief executive of a major corporation and a candidate was presented who, you learned, had an explosive temper, had plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis (a doctorate that was necessary for the balance of his career), misrepresented his objectives, had been ineffective in his previous jobs and spent the last several years attacking your major revenue stream, how long would this candidacy last?... what if you were unaware of much of this, and only learned after his hiring that he had deceived his way into the position by misrepresenting his goals and beliefs? At law, that would be cause for his dismissal whenever you learned the truth... Remember Kim Campbell? She was also wildly popular when she first became PC leader, precisely because Canadians knew nothing about her and could therefore imbue their dreams, hopes and aspirations into what was essentially an empty vessel. But once we had learned more, Campbell was rejected in one of the most crushing electoral defeats in Canadian history, leaving the Conservatives with only two seats. Carney knows this risk, which is why he called an election immediately upon gaining leadership and opted for the earliest possible date, hoping that Canadians would vote during his honeymoon phase before appreciating who they were electing. While Canadians want change, Carney represents a more fervid, left-wing status quo. He has surrounded himself with the same set of cabinet ministers, MPs and other advisors who caused Canada to fall so far behind its competitors under Justin Trudeau. Even Chrystia Freeland, with her desultory eight per cent of the Liberal leadership vote, was handed two significant cabinet portfolios, as was Steven Guilbeault, our energy industry’s biggest adversary. The result of all of this cohort’s track record? For one, our wealthiest province now sits among the U.S. states with the lowest average per capita incomes, with housing unaffordable, crime through the roof and immigration expanded beyond our ability to handle it, bringing in immigrants who lack the skills this country actually needs... He has been caught lying on many topics since running for leader, such as his role in Brookfield’s decision to move its head office to the United States, and taking credit for important matters he had little or nothing to do with, such as helping Paul Martin balance the books — which he had no involvement in at all, as people who were there at the time have pointed out. Generally, in hiring for any important position, one does a reference check. What have we heard on that front? British commentators, both left and right, have little use for Carney. From the left: Larry Elliott, former economics editor for The Guardian, referred to his “volcanic temper“ and notes that “Bank staff were wary of getting on the wrong side of him.“ From the right: Matthew Lynn of the Daily Telegraph noted, “It takes only a cursory glance at his record to work out that Carney’s reputation is completely overblown.” In reality, he has been “over-promoted” and, in over eight years at the Bank of England, was at best an indifferent governor and at worst a disappointing failure. He “created a mess” and “… is the epitome of a remote, globalized, technocratic elite. He is very good at self-promotion, at collecting trophy jobs and of course negotiating fabulously generous salaries and expenses for himself. He is just not very good at delivering,” said Lynn. Carney’s most obvious failure is that his biggest engagement over the last few years — the Net Zero Banking Alliance he created to commit major international banks to net zero carbon emissions — has ignominiously collapsed, with every major U.S. bank and most others having dropped out... It is not merely lying at the time of recruitment that is cause for dismissal. If something is learned about an executive’s background that shows a genuine unfitness to serve, it can be cause whenever it is ascertained. For example, if it was discovered only after a CEO was hired that he had plagiarized his PhD thesis, it would be cause for discharge in a position where having a PhD was important. When “Dr.” Richard Clarke sued Coopers & Lybrand after being fired for cause when it was learned that he did not have the PhD he had claimed — which was requisite for his hiring — the court also ordered him to repay his bonus since, if he had not claimed to have a PhD, he would never have been eligible for a bonus in the first instance. If Carney was a Canadian CEO, his best defence would be that his deceptions were discovered before he was elected. But that runs against another strong theme of employment law, which is that a CEO can be dismissed without severance if they are found to be dishonest, particularly if they lie to obtain the position."

