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France preparing ‘survival manual’ for every household, report says

The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster.

If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported.

It will be divided into three parts with advice on how to protect “yourself and those around you”, what to do if a threat is imminent – with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear – and details of how to get involved in defending your community, including signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.

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Trump is targeting Canada’s dairy industry. Is it time to rethink our decades-old supply management system?

U.S. President Donald Trump may be having a cow over Canadian dairy, but it’s not the first time the U.S. government has complained about the industry’s protectionist policies.

In 2018, during his first term as president, the dairy industry was a target for an angry Trump, who railed against Canada for not allowing foreign competition in.

And he’s not far wrong, according to industry experts.

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I’m no fan but Trump’s effect may be positive

Across western democracies, upheavals in the US are prompting a startling realignment of ideas and of parties (Except post-national Canada)

One of the fascinating aspects of the French Revolution, as one convulsion after another swept France in the 1790s, was that it transformed the politics of other countries too.

Like the US today, France was, until then, seen as both the most powerful of all nations and the great upholder of the established order. The dramatic overturning of that order created admirers and enemies all over Europe with a profound effect on politics for generations: in Britain it broke the Whig party, led to Edmund Burke’s defining of conservatism and spurred the industrial and military prowess with which an enormous empire would be governed. Its effect on ideas — such as the whole concept of left and right wings in politics — endures today.

h/t DS

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Tasha Kheiriddin: No, Carney, you’re the one who must ‘look inside yourself’

Will ethical issues upend the Liberal election campaign?  The Conservatives certainly hope so — and they’re getting a hand from an unlikely source: the Canadian media.

At a news conference in London, Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Levitz and CBC News anchor Rosemary Barton grilled Prime Minister Mark Carney on his personal finances. “For a guy who has spent most of his life in the private sector, there’s no possible conflict of interest in your assets,” Barton insisted. “That’s very difficult to believe.”

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All the biggest bombshells in new JFK assassination files so far

The new trove of top secret files released on the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy left experts trawling for new clues and Donald Trump’s own staff scrambling.

The release early Tuesday evening included 2,182 PDF documents totaling 63,400 pages on the National Archives website more than 60 years after the president was shot and killed in Dallas.

It included typewritten reports and handwritten notes spanning decades, including details of a top CIA agent who claimed the deep state was responsible, Lee Harvey Oswald being a ‘poor shot’ and that Secret Service had been warned Kennedy would be killed in August, three months before the murder.

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Nearly Two Years After Tanking Bud Light, Fake Woman Dylan Mulvaney Speaks

Dylan Mulvaney, a flamboyant publicity hound who claims that he is a woman, has remained resolutely mum ever since he destroyed Bud Light, which was once the most popular beer brand in the country. After Mulvaney posted video of himself in April 2023 taking a bubble bath surrounded by cans of the brew with his cheesy mug front and center on each can, Bud Light sales went into a tailspin, and even now they have not fully recovered. Now Mulvaney is finally giving his take on the controversy, and — surprise, surprise — is playing the victim.

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Islamophobia laws are just censorship. Britain’s Muslims already have solid protection

The noted theologian Angela Rayner has decided that this Labour Government should come up with a working definition of the term Islamophobia. She has now found a former Conservative, Dominic Grieve, to head the taskforce committed to solving this conundrum. For his part, Grieve has said that he hopes that the commission he is heading “will come up with principles in defining Islamophobia” which will “thus help support positive change in our country”.

Allow me to make a prediction. Angela Rayner, Dominic Grieve and all the people involved will fail.

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Joe Rogan tees off on Mark Carney: ‘Just as bad as Trudeau’

After vowing to stop visiting Canada while Justin Trudeau was still in charge, Joe Rogan is weighing in on new Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that Canada should become the 51st state.

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New York Times changes its tune on lab-leak theory

Was the Covid-19 virus a chance case of animal-to-human transmission, or a deliberately engineered virus escaping from a gain of function laboratory? In the latest sign of a deep shift in America’s underlying political tectonics, the New York Times has published an op-ed complaining that “We were badly misled” about the origin of Covid-19. The lab-leak theory was always plausible, we’re now permitted to say; but groups of supposedly neutral and independent scientists colluded to produce independent-sounding denials, so as to make it seem like a fringe position. Now, apparently, we need “an honest conversation” so that nothing similar happens again.

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