How a leftist network used by terrorists operated in plain sight for years

How a leftist network used by terrorists operated in plain sight for years

Leftists used a foreign technology group’s tools to encourage crimes in the United States across multiple presidencies with near impunity. Now, they have one month to stop or face legal consequences.

The State and Treasury Departments sanctioned the Italy-based Autistici Inventati Collective as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” on Wednesday for providing digital services such as NoBlogs, a blogging platform that hosts numerous radical leftist sites. NoBlogs users follow a long-standing anarchist tradition of posting anonymous articles — sometimes called communiques or report-backs — that openly take credit for violent attacks or call for further illegal behavior. The A/I Collective publicly offers NoBlogs, encrypted communication, and other tools only to “anti-fascism” activists to keep their data off-grid from traditional corporate platforms and inaccessible to law enforcement, the State Department noted.

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It’s easier to support a trade war if you can afford one

It’s easier to support a trade war if you can afford one

New Ipsos research suggests that support for Canada’s position on trade is more conditional than the government’s current defiant stance may suggest.

For older Canadians and for those who can afford it, sovereignty is something they have the means to fight for. For younger Canadians and those with lower incomes, their finances take precedence. It isn’t necessarily that these Canadians do not want Canada to take a strong stand; they just don’t think they can take the hit.

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Trump posts AI video of ‘Lake America’ being protected by an army of bequiffed ‘Donald Ducks’

Trump posts AI video of ‘Lake America’ being protected by an army of bequiffed ‘Donald Ducks’

President Donald Trump on Saturday posted an apparently AI-generated video depicting an army of buff, bequiffed and heavily-armed “Donald Ducks” patrolling the shores of “Lake America.”

Hours later, while he was at his Virginia golf course, the president posted another AI-generated video, this time showing himself knocking over a “Welcome to Lake Ontario” sign and installing a “Welcome to Lake America” one in its place. He then dances to the Village People’s “YMCA.”

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I’ve been in hospitals around the world. Canada was the only place I slept in a hallway

I’ve been in hospitals around the world. Canada was the only place I slept in a hallway

When I woke up one morning in early July, I had no idea that day would end with me parked in a hospital bed in a hallway at Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon, hearing the screams of other patients.

Of course, I had heard stories about the decline of health care and wait times in hospitals in Canada and in Saskatchewan. Stories about people spending days waiting for care in hospital hallways seemed unreal most of the time, because they weren’t happening to me — that is, until it was.


We are dying as a people and a state.

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Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches

Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches

President Trump spent months declaring his ouster of Venezuela’s leader had secured the country’s oil for America. When U.S. energy companies resisted investing at the speed and scale he wanted, his administration devised an extraordinary solution to turn his vision into reality: make the U.S. government itself an investor.

The agreement announced Friday evening would transform the U.S. government from a broker of American oil investments in Venezuela to an investor itself.

It would give Washington a direct financial stake in a private company that would be granted centurylong rights to some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves—and tie the U.S. more closely to the unelected government that is granting those rights.


CANADA BEWARE – Trump’s Massive Venezuela Oil Gambit is Also Another Massive Wake-Up Call for Canadian Energy

If Washington secures access to 90 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, Canadian producers could face a powerful new competitor in their most important market. Ottawa can no longer afford to delay pipelines, regulatory reform or the investment conditions needed to diversify Canadian energy exports.

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Google maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users

People using Google Maps in the U.S. will see Lake America – but the rest of the world will still see Lake Ontario.

On Saturday, Google Maps announced that the update was made after U.S. Geographic Names Information Systems (GNIS) formally made the name change.

In a blog post, it stated that updates are made to reflect names changes in official government sources.

My hope is that one day we’ll laugh over all this.

h/t Mauser

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WhatsApp chat used to send cash for crime and extremism

WhatsApp chat used to send cash for crime and extremism

A WhatsApp group chat was used to send hundreds of millions of euros in cash around the world, funding organised crime and extremism with no paper trail, an investigation by European broadcasters has found.

