Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life.
h/t DS
Author: Blazingcatfur
How Somalis see the ‘Black Hawk Down’ battle three decades on
Despite being surrounded by the debris of an ongoing civil war, Mogadishu’s residents in the early 1990s embraced the moments of serenity.
The warm Sunday sunshine and cooling ocean breeze made for the perfect opportunity for Binti Ali Wardhere, 24 at the time, to visit relatives with her mother.
“That day was calm,” she remembers.
But like everyone else in the city she was unaware that the Americans were getting ready to attack warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed – and what happened would change her life forever.
Nuke Somalia
The ties that bind: Why Canada’s auto sector is uniquely hostage to Trump’s tariff threat
For Southwestern Ontario’s auto sector, the reckoning caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened trade war is as intense as anywhere in Canada.
Hundreds of domestic automotive parts and equipment manufacturers, who supply multinational automakers on both sides of the border, were braced at the start of the week for nearly the entire industry to shut down if Mr. Trump made good on his vow to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports.
Not sure Ontario will have much left when Trump is done.
Québec cop banned for refusing to enforce COVID curfew
A Québec police constable who publicly refused to enforce the province’s COVID-19 curfew has been barred from policing for a year.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the Police Ethics Tribunal ruled that Const. Maxime Ouimet’s social media posts undermined public trust and encouraged civil disobedience.
The US Bishops’ Hypocrisy on Human Trafficking
Platitudes and press statements will not be enough to confront the depraved evils of human trafficking.
America’s Catholic bishops are decrying the evils of human trafficking, while ignoring their own role in facilitating the dehumanizing practice amidst the illegal immigration crisis. Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chairman of immigration activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said in a statement Thursday, “Human trafficking is not only a serious crime — it is a rejection of the God-given dignity of every human being.”
“I’ve talked to little girls as young as nine who were raped multiple times by members of the cartel. Not once, numerous times.”
WTF?
This made me laugh so hard.
But I will not be seeing the politically correct Snow White. pic.twitter.com/sy4e1MG6KW
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 8, 2025
To stop Trump, censor those awful people who don’t think like I want them to!
MacDougall: To stop Trump, drain the social media swamp
If nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of a hanging, what does an endless series of potential hangings do to one’s cranium?
This is the question Canada must contemplate as it braces for more Donald Trump. We may have received a 30-day reprieve on tariffs, but Trump will be back to beggar his neighbour. And every day he is in power, he inspires another generation of “leaders” imbued with the philosophy of “might makes right.”
Do these nutz ever listen to themselves?
Oh Say Can You See …
BREAKING: Donald Trump just said THE ONLY OPTION IS THE 51ST STATE.
Canadians would pay 50% LESS IN TAXES and get FULL U.S. MILITARY PROTECTION.
And where’s JUSTIN TRUDEAU? In PARIS.
HE’S 100% SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
pic.twitter.com/B0Kisl7KJJ— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) February 10, 2025
He’s ragging us, I think. But VDH said much the same thing about Trump’s Intentions in this interview of 2 weeks ago.
This is the full VDH vid
h/t XC
Amid a national economic crisis, Justin Trudeau hosts another pointless round table
It was just 9:15 am, and one of the most senior CEOs attending Friday’s Canada-U.S. Economic Summit was already heading for the exit.
You don’t compile this fellow’s successful track record without learning to quickly size-up a situation, and while he missed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s excellent welcoming speech, I assume that he figured there were better ways to add value to our country than contribute to some unstructured round table discussion.
Trudeau loves photo-ops.
WTF?
Since “The DEI” has been dismantled, she notes that she is free to discriminate according to race and gender etc.
She will deny any applications to her Black business. ✊ pic.twitter.com/K4FlmCiieo
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 8, 2025
What’s Trump’s Tariff End Game?
President Trump’s threats to put a 25 percent tariff on most Canadian and Mexican imports—now on hold for 30 days, pending negotiations with both countries—have overturned the reigning orthodoxy in trade and diplomacy. Unlike his tariffs on China, the tariffs on Canada in particular lack any direct national security rationale. He may be pursuing them because he thinks Canada’s rules on fentanyl precursors are too loose, because he wants to shock the global trade system, or even because it’s his opening salvo in a bid to induce Ottawa to join the Union. But whatever Trump’s true aims are, one thing is clear: the tariffs would affect the nearly half a trillion dollars of goods and services that Americans import from Canada each year and lower near-term living standards up and down the North American continent.
Sweden, the once model society now plagued by guns
Gangs, anger over migration and the worst shooting in its history have turned a land of harmony into a tinderbox
Students scattered and found cover. Classrooms were barricaded and corridors became instant crime scenes. One woman used her shawl to try to stop a man next to her from bleeding to death. Another witness told a newspaper that he saw a “bloodbath … the sickest thing I’ve ever seen”.
On Tuesday, one police chief described the scene at Campus Risbergska, an adult education campus in Orebro in central Sweden, as resembling an “inferno”.
Amy Hamm: The therapeutic effect of Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre has become a lightning rod for Canadians’ frustration, and for those seeking cathartic release from simply being a Canadian — whatever that means, what with our ongoing national identity crisis — in 2025.
Outside of the Vancouver Wall Centre on the night of Feb. 4, a small crowd of pro-Palestine protesters, including one with a “Queers for Palestine” flag draped on their back, huddled and shouted in the snowy, -6C air. Poilievre was there to speak to a crowd of Conservative party donors inside. Clusters of Vancouver police officers in high-visibility vests kept the disruption outdoors.
‘The Palestinian People Does Not Exist’
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Senior PLO official Zuheir Mohsen, interviewed by James Dorsey, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
Trump promises 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports — including from Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25 per cent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week.
“Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25 per cent tariff,” he told reporters Sunday on Air Force One as he flew from Florida to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. When asked about aluminum, he responded, “aluminum, too” will be subject to the trade penalties.
Trump also reaffirmed that he would announce “reciprocal tariffs” —”probably Tuesday or Wednesday” — meaning that the U.S. would impose import duties on products in cases where another country has levied duties on U.S. goods.