“Adobe has just changed the terms for subscription applications like Photoshop. Nothing big, just a demand of unlimited use of everything you ever create, forever. Oh, and you’re locked out of your existing work until you agree.”
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Last week, on June 8th, the whistleblower advocacy firm Empower Oversight sent a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, along with a packet of documents. The company represents an FBI employee whose security clearance was revoked after he attended the January 6th protests. No one disputes the Bureau’s right to investigate, but the Bureau’s Security Division did more than that, sending a bizarre questionnaire to the employee’s co-workers.
The FBI sent at least three co-workers a list of queries that began with the instruction, “You have a duty to reply to the questions… Should you refuse to answer or fail to reply fully and truthfully, action against your security clearance may be undertaken…”
Co-workers were then asked if they heard the employee:
“Vocalize support for President Trump?”
“Vocalize objection to Covid-19 vaccination?”
Whistlblower, eh? We’ll just see about that: Records Show FBI Provided Democrats with Information on Whistleblowers Who Testified at May 2023 Weaponization Hearing
McCovidism: Do you now or have you ever questioned the efficacy or safety of the covid vax?
Let Us Pay Homage To The Las Vegas Nostradamus
“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.” – Bob Hope
Oil and Gas 20 and 30 classes to be offered to Sask high schools
Saskatchewan launches high school oil and gas courses to encourage students to join industry
High school students in Saskatchewan will soon be able to take Grade 11 and 12 level classes in oil and gas. The class will be half online, and half in the field. How that second part is going to work out remains to be seen. This is in-depth coverage on this new initiative to encourage young people to join the energy industry.
My 17 year old son will likely be one of the first to sign up.
UPDATE: and the Leader Post’s Murray Mandryk doesn’t like it.
Also: B.C.’s Eby frustrated at Quebec immigration money ‘at the expense’ of Western Canada
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
That’s not gunfire, that’s just the clatter of typewriters: I added English subtitles to the recent Israeli special police unit YAMAM video, when they broke into Abdullah Aljamal’s apartment (Palestinian Chronicle and Al Jazeera journalist from Nuseirat, Gaza Strip) and saved three hostages there
(Al Jazeera denies.)
The Libranos: It’s Good To Be McKinsey
In a stunning display of government largesse, Auditor General Karen Hogan dropped a bombshell at Meeting No. 128 of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Her report pulled back the curtain on a festering pit of crony capitalism under the Trudeau administration. Brace yourselves, folks, because what you’re about to hear is jaw-dropping.
Since 2015, contracts with the consulting firm McKinsey have skyrocketed to an eye-popping $191 million. Let that sink in for a moment. That’s a meteoric rise from a measly one million dollars in the years prior under Harper. So, what changed? Did McKinsey suddenly become a hundred times more competent, or does it have to do with whose in power?
Hogan’s report doesn’t dance around the issue. Oh no, it dives headfirst into the cesspool of corruption swirling around Trudeau’s inner circle. A staggering 70% of contracts with McKinsey were handed out non-competitively, totaling a mind-boggling $118 million. And if that wasn’t enough to make your blood boil, get this: almost half of these contracts lacked the necessary documentation to justify their existence. That’s right, folks, your tax dollars are being thrown around like confetti at a Liberal fundraiser, with little to no accountability.
But wait, it gets worse. Hogan’s audit uncovered a disturbing pattern of government departments using Crown corporations as their personal piggy banks to avoid pesky things like competitive procurement requirements. It’s crony capitalism 101, folks, and Trudeau’s minions are playing the game with gusto.
Shut up and pay your capital gains tax.
Katie Telford could not be reached for comment: @CanRevAgency pays $233,000 to have newspapers run favourable “articles” ghostwritten by federal employees
Hurt Feelings In Europe
Leftist losers react in Europe. A Paul Watson video.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Today In Islam: Pro-Hamas supporters team up with climate terrorists. Islam in Africa. Islam in Germany.
Dementia Joe’s America: Nobody is above the law. Tranny wants an abortion. Only Biden can keep Russia out of Moscow.
Blackie’s Canada: Justin’s migrants crossing into the U.S. Trudeau looks after Quebec. The CBC is fading.
China Virus News: Following up on Fauci.
Your morning cartoon. Another cartoon. And a meme.
June 11, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening, we present Every Kind of Bridge Explained.
We’d love for you to share all of your best tips!
Shut Up, You!
I always thought Canada already had laws against uttering threats, but it seems the Quebec provincial legislature thought that elected officials needed more wiggle room on that score. It’s anyone’s guess how much of a field day the courts will have enforcing it. Like our constitutional rights, everything hinges on one weasel word: reasonable.
The new Act makes anyone who hinders the exercise of an elected officer’s functions by threatening,
intimidating or harassing the officer in a manner that causes them to reasonably fear for their integrity or safety liable to a fine.Anyone who hinders the exercise of a Member’s functions by threatening, intimidating or harassing the Member in a manner that causes them to reasonably fear for their integrity or safety is liable to a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,500.
If you want to download the whole PDF document, here’s the link.
Leader Of The Free World
I Want A New Country
Trudeau’s Canada
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
“All of us at Lime condemn these vile acts in no uncertain terms,” Lime Director of Government Relations Hayden Harvey told The National Desk. “At a time when our teams at Lime are beginning pride celebrations around the globe, it is disturbing to see the hate taking place in Spokane.”
Lime has now implemented a “no-go zone” over the crosswalk, meaning scooters driven over the mural will be remotely shut down. According to the company’s website, entering a “no-go zone” will cause a Lime vehicle to “gradually come to a stop,” forcing a rider to walk their scooter until it is outside the zone.
Via Ed Driscoll.
1984, here, and soon to be now
Remember when Charlie Angus was unsuccessful in his private members bill to muzzle promoting oil and gas? Turns out the NDP-Liberal coalition means he wasn’t so unsuccessful after all, and the Saskatchewan government is crying foul. Is anyone else?
But if I go to jail for this, the Sask NDP energy critic said she’ll join me and the attorney general in the same cell.
When did we become 1984? Saskatchewan fighting oil and gas gag law inserted in federal budget
Garden Gnome Barbie
Via Stephen Taylor: I’ve never seen a self-own like this. Her government has been the one in power for 9 years.
Let Them Shove It Up Their Back Hole
Do not donate to the Canadian Cancer Society: Top cancer charity apologizes for using word ‘cervix’ instead of trans-friendly ‘front hole’
The People Are Revolting!
In brown are where the “Far-right” won in France today.
Macron calls snap elections.
France’s finance minister said on Monday that the snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron after a bruising loss to the far right in European Parliament elections would be the most consequential legislative vote in the republic’s history.
Macron’s shock decision amounts to a roll of the dice on his political future. It could hand a great deal of power to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) after years on the sidelines, and neuter his presidency three years before it is due to end.
The legislative vote will take place on June 30, less than a month before the start of the Paris Olympics, with a second round on July 7.
Bury le bitch.
A Failed Experiment
If Biden and his handlers have taught us anything, human nature cannot be fooled, and the current four year experiment will have to end before it ends us-and soon. – Victor Davis Hanson
Monday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Kids belong to the LGBT community. The Biden family.
Blackie’s Canada: Residential schools and the media. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Quebec City for a photo op. Trudeau’s population replacement plan.
Woke World: This could of been an encounter in Canada. A revolution in Europe?
Today In Islam: The Green Prince talks about the pro-Hamas crowd. Qur’anic Jew hatred,
Your morning meme. Another meme.