Sam

[Sam @sammyard078]

@marcohk030 通常講少甜，但微甜有時都會講咗做微糖

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

One of the most toxic fallouts from the Trump years is this reflexive need a lot of people have to automatically side with anyone going up against him.

Mark Carney is banking on that and exploiting it hard. He knows the press will paint Trump as the irresponsible, blustery provocateur in the collapsing Canada-US trade talks, so by going all-out against Trump he scores easy political points.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The truth of the matter is that the playing field has been uneven and unfair between Canada and the US for decades.

Canada imposes lofty tariffs - sometimes nearly 300% - on American cheese and milk once a tiny quota is filled, and they even give the Europeans better access than they give the Americans.

Provinces yanked American wine and spirits off the shelves in government liquor stores. They hit US cars with extra tariffs and quotas. Softwood lumber has been a long-running game too. But the biggest problem is the Chinese back-door scam: steel, auto parts, and EVs from China get lightly processed or just relabeled in Canada, then shipped into America under USMCA rules so they dodge the tariffs Trump put on Beijing.

That lets China keep flooding the North American market, undercutting American (and Canadian) workers, and basically laundering its way around the sanctions and trade barriers meant to stop its cheating. The Trump admin wants to end the free ride and make Canada shut down the transshipment loophole that China is exploiting.

Carney walking away from a near-done deal and playing the victim just keeps Canada in bed with Beijing while American (and Canadian) workers pay the price.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And he’s hoping you don’t look beyond the headlines and find out the truth

[V神王@地獄之路 @Wong666V]

在英港人，記得唔好去幫襯呢幾間，經貿辦案新界鄉黑經營

[Sam @sammyard078]

@Tomcola4 唔知點解有消毒酒精嘅味，飲落有啲kok喉，搞到我唔敢飲

[Sam @sammyard078]

@RR0S8wynEZrQlnI 排425都敢搏懵，當啲職員流

[心寒 @Samhon852]

害埋韓國🤬

[Sam @sammyard078]

@WACVdboi89LPNS0 你仲喺阿拉斯加？

[香港市民研究院 @w33391419]

真係唔好覺得科技好安全，動物有獸性你要防，機械係冇性你都要防，就係咁簡單。

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

British zoologist and former president of EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak, who’s involved in risky bat coronavirus experiments in Wuhan, is accused of plotting with senior US health official David Morens to shut down the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab.

Daszak sent bottles of wine to Morens, thanking him for his “behind the scenes shenanigans” and promising further gifts, such as dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants.

Morens, a former NIAID employee and adviser to Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic.

He is facing 5 years in jail. No charges have been brought against Daszak.

In a signed plea agreement, Morens admitted contacting Daszak — named throughout as co-conspirator 1 — using his private Gmail account so that the messages could not be found through freedom of information requests.

Morens also promised to help Daszak win back grant funding for his bat coronavirus experiments in China, which had been suspended in Apr 2020, over fears that the research may have caused the pandemic.

Covid-19 emerged just 8 miles from 🇨🇳 Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) where Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance had been working with scientists to collect and genetically tweak bat coronaviruses to see how they might mutate and jump into humans.

Emails show that in June 2020, Morens agreed to write a “scientific commentary” outlining the importance of Daszak’s work, while keeping the zoologist’s name out of the article, giving the impression it was wholly independent.

He told Daszak via email: “Let’s win this anti-science battle, get you refunded... then settle the scores and kick some ass.”

A couple of weeks later, Daszak sent two bottles of The Prisoner Red Napa Valley wine to Morens with the message: “This is the first of what I hope will be a continued series of expressions of gratitude for your advice, support and behind the scenes shenanigans in my battle against your bosses boss, his boss and the ultimate boss on the hill (referring to Donald Trump).”

The next month, Morens published an article titled The Origin of Covid-19 and Why It Matters, in which he argued that Covid-19 was a “natural” spillover from animals and called for work such as Daszak’s to be funded to prevent another pandemic.

A press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland said that Morens and his co-conspirators had pledged to help “counter the narrative that Covid-19 leaked from a lab”.

Last year, the US Department of Health and Human Services debarred Daszak, and US-based EcoHealth Alliance, blocking both from receiving federal funds for 5 years.

It followed an 8-month investigation which concluded that taxpayer money had been used to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in China to make viruses more lethal.

Daszak visited 🇨🇳 WIV in 2021 as part of a team dispatched by the WHO to investigate the source of the coronavirus pandemic.

It came amid criticism of China for being slow to respond to calls to identify where the SARS-CoV-2 emerged and how it spread.

The WHO report Daszak helped write claimed a lab leak origin for Covid was a possibility, but unlikely.

The report was widely condemned as a “whitewash”. Daszak later recused himself from Covid origin investigations for failing to declare that he worked closely with scientists at WIV.

US court documents outlining the case stated that the conspirators had “concealed their communications” so they could publish papers and articles without directly mentioning Daszak, “to generate the appearance of disinterested scientific consensus”.

Morens told Daszak that he was working “behind the scenes” to help him, adding: “My boxing gloves are on and laced up.”

