…and the horse you rode in on.
Update (by Kate) – Take a tour of Shifa Hospital’s MRI building.
Related: Again, the Bee gets the story first.
Let That Sink In
Community Notes for the win.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Breitbart has the latest on an allegation that’s been picking up steam over the past day or two.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is demanding answers from several prominent news agencies after criticism emerged of their photographers appearing to have been embedded with Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack.
As Breitbart News reported Wednesday, the Associated Press said that it had no foreknowledge of the attack, even though its photographers appeared alongside Hamas terrorists from the first moments that they broke through the Gaza border fence.
The pro-Israel media watchdog organization brought up ethical concerns Wednesday, noting that media photographers seemed to have known about the attack and were quite at ease among the terrorists, who were shooting every other civilian they found.
Later, photographs emerged of one of the photographers posing for selfies with the local Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically. […]
HonestReporting has obtained screenshots of Eslaiah’s now-removed tweets on X in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He did not wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”
More: Impartial CNN Gaza Reporter Joined Hamas Terrorists During Mass Slaughter of 1,400 Jews on Oct. 7. – Was Filmed Carrying Grenade to the Kibbutz Massacre
Forgot what?
You can tell that a narrative is failing badly when the authorities have to engage in gaslighting to generate some interest. But it’s too late for that anyway.
According to government officials, every province and territory now has supply of at least one updated mRNA vaccine, but public awareness efforts have plummeted in recent years, with many Canadians no longer seeing the urgency to get booster shots.
“It seems to me that we are sort of experiencing COVID amnesia,” Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine, professor of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan, told The Canadian Press.
Breaking… Trans Shooter’s “Nashville Manifesto” Leaked
A leaked manifesto reveals the Nashville trans school shooter had a violent hatred of the “little crackers” with “white privilege” that were murdered.
First obtained and released by the Louder with Crowder conservative Rumble show, the three-page handwritten document shows Audrey “Aiden” Hale meticulously planned their last moments and the mass school shooting at The Covenant School on March 27. Three young children and three school staff were killed before Hale, 28, was shot dead by responding police.
The manifesto, written in a spiral notebook, has various screeds and thoughts scrawled down by pen.
“DEATH DAY,” Hale wrote on one page with the drawing of a target reticle and a pistol, along with the date “3/27/23.”
“The day has finally come!” Hale wrote. “I can’t believe its [sic] here. Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am. I’m a little nervous but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks.”
Hale continued: “There were several times I could have been caught especially back in the summer of 2021. None of that matters now. I am almost an hour & 7 minutes away.”
“Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready,” Hale wrote. “I hope my victims aren’t.”
Hale later prayed to God in the manifesto to help her in the mass shooting. “(God let my wrath take over my anxiety) It might be 10 minutes tops. It might be 3-7. It’s gonna go quick,” Hale wrote. “I hope I have a high death count.”
Hale then wrote, “Ready to Die nana” and signed it “Aiden,” Hale’s trans name.
Yes, it’s legit: Metro legal looking at how images were released from Covenant documents
Too Soon To Say ‘ We Told You So’?
And now we take you on location, to the CBC’s highly anticipated launch of #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth.
Related: If it’s good enough for 100yr old Nazis, it’s good enough for the wannabes.
Obliterating the competition
Imagine the public outcry, and justifiably so, if boxing associations dispensed with weight categories and let heavyweights literally smash their way to the top. But when it comes to trans-athletes competing in womens’ Jiu-Jitsu, the gods of gender identity demand sacrifices.
“I hadn’t been notified,” Wilk said. “The only thing that brought it to my attention was my teammates. They kept asking me, ‘Are you fighting a man?’ and I was honestly too focused on coaching the rest of the crew to really pay attention to my opponent.”
“The fact of the matter is that he had a man’s strength,” Alexander said. “I train with men and women and the difference is massive. After my match with Cordelia, I sat mat-side and cried as my teammates massaged out my cramping forearms.”
Mutiny in the Ukraine
In 1917, exhausted by years of trench warfare with no victory in sight, French troops openly mutinied. Fast forward to the Ukraine of today, and we’re now seeing the first hints that Ukrainian soldiers are thinking along similar lines.
An insider close to Zelensky told Time that progress has stalled, with some top commanders allegedly defying orders to advance—even when those orders come directly from the president. “They just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line. But we can’t win a war that way,” the source is quoted saying in the Daily Express.
“Terror Fox”
Looking for all the mainstream outrage at turning Terry Fox into an unwilling advocate for the destruction of Israel. This picture was posted by the Palestinian Youth Movement, a group that has repeatedly praised the Oct. 7 massacres as a brave act of “resistance.”
Scratch A Leftist
Ed Driscoll: DISPATCHES FROM THE HAMAS WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
This is not a random video Tlaib reposted which she could claim to have not fully vetted. It is a video in which she herself appears, and it’s posted under her own account. She is well aware that she is calling for genocide against Jews and doesn’t care.
On the left coast: To understand how Jew-hatred festers underneath the surface of polite society before exploding into crashing waves of public rage, look to California.
Related: Scratch the State Department…
Stalemate forever
Back in January, I attended a talk by Peter Zeihan in which he openly mocked the Russian army for losing so much hardware during the initial invasion of the Ukraine that they were forced to ferry men and material to the front in civilian vans. I have no idea where his information came from, but the reality is that collapse of the Russian war effort is about as imminent as an earthquake in Manitoba.