LILLEY: Carney snaps at reporter over questions about China - "China is an issue that won’t leave Liberal Leader Mark Carney alone and it’s clearly getting to him. On Thursday, he snapped at a reporter and disparaged a major daily newspaper for their coverage of his campaign and connections with China. “Well, I’m sorry, but you can’t believe everything you read in The Globe and Mail,” Carney said. His remarks were nasty in tone, he was snarky. He also seemed to be channeling Justin Trudeau who famously said, “The allegations in the Globe story this morning are false.” Those words were in response to reporting in February 2019 that said Trudeau had tried to pressure his then-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to drop a prosecution against SNC-Lavalin and when she wouldn’t, he dropped her as attorney general. Despite Trudeau denying it, all of the allegations ended up being true, so it’s a bad look for Carney to be reminding people of Trudeau and his lies... The Globe and Mail reported that Carney had met with executives from the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada. The JCCC is a Toronto-based group founded more than twenty years ago to ostensibly foster ties between China and Canada, but it is widely viewed as a front group for China’s United Front Work Department. The UFWD works on behalf of the Chinese government in Beijing to, among other things, spy on and exert influence over the Chinese diaspora in places like Canada. Carney was angry in responding to the Globe reporter who asked about the meeting. “I’ve never heard of this group, okay? Never heard of this group. Certainly didn’t have a setup meeting with this group, full stop. So check your sources before you write things like that,” Carney said. Moments later, Steven Chase, one of the Globe reporters who wrote the original story, posted photos of Carney smiling and shaking hands with two different executives from the JCCC... Clearly though, and you can hear it in his voice, you can pick up from his choice of words, the issue of China is getting to Carney. For the past two weeks, Carney and the Liberals have been dogged with bad stories relating to China and being too close to Beijing... the federal government’s Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force, revealed a coordinated effort by the Chinese government to boost Mark Carney’s appeal to Chinese Canadian voters... This came after the same tactics were used during the Liberal leadership campaign to attack and disparage Carney’s main rival, Chrystia Freeland. Beijing is clearly still interfering in Canada’s elections and Beijing clearly favours Mark Carney and the Liberals."
It's only fascism to criticise the media if it hurts the left wing agenda. Ditto for lying being bad

Canada's cities are riddled with crime. Carney has no plan - "In the two weeks of campaigning that we’ve seen since the election was called, Carney’s mentioned crime a mere three times... Carney’s entire take on justice can be reduced to rare emotional engagements while taking absolutely zero responsibility for policy and solutions... Former prime minister Justin Trudeau essentially legalized a population-wide venture into harm reduction by decriminalizing simple possession, with extra emphasis on Indigenous offenders, and giving drug injection sites a pass. Then, to reduce the incarceration rates of Black and Indigenous offenders, who are sentenced to prison at rates greater than the general population, he reduced mandatory minimums for certain crimes and expanded the availability of house arrest. Trudeau then launched Black and Indigenous justice strategies, with extensive plans for more race-based privileges in the system. None of this is likely to change under a Carney government. He’s still a social progressive at the end of the day, and he’s notorious for outsourcing his moral judgment. Case in point: when asked on Friday about whether he thought Quebec’s proposed expansion to its religious neutrality law, Bill 21, was discriminatory, he answered that he had no opinion... Really, the last time he appeared to care about crime was during the Freedom Convoy of 2022, when he declared the movement to be sedition, called for “choking off the money” and demanded that individuals be held responsible. Where’s this attitude when it comes to drug trafficking? Child luring? Domestic violence? Car theft? Street-blocking Hamas demonstrators? General urban disorder?"

WARMINGTON: Carney may be a boring banker, but drama still follows Liberals - "Trudeau seemed to relish dealing with hecklers and would battle them without missing a beat. Carney, who is getting a trial by fire on how to give daily speeches, seemed rattled by it all. His already understated delivery became slower and choppier... While his speech touched on Trump and Poilievre in a critical manner, it is interesting that Carney did not address this troubling faux paus or him saying that he was unaware of the pro-Beijing Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada group despite having his picture taken with members of their leadership, which was reported in The Globe and Mail."

Carney, Myers lecture on being a Canadian after spending years abroad - "Just call that a Canadian citizenship hat trick because when it comes to nationalities, it’s been loudly reported that both Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canadian comedy legend Mike Myers each have three. Does it get any more Canadian than a British-Irish-Canadian prime minister and a U.S.-British-Canadian comedian bumping into each other in a hockey rink where they used American-Canadian Mr. Dressup as a test to solidify Hoser status?... like the previous “post-national state” prime minister Justin Trudeau liked to do, they are dressing up as Canadians in a fun, minute-long comedic TV spot that smartly dropped on the eve of a federal election call... Interestingly, there was no mention of how Myers — on Kelly Ripa’s show in 2022 — announced that he was an “American citizen,” and proud of it. Myers left Canada decades ago for an monster entertainment career in the United States. Carney not only left Canada to become the governor of the Bank of England, but just before becoming leader of the Liberals, moved his Brookfield investment company’s headquarters to New York. He’s on record at the World Economic Forum saying he was “speaking as a European.” Neither is known to have lived in Canada in recent years but still offered a tutorial on Canadianism."

