No matter how mentally diminished President Joe Biden is, you have to be horrified by who waits in the wings should he leave office before the expiration of his term.
Michael Yon on the US migration crisis: people coming from various places, these ones in the Panama area
After covering wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Michael Yon is now covering migration to the US border across a variety of treacherous terrain. He joins me from Panama where he has been tracking movement through the Darien Gap, a portion of the wild jungle in which he says roughly 10% of those crossing die before reaching the other side.
Biden and Putin in G7 and a Half
By holding a tete-a-tete with Vladimir Putin just after the G7 summit in Cornwall, US President Joe Biden may signal a move towards a G7 and a half arrangement in which Russia, once a full member of the club, secures a side chair in its ante-chamber. The arrangement suits Putin just fine. For his strategy has always aimed at taking the Western democracies one by one and not as a bloc such as NATO, the European Union or the G7.
But what does Putin want?
Dems who back ‘defund the police’ mob that has cops on heels use crime surge to cry for gun control
Democrats who backed efforts to defund police departments and other criminal justice reforms that critics have blamed as most responsible for the huge spikes in crime around the country are using the rising tide of violence to justify new pushes for gun control.
Big Tranny is Watching
Metro Vancouver’s transportation agency Translink sees nothing wrong with a sign that suggests people who don’t sufficiently “respect” trans people should be killed. pic.twitter.com/4GVtfqOG9E
— Lorelei 🌕🧙♀️🕸🍄 (@hatpinwoman) June 11, 2021
Joy Reid Says Kids Today Are Taught “Slavery Was Not so Bad”, Gives CRT a Pass
MSNBC’s Joy Reid is arrogant enough to believe the American people would buy that previous homophobic posts on an old blog of hers were simply hacked material and not her own writing. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that the TV host would also believe that Americans would actually buy that American school children aren’t taught the horrors of American slavery, and that Critical Race Theory is simply an effort to change that poor-quality education.
Police nab one of two Austin mass shooting suspects as newspaper panned for hiding description to avoid ‘perpetuating stereotypes’
One of two suspects in a mass shooting that injured 14 people in Austin, Texas, has been apprehended, but the local newspaper is continuing to withhold the alleged shooter’s description to avoid “perpetuating stereotypes.”
Austin police offered no details of the arrest, other than to say that it was done with the help of a US Marshals task force. Mention of the arrest was tacked on to an earlier statement regarding the Saturday morning shooting, which described the alleged shooter. It’s not clear whether that description applies to the man who was arrested or to the suspect who remained at large as of Saturday evening.
Qatar Behind Hostile Israel Statements From American Universities
Students and faculty at American universities in Qatar issued strikingly similar condemnations of Israel during last month’s Hamas rocket attacks, one result of a longstanding Qatari campaign to shift U.S. public opinion.
Professors at Northwestern University’s Qatar campus issued a letter condemning Israel as an “apartheid” state that commits “crimes against humanity.” Georgetown University in Qatar followed suit. The Qatari government bankrolls these and other American schools, which are located in the capital city of Doha, through the Qatar Foundation, an arm of the regime aimed at promoting Qatari interests abroad.
With Merkel leaving, Trudeau positions himself as new ‘Dean’ of G-7
With Angela Merkel preparing to exit the international stage, the longest-serving leader of the Group of Seven is Canada’s Justin Trudeau. While he is positioning himself as the new elder statesman, no one sees him owning the role in the way the German chancellor did.
CAF, Sajjan look at ‘next steps’ after reports senior military leaders golfed with Vance amid misconduct probe
TORONTO — The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is determining “next steps” after being made aware that senior military leaders went golfing with former defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance who is currently under military police investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.
In a statement to CTV News, the CAF said it has been made aware that Vice-Chief of Defence Staff Michael Rouleau and Vice-Admiral Craig Baines, head of the Royal Canadian Navy, went golfing with Vance earlier this month at a private club in Ottawa.
Keystone XL victory emboldens green groups in fight against Enbridge Line 3 pipeline
After securing the death of Keystone XL, emboldened environmentalists are projecting confidence about their chances of convincing President Joe Biden to intervene in other oil pipeline disputes.
Their top target is the Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota. A company is poised to replace an aging pipeline to transport crude from Canada’s Alberta oil sands through the state’s watersheds and tribal lands to Superior, Wisconsin.
Enbridge, the Canadian-based project developer, says the $9 billion pipeline expansion is needed to replace an existing pipeline from the 1960s that is corroding and only operating at half capacity.
Communist China warns G7 summit: Small groups do not rule the world
China has warned the G7 leaders that the days when a “small” group of countries decided the fate of the world were long gone.
The comments, by a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in London, come as the leaders, who are meeting in England, seek a unified position over China.
They adopted a spending plan in response to a massive Chinese scheme.
Analysts say US President Joe Biden is determined that Western powers need to act now to counter a resurgent China.
China and Iran: Join Up the Dots
The whole is much more than the sum of the parts
The Free World seems finally to be waking up to the fact that for at least a decade we have been in ‘grey war’ with the new alliance of China, Russia, Iran and N. Korea (CRINK) without openly realising it. Within high circles in the Western Intelligence Community (which is awake, not woke, thankfully) there is a name for it: ghost attack.
Ghost attack is described thus in two stages: Stage One: “Commit non-attributable, or feasibly deniable, acts of war that advance your own national power and physically harm your adversaries, but do not fit traditional legal standards to mobilize them to a formal response.” Stage Two: “Then foment chaos, advance the narrative of your innocence, and underline your adversary’s incompetence through information warfare.”
Liberals approached me to cross the floor, issues with Green leader ‘irreconcilable’: Atwin
…Atwin said she stands by her pro-Palestinian position, and was hurt by the accusation made that she was anti-Semitic. She said she’s been told there is a difference of opinion among Liberals and believes there will be an opportunity within her new caucus to have a more “healthy discussion and debate” than was possible with her former team.
“I know I’m going to a place where I’m not alone in how I feel about this issue, and that I’ll have that collaboration to work through it and come to an understanding, and that’s what I’m very much looking forward to,” she said, without naming names.
The Conservatives have sought to attack the Liberals over the move, framing it as welcoming in “another anti-Israeli MP,” suggesting she will be “in good company.”
Netanyahu in last Knesset speech as PM: We will topple ‘dangerous gov’t’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Knesset on Sunday afternoon ahead of the expected swearing-in of a new government that will oust him from power and end his 12-year reign on Sunday evening. He promised to do everything possible to topple what he called would be a “dangerous government.”