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  • Prince Charles blames “foreign Jews” for Middle East conflict, calls on US to confront...

    11/12/2017 6:30:34 PM PST · by markomalley · 62 replies
    Jihad Watch ^ | 11/12/17 | Robert Spencer
    This may offer some insight into why the UK government is inviting in so many Muslims, and doing everything it can to appease and accommodate them, even to the extent of letting Muslim rape gangs run wild for years, with British authorities too afraid of being called “racist” and “Islamophobic” to do anything about: key members of the British political elite, including Prince Charles, don’t find the Islamic supremacist world view, particularly in its hatred of and paranoia toward Jews, all that different from its own.“Prince Charles blames ‘foreign Jews’ for Middle East turmoil in 1986 letter,” by Chantal Da...
  • The Melbourne Crimewave

    10/25/2025 1:21:21 PM PDT · by aquila48 · 27 replies
    Quillette ^ | 11 Oct 2025 | Andrew Bushnell
    On 6 September 2025, two boys aged twelve and fifteen were walking home from basketball practice in Cobblebank, an outer suburb of Melbourne, when they were chased and set upon by a group of assailants who then hacked them to death with machetes. Seven teenagers have since been arrested and charged with murder. This double murder has become a flashpoint in the city’s ongoing crimewave. A surge in violent crime and property crime is afflicting the city, still regularly (but less credibly) listed among the world’s most liveable. The Melbourne crimewave is the most visible manifestation of endemic disorder created...
  • Donald J. Trump - ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED

    10/23/2025 8:13:22 PM PDT · by backpacker_c · 140 replies
    @realDonaldTrump truth social ^ | Oct 23, 2025 | @realDonaldTrump
    The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
  • ‘Public execution’: Trump takes a big swing at Kevin Rudd

    10/21/2025 1:02:21 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | 10/21/2025 | Sky News Aus
    Kevin Rudd, Australia’s ambassador to America, who trash talked Trump in the past found himself getting some payback in the Oval Office duding the US/Australia meeting. Not a great idea to get into fights with Trump, Chuckle.
  • Trump tears into Australian ambassador who badmouthed him while signing rare-earth minerals deal

    10/21/2025 9:12:11 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 22 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 20, 2025 | Steven Nelson
    President Trump tore into a foreign ambassador on Monday who badmouthed him in the past after signing a multibillion-dollar, rare-earth and critical minerals deal with visiting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “Did an ambassador say something bad about me?” Trump asked Albanese when a journalist mentioned Australian Ambassador Kevin Rudd’s prior remarks vilifying the 45th and 47th president. “Where is he? Is he still working for you?” Albanese informed Trump that Rudd, a former prime minister and Australia’s top diplomat in Washington since 2023, was sitting across the table, prompting Trump to ask, “You said bad? “Before I took this...
  • Trump Locks Rare Earths Deal With Australia, Throws Shade At Envoy

    10/20/2025 12:12:08 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 25 replies
    DailyWire.com ^ | Oct 20, 2025 | Mary Margaret Olohan
    "We're going to be signing an agreement that's been negotiated over a period of four or five months."WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump on Monday signed a critical minerals and rare earths deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, calling the leader a trusted friend and steadfast ally.Under the deal, the U.S. and Australian governments will invest more than $3 billion in critical mineral projects over the next six months, “with recoverable resources in the projects estimated to be worth $53 billion,” according to the White House. The Department of War will also invest in constructing a “100 metric ton-per-year advanced gallium...
  • To recap the past week:

    10/20/2025 6:15:51 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 2 replies
    X ^ | 10 19 2025 | Eyal Yakoby
    To recap the past week: Hamas films themselves executing over 100 Palestinians. The media is silent. Hamas launches RPGs at Israeli troops, murdering two. The media is silent. Israel responds by striking a Hamas commander. The media says Israel violated the ceasefire.
  • Chilling video shows female sushi chef being stabbed by a homeless woman while walking to work

