Trump says US will help free ships in Strait of Hormuz

Trump says US will help free ships in Strait of Hormuz

President Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will assist in freeing ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the oil industry, which has been closed during the conflict with Iran.

“Countries from all over the World, almost all of which are not involved in the Middle Eastern dispute going on so visibly, and violently, for all to see, have asked the United States if we could help free up their Ships, which are locked up in the Strait of Hormuz, on something which they have absolutely nothing to do with — They are merely neutral and innocent bystanders!” the president said in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening.

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Alarm bells for Trump as Mark Carney joins European summit

Alarm bells for Trump as Mark Carney joins European summit

Officials in Brussels often joke about Canada joining the EU.

Some European leaders, including Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president, have even started to entertain the idea.

It remains a pipe dream for now – but Mark Carney will at least get to play the part of a European leader in Yerevan on Monday.

The Canadian prime minister will become the first leader of a non-European state to join a summit of the European Political Community.

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Aligning the U.S. and Canadian Defense Industrial Bases

Aligning the U.S. and Canadian Defense Industrial Bases

The United States and Canada are both racing to rebuild their defense industrial bases, recognizing that future conflicts will be determined not only by military capability, but by the ability to produce at scale. But they cannot succeed alone — and importantly, they do not need to start from scratch.

After decades of reliance on globalized supply chains for everything from consumer products to critical defense technologies, the United States is reasserting a more active industrial policy, using tools ranging from the Defense Production Act to incentivizing private capital investments and even selective government equity stakes. Canada is undergoing a parallel shift, with increased defense spending commitments, the recent release of its first Defence Industrial Strategy, and the newly launched Defence Investment Agency.


I doubt the USA will risk Canadian exposure given Carney is busy selling us out to the ChiComs and whoever else he thinks he can squeeze a buck from.

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‘Christofascism’ is here: inside the slow demolition of US public health

‘Christofascism’ is here: inside the slow demolition of US public health

In February 2025, Robert F Kennedy Jr began his tenure as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with an unusual message for the federal department responsible for protecting public health.

America’s greatest challenge, he said, was not just chronic disease but a “spiritual malaise”, a kind of soul-sickness derived from America’s moral decline.

“Spiritual and physical maladies thrive on one another,” Kennedy told HHS employees in his first address. The solution, he said, “must begin with a spiritual question”, of personal responsibility and inward vigilance against the dark forces that would keep Americans “sedated” and “compliant”.


They gotta cut back on the caffeine, the cigarettes, the pot, the coke whatever.

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GOLDSTEIN: China – our ‘strategic partner’ and greatest security threat

GOLDSTEIN: China – our ‘strategic partner’ and greatest security threat

It’s alarming that Prime Minister Mark Carney, citing China as a “strategic partner,” has agreed to a secret deal on co-operating with Chinese police, given the highly controversial nature of these agreements in the past.

Since the details can’t be disclosed without China’s permission, all we know about it is the brief description the Prime Minister’s Office released when Carney announced his EV-canola deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in January.

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Iran: Four Illusions of a 60-Day-War

Iran: Four Illusions of a 60-Day-War

When President Donald Trump triggered the current war against Iran more than 60 days ago, the assumption mostly promoted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the junior partner in the enterprise, was that the whole thing would be wrapped up within weeks by Tehran implicitly admitting defeat, as it did in an earlier episode known as the 12-day War.

That was why the force deployed and the war plans provided for a short and sharp campaign with boots on the ground not considered even as a theoretical necessity.

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Poverty rate holds steady at 11%, well above 2020 levels: StatCan

Poverty rate holds steady at 11%, well above 2020 levels: StatCan

The country’s poverty rate barely budged in 2024, remaining well above 2020 levels with more than one in 10 Canadians qualifying as impoverished, according to Statistics Canada.

In a newly released survey, the agency found 11 per cent of Canadians — about 4.5 million people — lived in poverty in 2024 versus 11.1 per cent in 2023 and seven per cent in 2020.

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Will The Media Celebrate America’s 250th?

Will The Media Celebrate America’s 250th?

America’s Big Birthday is getting closer. Yes indeed, we are now just over two months away from the 250th birthday of America on July 4, 2026.

There is much to celebrate, and one can be sure that millions of Americans will be out in full force in the cities, towns and villages of this great country.

But what about the media? You know, the media that can’t abide President Trump and his decidedly patriotic Make America Great Again movement.

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Latest Harvard/Harris Poll Shows (Extremely) Modest Bump for ‘Mass Deportation’

Latest Harvard/Harris Poll Shows (Extremely) Modest Bump for ‘Mass Deportation’

The latest Harvard/Harris poll was just released, and it reveals a modest bump in approval for President Trump’s immigration policies generally and for removing all aliens who are present in the United States illegally in particular. The electoral implications of the poll’s finding that a large majority of Democrats support “open borders”, however, have yet to be seen.

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