The 147 Republican Traitors Who Voted To Overturn The Election After The Capitol Siege

In the Senate:

  • Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

  • Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

  • Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)

  • John Kennedy (R-La.)

  • Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)

  • Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)

  • Rick Scott (R-Fla.)

  • Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)

In the House:

  • Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.)

  • Rick Allen (R-Ga.)

  • Jodey Arrington (R-Texas)

  • Brian Babin (R-Texas)

  • Jim Baird (R-Ind.)

  • Jim Banks (R-Ind.)

  • Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.)

  • Jack Bergman (R-Mich.)

  • Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.)

  • Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)

  • Dan Bishop (R-N.C.)

  • Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)

  • Mike Bost (R-Ill.)

  • Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)

  • Ted Budd (R-N.C.)

  • Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.)

  • Michael Burgess (R-Texas)

  • Ken Calvert (R-Calif.)

  • Kat Cammack (R-Fla.)

  • Jerry Carl (R-Ala.)

  • Buddy Carter (R-Ga.)

  • John Carter (R-Texas)

  • Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.)

  • Steve Chabot (R-Ohio)

  • Ben Cline (R-Va.)

  • Michael Cloud (R-Texas)

  • Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)

  • Tom Cole (R-Okla.)

  • Rick Crawford (R-Ark.)

  • Warren Davidson (R-Ohio)

  • Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.)

  • Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.)

  • Byron Donalds (R-Fla.)

  • Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)

  • Neal Dunn (R-Fla.)

  • Ron Estes (R-Kan.)

  • Pat Fallon (R-Texas)

  • Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.)

  • Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.)

  • Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)

  • Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.)

  • Scott Franklin (R-Fla.)

  • Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho)

  • Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)

  • Mike Garcia (R-Calif.)

  • Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio)

  • Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.)

  • Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)

  • Bob Good (R-Va.)

  • Lance Gooden (R-Texas)

  • Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)

  • Garret Graves (R-La.)

  • Sam Graves (R-Mo.)

  • Mark Green (R-Tenn.)

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)

  • Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)

  • Michael Guest (R-Miss.)

  • Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.)

  • Andy Harris (R-Md.)

  • Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.)

  • Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.)

  • Kevin Hern (R-Okla.)

  • Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.)

  • Jody Hice (R-Ga.)

  • Clay Higgins (R-La.)

  • Richard Hudson (R-N.C.)

  • Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)

  • Ronny Jackson (R-Texas)

  • Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.)

  • Bill Johnson (R-Ohio)

  • Mike Johnson (R-La.)

  • Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)

  • John Joyce (R-Pa.)

  • Fred Keller (R-Pa.)

  • Mike Kelly (R-Pa.)

  • Trent Kelly (R-Miss.)

  • David Kustoff (R-Tenn.)

  • Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.)

  • Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.)

  • Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.)

  • Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.)

  • Billy Long (R-Mo.)

  • Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.)

  • Frank Lucas (R-Okla.)

  • Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.)

  • Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.)

  • Tracey Mann (R-Kan.)

  • Brian Mast (R-Fla.)

  • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

  • Lisa McClain (R-Mich.)

  • Daniel Meuser (R-Pa.)

  • Carol Miller (R-W.Va.)

  • Mary Miller (R-Ill.)

  • Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.)

  • Barry Moore (R-Ala.)

  • Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)

  • Greg Murphy (R-N.C.)

  • Troy Nehls (R-Texas)

  • Ralph Norman (R-S.C.)

  • Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)

  • Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.)

  • Burgess Owens (R-Utah)

  • Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.)

  • Gary Palmer (R-Ala.)

  • Greg Pence (R-Ind.)

  • Scott Perry (R-Pa.)

  • August Pfluger (R-Texas)

  • Bill Posey (R-Fla.)

  • Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.)

  • Tom Rice (R-S.C.)

  • Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)

  • Mike Rogers (R-Ala.)

  • John Rose (R-Tenn.)

  • Matthew Rosendale (R-Mont.)

  • David Rouzer (R-N.C.)

  • John Rutherford (R-Fla.)

  • House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)

  • David Schweikert (R-Ariz.)

  • Pete Sessions (R-Texas)

  • Adrian Smith (R-Neb.)

  • Jason Smith (R-Mo.)

  • Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.)

  • Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)

  • Gregory Steube (R-Fla.)

