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Global- 30 years after Rwanda genocide
An estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days in 1994. Some moderate Hutu who tried to protect members of the Tutsi minority also were targeted and killed.
Romeo Dallaire, in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block, told host Mercedes Stephenson he remains concerned about the continued presence of the genocide’s perpetrators and masterminds in Africa and around the world — including in Canada — who have not been brought to justice.
Modern Medicine?
In this intriguing interview, Dr. John Campbell interviews Australian immunologist Dr. Robert Clancy about another drug that was slammed as ineffective and dangerous when used for the treatment of Covid: hydroxychloroquine. As with so many other pandemic measures, it seems to have fallen prey to the politicization of medicine.
As Dr. Clancy says, “I could not understand why there was a reaction against using a drug outside of its normal indications because we never seen Covid before at a time when people in nursing homes were dying [at] five, six, seven percent mortality rate and here we had a drug it couldn’t do any harm.”
“…it fitted the the politics at the time which was we have no treatment, stay at home until
Inconvenient History
Paleolithic cultures necessarily live in perfect harmony not only with nature, but with each other, right? If there is any conflict in such cultures, it must be due to residential schools or the 60s sweep or some such. So what explains deadly conflict that occurred over a century prior to European settlement, the memories of which continued to create divisions between aboriginal communities well into the present?
They show elders relaying their tales of ambush and murder while in the midst of daily activities, cutting up a seal or cleaning fish on the beach.
One elder tells of a slaughter so extensive that the Inuit called the place where the rotting bodies were left Annarnituq – Bloated Island. It’s visible in the distance as a boy runs toward it through the wild grass.
There is enough residual enmity that people in the area convened in 2011 for a ceremony initiated by Cree trapper Ron Sheshamush to try to heal the rift once and for all.
Inconvenient History
Given the West’s nearly exclusive focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade these days, slavery in the muslim world, which predated the Western experience by hundreds of years, doesn’t get much attention. But that was the reality for every society until the development of the division of labor and industrial capitalism.
“This Trans-Saharan Slave Trade is easily overlooked thanks to its more famous Atlantic cousin, but the exchange of unfree people across the desert was a longer lasting and possibly larger system that deserves much ore attention.”
Another inconvenient truth was that the slave trade could not have existed without the cooperation of African kingdoms which viewed peripheral tribes as fair game.
Assume The Position
New York Post- Violent, diarrhea-inducing stomach bug spreads in Northeast: ‘Incredibly contagious’
Once infected, the patient can experience a host of alarming symptoms ranging from violent diarrhea to stomach pain and vomiting, which can cause significant fluid loss and eventual dehydration. These complications begin within 12 to 48 hours after exposure and can persist for three days.
A norovirus is particularly insidious because of how easily it spreads from person to person. It only takes a few particles to make someone sick while the infectees often remain contagious for weeks after their symptoms improve.
Is there nothing we can do?
Fortunately, people can mitigate the spread of the norovirus by rinsing fruits and vegetables and thoroughly cooking shellfish and, of course, washing one’s hands, per the CDC.
Unfortunately, unlike the coronavirus and some other bugs, the norovirus has a resistance to hand sanitizer.
“Purel and the alcohol-based stuff doesn’t get through the envelope of the virus, and it’s still contagious on your hands,” declared Sacchetti.
“Soap and water is the only thing that’ll really protect you from this.”
It’s hopeless then.
The US Electric Grid
Embrace Hollywood!
Michael Malice on McCarthyism and communist spies in Hollywood (1:10 hr)
Atlas Is Shrugging
The transcript of Javier Milei’s speech to the World Economic Forum is a breath of fresh air in a world that badly needs it. I have not seen a political leader as upfront about the philosophical concepts that define a culture of liberty since Margaret Thatcher. Let’s hope he can make some progress and set an example that is emulated elsewhere.
Do not be intimidated by the political caste or by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges. You are social benefactors. You are heroes. You are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we’ve ever seen.
Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral.
