More than 74,000 Canadians Died on Health-Care Wait Lists Since 2018, “True Number Is Likely Double”
January 15th, 2025Via: National Post:
At least 15,000 Canadians died while waiting for surgery or a diagnostic scan over the course of a year, according to government data collected by public policy think tank SecondStreet.org.
The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data, said SecondStreet president Colin Craig. Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba.
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The government health bodies that did respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests represent 62 per cent of the population. “If the findings from the provinces that did give us data are extrapolated across provinces that didn’t, the total rises to closer to 28,000 people,” Craig said.
The report is the latest “Died on a Waiting List” policy brief from SecondStreet since the conservative-leaning organization began tracking wait-list deaths in the spring of 2018. Since then, the think tank has counted 74,677 cases where Canadians passed away while waiting for treatments. These range from potentially life-saving ones, such as heart operations or cancer therapy, to life-enhancing ones, such as cataract surgeries and hip replacements.
Armed Homeowners Patrolling Burnt-Out LA Neighborhoods in Defiance of Local Officials
January 15th, 2025Via: New York Post:
Armed residents of wildfire ravaged communities in Los Angeles county have reportedly taken to guarding their homes in defiance of government-mandated evacuation orders.
A contingent of homeowners in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades have been on a desperate neighborhood watch amid the ongoing blazes that have wrought destruction and resulted in looters attempting to take advantage of tragic circumstances, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Some of those residents patrolling their beleaguered streets are even toting firearms for fear of their safety and lawless looters.
“I have no patience for any of them,” Ross Gerber, president of a wealth-management firm, reportedly said of the LAPD, which has set up a stringent border around fire-torn neighborhoods.
“After you survive this, you don’t care what they say,” said Gerber.
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
January 15th, 2025Via: CBS:
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage release agreement to halt more than a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip, U.S. officials told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan on Thursday. The deal comes after a week of intense negotiations mediated by Qatar, the U.S. and Egypt.
A draft of the deal had been agreed to in principle earlier in the week, Arab, U.S. and Israeli officials told CBS News.
A Retro Blue VW Bus Miraculously Survives Deadly Los Angeles Wildfires
January 14th, 2025AP: A retro blue VW bus miraculously survives deadly Los Angeles wildfires pic.twitter.com/JYtaoxrADB
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 15, 2025
Via: AP/ABC7:
Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen bus he slept in for a year during college was a goner, given that he parked it in a Malibu neighborhood just before the Palisades fire ripped through, reducing homes and cars to rubble and charred metal.
So the surfboard maker was stunned to find that the vehicle survived. Not only that, a photo of the vibrant bus taken by an Associated Press photographer was circulating widely on television and online, giving viewers a measure of joy.
“There is magic in that van,” Martin, 24, said Tuesday in an interview with AP. “It makes no sense why this happened. It should have been toasted, but here we are.”
Green Beret Randy Anderson Claims He Was Shown Alien Technology in Underground Facility at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division
January 14th, 2025One more time with the, “Whistleblowers.”
Randy Anderson is still a U.S. Government contractor at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex (Area 51 is part of this massive facility). He cannot and will not say anything that he is not authorized to say.
I don’t know what’s going to happen in the weeks and months ahead with the limited hangout UFO disclosure (that started in 2017), but it is clearly ramping up.
Oh yeah, I couldn’t resist. X tattoos on the arms of both Anderson and Herrera. Probably nothing. *snort*:
X marks the spot. pic.twitter.com/IEMw3NQM7r
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 14, 2025
Dark Journalist, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone.
Via: Jesse Michels:
Tucker Carlson and Michael Shellenberger Break Down the California Fires
January 14th, 2025If you happen to be trying to wake someone up in Los Angeles, the fires might represent a teachable moment. Shellenberger comes from the left, so that might make the medicine more palatable, in general, to people in that area.
On a much different topic, if you stick with this to the end, it appears as though some sort of UFO media push is coming in with the next Trump administration.
