Hamas’s Rashida Tlaib. A diversity outbreak in France. The diversity outbreak in Houston. Increased violence during Ramadan.
Friday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Sue the stores in San Francisco. Celebrating Ramadan in Philadelphia.
Blackie’s Canada: Trudeau calls for a ceasefire but doesn’t mention the hostages. Education in communist B.C. Life in Bramptonstan. It can be very profitable working for Justin.
The Planet Is Boiling: The benefits of a warmer planet. China Virus News: A white coat supremacist tag team.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
After two years of reporting on the collapse in San Francisco’s commercial real estate market, it looks like the contagion might finally have spread to the residential market, too.
According to a report in today’s Daily Mail, “nearly one in five homes sold in San Francisco have sold at a loss in recent months.”
Oddments For The Weekend
Including Mongolian heavy metal; volcanic vortex rings; an invisible drum kit; and a brief history of defenestration.
April 12, 2024: Reader Tips
Nerd alert! Tonight we present, The Rise of Unix.
Your tips, highlighting the rise or fall of whatever subject you choose to highlight for us, are always appreciated!
Socialist Progress
In the continuing saga of The Workers’ State of South Africa, there’s finally some good news. Well, sort of. It seems that there have been fewer power outages lately. Mind you, that’s not because supply is growing. Rather, shuttered factories have no need for electricity and the marginal consumer is simply going off-grid.
The weak South African economy, and the resulting generally flat overall demand for electricity.
Rapidly rising price of Eskom and municipal electricity of two to three times the inflation rate for many years, is dampening demand for Eskom generated electricity.
Load shedding and low reliability of Eskom and municipal grid electricity, particularly for the last four years, have been negatively impacting electricity supply.
Electricity customers are responding by moving to self-generation and alternative energy sources, including rooftop solar PV, battery energy storage, gas for cooking, solar hot water geysers, energy efficiency, and a general reduction in demand for grid electricity.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Making Legal Wigs for British Courts (h/t kenji)
He Was Turning His Life Around
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Woke Justice
Sorry
Telegraph- Pfizer accused of ‘bringing discredit’ on pharmaceutical industry after Covid social media posts
The company has been found to have breached the regulatory code five times, which also includes making misleading claims, failing to maintain high standards and promoting unlicensed medicines.
A Pfizer UK spokesman said that the company “fully recognizes and accepts the issues highlighted by this PMCPA ruling”, adding that it is “deeply sorry”.
The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority(PMCPA)- Final Case Report, Complainant vs Pfizer
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Adult transgender clinics in England are facing a Cass-style inquiry into how they treat patients after whistleblowers raised concerns about the care they provide.
NHS England has announced that it is setting up a review of how the seven specialist services operate and deliver care after past and present staff shared misgivings privately during a previous investigation.
As a first step, NHS England will send “external quality improvement experts” into each of the clinics to gather evidence about how they care for patients, to help guide the inquiry’s direction.
The move follows the publication on Wednesday of a landmark review by Dr Hilary Cass, a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which recommended sweeping changes in the way that the health service treats under-18s who are unsure about their gender identity.
BACKPEDDLE HARDER BUTCHER: Labour pledges to implement the recommendations of the “Cass Review” into trans healthcare.
Leaving The Left Coast
But not necessarily the left.
Calgary Herald- Why thousands of British Columbians are leaving for Alberta
StatCan estimates the number to be 37,650 in 2023 alone. For the first time since 2012, B.C. lost more people than it gained, and almost all of those who moved in the final quarter of 2023 flowed to Alberta — a break from a trend where people in the prairie province sought out the West Coast as a place to live after retirement.
BC Climate Scam
BC United Caucus- New documents confirm the NDP not only knew about 20 percent carbon tax kickbacks to high-paid government consultants, but it also signed off on them.
Business Intelligence for BC- B.C.’s opposition parties demand probe into alleged government grant kickbacks
The Orca- B.C. energy minister faces backlash, orders audit in wake of clean energy grant scandal
COVID FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY
Ed Driscoll strolls down Totalitarian Lane.
We Need A Famine
And by golly, a famine is what we’re going to get.
WHO Director-General calls for a “transformation” of the food system, away from meat-eating and traditional agriculture, in the name of fighting “climate change”:
“Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one third of the global burden of disease.”
“Transforming food systems is therefore essential, by shifting towards healthier, diversified and more plant based diets.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Hi this is Beth Reinhard I’m a reporter with the Washington Post. I’m so sorry to bother you. I guess I’m trying to reach probably your spouse [redacted] and I wasn’t sure if I had the right number and I guess I don’t but if you could pass this message to him I would be super grateful,” the voicemail transcript obtained by the Daily Caller reads. “I’m working on a story about, profile, of Tim Sheehy, who knew your husband at the Naval Academy, and we just wanted to know, hoping to talk to him about his experience.”
Thursday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: Menthol cigarette ban delayed. The truth about Biden. Victor Davis Hanson on woke grifters.
Blackie’s Canada: A socialist MP freaks out. The residential school grift continues (CBC). A midnight memo.
Woke World: Know a civilization by whom it honours. China Virus News: We must not forget.
Your morning meme. A Trudeau meme. A cartoon.
And He Invokes “Social Justice”
He’s “not inherently dangerous.” He just wants to molest little girls, you see, while pretending to be a woman.
O’Keefe: Inside The Federal Reserve
Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.
Related: Stop going on dates with this man. (h/t marc in calgary)