Energy ‘corruption’ leaves Ukrainians facing a deadly freeze

At a secret location outside Kyiv, the brigadier watched as explosions hammered the concrete structure that his team of ten British military engineers, intelligence officers and diplomats had clandestinely helped to create.

The rocket test, described by sources to The Sunday Times, was the culmination of months of hard work, under the constant threat of Russian airstrikes. When it finished in February, the British engineers, alongside teams from America, Germany and Japan, advised their Ukrainian colleagues that they should build the structures to protect Ukraine’s energy grid from Russian attack.

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John Ivison: Another wake-up call to ready for war as Canada slumbers on

On the day that Vladimir Putin said NATO members are now directly involved in the war in Ukraine because they have supplied missiles being used to bomb Russia, Justin Trudeau was announcing a yuletide $6.3-billion GST holiday on Christmas trees, beer and popcorn.

Canada, remember, is the country that can’t afford to hit its NATO spending target of two per cent of GDP for another eight years.


Unfortunately there really isn’t anything that we citizens can do to force Trudeau out short of violence.

I would suggest a general strike but that would just give our Captains of industry cause to replace everyone with Justin’s 3rd World replacement Canadians.

Our Tranny forces aren’t much use to anyone any how.

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Police force faces legal action over guidance allowing trans officers to strip-search women

The British Transport Police is facing legal action over new guidance that allows trans officers to strip-search women.

Women’s rights campaigners have penned a letter to Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi calling for the advice to be removed on the basis that it breaches human rights.

It says that they are willing to try to bring a judicial review of the guidance.

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Boissonnault debacle feeds into pattern of ethical lapses in government, deepens Liberal woes, say observers

Former employment minister Randy Boissonnault’s resignation has ignited a political firestorm amid allegations his former company claimed Indigenous status to secure federal contracts, sparking outrage from Indigenous advocates and opposition MPs. The debacle further damages the Liberals’ credibility at a time when they already face bleak public opinion polls, say observers.

“If I were he, and the polling were already so bad for my party, I probably would have left much sooner in an effort to not damage the party,” former Conservative staffer Yaroslav Baran told The Hill Times.

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Barbara Kay: Trump, make the military manly again

Withdrawal of approval by President-elect Donald Trump from his choice for Secretary of the Department of Defence (DoD), Pete Hegseth, is apparently becoming a real possibility, because of Hegseth’s failure, now a serious distraction, to disclose a 2017 claim of sexual misconduct to Trump’s transition team.

On the one hand, Hegseth’s removal from contention would be no great loss, since he is widely regarded as lacking the necessary experience and political capital to oversee the mammoth Pentagon’s three million employees and $800 billion budget.

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There Will Be No Reckoning by the Media-Pundit Industrial Complex

Allan Lichtman’s weekslong on-air meltdown, refusing to admit his election prediction was wrong, is a symbol of the times.

A funny thing happened this week.

Historian Allan Lichtman had yet another televised postelection meltdown, exchanging a barrage of words with Young Turks host Cenk Uygur over the professor’s botched 2024 predictions.

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‘All Churches in Egypt Should be Destroyed’: The Persecution of Christians, October 2024

Burkina Faso: On Sunday, October 6, Muslim terrorists launched a surprise attack on the town of Manni, which is home to a large Christian community. More than 200 people were massacred during the jihad. According to one report,

“[T]he terrorists first cut mobile phone networks before attacking the local market, where many people had gathered after Mass. They then opened fire indiscriminately, looted shops and set fire to several buildings, burning some victims alive… [On] the next day, the perpetrators returned to attack medical staff and kill the many wounded in the city’s hospital. A new incursion took place on Tuesday, 8 October, when the terrorists again invaded the town of Manni, massacring all the men they could find.”

“The situation is beyond horrific,” a local said. “But even if the terrorists burned everything, they didn’t burn our faith!”

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Has X become a Right-wing echo chamber?

Shortly after Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter in April 2022, he wrote that for the platform to maintain the public’s trust, “it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.” More than two years down the line, it would be fair to say that the Left is a lot more upset than the Right. So is Musk turning Twitter, now X, into a Right-wing echo chamber?

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Who is D.B. Cooper? New Evidence May Crack One Of America’s Greatest Mysteries

More than five decades ago, a mild-mannered passenger in a business suit boarded a Seattle-bound flight in Oregon under the name Dan Cooper on Nov. 24, 1971. He ordered a bourbon and soda, and once in the air, handed a stewardess a handwritten note demanding $200,000 in cash and four parachutes under the threat of what appeared to be a bomb in his ratty briefcase.

The plane landed in Seattle, and authorities complied with the hijacker’s demand. After refueling, the airliner took off again.

h/t DS

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How the charge of ‘Islamophobia’ menaces free speech

The term ‘Islamophobia’ tends to almost be taken for granted in Britain today. It is treated by many politicians, commentators and campaigners as an unquestionable wrong, something that we the public need to be made ever more conscious of. Indeed, we are currently in the midst of Islamophobia Awareness month. And earlier this summer, reports emerged that prime minister Keir Starmer was considering adopting a definition of ‘Islamophobia’ for the public sector that could lead to people being censured if they say something too stinging about Islam.

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