Who knew that bringing people from other cultures might create problems? Yes, problems such as “you can’t buy a wife here,” or women don’t like to be touched in public.
Yes, you can’t make this stuff up, but it is reality in a place called Finland. Remember that quiet country where Finnish blondes made the cover of certain popular magazines? This is not your father’s Finland, if you know what I mean.
For months, Prime Minister Mark Carney has spoken about making Canada an energy superpower. He said it on the campaign trail, mentioned it again in an interview with CTV news in May, and dropped it again last weekend at the Calgary Stampede. While he usually inserts the qualifier of “both clean and conventional energy,” in an interview Saturday he stated that it’s “highly, highly likely” that at least one oil pipeline will make the government’s list of national strategic infrastructure projects.
Spiked devices instead of borders: Europe’s surreal response to sexual violence.
Germany is facing an alarming rise in rape cases. In just five years, the number of reported assaults has increased by 49.5%, surpassing 12,000 per year. And yet, the institutional and academic response does not point towards a serious analysis of the causes or reforms that would effectively protect women. Instead of addressing the factors driving this violence—such as massive and uncontrolled immigration—the reaction is a grotesque distraction: proposing “trap condoms” with internal spikes designed to injure the attacker’s penis.
Not Bombed Enough.
Based on the reporting by NOTUS, they don’t seem to see anything wrong with this.
I have just come across the most remarkable story in the news outlet NOTUS. Its headline is, “Trump Fired Them. Now They’re Plotting to Stop Him,” and yet, despite its explosive subject matter, it is written in the sort of dry, matter-of-fact tone that one would typically associate with a report on the most recent meeting of the county drainage board. In fairness, too little editorial comment is a lesser sin in this type of article than too much, but, given the astounding implications of the facts the author relates, I thought that it deserved a good deal more comment that it received, and so, having picked my jaw up from its new home atop my keyboard, I resolved to provide just that.
.@charlescwcooke: I’ve read this five times now, and I can see no way of comprehending it other than as an insane threat to bring down the American government.https://t.co/2sMTmnVYRN
— National Review (@NRO) July 8, 2025
The Department of Immigration in a briefing note admits it never sought “comprehensive security screening” of suspected Egyptian terrorists.
Two Egyptian nationals were arrested in 2024 for plotting an attack on Toronto, and are in custody until their 2026 trial. Then-Immigration Minister Marc Miller at the time defended his department’s handling of the case.
It’s not the first time Ontario Premier Doug Ford has talked this way.
He’s done it before.
He’s done at times when he wants to make clear what he will do if push comes to shove.
What if Prime Minister Mark Carney ends up being more talk than walk?
Sure he won’t.
I literally feel sick right now. After waiting for years for the truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation to come out, and after months of being promised that stunning new information would be released soon, now we are being told to forget the entire thing. The people that were brought in to run the Justice Department and the FBI were supposed to restore faith in the system, but instead they are destroying it. Nobody that can think rationally is buying the lies that we are being fed.
For the last decade, the media has called the idea that America is ruled by a secret government of deep state intelligence agencies like the CIA and FBI a "right-wing conspiracy theory." Journalists at outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and NPR have… pic.twitter.com/W4T8tBaZA4
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) July 8, 2025
TRUMP AND PAM BONDI ANSWER QUESTIONS ON EPSTEIN.pic.twitter.com/lv3K9GepNA
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 8, 2025
h/t DS and patthedog
They’re all about to go to prison for a long time https://t.co/MtZpfxvZLV
— ColonelMAGAMark (@ColonelMark4) July 8, 2025
h/t Caligula Jones
“I didn’t want to kill anybody,” Eric Nagler says. “And I was afraid if I did go in that, because I was a pacifist, I’d get sent to the front lines and shot. So anyway, I dodged the draft.”
Nagler, who is now 83, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. Like millions of young American men, he was draft-age when U.S. ground troops first set foot in Vietnam in 1965. “My brother came home from university one day and said that he was a conscientious objector and explained what that was,” Nagler says. “I thought it was a terrific idea.
Flash Flood New Mexico: Massive Flash flood emergency with a 20 foot flood wave, debris flow and homes floating down the Rio Ruidoso River!
Officials report the Rio Ruidoso River rose 20 feet in 30 minutes.
This is a developing story. pic.twitter.com/3rP5SOdROM— John Cremeans (@JohnCremeansX) July 8, 2025
NEW MEXICO, RUIDOSO CATASTROPHIC FLOODING
⚠️ Watch how fast this Flash Flood engulfs this tiny creek and BRIDGE… wait for it…
"A DANGEROUS situation is unfolding in RUIDOSO! Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW! Do NOT attempt to drive through the floodwaters. The current will carry… pic.twitter.com/vz0SXj6bAl
— Culture War Report (@CultureWar2020) July 8, 2025
h/t XC
EVs are almost comically unsuited to a vast, cold country like Canada.
Justin Trudeau’s legacy is alive and well in Mark Carney’s iteration of Canada’s Liberal Party. While the former PM’s deeply unpopular carbon tax may have been scrapped, his spirit of phony solutions to the ‘climate-change crisis’ prevails.
Across the border, US president Donald Trump has nixed any attempts at electric-vehicle (EV) mandates, saying, ‘electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one’. By contrast, the Canadian Liberal Party has maintained its plan to ensure 20 per cent of new passenger vehicles sold in 2026 are either battery-powered or plug-in hybrid models. It intends to increase that number to 60 per cent by 2030, and to 100 per cent by 2035.
She highly recommends NOT going to Vienna, Austria because of the lack of diverse people and bland food.
Vienna would certainly benefit from a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. pic.twitter.com/JdVp9dr5YM
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 8, 2025
The price of the rare earth metals the world buys from China
When you stand on the edge of Bayan Obo, all you see is an expanse of scarred grey earth carved into the grasslands of Inner Mongolia in northern China.
Dark dust clouds rise from deep craters where the earth’s crust has been sliced away over decades in search of a modern treasure.
You may not have heard of this town – but life as we know it could grind to a halt without Bayan Obo.
The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known as rare earths. They are key components in nearly everything that we switch on: smartphones, bluetooth speakers, computers, TV screens, even electric vehicles.
And one country, above all others, has leapt ahead in mining them and refining them: China.
China currently leads in Rare Earth mining because the west found the cost of the environmental approval process and resulting safeguards too bothersome and so happily sold China more rope.
