Trump: Israel is ‘losing the PR war’

Former President Donald Trump says Israel is “losing the PR war” in its war in Gaza because of Israel’s posts to social media showing images of the war.

“And the other thing is I hate, they put out tapes all the time. Every night, they’re releasing tapes of a building falling down,” Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. “They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that. They’re doing, that’s why they’re losing the PR war. They, Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.”

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Canada battles 130% spike in asylum seekers from Mexico, Haiti, Turkey and beyond, overloading shelters from Montreal to Vancouver in $822 MILLION crisis

Canada is battling a 130 percent spike in the number of Mexicans, Haitians, and others seeking asylum there, overwhelming shelters and leaving officials scrambling with an $822 million crisis.

Shelter systems in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and other Canadian cities are over capacity, prompting its liberal government to take steps to deter the flows of people north.

Canada’s migrant headache mirrors similar problems seen in the US, Britain, and the European Union, which are all struggling to cope with their own influxes of people from poorer countries.

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Electronic Spy Agency Caught Potential ‘Distribution of Funds’ Related to Elections in 2021

Canada’s electronic spying agency obtained “significant” intelligence related to the “distribution of funds” shortly after the 2021 elections, the interference inquiry heard April 4.

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is responsible for collecting signals intelligence (SIGINT) and generally cannot collect intelligence on Canadians or in Canada. Information presented to the inquiry suggests it was able to intercept or hack into foreign communications to retrieve information about elections interference.

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The cap on foreign students doesn’t go far enough

From 2021 to 2022, the number of international students in Canada grew 116 per cent. In 2023, it rose another 60 per cent, to roughly 900,000. In 2000, Canada had just 122,665 international students. We now have seven times that number.

Part of the problem is a rush in applications after pandemic restrictions were lifted. But Ottawa predicts the growth in applications will continue — reaching 1.4 million in 2027. If so, foreign students will continue to be a significant element in Canada’s record population growth — and in the attendant pressure on housing, infrastructure and health care.

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Trudeau condemns Netanyahu’s comments on strike that killed Canadian, 6 other aid workers

I hate this asshole.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back Thursday on comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about an Israeli military airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza, including one Canadian.

In a video statement released earlier this week, Netanyahu expressed regret over the incident and called it a “tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip.” He also said “this happens in wartime” and that Israel was looking into the situation.

“No, it doesn’t just happen,” Trudeau said Thursday during an event in Winnipeg. “And it shouldn’t just happen when you have aid workers for an extraordinary organization like World Central Kitchen risking their lives every day in an incredibly dangerous place to deliver food to people who are experiencing a horrific humanitarian catastrophe.”

Netanyahu won’t be losing sleep.

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Young voters aren’t buying whatever Trudeau is selling

Last summer, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a master class in the art of tone deafness when he said the following: “I’ll be blunt as well — housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility. It’s not something that we have direct carriage of, but it is something that we can and must help with.”

Today, however, Canadians could be forgiven if they assumed that housing was the federal government’s only responsibility because at present it seems the prime minister can’t roll out new housing announcements fast enough.

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The game’s up for ‘anti-racist’ racism

There are only a few rules to column-writing. One of the strictest is never to waste time bouncing off the effluent of morons. So, for instance, it is a rule among British columnists not to use the term ‘Owen Jones’ in an article. It is too easy. Every couple of hours there will be another gaseous eruption. For example, this past week Jones, a YouTuber, has been engaged in campaigning to persuade a ‘queer’ British entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest to withdraw from the competition because of Gaza. It is by no means clear how much the citizens of Gaza care for the ‘solidarity’ of a couple of gay blokes in the UK. It is even less clear how anyone withdrawing from Eurovision would convince the Israeli war cabinet to halt the war against Hamas and persuade Hamas to return the hostages. But this is why the ‘Owen Jones’ rule exists. As it’s so easy, opposing him is fundamentally lazy.

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“It’s an Empty Executive Suite” An insider explains what has gone disastrously wrong with Boeing.

Boeing is—or was—a great company. From its manufacturing plants in Seattle, it produced the world’s most reliable, efficient aircraft. But after merging with McDonnell Douglas, shifting production around the world, and moving its headquarters to Chicago and then Arlington, Virginia, the Boeing Company has been adrift.

Then, in October 2018, one of Boeing’s new 737 MAX aircraft crashed. Then, a few months later, another. Recent months have seen embarrassing maintenance failures, including a door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines plane in mid-flight.

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Adam Zivo: B.C. drug policies are ‘a joke,’ says Indigenous chief who isn’t laughing

Ronnie Chickite, chief of the We Wai Kai Nation, is upset — with good reason. In February, approximately 3,500 diverted safer supply hydromorphone pills were discovered in a drug bust on one his nation’s reserves near Campbell River, B.C. Chickite says although he had previously been aware of safer supply diversion, the discovery of so many pills in his community invoked “shocking disbelief.”

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The Israeli-Palestinian ‘Two State Solution’

Just in time for Easter, another resurrection was recently proposed by Martin Indyk, twice US ambassador to Israel, in the journal Foreign Affairs:

“[The] allegedly dead two-state solution…resurrected by U.S. President Joe Biden and his top national security officials…is the only way to create lasting peace among the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the Arab countries of the Middle East”.

“And how an unimaginable war could bring about the only imaginable peace”.

Curiously, like President Joe Biden and his top national security officials, the ambassador ignores a crucial element: radical Islam does not tolerate the existence of a sovereign non-Islamic entity (such as Israel) on land that once was conquered by Muslims (dar al-Islam, “abode of Islam”). As most Palestinians have been creditably straightforward about, there is no place for an Israeli state.

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DOJ demands prison time for Ashley Biden diary thief

Another Skanky Biden

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a New York district judge to sentence the woman who stole first daughter Ashley Biden’s diary to four to 10 months in prison for the crime.

​​Prosecutors for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York had initially sought a sentence of six months of home confinement, followed by three years of supervised release, for Aimee Harris, who pleaded guilty in August of 2022 to conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the diary theft.

h/t Mauser

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