Intel Agency Assessed China Planned To ‘Encourage’ Violent BLM Riots To Hurt Trump In 2020

Intel Agency Assessed China Planned To ‘Encourage’ Violent BLM Riots To Hurt Trump In 2020

The Chinese planned to stoke Black Lives Matter riots and other social unrest in 2020, using the corporate media to launder the narrative in order to tank the election for President Donald Trump, according to documents released by the White House on Thursday.

Intelligence summaries from 2020, which were apparently hidden from the president at the time, show that the Chinese planned on “encouraging violent demonstrations and looting to increase the appearance of social unrest” ahead of the election, and to “exploit U.S. societal fissures and vulnerabilities,” in part by “alleging that White people hate Black people.”

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The European Right is turning on Ukraine

The European Right is turning on Ukraine

Politics is never predictable, but it’s safe to say that few foresaw the remarkable collapse of support for Ukraine on the Polish Right. The nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party previously established Warsaw as Kyiv’s staunchest ally following Russia’s 2022 invasion. Yet its move to a far more skeptical position is the most dramatic manifestation of a Europe-wide shift from bipartisan support for Ukraine to fierce tribal division.

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Carney’s failed diversification gambit

Carney’s failed diversification gambit

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to lead Canada out of the economic and foreign policy shadow of the United States, and his bizarre Davos plan to lead a Thucydidean “middle power” revolt against Washington, has accomplished virtually nothing. Highly publicized overtures to China and western Europe are inconsequential. The United States still buys 68 per cent of our exports and provides 56 per cent of our imports.

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TCW’s 12-year culture war and a not quite final goodbye

TCW’s 12-year culture war and a not quite final goodbye

WHAT difference did we make? Well, we didn’t dent policy. All the destructive postmodernist and neo-Marxist thinking – campus-driven leftism, feminism, transgenderism, scientism, critical race theory, decolonisation and now Islamism – has dug ever deeper into the fabric of society. We didn’t stop this politically driven seepage but we did, I hope, create an unfettered platform for considered dissent. Importantly, we dared to dissent in an era of political correctness and in a culture of complaint.

Such a good site.

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IN DEPTH: An unabridged timeline of the Canadian government’s many reversals on Indian trans-national repression

IN DEPTH: An unabridged timeline of the Canadian government’s many reversals on Indian trans-national repression

SURREY — The federal government’s public position on India’s alleged role in transnational repression and violent criminal activity in Canada has undergone a dramatic shift over the past two years and no one seems to know, or is unable to say, why.

Senior federal Canadian policing officials now say they no longer believe the Indian government is linked to ongoing acts of violence on Canadian soil despite earlier statements to the contrary.

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The ‘quiet and shy’ 28-year-old suspect held over the murder of Ann Widdecombe

The ‘quiet and shy’ 28-year-old suspect held over the murder of Ann Widdecombe

Smiling for the camera, this is the man suspected of killing Ann Widdecombe.

Pictured here for the first time, Joshua Kerry is accused of targeting the 78-year-old former Tory minister in her Devon home in a suspected terrorist attack.

The 28-year-old has lived alone in a council house in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, since the death of his father last year.

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Canada, debt-ridden and stretched, faces an uphill task of 5% defence spending

Canada, debt-ridden and stretched, faces an uphill task of 5% defence spending

A rear-view glance to this month’s NATO summit should prompt a look to the future, asking how Canada plans to achieve its commitment to spend 5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035. For Canada to meet the NATO pledge, it will have to make difficult choices on taxes, spending and borrowing. Making these choices requires a credible fiscal plan – and it needs to come in the fall budget.

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Berlin Blackout Terror Probe Stalls as Rubio Offers U.S. Help

Berlin Blackout Terror Probe Stalls as Rubio Offers U.S. Help

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pledged closer cooperation with Germany to combat violent left-wing extremist networks, citing the January sabotage of Berlin’s electricity grid as an example of the growing international threat.

Speaking at a meeting with representatives from several countries, Rubio referred to the attack on Berlin’s power infrastructure and said the next international gathering on the issue would be held “with partners in Germany.” He argued that the incident demonstrated the need for greater intelligence sharing and coordinated action against violent left-wing extremist groups.

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Hometown jury to decide $23-million civil case by family of Norfolk gunsmith killed by Toronto police

Hometown jury to decide $23-million civil case by family of Norfolk gunsmith killed by Toronto police

A jury in Simcoe will decide whether Toronto police officers were negligent when they shot and killed Norfolk County gunsmith Rodger Kotanko at his workshop west of Port Dover in 2021.

Officers from the Toronto Police Service’s guns and gangs task force came to Norfolk with a search warrant after two guns reportedly registered to the veteran gunsmith’s business were seized in criminal investigations.

In the wake of Kotanko’s death, his family sued Toronto police for $23 million, alleging “reckless” decision-making and poor planning needlessly put the 70-year-old in harm’s way.

h/t Mauser

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A life and death power struggle in Kyiv

A life and death power struggle in Kyiv

Volodymyr Zelensky must have felt a peculiar sense of déjà vu as thousands of Ukrainians chanted ‘Shame!’ beneath the windows of his office in central Kyiv yesterday. Exactly one year ago, they gathered to protest Zelensky’s attempt to strip Ukraine’s two key anti-corruption institutions of their independence, forcing him to back down. This time, Ukrainians rallied against their President’s decision to fire Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, holding cardboard signs demanding that he be reinstated.

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Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’

Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’

Faced with a moribund economy and a more uncertain future, the federal government says Canada will exploit its abundant resource endowment to become a global energy superpower. Ottawa paved the path this week for oil producers to double production with a big pipeline announcement. Billions in government money is on the table.

If that’s the plan to revive the economy, it won’t work. We know this because that’s the strategy which the country has used over the last generation, and it has failed to deliver growth.

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An Ohio woman took in two strangers. Then she saw their ‘wanted’ photos.

An Ohio woman took in two strangers. Then she saw their ‘wanted’ photos.

The two women who drifted into a small Ohio town reminded Adrienne Behrman of her younger self. They were fleeing a toxic living situation in Maryland, they said, when their car broke down and left them stranded in a motel.

The story was a bit vague. But Behrman, 49, had twice been homeless, overcome addiction and knew how hard it could be to share details. She took the women into her home despite friends’ warnings.

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