  • Chris Stewart (R-Utah)

  • Thomas Tiffany (R-Wis.)

  • Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.)

  • William Timmons (R-S.C.)

  • Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.)

  • Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas)

  • Tim Walberg (R-Mich.)

  • Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.)

  • Randy Weber (R-Texas)

  • Daniel Webster (R-Fla.)

  • Roger Williams (R-Texas)

  • Joe Wilson (R-S.C.)

  • Robert Wittman (R-Va.)

  • Ron Wright (R-Texas)

  • Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.)

We are all hypocrites but some of us...

Food for thought. An interesting article by Amnesty International at the University of Toronto taken in its entirety from https://amnesty.sa.utoronto.ca/2022/03/20/double-standards-what-the-ukrainian-refugee-crisis-reveals-about-western-racism/

Image from:https://www.easternbaptist.org.uk/news/welcoming-ukrainian-refugees/

Double Standards: What the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis Reveals About Western Racism

The Russo-Ukrainian war is a localized invasion that managed to expose the global
human rights violations of refugees from around the world. In the span of the first few days of the attacks,

Europe’s acceptance of White Ukrainian refugees and the media’s overtly racist
portrayals and discrimination of non-European refugees all quickly played out to show the
blatant double standards of Western dealings with the refugee crisis.

Following the third week of the influx of 3 million Ukrainian displaced persons into
Europe, the European Union (EU) activated a renewed Temporary Protection Directive (TPD)
that aimed for the immediate integration of Ukrainian refugees into other European societies and
their protection for the span of one year. The original TPD was initially formed in 2001 to
establish the required process for hosting asylum seekers fleeing persecution or conflict. It was
renewed March of 2022 to specifically address the needs of Ukrainian citizens. The renewed
TPD’s first few articles grant Ukrainians the ability to travel without a visa for 90 days out of a
180 day span as a way to maintain autonomy over their choice of residence, and to spread the
burden of hosting refugees across Europe. The directive also provides Ukrainians the right to
medical care, employment, education and shelter.

Although the TPD was already well-established during the wars in Iraq, Syria,
Afghanistan, and Yemen, it was not extended to the refugees of these countries. During the influx
of Syrian citizens in 2015, European countries did not activate the TPD with the claim that the
refugees had not met the required criteria to put the directive into effect. Most Syrians were
placed in temporary camps and not given the necessary aid as stipulated by the directive, putting
them in a ‘state of limbo.’

In as recent as 2021, European states including Denmark, Turkey and Sweden intensified
the pressure put on Syrian refugees to return to their countries, and protection was restrained. A
report by Amnesty International identified that those who did return to Syria faced harrowing
consequences of torture, rape and disappearance. While military attacks were less frequent, the
“Coverage of Ukraine Refugee crisis is ‘racist’” – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/Middle East Monitor]
instability of the region and its ongoing human rights abuses did not cease. European countries,
however, declared Syria a safe zone and enforced deportation strategies. The pressure put on
Syrians is only made worse with the hostilities held by European citizens who continue to
express blatant Islamophobia and nationalism. In Turkey, mob attacks and a public outcry against
Syrians pressured the government to deport some of the refugees in 2019. Denmark was one
step ahead and decided to not deal with the issue at all by preventing refugees from any form of
aid with its self-declared “zero-asylum policy.” It also instituted a “jewelry law” that granted
the government the right to seize refugee assets as a way to ‘pay rent’ for their stay. These laws
do not extend to Ukrainians.

Poland is another European country exhibiting striking double standards. It has been
praised for its open-door policy as it welcomes all Ukrainian refugees and encourages its citizens
to be generous hosts. Poland’s humanitarian efforts extend from the community to the federal
and military levels who, as borders open up to 1.4 million Ukrainians, offer transportation
services, shelter and healthcare upon arrival. Poland’s hypocrisy exposes itself when looking at
its past dealings with refugees that are as recent as late 2021. In the fall and winter of 2021,
between 2,000 and 4,000 Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees were left stranded between the
borders of Poland and Belarus, prevented entry from either country. They were not allowed
proper shelter, food, clean water or medicine. 13 people died from hypothermia as temperatures
fell to below freezing, and 431 Iraqis were forcefully sent back to Iraq in repatriation flights. In
October of 2021, Poland adopted an amendment that denies refugees the right to seek asylum
and dismisses further applicants, an illegal violation of international refugee law of which Poland
is a signatory.

