TEL AVIV – Israel won’t stop its military advance against the Hamas stronghold of Rafah, says a former senior ranking Israeli military commander – whether the United States and Western allies approve or not. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no choice, says retired Israeli Brigadier General Amir Avivi
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Case for Colonialism – Bruce Gilley
Bruce Gilley is a professor of political science at Portland State University. Bruce wrote an article in 2017 for Third World Quarterly titled, “The case for colonialism.” This enraged people who called for him to lose his academic position and be stripped of his PhD. The article was retracted due
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Hezbollah drone attacks just East of where we are
…right after we met with an ex-IDF officer who tracks such attacks 24/7. Welcome to the lives of the people of Northern Israel.
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GPS won’t tell you where we are in Northern Israel right now. GPS signals here are being jammed by IDF to deter Hezbollah missiles from landing on our heads. Sorry, Hezbollah. And, no, I won’t tell you exactly where we are. Duh.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: 40% Chance After only 3 Infections
What is Tik Tok and the news not telling you? “The pile of evidence continues to build that you don’t want to catch Covid. Moderna recently released a report confirming that your odds of developing Long Covid go up with each infection, hovering at 40 percent by your third. (The
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Another little flaw with Bill 20: It’s not just bad law, it’ll probably make life hell for UCP backbenchers
Alberta’s United Conservative Party MLAs are likely to soon get a hard lesson in what the late Colin Powell supposedly called the Pottery Barn Rule. The late Colin Powell, U.S. secretary of state, the guy who gets credit for mentioning the Pottery Barn Rule, whether he did or not (Photo:
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck…
An IN-SIGHTS reader asks, “Who gains from chaos on American university campuses?” He suggests the theme of the 1997 movie ‘Wag the Dog’ motivates Netanyahu. Dark forces believe the conflict in Gaza also serves Trump.
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Truth and Reconciliation in Quesnel
Much is heard these days about Canadian history and the truth, particularly regarding the fortunes, or misfortunes, of the Indigenous population. The narrative has been biased against them, we hear, now we want the truth, the whole truth. But do we? Judging by the recent contretemps in Quesnel, B.C. one
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Why Is A Dollar Not A Dollar?
A dollar should be treated like a dollar when it comes to income. So why all the jumping and yelling about the new capital gains INCLUSION rate? The post Why Is A Dollar Not A Dollar? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: May 6, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge should be censured for street brawl, conflict of interest, New York judicial conduct commission says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @ABAJournal https://tinyurl.com/3wba5k96 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue reading52 Ideas: Capital Power is not an outlier, it is apart of a trend
So Capital Power just announced that they are cancelling their greenhouse gas/carbon sequestration program just outside of Edmonton. Now, if one was to listen to the United Conservative Party of Alberta (UCP), one would think that the recent announcement from Capital Power was an outlier. If one were to listen
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: images of October 7
KIBBUTZ NIR OZ AND SDEROT – On this, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024, the image that is difficult to forget is found on a bed at Nir Oz. It is of a child’s clothing, fresh out of the laundry: a stack of tiny, carefully-folded underwear, toddler-sized, placed on the corner of
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of May 6, 2024
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Continue readingThe Daveberta Podcast: “We win by being more New Democrat, not less,” says NDP leadership candidate Gil McGowan
Longtime labour leader joins the Daveberta Podcast to explain why he’s running for the Alberta NDP leadership Labour leader Gil McGowan joins the Daveberta Podcast to share why he’s running to succeed Rachel Notley as leader of Alberta’s NDP. The full interview with Gil McGowan is available to paid subscribers of the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 5, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 5, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Harmful and discriminatory’: Ontario school board investigating video showing comments staff member made towards student wearing a keffiyeh She peed in an Amsterdam alley, then waged a 9-year battle for ‘urination equality’ University
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The British Columbia NDP Government Fails to Protect Women and Girls.
The BC NDP hate women and their rights, boundaries, and safety. They won’t actually say that, but any legislation that is proposed that safeguards females in their province is immediately struck down. This was the case regarding the Fairness for Women & Girls Sports Act. The NDP and the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: May 6, 2015: Alberta awakes to the realization it’s just elected a majority NDP government, surprising everyone, including the NDP
What can you say nine years after we all woke up and realized that the night before Albertans really had elected a majority NDP government? Well, it was a great night, a great morning after, and, despite some disappointments, the government run by Rachel Notley wasn’t a bad one by
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s news: the stupid, it burns!
What a crazy week it has been — we’ve all been sick with what I am calling the Black Death Cold, plus a family member fell and now has a broken pelvis. I’m afraid to leave the house. You spend your 40s thinking “hey, maybe aging isn’t so bad, I’m
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Everything is not broken
In the House of Commons, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre told Canadians: “Everything is broken.” Canada is imperfect, but it is far from broken.
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