Anyone who’s been paying attention to queer politics will have noticed that activist language never stands still but constantly marches Leftward.
Words like “homosexuality” and “gay” have either been written out of the lexicon or redefined in ways that would be unrecognisable to gay activists from the last century. The word “queer” itself has been reclaimed from its origins as a slur to a badge of defiance.
Over the past month or so, we have witnessed several physical attacks on European politicians.
These began in mid-May, when Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico was the subject of an assassination attempt. He was lucky to survive.
In sitcoms, experienced viewers know that the end of a series is usually near when the writers run out of ideas for plots, and the show starts filming at exotic locations. Think Fonzie of Happy Days jumping the shark, or the Brady Bunch goes to Hawaii.
With Washington’s denizens, Washington famously known as ‘Hollywood for ugly people,’ the rule seems to be the same.
Bill Maher has been sending the Democrats some big warning alarms on multiple issues for a while now. But they haven’t been paying attention because Joe Biden is still their candidate, and they’re still espousing far-left extremism.
Bill Maher on Biden's immigration friendly policies "It's going to get him fucked on election day":
"Voters from the European Parliament said 'We do not like this much immigration'. Voters keep saying over and over again, we are not comfortable with this level of immigration. I… pic.twitter.com/16GJ5zn9iN— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) June 15, 2024
In Justin Trudeau’s paranoid Ottawa, insiders say treason allegations are being carelessly tossed around
By Justin Ling Contributor
Eighty years ago, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a briefcase full of documents and a plan to defect. When he finally got an audience with the RCMP, he revealed the most extensive espionage and influence campaign Canada had ever seen.
Gouzenko’s defection spurred a series of investigations, a public inquiry, and a media frenzy. Revelations of how Moscow sought to steal secrets and infiltrate Ottawa gripped the nation and woke Ottawa up to new realities of the Cold War.
The gall.
Now that the shouting is over, you have to ask yourself what was the Trudeau government thinking when it decided to attack the credibility of Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux on the economic cost of carbon pricing?
After reading an unredacted report from one of Canada’s intelligence oversight bodies, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he now thinks that Independent MP Han Dong shouldn’t be allowed back into the Liberal caucus.
Last week, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a heavily blacked-out document alleging, based on intelligence, that some parliamentarians have been “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics.
In the early hours of October 7, the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) switchboards lit up across America, coordinating a lightning PR response to Hamas’s invasion of Israel.
The group’s “Day of Resistance Toolkit” distributed to its chapters called the slaughter “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.” The toolkit contained information for walkouts on campuses across the U.S. and Canada and templates for a graphic featuring a hang glider, a novel weapon used by Hamas fighters penetrating the Israeli border on the day of the invasion.
Unhinged tiktoker claims people who aren’t Black need her permission to comment on her videos. pic.twitter.com/Rpn8k9QEfA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 14, 2024
Americans should consider their own flawed system before pontificating about Canada’s.
… Canada does indeed have a system of government-run universal healthcare, but it’s not at all what these uninformed American commenters envision. Arguably, two decades ago Canada’s health care system was better than America’s. Back then Canada had better morbidity and mortality statistics, better accessibility, and much cheaper drugs at less overall cost than America. That is why the American Left advocated that that was the system that the United States should adopt.
That was then. That ship sailed long ago.
Italian supermodels are just skinnier and prettier. pic.twitter.com/aLKg71biSi
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 15, 2024
‘Francis clearly understands that the Vatican is structurally gay,’ says Frédéric Martel
Pope Francis this week apologized for decrying the “frociaggine” — or “faggotry” — in the Vatican and in Catholic seminaries for the second time in a matter of weeks. On Tuesday in a private meeting, Francis mentioned the “air of faggotry” in the Vatican, which followed his May 20 comment that “nella chiesa c’è troppa aria di frociaggine” — “in our Church there is too much of an air of faggotry.”
The Spectator reached out to Frédéric Martel, an anchor at Radio France, a professor at the ZHdK University in Zurich and the author of twelve books, including In the Closet of the Vatican, his explosive New York Times bestseller about the widespread hypocritical homosexual behavior rife in the higher echelons of the Church. Martel offers his response on the reasons behind the Pope’s recent remarks.
That’s an interesting breakdown by party from the Angus Reid Poll which found only a 29% favorability rating for Israel.
Armies all over the world have observed Russia’s wider war on Ukraine and have come to the same conclusion: modern war is mostly an artillery war – or as Stalin put it, artillery is the “God of War”. Armies need more howitzers and more rocket launchers and plenty of ammunition for both.
The German army might be the best example of this determination to add artillery firepower. The Bundeswehr has an ambitious plan to more than double its artillery inventory from 121 self-propelled howitzers and 36 rocket launchers today to 289 self-propelled howitzers and 76 rocket launchers in 2035.
But for all its ambition, the German artillery plan illustrates the relative paucity of artillery in the armies of the biggest Western powers. Sure, a force of 365 artillery pieces is better than a force of just 157 artillery pieces. But 365 is still too few when Germany’s biggest potential foe, Russia, deploys thousands of howitzers and launchers.
Spy novelist John Le Carré established his reputation with 1963’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Set at the height of the Cold War, it describes washed-up British spy Alec Leamas’ attempt to infiltrate East German intelligence as a double agent. It’s a grim tale of hidden identities, uncertain alliances and spymasters prepared to sacrifice their own men in pursuit of bigger game. According to Le Carré — who worked for Britain’s MI6 in Germany while writing the book — the modern world of espionage is unpleasant, unglamourous and devoid of loyalty. Unhappy endings are inevitable.
