France riots: Macron faces calls to declare state of emergency

Protests over the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M have spilled into the capital’s affluent areas

President Macron has summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting amid calls for him to declare a state of emergency after a third night of rioting across France.

With the violence intensifying despite the deployment of 40,000 officers including elite units across the country, Macron is under growing pressure to suspend some civil rights in an effort to restore order.

He is to chair the French equivalent of a Cobra meeting — the second in two days — as he struggles for a coherent response to what has spiralled into a national crisis and a challenge to his authority.


France riots: Macron to hold crisis meeting as 667 arrested and violence spreads

Emmanuel Macron is to head another crisis meeting of ministers as the French government struggles to contain an escalation of unrest that has spread from housing estates across the country to the centre of major cities after the police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.

A total of 667 people were arrested across France into the early hours of Friday morning, officials said, as violence continued into a third night of riots triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop.

Fdesouche has a lot of video – Nahel: live on the third night of riots

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North Koreans face execution for using South Korean idioms

North Koreans who use the “obsequious” accent and expressions of South Korea face execution under a harsh new law aimed at eliminating South Korea’s’s growing influence on the language used by its communist neighbour.

In May the authorities began to enforce the Pyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act, which aims to “purify” the Korean dialect.

Just like CanCon!

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Radar search at northern Alberta residential school uncovers 88 suspected graves … or maybe not

Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta.

“I always had to stay on high alert when I was there,” Willier said, as he recalled his time between the age of seven and 17 at St. Bruno’s Indian Residential School in Joussard, Alta., about 335 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

“I was always told, ‘Oh, you got to be careful of them [at residential school].”‘

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Colonel ‘forced out of Army’ after stating ‘men cannot be women’

A colonel has claimed he was forced to quit the Army after he was criticised for stating that “men cannot be women”.

Dr Kelvin Wright, 54, had been a Reservist commanding officer with 14 years’ unblemished service, including two tours in Afghanistan, before his “honour was attacked” with a transphobia complaint and an investigation he described as “hellish”.

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Architect of Toronto 18 terror plot granted full parole

Soon to have senior position in federal bureaucracy.

Shareef Abdelhaleem, dubbed a “principal architect” of a terror plot to blow up several Greater Toronto Area landmarks in 2006, has been granted full parole as he is no longer considered an “unacceptable risk to society.”

In a decision Wednesday by the Parole Board of Canada, Abdelhaleem will no longer be under correctional supervision and only has two conditions that he must abide by: not to be in a position of responsibility or leadership in any religious or spiritual groups, and not to associate with any person known to be involved in criminal and/or radicalized activity.

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Canada’s housing policy is failing citizens and newcomers alike

Canada recently reached a milestone of 40 million people after growing by more than one million people in one year for the first time in 2022. But while we’re adding people at record levels, the same can’t be said about homes.

According to recent research, while the number of people Canada-wide has accelerated in recent years, the number of housing units completed has stagnated and even fallen to levels well below previous peaks. Specifically, from 1971 to 1980, Canada’s population grew by 283,737 people annually on average while an annual average of 226,524 housing units were completed.

“Generals always fight the last war” – Canada does not need mass immigration.

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NYT Shocked! Schools Bring Police Back to Campuses, Reversing Racial Justice Decisions

In the summer of 2020, Denver school leaders quickly banished police officers from campuses and directed the funds toward social workers and psychologists. The city, like many across the nation, was roiled by protests against law enforcement after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

School board members cited as a major reason reams of data showing that Black students were far more likely than white students to be arrested.

But a spasm of violence affecting Denver city schools this year has brought a sudden reversal. Armed officers were quickly deployed this spring for the final weeks of school. And come fall, school resource officers will return permanently to Denver schools, as fears over student safety have mounted.

I guess virtue signaling is less potent than lead.

Related … Scot Peterson, who hid during 2018 Parkland school shooting, found not guilty of neglect and negligence

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Race Discrimination Loses Its Legal Protection

If the United States Supreme Court exists for any moral purpose beyond simply interpreting the laws, it is to carry out the motto etched in stone on the courthouse itself: “Equal Justice Under Law.” That inscription was approved in 1932 by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and its promise has been a standing challenge to the Court ever since. For most of American history, the greatest obstacle to equal justice under law has been state-sanctioned discrimination on the basis of race. Today, at long last, the Court has said to such discrimination: No more.

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Twice as many Israelis died in one month of Biden as in one year of Trump

2023 looks on track to be the deadliest year in Israel since 2015, under Obama, and the bloodshed is an eightfold increase in Israeli deaths since Trump’s last year in office.

The Biden administration restored Obama’s old policies and doubled down on them. And the death toll in Israel looks the way that it did under Obama. Under Biden, Israelis are dying at similar rates to the way that they did under Obama, but not at all as they did under Trump.

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The Senate takes a deep dive into UFOs and… aliens?

With all of the crazy news coming from all parts of the globe these days, it can be easy to lose sight of some of the normal, run-of-the-mill housekeeping work that Congress manages to get done from time to time. One such item was this month’s publishing of the 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act which was approved by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The IAA is typically a fairly routine affair that provides funding and authorizes oversight for the U.S. Intelligence Community. But there were a few elements in the IAA this year that were anything but routine or run-of-the-mill, and they deal with UFOs and possibly (wait for it…) aliens.

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Confirmed: Intel Top Dogs Knowingly Lied When They Said Hunter’s Laptop Was Russian Disinformation

It was bad enough that 51 of the nation’s top intelligence officials declared in Oct. 2020, at the height of the presidential campaign, that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” But now the flagrant dishonesty of the whole affair has gotten exponentially worse, for any lingering doubt that these officials had access to adequate information when they published their assessment has been put to rest: it has now come to light that the FBI found the laptop to be authentic months before the intelligence officials told the world that it wasn’t. The last doubt that the 51 officials were brazenly lying to the American people has been removed.

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French Race Riots: Contrasting Portraits of Officer and Slain Suspect Emerge

Nahel M’s Mom seems to be enjoying her time in the spotlight leading riots.

Following an incident on Tuesday, June 27th that saw 17-year-old Nael M. shot dead by a policeman in Nanterre, France, after he failed to comply with an order to stop his vehicle—an incident that precipitated two nights of ultra-violent rioting in the multicultural Parisian suburb—portraits of the slain suspect and the officer have emerged.

Imagine a police station being firebombed in Canada.

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