Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Canada plans to punish hate speech pre-crime
If passed, a bill in the Canadian legislature will punish online or in-person “hate speech” with a fine up to C$20,000 (about $16,000 USD) if it targets a specific person.
The law states that “hate speech means the content of a communication that expresses detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”
Nice and vague, just the way they like it.
The law also allows the courts to intervene if a person fears they will be the target of a hatred motivated offense.
So basically it’s like pre-crime. If a potential victim feels that you might hate them, they can apply for what is essentially a restraining order. What’s more, the judge can demand that you surrender weapons, wear a GPS monitor, remain under house arrest, abstain from alcohol, and submit to drug tests.
This is all without being charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
And anyone who does does not follow the orders faces a year in prison.
Click here to read the full bill.
California city says “add lemon juice” to dirty water
Because of the drought conditions in California, the water in Sacramento (the state’s capital) is tasting a little earthy.
The city says this is because there’s a higher concentration of geosmin is found in the water due to the drought-induced low water levels.
Geosmin tastes like dirt.
But the city told worried residents “The water is safe to drink but if people find the taste unpleasant they can add lemon juice or chill their tap water before drinking.”
Problem solved! Thanks government!
Click here to read the full story.
UK Health Minister Caught violating his own Covid rules— by kissing an aide!
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was largely responsible for the country’s insane Covid restrictions, which can include prison time.
But last week he was caught breaking his own social distancing rules. Big time.
Hidden camera footage caught Hancock engaged in an extra-marital affair with a female aide; the two were kissing and groping in Hancock’s office. Hancock at the time had not been ‘fully vaccinated’ either.
What’s more, it turns out the aide is a lobbyist who Hancock quietly hired last year during the pandemic.
Hancock resigned as Health Secretary. But don’t worry— this hypocrite still serves in government as a Member of Parliament!
Click here to read the full story.
San Francisco spends $70,000 per homeless person on tents
San Francisco has a homeless problem. The city has grappled with human feces and discarded drug needles littering the street.
In the past, the city’s government has tried to solve the problem by funding round-the-clock public restrooms with security. The cost came to about $30 per toilet flush.
Now San Francisco’s government is back in action, spending $18 million on “safe sleeping villages” that provide bathrooms, showers, meals, and security for sites where the homeless can pitch their tents.
This seems like a noble enough goal. The problem, however, is that the camps house only 260 tents. That brings the cost to a grand total of about $70,000 per tent.
San Francisco’s budget plans to spend an addition $1 billion on homelessness over the next two years, on top of the $300 million per year already spent.
With a homeless population of about 18,000 that comes to about $44,400 per homeless person per year, to pay for all of these tents and toilets.
What’s interesting is that, according to rental website Zumper, the average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $35,580 per year.
So the city is actually spending 25% MORE on tents and toilets for homeless people than it would cost to give every one of them their own apartment.
Click here to read the full story.
YouTube removes testimonies about reeducation camps in China
A human rights group called Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights posts thousands of videos of personal testimonials from people who have had a loved one detained in China.
The videos mostly involve Kazakh citizens who went to China for work, and were detained in reeducation camps in the Xinjiang region of China. China alleges some of those detained had extremist religious ties.
On June 15, YouTube blocked the channel for allegedly violating its terms of service.
The channel was only restored after Reuters asked YouTube about the channel’s removal. The channel’s owners have now begun migrating to an alternative video site Odysee.
Click here to read the full story.
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Canada is now Chinada. If you can leave, now’s the time. Trudeau is implementing his basic Chinese dictatorship, and since all our other mainstream political parties are globalists just like Trudeau’s Liberals, there will be no opposition to what his party is doing to our country. We’re well past being able to vote our way out of this insanity.
FFS, yesterday on Canada Day, protesters in Winnipeg, MB tore down a statue of our first Prime Minister while police looked on and did nothing. The police however did arrest the lone person who showed up to object to the statue’s removal.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
We are all Winston now.
Please pray for us America, and send help if you can.
fidel is proud–
you guys need to sell everything & come here on “vacation”–
I was ready to leave years ago, and even have an American relation who could sponsor me for citizenship. My spouse does not see what I see, and thinks I’m a conspiracy theorist despite having been proven right over and again that Canada has been taken over by Chinese and globalist influences. At this point it’s down to, I leave and go it alone, or stay and sink with my family. It’s a terrible choice to be pondering.
cricket,
i agree about the wife–
its bad enough when friends or relatives think you’re crazy or even mock you but when the wife refuses to be convinced ,what do you do?
what’s even more frustrating is that staying may not save her/kids but may also take you down, whereas you on your own could probably survive if the poo ever hits the fan–
Help yourself.
The trouble with Chinadians is that they want everyone else to do the heavy lifting for them.
70% of the country is made up of helpless pussies.
the % is probably higher,the same as here–it’s just that they seem to be crushing the smaller countries 1st–
as i’m writing i’m thinking about your comment & my reply regarding the % of cowards–
i would guess that it is actually smaller but the people are so dumbed down by the msm/entertainment complex that they do not understand what we are facing–
the free world needs a trojan trump to wake people–
Yes, you are correct.
And that is the question…how does one organize to fight back with like other minded Canadians? I don’t use social media and have no interest in being a public person. I have worked remotely for more than a decade, so I could personally reach no more than maybe 10 people, if that, in a week. I had hoped a Canadian version of Andrew Breitbart would emerge to mobilize behind, but it seems Canadians are socialized to be too quiet and polite to ever be as forthright, succinct and brutally honest as Breitbart was.
Well, as I indicated above, it appears your beef is really with the Queen and not the Chinks.
Prolly the same for us, even after we told her to beat it 246 years ago tomorrow.
And no doubt she is yet a front, her lineage having lost their power to the financiers long ago.
The House of Windsor takes orders, and Trudeau is so far down the line of order takers he is almost a bigger embarrassment than biden, with his obsequious antics.
YES! you read it as well (I really should read comments first) It was Fiction? It was really Fiction, please say it was Fiction.
It is not fiction and Bill C-10 combined with Bill c-36 if and when it is passed is way beyond communism.
By any objective rational standadrd the Queen has clearly thrown Canada and Australia as red meat to China, in exchange for something. Undoubtedly financial, and routed strait to the heart of The City of London.
This is to protect the head and most hated politicians, Uses a lot less razor wire and stationed troops around a capitol to boot.
Thought crimes???? Now I read a fiction book about that as a Child, maybe it was Non Fiction but I remember it was very dystopian so probably Fiction.
I just cannot keep up with all of the sounds of trumpets and the breaking of seals and signs.
I hear Donald Rumsfeld is doing well in his new posting but has requested two of his closest friends be brought down to enjoy the delights and rewards of power. Calling Fool me twice and thigh shot Dumber they be waiting
Hey, it’s Canada. The PM loves China’s basic dictatorship and has been working real hard, with the support of Canadian citizens to emulated China.
I guess Jordan Peterson has found a reason not to stay in Canada. They’d love to put his ass in prison .