Germany Revoked a Terror Supporter’s Citizenship. Why Can’t America?

There’s a difference between dissent and betrayal. Between protest and open allegiance to a group like Hamas.

There’s something quietly revolutionary about paperwork. It rarely makes headlines or history books. But every so often, a bureaucratic act reveals a moral frontier.

That’s what happened last week in Berlin, when the German government revoked the citizenship of a man named Abdallah A., a naturalized Palestinian-German who used his new German identity to glorify Hamas’s October 7 atrocities , the deadliest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. His Instagram stories praised the attacks as heroic, sanctified the gunmen as martyrs, and circulated celebratory footage of the carnage. The message was clear: if you celebrate the slaughter of civilians in the name of jihad, you don’t get to carry our passport.

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Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, warns former prime minister Jean Chrétien

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien is warning that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy because the U.S. president “does not care much about the rule of law,” and that “could cause a lot of problems south of the border.”

“Western society is built on the rule of law,” Chrétien said in an interview with CBC’s The House. “When there is no more rule of law, it’s blackmail on a daily basis, and it’s not working.”


Rule of Law? Adscam cranked up during Chretien’s tenure. And ask him about his real estate deals in Shawinigan.

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Scooter-riding thieves break into Louvre, swipe priceless jewels belonging to Napoleon in brazen daylight heist

Professional thieves broke into the Louvre Sunday morning — stealing priceless jewels that belonged to Emperor Napoleon in a brazen daylight heist in Paris.

The robbers used an aerial lift and an angle grinder to break in through the window of the iconic French attraction, before making off with nine pieces of jewelry, Le Parisien reported.

Chainsaw massacre.

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Stellantis announcement only looks like bad news

This week’s announcement by automaker Stellantis that it’s moving Jeep Compass production from its Brampton, Ont., plant, to Illinois, highlights the folly of Ottawa’s policy of competing with Washington. But it also provides Canada an opportunity to reduce taxpayers’ exposure to the sagging electric vehicle battery market.


This could be a very lucky break for tax payers.

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MSNBC Compares ‘No Kings’ Critics To Nazis

Saturday was a day that ended in Y, which meant it was time for MSNBC host Ali Velshi and philosophy professor, media hero, and professional crazy person Jason Stanley to compare Republicans to Nazis. This time, the GOP’s offense was calling far-left No Kings rally attendees Marxists.

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Epstein ‘bankrolled Sarah Ferguson for 15 years’ and she ‘took daughters to celebrate his release from prison in US’ astonishing emails claim

Jeffrey Epstein secretly bankrolled Sarah Ferguson for 15 years, astonishing new emails claim.

The convicted paedophile complained to friends about the disgraced duchess’s scrounging ways in messages that suggest his financial support went far beyond the £15,000 she admitted taking from him.

In the previously unseen emails, Epstein reveals Fergie was so desperate to cosy up to him that ‘she was the first to celebrate’ his release from jail ‘with her two daughters in tow’. Princess Beatrice would have been 20 at the time and Eugenie 19, the same age as many of his victims.

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Lester B. Pearson won a Nobel Peace Prize. Mark Carney is just happy to be here

October is the perfect time of year to drive up the Gatineau River and soak up the riches of the Canadian autumn. The gorgeous oranges and reds are enough to make this Canadian homesick.

And nostalgic.

For if you hang a left at Chemin Mill in Wakefield and continue past the spa, you stumble upon Maclaren Cemetery, the tiny burial ground that contains Lester B. Pearson, that giant of Canadian politics.

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Pentagon blasts ‘woke garbage’ Netflix after release of new gay military series ‘Boots’

The Pentagon is stomping on Netflix amid the release of “Boots,” its new series about a closeted gay Marine recruit, blasting the streaming giant as “woke garbage.”

Trump administration officials accused the platform of pushing an “ideological agenda” with the series, which tells the story of a closeted teen from Louisiana who joins a US Marine Corps boot camp in the 90s, when openly gay recruits were forbidden.

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Ports of entry are the ‘Achilles heel’ of border security: analyst

The federal government plans to hire 1,000 new Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers across the country, according to a statement released Friday by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office.

“These new officers will help crack down on the movement of stolen goods, illegal guns and drugs, enforce import measures, and investigate unfair trade practices,” the statement read.

The Liberal government is also raising the CBSA’s recruitment stipend for the first time since 2005, from $125 to $525 per week, the statement said.


Carney has to check with Xi to see where the new hires will be placed.

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Dutch towns rocked by anti-immigration protests ahead of election

Aalten, a little town of 27,000 people tucked away in the farmland of the southeast Netherlands, is the unlikely home of the Australian rock legend Angus Young.

Just over a decade ago, the AC/DC guitarist and his Dutch wife, Ellen, bemused residents by building a large neo-renaissance villa there — complete with a sculpted head with devil’s horns and stained glass decorated with a lightning bolt.

This year, however, the people of Aalten learnt of a rather more controversial building project a couple of miles from Young’s mansion: a housing complex for 300 asylum seekers planned for a farmer’s field on the edge of town.

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Iran says it’s no longer bound by nuclear deal limits

Bushehr nuclear power plant Iran

Iran says it is no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear program, as a landmark 2015 deal with world powers officially expired.

From now on, “all of the provisions (of the deal), including the restrictions on the Iranian nuclear program and the related mechanisms, are considered terminated,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, capped Iran’s nuclear activity, uranium stockpiles and research efforts in exchange for sanctions relief.

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Netanyahu adviser says Carney should reconsider willingness to arrest Israeli PM if he travelled to Canada

Canada’s Prime Minister is “betraying” Israel, and should reconsider his willingness to have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he steps on soil, an adviser to the Israeli leader said Saturday.

Mark Carney told Bloomberg in an interview published Friday that he would abide by the policies of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, to act on a 2024 warrant issued for Mr. Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court, which alleged that he committed war crimes by using starvation as a tool of warfare.

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Putin aide proposes direct Russia-US tunnel

Russia US Tunnel – Bering Strait

Russia and the US should build a direct rail tunnel under the Bering Strait to link the two countries, Russian presidential aide Kirill Dmitriev has suggested.

In a post on X on Thursday, Dmitriev, who also serves as head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund (RDIF), said both nations would benefit from the route and invited billionaire Elon Musk to join through his Boring Company, which builds underground “Loop” transport systems.

h/t DH

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