Even when looking at Ukrainian refugees today, discriminatory practices are still
prevalent as Polish generosity is only extended to White Ukrainians. African students recount the
segregation process initiated by Polish forces, where students were explicitly given second
priority to entry and forms of humanitarian aid, sometimes being charged for it. Their spots
on buses and trains were taken to make room for Ukrainians and, upon arrival in Poland,
refugees were separated into two lines: one for White Ukrainians, and the other for visible
minorities. Visual footage and personal accounts further reveal that physical and verbal abuse
was a common tactic used against African, Indian and Arab students upon entry into European
countries.

Public portrayals of the Ukrainian crisis only furthers the antagonism, while also
revealing the racist criteria of refugee admission and hypocritical nature of European
governmental intervention. A popular justification for the conflicting treatments of Ukrainian
refugees as opposed to Syrian, Afghani, and Yemeni refugees has been the different proposed
levels of civility. Undue judgements are made that accuse non-White refugees of posing a
threat to European culture, and sometimes going to the extent of claiming that refugees might be
harbouring potential terrorists. While Ukrainians are praised for their armed resistance,
Palestinian and South African struggles for freedom are simultaneously condemned and given
the label of ‘violent terrorism.’ The strategies taken by governments, corporations and media
outlets are also revealing of the double standards they inhibit. Examples include the immediate
sanctions imposed on Russia and the promotion of cultural boycotts, two tactics USA and Europe
refrained from using against Apartheid South Africa and Israel. Biden’s rash labelling of Putin
as “war criminal” – a contradictory term previously avoided until thorough investigation has
been conducted – also exposes the politically-motivated and far from righteous double standards
when dealing with oppressive regimes.

Political science assistant professor Lamis Abdelaaty points to the astounding immediacy
of labelling oncoming Ukrainians as refugees. She draws on the 1951 Refugee Convention that
defines the status of a refugee as one that is directly persecuted and unable to return to their
country of origin. Contrastingly, while not dismissing the dangerous state of Ukraine, its
citizens are fleeing generalized violence rather than persecution. They have the ability and
capacity to flee as opposed to other refugees whose treks across the world were arguably as
dangerous as their presence in their country of origin. Syrians were not initially given the status
of refugees and were subliminally portrayed as migrants, the former being a term to represent
temporary asylum seekers in need of aid, while the latter encompassing individuals seeking
permanent residence and hence ones who are in competition with the locals for employment and
shelter.

The striking double standards presented by the Ukrainian crisis are attributed to two
factors: the inherent racism of European states that were built on the exploitation of the Global
South, and the political motivations of USA and Europe that jump at the chance of delegitimizing
Russia. However, such motivations are not credible enough to justify the continued racist
treatment of non-European asylum seekers. Afghans and Iraqis, who are in the situation they
currently are in due to US and Western interference, and Syrians and Yemenis, are still victims of
persecution in their origin countries and should thus be extended the protection of Europe’s TPD.
The same goes for non-European asylum seekers from Ukraine, who are fleeing from the same
threats as European Ukrainians.

The most important action we can take as individuals is to dismantle our societies’
inherently racist structures that exhibit themselves most vividly during times of crisis and to call
out the institutions and individuals who harbour such hostilities. Humanitarian efforts supporting
victims of malicious war crimes and racist refugee policy must be endorsed so they can continue
to help refugees who face physical and psychological trauma in both their home countries and
European countries alike.

Solidarity is an action that must be equally extended to all victims of oppression and its
selective use is a facade calling for deconstruction. If you stand in solidarity with Ukrainians,
you must extend the same empathy to African-Ukrainians, Indian-Ukrainians, Syrians, Iraqis,
Afghanis, Yemenis, Palestinians, Indigenous communities, Sahrawis, the Rohingya, Uyghur and
every other oppressed group around the world that you have the power of supporting.

