Harry and Meghan: return of the grifters
So after a six-year sojourn in southern California, Harry and Meghan – partners in crime in what I dubbed ‘the Grabdication’ – are heading back to Blighty.
I don’t think we’ve missed them very much at all. Distance has not led to enchantment, and their tawdry antics have appeared less riveting as time goes by, from Meghan’s jam business to the reality TV shows to Harry’s charity scandals. As that very frank man from Spotify said of them: ‘“The Fucking Grifters” – that’s the podcast we should have launched with them.’
Germany’s demographic disaster
Early on 13 August 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided. The East German regime was building the Berlin Wall in a desperate attempt to stop its people from leaving. Around 2.5 million had already done just that, since the foundation of the two German states in 1949. When the Wall fell peacefully in 1989, the exodus wasn’t supposed to resume. But it did, and on a devastating scale.
Sixty-five years on from when the wall went up, Germany’s eastern regions are trapped in a depopulation spiral. Nearly a quarter of former East Germans have moved west or abroad since German reunification. Most are young, well-educated and female. That’s left behind a region that is now Germany’s oldest, with its birth rate among the lowest, and with many of its communities watching schools, playgrounds, clubs and traditions slowly disappear.
Licence plate readers have sparked outrage in the U.S. Now they’re being installed across Canada
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown recently celebrated the installation of a network of powerful police surveillance cameras capable of scooping up personal data from unsuspecting drivers.
Automated licence plate recognition (ALPR) systems at 50 intersections would make the city, in Brown’s words, “the safest place to call home and the most inconvenient place in Canada for organized crime to operate.” And he said they had overwhelming support from participants in a telephone town hall.
But in the U.S., the same AI-driven technology has become a scourge.
Migrants watching midterms closely, forming caravans to enter U.S. illegally once Democrats retake power
Remember those big scenes of tens of thousands of illegal migrants pushing their way through border checkpoints to enter the U.S. without authorization?
The Catholic Groups Harboring Muslim Migrants in Ceuta
Two weeks after over 70,000 Muslim migrants invaded the Spanish city of Ceuta, the siege of the embattled city continues with unknown numbers of migrants still overrunning the area. While Morocco, which allowed the invasion to protest Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez’s recent visit to rival Algeria, is no longer allowing further invasions, many thousands of migrants were left behind.
Why is the Carney government inviting China’s propaganda machine into Canada?
Six months after Mark Carney’s historic trip to China, the first for a Canadian prime minister in nearly a decade, CBC announced it will reopen its Beijing bureau. Pending final approvals, a Canadian journalist will be permanently working in mainland China for the first time in years.
The bureau shuttered in 2022, after Beijing would not renew its correspondent’s visa. But that was when the Canadian government viewed the country as one of our greatest security threats. Today, the Canadian government says China is our “strategic partner.”
More Canadian journalists on the ground to cover a world superpower is welcome news. But will they be safe from documented spying, arrest, and harassment? What will they actually be allowed to report on?
Prince Harry and fellow claimants face paying up to £34.5m to Daily Mail after judge rules their doomed hacking case was ‘unreasonable to a high degree’
Prince Harry and his fellow claimants must pay millions to the Daily Mail after a judge today ruled their doomed hacking case was pursued in a way that was ‘unreasonable to a high degree’.
The Duke of Sussex, Baroness Lawrence, Sir Elton John and the four others have seven days to pay the first £9,544,355, the High Court ordered.
Mr Justice Nicklin granted a rare ‘indemnity order’ obliging the claimants to bear the brunt of the costs of their disastrous legal action. Such orders are usually only granted in cases where a judge believes there has been bad conduct.
From Jihadism to Lethal Foreign Interference: Canada’s Threats Have Multiplied Since 9/11
OTTAWA — Twenty-five years ago, many of us witnessed an event that changed the world — and us — irrevocably. To label anything “world-changing” is fraught with danger. What exactly changed? Were these changes truly global in nature? Why does an occurrence in one country — the United States — qualify as such?
Switzerland: 80.5% of North African asylum seekers have been accused of one or more crimes
Around 80.5 percent of asylum seekers from North African countries were accused of one or more offenses in Switzerland, underlining the massive amount of criminality present in this foreign population. The data comes from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).
For asylum seekers as a whole, the rate of criminality is much lower, with only 12.5 percent having been accused of one or more offenses. Nationals from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are therefore extremely overrepresented compared to other asylum seeker groups.
Liberals admit Afghan War memorial will include Algonquin land acknowledgement
Veterans Affairs says Ottawa’s planned memorial to Canada’s Afghanistan mission will carry an Algonquin land acknowledgement as part of the federal government’s efforts to support indigenous reconciliation.
Blacklock’s Reporter says an internal May 25 memo said text at the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan will appear in English, French and Algonquin.
Poll: UFO news coverage is increasing Americans’ belief in aliens, especially Gen Z
Our survey of 2,000 Americans asked people whether recent UFO or UAP news coverage has changed their opinion on the topic and found that 37% now believe more than they used to.
More than half (54%) say their opinion on extraterrestrials has not changed and 10% say it’s actually made them believe less, according to the research findings.
News coverage on UFOs or UAPs seems more likely to move younger generations towards belief — 54% of Gen Z have increased their belief due to recent news stories, with the impact falling with age.
Christopher Dummitt: Canada has its own academic fakery problem
Canada has its own Jason Ardays — our versions of the Black British academic who recently committed suicide after it was revealed that he plagiarized much of his academic work and invented a fabulist version of his personal history.
The Canadian versions might not be as outlandish — but they almost certainly exist. The system incentivizes their creation.
WTF?
EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Hunt, a 17-year-old @TPUSA chapter president, speaks with us after she was ATTACKED by a deranged leftist mother during a @WWSWHS school event.
Sophia was manning a booth at a student fair when Kailly Stanich’s son approached Sophia's booth to receive a USA… pic.twitter.com/3ZDiHhphMQ
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