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Canada goes authoritarian. Government to combat disinformation among citizens. The U.S. needs to reevaluate our relationship with Canada.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Announces “Expert” To Oversee “Civil Society Organizations” To “Combat Disinformation”

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Leaked Intel Memos Suggest Trudeau Knew of Chinese Election Interference

Chinese

This is something that should be done. We have the capability. Mexico does not.

Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels

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Mexican President: I Will Campaign For Mexican-Americans To Not Vote Republican “If They Do Not Change Their Attitude”

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is weaker and more confused than Biden. I didn’t think that was possible.

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador: Blame American parents, not drug cartels for fentanyl epidemic

Life among Democrats…

House Armed Services member: Biden DOD firing vax refuseniks to ‘purge conservative service members’ 

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Pentagon Falling Short In Recruiting, Brass Says Kids Don’t Want To Serve

House Democrats reveal who they are. Press freedom only when it suits their political interests.

The dumbest five minutes of Congress, ever: Dems demand sources from journalists who exposed government-media censorship complex

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Jim Jordan Drops Receipts on House Democrats During Contentious Exchange on Government Censorship

Liberal journalist Matt Taibbi:

How Press Bias Fed FISA Abuse in the Trump-Russia Panic

Vicious Cycle

“…I’ve finished the second in what I hope will be a series of posts exploring the risk of partisan abuse of U.S. intelligence authorities. (For the other, see this opinion piece, coauthored with Michael Ellis.) Section 702 renewal is on the agenda for Congress in 2023, and building support for renewal means taking seriously complaints on the right that intelligence agencies were affected by partisan bias in their treatment of Donald Trump’s candidacy, presidency, and staff. This means asking whether past practices created at least an appearance or a risk of partisan abuse—and thus whether any intelligence reforms should address those risks.

In my latest look at the issue, in Lawfare, I note that “respectable” opinion is finally acknowledging that press stories about a Trump-Russia connection may have been slanted by mainstream media, and I examine the role that media bias played in the early stages of the FBI’s investigation of Trump world. A few excerpts below:

The Trump-Russia media saga began with a bit of journalistic malpractice. As the GOP convention was preparing to nominate Trump, Gerth tells us, the Washington Post ran one of the early attacks on Trump for kowtowing to Russian interests: a July 18 opinion column from Josh Rogin headlined, “Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russian stance on Ukraine.” It was wrong. In Gerth’s understated words:

The story would turn out to be an overreach. Subsequent investigations found that the original draft of the platform was actually strengthened by adding language on tightening sanctions on Russia for Ukraine-related actions, if warranted, and calling for “additional assistance” for Ukraine. What was rejected was a proposal to supply arms to Ukraine, something the Obama administration hadn’t done…”

Life among Democrats – Minnesota edition.

Minnesota Dems Want $100 Million for Reparations, Apologies for George Floyd and Dred Scott.

Crackpots

Los Angeles edition:

Los Angeles City Council Looking to Make City a Sanctuary City

Double-down on stupid to virtue signal to your fellow elites.

National edition:

Jill Biden, Sec. Blinken Give Biological Male an ‘International Women of Courage Award’’

Woke stupidity knows no bounds.

How Anthony Fauci manufactured consensus on the origins of COVID-19 with the help of science writers and the media

Treason of the Science Journals

“…At the government level, pandemic preparedness is as much about protecting critical supply chains as it is about administering medical treatments. What the COVID-19 pandemic showed is that the flow of information, which may be the single most vital resource in the supply chain, is utterly broken. In many cases, it was actively undermined by senior public health officials including the former chief medical adviser to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

New emails released in a congressional probe show that Fauci helped direct the publication of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” an influential scientific paper published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, that claimed COVID-19 could not have leaked from a laboratory. Fauci then cited the paper—in effect quoting himself, since he coordinated the article behind the scenes and was given final approval before it published—as if it was an independent source corroborating his assertions that COVID could only have come from a bat and not from a lab.

“There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve,” Fauci said at a presidential briefing on April 17, 2020, exactly one month after “Proximal Origin” was published. “And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”

But why would Fauci go to so much trouble to control the information surrounding the origins of the virus while sending the message to Americans that the idea that COVID had come from a lab was a conspiracy theory? And why would science journalists and peer-reviewed science publications go along with the effort?..”

Biden…

Taliban Has $7.2 Billion Worth of U.S. Military Equipment Abandoned in Afghanistan, Report Says: Aircraft, guns, vehicles left behind during Biden’s bungled withdrawal

Bennie Thompson: “I’m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.”

The Chair of the January 6 Select Committee Just Made a Damning Admission

Simon Ateba has some thoughts…

Heh!

Josh Stirling: “The more doses … you have in a [US] region … the bigger increase in mortality …”

Headline of the day…

Democrats who can’t define ‘woman’ celebrate International Women’s Day

And a close second:

BIOLOGICAL MALE WINS 2023 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD

A federal judge orders Biden to follow U.S. Immigration laws after Florida proved in court that the border chaos was intentionally engineered by his administration and policies.

BREAKING: Biden Administration Loses Major Immigration Case to Florida

“…Today, a federal judge sided with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, ruling that President Joe Biden is responsible for the border crisis claiming the president effectively turned the southwest border into “little more than a speedbump.”

In a scathing 100-plus-page opinion, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell ruled that Biden’s catch-and-release policy is unlawful. The judge gave the administration seven days to comply with federal immigration law…”

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