Terence Corcoran: Mark Carney’s plan for ‘superpower’ Canada tricks voters - "According to an Ipsos poll released this week, Canadian voters give Mark Carney a lead over Pierre Poilievre when it comes to doing the “best job” in managing Canada’s energy and resources... What the pollsters did not ask, however, is whether Canadians have any clue about energy and environment policies. For example, they were not asked about the “voluntary carbon market” action announced Monday by Carney. Hypothetical question: “Do you agree with Mark Carney’s plan to work to establish an international voluntary carbon market that would allow polluters to be compensated for not emitting carbon pollution?” Duh! Whadyasay? Nor were the pollsters able to ask about the Carney election machine’s truckload of federal interventions, subsidies, regulations and agencies to create a “clean and conventional energy” superpower, policies the Liberal leader has been pushing on the world since his 2019 appointment as UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. Carney has also yet to explain how he will impose a carbon tax on corporate carbon emissions while building an energy superpower. But during a campaign speech in Victoria on Monday, Carney did promote one of his pet projects. Carney said that if elected, “globally Canada will work to establish international standards for voluntary carbon markets.” The objective, he said, will be to allow “those who choose to protect and conserve in order to fight climate change to be compensated for doing so. We understand that value determines value.”... Carney boasted that the “power of the market” properly structured “can turn billions of public capital into trillions of private investment.” To help unlock this market Carney created a Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets , a private organization of 250 member institutions and corporations headed by a British banker. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) was approved at the UN COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2021. It ran into immediate controversy when Carney’s climate heroine, Greta, along with indigenous groups, protested against carbon offsetting, arguing it undermines and delays real climate action. The VCM was nevertheless launched, although it has ultimately failed and is now a stagnant financial mess , brought down by lack of trust, major technical issues around carbon emission measurements, greenwashing allegations, and fears that Donald Trump will sabotage the whole operation. But Carney the vote-getter on Monday said a Liberal Canada would be assuming a global “leadership role” in an attempt to rescue voluntary carbon markets with new international standards. He plans to take his carbon market campaign to the upcoming COP30 climate conference in Brazil in November, he said. In effect, Carney the prime minister plans to assume his old role as UN Special Envoy for Climate Action. The initial claim was that VCMs would play a “critical role” in cutting global carbon emissions in half by 2030. Nothing happened. Global carbon emissions have continued to climb and are now up almost 30 per cent since the 2005 Kyoto Protocol set the target. The concept itself is baffling. Here’s one explanation : “Carbon credits can only be sold or purchased by businesses and governments. Carbon offsets, however, are carbon credits available on the voluntary carbon market. The voluntary carbon market enables entities participating in an emissions reduction project to sell credits that are not regulatory in nature. Anyone can purchase these credits.” Duh! Whassat again? It’s a model that has turned into a regulatory and financial dog’s breakfast . Carney’s executive role at Brookfield Asset Management has also raised conflict questions since a Brookfield subsidiary, Hartree Partners, is an active trader and Brookfield itself manages “a half-trillion-dollar portfolio with an enormous stake in renewable energy,” according to Bloomberg."

FIRST READING: Liberal promises just keep happening to intersect with Carney's business interests - "After Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced that Canada’s future lay in “prefabricated and modular housing,” online critics noted that his former company just happens to be a major player in the modular housing industry... After zeroing Canada’s consumer carbon tax last month, Carney unveiled a climate plan which promised to “improve subsidies for heat pumps to make home heating more affordable.” In 2023, Brookfield spent US$5 billion to acquire HomeServe, a British home repair multinational that has leaned hard into heat pump refurbishments. Carney’s links to HomeServe have gotten him into trouble as recently as October, when Britain’s The Telegraph reported that Carney had been actively lobbying the British government to increase heat pump subsidies on Brookfield’s behalf. “Mark (Carney) is working on our behalf in government and he did have a meeting on this with (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Rachel Reeves,” HomeServe founder Richard Harpin told The Telegraph. Carney’s newly released Canadian climate plan also promised to “increase financial incentives for energy efficient homes.” Brookfield Residential, the $6 billion property development arm of Brookfield Asset Management, is already a major builder of energy efficient homes in both Ontario and Alberta... Carney said he would maintain the Trudeau government’s 2019 Impact Assessment Act, the so-called “No New Pipelines Act” due to its much higher regulatory burden on new resource projects. This is despite rising support for a fast-tracked east-west pipeline that would reduce Canadian dependence on U.S. oil infrastructure. A recent Bloomberg-commissioned poll found that a record 77 per cent of Canadians supported such a project. While Carney has said it would make sense for Quebec to use Canadian oil instead of American, he said he would only support such a project “where we have the support of First Nations (and) we have the support of all the provinces, obviously including Quebec.” At the same time, Brookfield is closing in on a $9 billion deal to acquire the 8,850 kilometre Colonial Pipeline in the United States. Running from oil-rich Texas all the way to New York State, the Colonial Pipeline is basically an American equivalent to any future Alberta-to-Quebec pipeline... Carney is required to disclose his assets within 120 days of becoming prime minister, a deadline he won’t hit until after the election. Although he is not volunteering them before then, Brookfield’s own disclosures show that Carney holds options in the company that were worth US$6.8 million as of December... Carney is one of the wealthiest figures to ever become Canadian prime minister, and he has compared his situation to that of Paul Martin, who prior to entering politics was the CEO of the shipping juggernaut Canada Steamship Lines. In 2003, just prior to becoming prime minister, Martin sold the company to his sons, bowing to criticism that merely putting his shares in a blind trust would not be sufficient to avoid conflicts of interest. “I want Canadians to know that my only business … would be the public’s business,” Martin said at the time...
The Trudeau government was extremely conciliatory to the anti-Israel crowd in the months following the October 7 massacres in Southern Israel, to the point where they were once directly thanked by the leadership of Hamas. Nevertheless, they never endorsed the claim that Israel’s actions in Gaza constituted a “genocide.” So it’s notable that when a heckler at a Mark Carney event accused him of ignoring the “genocide happening in Palestine,” Carney replied “I’m aware, that’s why we have an arms embargo” — an apparent reference to Canada’s suspension of military exports to Israel. When asked about this later, Carney said he didn’t hear the word “genocide,” and just thought the heckler was shouting about “the situation” in Gaza."

