Islamism and the silence of the ‘progressives’

Islamism and the silence of the ‘progressives’

The German state cannot fairly be accused of inattention when it came to Abdul Ballout. It had been observing him for the better part of a decade. It had convicted him three times and had, by the start of July, arrived at an assessment of his character that turned out to be entirely accurate. The counsellors of the deradicalisation programme into which a Berlin court had released him in May had logged their misgivings, concluded that his cooperation was a performance, and set about drafting a recommendation that he be removed from their books. They were still drafting that recommendation on Saturday 25 July, when the 21-year-old drove a white van into the closing party of Christopher Street Day, a part of Berlin’s Pride season, a few hundred yards from the Brandenburg Gate. He killed one person and injured 29 others, and then proceeded to set about the survivors with a machete.

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Sexual predator, 35, who was deported after raping woman, 18, is caught living in Essex after sneaking back into the UK

Sexual predator, 35, who was deported after raping woman, 18, is caught living in Essex after sneaking back into the UK

A sexual predator who was deported after raping an 18-year-old has been caught living in Essex after sneaking back onto British soil.

Blerim Hajdarmataj, who was working as a cleaner, launched a twisted attack on the girl after a chance meeting at a Chelmsford bar in September 2014.

The 35-year-old invited the young woman back to his home, and although she initially refused, she woke the following day in his bed.

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Canada is more united against Trump than ever — but this trade war is still going to hurt

Canada is more united against Trump than ever — but this trade war is still going to hurt

The only good news on a terrible day is that Canadians are united.

The bad news is bad, though. Canada is entering an asymmetric trade war with the largest and most powerful country in the world. If Donald Trump wants to drive us into a recession, he can do so, and there are other horrible things he could do if he wants.


United? Nope. Just the Star ratcheting up the fear.

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Full-face veils banned in Portugal after president signs ‘burqa law’

Full-face veils banned in Portugal after president signs ‘burqa law’

Portuguese President António José Seguro has officially signed into law a bill banning face-concealing attire in public spaces, with the move seen targeting the full-face Islamic veils like the burqa and niqab.

Addressing the national debate, President Seguro framed the decision around human interaction, stating: “The face should be considered a central element of human identity and communication.”

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Canada Balks at Fair Deal, Now the 50 Percent Tariffs Begin

Canada Balks at Fair Deal, Now the 50 Percent Tariffs Begin

Midnight came and Canada got the bill it earned.

After weeks of talks and a last-minute scramble that looked promising even to President Trump, the 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods took effect early Saturday. Wine. Hockey sticks. Cement. Plywood. Liquor. The list is long. Energy and critical minerals are exempted. Everything else that Canada has been shipping south while playing games with American producers is now more expensive by half.

h/t patthedog

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For the First Time in 50 Years, The New York Times Lost a Defamation Suit. Here’s Why.

For the First Time in 50 Years, The New York Times Lost a Defamation Suit. Here’s Why.

It’s hard for publications to lose these cases. The bar for proving malice is sky-high. And if you’re a public figure, forget about it. Well, for the first time in over 50 years, The New York Times will have to fork over potentially millions of dollars over a 2023 piece about a shooting involving basketball players from the University of Alabama that left a 23-year-old woman dead. Of course, the Times, bloated by ego, stood by its reporting. They were wrong, issuing an editor’s note. The piece details the whole saga, including the reporter’s error and the behind-the-scenes moves to verify the information. The thing is, the victim, Kai Spears, wasn’t near the shooting and wasn’t involved. One thing that seems lost in the piece is a) the ever-degrading value of anonymous sources and b) that they ran with this based on one source.

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‘You’re at war when you get attacked,’ Carney says after trade talks collapse

‘You’re at war when you get attacked,’ Carney says after trade talks collapse

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said he walked away from a “bad deal” with the United States and that Canada is now “at war” after being “attacked” by steep tariffs on $29 billion worth of Canadian goods going south of the border.

“We were attacked. You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” Carney told reporters gather in the West Block foyer on Parliament Hill.

The problem is we’ll be the collateral damage for General Carney’s folly.

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Trump is Combining Geoeconomic and Kinetic Warfare Against Iran

Trump is Combining Geoeconomic and Kinetic Warfare Against Iran

War, Clausewitz , is the continuation of politics by violent means. But violence is only one tool in a nation’s war arsenal. Other tools include economics, cyber warfare, diplomacy, information warfare (what used to be called propaganda, psychological warfare, and disinformation), espionage, counterintelligence, and subversion. Americans are an impatient people, but impatience in war can lead to the loss of political and popular support — which is essential for democracies to achieve victory.

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Arrest warrant issued for Quebec man charged in alleged visa fraud scheme

Arrest warrant issued for Quebec man charged in alleged visa fraud scheme

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a 42-year-old Montreal man facing five charges after a Canada Border Services Agency investigation alleged he helped dozens of people obtain visas through fraud and facilitated their entry into Canada.

The CBSA said Friday that proceedings against Abul Kasim were initiated at the Montreal courthouse on July 28.

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The Floydification of Jason Arday’s death

The Floydification of Jason Arday’s death

The Russian word pravda is often translated as ‘truth’, but it can also mean ‘justice’. The proto-Slavic prav had that latter meaning, pravo refers to a legal right, and the first law code in Kievan Rus’ was called the Russkaya Pravda. Over time the word has come to mean ‘truth’, but with strong connotations of ‘moral or spiritual truth’, or a just way to order human relations. Sometimes it is translated into English as ‘social justice’, whereas istina is the term for objective truth. In other Slavic languages, such as Serbo-Croatian, pravda has retained its meaning of ‘justice’ or ‘fairness’.

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Canada didn’t chicken out. We did the right thing

Canada didn’t chicken out. We did the right thing

In the end, Canada and the United States didn’t get a trade deal. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter.

Yes, a deal would have prevented further economic woes imposed on Canada in the short run. But what matters is that the Carney government didn’t give in to the Trump administration’s economic coercion.


Our right to suffer the Laurentian Elite’s economic coercion has been preserved!

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Iran: What Next?

Iran: What Next?

The main focus in confronting Iran’s regime and its sponsorship of terrorism has shifted toward economic sanctions and a naval blockade of Iranian ports. This pressure, driving oil exports to multi-year lows and squeezing the regime’s primary source of hard currency, constrains the resources available for ballistic missiles, proxies, and internal repression. Yet it is a dangerous delusion to believe that sanctions and blockade by themselves will change the regime’s fundamentalist and Islamist ideology or force a fundamental shift in its behavior.

The Iranian regime’s only objective is to stay in power beyond the Trump Administration.

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