Did Iranian Agent Serving as Pentagon Chief of Staff Cause Death of 3 Soldiers?

How were terrorists able to perfectly time their drone attack without inside information?

In September 2023, Pentagon Chief of Staff Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant, was accused of having worked as an agent of the Tehran regime. Dissident media outlets produced emails that allegedly showed that Tabatabai had joined an initiative by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to coordinate operations and that she had even run her congressional testimony on Iran’s nuclear program past the head of an Iranian Foreign Ministry think tank.

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What do microaggressions have to do with acid attacks?

Our politicians cannot bring themselves to say that this violent sex offender should never have been granted asylum.

We are led by lunatics. What other conclusion can you draw after the past 24 hours, following the horrific alkali attack in south London and the sickening attempts by the political and media classes to downplay the appalling, central fact of this case: that the alleged perpetrator was a convicted violent criminal who should never have been in this country at all, an Afghan national who was granted asylum on his third attempt and following a conviction for sexual offences.

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Scully: Why I so desperately need a medically assisted death

It’s wrong to stop people from accessing MAiD for mental illness as a sole underlying condition. I deserve the same rights as other patients.

A special joint committee of MPs and senators has tabled its report to Parliament, recommending a delay in expanding the health-care system to offer medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for persons with mental disorders as their sole underlying medical condition. On Thursday, federal Health Minister Mark Holland introduced legislation to postpone this expansion of MAiD until March 2027.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters spew anti-cop chants, clash with officers at Columbia University: ‘NYPD, burn in hell!’

Pro-Palestinian protesters spewing anti-cop chants clashed with police at a rally outside Columbia University on Friday — leading to nine arrests over several hours.

The “All Out for Palestine” demonstration kicked off at 3 p.m. and less than two hours later protesters waving Palestinian flags could be seen in footage posted to social media scuffling with NYPD officers in the street.

“NYPD, KKK. IDF they’re all the same,” the group chanted as at least one protester was seen being detained by police.

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CBC president Catherine Tait had her own Harvard moment

There was a point during CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait’s testimony this week, before a House of Commons committee, when you just had to wonder whether she had been coached beforehand by Claudine Gay in how to come off as hopelessly disconnected and obtuse.

Ms. Gay, you’ll remember, is the now ex-head of Harvard University, whose December testimony before a U.S. congressional committee into antisemitism on campus was a mixture of hubris and contempt for politicians she should have known better than to disrespect. Her appearance went viral and set off a chain reaction that led to her resignation a few weeks later.

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Foreign interference networks ‘deeply embedded’ in Canadian politics, CSIS report says

Foreign interference networks are “deeply embedded” in Canadian politics, and operate at every level of government, according to a declassified intelligence report obtained by Global News.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service report, released under the Access to Information Act, also warned that foreign interference was “incrementally” weakening Canada’s democracy.

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‘Most anti-LGBT in the country’: Know Nothing Ottawa Flake decries Alberta transgender policies to score votes with sexual mutilation fetishists

EDMONTON – Alberta’s new proposals on the treatment of transgender youth are the “most anti-LGBT of anywhere in the country,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.

Speaking at an event in Waterloo, Ont., Trudeau added that if Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to fight to improve the lives of Canadians, her energy is misplaced.

Trudeau is a disgusting pig, playing with the lives of children to score votes with sexual mutilation fetishists.

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Pierre Trudeau opposed stripping accused Nazi war criminal of citizenship, government document says

As justice minister in 1967, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau argued against revoking the citizenship of a Canadian citizen the Soviet Union had convicted of heading a firing squad responsible for the deaths of 5,128 Jews during the Second World War, says a 617-page report prepared for the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals decades ago.

The document, now largely unredacted, was released by Library and Archives on Thursday. It was originally prepared for the Deschênes Commission, which in the mid-1980s investigated Nazi immigration into Canada.

The document says a Soviet court tried the Canadian in question, identified only as Subject F, in absentia in Riga, Latvia in 1965 and found him guilty.

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Revolt of the Core

Elites are turning on their own ‘core demographic’—even as Western working and middle classes are being pushed into rebellion.

Farmers’ revolts and geopolitical instability portend a year of flux in 2024, with the winter of 2023 becoming a touchstone for history books to mark as a transition for the international system and, specifically, the end of U.S. global hegemony. The American incapacity to hold together a coalition necessary to maintain essential cargo routes along the Red Sea—and losing face against Yemen’s Houthis, who are equipped with cheap drones—is likely a significant, if under-reported, milestone.

Geopolitics aside, what social transformations might Europeans and Westerners in general expect at home? What have imperial breakdowns meant for those who lived through them in the past? The following touches on a few of the factors that might cause what Arnold Toynbee called “the internal proletariat” to rebel against the political class in the West.

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Douglas Todd: Why Vancouver housing prices became so out of whack

There has been a great deal of confusion when it comes to figuring out why Metro Vancouver housing prices are so astronomical, especially in the past decade.

But it is becoming increasingly clear why the Vancouver region’s prices have grown so out of line with the rest of Canada and other major economies.

Metro Vancouver suffered a direct hit almost a decade ago, at the same time gigantic amounts of capital were moving out of China, contributing to residents dealing with some of the most unaffordable prices in the world (with Toronto a close second).

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US hits hard at militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.

President Joe Biden said in a statement: “The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.”

Biden and other top U.S. leaders had been warning for days that America would strike back at the militias, and they made it clear it wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.

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