John Ivison: Carney’s rosy energy promises meet the Liberals’ dismal record - "Carney was in Calgary in his home province on Wednesday trying to salve wounds that have festered over a decade during which Albertans viewed Liberal policies as a sustained assault on their interests... Carney tried to make nice, thanking Alberta’s energy workers “on behalf of a grateful nation. You are an integral part of Team Canada and you make Canada strong.” But many Westerners will remain skeptical, remembering another Trudeau visit to the province — this one in late 2012 — when he said he was there “to confront the ghosts associated with my father,” namely the hated National Energy Program. The younger Trudeau said the resource industry helped define Canada’s success and that “no country in the world would find 170 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave it there.” But the reason the Liberals only have two MPs in the province is because many Albertans believe that’s exactly what Trudeau tried to do during his time in office. Carney has made conciliatory noises but has been less than precise about his plans to develop Canada’s resources since becoming prime minister, and he continued that tendency on Wednesday. We remain none the wiser on the consultations around an emissions cap that he referred to , or on the new “integrated” industrial carbon credit market that he has talked about obliquely. What he did say was that his government, if elected, would issue regulatory decisions after two years, instead of five, through a “one project, one review” process. He said Canada can’t lose sight of its response to climate change or long-term competitiveness in the energy sector. And that it means working closely with the industry to reduce emissions through carbon capture and storage projects. But he said regulatory substitution is possible, where provinces, territories or Indigenous groups lead project assessments... anyone with experience in the energy industry knows not to mistake motion for action. The tone is positive, but the Liberal government has been promising permitting reform and the implementation of one project, one assessment for at least a year. As Carney noted, British Columbia has already signed up for substitution agreements because the Impact Assessment Act already allows for this prospect. Even then, the federal government took months to make their own decision to approve the Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG project on the Fraser River in Delta, B.C... Heather Exner-Pirot, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, pointed to the NexGen Energy Rook uranium mine in northwestern Saskatchewan, which has provincial environmental approval, Indigenous consent, capital, and demand in place. It is, in the parlance, “shovel-ready,” but requires the green light from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. CNSC staff have completed their review of the environmental impact statement and have now scheduled public hearings for … November 19 ."
Clearly, the climate change hystericist will promote oil and gas

Links - 17th April 2025 (3 - General Wokeness)

Dalia Gebrial on X - "The overwhelming majority of shock stories of 'woke gone mad' are right wing caricatures and fabrications."
Maven Politic on X - "> The Left invents the term 'woke'
> Right starts attacking it
> Right wins the argument in the public square
> Left stops using woke
> Left starts saying "what is this woke thing?"
> Starts claiming that woke doesn't exist
Exactly the same cycle as "political correctness"."

WeAreFairCop on X - "BREAKING: The College of Policing’s cunning plan is to RENAME Non Crime Hate Incidents in the hope that the public won’t notice they’ve disguised a turd by calling it a sausage. @CollegeofPolice Lord Herbert is Baldrick. And @AllisonPearson just blew the toilet doors off."

Andy Ngo on X - "Nearly five years after the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots and the woke insanity from local Democrats, Portland, Ore. is now in an "urban doom loop." High-paying taxpayers are leaving the city, businesses continue to shut down and tax revenue is drying up.   Portland also ranks second to last in 81 cities for outside investment in a survey by the Urban Land Institute.   Meanwhile, Oregon's governor @GovTinaKotek  says her priority during the second Trump presidency is stockpiling abortion pills and protecting the transitioning of minors and allowing males to play in female sports."