Via: Tucker Carlson:
U.S. Corporate Bankruptcies Hit Highest Level Since 2008 Financial Crisis
January 13th, 2025Via: DailyMail:
US corporate bankruptcies hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis – as Americans tighten their belts.
Companies have also incresingly been grappling with high rising debts – driven by high interest rates that caused borrowing costs to spike.
Bungling Fraudster Gavin Newsom Begs Joe Biden to Censor “Misinformation” About Los Angeles Fires
January 11th, 2025“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation. There were hurricane force winds of mis and disinformation, lies. People want to divide this country.”
Mmm hmm.
In other news, Gavin Newsom Cut Fire Budget by $100m Last Year While Giving More Water to Tiny Tribal Fish:
Gavin Newsom is coming under fire for slashing California’s funding for wildfire and forest resilience by $101 million less than a year before devastating fires tore through Los Angeles.
The Democrat California Governor signed the budget cuts into law in June 2024, severing funding from seven programs focused on preventing and battling potential wildfires in the state, reports Newsweek.
Cuts included a $5 million decrease to the CAL FIRE fuel reduction teams, which included funding to pay for vegetation management work by the California National Guard, an analysis by the outlet found.
The total for the program was stripped to $129 million, amid claims that the state failed to clear brush and forestry that may have accelerated the flames.
Newsom’s budget cuts also slashed $4 million from a forest legacy program intended to promote management practices for landowners, and $28 million from funding for state conservancies aimed at increasing wildfire resistance.
A further $8 million was cut from monitoring and research programs that reportedly largely went to CAL FIRE, and $3 million from an interagency forest data hub.
A pilot program intended to make homes more resilient to wildfires through a hardening scheme also had its funding cut by $12 million.
And…
Newsom Hires $200k/Year Celebrity Photographer For Glamor Shots
Via: Fox:
Zuckerberg Tells Rogan Biden Admin Would ‘Scream’ and ‘Curse’, Demanding Vaccine Information Censorship
January 10th, 2025And he did it, like a good Kapo:
A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
How many are dead because of this censorship?
Never forget Zuckerberg’s participation in Covid atrocities.
Via: Fox:
Meta CEO founder Mark Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan that members of President Biden’s administration yelled at his employees, demanding they take down content on their behalf.
Meta announced Tuesday that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have “gone too far.” Zuckerberg spoke about the platform’s struggles to maintain freedom of expression while fending off pressure from the Biden administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During the Biden administration, when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program,” the social media CEO said, “while they were trying to push that program they also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, were true. They basically pushed us and said, you know, that ‘anything saying that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.’ And I was just like ‘We’re not going to do that, we’re clearly not going to do that, I mean that is kind of inarguably true.”
Tethered Russian Attack Drone Can Unwind Six Miles of Fiber Optic Cable, Not Susceptible to Electronic Warfare Jamming
January 10th, 2025Via: Telegraph:
Justin Crump, the chief executive of the strategic intelligence company Sibylline, said: “Fibre optic drones were developed by Russia to counter the problems of effective EW.
“People think of a drone at the end of a tether pulling off a big spool of wire, but the cable is so lightweight that the drone carries it and lays it behind it, meaning it doesn’t get snagged or caught or provide resistance to travel.”
The presence of a physical cable between the drone and its pilot means that the EW jammers are unable to scramble the usual radio frequencies used to guide it.
Ihor Yu, a Ukrainian drone pilot, said: “Although the technology is not new, it is highly effective in modern warfare, particularly against active enemy electronic countermeasures.
“Despite some operational challenges, these drones are essential for accomplishing specialised tasks successfully.”
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While the cable unspools as the drone moves to avoid tension, the fibre optic wires can easily break if they are tangled around obstacles in between the pilot and his final target.
Mr Crump said: “This control system has been comparatively rare globally due to the inherent drawbacks, but will likely receive increased attention in terms of both exploitation and how to counter the enduring threat posed.”
Ukrainian soldiers defending against these fibre optic drones have said they are susceptible to small arms fire because they are not as manoeuvrable as wireless UAVs.