References:

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    persons from Ukraine’ (2022) Official Journal of the European Union L 71

  2. Micinski, N.R. (2022). The E.U. granted Ukrainian refugees temporary protection. Why the different response from past migrant crises? The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/16/eu-granted-ukrainian-refugees-temporary-protection-why-different-response-past-migrantcrises/

  3. ‘European Union Council directive 2001/55/EC establishing the existence of a mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine’ (2022) Official Journal of the European Union L 71 p. 2

  4. Micinski, N.R. (2022). The E.U. granted Ukrainian refugees temporary protection. Why the different response from past migrant crises? The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/16/eu-granted-ukrainian-refugees-temporary-protection-why-different-response-past-migrantcrises/

  5. Petillo, K. (2022). Stuck in limbo: How Europe can protect Syrian refugees. European Council on Foreign Relations. https://ecfr.eu/article/stuck-in-limbo-how-europe-can-protect-syrian-refugees/

  6. Amnesty International. (2021). Syria: Former refugees tortured, raped, disappeared after returning home. Amnesty International. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/09/syria-former-refugees-torturedraped-disappeared-after-returning-home/

  7. Ozduzen, O., Korkut, U., & Ozduzen, C. (2021). ‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey. New Media & Society, 23(11), 3349–3369. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820956341

  8. Hardman, N. (2022). Denmark’s Mismatched Treatment of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees: Government Should Treat All Refugees Equally. Human Rights Watch. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/16/denmarks-mismatched-treatment-syrian-and-ukrainian-refugees

  9. Rosenzweig-Ziff, D., Rauhala, E., Bearak, M. (2022). As trains of Ukrainian refugees arrive in Berlin, E.U. offers warm but ‘temporary’ welcome. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/02/ukraine-refugees-berlin-temporary-protection/

  10. International Rescue Committee. (2022). What is happening at the Belarus-Poland border? International Rescue Committee. https://www.rescue.org/article/what-happening-belarus-poland-border

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  15. CBS News. (2022). Black Ukraine refugees allege discrimination while trying to escape Russian invasion. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-ukraine-refugees-racism-discriminationrussian-invasion/

  16. Dias, I. (2022). Ukrainian Refugees Are Being Embraced by Europe. Why Weren’t Syrians? MotherJones. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ukrainian-refugees-are-being-embraced-byeurope-why-werent-syrians/

  17. The Associated Press. (2022). Europe’s different approach to Ukrainian and Syrian refugees draws accusations of racism. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-racism-ukraine-refugees-1.6367932

  18. Al Jazeera Staff. (2022). ‘Double standards’: Western coverage of Ukraine war criticised. AlJazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/western-media-coverage-ukraine-russia-invasion-criticism

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  20. Munayyer, Y. (2022). On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-palestine-occupation/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%204.03.2022&utm_term=daily

  21. Long, C., Corder, M., & Tucker, E. (2022). EXPLAINER: Who’s a war criminal, and who gets to decide? AP News. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-united-nations-jenpsaki-40e21508055f7ff65424afe2d8e406d8

  22. GA Res 2198 (XXI), UNHCR, UN (28 July 1951) Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.

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2/75 Ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq

As some of you know I co-wrote a book, Run to the Sound of the Guns, with Nicholas Moore about his 13 combat deployments and some of the incredible missions he was involved in like the rescue of Private Lynch, shooting dead a suicide bomber protecting the local AQ emir, recoveries of the men and dogs who died on Extortion 17, the Marucs Luttrell rescue and more. The Team House did a podcast with him a little while ago. The link is below.

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2021

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2021

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2021. Of the 1597 books that were targeted, here are the most challenged, along with the reasons cited for censoring the books:

  1. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
    Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images

  2. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
    Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit

  3. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
    Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit

  4. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
    Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit

  5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
    Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda

  6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
    Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references and use of a derogatory term

  7. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
    Reasons: Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women

  8. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    Reasons: Banned and challenged because it depicts child sexual abuse and was considered sexually explicit

  9. This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
    Reasons: Banned, challenged, relocated, and restricted for providing sexual education and LGBTQIA+ content.

  10. Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
    Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. 

The Guardian view on Israel’s threat within: rightwing extremism in government

Editorial

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/the-guardian-view-on-israels-threat-within-rightwing-extremism-in-government

Benjamin Netanyahu is playing with fire by giving racist politicians control over the police and the occupied territories

The crisis in the Holy Land is once again at “boiling point”, with blood being spilled on both sides. Tor Wennesland, the UN’s peace envoy, did not mince his words to the security council this week. The rising death toll in the West Bank, the worst since 2006, is roiling the waters. Since January, about 140 Palestinians have been killed in this territory, nearly all by Israeli forces. Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis have left 30 dead.

