‘Trump is crazy’ says Batshit Crazy Hezbollah

‘Trump is crazy’: Hezbollah sees threat in US president’s final days

For the past four years, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has fought a war in Syria, supported Iraqi forces and stage-managed the politics of its homeland, all the while trying to avoid facing off with Israel. Yet its exhausted leaders fear the last gasps of Donald Trump’s presidency could deliver threats that eclipse everything else.

In the organisation’s heartland, Hezbollah members are watching the clock – and the skies. Israeli jets have been streaking overhead for more than a month, and over the past few weeks the frequency of flights has sharply increased, as has security in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the nerve centre of the region’s most powerful militant group.

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Canada Should Pull Out of Beijing’s Infrastructure Bank

Due to a paralyzing lack of fecundity in Canadian foreign policy thinking, there seems to be among certain policymakers and commentators a tendency to make multilateralism into something like a religion. No matter the merits of an institution, if it is “multilateral” it is virtuous, and Canada must be uncritically involved in it.

Never happen. Canada’s China Class loves its 30 pieces of silver.

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Manchester police chief resigns as force placed under watchdog monitoring for letting 80,000 crimes go unrecorded

The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has resigned and the force was placed under ‘special measures,’ after a scathing report found it failed to record 80,000 crimes in a year, including domestic abuse cases.

Ian Hopkins, who spent 13 years in the top job, announced his resignation in a statement on Friday, saying the “challenging” issues faced by GMP should be addressed by a new chief constable.

To their credit Manchester Police did harass multiple Twitter users.

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BLM Harasses Wisconsin Children‘s Christmas Charity Event That Raises Funds For Cancer

BLM Harasses Wisconsin Children‘s Christmas Charity Event That Raises Funds For Cancer

Members of a local Black Lives Matter organization marched through a Candy Cane Lane charity event and harassed people driving through the Christmas-decorated street. The residents of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb decorate every year to raise money for a childhood cancer center.

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‘Does my family need to take the iodine pills:’ mistaken Pickering nuclear alert sparked panic, confusion: emails

‘Does my family need to take the iodine pills:’ mistaken Pickering nuclear alert sparked panic, confusion: emails

Last January’s emergency alert sent in error about an incident at the Pickering Generating Station sparked a flurry of panicked messages from nearby residents wondering if they should swallow their radiation-blocking iodide pills and a lengthy game of hot potato among energy workers about what happened and who would correct it.

Hundreds of pages of email exchanges from that morning obtained by CTV News Toronto through access to information legislation show mass confusion over who sent the errant alert, which lasted through the morning and involved cabinet ministers and the Secretary of Cabinet.

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737 Max: Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ pilots in test after crashes

US Senate investigators say that Boeing officials “inappropriately coached” test pilots during efforts to recertify the company’s 737 Max aircraft.

The planes were grounded in March 2019 following two deadly crashes.

Investigators accused Boeing and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials of “attempting to cover up important information”.

Boeing said it was reviewing the findings and took them “seriously”, while the FAA defended its conduct.

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UK: Mutant Covid ‘is spreading 70% faster’ – but is no more lethal

UK: Mutant Covid ‘is spreading 70% faster’ – but is no more lethal

The new mutant strain of Covid is spreading 70% faster than any other form of the virus, Boris Johnson has told the nation.

The prime minister said the strain could increase the UK’s R Rate by 0.4 as he announced brand new ‘tier four’ restrictions for London and the south-east this afternoon.

The festive bubble policy across tiers one, two and three has also been dramatically scaled back, with rules allowing three households to mix now restricted to Christmas Day only.

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Holocaust Denier Remains on Northwestern Website After Author of Controversial Jill Biden Is A Joke Op-Ed Scrubbed

Holocaust Denier Remains on Northwestern Website After Author of Controversial Jill Biden Is A Joke Op-Ed Scrubbed

Northwestern University scrubbed its website of references to a former professor who penned a controversial op-ed against Jill Biden—but it continues to feature a professor who denies the Holocaust.

Joseph Epstein, a writer and former adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University, had argued in the Wall Street Journal that Jill Biden shouldn’t call herself a “Dr.” Following the op-ed, Northwestern issued a condemnation of Epstein and removed his profile from its website. Yet the school still has a page for Arthur Butz, a tenured engineering professor who calls the Holocaust a “hoax” and a “legend.”

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Heap Big Fake Indian Win Fat Award Make Grey Owl Angry At Cultural Appropriation

Award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer’s Indigenous identity under scrutiny

Grey Owl – Bitch stole my gig.

An acclaimed film director lauded for two high-profile Indigenous productions this year says she’s sorry for not verifying her ties to an Algonquin community after facing questions over the validity of her identity.

Michelle Latimer, who recently directed the CBC television series Trickster and the documentary Inconvenient Indian, has risen to become one of Canada’s most prominent names in Indigenous filmmaking.

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