Luckily the wall was there to stop him pic.twitter.com/5Ygk8HQPFQ
— Grifty (@TheGriftReport) October 12, 2025
Who are the released hostages? Trump addresses Israeli Knesset
The Israeli military says 20 living hostages have been released by Hamas and have returned to Israel. Until Monday, 48 hostages were still being held in Gaza, although some are believed to be dead.
All but one of the hostages were among the 251 people abducted during the Palestinian group’s attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 other people were killed.
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks to Israel's Knesset in Jerusalem.
"After two harrowing years in darkness & captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families… Today, the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at PEACE." pic.twitter.com/edHG5ndSM5
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 13, 2025
Full stream
‘Long and painful nightmare finally over,’ Trump tells Israel’s parliament
US President Donald Trump has told cheering Israeli lawmakers that “the long and painful nightmare is finally over”, after helping to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
During the first such address by a US president since 2008, Trump said the day would mark “the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better” in the Middle East.
Trump’s address to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, comes on the day that the last 20 living hostages held in the Palestinian enclave were released by Hamas.
WTF?
"Managed decline" they call it.
Does this look like it's it's being managed to you? #Canada is rapidly becoming a third world country due to #indian mass migration. In a decade they'll probably forget how fire works and climb back into the trees. pic.twitter.com/Ggycdee8tL
— Codex India (@Codex_India3) October 12, 2025
Shifting global picture disrupted Canada’s national security strategy update: memo
OTTAWA – The Liberal government’s efforts to revise Canada’s national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear earlier this year that many of the assumptions underlying the work were “no longer valid,” a newly released memo reveals.
John Hannaford, the Privy Council clerk at the time, told Prime Minister Mark Carney in the memo that “changes to Canada’s strategic environment” meant work on a draft of the document was based on outdated premises.
Trigger warnings may only encourage people to keep watching
Trigger warning: this article might offend people who like trigger warnings.
A study is just the latest to suggest that telling people they are about to experience offensive content does not seem to change their behaviour — and could even make them want to watch it.
Like catnip!
The Diverging Cultural Paths of American and Canadian Militaries
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is unlikely to approve of the sight of a Canadian soldier’s authorized long hair and purple goatee.
Hegseth made it abundantly clear during a speech this week given in front of essentially all of the U.S. military’s top brass assembled in Quantico, Virginia that grooming standards in America’s military would be strict.
“No more beardos,” the former Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran told an auditorium packed with officers wearing dress uniforms with stacked decoration ribbons.
Conservatives target Liberal DEI hiring with new petition
The federal Conservatives are ramping up criticism of the Liberal government’s spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, launching a petition that calls for an end to what they describe as “billion-dollar bureaucracies” at a time when Canadians face record-high living costs.
The petition, circulated this week, argues that Ottawa has directed more than $1 billion into DEI-related programs and administrative structures that Conservatives say amount to wasteful spending. The document claims the Liberal government has spent $1.049 billion on DEI bureaucracy “while Canadians struggle to make ends meet.”
After Gaza – Is the war against Israel and Jews over?
The war in Gaza may soon be winding down, but the war against Israel and Jews won’t stop. A coordinated wave of boycotts, disinvitations, and street intimidation continues to target Israel and Jewish communities across Europe, North America, and Australia.
Nope. Islam compels its adherents to murder in the name of Allah.
How the ‘hate speech’ conceit fuels political violence
Charlie Kirk was killed by a left that feels entitled to silence its enemies, by any means necessary.
American conservatives have experienced a range of emotions in recent years, starting with amazement – amazement at the hypocrisy of the left. How many times have we heard that US president Donald Trump’s attempts to reform universities threaten academic freedom? Many of the people making this accusation have run professors out of town for dissenting from campus orthodoxies, whether regarding ‘systemic racism’ or climate change. These new-found free-speech crusaders have required faculty to sign loyalty oaths to the cult of diversity. At best, Trump’s accusers stood by silently while such shunning and conformity enforcement occurred.
White House Alarm Over Britain’s China Spy Scandal — A Mirror of Trudeau’s Five Eyes Rift
LONDON — As new details surface from MI5’s counter-intelligence probe into two men accused of gathering information on Conservative China-sceptic MPs, The Sunday Times reports that the White House has privately warned Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government that Britain’s failure to prosecute the alleged Chinese spies could jeopardize U.S.–UK intelligence sharing within the Five Eyes alliance. U.S. officials told the paper that the abrupt collapse of the high-profile espionage case — involving parliamentary researcher Chris Cash and China-based academic Christopher Berry, who was reportedly intercepted returning to Britain with encrypted communications apps used exclusively by Chinese intelligence operatives — has shaken Washington’s confidence in London’s reliability on counter-espionage cooperation.
Israeli hostage release: Hamas release first 7 people — follow live
All 20 hostages still thought to be alive are expected to be released. Israel is expected to free about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in return
h/t INGENUI
Role Of Church Elites In Europe’s Suicide
I wrote something on Friday here about Pope Leo’s recent exhortation to love the poor, as Christians should, but complaining, and complaining bitterly, about the part of the document in which he said Christians have a moral duty to open the door wide to migrants. I didn’t send that to the entire list of subscribers, just the paid ones (there are seven times more unpaid subscribers than paid ones), but enough of those who saw the piece put it, or parts of it, on Facebook that I’ve gained over 100 new subscribers in the past 48 hours. That has never happened. So I’m going to post it again to the entire list today, below. There’s clearly demand for it.
Racist Socialists
To imagine that the racism and eugenics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were right-wing ideologies is to be gravely mistaken.
Canada doesn’t like immigration anymore. This is a problem
Support for immigration in Canada has cratered. Ottawa started polling Canadians in 1996 on their views on immigration. According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, last year was the first time that a majority of Canadians believed there were too many immigrants. A more recent Nanos poll finds that 71 per cent now favour reducing their number. If the government cannot win back support for one of Canada’s flagship policies, our long-term economic growth and geopolitical influence are at risk.
Let me begin by acknowledging that record levels of immigration after the pandemic did exacerbate an already-serious housing crisis and that Canadians are justifiably concerned about taking care of who is already here when poverty rates and the number of homeless have risen. Immigration policy was mismanaged post-pandemic, and Canadians were right to be concerned.
Not were right to be concerned bur were right to rebel at the elite’s heinous replacement immigration scam.
This is just more G&M apologist prattle justifying Corporate Canada importing slaves to lower wages and profit from the shortages.
There is no such thing as a labour shortage only a wage gap between what is on offer and what citizens will accept.
Mass immigration is class war.
First-cousin marriage linked to terrorist financing, money laundering and people trafficking, experts warn
The storm over first-cousin marriage deepened last night after experts linked it to terrorist financing, money laundering and people trafficking.
Tories called for the marriages to be banned after The Mail on Sunday revealed last month that NHS guidance promotes their ‘benefits’ despite an associated increase in birth defects.
The marriages are also connected to unregulated, untraceable ‘hawala’ financing – a way of transferring money worldwide that depends on family ties and doesn’t leave a paper trace.