Days earlier, Mr Wennesland had been “horrified” by the fatal shooting of an unarmed Palestinian man during a scuffle with an Israeli border police officer. The macabre video of the killing revealed he was right to be alarmed. Yet rather than upbraiding the officer for a public execution, the incoming national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, from the far-right Jewish Power party, hailed him as a hero.

The Religious Zionism bloc, led by Mr Ben-Gvir and the Jewish supremacist Bezalel Smotrich, is now the third-largest group in the Knesset. Harbouring racists and homophobes, it was the big winner in last month’s elections. The losers were Israeli democracy and the Palestinians. Yaakov Katz, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, has good reason to call Mr Ben-Gvir “the modern Israeli version of an American white supremacist and a European fascist”. Mr Ben-Gvir, who has been convicted of racist incitement and support for terrorism, already has tense relations with Israel’s Arab minority. As he has repeatedly pledged to relocate Bedouins and Palestinian Israeli citizens to neighbouring Arab states, much worse could be in store for them.

The proximate cause for violent extremists in Israel’s government is Benjamin Netanyahu. On trial for corruption – charges that Mr Netanyahu denies – he seems willing to pay any price to end the cases against him. In return for an assault on Israel’s justice system through new legislation advanced by his far-right and ultra-Orthodox allies, Mr Netanyahu appearsto be reshaping government to their advantage – notably handing over virtually untrammelled powers in the occupied territories. He seeks to ride the radical wave surging through Jewish Israeli society. About 60% of such voters now consider themselves rightwing – up from 46% in 2019. Among young Israelis, support tops 70%.

These trends should worry Israel. Since 1967, the country has given itself plausible deniability over deepening an illegal occupation in the West Bank by claiming the region was under an apolitical, military-administered legal regime that respects international law. This, said successive Israeli governments, was a temporary solution until a permanent deal was reached with the Palestinians. Putting Mr Smotrich’s party in charge threatens to expose this as a charade, confirming that Israeli occupation is a form of apartheid.

Mr Netanyahu appears to be betting the world will blink first. His friends in the Gulf are sticking by him. The Biden administration says it will judge the new government by its policies, not its personalities. But the far-right march to their own drum. Mr Smotrich supports the annexation of the West Bank, the expansion of settlements and the demolition of Palestinian homes. Mr Ben-Gvir plans a provocative ministerial “visit” to Haram al-Sharif, site of the third-holiest shrine in Islam, under the pretence that Israeli Jews are struggling for their religious rights. If such words become deeds, then a Palestinian uprising – a third intifada – won’t be far away. This is a dismal thought, but it seems to be where the unfortunate evolution of Israeli politics is heading.

“Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd”

 

 


Pierre Poilievre is a moron.

I wonder how he would feel if it were his family or friends who got murdered? But like all shameless politicians he can only think about his own agenda.

Pierre Poilievre: “We know that 80 per cent of the guns used in crime actually come trafficked from the United States and are used by illegal gangsters and gunrunners,” he said.

“It is not the hunter in Grand Falls that is shooting up downtown Toronto. It is the gangster who does repeated offences and gets out through the revolving door.”https://www.country94.ca/2022/12/09/pierre-poilievre-talks-carbon-tax-gun-laws-in-n-b/

Or….

On April 18 and 19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings and set fires at 16 locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Enfield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks#Perpetrator

Or

The École Polytechnique massacre (French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique), also known as the Montreal massacre, was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured.

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student

Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student

Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student

Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student

Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department

Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student

Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student

Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student

Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student

Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique_massacre

Saudi Arabia - 9/11 hijackers, murderers of Jamal Khashoggi and thousands of Yemeni children

Couldn’t have said this any better - well, maybe I would have mentioned 9/11 - no, I definitely would have mentioned it. Time for an absolute rethink on our failed strategies in the Middle East - we’ve been making poor decisions for nearly a century.

Sadly though: BERNIE SANDERS PULLS YEMEN WAR POWERS RESOLUTION AMID OPPOSITION FROM WHITE HOUSE

Sanders pledged to work with the Biden administration on compromise language and bring the resolution back to the floor if talks failed.

Full article here: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/13/bernie-sanders-yemen-war-white-house/