Eric S. Raymond on X - "A reasonable request. I've decided to draw aside the veil a little, exactly because I think it's advice the Democrats are utterly incapable of taking.  The rationalist community around the blog Less Wrong has developed a lot of techniques for improving the quality of arguments. One of these tactics is to notice when some key words used in an argument are generating more heat than light - causing people to stop thinking and dig into their positions rather than examine evidence.   So, in an argument proceeding under rationalist discourse conventions, any participant may say "I notice that word X is causing a problem. I think we should taboo it for the remainder of this discussion." That means not using the word, and rethinking any assertions we want to make that would use it.  If the person making this suggestion is sufficiently respected, he or she can actually make it stick.   So: if the Democrats actually want to climb out of the hole they're in (which is indexed by the fact that they have a historically low 31% approval rating) here are my suggestions for four words that they need to taboo in their public relations and their policy discussions for at least the next 8 years:  "racism", "sexism", "homophobia", and "privilege".  In terms of retail politics, the reason to taboo these words is that most Americans now experience them not as pointers to actual problems, but as verbal cudgels employed by grifters and deviants to bully normal people who hold down jobs and pay taxes. (See also: historically low 31% approval rating.) This is a big change from past times, when these words had positive moral valence.  But the more fundamental reason for the Democrats to taboo these words is because they or what rationalists call "thought-stoppers". They're so emotive for the people using them as cudgels that they shut down creative reasoning about policy or public relations.   Before the Democratic party can take novel actions that improve its standing with the electorate, it needs to be able to think about what those novel actions ought to be.  Right now, the party is incapable of doing that, because it's stuck inside a Foulcauldian power-relations framework in which these thought-stopping words are central features. By tabooing these words, it may be able to escape the limitations of that framework."

Jared Taylor on X - "Black concrete subcontractor on $830 million (and ugly) Obama Presidential Library is suing and screaming "racism" because the structural design firm said the concrete job was no good. Design firm released photos of the work."
Obama Center subcontractor files $40 discrimination lawsuit against engineering firm

Lego can be anti-LGBT, says Science Museum - "Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said.  A self-guided museum tour on “stories of queer communities, experiences and identities” includes a display of Lego bricks alongside a guide stating the plastic blocks may reinforce the idea that heterosexuality “is the norm”.  The tour, devised by a Gender and Sexuality Network at the museum, also claims in the “Seeing Things Queerly” guide that Lego adds credence to the view that there are only two genders.  This is because people supposedly describe Lego bricks as having male or female parts that are made to “mate” with each other.  This is “heteronormative”, the guide states, which is the idea that “heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual”.  The Science Museum guide claims that people think “the top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating”. No source is provided for the alleged view that people consider Lego to be gendered, or that sticking bricks together is called “mating”... In 2023, the museum dismantled a trans-inclusive display following complaints it was pushing “propaganda” and not biology.  A cabinet titled Boy Or Girl? displayed quotes describing the transition from the “wrong body” as a “hero’s journey”, and labels characterising gender as something “difficult to define” which “may not match your biological sex”.  The display featured a fake penis and chest-binding equipment."

Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme 'for encouraging far-right sympathies' - "SOME of the UK's most beloved TV shows have been flagged by counter terror programme Prevent.  Hit shows like Yes Minister and The Thick Of It and even Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys were bizarrely described as "encouraging far-right sympathies". Meanwhile, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were placed on a list of "key texts" for white supremacists.  A report by the programme's Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) said that extremists posted "reading lists" on online chat boards.  The document shared a list of these "important texts" under pictures of Nigel Farage and 1930s British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.  Works from BBC's 1990s political thriller House of Cards to classic film The Dambusters to John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made the rankings. House of Cards screenwriter Andrew Davies said that he had thought the list was "a joke" and emphasised that his show was a satire of the Right. Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts told the Daily Mail: "This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.  "It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism. Burke, Huxley, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers."  Meanwhile, noted author and Sun columnist Douglas Murray was shocked to discover that one of his own books had been flagged... The list comes after a damning review into Prevent by William Shawcross.  Mr Shawcross found that the scheme applied a "double standard" to Islamist terror threats compared to far-right issues.  His report said that Prevent had highlighted material that "fall well short of the extremism threshold altogether".  It added that the programme had prioritised right-wing terrorism over its Islamist counterpart.  Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the scheme for having "defined right-wing extremism too broadly" in a way that included the "respectable Right and the centre-Right"."
From 2023. Previously quoted, but I didn't know Shakespeare was also a "far right" text
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Nathan J Robinson on X - "Sowell is a propagandistic pseudoscientist so he's exactly the sort of writer I'd expect to be lavished with honors by the Trump administration"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This guy calling the author of "Basic Economics" a "propagandist" is a sort of general metaphor for the modern left."

