Rioting Isis wives escape prison camp as Syrian army advances

al Hol Camp emptying

Relatives of Islamic State members set fire to buildings and escaped from a sprawling prison camp in Syria on Tuesday as Kurdish troops abandoned the site under attack by the army.

The head of al-Hol camp said that its residents, most of whom are female and many of whom are married to jailed or killed extremists, were rioting after fighting between Kurdish and Syrian army troops.

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Will a ‘disappointed’ Doug Ford and Mark Carney get over their differences on Chinese EVs?

It feels a bit Taylor Swiftian.

Hurt feelings.

Unsent texts.

Exotic trips with someone else.

Yearning for what was last summer.

Premier Doug Ford sounded like a spurned paramour from a Swift song as he bleated about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

I hope Ford goes Ape.

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The first pope from the US is pressing Trump — and getting little in return

The White House’s top ranks are filled with Catholics, and President Donald Trump has courted the Catholic vote. But repeated, pointed criticisms from the first American to lead the Catholic Church have done little to move the administration on policy.

In recent months, Pope Leo XIV has criticized the administration’s treatment of migrants, its antipathy toward Europe and global institutions like the United Nations and the use of what he characterized as “diplomacy based on force” in the wake of the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

 

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Toronto police refuse participation in Ottawa’s gun grab

Liberals outsourced gun grab to foreigner

TORONTO — Toronto Police Service has declined to participate in the federal government’s gun grab program, according to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree.

The decision comes as the Liberal government prepares alternative methods to collect prohibited firearms in Ontario, including the use of so-called mobile collection units. These units would be staffed by off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers or local police officers, the minister said.

(Incognito)

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Trump steps up demand to annex Greenland but rules out using force

Donald Trump has stepped up his demand to annex Greenland in an extraordinary speech in Davos, but said the US would not use force to seize what he called the “big, beautiful piece of ice”.

Addressing thousands of business and political leaders at the World Economic Form in the Swiss ski resort, the US president said he was “seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States”.

“I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the US is asking for is a place called Greenland,” he said. “You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no and we will remember.”

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President Trump’s Davos Address

President Trump’s Davos Address

Previously Lutnick went scorched earth on the Globalists

Of course ...

Carney leaving Davos without meeting Trump after speech on U.S. rupture of world order

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Did Carney just signal a massive shift in Canada’s foreign policy direction? …. Yea It’s called the “Brookfield Position”

Carney Fades Away

Prime Minister Mark Carney turned some heads in Switzerland on Tuesday with his stark assessment of the current state of global affairs.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Carney said that not only is the old international order over and “not coming back” — but it had been a mirage all along.

“We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim,” the prime minister said.


Here’s our new Brookfield foreign policy

X – Brookfield

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Trump is shaking the world order more than any president since WW2

On day one, he put the world on notice.

“Nothing will stand in our way,” President Donald Trump declared, to thunderous applause, as he ended his inauguration speech in a cold Washington winter on this day last year, at the start of his second term.

Did the world fail to take enough notice?

Tucked into his speech was a mention of the 19th Century doctrine of “manifest destiny” – the idea that the US was divinely ordained to expand its territory across the continent, spreading American ideals.

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Nearly a fifth of Americans now ‘prefer’ that Canada become a U.S. state or territory, poll suggests

17 per cent of Americans support Canada becoming either a territory or the 51st State of the U.S. — but two-thirds stand by its sovereignty, a new poll suggests.

The findings come amid U.S. President Donald Trump‘s ambitions to seize Greenland, a self-governing territory of fellow NATO member Denmark, after capturing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and toppling his government earlier this month.

But according to the survey by public opinion pollster Research Co., most respondents don’t want the U.S. to take over Greenland. Nor do they want Panama, Cuba or Mexico under American control.

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This time, Trump’s threats to Europe look deadly serious

Some hope his moves on Greenland are a ploy to force Europe to take Arctic security seriously. That seems highly optimistic

Never before has a Truth Social post generated such anger and fear across the European continent. The message: Europe’s largest economies will have to pay an additional 10pc tariff, rising to 25pc in June, until Greenland is part of the United States. On Monday, the author, Donald Trump, reiterated the threat and vowed that he was 100pc committed to executing it if Washington’s European allies didn’t get with the programme.

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