Texas officials say all hostages safe, out of Colleyville synagogue; Muslim hostage-taker dead

Texas officials say all hostages safe, out of Colleyville synagogue; Muslim hostage-taker dead

Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted about 9:35 p.m. that all hostages are safe and out of a Colleyville synagogue after a loud bang and gunfire were heard.

U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne told a Star-Telegram reporter in a text and the hostage-taker is dead.

A loud bang followed by what sounded like gunfire was heard about 9:12 p.m. Saturday outside the Colleyville synagogue where a hostage situation has been ongoing for hours. This developing story will be updated.

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Maybe the townspeople could eat them?

Town goes dark amid massive bug infestation

The Argentinean town of Santa Isabel has been forced to shut off its lights for several days in an effort to persuade the millions of bugs that have invaded its streets to leave and look for another place to stay.

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Russia-Ukraine tensions: What should Canada do? … Write a sternly worded letter threatening the tears of Justin!

Canada can and should be more engaged in de-escalation efforts at the Ukraine border where Russia is amassing troops but must focus on its diplomatic strengths, says national security experts.

In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, Richard Fadden, former CSIS director and national security adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said that includes calling out Russian aggression and threatening further sanctions, in union with NATO allies.

“We should be out there beating the bushes with our allies arguing, maybe send some more troops on a rotational basis, make sure sanctions that are now in place are fully respected, argue for bigger sanctions, but I don’t think we can do a great deal on our own,” he said.


There is  nothing material that Canada can do either alone or with our paper tiger NATO.

Sanctions like taxes are for the little people to suffer not Oligarchs.

No one wants a war over this latter day Czechoslovakia, not even Putin. Well maybe Freeland.

Putin will grandstand and wring some gains while showing up NATO for the farce it is.

Joe Biden will get his 10% and Germany will get its Russian gas.

It’s doubtful the western Euro’s would or even could defend themselves if attacked so I see little stomach for a war over Ukraine.

The Ukraine crisis may herald the beginning of a New Europe.

If the EU defence force is still on the table it may signal the end of NATO allowing the refinement of coordinated Eurocentric mass surrender skills untainted by American hegemony.


Good Grief.  Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to visit Ukraine as it faces threat of Russian invasion

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‘I’m doing this for my people, it’s political. I don’t like this Government. I don’t like black people, I don’t like white people, I don’t like Asian people.’

‘Everybody run!’ The moment ‘smiling knifeman’ launched rampage in Manchester shopping centre and randomly attacked five people including a mother pushing a pram

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‘I’m doing this for my people, it’s political. I don’t like this Government. I don’t like black people, I don’t like white people, I don’t like Asian people.’

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The vasectomy ‘movement’ is a front for eugenics

The self-gelding campaign has a dark motivation

Are men really getting themselves neutered to save the planet? A Guardian story yesterday quotes Lloyd Williamson, a 30-year-old childless man who underwent vasectomy last November, who explains that “I don’t want to bring a life into this world, because it’s pretty shitty as it is and it’s only going to get worse”.

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Ottawa to go ahead with trucker vaccine mandate after stating it would scrap it

MONTREAL – The federal government says the vaccine mandate for truckers crossing into Canada from the United States will come into effect this Saturday as planned, despite a previous statement from the Canada Border Services Agency that said Canadian truck drivers would be exempt.

In a release Thursday, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos along with the transport and public safety ministers said the CBSA statement from Wednesday evening was “provided in error,” and that Canadian truckers must be vaccinated if they want to avoid quarantine and a pre-arrival molecular test, starting this weekend.

h/t DS

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‘Havana syndrome’: US baffled after new cases in Europe

Four more US diplomats working in Geneva and Paris have fallen ill with a suspected neurological illness known as “Havana syndrome”, US media report.

Three diplomats became sick in the Swiss city and one in the French capital last summer, with some 200 people affected over five years.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the American government was working to get to the bottom of the mystery.

There are fears an adversary may have targeted diplomats with microwaves.

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