Neil Oliver talks about the Liberal Nazi scandal.
Bond Villain Fantasies
Neil Oliver talks about the erasure of freedom.
Modern Day Witch Hunts
Neil Oliver on whether they are coming for you next.
Protecting Canadian Children
Here’s part of an email from SDA regular, Denise, along with some of her photos of the 1 Million March for Children in London, Ontario:
The September 20th cross-country protest was initiated by Canadian businessman Kamel El-Cheikh. As stated on www.1MillionMarch4Children.com , organizers of diverse backgrounds and faith are resolute in advocating for “the elimination of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) curriculum, pronouns, gender ideology and mixed bathrooms in schools.” Apparently, their stated goal of safeguarding “the well-being and innocence of our children” is clear evidence that they are “ultra-conservative” and perpetrators of hate, as widely reported in the state-sponsored media. The usual suspects organized a counter protest, including the Ontario Federation of Labour and affiliated unions.
In London there was a heavy police presence with protesters and counter-protesters kept on opposite sides of Dundas Street outside the Thames Valley District School Board.
Update: True North has a related report.
Update 2: This photo from Ottawa was sent to us by SDA regular James MacMaster.
Fancy A Revolution?
Neil Oliver on it’s time to stand up.
Let That Sink In
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social-media platforms to censor posts about Covid-19 and elections.
The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling says that the White House likely “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences.” The panel of three judges found that the administration “significantly encouraged the platforms’ decisions by commandeering their decision-making processes, both in violation of the First Amendment.”
A lower court previously placed restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with social-media platforms; those restrictions applied to a number of government agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
After temporarily blocking the order, the Fifth Circuit judges have now modified the order to apply only to the White House, the surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FBI.
Plus, a blow by blow from Tracy Beanz: I want to stop for a second (again) and go over how monumental this actually is. This is the first time ever that a normal “user” or American has submitted evidence of social media censorship and had their concerns ADDRESSED at all by a COURT OF LAW.
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
The dead white male known as Shakespeare has long been in the the bad books of the woke crowd, but just when you think they’ve finished beating that horse to death, out comes a new whip.
Now, however, an American expert has sparked uproar by claiming that the play’s references to darkness are an attempt to reinforce ideas of white supremacy.
Kathryn Vomero Santos, an assistant professor of English at Trinity University in Texas, insists the Bard’s use of words such as bat, beetle, black and night are examples of ‘racialised’ language.
Puppet Governments
Neil Oliver talks about the threats to our freedom.
The Powerful Are At War With The People
Neil Oliver on the state we’re in.
Let That Sink In
Nice little space exploration company you have there, be a shame if something happened to it.
Don’t Tug on Superman’s Cape
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Good morning, folks. In a shocking turn of events out of Eastern Canada – or maybe not so shocking given the liberal tide sweeping Ontarios institutions – Ontario’s court has just ruled against the renowned professor and free speech advocate, Dr. Jordan Peterson. Yes, you heard that right. Dr. Peterson, an individual who has always advocated for intellectual freedom and has pushed against the stifling boundaries of political correctness, has been ordered to undergo – wait for it – social media training.
So, what’s his big crime? Well, Peterson, a well-respected member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, dared to use his online platform to comment on various public issues – including giving his opinion on a plus-sized model and actor Elliot Page. For this, the governing body received complaints and deemed that Peterson’s public statements could possibly be “professional misconduct.” Can you believe that? This is where we’re heading – criticize or merely have a different perspective on mainstream liberal narratives, and you might be at risk of losing your professional license.
Dr. Peterson did what any sane person would. He challenged this decision, arguing that his political commentary isn’t within the college’s jurisdiction. But the Ontario Divisional Court didn’t see it that way. They upheld the college’s decision, claiming it’s within their mandate to regulate the profession “in the public interest.” And, of course, they added the cherry on top by asserting it doesn’t affect his freedom of expression. Sure, just undergo forced training for expressing your opinions. Sounds very free to me.
Remember, Jordan Peterson isn’t just some random figure. He’s a retired University of Toronto psychology professor who’s made waves with his deep critiques of liberal culture and has penned the successful book, “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” But apparently, in today’s climate, academic achievements and a career dedicated to the exploration of free thought means little if you don’t toe the line of the so-called ‘woke’ agenda.
