-- "Canada's Federal archivists are protecting 'safety of individuals' in concealing more than a million pages of records on Nazi collaborators let into Canada after 1945, says a newly-disclosed briefing note. Cabinet years ago had promised to release all Holocaust-related files: 'They knew.'" --
-- "Poland sees a pattern of escalating Russian pressure on multiple fronts. 'We are hurrying to be prepared for war since Russia is giving us and our neighbors constant signals that they want us back as their vassals, their colonial backyard,' said one diplomat." --
-- "Anyone who kills or captures and hands over an invading American military personnel will receive a reward equivalent to $30,000 or 5 billion tomans from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army,' Army chief Amir Hatami said, using an informal unit equivalent to 10,000 Iranian rials." --If you have anything you want to say to Amir Hatami, best not put it off for too long.
Mr Macron, a former partner at Rothschild & Cie merchant bank, has been nicknamed the 'President of the Rich', and 'Jupiter', after the Roman god of gods. He is frequently criticised for being arrogant and out of touch with ordinary French people.Well... they are 'our betters' after all...
-- "Prime Minister Mark Carney and his entourage spent $159,800 on airplane food during a single trip while dining on 'chicken chasseur, Chilean sea bass' and 'death by chocolate.'" --
-- "The IDF confirmed that earlier on Thursday, directed by the ISA, it eliminated Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil, a commander in the Hamas terrorist organization who infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th Massacre." --Oh, yeah...
-- "Abu Kamil was also the commander of the Gaza District Police." --
-- "Mangione would still face a potential life sentence if he were to plead guilty in federal court, but would hope that US District Judge Margaret Garnett doles out a lesser sentence, according to sources familiar with the matter. He could still decide against copping the plea at any moment before or even during Friday’s court appearance." --
-- "The New York Police Department will not provide a security detail to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji, during her upcoming vacation to two terror hotspots in the Middle East, despite the mayor's office claiming otherwise." --NOTA BENE...
-- "Syria and Lebanon are BOTH on the State Department's "Do Not Travel" list due to terrorism concerns." --Who exactly is Mamdani's 'partner in Muslim socialism' planning to meet up with?
-- "New documents show that more than 300,000 acres of land could be transferred to Vancouver Island First Nations, which are currently finalizing treaties. Approximately 30 parcels of Crown land would be given to five First Nations, which are located from Parksville to Victoria." --Nota bene...
-- "'There was no requirement to renegotiate the Douglas Treaties, so I think this was a political decision,' lawyer Geoffrey Moyse said." --
-- "Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc said two police officers were injured in a knife attack in the French city on Monday. CNews reported that the attacker shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during the assault. The attack comes nearly two weeks after a man was arrested in Paris for attacking three women with kitchen knives." --
-- "Halifax Police on Tuesday charged Ali Assakereh, 54, with making a bomb threat against the local U.S. Consulate, the latest security incident involving an American diplomatic post in Canada after two shootings at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto this year." --Nota bene...
-- Assakereh was expected to appear in court via a video link, with the assistance of an Arabic interpreter." --And, no... he wasn't kidding...
-- "A propane tank and several containers believed to contain flammable liquid could be seen inside the vehicle, prompting police to call in their explosive disposal unit and evacuate a large part of the downtown." --
-- "In addition to previously leading the elite IRGC paramilitary, Mohsen Rezaei, 71, is wanted on an international arrest warrant for his role in one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks of recent decades, the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1994." --
-- "In a news release issued Monday, police confirmed that Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie, who was previously charged in relation to a shooting at a residence near Clubhouse Road and Pine Valley Drive in Vaughan is now also facing charges in the synagogue shootings." --
-- "Tehran said the strait would remain closed until Washington ends its hostile behavior. The six demands include an end to U.S. threats and military action, a permanent end to the war, withdrawal of U.S. naval and air forces from around Iran, compensation for war damages, sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian assets." --Israel is fed up with the constant bullshit...
-- "Israel remains in discussions with the United States over the disarmament of Hamas but insisted any agreement would have to result in the terror group surrendering its entire arsenal, according to Netanyahu. 'It needs to be genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament.'" -- "Trump sure talks a good game...
-- "US President Donald Trump has been weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran without achieving a nuclear deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing US officials." --
-- "Days after getting booted from his family’s $1.75 million Virginia mansion, the Cornell University student who declared he’s 'not interested in working for a Jew' is losing his mind over a new enemy: a 5G cell tower." --
-- "'The Democrats have gone off the deep end,' said Epstein. 'I think the lunatics are in charge of the asylum. I think that there is no room in the tent for people that want to destroy our Constitution. There's no room in the tent for people that want to align themselves with radical Islam.'" --
-- "Prominent Michigan Shi’ite Muslim cleric Mohammad Baqer Qazwini celebrated the death of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and asked worshippers to pray for President Donald Trump’s death, before later urging Muslims to elect Abdul El-Sayed, who this week won the Democratic nomination for Michigan’s US Senate seat." --
No word yet on a response from the Secret Service.
Civil War 2.0... not as distant as you might think.
-- "German Iinterior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who said on Wednesday Germany faced a 'new level of danger', said only an apparently ripped detonator had prevented the device going off near Ukrainian cargo planes on the tarmac at the shipping and military hub." --
-- "The Parole Board of Canada has granted six more months of day parole for Terry Douglas Kennedy, one of the men convicted in the 1991 murder of Kingston gas station owner Yvonne Rouleau, despite finding he experienced a significant setback during his first year in the community by using crystal methamphetamine." --Another stunning decision from the folks who released cannibal killer Vince Li.
-- "Toronto Police say two suspects who fired shots at the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto last week were paid to carry out the shooting as part of a so-called 'gun-for-hire' network. The suspects, one of whom is 15 years old, are facing several charges, including failing to comply with court-ordered release conditions. The second suspect is 19 years old." --NOTA BENE... The usual, well... you know...
-- “Police Chief Myron Demkiw said 19-year-old Xen-Ul-Abdeen Syed was arrested on Aug. 1, and a 15-year-old male was taken into custody on Wednesday. We believe that these two individuals were offered payment to carry out this attack through encrypted messaging apps." --
A network of culturally disaffected teenage hitmen... hard to imagine a more serious threat.
In other diversity/strength news...
-- "Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw has announced arrests have been made in the fatal Salsa on St. Clair shooting last month. Demkiw would not provide any additional details, but said a press conference would be held Friday." --
-- "'As long as the United States and Israel possess nuclear weapons, we will continue working on them for our national security,' IRGC commander-in-chief Ahmad Vahidi said. 'If they disarm, we will disarm.'" --He's not much of a warmonger, after all.
