www.politico.eu
>“Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox,” Johnson writes as he recalls a meeting.
thenarwhal.ca
>Ford does understand the importance of bike lanes, or at least he used to: "You're nervous when there's not bike lanes, at least I was," he [told TVO in 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zs1PT44aWg) after trying out cycling near Queen's Park. He also campaigned on promises to put money back in people's pockets, and biking is one of the cheapest ways to get around, requiring no fare or fuel. > >So why is Ford doing this now? Maybe it's because bike lanes have become an [ideological wedge](https://www.tvo.org/article/debunking-three-big-myths-about-bike-lanes) that he hopes will win him another election. Maybe because real solutions to traffic are complicated and often unpopular --- like congestion pricing, which is [proven to work](https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-highways-induced-demand-explainer/).
canadiandimension.com
>The evidence is clear: Canada's housing crisis is _not_ a simple [supply and demand problem](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/inside-the-market/article-bmo-chief-economist-denies-canadas-housing-supply-myth/). It is a problem of who owns our homes and why. By focusing almost exclusively on expanding supply through the private sector the NHS has given our housing system over to [predaceous investors](https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/why-the-housing-crisis-is-not-an-immigration-problem) while [deeply indebting](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/residential-mortgage-debt-hits-2-16-trillion-amid-slowest-growth-in-23-years-cmhc-1.6905227) everyday Canadians.
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>In 2020, Briant, writing for a non-governmental group called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, exposed details about the Canadian Armed Forces spending more than $1 million on training on how to modify public behaviour. That training was similar to that used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company at the centre of a 2016 scandal in which personal data of Facebook users was provided to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s political campaign. >Other initiatives revealed by the Ottawa Citizen included military efforts to keep tabs on members of the public including those involved with the Black Lives Matter movement as well as a plan to use similar propaganda tactics to those employed against the Afghan population during the war in Afghanistan. > >An internal investigation by the Canadian Forces determined that some of the efforts violated government rules but no military personnel were ever charged or disciplined.
Non-paywall link: [ https://archive.is/1XjBq ]
www.theguardian.com
>The report traces a trend of private equity firms swooping in as large oil and gas firms seek to shed older and dirtier assets and the bigger banks increasingly regard them as risky investments. Thanks to limited disclosure rules, regulatory loopholes and complex corporate structures, some of the dirtiest assets have come to be owned by relatively obscure investment outfits, the report says.
Archive: [ https://archive.is/rdIgu ]
www.theguardian.com
>A spokesperson for Palestine Action said the manifestations of independence were contradicted within the same sentences in which they were made. > >"What's going on behind closed doors demonstrates clear evidence of collusion between government, a foreign private arms manufacturer, the CPS, the Attorney General's Office and the police," they said. "This clear abuse of power shows how the state is prioritising the interests of Elbit Systems over the rights and freedoms of its own citizens." > >Documents previously revealed through FoI requests suggested [Israeli](https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel) embassy officials in London [attempted to get the Attorney General's Office to intervene](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/20/israeli-embassy-officials-attempted-to-influence-uk-court-cases-documents-suggest) in UK court cases relating to the prosecution of protesters.
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This seems to be the actual indictment, in case anyone wants to read it:
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s._v._kalashnikov_and_afanasyeva_indictment_0.pdf
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The Carter Center (cited by that BBC piece) is funded by various western governments including the US, as well as CIA-affiliated regime-change orgs like the National Endowment for Democracy. They are not a neutral party.
The "pro-Kremlin" smear is similarly questionable as it is promoted by the same groups.
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Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyULepxgw4
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This article is literally quoting the official press release of the committee's chairman:
Dr. Fauci claimed that the “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any data. He characterized the development of the guidance by stating “it sort of just appeared.”
Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.
Dr. Fauci admitted that America’s vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase vaccine hesitancy in the future.
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