When one looks at the latest ruling against Jordan Peterson in Ontario, it’s hard not to think that we’re witnessing the makings of a Banana Republic in action.
Let That Sink In
A bad day for a federal government lawyer. “What was pooh-poohed as conspiracy theory even a year ago is now a cat hair away from being addressed, and potentially proscribed, by the country’s highest court.”
Rumble in France
I got a bit of a surprise when I tried to watch a video on Rumble this morning:
Jonestown Precinct
Defund The Police gets real.
Eat Your Bugs Peasant
Neil Oliver on why the push to eat bugs.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Alex Jones should produce his content in quatrains. https://t.co/9VnXTabKB7
— Katewerk (@katewerk) August 8, 2023
And more Jeff Goldstein;
When free speech-absolutist David French paints the spectacle of trannies twerking for toddlers a “blessing of liberty” — as a grand and glorious paean to the righteousness of Enlightenment thought distilled to its perfect essence — he is happily, and he believes properly, exploiting the paradox in classical liberalism that seems to justify its implied mandate that any and all ideas be accepted in the intellectual marketplace. Failure to follow such a rule is to run afoul of the implied universalism inherent to that philosophical paradigm. It is impure. And so ungodly.
[…]
The Frenchian idea that we welcome materialist poison into our universalist fields as some kind of intellectual equal, is wholly arrogant. It wishes to claim our philosophy is pure and perfect and capable of defeating even those ideas specifically intended to introduce paradox into the system — to destroy it from within using its own machinations and conceits as the impetus.
That’s a game of chicken we need not play.
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Diversity weed whacking
It’s a well-known historical fact that the revolution eventually eats its own children, and in this particular case it happened to be a gay leftist. It goes to show you that no one is really safe from the Woke juggernaut.
“It was not only his job that was taken away from him, but his reputation, because those very people were assassinating his character. They claimed he was a white supremacist, that he was a racist. They knew nothing about him.
Like the victims of Maoist show trials, those termed “white” are unquestioningly guilty of racism; in fact, they cannot even know that they are racists. Their only option is to accept guilt without thought or question and whatever punishment that follows. It’s a crude reformulation of the Marxist attempt to segregate people irreconcilably into revolutionary and counter-revolutionary camps.
“As white people, there’s a whole bunch going on that isn’t your personal experience,” Thompson said at the second session. “It will never be. You will never know it to be so. You will never know it to be so. So your job in this work, as white people, is to believe.”
Let That Sink In
Biden Administration Ordered Facebook to Change Algorithms to Suppress Conservatives
In one meeting on April 14th, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook if it was possible to artificially promote outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, instead the Daily Wire and Fox News, particularly commentator Tomi Lahren.
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people,” Flaherty asked. “You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” […]
“Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House,” said Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on Twitter.
Constitutional scholars have also raised the alarm over the revelations, with George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley saying that he has “asked Congress to pass a law barring federal employees from engaging in censorship and targeting of citizens.”
“Agencies have a right to speak in their own voices,” Turley added. “Instead, the Biden Administration sought to engage in what I have called ‘censorship through surrogate.’ This is part of that pattern.”
The Facebook Files
Months ago, I testified before Congress on censorship after Elon Musk’s release of internal Twitter communications, also known as the Twitter Files. I warned that the government was engaging in “censorship by surrogate,” using corporate allies to do indirectly what it is legally prevented from doing directly.
Facebook had refused to open its own files on government censorship efforts. That came to an end when the House Judiciary Committee finally moved to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress.
The resulting Facebook Files confirmed what many of us have suspected for years. Indeed, the emails proved to be a mirror image of what had occurred at Twitter — a massive effort by the government to pressure the company to censor its critics and other dissenting voices. […]
In an April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, wrote to colleagues that Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to Biden who was steering COVID-19 policy, “was outraged — not too strong a word to describe his reaction — that [Facebook] did not remove this post.”
The post was actually a humorous meme shared by a user named Timothy McComas. It featured actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from the film “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” pointing at a TV with a beer and cigarette in hand. The caption read: “10 years from now, you will be watching TV and hear…. ‘Did you or a loved one take the COVID vaccine? You may be entitled…’”
Slavitt was not amused. More importantly, he was irate that others were amused. Hundreds of thousands of others.