Meme - John Boyega @JohnBoyega: "I really fucking hate racists."
Dexy Dale @DexyDale: "Nobody loves racists. I'm from Nigeria my ex said she hates whites so broke up with her"
John Boyega @JohnBoyega: "I am talking about WHITE on BLACK racism. The kind that has ruined the world not caused a lil break up with your girlfriend."

Meme - hoe_math @ItIsHoeMath: "Here's a great strategy for arguing with leftoids (God forbid you waste your time, but if you ever have to)  When they say that they're so full of "empathy," make them prove it by having empathy for YOU and explaining YOUR feelings in a way that you AGREE with.  They're not physically able to do it!  They will either try to wriggle out of the losing position by fleeing or throwing mud at you in some way, or they will give you a cartoon caricature of your worldview that makes you sound like you stomp on puppies for fun.  And then you just say "I don't agree that I feel that way, so you actually really suck at empathy bro, sorry, you're a psychopath""
hoe math: "This is what envy looks like. This is a very pure, highly refined example of what drives the left. They hate what they can't be, so they want to kill it. THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT LEFTISM IS. The rest is just a smokescreen for envy and hatred."
OneEyeking: "I would call myself a leftist, and what drives me is empathy for another human being. It might be just me tho"
hoe math: "Oh cool! Have empathy for me right now then, and explain my worldview in terms that I would agree with!"
When left wingers keep going on about "empathy", they mean selective and weaponised empathy to push the left wing agenda, since we know they don't understand and empathise with people they disagree with

Meme - Joel Berry @JoelWBerry: "Darrin Bell, the cartoonist who made this, was just arrested with child porn on his computer"
*Face with left half being a MAGA-hatter shouting 'groomer!' and the right being a Nazi brownshirt shouting "Jugendverderber!" [Groomer]*
"Modern American. The original German"

BLAIRE WHITE on X - "There are a lot of people who assume they are hated for their sexuality/race/gender, when in reality they are just unlikable cunts."

Meme - "r/WelcomeToGilead
Had a Financial Scare Yesterday
 I was at a restaurant yesterday and went to pay with my credit card, but it came back declined (no way it should have, I had plenty left on it) and, given the recent circumstances, it nearly sent me into a full-blown panic thinking "today is the day they freeze access to my financial institutions". Thankfully my debit card was fine (credit card was frozen due to suspicions of fraud) and I was able to pay, but still...  It's so freaking sad that something like this feels like it could feasibly happen any day now. I'm in edge every day wondering if today is the day I get fired or if today is the day I'm financially crippled...  I know it's a silly question to ask (and I know the answer), but  Anyone else?"
Left wingers love to claim that conservatives have a persecution fetish/oppression fetish. Like most of their accusations, this is classic projection

Meme - Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24: "Blacks and Hispanics make up 97% of shooters in NYC"
~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl: "Of known shooters in NYC:
- 11,456 are Black
-       155 are Asian
-       289 are White"
Nemesis 2025 @Nemtastic1: "Tangential, but holy f"
Structural and institutional racism!

Meme - Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal: "Wokeism suddenly makes sense when you realize it’s just literary criticism misapplied to reality."
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson: "lol"
"Why the Term ‘JEDI’ Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.)."
This helps to explain why we have so much wokeness coming out of Literature

Ancient Masculinity on X - "Words that no longer hold any power in 2025:
Nazi Bigot Racist Sexist Far Right Misogynist Transphobe Xenophobe Homophobe White Supremacist Christian Nationalist
What did I miss?"

Meme - Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews: "Scoop: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 'immediately pulling' retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance; panel to consider demotion in retirement..."
Susan Glasser @sbg1: "The pulling down of portraits and forced erasing the past is a reminder-check your 20th century history about what kind of regimes do this stuff..."
Readers added context: "Susan Glasser advocated for the pulling down of statues: She also advocated for the renaming of military bases:"

Meme - Manu Raju: "285-120, the House approves a measure to remove Confederate statues from the halls of the Capitol. It now moves to the Senate. All Dems voted for it. All 'no' votes were Republicans."
Susan Glasser: "120 votes for Confederate statues. I thought it was 2021, not 1921."

Meme - JD Vance @JDVance: "Imagine having lived through the last 10 years--the desecration of Washington, Jefferson, Lee, Roosevelt, and even Lincoln-- and then drawing the line at...Mark Milley."

