At 21, Gianluca Rindone got his first job making bodies for Fiat’s Maserati cars alongside his father, a Sicilian who had been lured to Turin’s auto boom in the 1970s. He thought it would be a lifelong career but after three decades Rindone has been furloughed, falling victim to the carmaker’s decision to suspend production at its last Turin factory . . .
The Center for Immigration Studies’ Todd Bensman, who’s done groundbreaking reporting on the border surge, has been in southern Mexico documenting what is going on there and in Central America as the election battles out in the U.S.
There was a time when an invitation to a party hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of the most sought-after tickets in the entertainment industry.
With guest lists that included Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton and Jennifer Lopez, it was a chance to rub shoulders with some of the biggest celebrities. Jay-Z and Beyoncé even released new music at his events.
“When Diddy winked at you and said come into the VIP section, you knew you were going to have a really good night,” Rob Shuter, who worked as a publicist for the rapper at the height of his fame, told BBC News in an exclusive interview.
Here's an old video of Obama thanking Diddy for "doing the kind of work he's doing". pic.twitter.com/Zr351XEF1v
— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) October 13, 2024
Progressives put principles over policy
A journey through Los Angeles, the adopted home of Vice President Kamala Harris, offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction. As you drive through the streets of the southside, and along Central Avenue, the historic main street of black LA, now mostly Hispanic, the ambience is increasingly reminiscent of Mexico City or Mumbai: broken pavements; battered buildings; outdoor swap meets; food stalls serving customers much as one would see in the developing world.
A Las Vegas couple face charges of assault, battery, and stalking after harassing a Trump voter outside his home earlier this month and running over his foot as after he pulled a gun.
It was a case that made headlines globally and led to widespread condemnation.
A teenaged widow was burned on her husband’s funeral pyre under the Hindu practice of sati 37 years ago.
Now Roop Kanwar’s story has returned to headlines in India after a court acquitted eight men accused of glorifying her death, in the last of the remaining cases in the grisly saga.
Sati was first banned in 1829 by the British colonial rulers, but the practice had continued even after India’s independence in 1947. Kanwar is recognised as India’s last sati.
“… Post-War liberalism unilaterally disarmed Europe of the right to exercise an in-group preference for respective countries’ cultures, histories, and peoples. It compelled us to treat everyone with the false anthropology of the Blank Slate: as if all cultural, geographical, and biological differences are inconsequential, and easily remedied by technocrats turning the dials of education and economic opportunity. Liberalism is recalcitrant to recognise how involuntary factors — like ethnic and cultural heritage — may influence one’s likelihood of buying into a civilization’s story. It has, paradoxically, placed upon Europe the burden of unique, non-expungable guilt for past atrocities, thinning out its history to a list of grievances requiring recompense. Such optimism is the furthest thing from Nazi racial determinism; but sacrifices the ability to stake a claim in any one conception of the good. Liberalism is, as James Burnham said, “the ideology of Western suicide”.
This is a long and at times dense read but worth your while as it touches on the ills of multiculturalism, mass immigration, minority grievance culture, cultural relativism and all the other crap that has turned western nations into borderline 3rd world shitholes.
h/t Sweetpea
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has grabbed headlines yet again. This time for celebrating the legalization of weed in his country.
Amid escalating diplomatic tensions between India and Canada, Trudeau is fast losing favor among Canadian citizens and is being criticized for his recent social media post commemorating the sixth anniversary of cannabis legalization in Canada.
You also took away the dream of home ownership for millions of Canadians. pic.twitter.com/zJ4f7Y0oZs
— Johnny Seabass (@PopeSeabass) October 17, 2024
Nine years ago this fall, the leaders of the three major federal parties at the time gathered on a stage in Toronto for a debate on foreign policy. The resulting discussion seems a bit quaint now.
The topics covered — Canada’s contribution to the fight against the Islamic State, a refugee crisis in Syria, the Conservative government’s anti-terror laws — were not exactly trifling. But India received only a glancing reference. Donald Trump, who had announced his candidacy for president of the United States four months earlier, wasn’t mentioned at all. Neither was China.
Literally and figuratively, it was a different time.
Sure was a different time, no one imagined Trudeau would turn out to be a political arsonist. A shitty PM?. Sure but not the crazy person he has revealed himself to be.
And the “accusations” against the Conservative party were not jaw-dropping when weighed against the extent of Liberal party perfidy.
Trudeau’s testimony was nothing more than a distraction to take the heat off his growing caucus mutiny.
Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states.
“Never seen anything like this in thirty years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican registration among California’s minority voters, including the state’s numerous Latinos, growing numbers of Asians, and decreasing number of Blacks.
All Kamala wanted to do was run on vibes, vague platitudes & claim she grew up "Middle Class."
Guess what Kamala?
I grew up in a poor family.
I've watched you & Joe destroy our country.
I know you have no idea what you're talking about.And the American people have HAD ENOUGH. pic.twitter.com/DvtRpCmX88
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) October 19, 2024
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bombshell allegation in Parliament last year that agents of the Indian government were linked to the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader on Canadian soil sent relations between Ottawa and New Delhi plummeting.
Since then, each country has expelled the other’s diplomats, and police here have alleged Indian government involvement in a wide range of violent acts targeting Sikhs in Canada. Trudeau this week said India had made a “horrific mistake” in thinking it could violate Canada’s sovereignty.
The claims have deepened concerns among Western officials that India, a country they’ve sought to court as a counter to China, is practicing “transnational repression” — a tactic more commonly employed by authoritarian regimes such as in Russia and Iran — to target its critics abroad.
A plague on all their houses. This is a Justin Trudeau problem brought about by his reliance on identity politics.
Please stop meatriding. I cannot handle one more day of it. pic.twitter.com/SkXkhsi0kv
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 19, 2024
When Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, many assumed her Left-wing ideology would immediately take centre stage. Lo and behold, that’s what happened.
Harris is a progressive’s progressive. She’s pro-affirmative action and supports gun control. She is weak on illegal immigration, has defended sanctuary cities, and was one of ten senators who opposed the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement in part because it didn’t tackle climate change.
Elle DeGeneres has a pro-Kamala, pro-abortion post up on Instagram and the comment section isn’t what you’d expect. pic.twitter.com/oKSYH25QBj
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 19, 2024
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table,” President Ronald Reagan told the nation in his 1989 farewell address — and the 2024 Alfred E. Smith Dinner is no exception to the rule.
Politics, money, and religion were all at the table Thursday evening as a plethora of plutocrats gathered for the annual event in New York City, which comedian Jim Gaffigan called the “Catholic Met Gala” in his opening comments.
Traditionally, both Democrat and Republican presidential nominees speak before a room of hundreds of diners. They elicit laughs with lighthearted roasts as a testament to the humanity of larger-than-life politicians.
