Canada Weighs Need for New Submarines as US, Britain Push Forward on Nuclear Fleets

The clock is ticking for the Canadian military to decide whether to replace its submarines, as Canada’s closest allies push ahead with plans to build new fleets.

The Royal Canadian Navy launched a push to replace the country’s four Victoria-class submarines nearly two years ago by creating a special team to figure out what Canada needs in a new fleet.

The move came in response to growing concerns about the age of Canada’s existing submarines and the amount of time needed to design and build such vessels.

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Nigerian Brothers Break Silence on Jussie Smollett Hoax: ‘This Dude was a Super Villain,‘ a ‘Fraud‘

Abimbola (Abel) and Olabinjo (Ola) Osundairo, the Nigerian-born brothers who disgraced actor Jussie Smollett infamously paid to stage his fake hate crime in 2019, recently broke their silence on the incident, condemning Smollett as a “fraud” who “was like a super villain” when he tried to deceive the public so that he could become a “poster boy for activism.”

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Liberals block opposition efforts to call PM’s chief of staff over Beijing election interference

Full of shit.

Opposition MPs accused Justin Trudeau of a coverup as Liberal MPs continued a filibuster to block the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, from testifying before a Commons committee studying China’s interference activities in Canadian democracy.

MPs on the procedure and House affairs committee met Tuesday during the March parliamentary break to debate an NDP motion to call Ms. Telford to explain what she and the Prime Minister knew about Chinese election interference and what they did to stop it.

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Uncle is convicted of ‘honour killing’ murder of his 20-year-old niece who refused to take part in a forced marriage to a cousin in Pakistan

An uncle has been found guilty of murdering his 20-year-old niece before dumping her body on wasteland after she refused a forced marriage.

Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, has been convicted of killing Somaiya Begum in Bradford, west Yorkshire, in July 2022.

The Leeds Beckett University biomedical student was found dead just over a mile from her home after a major week-long police search.

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Poilievre Says It’s an ‘Accepted Fact’ That Beijing Helped Elect Trudeau

“Leaked CSIS and PCO documents now show that Beijing worked to help elect Justin Trudeau. That is an accepted fact. He doesn’t even deny it.”

Poilievre was answering a reporter who asked him why he thinks supporters of the Conservative Party are, based on recent polls, more concerned about foreign interference.

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The New Enclosure: Rise of the Jail-Cell City

Cities are becoming more prominent as key partners in policy formulation and implementation.

We see this in the EU. The “Technical Support Initiative” financial assistance managed by the EU’s Directorate-General for Reform (DG REFORM) is set to service multi-country projects in which there is a need for city involvement. The European Semester, the EU’s monitor for economic and social policies, has also increased its focus on cities, with its most recent iteration including more data on local government. We find the same emphasis on cities in the EU’s criteria for accession countries in the Balkans, which is requiring reforms of public administration meant to empower the local level.

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Joe Biden should listen to the BMJ on trans guidance

The President is confused about medical interventions for young people

I don’t suppose President Biden reads the British Medical Journal. If he did, he might not be so keen on defending all sorts of invasive procedures for children with gender dysphoria, including surgery. In a ground-breaking editorial, the BMJ has acknowledged that US guidance for treatment of young people is not based on evidence. 

Joe Biden is a senile pervert.

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Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said on Tuesday that it planned to lay off about 10,000 employees, or roughly 13 percent of its work force, the latest move to hew to what the company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has called a “year of efficiency.”

The layoffs will affect Meta’s recruiting team this week, with a restructuring of its tech and business groups to come in April and May, Mr. Zuckerberg said in a memo posted on the company’s website. The announcement is the company’s second round of cuts within the past half year. In November, Meta laid off more than 11,000 people, or about 13 percent of its work force at the time.


Honestly this whole Metaverse crap sounds like 3D movies, the novelty wears off real quick.

We still through some weird miracle have an FB page but we are as always hanging by a thread.

We have been so throttled it is a wonder anyone can even find us.

FB was always shitty for us, constant censorship for our constant violations of community guidelines which translates you upset the Gay Muslim Mask Advocates.

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The 4-metre-wide board detailing the entire Russian military chain of command in Ukraine

Chart used by Ukrainian prosecutors maps hundreds of Russian soldiers all the way up to Vladimir Putin

For more than a year, Russian jets have been pounding Ukrainian cities, destroying hospitals and apartment blocks, while Moscow’s troops on the ground have been accused of executing civilians. Flooded with evidence of Russian war crimes, Ukrainian prosecutors moved swiftly.

Kyiv has compiled hundreds of dossiers, naming more than 600 Russians – many of them high-ranking political and military officials – as suspects. The suspects range from senior officials including the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, to a lesser-known colonel believed to be responsible for some of the most brutal aerial attacks on Ukraine.

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Heaps of rubbish draw rats (and tourists) in Paris

Mounds of rotting rubbish and scampering rats have become a subject of tourist photography on the ninth day of a strike by Parisian bin collectors who are protesting against President Macron’s move to raise the retirement age.

Visitors are turning their cameras on piles of malodorous bin bags that block the view of Notre Dame cathedral and spoiling the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower on the Trocadéro esplanade. Ministers have accused the council of doing nothing to remove the 5,800 tonnes of rubbish that are littering the pavements.

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Why the Dutch farmers’ revolt matters

They are fighting back against the green elite’s campaign of immiseration.

‘Farming is a profession of hope’, said Canadian poet and writer Brian Brett. So when farmers use their tractors in anger, it shows just how desperate things have become. That appears to be the case in the Netherlands, where thousands of Dutch farmers and their supporters descended on the nation’s political capital, the Hague, last Saturday.

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Ottawa proffered millions of dollars up-front for armoured vehicles still undelivered

OTTAWA — The Canadian government contracted with a U.S.-based military supplier to buy 76 armoured Toyota Land Cruisers for its diplomatic missions around the world in 2018. Five years later, only 33 have been received and it appears that the government has paid millions of dollars up-front for vehicles that have not yet been delivered.

That kind of “deal making” smacks of palms being greased.

Related…

h/t XC

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Trudeau has ‘inspired a lot of suspicion’ about election results, Poilievre says

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday the Liberal government’s inaction on alleged election meddling by China has some Canadian voters wondering whether recent election results can be trusted.

Speaking to reporters after a drug-related announcement in B.C., Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has “inspired a lot of suspicion” because of his refusal to answer detailed questions about China’s role in the 2019 and 2021 election campaigns.

Poilievre said Chinese interference was known at the highest levels of government but was “kept hidden” until “courageous whistleblowers” leaked national security intelligence to the press.


It’s evident that Trudeau and the Liberal party are compromised.

Communist China has an effective network of useful idiots and fellow travelers well embedded.

Who’s up for mass deportations and confiscation of assets of the guilty ChiComs?

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Why Bank Runs Happen—and What We Can Do to Stop the Panic

“It turned out that one of the biggest risks to our business model was catering to a very tightly knit group of investors who exhibit herd-like mentalities.” — Silicon Valley Bank senior executive

You are allowed to yell “fire!” in a crowded theater. Contrary to a popular myth, there is no U.S. law stopping you.

This past weekend, in our 21st-century theater—Twitter—economists and venture capitalists were screaming it at the top of their lungs, warning the rest of us about the meltdown of Silicon Valley Bank and the broader panic they were sure it portended. 

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