1/n

https://t.co/7WhJ0Rnqa9

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Chicago (Aug. 23) — Former NBA player Enes Kanter was kicked out of the WNBA game after a female player became enraged he was wearing a “WOMAN: adult human female” shirt. Many women in the WNBA have rejected calls to ban male players from the sport in the name of inclusion.

[Sam @sammyard078]

@BaldingsWorld The "allies" are not going to confront China because they wouldn't allow any loss of comfort and convenience which is the necessary cost. They bear no loss, and they trust that the US will seize the chance to trade with China at their expense.

[心寒 @Samhon852]

竟然認😱

[Sam @sammyard078]

@kiwigummy 隻手一掃乜都無得食😅

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

A new opinion piece in the "Voices" section of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine states "They are trying to kill us."

She further claims that there are "systemic pressures working against" the "success" and "well-being" of black academics, and parrots the vacuous talking point that Jason Arday's PhD advisor and university "cleared him of any deliberate plagiarism allegations," despite the shocking extent of his verbatim copy-and-pasting of large blocks of text from other authors without attribution.

She then says that even if he was guilty of extreme plagiarism, he should have kept his academic job: "None of them were worth his career."

She believes "Black academics" are "held to a different standard," by which she means a higher one, even though Arday was given a professorship at Cambridge and hailed as a prodigy despite his abysmal qualifications and laughable quality of scholarship.

She claims that former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who was also found to have plagiarized a significant amount of her work, was "ousted" because people "simply could not stomach a world where a Black woman was president of such a storied institution."

She says that academia is rife with the "ever-present winds of white supremacy and anti-Blackness."

[UncleRay in Van @UnclerayVan]

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[雪行者 @snowryd3r]

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[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

For too long, the progressive establishment alliance operated with near-total impunity. It shaped public narratives, policed the boundaries of acceptable thought, and systematically marginalized ideological opponents.

Cultural institutions, corporate HR departments, universities, NGOs, and much of the legacy media formed a seamless machine that decided what could be said, who could be platformed, and which sacred cows were beyond scrutiny.

They controlled the monopoly on “truth," but that monopoly is now broken. What we are witnessing now is the panicked thrashing of a once-dominant coalition that can no longer enforce its ideological delusions.

They succeeded for years by aligning cultural prestige, economic leverage, and political power to exert social pressure and destroy high-profile dissenters. This is why they have turned on Novara Media (which folded in the most humiliating fashion), The Guardian, and even The New York Times the moment those outlets briefly reported the facts about Jason Arday’s fraud, fabricated biography, and academic unfitness. We should really give props to the Guardian for standing their ground against the onslaught.

The reason activists have directed so much attention and vitriol to The Guardian is because leftist publications "legitimize" the story they're desperate to bury. They can always dismiss the right as tainted, as evil. They don't even need to argue. But when the NYT or The @Guardian prints a story, it constitutes a problem for them.

This is how the apparatus protected DEI for so long, despite its deep unpopularity and brazen moral bankruptcy.

But it is no longer 2018. The grip has loosened.

They can try to muzzle the remaining independent media; they can push the farcical “Arday’s Law” that would effectively license state censorship of reporting they dislike. They can weaponize Arday’s death as yet another pretext to demand more speech controls. In fact some are already compiling and circulating blacklists of writers, an exercise in racial hysteria designed to intimidate and, predictably, to license further violence against political opponents. They can attempt to cancel Nathan Cofnas from Ghent University, the scholar who simply did what countless others in academia knew but couldn't say or do anything about.

All of it is the behavior of a movement that has lost the ability to persuade and can only coerce and threaten to destroy. The institutions themselves are broken precisely because they allowed this ideological cancer to metastasize.

The result is that alternatives have emerged and are growing. New media - @GBNEWS, @TheFP, Triggernometry, and others - offer platforms where struggle sessions and ideological conformity are not the price of admission.

Audiences who find Novara’s ritual self-flagellation pathetic are already defecting. Social media under @elonmusk no longer deletes accounts for wrongthink. Academia, once the crown jewel of progressive capture, is sliding toward irrelevance with serial cheating scandals, AI-generated theses, rampant DEI quotas that sacrifice competence, overpriced undergraduate daycare, abysmal adjunct pay, graduate unemployment, and crushing student debt.

There is nothing elite left about it. Parallel institutions with actual free speech commitments - University of Austin, the University of Buckingham, Hillsdale, New College of Florida (thanks @christopherrufo) are already attracting those who still value inquiry over ideology.

The NGO complex is being exposed and dismantled one organization at a time; the SPLC will not be the last. The progressive stack was never as invincible as its architects still believe.

An incoming Reform UK government will finish the work of dismantling it. Lies can be disrupted and it only requires the freedom to be spoken. That freedom is returning, slowly but surely, and the old enforcers know it.

[西門 @RR0S8wynEZrQlnI]

西班牙人都幾好野，兩年前反對過度觀光，兩年後選個任恐怖份子入國既政府出黎
目的就係為左趕走觀光客

[Alan Tse @AlanTse777]

睇嚟又係罰個司機