Britons 'were mostly black 5,000 years ago', new study suggests - "The Britons responsible for the building of the iconic Stonehenge were probably black, a study has suggested.   Data from 348 ancient genomes gathered from across Eurasia have been reconstructed by scientists at the University of Ferrara in Italy which show almost all Europeans had dark skin until around 3,000 years ago.   With Stonehenge, just outside the town of Glastonbury, being constructed around 5,000 years ago, experts have said we can assume the builders had dark skin. Until around 1,700 years ago, the majority of Europeans had dark skin, the authors of the study say, adding that most of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the Britons who built Stonehenge, had dark skin, eyes and hair."
Physical descriptions of people in Homer - "As I recall, when the hair colour of a hero is mentioned, it's usually blond (Achilles, Ajax, Agamemnon, Menelaus etc.). In contrast, Hector has dark hair. (Also, Poseidon has dark hair and dark eyes.)  Athena's eyes are typically grey, blue or grey-blue, if the translator chooses to interpret glaukopis in colour terms, though that usage may actually be post-Homeric.  Odysseus is shorter and broader than Agamemnon, with a thick-set build. In the Odyssey, he is fair-skinned (as are pretty much all of the heroes, I think) and has blond or red-brown hair but a dark beard."

Steve McGuire on X - "Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University for Howard University. His Center for Antiracist Research at BU will close June 30th."
Tyler Austin Harper on X - "It’s mind-boggling that Kendi was able to light millions of dollars on fire, run an institute into the ground, and allegedly exploit and manipulate his staff, all while his center produced almost no work, and he gets to do it all over again. Nihilistic, offensive, and shameful."

Jonatan Pallesen on X - "A telling example of how messed up academia is from my comments:  I posted that I likely can't be hired anymore because I used my real name.  A guy responds, claiming to be a professor, and says it's right that I shouldn’t be hired, because I "cannot take an unbiased view of data."  The evidence for this is that I once posted a tweet positing that Blacks likely on average would be faster runners based on the fact that they are faster in the top end of the distribution.  He then rambled on about how this could only be concluded if you have empirical proof that the trait is normally distributed, and that the variance is equal. (Which is correct. These are quite natural assumptions though.)  Now comes the punchline:  Following his long rant I take a look at his profile. And amusingly in one of his very first tweets, he commits the exact same alleged 'sin' that he claims ought to make me unemployable.  He posted an analysis simulating law ability among top performers based on the mean — making the same unstated assumptions about normal distribution and equal variance, without empirical proof.  (Either that or he posits that law ability is equal to IQ, which is an even shakier assumption.)  And he also states that"Conservatives have a mean IQ of 90, and liberals have an IQ of 110", with his analysis hinging on this dubious claim.  This is emblematic of the state of academia.  If you tweet anything about racial differences in any trait, you're deemed incapable of an "unbiased view of data" and unfit to be hired.  But if you make an analysis claiming conservatives are worse than liberals in some way, no matter if it has the same flaws or worse, it never even occurs to them to apply the same objections."

MILO on X - "In the 1980s and 1990s the gay lobby realized that to win they just needed to appeal to women in terms of “love” and avoid any mention of shitty sheets, drugs, promiscuity, dicks up bootyholes, etc. This reframing was accepted without much of a fight. That’s how we got here."

'Outrageous' decision to give ethnic and transgender criminals special treatment will be fought in the courts by Tories - "The Sentencing Council yesterday sparked fury for telling judges to take into account someone’s ethnicity, religion and gender when deciding whether to jail them. Labour’s Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has distanced herself from the “two-tier” rules and demanded they be scrapped.  In a letter to the Sentencing Council urging a rethink, she warned she would legislate to overrule them "if necessary". Mr Jenrick had demanded a law change to let ministers overrule the unelected quango, and has hired a top KC to fight the decision."

Matt Walsh on X - "Sam Seder is offended by her definition of America’s identity but he has no alternative definition. This is how the Left plays the game. They condemn your definition but offer no coherent alternative. Their definition of everything is just “not that.”"

Matt Walsh on X - "According to the Left, our country’s identity has nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, tradition, borders, or laws. So then what is our country? What does it mean to be an American? What is our identity? They can’t answer. It’s the “what is a woman” problem all over again."

Meme - CrusaderPepe @crusadepepe: "I prioritize my family over foreigners   "That's problematic" *Sam Seder* *liberal moral concern extending to rocks*"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "The idea that the United States has not historically been a MAJORITY white, Christian country inspired by European Enlightenment principles is...just unbelievably idiotic. This is not a thing we can debate."

