Two-tier policing risks turning white British people into another ‘community group’

Engaging with minorities through group ‘leaders’ has perverted policing. Let’s not make that error again

On holiday during the recent riots, I got the over-lurid impression one tends to collect of events at home when abroad. Britain was burning, it seemed. The “far-Right” was taking over. Elon Musk said that civil war was “inevitable”.

Now I am back, it does not feel like that. It is true the trouble was widespread. Some of it – especially the attempt to set fire to an asylum hotel and the many assaults on police officers – was truly nasty.

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Trudeau promises a stern finger wagging at companies caught abusing the Foreign Worker Scam

Trudeau mulls name-and-shame policy to curb foreign worker abuse

(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is mulling a change to help crack down on abuses of temporary foreign workers — publicly naming individual business managers or owners who violate Canada’s labor rules.

The measure would be part of a broader set of reforms to clean up the country’s migrant labor system, according to people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition they not be identified.

The government is facing heavy criticism for a policy that has made it much easier for companies to bring in temporary foreign workers, or TFWs, and for lax enforcement of rules intended to protect them. Trudeau’s administration, responding to concerns about labor shortages, increased the limits on low-wage TFWs in 2022, allowing firms to hire up to 20% of their staff through that program — with a 30% limit in certain sectors, such as construction.

So Trudeau will let them continue to flood the nation with wage depressing foreigners but promises a stern finger wagging. 

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Reid: Christians For Harris Are Akin To Those Who ‘Led The Civil Rights Movement’

MSNBC’s Joy Reid is terrified of religion intersecting with politics and is constantly worrying on The ReidOut about the threat of “Christian Nationalism.” On Wednesday, though, she found an exception for Kamala Harris supporters who mix religion and politics because they are like the “Christian pastors who led the civil rights movement.”

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WTF?

h/t Mauser

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Dean Ridings: The price we pay for ‘Googling it’

Not that many years ago, the best way to find out about businesses in town was through your local newspaper. Your local newspaper is still a great source of advertising information, but if you’re looking for something, chances are you’re going to start by “Googling it.” Have you ever wondered why that’s become our go-to move? Well, a recent court ruling has shed some light on this, and it’s not a pretty picture.

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Germany: New sabotage warning issued for water supply

German authorities told residents of a town in the west of the country to avoid using or consuming water from the taps on Thursday afternoon amid fears that the water supply had been tampered with.

The warning came after a hole was found in the fence around the supply, which also feeds a nearby military base. The warning was partially lifted on Monday, but residents were told to boil tap water before drinking it.

The incident in the town of Mechernich, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, was discovered after another suspected case of sabotage was reported close to a military base at Cologne airport, not far from the town of Mechernich.

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Friction among regional spies, shadowy CSIS HQ unit a challenge for new intelligence boss

… The reports found officers inside one CSIS regional office would investigate and collect information about alleged PRC interference and share it with a secret special unit at CSIS headquarters “dedicated” to investigating Chinese foreign interference.

There, in theory, members of the special CSIS HQ unit would analyze it and share it across government agencies. Instead, the intelligence often did not get to the people who needed to know. Sometimes, it never even left the service’s own offices.

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Nova Scotia is the province with the most shoplifting, Quebec has the least

Nova Scotia has the highest rate of shoplifting in Canada, according to a National Post analysis of Statistics Canada crime data. British Columbia has the second-highest rate.

In late July, StatCan released its Canadian crime data for 2023. In recent years, as the cost of living has soared, retailers and business organizations have complained about increasingly brazen and damaging bouts of shoplifting.

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Judge Merchan Should Grant Trump’s Motion to Postpone September Sentencing

It could not be more obvious what the judge should do here.

Former president Donald Trump’s defense team has written a letter to Judge Juan Merchan seeking postponement of the scheduled September 18, 2024, sentencing date.

As I’ve explained in recent posts (here and here, and at Fox News here), Judge Merchan has signaled his intention to deny Trump’s pending motion, principally based on the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in Trump v. United States, to vacate the guilty verdicts and dismiss the indictment. On July 1, about a month after the jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of business-records falsification, the Court held in Trump that presidents have at least presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for official presidential acts, and absolute immunity for official acts within the president’s core constitutional authorities.

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To keep Muslims happy, the UK’s Labour Party wants to destroy pub culture

One of the things most associated with Great Britain is the pub culture. Seemingly, every novel has a scene in a pub or tavern where the locals gather, not to carouse or drink themselves into a silent, depressed stupor, but, instead, to come together as a community. It is a watering hole offering beer and whiskey—or, as some might say, the very water of life itself. But the UK’s new Labour government is not on board with this ancient culture. And importantly, it’s not waging a war to fight alcohol abuse; rather, it wants to keep Muslims happy.

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ESPN Axes Host Days After She Voiced Opposition To Men Competing In Women’s Sports

ESPN has fired a host who recently voiced opposition to female-identifying men competing in women’s sports.

On Thursday, The Athletic reported that ESPN has terminated the contract of “Sunday NFL Countdown” host Samantha Ponder, a longtime reporter for the network who previously covered college football. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III was also fired by the Disney-owned outlet.

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Kamala Picks Terror Supporter as “Liaison” to American Jews

“Pressure is building in Congress for Biden to do more to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza,” he was asked in a 2021 interview as fighting raged to stop Hamas assaults on Israel .

“Hopefully he can use it as leverage to get the Israelis to stop,” Ilan Goldenberg, Kamala’s future Middle East advisor and new ‘liaison’ to the Jewish community, answered.

Could a Kamala administration be any worse for the Jews than the Obama administration?

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No, Gail’s bakery is not ‘far right’

Not so long ago, I left my phone behind in a taxi late one night. Drink had been taken and it took me a while to notice my loss, by which time the cab in question was many miles away. I phoned my phone more out of form than hope that it wouldn’t already have been re-SIMmed and heading to an exciting new life. To my surprise and delight, a very well-spoken young man picked it up, and invited me to come to collect it the next morning from Walthamstow in east London.

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Meet the three types of rioter

Far-Right thugs weren’t the sole perpetrators

Since the first spark was lit in Southport, condemnation of the rioters has largely centred on their identity as “far-Right thugs”. Indeed, some experts, including the former head of British counter-terrorism policing, have gone as far as to call the rioters terrorists. The headlines wrote themselves. For an outraged-fuelled media, Christmas had come early.

Yet dig a little deeper and things become a tad more nuanced. For all the caustic characterisations thrown the rioters’ way, their motives were far more complex and varied.

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