The 532-member group chat, called “Traders of Greater Europe”, was used to arrange cash transfers across borders for their clients, including to British cities such as Birmingham and London.

In one case, payments from Brussels went to militants from the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria.

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Ontario premier unveils ‘Lake Ontario’ sign in Winona as tensions with U.S. escalate

Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a Lake Ontario sign in Winona Saturday, after United States President Donald Trump purported to change the name to “Lake America” amid escalating tensions and a brewing trade war.

It will remain Lake Ontario “now and forever,” Ford told reporters Saturday in the small lakeside community on the outskirts of Hamilton.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Christian leaders urge Trump to create legal pathway for Jewish Canadians facing antisemitism

Christian leaders urge Trump to create legal pathway for Jewish Canadians facing antisemitism

The National Association of Christian Lawmakers and its partners asked the administration to direct the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to develop “lawful, secure, and appropriately expedited pathways” for eligible Jewish Canadian nationals and their immediate family members.

h/t Mauser

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Can Canada afford the price of being ‘masters of our own destiny’?

Can Canada afford the price of being ‘masters of our own destiny’?

U.S. President Donald Trump wasn’t wrong when he said that Canadians got to enjoy all the benefits of U.S. statehood without being one.

Free trade enabled Canada to shelve concerns with innovation or industrial modernization, ship primary materials to the American industrial economy, and live an easy life. Furthermore, knowing that the U.S. would never allow a hostile country to invade Canada, we were also able to slash our defence budget to the bone, offloading our security to the Americans.

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Estonia’s spy chief: ‘Russia is in a very bad place – revolution could come overnight’

Estonia’s spy chief: ‘Russia is in a very bad place – revolution could come overnight’

It was, perhaps, the highest praise ever offered by one intelligence agency to another – and it was certainly the most British.

As chief of MI6 in 2022, Sir Richard Moore publicly declared that “pound for pound”, the “brilliant” Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS) “probably knock us into a cocked hat”.

Kaupo Rosin, the director general of that service, is delighted by the compliment, though he asks with polite bewilderment what this expression about cocked hats could possibly mean.


So Russia is going to attack NATO while consumed by revolution?

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Cory Morgan: Canada Should Think Twice Before Using Oil and Gas for Leverage in Trade War

Cory Morgan: Canada Should Think Twice Before Using Oil and Gas for Leverage in Trade War

As Canada’s trade war with the United States continues, more voices within and outside Alberta are proposing using Western Canada’s resources as leverage in trade negotiations. The federal government can impose export tariffs or even curtail oil and gas exports to pressure the USA. But using Alberta’s oil as a bargaining chip in a trade war would be economically risky and politically explosive.

The problem is that Canada has limited pricing power. The costs would land first on Canadian producers and consumers, and the political memory of the National Energy Program (NEP)—the last time Ottawa tried to conscript Alberta’s energy wealth—is still raw.

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FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move away from an automatic disqualification falls along a continuum of evolving recruitment standards within federal law enforcement and at the buttoned-up bureau, which several years ago relaxed its approach to candidates’ past marijuana use and has drawn more recent concern among some current and former agents about a perceived loosening of recruitment requirements as it seeks to replenish its ranks.

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Why this Canada-US pipeline has emerged as a midterm election issue in the US Midwest

Why this Canada-US pipeline has emerged as a midterm election issue in the US Midwest

OTTAWA — A frightening scene played out on Tuesday morning, when a parked semi-truck rolled into an excavation site and hit an exposed section of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline near the Wisconsin-Michigan border.

Drone footage that was widely circulated online showed a thick, white cloud of natural gas spreading from the accident site to a meadow on the other side of a dirt road.

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US threatens Britain over Falklands

US threatens Britain over Falklands

The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.

The proposal is among measures being drawn up by senior defence officials at the Pentagon as an incentive to hit Nato’s 5 per cent spending pledge.

A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain was likely to receive “special attention” in Washington’s review of its allies’ commitment to Nato, which will examine whether member nations have credible paths toward the target.

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