How we knew Ayatollah was a sitting duck, by Trump’s top general

General Jack Keane reveals how US tech and undercover Israeli agents with perfect accents combined to mark Iran’s leadership for death

By the time the Ayatollah began his day in Tehran, the spies listening to his calls were already extremely familiar with the habits of a supreme leader whose number was up. In orbit overhead, an Orion, the largest and most secretive of all American space satellites, could detect the voices of the regime as they exchanged increasingly worried messages about the build up of forces in the region.

There were other high-tech efforts to track what is known as “life-pattern surveillance” of Ali Khamenei and his henchmen, including the now well-documented hacking of Tehran’s traffic camera network to track the movement of his bodyguards.

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Is It Still Legal To Criticize Gender Ideology in Canada?

British comedian John Cleese of Monty Python fame has announced on X that he will not risk performing in British Columbia during his upcoming theatrical tour of Canada this fall after the BC Human Rights Tribunal ordered a former school trustee to pay one of the largest hate speech fines in history for his public opposition to gender ideology and stating that there are only two sexes.

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How the Royal Navy went from being the envy of the world to a shadow of its former self

The question from the Prime Minister was blunt and emphatic, and so was the answer from the First Sea Lord.

“How long would it take to assemble such a task force?” asked Margaret Thatcher on March 31 1982, as she learnt that Argentina was about to seize the Falkland Islands and only a naval armada could retake them.

“48 hours,” replied Admiral Sir Henry Leach, who proceeded to break the convention that military officers should steer clear of policy advice by telling the Prime Minister that “we could” regain the islands and “we should”, because otherwise “we shall be living in a different country whose word counts for little”.

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Canada-U.S. trade talks have restarted. Here’s what’s at stake

For the first time since U.S. President Donald Trump called off negotiations last October — ostensibly over a TV ad — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s point man on trade met face to face with his White House counterpart.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc was in Washington, D.C., on Friday to meet U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

When LeBlanc emerged from the meeting, CBC News asked him what happened in the talks, but his only comment before getting into a waiting vehicle was “Have a good weekend.”

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South Africa’s president calls Trump’s policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners ‘racist’

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called Donald Trump’s policy of allowing white Afrikaners to apply for refugee status in the US “racist”, saying the US president was “truly uninformed” in a rare instance of direct criticism.

Ramaphosa told the New York Times that last year’s Oval Office meeting with the US leader, when Trump turned down the lights and played a video that he falsely claimed showed there was a “white genocide” in South Africa, was a “spectacle” and an “ambush”.

“I just thought that he is so uninformed, truly uninformed,” Ramaphosa said. “I realised that he is looking at South Africa through a completely, sort of, foggy lens, without realising the real, real harm that apartheid did. In my view, he was just dismissive.”

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MACLEOD: The Beijing Blackout — Inside Carney’s secret police pact with China

When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing last month to announce a new “Strategic Partnership,” he spoke of stability and pragmatism. But for those of us watching the fine print, one document stands out as a glaring threat to Canadian sovereignty: the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation between the RCMP and China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

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Why Islam Seeks Shelter Under The Banner Of The Left

Dearborn Mosque

To his supporters, Donald J. Trump is the 47th president of the United States. For our enemies, he is something far more intolerable: the de facto leader of Western civilization. He is nothing less than the obstacle to a civilizational transformation they have already advanced in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Ottawa.

This enemy has a name: the Red-Green alliance. It is the political covenant between the left and Islam. Its strength is precisely that it is not external. It votes. It holds our passports. It sits in our legislatures and city halls. It shouts down, as in the example of Democrat Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, our president’s State of the Union. This is the enemy within: a left who mobilizes blocs of Islamic voters whose only shared objective is the destruction of the West.

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RCMP Was Inside US Suspect’s Chemical Lab in Early 2020 — and Sent Him a Fentanyl Recipe

BRITISH COLUMBIA – In early 2020, almost four years before unilateral US Treasury sanctions named Vancouver businessman Bobby Shah and his company Valerian Labs Inc. as the only Western Hemisphere node of an alleged Chinese fentanyl trafficking syndicate, the RCMP’s chemical diversion unit had already visited Shah’s Port Coquitlam laboratory.

h/t handy n handsome

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Britain is beginning to feel like a conquered land

SO IT was an ‘important’ Ramadan moment on Wednesday or early Thursday morning. I don’t care about this. My position is that if people want to not eat during daylight hours because a psychopathic 7th century bandit and child rapist thought that was a good idea, or because imams subsequent to Muhammad have done so, it’s their primitive business and not a particular concern of mine.

But I don’t get a choice about whether I engage with this nonsense.

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CBSA has removed only one of 30 senior Iranian officials from Canada under federal ban

Canadian border authorities have identified nearly 30 suspected senior Iranian officials who they believe should be barred from remaining in the country under a federal ban, amid a widening conflict in the Middle East that could see more regime officials seek refuge.

The Canada Border Services Agency has been investigating 95 cases involving possible high-ranking members of the Iranian regime, up from 66 last June, according to figures provided by the agency.


I bet they’re all staying at Justin and Sacha’s place.

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