Friends of the Earth chief: Palestine is a climate justice issue

Friends of the Earth chief: Palestine is a climate justice issue

Asad Rehman, the Chief Executive of the environmental charity Friends of the Earth, has said that “Palestine is and has always been a climate justice issue.”

Speaking at a fringe event at the Green conference in Brighton on Saturday afternoon, Rehman claimed that understanding climate change is an “anti-colonial project” and that questions around climate justice “are the same ones facing the Palestinian people”. He also suggested that Palestine was an example of “fossil fuel colonialism because resources have always been central to the colonial project.”

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While France Burns, Driven by the Radical Left According to Intelligence, and Its Sovereign Debt Approaches Bailout Levels, Mark Carney Wants to Bind Canada to Europe

While France Burns, Driven by the Radical Left According to Intelligence, and Its Sovereign Debt Approaches Bailout Levels, Mark Carney Wants to Bind Canada to Europe

OTTAWA – On Thursday in Marseille, a woman told a group of youths to stop wrecking a bus shelter. One of them, masked, turned an aerosol can into a makeshift flamethrower and sprayed fire into her face. The video has gone around the world. A 15-year-old, identified through street cameras, is in pretrial detention, and prosecutors are pursuing a charge of “act of barbarism.”

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Flydubai hijacker called for women to be ‘stomped on’ in religious rants while studying at British university

Flydubai hijacker called for women to be ‘stomped on’ in religious rants while studying at British university

The co-pilot who attempted to hijack an Israel-bound flight said women should be ‘stomped on’ in religious rants on social media, the Daily Mail understands.

Hamam al-Hammami, 29, severely wounded captain Smit Machchhar using the onboard crash axe as he tried to take control of the Flydubai plane on its way to Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Passengers and crew grappled with al-Hammami to regain control of the aircraft, which plummeted 14,000ft in just 29 seconds.


How was this devout Muslim allowed to walk the streets let alone fly a plane?

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‘The Night of the UFOs’: Remembering the Oct. 4, 1967, skies over Nova Scotia

‘The Night of the UFOs’: Remembering the Oct. 4, 1967, skies over Nova Scotia

Chris Styles was just 12 years old on a clear night when he looked out his bedroom window and spotted a strange light moving along the shoreline a few blocks from his house.

He grabbed his grandfather’s binoculars to get a better look and then ran out of the house, much to his dad’s dismay, down to the water’s edge.

“There’s this huge sphere and it was a very dull orange, and it was glowing just like a poker in a fireplace,” said Styles about what he saw on Oct. 4, 1967, around 10 p.m. AT.

David Grusch: Americans killed by reptilian beings at crash site

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UK mosque preacher informs Muslims would discipline their wives under Sharia Law

UK mosque preacher informs Muslims would discipline their wives under Sharia Law

Fury has erupted after a Muslim preacher from a London mosque told worshippers that under Sharia Law husbands should physically “discipline” their wives if they disobey them. Yasin Munye, an Islamic teacher at the Hackney Islamic Community Centre, said in a series of lectures published on the mosque’s YouTube channel that men would “lightly” hit their wives to “show them who is in charge” if following Sharia Law.

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The promised land

The promised land

Michael Sachs pulled into the synagogue parking lot in his GMC Sierra Elevation, took off his Stetson and picked up his transparent tallit bag, containing his Jewish prayer shawl. On his way into B’nai Emunah, also called “The Synagogue,” he fist-bumped the armed security guard, and once inside, replaced the cowboy hat with a kippa.

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Is your dog right-wing?

Is your dog right-wing?

It’s as good an indicator as you’ll find of this government’s asinine attitude to rural Britain that you’re reading a piece in which a Spectator writer semi-seriously considers the far-right credentials of various dog breeds. How right-wing is your dog? in itself sounds like one of Alan Partridge’s increasingly desperate pitches for a new TV show.

Pity the poor black Lab, for it’s these harmless thickos of the dog world that have aroused Labour’s ire. You’ll no doubt be aware that earlier this week, Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature, told a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference that the far-right at the next election would weaponise a nostalgic vision of Britain ‘that we don’t want to have [and] never really existed’.

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Understanding Canada’s Europe Pivot

Understanding Canada’s Europe Pivot

Last month, after Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, and announced that Canada and the European Union would pursue a closer relationship, we asked for your questions about the topic.

In our recent one-hour interview with Mr. Carney, he spoke extensively about his vision for this new relationship. And Jeanna Smialek, our Brussels bureau chief, obtained a copy of the draft statement being prepared ahead of a summit in Montreal at the end of this month between the European Union and Canada.

So we return to the question of the European Union — one I’m excited to tackle as a former Brussels correspondent who dedicated nearly a decade to covering the bloc.

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Somali gangs blamed for shooting at suburban Minneapolis homecoming game that left 2 wounded, fans fleeing in panic

Somali gangs are being blamed for a shooting outside a homecoming game in a quiet Minneapolis suburb that left two people wounded, according to reports — and resulted in celebrations being canceled.

Shooting broke out shortly before 9 p.m. Friday local time at Eden Prairie High School during a homecoming game against Minnetonka, sending thousands of panicked spectators running for the exits, FOX 9 reported.

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I fought for investment in Canada’s defence as international order eroded

I fought for investment in Canada’s defence as international order eroded

During my time as the chief of the defence staff, the global security situation changed profoundly, and not for the better. The confluence of security stressors – geopolitical order, climate change, acceleration of technological change and societal dynamics – presented challenges perhaps unique in the long arc of human history. The international order established at the end of the Second World War was eroding. Climate change was spurring conflict, human migration and natural disasters. Rapid technological advance was not only changing the character of war, but also how countries pursue national objectives. Social order was becoming fraught with division. By 2022, especially after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, I came to believe that we were undergoing a turning point in global security affairs.

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The IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood: An Alliance America Can’t Ignore

The IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood: An Alliance America Can’t Ignore

Western strategy in the Middle East has long suffered from a fatal conceptual flaw: treating Islamic fundamentalist movements as isolated, strictly sectarian entities. If the United States is to liberate Iran from the brutal oppression of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), eliminate the existential threat to Israel, and structurally reduce terrorism across the region, it cannot afford to view the IRGC as “the enemy” — however much the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran has cast it into the limelight. Instead, American foreign policy must simultaneously target the Muslim Brotherhood, recognizing that the IRGC and the Brotherhood are a long-standing symbiotic, cross-sectarian alliance.

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