Meme - Logan Hall: "break somebody who says "america is an idea" mind with this one simple trick:
"There's no way Liberia has our constitution."
"Practically a carbon copy, Peter.""

Meme - Grummz @Grummz: "A decade ago, gamers were attacked. There were UN speeches, big pushes to inject DEI into games, and thousands of articles written (and paid for!) about how gamers were toxic and evil and -ists and were "dead" and "didn't have to be your audience.  But now we are winning, and their response is classic. They blame US for the toxicity in gaming, for WOKE games FAILING, for the job losses that THEY created. And now their DEATH THREATS are exploding on reddit as they thrash in their last gasps for relevancy...power spilling away from them at hyper speed.  No. YOU did this. You f*cked with gamers, and you found out."
Aurora *trans flag* @SpectralAurora_: "it brings me so much joy to know that you feel like all your favorite hobbies are being stripped away from you. you will never get what you think you had back and that is hilarious"
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is". When they admit they're out to spite others with their creative choices...

Meme - inhumans of capitalism (Oj...: "Dog whistle to say you dont want to be around black and brown people"
Asian Dawn @Asia...: "French woman explains how safe South Korea is compared to France."
"Pov: you live in Korea and you can now experience the basic human right that is to walk alone at night without the tear of being murdered"
At some levels, left wingers know that the "bigots" are right

Meme - "No I'm not a Christian, But I'm the arbiter of what's Christian And Jesus would agree with me If you disagree with me you hate Jesus"

The left has a Soros problem, but not the one you think   - "First, it’s our responsibility to call out a smear of this kind as not just an inexcusable attack on a specific individual — but an attack on all people of Jewish culture or faith. And second, this year in particular, we have an obligation to point out how attacks like this are dog whistles to a particular set of conservative voters, because antisemitism on the right is flourishing more than ever... Progressive advocacy organizations in particular can and should be proud of support from the Open Society Foundations, an organization with a history of supporting abortion rights, environmental protection, criminal justice reform and an end to racial and religious persecution.   For organizations like ours, to say anything less is to be cowed by the opposition’s narrative that a charitable organization like the Open Society Foundations and the family behind it are bogeymen. We know too well what happens when the fear of bogeymen grows and is nurtured by cynical politicians."
Left wing logic: if you criticise Soros, you're Anti-Semitic, but if you call for Israel's destruction and want Jews to be killed, that's Solidarity. Just like the Koch brothers are evil demons for funding everything, but the left must be proud of Soros funding

Colin Wright on X - "So I usually just quote the most ideological and insane sections of the woke papers I share here, but the abstract of this new paper is so unhinged that I'll let it speak for itself in full. Queers, lesbians, cyborgs, robot dogs, trans-dog intimacies... it's got it all! 🤡"
Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence: Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - "This article offers a queer lesbian feminist analysis attuned to lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities. Specifically, the article places queer and lesbian ecofeminism in conversation with Donna Haraway’s work on the cyborg and companion species to theorize the interconnected queer becomings of people, nature, animals, and machines amidst ecologies of love and violence in the 2020s. It takes two key case studies as the focus for analysis: first, the state instrumentalization of dogs and robot dogs for racialized and imperial violence, and second, quotidian queer and lesbian-dog relationalities and becomings. In the first, the article traces how dogs are weaponized as tools of state violence and proposes a queer lesbian feminist critique of white supremacy and militarization that can also extend to a critique of the violence committed through and toward the dogs. In the second, the article analyzes how, within lesbian, non-binary, and trans-dog intimacies, dogs help articulate queer gender, sexuality, and kinship formations, and as such, queer worlds for gender, sexual, and kin becomings. The entanglements of violence and love in these queer dog relationalities provide insights into the complexities of queer and lesbian feminist worldbuilding. Lesbian and queer feminist cyborg politics can help theorize the potentials and challenges of these interspecies entanglements."

The Rabbit Hole on X - "How damaging were the BLM riots? Most Liberals think the BLM Riots resulted in less than $10 million dollars in property damage. Reality: The BLM Riots resulted in over $1 billion dollars in property damage."
Ed West on X - "Half of self-described 'liberals' in the US also believe that between 1,000 and 10,000 unarmed black men are killed by police each year (the actual number is about a dozen)"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "I would be interested in a study looking at whether there is overlap between the following beliefs:
• "Covid is very dangerous to healthy, non-obese, unvaccinated 20 year olds."
• "Putin will go on and try to conquer the rest of Europe."
• "10,000 unarmed Black men are killed by police each year."
• "Global warming will make Earth uninhabitable within 15 years."
Optimally together with things like Big Five personality score, psychiatric medication, and consumption of and trust in mainstream news."