John Kerry loves him some Military Industrial Complex

A moronic essay in the New York Times leaves me wondering how in the world this man became secretary of state.

John Kerry Ass Faced Hypocrite

John Kerry, Obama’s Secretary of State after Hillary, is a notoriously liberal Democrat, well known for the fraudulent tale tossing his medals over the fence at the Capitol after his return from Vietnam.  He lied about it in 1971, and kept the lie going as best he could until his run for president in 2004.  That’s a long time to maintain a lie. So when he talks, we should be suspicious.  That’s why it’s important to read between the lines of anything he says.  Happily for us, he’s just not that bright, so it ain’t hard.

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China’s Top General Falls: Inside Xi Jinping’s Hollow Military Purge

OTTAWA/LOS ANGELES — The weekend delivered a jolt from Beijing that underscores a theme Chris Meyer and I have explored across multiple podcast discussions: Xi Jinping’s regime can look strong yet be brittle.

China’s Defence Ministry says it has opened investigations into senior military figures including Gen. Zhang Youxia, a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission—an escalation that is shaking the top ranks of the People’s Liberation Army and fuelling fresh questions, inside and outside China, about whether this is an anti-corruption purge, a political power struggle, or both.

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How Soon They Forget

Without American sacrifice, would there be a free Europe?

When European leaders took the stage at the World Economic Forum this year, the language was familiar: partnership, shared values, transatlantic unity. What was conspicuously absent was memory. Not nostalgia, not sentiment—but memory. Because when it comes to America’s role in Europe’s survival, prosperity, and security, much of today’s European political class behaves as if history began yesterday.

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Mark Carney brushes off insults and threats from Donald Trump: ‘I can handle it’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney shrugged off Donald Trump’s dismissal of him as “governor” on Monday, casting the threat of 100 per cent tariffs against Canada as a negotiating tactic, and offering an impassioned rebuttal to the U.S. president’s insult of NATO troops in Afghanistan as slackers.

In his first full news conference in 10 days, Carney said in French that he did not regret “a word” of his Jan. 20 speech in Davos, which appeared to irritate Trump. The American president later scolded Canada from the same World Economic Forum stage for not being “grateful” and on the weekend threatened to slap 100 per cent tariffs on its goods if Canada does a “deal” with China.

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France arrests two Brits for ‘inciting hatred’ after they ‘tried to take part in banned anti-migrant protest’ near Calais

Two British nationals who came to France to allegedly take part in a banned protest against migrants were arrested and taken into custody for ‘inciting hatred.’

The two men were broadcasting live videos and were arrested near the northern town of Calais on Sunday evening, the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said.

The pair were placed in custody for inciting hatred and participating in a group with the aim of preparing violence, based on comments made on social media, the public prosecutor’s office said.


France finally arrested a couple of migrants!

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Doug Ford and Mark Carney make peace after changes to Chinese EV tariff

It’s pizza in our time.

Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney made peace over Pizza Nova slices Monday in Etobicoke.
Ford, who settled for a veggie piece, bought Carney a slice of Hawaiian, joking, “I know you will probably get me on taxes so I’ll pay for this.”

Monday’s confab at a Royal York Road plaza came after the premier had complained last week that the prime minister blindsided Ontario when he slashed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles earlier this month during a trade mission to Beijing.


Dougie seems to have bought into a new vision! The ChiCom spyware on wheels is still on the way but something swayed Ford.

Doug Ford calls federal auto strategy ‘great’ and says Ontario will be part of it after meeting with Carney and Joly

Ontario Premier Doug Ford appears to have had a change of heart when it comes to the federal government’s auto strategy after hearing more about it from federal officials.

“I also want to thank Minister (Mélanie) Joly for coming up with a great auto strategy that the minister has put together that we’re going to be part of,” Ford said at a news conference with Joly at Queen’s Park Monday after the two met.

Kinda odd the way Joly is lookin at Dougie…

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Vienna Refuses Statue of Christian King To Avoid Fueling ‘Islamophobia’

Jan Sobieski – The Warrior-King Who Saved Europe From Islam

A plan to honour the Polish king who saved Vienna from an Ottoman siege has sparked a diplomatic row after the Austrian capital refused to erect the monument, citing fears it could offend the Muslim community.

The long-running dispute centres on a proposed statue of King John III Sobieski, intended for Vienna’s Kahlenberg mountain—the site of his decisive victory over the Ottoman army in 1683. First proposed in 2013 and formally approved in 2018, the project had been stalled for years before being definitively rejected by the city authorities at the end of 2024.

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Is Mark Carney considering a snap spring election? ‘Of course we’re not,’ he says

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government is not considering a federal election this spring as Parliament resumed on Monday.

“Of course we’re not,” he said, when asked by a reporter if he was thinking about going to the polls during a press conference in Ottawa. “We’re focused on results for Canadians.”

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This year’s Australia Day brings a painful realisation

In broad daylight, two monuments were smashed in Melbourne’s Flagstaff Gardens last week. One of them was an 1871 memorial to the city’s earliest British settlers; the other commemorated Victoria’s separation from New South Wales in 1850. These monuments not only were sledgehammered, but daubed with the ugly words ‘death to Australia’ and the provocative, hateful triangle symbol of Hamas.

It wouldn’t be Australia’s national day without such acts of vandalism, meant to deface the anniversary of the day a British convict settlement was proclaimed at Sydney. Last year, it was statues of James Cook, the man who, until the 1970s, was hailed and celebrated as Australia’s discoverer. These acts of destruction against symbols of Australia’s colonial past carry their own symbolism, the perpetrators’ acts of defiance against a nation and society they abhor.

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Trump’s Greenland gambit exposes Canada’s Arctic vulnerability

OTTAWA — Just when Canada thought it was getting its military house in order by finally meeting NATO spending targets, President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland have exposed the vulnerability of the vast, underpopulated and undergunned Canadian Arctic.

Trump’s Greenland threats have turned the Arctic from a distant, long-term concern into an urgent strategic test for Canada, exposing how a region long treated as remote is now entangled in disputes over shipping routes, sovereignty and alliance politics.

Successive Canadian governments have long understood that melting polar ice has left the Arctic more accessible — and more vulnerable to Russian and Chinese interest — but have done little to counter threats traditionally seen as unlikely.

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