1/ This @hfxexaminer piece is important because it says the quiet part out loud: @CANADALAND is now a media accountability story.
The outlet built to scrutinize Canadian media has become a case study in why that scrutiny matters.
https://t.co/7SOE7enMVA
@FedMarrux@RustyBarstow@Leigha_Sapienti Nah, I watched him years ago and gave up on him just as quickly because he’s an ignorant cretin who happens to be a reasonable interlocutor and nothing else.
@FedMarrux@RustyBarstow@Leigha_Sapienti He really is the pied piper of the Dunning-Kruger set. Amazing. Just be careful that the paste says non-toxic before digging in, champ.
@FedMarrux@RustyBarstow@Leigha_Sapienti The first time he read a book, in his life , cover to cover, was 2years ago.
He’s an unserious, illiterate moron. No amount of Wikipedia strafing is going to change that.
Mehdi Hasan on the Belfast attack,
"As far as we know this person was here legally as someone who was approved by the then Conservative government"
"He's from Sudan. Most people would agree people fleeing from Sudan are genuine refugees"
"Whatever your politics we can agree there is a genocide going on in Sudan"
"That doesn't excuse the horrific crime that he committed, obviously"
"But the idea that we suddenly reduce this to illegal immigration"
"And Elon Musk pushing this is absurd, because Musk was an immigrant to the Unites States"
"His own brother claimed that they were both illegal immigrants at one point"
"People exploiting this for political gain.. Making everything about immigration.. Like the murder of Henry Nowak"
"The person who killed Henry Nowak was born in Britain. His father was born in Britain. But that's been made an immigration story as well"
@Cliffor18175753@JesseBrown No, you’re missing the underlying first principle here: Jesse is the victim. First and foremost, each and every time. Once you adopt that rubric it all smooths out.
Graham, literally nothing you can say to me will ever hurt my feelings because I know what you look like and what your life is like. You will always, always be a pathetic, sad little side-character.
Israeli minister calls for kidnapping of Lebanese women and children to break Hezbollah morale
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged the political-security cabinet to abduct and imprison Lebanese women and children as a psychological warfare tactic against Hezbollah, according to a closed-door leak published by Hebrew news outlet Walla.
During a high-level ministerial meeting reviewing expanded military calculations, Ben-Gvir demanded that Tel Aviv abandon conventional strategy and explicitly target the social and familial core of the Lebanese resistance network.
"We must think outside the box regarding Hezbollah," Ben-Gvir asserted to his fellow cabinet members, according to the report. The Israeli minister added that alongside occupying southern territory and intensifying lethal strikes on personnel, Israeli forces should actively round up civilians.
"We should arrest their women and children and take them to prison; this is what hurts them the most," he stated.