Iran: Good and Bad News Are the Same

The good news from Iran is that there isn’t going to be any change in the way the Islamic Republic has always behaved. This is to say, the “Supreme Guide” has decided to swallow his latest humiliation caused by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran and refrain from seeking “hard revenge” as his more radical followers hoped. On Tuesday, a group of Revolutionary Guards raided the German Goethe Institute in Tehran and shut and sealed it in retaliation to the German government’s closing of an Iranian propaganda center in Hamburg last month.

The bad news is also the same: there isn’t going to be any change in the way the Islamic Republic has always behaved. Newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian isn’t going to be the Iranian Gorbachev, as the pro-US faction in the ruling clique had hoped.

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The Gaza pier debacle: it’s worse

“… Since then, the media, and the Harris/Biden Administration–Joe Biden, vanishing POTUS—have ignored the unfolding debacle. The pier, badly damaged and sort of repaired, supposedly has been dismantled, and multiple US Army(?) ships are in little better shape. Earlier reports indicated those ships had substantial difficulty, so poor was their mechanical condition, even getting to the Middle East. Now it appears they’re no longer able to return to America under their own power. “

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Why aren’t left-wing anti-immigration parties called fascists?

It is almost six years to the day since the charismatic German left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht launched a new movement to counter the rise of the far-right in her country.

What distinguished ‘Aufstehen’ (Stand Up) from the rest of the left was its negative view of mass immigration. Wagenknecht’s movement was greeted more with curiosity than animosity by the left-wing European press. Under the headline, ‘The emergence of an anti-migrant left in Germany’, the French paper, Le Monde, said it might herald ‘the start of a promising adventure, which could profoundly shake up the country’s political life’.

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The Hollywood liberals who rule America

Will movie stars put Kamala in the Oval Office?

My father told me that those who work in Hollywood are America’s aristocrats. Everyone else is a civilian. It was a concept that said less about how the world perceived my father than about how he perceived himself. After all, he had been nominated twice for Academy Awards. He knew Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra. Did such things not qualify him to be, in the words of the great Romantic poet Percy Shelley, an unacknowledged legislator of the world?

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Somalia: The Near Complete Islamization of a Society

Overwhelmed by Islamic persecution, a tiny community of Somalian Christians lives in fear for their lives

At least 37 people were killed and scores wounded during an attack by an al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen at a popular beach in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on August 3.

Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for numerous bombings and attacks in Mogadishu as well as other parts of Somalia. Last month, five people were killed in a powerful car bomb blast at a café in the capital. In March, militants killed three people and wounded 27 during an hours-long siege of a Mogadishu hotel. 

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Swarmings at a Peach Festival?

Police increasing presence at Hamilton area festivals after swarmings. At Peach Fest, officers ‘likely prevented a shooting’

Hamilton police are increasing the number of officers at community festivals over the next couple of months following a spat of swarming attacks and robberies involving youths at the events last year.

The increased police presence began with the Winona Peach Festival this weekend, where police intervened in several incidents Saturday night.

This new Canada is a Peach!

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Canadians of convenience in Lebanon are at least four times the number of Canada’s last three foreign evacuations combined

The number of Canadians registered in Lebanon is nearly 23,000, or four times the amount evacuated by Global Affairs Canada’s past three evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, Sudan, and Haiti combined.

Following an attack by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah on Israel’s north late last month, Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly implored Canadians to leave Lebanon while they still have the opportunity to do so.

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SLOBODIAN: Bloody trails left without a bullet being fired

A 12-year-old girl, terrorists and rage-possessed crazies are among the attackers armed with machetes or knives that recently went on rampages to injure and murder innocents.

Canada. England, and now Germany.

It’s savagery on steroids. It leaves a bloody trail without a bullet being fired. But firearms and fretting about blade-wielding slashers being discriminated against seem to get more attention.

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Trudeau government’s policy record speaks volumes

The greatest impact on the policies of the Trudeau government, unquestionably, has been the Liberals’ personal and business relationships with China’s political leadership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the governing Liberals continue to evade inquiries and obfuscate the facts surrounding their involvement with the CCP. It appears with the Trudeau government Canadians will never know of the ties that bind us to China and the undue influence applied by the CCP.

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UAP disclosure not ‘a sprint. It’s a marathon’: Ex-Pentagon official

On July 26, 2023, Navy pilot Ryan Graves, Navy Commander David Fravor and former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified at a Congressional hearing heard around the world.

It was a “profound moment” for former Pentagon official Lue Elizondo to hear Grusch speak publicly about an alleged “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program.”

“You had three military personnel testifying on the reality of UAP,” Elizondo said. “Now that’s historic.”

For those who may have missed this.

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A critical review of the Democrat Convention

First, Kamala. Nary an original thought, she has been properly schooled in the language of blah, blah, blah.

One speaker after another, blah, blah, blah

They all took turns making the case for Kamala Harris, a woman least qualified to be president of anything, least of all president of the United States.

Can they be serious? Of course not. In their hearts they know she’s a dunce, but she is all they’ve got, so they will do anything to sell her as the best and the brightest.

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