U.S. authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India’s government over concerns it was involved in the plot, according to multiple people familiar with the case.
The target of the plot was Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American and Canadian citizen who is general counsel for Sikhs for Justice, a U.S.-based group that is part of a movement pushing for an independent Sikh state called “Khalistan”.
Why is the US military helping military-age illegal migrants invade our country? pic.twitter.com/KbP4gSB2th
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 21, 2023
Justin Trudeau is in trouble. Canada’s Prime Minister, currently in his ninth year in power, can’t seem to do anything right lately. The Bank of Canada has blamed persistently high inflation on the Liberals’ fiscal policy, and the cost-of-living crisis across the country has Canadians turning to food banks at an all-time-record high.
This is child abuse. pic.twitter.com/MJPLZZxxbb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 22, 2023
Dutch politics got a blast from the past on Monday when a right-wing politician was assaulted. The country goes to the polls tomorrow and the hospitalisation of Thierry Baudet, attacked with a bottle in a bar in the northern city of Groningen, is a reminder of what happened to Pim Fortuyn in 2002.
After being assaulted in the weeks leading up to the Dutch elections, the flamboyant right-wing Fortuyn was then shot dead nine days before voters went to the polls. His assassin was an animal rights extremist who told a court he didn’t like the way Fortuyn talked about Muslims.
NEW: Conservative leader Thierry Baudet was sent to the hospital after being attacked with a beer bottle just two days before the Netherlands general election.
It’s always the violent liberals…
Baudet was reportedly treated by a trauma surgeon after he was attacked by a… pic.twitter.com/l9BL7UbBta
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 20, 2023
In the aftermath of Oct. 7, the terrible prospect of an “ocean of red” opens up before us.
The great Xingtai earthquake, registering 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale, struck Hebei province at 5:29:14 on the morning of March 8, 1966. Seismic shockwaves tore through the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, opening up yawning fissures in the landscape, while landslides, sand eruptions, and torrents of floodwater erased entire villages in a matter of moments. Five further earthquakes would follow, the strongest taking place on March 22, and the last on March 29. Three weeks of unrelenting tremors and aftershocks left the region, which had no prior instrumentally located seismicity, in a state of total devastation. Some 5 million homes were destroyed or damaged, and an estimated 8,000 lives were lost, mostly in the rural communities outside the prefecture-level city of Xingtai. Another 38,000 men, women, and children lay grievously injured, and hundreds of thousands more were rendered homeless and destitute amid the wreckage of their annihilated farmhouses and villages.
In some parts of the country, standing up for Israel is controversial, even dangerous.
On the campuses of places like Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, anyone who dares to wave an Israeli flag — or, increasingly, wear a kippah in public — is at risk of being assaulted by angry mobs of people with their faces covered.
In Los Angeles, a pro-Israel protester was allegedly killed by a pro-Palestinian computer-science professor.
After camping out for two months in an old school in a small Canadian village, a self-proclaimed “queen” and her entourage have left for a farm nearby, although villagers are worried they may return.
The presence of the group in Richmound – a village of about 150 people in south-western Saskatchewan – drew a significant police presence, loud protests by locals and at least one arrest.
The group is led by Romana Didulo, a QAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist.
Who is a better leader Didulo or Trudeau?
Christian churches are under attack throughout Western Europe, with very recent examples from Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
No Western nation, however, seems to experience as many attacks on its churches as France, once known as the “Eldest Daughter of the Church.”
Filmmaker Rob Reiner said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that voting for former President Donald Trump in 2024 will cause the United States to “slip into fascism.”
Spotted at Bloor Station 😳 pic.twitter.com/XdcTupI0nV
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) November 22, 2023
h/t SDMatt
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered McGill University’s student union to not adopt a contentious pro-Palestinian policy voted on this week until a legal challenge on the matter can be heard in the new year.
The court order was issued Tuesday after B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy organization, filed an injunction seeking to halt the vote on the policy amid rising tensions on campus.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The far-right and anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders was headed for a landslide parliamentary election victory Wednesday in one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II, and one that is bound to send shockwaves through Europe.
The result puts him in line to lead talks to form a new ruling coalition and possibly become the country’s prime minister at a time of political upheaval through much of Europe.
Finally!
h/t Mauser
New images released from the aftermath of the Nova music festival massacre in Israel on October 7.
⚠️ Warning Graphic pic.twitter.com/3P7jlWZ3e8
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 22, 2023
A new poll suggests Canadians are broadly in favour of the federal government’s decision to exempt home heating oil from its price on carbon, and would welcome expanding the relief to all forms of home heating fuel.
The governing Liberals announced last month a three-year reprieve from the carbon price for property owners who depend on heating oil, along with funding to help people make the switch to electric heat pumps.
