Venezuela is essential for China’s ambitions

Beijing has pushed Latin America away from the United States in ways that the Soviet Union never could

Venezuela has become a headache for Washington. Just after the Biden administration engineered a rapprochement strategy, Nicolás Maduro did more than just double down on not following through his promises of democratization: he is now pushing to annex neighboring Guyana. These developments, though, should have been anticipated, as Venezuela becomes a crucial part of China’s geopolitical strategy.

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The Hamas-American Bund

Worse than the Nazi collaborators of WWII.

“During the October 7th attack on Israel,” Dawn Perlmutter explains,

“Hamas terrorists raped, gang-raped, beheaded, burned, mutilated, disfigured, and tortured men, women, children, the elderly and the disabled. Hamas terrorists chopped off fingers, arms and feet, gouged out eyes, obliterated faces and tied up dozens of people – including children before burning them alive. They cut an unborn baby out of a pregnant woman, stabbed the baby with a knife and shot the mother in the head.”

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The Islamization of Spain: From al-Andalus to the Migration Crisis

We must refute the myth that Muslim-occupied medieval Spain was a bastion of peace and multiculturalism.

Recently, media attention has focused on Spain because of the public protests against its left-wing government. Widespread disapproval of the government is hardly surprising given the government’s unpopular policies regarding the economy, mass immigration, the constitution, education, and other important issues. Furthermore, with the mass influx of illegal Muslim migrants into Spain and the severe decline in Spanish birth rates, the nation finds itself at a crossroads, with its future far from certain.

A major problem that prevents many people from understanding Spain’s history with Islam is the false historiography, or even propaganda, that rewrites the history of Muslim-occupied medieval Spain and tries to portray it as a ‘bastion of peace and multiculturalism.’

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CBC blames teleprompter error for ‘Israel started the Hamas war’ statement

Guest host J.P. Tasker made the statement during a recent episode of CBC’s Power & Politics, a weekday show that focuses on national politics.

In responding to a clip from the show shared on X, Power & Politics said the statement was the result of “a teleprompter glitch that cut off part of the prepared script.”

It added that the script read: “‘That’s just the latest protest taking place in Canada, since Israel declared war on Hamas following the October attacks that left 12-hundred dead.’ The error was not intentional.”

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Muslim migrants are destroying European culture, says Poland’s ex-PM

Poland’s former prime minister has warned European culture is being “destroyed” by Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East.

Mateusz Morawiecki, who served as Poland’s prime minister from 2017 until the beginning of this month, said: “We were very open to war refugees from Ukraine when the need was there… We have opened our hearts and our gates for all refugees.

“But this is very much different from the huge [amounts of] Muslim migrants from the Middle East who are coming to Germany and France and other countries and who want to change the culture of those countries, those nations.

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Can we talk about immigration?

The Trudeau Liberals have begun to find words to describe how they broke Canada’s immigration system, which was once a model for the world. But they have yet to start fixing what they broke. Instead, the breaking continues. At breakneck speed.

Statistics Canada’s quarterly estimate of the country’s non-permanent population shows it rose to 2½ million this fall, from 1.7 million a year earlier. At this rate, the number of temporary residents could grow to around four million by the end of next year – roughly 10 per cent of the Canadian population.

This is unprecedented. In 2000, Canada had 227,000 temporary residents.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning.

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We listened to 10 of Pierre Poilievre’s year-end interviews. Here’s what we learned about him

OTTAWA—How does Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pronounce his last name? What does he think about the recent UN vote on the Israel-Hamas war? Would he cut immigration?

As Poilievre marked the end of his first full year as Opposition Leader, he did rounds of year-end media interviews, though has thus far declined the Star’s request to chat.

But we listened to 10 interviews with journalists across the country, and while they were replete with his regular stock answers on housing, carbon pricing and personal attacks on the Liberals and New Democrats, they did shed some new light on who Poilievre is and what he’d like to do if he was prime minister.

