Former stripper, murder convict Crystal Mangum confesses to lying about being raped by Duke lacrosse players in 2006

Former stripper and current murder convict Crystal Mangum confessed to lying about being raped by Duke Lacrosse players in an interview on the independent media outlet “Let’s Talk With Kat” on Thursday.

“I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me,” Mangum said. “[I] made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.”

Kathy defiantly wore her Duke Lacrosse t-shirt. Still have it.

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Stopping mass street prayers is doable without new laws, if police only tried

Fourteen months after Hamas’s October 7 pogrom in southern Israel, many Quebecers share with many other Canadians a weariness — if not stronger emotions — over anti-Israel protesters blocking streets, bellowing through megaphones, and harassing Jewish businesses and neighbourhoods. Some of us, for various reasons, are particularly put-off by the sight of the protesters kneeling in prayer in the streets en masse.

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Trump says Syria ‘not our fight’. Staying out may not be so easy

When Donald Trump sat with world leaders in Paris last weekend to marvel at the restored Notre Dame cathedral, armed Islamist fighters in Syria were in jeeps on the road to Damascus finalising the fall of the Assad regime.

In this split screen moment of global news, the US president-elect, seated between the French first couple, still had an eye on the stunning turn of events in the Middle East.

“Syria is a mess, but is not our friend,” he posted the same day on his Truth Social network.

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The great trolling of Justin Trudeau: Why Donald Trump won’t leave Canadian PM alone

Donald Trump waited just three weeks after his election victory last month to restart one of his favourite hobbies during his first administration: trolling Justin Trudeau.

On Nov 26, he pledged to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on Canada, alongside Mexico the US’s largest trading partner, unless the country agreed to crack down on border security.

Cue panic in Ottawa. Mr Trudeau was at Mar-a-Lago three days later to discuss the issue with the president-elect and put on a brave face to tell the media the two men had an “excellent conversation”.

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New Yorker turned ISIS recruiter — nicknamed ‘Umm Nuteella’ — faces 70 years in prison after judge tosses ‘shockingly low’ sentence

A New Yorker-turned-ISIS recruiter nicknamed “Umm Nuteella” faces up to 70 years in prison after an appeals court tossed her initial “shockingly low” 48-month sentence for boosting the terror organization.

Sinmyah Ceasar, 29, allegedly continued to chat with terrorist contacts — and even solicited money to help an ISIS supporter — while she was out on supervised release following her release from lockup, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said.

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Trudeau makes fresh bid to recruit Mark Carney amid tensions with Freeland

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made another attempt to recruit former central banker Mark Carney at a time when tensions with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have risen over increased spending on political strategies, three sources say.

In recent weeks, as the government has struggled to overcome a 20-per-cent gap in the polls with the Conservatives, the sources say the former governor of both the banks of Canada and England was again approached to join the government, an offer which he is still considering.

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Canada’s Median Health-Care Wait Time Hits Record of 30 Weeks

Canadian patients experienced the longest wait times for medical treatment on record last year, with median delays reaching an unprecedented 30 weeks.

The average duration that Canadians waited—between receiving a referral from their family doctor to consulting with a specialist and beginning treatment—was 30 weeks, according to a study from the Fraser Institute.

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Report: German Intelligence Agency Weaponised To Crack Down on AfD

Conservative and liberal politicians in the eastern German state of Thuringia are calling for the resignation of the head of the state’s domestic intelligence agency, Stephan Kramer, who —according to a report—is abusing his public office to pursue a political rival, the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.

An explosive article by the media outlet Apollo News revealed that Kramer has chosen to disregard legal and factual arguments while pursuing a campaign against the AfD, effectively weaponising his office for party political purposes. He has also been described as a “serious security risk” and threatened at least one of his employees with physical violence.

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Russia! Russia! Russia!

Inside the Russian Political Influence Campaign in Canada

When far-right YouTuber Lauren Southern was summoned to tell MPs about her part in an alleged Russian disinformation operation last month, she told them it was no big deal.

“If you were worried about this alleged Russian money unduly influencing Canadian issues — good news, didn’t happen,” she told the standing committee on public safety and national security, which includes Liberal, Conservative, NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs.

The Russians’ efforts to use Tenet Media as a secret propaganda tool were a failure, Southern told MPs. Few people watched the videos, she said, expert assessments of the project’s impact were inflated and the committee’s investigation was a waste of taxpayer dollars.

“Far-Right” means unbiased journalism.

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Revealed: Prince Andrew’s links to Chinese ‘spy’ banned from UK

A “close confidant” of the Duke of York is an alleged Chinese spy who has been banned from entering the UK on national security grounds.

The man, known only as H6, was once a junior civil servant in China and was so close to Prince Andrew that he had been told he could act on the royal’s behalf when dealing with potential investors in China, according to a secret hearing.

He was also invited to the Duke’s birthday party in 2020, and was described by the judges overseeing the case as a “close confidant of the Duke”.

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More current polio cases have been caused by vaccines than the wild virus: WHO report

There are now more people who have contracted polio through vaccines than the wild virus itself.

The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report last week, which recorded nine new polio cases that were caused by the vaccines in four African countries in Nigeria, Central African Republic, Angola and the Congo.

A total of 16 countries have had similar outbreaks. That includes cases in other African counties, and in Asia in places such as the Philippines, China, Myanmar. It’s risen the count of polio cases caused by vaccines to 157.

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