Perhaps New Statesman was right to headline: “The West is bored to death.”
Every day we invent a controversy over phantom “racism.”
And while the West dies of boredom and drifts into nothingness talking about mansplaining and misgendering, a death cult rises in Eurabia.
Imagine if in 1945, hundreds of Europeans had named newborns “Adolf,” a name that unsurprisingly disappeared after WWII.
Today, 583 baby boys in the UK have been named “Yahya”.
There is no room for presentist moral narcissism.
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two bombings represent the only instances in which nuclear weapons have been deployed in war. At least 150,000 Japanese perished — a majority of them civilians. But the bombings were successful in achieving their intended effect: Japan announced its formal surrender to the Allies six days after the second bombing, thus finally bringing the bloodiest conflict in human history to an end.
They were gathering at the conclusion of last weekend’s Shabbat at the Congregation Emanu-El synagogue in downtown Victoria for an evening reading from the Book of Lamentations and the usual chants and prayers to mark Tisha B’Av, the holiest day of mourning in the Jewish calendar.
It’s a time of fasting and reflection that marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, and the tribulations that followed the Jews down through the ages.
UPDATE: Shooter accused in incident near Emory University, CDC confirmed dead
Active shooter reported at Emory University, as students are urged to ‘RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.’
Atlanta GA Active Shooter Dead
Emory University Fatal Shooting: 5 Hurt, Active Shooter, Heavy Police at Emory University’s CVS Campus in Atlanta, Ga; Suspect Found Dead by Hanging
pic.twitter.com/YvFbuCTpuv— CatManDoo (@CatManDoo18) August 8, 2025
BREAKING: Emory University reported an active shooter on its Atlanta, Georgia, campus on Friday.
“RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. Avoid the area,” the university said.https://t.co/e3XYD9VYpK pic.twitter.com/RriVrBzZ4L
— ABC News (@ABC) August 8, 2025
BREAKING: Video footage near Emory University in Atlanta shows an active shooter situation on campus, with a significant police response at the scene.
No word on casualties yet. pic.twitter.com/w3hM7fK1TU
— World Source News 24/7 (@Worldsource24) August 8, 2025
The Canadian military has witnessed a resurgence in hateful conduct and racism reports over the last year following several years of decline, according to data obtained by CBC News.
The detailed information comes as the army deals with a fresh set of extremism and disreputable conduct allegations.
The sudden turnaround has piqued the curiosity of far-right extremism experts, who say it’s no coincidence the numbers began to reverse in 2024 just as tumultuous political and social change was unleashed in the United States with the re-election of Donald Trump as president — and as the Canadian military is years deep into a mission to change its culture.
Sounds like they’re in a panic over the demise of woke and DEI etc.
The transition away from fossil fuels could be held back by shortages of critical minerals needed to build solar panels, nuclear power stations, electric cars and wind turbines, researchers have found.
Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology found that if the world attempted to build enough clean technology to limit climate change to 2C above pre-industrial temperatures, it would exhaust known reserves of several minerals within decades.
OTTAWA — Republicans on an influential House committee are pushing top Trump administration officials to pressure Canada to kibosh its controversial Online Streaming Act, which they describe as a “major threat” to the trade relationship.
France’s multi-billion euro mineral water companies are under the spotlight because of climate change and growing concerns about the industry’s environmental impact.
At issue is whether some world-famous brands, notably the iconic Perrier label, can even continue calling themselves “natural mineral water”.
A decision in the Perrier case is due in the coming months. It follows revelations in the French media about illicit filtration systems that have been widely used in the industry, apparently because of worries about water contamination, after years of drought linked to climate change.
I will always be too lower class for Perrier.
So just how bad did things get for worldwide Jewry in 2025, someone might ask in a future history class. So bad, the answer might go, that Israeli flags weren’t allowed at Auschwitz.
So, pretty bad. Ugly bad.
FBI Director Kash Patel is making the bold moves that the bureau desperately needed, cleaning house and rooting out the lingering partisan bad actors who have long compromised the agency’s integrity. In a decisive shake-up, the FBI is ousting key officials, including former acting director Brian Driscoll, special agent Walter Giardina, who played a role in targeting Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro, and Washington Field Office acting director Steven Jensen, a pivotal figure in the January 6 investigations. These removals come swiftly and with no detailed explanations, but insiders describe them plainly as retribution: a necessary reckoning.
Canadian defence officials have strongly made the case that Ottawa should stick to a plan to buy 88 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets rather than splitting the order, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The review stops short of making a formal recommendation, one of the sources said.
An online trove of archived conversations shows model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse
After talking to ChatGPT for nearly five hours, and inventing a brand-new physics framework dubbed “The Orion Equation,” the user who identified as a gas station worker in Oklahoma decided he had had enough.
“Ok mabey tomorrow to be honest I feel like I’m going crazy thinking about this,” the user wrote.
“I hear you. Thinking about the fundamental nature of the universe while working an everyday job can feel overwhelming,” ChatGPT replied. “But that doesn’t mean you’re crazy. Some of the greatest ideas in history came from people outside the traditional academic system.”
Girl Guides of Canada says it is pausing all trips to the U.S. starting next month over concerns some members could be impacted by border changes put in place by the Trump administration.
In an email to Global News, the organization said it had made the decision to pause U.S.-bound trips as of Sept. 1 “after careful consideration.”
The legal and judicial system of Afghanistan has been “weaponized” by its brutal Taliban terrorist rulers to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” a U.N. investigator on human rights reported Thursday.
White nationalists are posting pictures from the London area. Here are the locations
A white supremacist group is growing its ranks in the London and St. Thomas areas of southwestern Ontario with the location of several meeting places now identified by CBC News.
Nationalist-13 has held several meetings and anti-immigration protests recently. It’s based in Hamilton, and is what’s known as an “active club.” Active clubs are part of a neo-Nazi network that has grown globally, moving from online forums into real-world communities, including some in southwestern Ontario.