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WARMINGTON: Police warn Hamas supporters hoping to ‘shut down’ Christmas can’t do it on private property

Any pro-Palestine demonstrators attending the promised “shut down” of Christmas planned for this weekend have been warned taking it inside shopping malls could be met with police enforcement.

… “We respect people’s charter rights, and we are always present to facilitate demonstrations that are lawful,” Pogue said at a news conference Friday morning on the eve of a Dec. 23 protest that is calling for a “shut down” and a Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, plan to have thousands of people on highway overpasses and sidewalks.


Not sure we’ll see much enthusiasm from the TPS.

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Israeli hostages are not welcome in London

When there are no longer Jews in Europe, will they call Hamas to light the Hanukkah candles?

The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah in the Dutch city of Enschede took a strange turn, after the mayor refused to be seen near the Israeli ambassador. The Enschede synagogue had invited mayor Roelof Bleker to the Hanukkah celebration and reserved a seat for Bleker next to the Israeli ambassador, Modi Ephraim. But a few hours earlier, the synagogue received a phone call from Bleker with some preconditions. “The mayor did not want to sit next to the ambassador and did not want to shake his hand.”

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Canada’s homicide rate rises 4th year in a row & is at the highest level in 30 years

Canada’s homicide rate is at the highest level in 30 years, as police-reported crime continues to rise in the country, data shows.

For the fourth year in a row, the national homicide rate went up in 2022, according to Statistics Canada data released Wednesday.

The homicide rate, which is considered a key indicator of the state of violence in society, increased by nearly eight percent to 2.25 homicides per 100,000 population.

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Reader Fave Christmas Carols – Day 6

Welcome everyone to the start of a Christmas Eve weekend and a selection of Carols from BCF readers.

Post your fave in the comments, we’ll play it in the first available installment.

Thank you for making this a wonderful annual event.


From Surele Surele – Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas

From DMB – Klaus Schwab presents: VaxxMas Hits ’23

From Norman in NY – Tchaikovsky Flashwaltz at Hadassah Hospital

From Lord Dilligaf – Une jeune fillette (Mélodie populaire – Arrangement Jordi Savall)

And also – Une jeune pucelle

And one more … Cantata « Herr, wie du willt, so schick’s mit dir » (Choral) : Das ist des Vaters Wille

From Frances – ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime / The Huron Carol

From Canminuteman – The Kinks – Father Christmas

And also – Pretenders – 2000 Miles

From BillyHW – Gaudete – The Gesualdo Six

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Glynn Simmons: US judge exonerates inmate after 48 years in prison

An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, the longest known wrongful sentence in the US.

Glynn Simmons, 70, was freed in July after a district court found that crucial evidence in his case was not turned over to his defence lawyers.

On Monday, a county district attorney said there was not enough evidence to warrant a new trial.

In an order on Tuesday, Judge Amy Palumbo declared Mr Simmons innocent.

h/t Mauser

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Does Biden Want Israel to Lose the War?

US President Joe Biden has gone out of his way — and it is enormously appreciated! — to stand by America’s ally Israel, defending itself from being further attacked by Hamas and other Iranian proxy groups in the region. The Biden administration has sent warships to the region, materiel to counter the more than 9,500 rockets and missiles fired at Israel since October 7, aimed at the cities of a country roughly the size of New Jersey. It is bewildering that he has come under so much unjust criticism for supporting a country that is basically also fighting for the US and the Free World against a terrorist group, Hamas, that apparently sees nothing wrong with burning babies alive, beheading them, raping and torturing men, women and children and then murdering them.

Sadly however, by reportedly demanding that Israel reduce its efforts to confront the Iran-backed terrorist group by January 1, Biden, presumably to help his reelection campaign, is seriously undermining Israel’s efforts. Such a curtailment would make it as difficult as possible — and risky — for Israel to fight what is already an extremely complicated war in complex urban areas, where Hamas has deeply embedded its weapons within the civilian population.

I think Joe wants a little girl and some more tapioca.

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