Iran War Exposes Shortcomings in U.S. Military Industrial Base

Iran War Exposes Shortcomings in U.S. Military Industrial Base

When he was defense secretary, Robert M. Gates railed against weapons that did too much and cost too much throughout his time in two presidential administrations.

He denounced weapons that offered a “99 percent solution” but took years to build, and called for a new generation of arms that were “75 percent solutions” but could be produced more cheaply in months.

Almost two decades later, little has changed. Patriot interceptor missiles can take up to 36 months and $4 million to build. So far in the Iran war, the U.S. military has fired more than 1,200 of them. Some were used to shoot down $35,000 Shahed drones, which Iran can churn out at a rate of at least 200 a month.

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Canada taps Cry Baby Carignan for NATO’s top military chair

Canada taps Cry Baby Carignan for NATO’s top military chair

The Liberal government is nominating Canada’s top military commander to be the next chair of the NATO military committee when the post becomes vacant next year.

Defence Minister David McGuinty announced the candidacy of Gen. Jennie Carignan on Wednesday and said she’ll continue in her current role until next year.

An election for the post will be held in September.

A golden parachute jump?

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Leaked: The secret Chinese surveillance programme tracking people like me

Leaked: The secret Chinese surveillance programme tracking people like me

At first glance, the bright blue data dashboard looks like any other – a series of graphs, charts, numbers and menus belying its darker purpose.

But The Telegraph can reveal that this platform is how China’s security apparatus can track foreigners and anyone deemed “of interest” to the state within the country.

Foreign students, foreign spouses of Chinese citizens and even foreign journalists, including The Telegraph’s, were included in the sensitive data points as part of the “Dynamic Control Platform for Foreigners” programme.

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Meet Maureen Galindo

Meet Maureen Galindo

Democrat candidate for Congress Maureen Galindo responds to the reception given her original statement.

h/t Patti Jo

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Carney plays down U.S. suspension of North America defence board

Carney plays down U.S. suspension of North America defence board

Prime Minister Mark Carney played down the Trump administration’s suspension of a United States-Canada defence co-operation body and rejected its suggestion Ottawa has not boosted defence spending.

Elbridge Colby, the U.S. undersecretary of defence for policy, announced Monday that Washington was putting the 86-year-old Permanent Joint Board on Defense on hold and accused Canada of failing to live up to its military responsibilities, despite Ottawa boosting defence spending over the past year.

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Germany Warns Iran May Target Jews and Dissidents Across Europe

Germany Warns Iran May Target Jews and Dissidents Across Europe

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that Iran could expand covert operations across Europe once fighting with the U.S. and Israel subsides, raising fears of attacks on Jewish targets, Israeli institutions, and opponents of the Tehran regime.

The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) said Iranian dissidents and other individuals regarded by Tehran as “traitors” would face particular danger if the regime increases its intelligence and proxy activities across the continent.

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Audit finds Parks Canada cabin program cost $15M amid unclear returns

Audit finds Parks Canada cabin program cost $15M amid unclear returns

A federally funded effort to boost park visitation by building small cabins for non-traditional campers cost at least $15 million and may have failed to recover its expenses, according to an internal evaluation that found significant gaps in financial recordkeeping.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the review of Parks Canada found that hundreds of “diversified accommodation” units — small cabins installed across national parks — were built at an average cost exceeding $57,000 each, with no clear evidence the program ever achieved full cost recovery.


Don’t sweat it the Muslims will be turning those cabins into mini-mosques.

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Some advocates fear Canada and the U.S. will use assisted dying to curb elder and health care costs

Some advocates fear Canada and the U.S. will use assisted dying to curb elder and health care costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emergency rooms are known for long waits — whether in Canada or south of the border — but they’re still among the shortest delays in health care.

Seeing a specialist, however, can take months, sometimes leaving nervous Canadians languishing as they await treatment, surgery, or both. In the U.S., the wait times are shorter, but access may be limited by one’s ability to procure and pay for insurance.


In Canada its already open season on the “bothersome”.

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‘No Go Zones’ and ‘Parallel Societies’

‘No Go Zones’ and ‘Parallel Societies’

For years, author Mark Steyn mentioned no-go zones and unassimilated communities. In 2017 Raheem Kassam authored the book No Go Zones: How Sharia Law is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You. A comment about the book included the following:

“As I read this book, I had forgotten how many people have been murdered in the West in the name of Islam. The commonness with which these attacks are occurring is frightening and even more so, is how numb we’ve become to it.  How much blood will be shed before politicians acknowledge the root cause of the problem? Europe is being transformed before our very eyes and everyone is just averting their gaze. This ignorance is allowing these extremist attitudes to fester and the unwillingness to criticize Islam is the catalyst of this problem.

Now almost a decade later, the New Direction – the Foundation for European Conservatism has published “No-Go Zones Immigration, Islamisation, and the rise of Parallel Societies.”

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No Wonder Men Are Opting Out

No Wonder Men Are Opting Out

The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible and less than a real man.

Ehrenreich understood that marriage was the mechanism by which society harnessed male productivity. Remove the shame and the yoke comes off.

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Iran is running a protection racket in the Strait of Hormuz

Iran is running a protection racket in the Strait of Hormuz

THE Iranian regime is reframing its ‘tolls’ on traffic in the Strait of Hormuz as a ‘maritime insurance policy’.

On Saturday, Fars – a media outlet associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) – reported that it has seen a plan by Iran’s Ministry of Economics to force shipping companies to pay ‘verifiable insurance policies’.

Ebrahim Azizi, the chairman of the National Security Committee to Iran’s Parliament, also said that Iran has prepared a ‘professional mechanism’ to permit ‘only commercial vessels and parties co-operating with Iran’.

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Kamala Calls for Wrecking America to Make Her President

Kamala Calls for Wrecking America to Make Her President

The good news is that Hillary Clinton is no longer the worst presidential sore loser ever. The bad news is that Hillary at least confined herself to putting the country through hell for four years by spreading the false claim that Trump was a secret Russian agent, leading to covert surveillance, government investigations, mass censorship and a near coup until her big lie finally fell apart.

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