Lets Take a Look
End Wokeness- Egypt/Gaza border wall.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Views you can Use: How to Detect a Two Way Mirror.
“He knew ‘something was up’ when the island’s many birds disappeared.”
This is worth stressing. Stand on Rockall, and you’re standing on the only piece of land for hundreds of miles in every direction, in some of the tallest seas in the world. (In 2000, oceanographers recorded individual waves up to 29 metres tall over the Rockall Trough.)
So you’d be mad to try?
Flaming Sparky Cars For The Masses!
If Steve Guilbeault gets his way, every fire department in Canada is going to need a fleet of tanker trucks to attend car accidents.
Firefighters arrived to find a Tesla Model Y on fire, and troopers shut down that portion of Interstate 65.
Two hose lines were deployed, and it took more than an hour to get the fire under control. A total of three engines, two rescues, one ambulance, four water tankers, one squad, one brush truck and three command vehicles responded to the fire.
“America as the ultimate seducer, the Great Satan.”
How Baby, It’s Cold Outside took down the Twin Towers.
Punishment by Process
If you happen to be backing the wrong political horse, Canada appears to be regressing back to the Middle Ages where trial by ordeal was commonplace. It now looks like the justice system, or what passes for it these days, won’t be through with Tamara Lich for several more months.
Freedom Convoy personality Tamara Lich said Friday that her joint trial with Chris Barber has again recessed and she doesn’t expect the defense to begin summarizing its case until “hopefully 10 days in mid-March” 2024. That means a verdict shouldn’t be expected until at least the summer.
One should bear in mind that this trial began on the Tuesday after the Labor Day long weekend in September.
Get That Monkey Off Your Back
There’s nothing more addictive than something that almost works.
“…nobody had spotted it for five years.”
It’s December 2012, and someone’s just noticed something is wrong on the Internet.
Wikipedia editor ShelfSkewed (happily that’s a pseudonym) has been clicking links in an article about an obscure 17th-Century war that raged between the Portuguese rulers of Goa, western India, and the neighbouring Maratha Empire. It was called the Bicholim Conflict, after the North Goa district it mostly took place in.
Haven’t you heard of the Bicholim Conflict? ShelfSkewed certainly hadn’t. He wanted to know more – and started investigating the extensive sources listed at the bottom of the article.
But then he found many of the links led him straight to one article: the one he was editing. A perfect loop.
Ruh-roh.
Burn, Baby, Burn
Norman Spector- One of the key recommendations to come out of the Firestorm 2003 report was for communities to create wildfire-protection plans to reduce risk in and around their communities. Once the plans were complete, they could apply for funding from the province. Continue reading
Where Giants Walked
Paul Cooper’s Fall of Civilizations: How everything they told you about Easter Island was wrong (1.5 hrs).
In this episode, we take a look at one of archaeology’s most enduring puzzles: the mystery of Easter Island. Find out how this unique community grew up in complete isolation, severed from the rest of the world by a vast expanse of ocean. Discover the incredible story of how it survived for so many centuries, and examine the evidence about what happened to finally bring this society, and its statues, crashing down.
“The hospital was called ‘Killer King’ in 1977”
To better understand the phenomenon of institutions crumbling (while crushing innocents) under the weight of their own incompetence, look no further than the sordid tale of “Killer King” hospital.
Built on a foundation of affirmative action, it was finally closed when it devolved into a butcher shop of medical malpractice. You won’t be surprised to learn that community activists denounced those who tried to do anything as racists.
Why care about merit? What harm is there in affirmative action programs that reward the less qualified?
Here’s the story of the Martin Luther King Jr/Drew Medical Center (King/Drew) in Los Angeles, which operated from 1972 to 2007.
Or as patients called, it “Killer King.” […]
Patients would come in with minor medical issues and end up dead.
Locals would run away from ambulances in order not to be brought to Killer King.
Police officers had an understanding that if their colleagues were shot, they would not allow them to be taken there.
It’s long and sordid.