A top Christian Democrat politician wants to amend the constitution if necessary, so that German taxes can be used to pay for mosques. Jens Spahn—a former minister and deputy leader of the opposition center-right CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group—sees public funding for mosques as a bulwark against overseas influence.
Beatrix von Storch of the AfD previously warned it would be a mistake to finance mosque associations using German taxpayers’ money. While she agreed that the financing of mosques by Turkey or Qatar must be banned immediately, she argued that Muslims in Germany should finance their own mosques with their own contributions.
Lenin is reported to have joked that “when German revolutionaries have to capture a railway station, they first buy platform tickets at the booking-office.” Stereotypes are dangerous things, but the claim that Germans are less prone to revolutionary outbreaks than, say, the French is not entirely without merit.
Canada has reversed course after initially blocking a Russian anti-war activist from receiving citizenship because she had run afoul of Moscow’s harsh laws criminalizing dissent over the invasion of Ukraine.
Maria Kartasheva’s plight had baffled immigration lawyers and exposed the confusing reality of Canada’s immigration bureaucracy. Last year, the 30-year-old was charged and convicted by Russian prosecutors of violating a law barring criticism of the military. And even though her opinions mirrored Canada’s foreign policy, the conviction threatened to derail her application for Canadian citizenship.
“I’m being punished for writing what Canada believes is the truth about Russia’s actions,” she said.
It is 3 years since Kathy passed away on Jan 9 2021.
The weather kept me away from her resting place today but I will stop by on the weekend to visit and retrieve her Christmas wreath.
A copy of C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed caught my eye before Christmas, whether it was pushed or pulled into view by Kathy or the cat I cannot say. Maybe both had a hand in it.
Not the first time something seemed meant to catch my eye and not the first time a cat was involved.
From the inscription it was given by Kathy to her Mum Joan when K’s beloved Grandfather passed away. K always wished I had met him.
At any rate I am probably better off for having it fall into view.
It contains observations that shore up the soul having put to words a universal experience I could only clumsily describe:
“I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling, action after action, had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an arrow to the string, then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there’s an impassable frontierpost across it. So many roads once; now so many culs de sac.”
Worth a look if you have need.
The Holidays are over for another year and I am glad to see them go as they can never be the same without Kathy.
20 years of Christmas’s and New Years were not nearly enough. I would give anything to make her Holiday favourites again.
I do not know what this year will bring but I feel that some change is afoot. We shall see.
Canadians are pessimistic about their own personal finances and the economic outlook of the country this year, with 82 percent saying Canada is in recession, a new survey shows.
While Canada is not technically in recession, which is defined as two consecutive quarters in which the economy declines, the vast majority of Canadians believe it is and don’t expect 2024 to be any better.
PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that years ago when he was a U.S. senator that now-President Joe Biden was regarded by then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and his colleagues as the “dumbest” person in the U.S. Senate.
A British mines explosion that marked the start of the Battle of the Somme left a crater that allowed German troops to press forward into No Man’s Land, it has emerged.
By July 1, 1916, British forces had dug 19 mines under German positions and packed the tunnels with 40,000lb of explosives, which they intended to detonate to provide cover for an infantry advance.
But in an accepted military blunder, the mines were blown 10 minutes before the advance, a mistake which alerted the Germans to the plan and allowed them to take cover.
Ray Epps, the J6er who was repeatedly caught on tape urging Trump supporters to “go into the Capitol,” was sentenced Tuesday to just a year of probation for his actions during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Last September, Epps, a former Oath Keeper from Arizona, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison.
Electric buses are just like electric passenger vehicles: they’re not ready for prime time, only more so. Proterra buses are a case in point. Cities that wasted money on them found they had far less range then advertised. They commonly couldn’t complete even short, flat routes specifically designed for them. The enormous weight of their batteries cracked frames, and getting parts from the factory was virtually impossible. But to make up for their failures, they were far more expensive than reliable diesel buses. Proterra went bankrupt in August of 2023.
A U.S. Navy service member was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in exchange for bribery payments.
On the first commuting morning of the first full workweek of 2024, New York’s permanent “protesting” class demonstrated its tactical approach for the year: to make us miserable on our daily trips, even as the city struggles to attract pre-2020 commuting and tourism crowds. Under the rubric of “Shut it Down for Palestine,” a few hundred people on Monday managed, indeed, to shut down all three Lower Manhattan bridges to Brooklyn, as well as the Holland Tunnel to New Jersey, just after the morning rush. They created gridlock that inconvenienced tens of thousands of drivers, bus riders, bike riders, and walkers. Following months of smaller-scale actions, it was agitators’ most disruptive action yet—and organizers will continue to escalate their behavior unless Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul make clear that blocking key transportation corridors is not “peaceful protest.”
Trudeau government silent on genocide allegations against Israel at UN court
OTTAWA—The federal government is so far staying out of the latest political flashpoint surrounding the war in Gaza, as it remains silent on a contentious accusation being heard this week at the UN’s International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians .
The United States and Israel were quick to reject the allegation — which South Africa filed at the ICJ in late December — as groundless and insulting, while other countries have expressed support for the claim, including Turkey, a NATO ally and staunch critic of Israel’s ongoing airstrikes and ground attacks in response to the Hamas atrocities launched from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7.
Cap on Canada’s new temporary visa program for Palestinians is ‘flexible’: Miller
Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the federal government’s stated 1,000-person limit on temporary resident visas for Palestinians looking to flee Gaza is not a hard cap, despite previous suggestions.
In an interview on CTV News Channel’s Power Play, Miller told host Vassy Kapelos that “no,” the limit as previously stated is not set in stone.
Fucking lying scum are going to flood Canada with Muslim terrorists.
Rebel News personality David Menzies was arrested Monday for allegedly assaulting a police officer while trying to ask Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland questions about the government’s decision to leave the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) off the designated terrorist entity list.
The website posted a video of Menzies briefly colliding with a police officer in Richmond Hill, Ont., while trying to question Freeland about the IRGC at an event to mark the destruction of Flight PS752, a Ukrainian International Airlines jetliner that was destroyed by the Iranian military in January 2020 — an attack that killed dozens of Canadians.
RCMP officer under review after arresting Rebel News commentator David Menzies for ‘assault’
A member of the RCMP security detail who grabbed and arrested a Rebel News commentator while questioning Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Monday is under review by the federal force after video of the incident sparked outrage for a seemingly dubious arrest.
Lenin is 
Canada has reversed course after initially blocking a Russian anti-war activist from receiving citizenship because she had run afoul of Moscow’s harsh laws criminalizing dissent over the invasion of Ukraine.
