Milton Friedman’s first rule for government programs to alleviate poverty was: “If the objective is to alleviate poverty, we should have a program directed at helping the poor … There is every reason to help the poor man who happens to be a farmer, not because he is a farmer, but because he is poor.”
Russia plans to send combat vessels into the Caribbean region this summer as part of naval exercises that will probably include port calls in Cuba and possibly stops in Venezuela, a senior US official said on Wednesday.
“As part of Russia’s regular military exercises, we anticipate that this summer, Russia will conduct heightened naval and air activity near the United States. These actions will culminate in a global Russian naval exercise this fall,” the official said.
The US does not see the move involving a relatively small number of vessels and planes as threatening, but the US Navy will monitor the exercises, the official told a small group of reporters.
h/t DS
Treason in Canada?
That allegation leapt off the pages of a recent report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP). The worst example cited, with names and details redacted in the published report, concerned a former MP who engaged in communications with a senior official of a foreign intelligence service and tried to arrange a meeting overseas with this official. According to CSIS, confidential information was passed.
There is no other word for it. This is treason.
US workers at John Deere plants have accused the company of acting on “greed” as America’s most famous agricultural equipment company plans to shift more production to Mexico.
The company – famous for its green tractors and leaping deer logo – has announced layoffs of several hundred workers over the last several months with more layoffs planned for later this year.
“We get wind of more layoffs daily, it seems, and it’s causing uncertainty all over,” said a longtime John Deere worker at the Harvester Works plant in East Moline, Illinois, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “The only reason for Deere to do this is greed.”
MONTREAL – McGill University says a protest on Thursday that ended with 15 people arrested was a “troubling” event in a series of escalating incidents since pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up an encampment on campus more than a month ago.
In a statement to media on Friday, the university says protesters occupied its administration building, blockaded several doors, damaged furniture and yelled threats, forcing some staff to shelter in place.
A graduating McGill University student decided to spit on the Dean and another faculty member. The crowd cheered her on.
If this is the end product of higher education, universities are in need of serious introspection and remediation. pic.twitter.com/8Ds1Zy8Vom
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) June 7, 2024
MAN JOINS A PRO-ISRAEL RALLY AT MCGILL AND CHANTS:
“KILL MORE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN” pic.twitter.com/RfR0X4rvXL
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) November 2, 2023
His incompetence, impotence and now incontinence are just too much
Where is Dandy Don Meredith when we need him? Someone should be singing, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over,” because Joe Biden’s presidency must end. His appearance at the D-Day commemoration at Normandy was certainly the final proof that he cannot continue no matter how hard his staff tries to hold him up.
The American press gave Biden a pass, but the Brits were under no pressure from a vengeful deep state to toe any line.
The Mirror reported, “Joe Biden sparks concern as onlookers fear he ‘pooped his pants’ after he ‘can’t figure out’ how to sit down.
Biden trying to sit down on a chair that doesn’t exist. pic.twitter.com/SN3Kljfysg
— Globe Eye News (@GlobeEyeNews) June 6, 2024
This gets funnier every time you watch it pic.twitter.com/GwhTj7Zw7l
— TeasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) June 7, 2024
h/t Clink
A man convicted of murdering a young teenage Burnaby girl has repeatedly told a pre-sentencing hearing that he didn’t kill her, after refusing to listen to his interpreter during an impact statement by the girl’s father.
A portion of the recorded statement was being played to test equipment ahead of Friday’s sentencing hearing for Ibrahim Ali, who faces a life term for the 2017 killing.
Monika Magashazi is a fighter. The 52-year old trans woman lives in Hungary — a country that has been ruled by Viktor Orban’s nationalist Fidesz party since 2010.
For transgender communities, the situation “has been becoming worse and worse and, unfortunately, we are desperate today in Hungary,” she told DW. She said the government was trying to portray trans people as pedophiles and criminals, using seemingly every opportunity to discriminate against them.
The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh, who has been leading the left-wing party for almost seven years, has been pressing hard to appeal to Canada’s 1.8 million Muslims.
And it’s working, according to a revealing May poll by the Angus Reid Institute. Forty-one per cent of Canada’s Muslims are now ready to vote for Singh, compared to 31 per cent for Justin Trudeau. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives appeal to just 15 per cent of Muslims.
However, for Singh that’s about the only good news.
Just up the coast from Normandy where thousands had gathered for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, this was happening.
£millions given to the French and they stand by and watch as a dinghy full of migrants departs. pic.twitter.com/BYvSdDT7dt
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) June 6, 2024
h/t Mauser
Steve Bannon, a former chief strategist for Donald Trump, has been ordered to report to prison by July 1 to serve a four-month sentence.
The long-term ally of the former president was convicted of contempt of Congress after defying a subpoena from the House of Representatives committee that investigated the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Some police officers are cowards.
Some are corrupt.
Some are merely incompetent.
When they stay on the job, it’s because their supervisors and senior officers are cowards, corrupt, and incompetent. https://t.co/MXc4UHcpYZ
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) June 7, 2024
Justin Trudeau’s half-brother says the prime minister is a loveable person but should come clean, “repent” and apologize when he leaves office for things he’s done wrong.
In an interview with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, Kyle Kemper said the Liberal leader, with whom he shares a mother, Margaret, is also probably disinclined to run again due to Canada’s negative opinion of him. Trudeau has a net favourability rating of -38, according to a recent Angus Reid poll.
WATCH: Tucker Carlson interviews Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s brother; Kyle Kemper pic.twitter.com/ClDMgW6xLa
— Overton (@OvertonLive) May 12, 2024
#REPORT: CBC Kids is asking their audience whether it's important to commemorate D-Day, suggesting that doing so could be "celebrating violence" and "glorifying war." 1,096 Canadians sacrificed their lives on D-Day. pic.twitter.com/AiJIKNznJX
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) June 6, 2024
Hamas may have up to 12,000 fighters left, according to US officials who spoke to Reuters. This assessment would mean that Hamas has lost around half its strength in eight months of war.
Israel’s assessments were that Hamas had some 24 battalions at the outset of the war and that most of them were defeated. Israel also believed that around 14,000 Hamas members were killed. This would mean thousands were wounded.
And 5000 of those are on their way to Canada.