    10/17/2025 5:57:23 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 33 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 17, 2025 | Patrick Reilly
    Chilling security footage shows a sushi chef being randomly stabbed by a homeless woman while the chef was walking down the street to work. Wan Lai, 26, was walking down the sidewalk in a busy area of Melbourne, Australia, when a redheaded stranger ran up behind her, tapped her on the shoulder and plunged a knife into her chest. Lai, clearly stunned, clutches the wound and slowly sits on the ground as a good Samaritan runs over to help and offers Lai her coat, according to the clip. She was rushed to the hospital, where she spent three days recovering...
  • British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson arrives in Israel

    10/15/2025 3:41:47 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 7 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | October 14, 2025
    British far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has arrived in Israel for a visit at the invitation of Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli. In a video uploaded to X from the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, Robinson says he is “here to show solidarity with the Jewish people and the Israeli people” after the British government announced that it would recognize an independent Palestinian state — which Robinson repeatedly refers to as a “terrorist state” — last month. Robinson, the founder of the far-right nationalist English Defense League, says he supports Israel because he “sees it as an ally, as...
  • ‘Taxation Without Representation’: Trump Admin Battles UN Over Global Carbon Tax

    10/15/2025 5:33:16 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 15, 2025 | Melissa O'Rourke
    The Trump administration is fighting to block a global carbon tax that a United Nations (UN) agency is attempting to pass quietly this week. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), a UN body based in London, is meeting this week to adopt a so-called “Net-Zero Framework,” which would levy significant penalties on carbon dioxide emissions from ships that exceed certain limits. The Trump administration argues the proposal could raise global shipping costs by as much as 10%, ultimately driving up prices for American consumers. “President Trump has made it clear that the United States will not accept any international environmental agreement...
  • Hamas won’t give up arms or Gaza control — despite agreeing to Trump deal, spokesman says

    10/14/2025 9:19:23 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 50 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 14, 2025 | Ronny Reyes
    Hamas appeared to renege on key demands of President Trump’s cease-fire deal just hours after the world celebrated the end of the Gaza war — with a top official saying the terror group will not give up its arms or control over the Gaza Strip. Spokesman Hazem Qassem claimed Monday that Hamas has no need to abide by every word of Trump’s 20-point peace plan, including calls for the terror group to lay down its arms. “We do not need to limit ourselves to the Israeli terms and definitions related to weapons,” Qassem told the Al-Arabiya news channel. “We will...
  • Unbelievable: Antony Blinken Gives Biden Credit for Gaza Deal, and It Gets Worse From There

    10/12/2025 8:49:30 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Red State ^ | 10/12/2025 | Bonchie
    When I wrote on Saturday that the foreign policy establishment is in utter shambles, I'm not sure I expected them to respond with such utter shamelessness. Yet, here we are, with former Secretary of State Antony Blinken giving Joseph Robinette Biden credit for the recently negotiated Gaza peace deal. No, I'm not kidding, and that's not even the worst of it. As RedState reported, the deal will see the release of the remaining hostages, with Israel not having to vacate Gaza. Instead, they'll pull back to a predetermined line inside the territory, forming a buffer zone to ensure the disarmament...
  • Synergy apologises after overcharging customers $40 million

    Synergy is facing new revelations it has overcharged West Australians for power. (ABC News: Cason Ho) More than 170,000 customers have been overcharged a total of $40 million by WA's state-owned energy retailer Synergy since 2009, it has been revealed. The overpayments range from amounts under a dollar, to thousands of dollars, according to Synergy CEO Kurt Baker, who said most of those affected were residential customers. "We've accepted payments to approximately 170,000 closed accounts, resulting in overpayments," he told ABC Radio Perth. "In many cases this has happened because Synergy's allowed customers to continue to pay to their closed...
  • As Liberals fumble Hamas war, Conservative lead reaches meteoric new highs [landslide?]

