Austrian authorities, investigating suspected Hamas connections since early October, say they have dismantled a terror plot after uncovering a weapons storage depot in Vienna. In response to the weapons cache being discovered, the anti-immigration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) stated it was once again an example of multiculturalism failing in the country.
Mark Carney’s first budget has landed in a House of Commons deeply divided. Now, one of the first wave of post-budget polls shows that Canadians are similarly torn about the fiscal blueprint put before the country this week.
Abacus Data went out in the field the day after the budget was unveiled and came back with what it is calling “a muddled first impression.”
While awareness of the budget is reasonably high, it is eliciting two starkly different political reactions. Just over half of those aware of the budget, 52 per cent, said it was a step in the right direction, but 48 per cent said it set Canada in the wrong direction.
Just no pleasing the Star.
I didn’t expect, while on a recent trip to Buxton, England, to find myself crouching before 29 shining white tombstones of Canadian soldiers, clustered under a row of holly trees bearing bright red fruit. Rain fell onto the precisely trimmed grass and a grey October wind blew the red roses growing between the graves.
On Nov. 11, locals will gather for the annual ceremony here, to light candles and lay wreaths to honour these men, casualties of the First World War who now rest far from where they lived and died.
On Monday, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan filed an extraordinary batch of documents in the public docket of her case against former FBI Director James Comey. The exhibits range from Comey’s communications with his handpicked FBI leaker, Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor the bureau employed specifically to funnel Comey’s preferred narratives to the press, to text messages between Richman and New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt. But the most significant document by far is Comey’s own handwritten notes proving, beyond any doubt, that he knew early on the entire Russia collusion story was a Clinton campaign fabrication.
While some European countries have hastened to follow US President Donald Trump’s example in designating Antifa as a terrorist organisation, Germany is not one of them. In fact, the German Government actively promotes Antifa.
Thus, as first disclosed by German journalist Stefan Frank on the Achse des Guten (‘Axis of Good’) blog, last year the German Government funded a full-fledged “guide for Antifa thugs”, as the title of Frank’s piece puts it. The description alludes to the Antifa movement’s well-known proclivity for violence. The brochure itself is titled Nazis Hate These Tricks: 20 Reflections on How to Combat Right-Wing Extremism. It was funded, believe it or not, by the German Ministry of Family Affairs – or, per its full title at the time, the Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth – as well as one other German public agency.
The poppy is a symbol of remembrance that’s supposed to transcend political tiffs, honouring those who sacrificed their lives to ensure Canada’s continued existence. And yet, to some judges in the country, it’s now considered so political that it must be banned from the courtroom.
Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan are the prime offenders. In Nova Scotia, “all judges and staff are expected not to wear any symbols of support in the courtroom” as a matter of neutrality, according to spokesperson Andrew Preeper. The Nova Scotia courts consider the poppy to violate that rule.
We are now forced to hide our identities and look over our shoulders.
There is a scene in Annie Hall where Alvy Singer, played by Woody Allen, recounts to his friend instances of supposed anti-Semitism against him: ‘You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC… So I said, “uh, did you eat or what?”, and Tom Christie said, “No, didchoo?”. Not did you – didchoo eat. No, not did you eat, but Jew eat. Jew. You get it? Jew eat?’ Among other examples, Singer also claims that a music-shop assistant is being anti-Semitic by telling him there’s a sale on Wagner records. His friend, Rob, dismisses his concerns as paranoia.
THE announcement that £9billion is to be invested in refurbishing military housing for British servicemen and women sounds like a welcome move, but it came only days after it was revealed that the government has probably already spent over £15billion on homes and hotels for asylum seekers. This is against a backdrop of an estimated 7,500 homeless ex-forces personnel, more than 400 empty barracks with thousands of potential beds, and plans to make more of these available to asylum seekers.
Our own CAF deserve available cash more than alien migrant benefit seekers.
Stephanie Shapiro: To fix the Armed Forces, military families must be supported
Mark Carney’s first budget has delivered the biggest increase in defence spending in decades, as the government seeks to rebuild the military at a time when the Prime Minister says Canada can no longer rely on the United States for protection.
The fiscal plan, tabled a week before Remembrance Day, includes $84-billion to the Department of National Defence over five years, believed to be the biggest short-term cash infusion for the military since the Korean War. The new spending will go to pay raises, precision-strike capabilities, upgrading aging infrastructure and cyberdefences, among other things.
Smiling, graciously waving and elegant in a blue striped shirt, white jeans and dark glasses – the Duchess of Sussex made her surprise return to acting with all the deliberately applied polish you might expect.
Photographed on the set of the film Close Personal Friends, which is shooting in Pasadena, California, she radiated confidence. A well-placed insider told her favoured People magazine: ‘She seemed very relaxed and happy. She was very sweet and down-to-earth.’
Parading about as fake Royals ain’t the lucrative gig they thought it might be.
Washington says American taxpayers will no longer support media outlets interfering in the domestic affairs of ally nations like Hungary.
The chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Kari Lake, informed lawmakers in a letter that Washington will terminate the Hungarian-language service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), known as Szabad Európa.
Suspense is high in Ottawa as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney steers his first budget through to passage. A masterpiece of centrist triangulation, it promises steep cuts — or “sacrifices” — in spending and government personnel, while simultaneously committing to “generational investments”. It outlines C$141 billion in total spending over five years, offset by $51.2 billion in savings, resulting in a $78 billion deficit.
Canadians have a quite glum view of the near future for Canada’s social and economic situation, with only one person in four expressing optimism and significantly more expressing pessimism, but Canadians’ views of their own personal fortunes are much rosier, according to a new polling project.
This strange divergence of attitudes — happy about home, gloomy about country — is also driven by geographical differences, and by a clear partisan split between pessimistic Conservative supporters and optimistic Liberals.
Numerous confidential informants alerted the FBI prior to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot that there was the strong possibility of “armed” conflict at the U.S. Capitol, but that intelligence was not disbursed aggressively enough to force a change in security that fateful day, the first congressman to review those source reports tells Just the News.
h/t patthedog
No Canadian federal budget in my conscient lifetime, going back to finance minister Walter Harris in the St. Laurent government, has been as noisily hyped or widely anticipated as the Carney-Champagne budget of this past Tuesday, and none has been such a stultifying anti-climax. What was promised was a cornucopia of “generational investments” that would ”define our next century” by making a series of “difficult choices (and) sacrifices.” The same prime minister who is in a photo finish with his British analogue Keir Starmer for who can be more obsequious to President Donald Trump, but who promised to keep his ”elbows up,” promised also to “swing for the fences” in the budget with intermittent hints of ”austerity.”
