WaveRider

Endlessly curious

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[WaveRider @mquartarone]

@jacksonhinkle Maybe India can borrow a few …

[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

Statement by the leaders of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom on the situation in the West Bank. https://t.co/72icmeiQW9

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Tom Harrington @cbctom]

Now THAT’s a birthday card.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

when Bourdain said free Palestine and called out the racist vilification of Palestinians by the media class that paved the way for the genocide: "The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."

[Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon]

Mark Carney has no idea what he did today.

He destroyed Canada's trust in its government.

On so many levels.

I was sick to my stomach when I saw Marilyn Gladu had crossed over to the Liberals this morning on X.

Not kidding.

[Elizabeth Diamond @CallMeHalfPnt]

Same. I’m STILL sick about it because it’s telling me that Canada’s future is far bleaker than we originally thought.

Democracy is dead if the Liberal caucus can welcome, with open arms an MP that spoke so harshly against them.

All they care about is a majority (ask yourself why) We’re pooched. Our kids will grow up under authoritarianism (at best).

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

They are murderous gypsies.
They will inevitably do this to the entire Middle East, and to America as well. They believe the entire world is their birthright.

Ceaseless murder and theft. A Godless people.

[Tony Tracy @Tony_Tracy]

In his final years, Stephen Lewis came to regard Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.

He stood adamantly against the genocide in Gaza. 🇵🇸

#StephenLewis

[Sid Shniad @SidShniad]

Stephen Lewis overcame his attachment to Zionism when the gulf between the myth and the reality grew too large to ignore.

How about you, @IrwinCotler @CIJA @bnaibrithcanada @TheRWCHR @nicoslobinsky @AviBenlolo @richardmarceau?

Do you have the moral integrity to do the same?

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).

When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution.

For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us.

This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel.

He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.

To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits.

Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands.

I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad.

People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven.
Burning and burying children alive can never be defended.
Stand up against genocide until we make it stop!

Thanks Dad.

And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.

[Andrew Scheer @AndrewScheer]

It’s a dark day for free speech in Canada.

Mark Carney’s Liberals managed to get their religious censorship bill through the HoC.

Carney promised to be different but he's doing exactly what Justin Trudeau did: Hiding attacks on free speech in so-called "public safety" bills.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to end of the bed and pulled my legs apart forcefully.

I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head.

While I was blindfolded, I felt a man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera, so I believe they were filming me.

I cannot describe what I felt. I wished for death. Every moment."

— UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese reads Palestinian survivor accounts of rape, torture, and killings in Israeli detention.

18,500+ have been detained since October 7. At least around a hundred, including a child, have died in custody. And some 4,000 are forcibly disappeared.

“What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all.” — @FranceskAlbs told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Share this video with every single person you know.

you’re freedom is on the line

This is the very best description of what the liberals are trying to get approved I’ve heard

Bill C9 if approved will change Canada forever

[Sharonne Young @sharonne_young]

Every Single Canadian Needs To Watch This!!!🇨🇦

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

And before you say "I'll use a VPN", Bill C-22 can mandate backdoors and mandatory logging for all VPNs that provide service to Canadians. This goes far beyond consistent interfaces and protocols for executing court-ordered intercept orders.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

MP and interim leader of Canada's @NDP says:

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

He’s right.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity.