Iran supreme leader admits thousands killed during recent protests

Iran’s supreme leader has for the first time publicly acknowledged that thousands of people were killed, “some in an inhuman, savage manner”, during recent protests.

A violent response to the unrest has claimed 3,090 lives, according to US-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), with some activist groups putting the death toll far higher. An internet blackout has made it extremely difficult to get clear information.

In a speech on Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said thousands had been killed and blamed the US for the deaths.


And the UK?

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Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders

The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into elected Democrats in Minnesota, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter, a major escalation in the fight between the federal government and local officials over the aggressive immigration crackdown underway in the city.

The investigation would focus on allegations that Gov. Tim Walz and Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, had conspired to impede thousands of federal agents who have been sent to the city since last month. Last week, one of those agents killed a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good.

h/t Hermes

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Jamie Sarkonak: This child-rapist, murderer always belonged in a men’s prison

In 2005, at the age of 17, Michael Williams participated in the torturous murder of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte. He lured the girl from West Edmonton Mall to a golf course with four of his friends. A member of the group hit Courtepatte in the head with a wrench, knocking her to the ground; Williams and one of his companions then raped her as the others held her down. After further torture (including numerous cuts to the face), Williams and co. bludgeoned her in the head with a hammer until she died.

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Tymoshenko Corruption Case Moves Forward as More EU Money Pledged for Kyiv

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko appeared in court on Friday, January 16th, where a judge is set to determine a pre-trial restraint measure against her in an expanding corruption case. Prosecutors are seeking a bail of UAH 50 million in connection with allegations that she offered undue benefits to members of parliament.

GROK has the Tymoshenko bribery scandal in Ukraine been linked to Zelensky and or his party?


On another tangent Freeland and Soros …

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A China Deal That Trades Leverage for Illusion

Canada’s newly announced trade memorandum with China has been presented by the federal government as pragmatic statecraft in a turbulent world. Lower tariffs on canola and seafood in exchange for the entry of nearly 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles, we are told, will diversify exports, lower consumer prices, and signal Canada’s independence from American protectionism.

This framing is incomplete. More troublingly, it is strategically naive. Trade policy is not merely about price and volume. It is about leverage, reciprocity, industrial resilience, and alignment with trusted partners. On those measures, this agreement falls short.

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Afghan member of trafficking gang that smuggled young boys into the UK on small boats and raped and blackmailed them with sex attack footage will be kicked out of the country

Zeeshan Banghis vile Muslim child rapist

A member of an Afghan trafficking gang that smuggled young boys into the UK on small boats before raping and blackmailing them with the footage has been kicked out of the country.

Zeeshan Banghis – also known as Bangash – and Saifur Rahman Ahmedzai were arrested by National Crime Agency extradition officers in December 2024 after a Belgian judge jailed them in their absence.

Banghis, 21, was sentenced to three years in jail in November 2024 and will now be extradited to Belgium to serve his sentence following a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

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Greenland may be our first, best, and last chance to stand up to Donald Trump

My first encounter with the Sirius Patrol came after I’d delivered a speech at a conference in Nuuk, Greenland, in 2019.

A young man wearing Danish military camouflage approached me. He was tall and lean, with a weather-beaten face and piercing blue eyes.

“You’re right about the Arctic being a dangerous place,” he said. “Last winter, I travelled by dog sled along the coast of northeastern Greenland.”

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The “Persecuted” Black Jewish Mormon asylum seeker from America living in Britain on benefits

Olabode Shoniregun’s application to stay in the UK was rejected last summer but he has still received free accommodation and state support

A US asylum seeker has been living in Britain with free accommodation and benefits for more than a year in the first case of its kind.

The man from Las Vegas fled to this country claiming he was being persecuted because he is black, Jewish and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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MODRY: Europe’s existential crisis should terrify Canada and explain Alberta’s push for independence

As Europe slides deeper into economic stagnation, its experience offers a stark warning for Canada. Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, recently cautioned that Europe faces an “existential crisis” unless fundamental reforms are undertaken. Her warning should not be dismissed as alarmist rhetoric. Rather, it exposes the structural failures of centralized governance, overregulation, and fiscal mismanagement, failures that increasingly resemble Canada’s own trajectory.

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CHARLEBOIS: Carney’s trip to China revealed Ottawa knows CUSMA could collapse before year’s end

The trade feud between Canada and China is finally thawing — and it was long overdue.

The rupture began in 2018 with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive of Huawei, in Vancouver. What followed was not merely a diplomatic dispute, but a calculated economic response: China weaponized trade, and Canadian agriculture became collateral damage. Canola, pork, lobster, and other agri-food exports faced punitive tariffs and informal barriers that reverberated across rural Canada for years.


Climate finance? With Coal King China? Globalist Gibberish.

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