    10/24/2023 10:19:41 AM PDT · by canuck_conservative · 15 replies
    Vancouver Province ^ | Oct. 24, 2023 | Tristin Hopper
    All of Canada’s major pollsters are now showing at least a 10-point gap between the Conservatives and the Liberals. Were these sentiments to hold up in a general election, Conservative Pierre Poilievre would be looking at one of the largest landslides in modern Canadian history. Polls are pointing to a Conservative majority of 205 seats against a Liberal opposition of just 81. That would represent the most crushing electoral victory since 1984... The Liberals are now in third place anywhere outside of Ontario and Quebec – most notably in the previously Liberal stronghold of Atlantic Canada. And the Conservatives continue...
  • Gaza residents say Hamas has abandoned them as war devastates Gaza Strip

    10/08/2025 6:44:59 AM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 53 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | 10/8/25 | Dana Shimon
    “Dogs are eating the bodies of the dead... is there anything worse than that?” says F, a 60-year-old resident of Gaza. This is not a metaphor – it’s a glimpse into the daily nightmare now unfolding in the Gaza Strip two years after the designated terror group Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel. After two years of war, residents of the Palestinian enclave, like F – who spoke to The Jerusalem Report on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals from Hamas – are still struggling to fully grasp what their lives have become after the militant group’s devastating decision...
  • Two years on, will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?

    10/07/2025 10:20:39 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    BBC ^ | October 7, 2025 | Jeremy Bowen
    After two years of war, there is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families. It is an opportunity, but it is not certain that it will be seized by Hamas and Israel.It is a grim coincidence that the talks are happening exactly two years after Hamas inflicted a trauma on Israelis that is still acute. The 7 October attacks killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, and 251 were taken hostage. The Israelis estimate that 20 hostages are still alive and they...
  • Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin says antisemitism a ‘re-injury that Jews suffer from on daily basis’, calls for greater leadership to stamp out hate

    10/07/2025 3:52:19 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Sky News ^ | October 8, 2025 | Jennifer Shahin
    Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has described antisemitism as a "norm" Jews will face for years as he called out a lack of leadership across institutions and the government.The Co-Chief Executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Alex Ryvchin, has said the hate directed at Jews in Australia and around the world has become a disturbing norm due to an absence of leadership and accountability. Mr Ryvchin spoke to Sky News host Chris Kenny on the second anniversary of the October 7 atrocities amid outrage over pro-Hamas graffiti which appeared in Melbourne on Tuesday and a...
  • ‘Lame Duck’ Macron Clings to Power After Another French Government Collapses, as a Top Ally Now Demands He Resign To Stop Deepening Political Crisis

    10/07/2025 1:09:47 PM PDT · by bitt · 12 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Oct. 7, 2025 | Paul Serran
    Calls for Macron’s resignation have gone mainstream. After his seventh chosen Prime Minister resigned a month after being appointed and just hours after presenting the ‘new cabinet’, French President Emmanuel Macron is in the deepest crisis of his troublesome mandate. The British Times writes that Macron has become a ‘lame duck running out of options.’ French newspaper Le Monde adds that Macron faces a hard choice of three scenarios: 1) appoint a new prime minister, 2) dissolve the National Assembly again and hold elections, or 3) – in the worst case – resign himself. Reuters reported: “France’s President Emmanuel Macron...
  • France's Macron pressed to end political 'mess'

    10/07/2025 5:29:58 AM PDT · by McGruff · 9 replies
    Reuters ^ | Oct 7, 2025 | Dominique Vidalon and Sudip Kar-Gupta
    France's President Emmanuel Macron faced growing pressure on Tuesday to resign or hold a snap parliamentary election to end political chaos that has forced the resignation of five prime ministers in less than two years. The 47-year-old centrist president has repeatedly said he will see out his second term, which ends in 2027. But resignation calls, long confined to the fringes, have entered the mainstream during one of the worst political crises since the 1958 creation of the Fifth Republic, France's current system of government. On Tuesday, as Macron's outgoing Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu held last-ditch talks to form a...
  • Fourteen Hours Old: New French Government Doesn't Wave White Flag, It Just Quits

    10/06/2025 6:40:45 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/06/2025 | Beege Welborn
    At the beginning of September, I told you how French President Emmanuel Macron was on the hunt for Prime Minister Number Four after yet another French government went le poof like a deflated soufflé.It's always entertaining to watch the turgid burps of the excitable Gallic political process as they go about trying to form and reform governments, with cranky citizens (and others) taking to the streets in rowdy, car-b-quing mobs expressing either their delight or disgust. Public unions often join the fray in generally making things even more difficult by striking various aspects of the national service industries.Macron settled on...