Let That Sink In

The latest in the Twitter Files, from Matt Taibbi: TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES”

After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bureau issued a statement Wednesday.

It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose “sole aim” is to “discredit the agency.”

They must think us unambitious, if our “sole aim” is to discredit the FBI. After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles. Why stop with one?

Requiem for All Conspiracy Theorists

Matt Taibbi’s latest substack article brings some solace to this otherwise crazy year:

Sometime in the last decade, many people — I was one — began to feel robbed of their sense of normalcy by something we couldn’t define. Increasingly glued to our phones, we saw that the version of the world that was spat out at us from them seemed distorted. The public’s reactions to various news events seemed off-kilter, being either way too intense, not intense enough, or simply unbelievable. You’d read that seemingly everyone in the world was in agreement that a certain thing was true, except it seemed ridiculous to you, which put you in an awkward place with friends, family, others. Should you say something? Are you the crazy one?

In their/our honour, we offer Fanfare for the Common Man.

“Well, we needed the moisture.”


More.

Buffalo, NY: Sounds like a bad situation overnight into this morning with hundreds trapped in their vehicles in dangerous blizzard conditions with no emergency services able to respond. Hopefully before the band heads back south people can get to a warm shelter

It’s Christmas Eve On Turtle Island

Today In Islam:  Muslims and socialists celebrate Christmas in France.  And Christmas in Nigeria.  Update:  Jihad conference in diverse Toronto.

Global Warming Scam News:  Justin’s CBC explains how wonderful solar panels are in Alberta.  I’m sure Notley will be building a lot more when she becomes premier.

Trudeau’s Canada:  We must save the sacred tree frog.  No mining allowed in Canada.  Tam wants money to fight disinformation.  Justin’s CBC celebrates Kwanzaa.

Biden’s America:  Victor Davis Hanson writes about military history.  A mob comes for Madison.  The generosity of Christians.  The truth behind the Three Wise Men.  A Calvinist Santa Claus.

Book Review:  German colonialism in Africa.

Some Christmas Memes:  Santa reads your posts.  Santa in Chicago.  A realistic Christmas.

Canada’s Very Own Grinch

With a heart as black as coal, she stole several Christmases, and Easters, and Halloweens, and Birthdays. Plus Happiness and Prosperity. Plus the Education of Children young & old.

Who are we referring to? Watch this and find out.

h/t James MacMaster

Update: The comments from Twitter are telling. Here’s but one example:

Safe and Effective®

The Effect of the COVID-19 Vaccine on the Menstrual Cycle Among Reproductive-Aged Females in Saudi Arabia

Overall, the changes in the menstrual cycles after both COVID-19 vaccine doses were observed among 46.7%, mainly more menstrual pain in 22.9% following the first dose compared with 21.4% after the second. Menstrual changes were observed among almost two-thirds of women in the age groups 18-22 years (65.2%) and 38-45 years (65.4%) compared with only 43.5% of those in the age group 23-27 years, p<0.001. The Moderna vaccine was associated with the highest rate of menstrual changes (65.4%), whereas Oxford-AstraZeneca was associated with the lowest rate (44.9%), p=0.040. The duration of changes in the cycles after the COVID-19 vaccine (one dose or both) was less than one month among 42.5% of females, whereas it was three months or more among 27.1%.

Nobody knows why, but this is of no concern whatsoever.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

Do tell.

“Unfortunately, the Biden administration is determined not to let us know” what exactly Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health was funding in China, Chang told [Sen. Marsha Blackburn]. “I think it’s because Dr. Anthony Fauci purposefully evaded the 2014 ban on federal funding of gain of function research,” a scientific process in which a virus is made even more deadly so researchers can study it. This practice is banned in the United States for being too dangerous. “So, what [Fauci] did is he funded it in China, specifically at Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

“Eventually the American people will get the truth, but it could take years,” Chang said, pointing to efforts by the Biden administration to downplay American funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab at the center of the COVID leak. The exact nature of America’s role in supporting this research still remains unclear, and Chang believes this is due to the Biden administration’s efforts to shield Fauci from criticism.

Fauci, Chang added, likely perjured himself before Congress when he claimed that his agency was not funding so-called gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“So, either [Fauci] didn’t know what his institute was doing, or he committed perjury twice last year,” Chang said, referring to Fauci’s denial before the Senate that the NIH was engaged in funding gain of function research in China. “I’m of the view that he had to know what was going on for various reasons, and therefore, he did commit perjury. And the Department of Justice doesn’t seem to care.”

So Much For The Right To Remain Silent

Spiked- Thoughtcrime is now a reality in Britain

How did this happen? First, Vaughan-Spruce was known to be a member of a pro-life organisation. And second, she was within 150 metres of an abortion clinic, inside a so-called buffer zone. In September, Birmingham City Council introduced a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO), which makes any ‘act of approval or disapproval’ toward abortion in the surroundings of the clinic a criminal offence, on pain of a £1,000 fine. This restriction applies to any expression related to abortion services, by any method: whether by graphic, verbal or written means, prayer or counselling, or in any other way. So Vaughan-Spruce’s alleged silent prayer was apparently enough. Someone had disapproved of her presence and asked the police to get rid of her. All the ploddingly literal-minded copper needed was Vaughan-Spruce’s admission that she might have been privately communing with her god and might therefore have been illegally praying in a restricted area.

Friday On Turtle Island

Biden’s America:  Is Johnny Mathis racist?  Are men leaving the workforce?  Biden’s Woke Marines.  Good Catholic Joe’s “Holiday” message.  The Congressional Traitors.  This week in big lies.  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin working hard to bring gay Afghans to Canada.  Parents getting fed up with big boobs teacher.  The Liberals have a problem with ethics.  A children’s guide to suicide.  Climate Justin is taking a break from ordering Canadians to starve and freeze in the dark, in order to save the sacred tree frog.  He and his family are burning jet fuel to Jamaica. I wonder if we will see any photos of a scruffy looking Trudeau showing up at a liquor store again?

Global Warming Scam News:  Nobody said they were the brightest bulbs in the package.

Woke Britain:  Have a Merry Woke Christmas.

A nice selection of Christmas music.

 

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