Suck it up in cardboard, Egypt caught smuggling weapons into Israel, did Gates short his own vaxx stock before trash-talking it? and more: Links 1 for February 9, 2025

1. The plastic straw issue is not trivial. It was part and parcel of the overall attack against American and Canadian liberties. And like all these dialectical laws by communist tyrant-wannabees, they were enforced in the most humiliating way they could.
Canada has a chain of burger places called Harvey’s. And depending on how close a given franchise is to the standard set by the head office, they can be really very good.

They are also well known for their chocolate shakes that approximate a malted. A burger, the big fat soft fries and a chocolate shake from Harvey’s is a great occasional treat. But the state banned plastic straws. And by the time you get 20% the way into your shake, all you can taste is cardboard and chemicals from the horrible paper-ish straws they give you. The shakes are very thick. So you need a lot of chemical reenforced cardboard to suck the shake out from the enormous plastic cups they come in.
That’s right. The Shake cups have about 40 straws worth of plastic in them. But they are OK. It is just the straws that after you put them in the garbage, make their way on to a flight to India, where they head for the coast and join Plastic Island out in the Bay of Bengal.

But wait… what’s that over in the Korean Bubble tea place next door!?!?!?! Giant thick PLASTIC STRAWS!
I went in to a Bubble tea place with some friends when all the real bars were full cause of some old communist rock guitar player in Ottawa that night, and to my amazement, the bubble tea places are totally exempt from the plastic straw ban! I asked them if I could take one, nicely wrapped each in their own plastic wrapper, home with me so I could use it at Harvey’s and the server gave me a fat handful!

Weird! I thought. What is it that is different about this all oriental drink shop- serving typically Korean beverages that made it somehow immune to the ban that every other fast food, restaurant, bar, and coffee shop had to obey?

I guess we’ll never know.

2. Campaigners warn police are bringing ‘Sharia law to British streets’ after case against man who filmed himself setting fire to Quran

Campaigners have warned Sharia law is being brought to the streets of Britain following the case of a man who burned a Quran at the memorial to the Manchester Arena bombing victims. 

Martin Frost, 47, admitted a racially aggravated public order offence after he was filmed tearing pages from the Islamic holy book and setting them alight on Saturday.  

He had publicised the event online beforehand, and it was streamed on social media, Manchester Magistrates’ Court was told on Monday.

The case has since been criticised by free speech campaigners, however, who have warned it could also leave Frost at risk of retaliation.

Stephen Evans, chief executive of the National Secular Society, told The Telegraph: ‘[The case] brings us perilously close to reinstating blasphemy laws.’

Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, went further to claim police are ‘enforcing Sharia law on Britain’s streets’.

Frost’s name, date and the borough where he lives were all published by Greater Manchester Police on X in a post announcing he had been charged. 

In a letter to the force, Lord Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union raised concerns about the defendant’s safety as a consequence. 

He claimed that the case ‘should never have been a police matter, adding the decision to name Frost ‘may well have placed him in great jeopardy’. 

Related: From Jihad Watch

UK: Judge tells Qur’an burner that ‘this is a tolerant country, but we just do not tolerate this behavior’

“Man admits setting fire to Quran and streaming it online at Glade of Light memorial,” Manchester Evening News, February 4, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A man has admitted a racially aggravated public order offence after setting fire to a Quran which was live-streamed on social media in Manchester.

Martin Frost, 47, was filmed holding a flag of Israel before tearing out pages of the Islamic holy book and setting fire to it in Manchester on Saturday (February 1), a court heard. He had publicised the event online beforehand, and it was streamed on social media, Manchester Magistrates’ Court was told.

The ‘trigger’ for his actions was the death of his daughter in the Israeli conflict which had affected his mental health, the court heard on Monday (February 3).

You all know what to think of that. No comment from me is needed. Love to read yours though

OK one comment from me.

3. Let’s have a listen to the inner thoughts of a bureaucrat in a socialist polity, where a missing billion dollars does not mean there is any waste taking place.

4. Bill Gates financial timelines, stock trades Vs. narrative

Just for the record, a “philanthropist” is an oligarch the media likes. An oligarch is a philanthropist the media doesn’t like. (And it helps a lot if they’re Russian)

5. Al Sisi you your drone and raise you 15 F35 joint strike fighters

Thanks all for checking in. More to come tomorrow including an interesting interview with an expert on the ‘Trans’ dialectic attack on identity.