Why Japan doesn’t do Pride

Want to avoid Pride month? Bit tired of the, almost literally, in your face, carnival of uninhibited sexual freedom we see on our streets throughout June? Then come to Japan. It’s not that Pride doesn’t happen here at all, just that the Japanese for various cultural and historic reasons, don’t make a song and dance – or a borderline street cabaret – out of it.

Japan’s version ‘Rainbow Pride’ is held in April and lasts just two days. It was back on this year for the first time since 2019 and was apparently reasonably well-attended. I say ‘apparently’ because I saw no sign of it, nor watched or read a single report in the media. It was, to use an old-fashioned term, discreet.

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Ukraine special forces going trench to trench killing Russians

Ukrainian special forces have been filmed surprising and killing Russian soldiers in brutal close-quarters trench fighting on the southern front.

It came as Ukraine said it had captured another village in the south and Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister, said the counter offensive was “making good progress”.

The two-minute clip purports to show members of the 72nd Marine Centre for Special Operations, the Ukrainian equivalent of Britain’s Special Boat Service, storming a Russian trench system somewhere in the south of the country.

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The Netherlands’ Big Brother Statue

A statue of a slovenly clad black woman looks down on the city of Rotterdam with damning eyes.

Since the beginning of June, a 13 foot high bronze statue of a sloppily dressed black woman in sweatpants and sneakers towers above Rotterdam’s Central Station. In its short life, it has already managed to sharply divide the people of the Dutch port city and beyond.

Some newspapers and other media wax lyrical about this pean to multiculturalism and diversity in a city totally transformed by extra-European immigration in the space of a few decades.

Others bristle at what they consider a symbol of a state-sponsored ideology aimed at forcing the population to toe the line.

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Graf Spee: Nazi battleship’s bronze eagle saved from smelter

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped.

Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the coast of Uruguay, where the Graf Spee had been scuttled in 1939 to stop it falling into enemy hands.

A court ruled last year that it belonged to the Uruguayan state, in whose waters it was found.

It’s history and needs to be preserved.

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Why Arabs Do Not Trust the Biden Administration

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states apparently still do not trust the Biden Administration, largely because of its perceived abandonment of its traditional Arab allies in the Middle East and President Joe Biden’s hostility to Saudi Arabia. This view began with then-presidential candidate Biden declaring the kingdom a “pariah” state — and is continuing with US attempts, still ongoing, to revive a “nuclear deal” that will enable an expansionist Iran to have nuclear weapons potentially to topple other countries in the region.

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Gavin Newsom’s claim there is no California exodus, debunked

Gavin Newsom Oily Evangelist

In an interview with Sean Hannity last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed the idea of an exodus from California is a myth. But the data tell a far different story.

Let’s start with the basics: Between April 2020 and July 2022, California’s population decreased by more than 500,000 people. And when considering net domestic migration, 700,000 more people moved out of California than moved in during that period.

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‘It is being normalized:’ A closer look at the violence faced by TTC operators

TTC drivers were assaulted more than 50 times over the first four months of 2023, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all violent incidents across the bus network during that same time period.

New documents obtained by CP24 through a freedom of information request provide a detailed accounting of all of the reported incidents of criminality on TTC buses from January through the end of April.

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Nolte: Woke Went Gloriously Broke at This Weekend‘s Box Office

Grooming Disney’s Elemental, Mr. They/Them’s The Flash, and the gay, Black Lives Matter-inspired The Blackness all tanked at the box office, to which I can only say, God Bless America.

All three of these flops, the latest products of Hollywood’s Woke Reich, debuted on Friday, and all three bombed both at home and abroad. In fact, all three came in well below even their most pessimistic projections.

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Giant U.S. subsidies begin luring Canadian clean tech companies and talent to move south

The timing couldn’t have been better for Calgary-based Kanin Energy to open an office in Texas last year. It was just as the U.S. government unveiled its massive climate bill, including tens of billions of dollars in new subsidies and other incentives for clean energy.

Kanin Energy develops facilities that use high temperature waste heat from industrial facilities to produce electricity. The new U.S. subsidies now cover up to half the cost of those projects.

“Not only are we seeing a lot of traction in Houston and Texas and in the United States in general, now there’s all these incentives that have really turbocharged our economics for our projects,” Janice Tran, the company’s CEO, said from her office in Houston. “So it made even more sense to actually kind of double down and grow here.”

It’s corporate welfare on a massive scale and the tax payer foots the bill.

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RCMP confirms it is investigating obstruction of SNC-Lavalin prosecution by Trudeau and Cabinet officials

OTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch released the response it received recently to its Access to Information Act (ATIA) filed with the RCMP on July 27, 2022. The RCMP’s response letter, dated May 25, 2023, confirms it is investigating the allegation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former Finance Minister Bill Morneau, some members of their staff, and former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, obstructed justice by pressuring then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018.

The RCMP was repurposed to protect the LPC. No one will be charged.

h/t Mauser

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All Catholic schools in Niagara Region under hold and secure order following undisclosed threat

All schools in the Niagara Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) are currently under a hold-and-secure order following an undisclosed threat.

In a tweet posted at 12:13 pm., NCDSB advised parents and guardians that an “unidentified individual contacted the Board with a threat to an unidentified Niagara catholic school.”

Too much or too little cross-dresser grooming?

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San Francisco Here We Come! Olivia Chow enters final week of mayoral campaign leading in every corner of Toronto, new poll says

The poll pegged Chow’s support at 38 per cent of decided respondents, compared to 14 per cent for former police chief Mark Saunders, 12 per cent for former city councillor Ana Bailão and eight per cent for Coun. Josh Matlow.

Trailing behind: former Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey at seven per cent and, tied at six per cent, former MPP Mitzie Hunter and Coun. Brad Bradford. Ten per cent chose another candidate while 14 per cent were undecided.

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Russians send Soviet-era tanks packed with explosives into Ukraine

Russian soldiers are packing defunct, Soviet-era tanks with devastating explosives and rolling them directly into Ukrainian positions in the latest desperate attempt by the Kremlin to gain an advantage on the battlefield.

In video footage posted online, a 70-year-old T-54 tank rigged with six tons of explosives could be seen guided by remote control as it rolls toward a Ukrainian trench.

The vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, however, is obliterated into a cloud of dust and smoke when it suddenly strikes a mine before being demolished by a Ukrainian anti-tank missile, according to Forbes.

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President of Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., shot dead in gurdwara parking lot

The president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, B.C., was shot dead Sunday night in the temple’s parking lot, according to members of the province’s Sikh community.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death was confirmed by the temple’s vice-president and Sikh community groups, and he is being mourned widely on social media.

… The vice-president of the gurdwara, Amandeep Singh Johal, told CBC News that Nijjar, 45, was an activist with the Sikh independence group Sikhs for Justice.

In 2016, CBC News reported that the government of India was seeking Nijjar’s extradition from Canada on charges related to extremism.

India behind this? I would not be surprised given Junior’s select tolerance for extremism.


More … Hardeep Singh Nijjar: Khalistani leader shot dead inside gurdwara in Canada

h/t DM

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