When the conflict began, I sensed that a WWI stalemate would be the likely outcome. Now it’s just a matter of waiting for mass desertions or mutiny among the Ukrainian forces to completely upend the West’s strategy.
Ukraine’s military chief, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, says in a long essay and interview with the Economist that “just like in the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate.”
He acknowledges: “There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,” but instead an equilibrium of devastating losses and destruction.
U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, according to one current senior U.S. official and one former senior U.S. official familiar with the discussions.
The conversations have included very broad outlines of what Ukraine might need to give up to reach a deal, the officials said. Some of the talks, which officials described as delicate, took place last month during a meeting of representatives from more than 50 nations supporting Ukraine, including NATO members, known as the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the officials said.
An offer he can’t refuse
As the strike by workers at Manitoba Public Insurance drags on, Wab Kinew is finding out that the very people that he thought were carrying water for him during the election are not as grateful as he had hoped. If he didn’t see this coming, then it’s pretty clear that the guy is already in over his head. If he’s not careful, he’ll be the next Bob Rae.
The MPI strike lasting more than two months will continue after the union representing the workers rejected an offer from the employer Monday.
MGEU members voting “overwhelmingly” to turn down the offer, according to union president Kyle Ross.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Douglas Murray: This is the woman ITV invited on to talk about ‘Islamophobia’ this week, and how tough it is to live in Britain. Here she is on the day of the Hamas massacres.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The Media Will Never Forgive Israel for Not Bombing That Hospital: Few things are as dangerous as the newsroom that wants a story to be true.
‘You didn’t consult even fellow Palestinians.’
Things you’ll never see on the CBC;
I haven’t seen such relentless interrogation of Palestinian leadership before, esp. in Arabic.
On Saudi Arabia’s main TV channel, Hamas leader is clearly startled by the intensity of the questions & responses to his answers.
One of the most significant ones to Hamas leader by the Saudi TV interviewer is why Hamas expects Arab countries to back them up when Hamas hadn’t consulted them before carrying out an operation akin to declaration of war.
‘You didn’t consult even fellow Palestinians.’
Hamas leader gets visibly angry when she asks him if he would condemn Israeli civilian killings.
The interview is clearly very strategic, & can further reveal where Saudi Arabia stands on the issue.
Super Spreaders
Not only did the shots not protect you they didn’t protect others either.
Northwestern Now- COVID patients breathe large amounts of virus early on
Vaccinated and unvaccinated patients exhale similar levels of virus over the course of infection, the research shows.
We further found that levels of exhaled viral RNA increased with self-rated symptom-severity, though individual variation was high. Levels of exhaled viral RNA did not differ across age, sex, time of day, vaccination status or viral variant. Our data provide a fine-grained, direct measure of the number of SARS-CoV-2 viral copies exhaled per minute during natural breathing—including 312 breath specimens collected multiple times daily over the course of infection—in order to fill an important gap in our understanding of the time course of exhaled viral loads in COVID-19.
Francisco- They took away your rights, your freedoms, dehumanized and demonized you based on what might charitably be called a guess. All while calling it “science”.
Embrace Pallywood!
@robbystarbuck – So after all the drama yesterday it turns out the Gaza hospital wasn’t bombed, the parking lot was, and 500 people didn’t die. Oh and the rocket wasn’t from Israel, it was from a failed rocket that Palestinian terrorists shot at Israel. Absolutely insane.
Rambling word salads
After listening to this fool trying to explain what she saw during the Ottawa protest, you have to come to the conclusion that the last place Tamara Lich and Chris Barber should be is in a courtroom being subjected to this circus. There’s a crucial difference between describing events that you actually saw as opposed to describing events that you imagined that you saw.
“I didn’t feel safe but it’s hard to describe it as unsafe at the same time…”
“…when they’re bouncing their trucks and their cars…..[long pause]…..I don’t know how to describe it other than roaring at us…like, roaring at me with these large giant vehicles…”
Listen for the pause… You can’t ignore it. pic.twitter.com/TgqgEWa0YO
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) October 16, 2023
Prosecutorial mischief
Generally speaking, a witness is called in a trial when they actually saw a defendant committing a particular crime. If Tamara Lich and Chris Barber had painted graffiti on a water tower, what’s going on in an Ottawa courtroom right now is more like a parade of testimony from people who saw the graffiti and were upset by it but did not see who actually painted it.
One would expect that if a charge of mischief was going to stick, the trial should have been over and done with by now. Who knew that “overwhelming” someone is now a crime…
Vivian Leir, an employee at St. Andrew’s Presybyterian Church near the intersection of Wellington and Kent streets, told court she was “overwhelmed with trucks parked all around our church”
She testified demonstrators urinated and defecated on church property, dressed up a statue of Jesus and left “garbage everywhere.”
During her cross-examination, defence lawyers clarified she never saw anyone defecating on the property herself, but that the church’s groundskeeper told her about locating human feces. They also showed video recorded during the convoy showing the street adjacent to the church being relatively quiet, with hardly any horns heard in the background.
Our Long Weekend Is More Important Than Your Crisis
The Line- The government tried to spin us about Israel, and we have proof
Over the weekend, as Canadians in Israel tried to contact the Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv, they found it was closed and found no help. Reports of this spread over social media; The Line has directly spoken to several people over social media or by telephone with such stories. These were people who were either in Israel or outside of it but needed help getting a loved one back to Canada. They were unable to reach anyone at the embassy.