Pitesti: Romania’s Communist Nightmare of Re-Education and Torture

A barbaric experiment in a Romanian prison saw inmates subjected to horrific torture, forced betrayals, and psychological destruction.

Recent events in Romania, including the cancellation of elections, have filled social networks with comments about the country’s recent past, back to the days when the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe.

During World War II, the Soviets used Pavlov’s conditioned reflex theories to train their bomb dogs. The animals were starved for several days and then fed under a tank with the engine running, so that the dog associated the noise of the engine with food. Once under the tank, where there is less armour, the explosive charge carried on the dog’s back was activated and destroyed both the animal and the enemy tank.

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Brookfield’s Deep Ties To Chinese Land, Loans & Green Deals

A review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing.

h/t DS

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Will Palestinian refugees be moved to Africa?

It is evident that Israel, with the help of the United States, wishes to shunt its Palestinian refugee problem onto other states. American and Israeli officials this week leaked to the Associated Press that they had contacted the governments of Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland to propose using their countries as potential destinations to resettle Palestinians displaced from Israel. Meanwhile, the Trump administration will proceed with its plan to take over the ruined Gaza and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

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Canada has far too few soldiers. Here’s a radical fix — mandatory service

Back in the disco era, long before he became one of Canada’s top soldiers, Michel Maisonneuve was an exchange officer with a French regiment, based in Sedan, in the Ardennes.

The sister to his Valcartier-based armoured regiment, it was known, in French, as the 12th Hunters.

In those days — the late ’70s — the French had conscription: citizens were expected to serve a year.

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Why villagers in town that will have more asylum seekers than residents have been SILENCED

It’s Britain’s biggest and most controversial camp for asylum seekers whose 800 mostly male migrants will soon outnumber the residents of the village it abuts.

But while the Wethersfield centre has been criticised by everyone from refugee charities to anti immigration politicians like Priti Patel, the one group who have been conspicuously silent have been those residents themselves.

And MailOnline has found that the likely reason for the curious hesitancy of locals to discuss their plight is the fear of being condemned in a ‘woke backlash’ by outsiders as intolerant or – worse – even racists.

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Second Muslim Nurse in Australia Charged with Claiming to Have Killed Jews

In early February, Ahmed Rashid Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, two Muslim nurses working at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney, Australia, were having an online conversation with Max Veifer, an Israeli. Here is some of what was said, captured on videotape. “Nurses’ full anti-Semitic rant revealed,” by Clareese Packer, NewsWire, February 14, 2025

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Conrad Black: We must throw Carney out of office at first chance

I recently received the following series of rhetorical exhortations from a friend who, like many Canadians, is unable to discuss President Donald Trump rationally. He wrote: “Imagine America deporting an academic from Columbia University for criticizing Israel. Imagine a President who repeats every morning that he is at war with Canada with the intent to achieve Anschluss. Imagine an American population that stands meekly by as its president acts as a dictator, internally and globally, no check, no balance, no accountability. Compare the quality of leadership in America with that of Russia and China these days.”

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How a Hamas supporting Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her

Ranjani Srinivasan Hamas Supporting Illegal Alien Invader

The first knock at the door came eight days ago, on a Friday morning.

Three federal immigration agents showed up at a Columbia University apartment searching for Ranjani Srinivasan, who had recently learned her student visa had been revoked. Ms. Srinivasan, an international student from India, did not open the door.

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What’s Trump’s endgame with global tariffs? Canadian officials say they have a clearer idea

After a lengthy meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade officials on Thursday, Canadian representatives say they have a clearer understanding of the rationale behind Trump’s insistence on tariffs — not just on Canada but on the whole world.

“Tariffs are now a global policy of the United States,” said David Paterson, Ontario’s representative in Washington. “And this is a historic change to global trading patterns, and [the Americans are] very aware of that.”

This says commitment to tariffs as the new normal.

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Bay Street insiders question Carney’s ‘placebo’ blind trust as Brookfield ties come under scrutiny

OTTAWA — During his leadership-race victory speech on Sunday, now Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney went off-script to take a shot at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

“I know the leader of the Opposition is into full disclosure,” he quipped, gesticulating with his hands and raising his eyebrows, an apparent retort to Poilievre and the Conservatives’ criticism of Brookfield Asset Management’s decision to move its head office from Toronto to New York, last year, when Carney was still its chair.

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