Chinese Gangsters Turned This California Paradise into a Marijuana Factory

Chinese Gangsters Turned This California Paradise into a Marijuana Factory

Yreka, California—Siskiyou County is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. It sits against the towering backdrop of Mount Shasta and is surrounded by more than a million acres of farmland and forest. But in recent years, Chinese nationals have invaded this serene Northern California paradise to build an illegal cannabis empire.

Chinese nationals, including some associated with the Chinese Communist Party, run massive illegal marijuana operations just beneath Mount Shasta. They and the county’s other illegal growers rake in billions of dollars per year, and terrorize the rural community with shootings, gang violence, and trafficking. This massive criminal enterprise operates in the shadows of America’s most populous state.

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‘We will rule in CANADA’: Letter from Bishnoi gang to police disclosed to CBC News

‘We will rule in CANADA’: Letter from Bishnoi gang to police disclosed to CBC News

CBC News has obtained a copy of a letter the Lawrence Bishnoi gang sent Canada’s “defence minister, army and police” last year claiming to have 5,000 gang members in Canada and “more guns” than the police.

The letter sent to the Abbotsford Police Department and signed “Lawrence gang from India” was released through an Access to Information Act request for exhibits from an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) hearing for a Bishnoi associate who was ordered deported in July.

h/t Mauser

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Stealth Jihad in the West: A Conversation with Robert Spencer

Stealth Jihad in the West: A Conversation with Robert Spencer

Robert Bruce Spencer is a Christian American scholar writing on topics including Islam, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire. The director of Jihad Watch, he is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He has led seminars on Islam and jihad for organizations like the FBI, the United States Central Command, and the U.S. intelligence community.

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LILLEY: Chow says Toronto is thriving, but the numbers tell a different story

LILLEY: Chow says Toronto is thriving, but the numbers tell a different story

Olivia Chow stood on the stage at the mayoral debate hosted by the Daily Bread Food Bank and said that Toronto is living up to its full potential. One statistic from Daily Bread’s annual report shows just how wrong Mayor Chow is.

Since Olivia Chow came to office in 2023, visits to food banks across the city are up 47% and came in at 3,760,888 client visits.

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Carney presses 10 EU countries to ratify Canada trade deal

Carney presses 10 EU countries to ratify Canada trade deal

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has urged the 10 EU countries that have yet to ratify the bloc’s trade deal with Canada to do so, as he seeks closer ties with Europe after trade talks with Washington collapsed.

Carney made the plea to the 10 countries — Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia — in an interview with the Financial Times, arguing that closer ties with Europe were the best approach in an uncertain world. He said the trade deal was a “positive initiative” which is good for Europe and for Canada, adding that it would make both sides “more sovereign, more resilient, more independent” and more prosperous.

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Battle with Trump is sending Canada into the arms of the E.U.

Battle with Trump is sending Canada into the arms of the E.U.

BRUSSELS — Locked in a trade war with President Donald Trump and pivoting pivoting away from the United States, Canada is seeking stronger ties in Europe and Asia as a shield against Washington’s volatility.

On Wednesday, sitting as a guest of honor inside the European Parliament, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received an unprecedented offer: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she wants to make Canada the first “associate member” of the 27-nation bloc.

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CROSSON: The slow creep of totalitarianism in Canada

CROSSON: The slow creep of totalitarianism in Canada

A number of legal scholars and civil liberties advocates in Canada have begun asking whether this country is sliding toward a more authoritarian style of government.

In 1933, the Gestapo arrested Hannah Arendt for illegally researching Nazi propaganda, and she fled Germany that same year. That was also the year Germany’s government used a fire at the Reichstag to justify an emergency decree suspending civil liberties. It was supposed to be temporary. It stayed in force for the next twelve years.

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Greta Thunberg leads pro-Palestinian backlash against Ed Sheeran

Greta Thunberg leads pro-Palestinian backlash against Ed Sheeran

Greta Thunberg has joined a pro-Palestinian backlash against Ed Sheeran after a rapper was dropped from the British singer’s US tour.

The Swedish activist said Sheeran being “cancelled” showed that “global consciousness has shifted” in support of Palestinian causes.

The controversy erupted after Macklemore, a US rapper, called for a “free Palestine” onstage at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this month while supporting the American leg of Sheeran’s Loop tour.

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RCMP ‘monitoring’ reports of massive North American drivers’ licence hack

RCMP ‘monitoring’ reports of massive North American drivers’ licence hack

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is “aware” of an ongoing FBI investigation into a report that hackers gained access to tens of millions of government-issued identity records across North America— including Canadians’ driver’s licences.

Canadians are now being warned to stay vigilant for bad actors that can exploit people’s personal data.

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Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse

Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse

Worried what AI will do to the world? Don’t fret — we got a group of woke elitists who will protect us.

That’s the pitch from Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, who says he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy the world.

It’s a group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronoun and promote “Effective Altruism,” that believe all the world’s problems can be solved with technology.

WTF?

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CHARLEBOIS: Ottawa wants $1 trillion in investment, but agri-food is starving for capital

CHARLEBOIS: Ottawa wants $1 trillion in investment, but agri-food is starving for capital

The Canada Investment Summit in Toronto was a good idea. It was an overdue one, frankly.

At a time when global capital is becoming more selective and the country’s economic relationship with the United States is increasingly unpredictable, Ottawa is right to bring major investors, Canadian executives and public-sector leaders into the same room. Canada cannot diversify its trade without first expanding its productive capacity.

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Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year

Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year

Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures compiled by the conflict monitor Acled.

As the US marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks launched by al-Qaida against targets in Washington and New York, the statistics underline the continued expansion of the veteran organisation in parts of Africa – in stark contrast with its relative weakness elsewhere.

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