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  • The Camp of the Saints was written by the French author Jean Raspail in 1973. Celestini describes it as a dystopian novel about a caravan of immigrants coming to Europe by boat from an unspecified South Asian country.

    The migrants are depicted in an unambiguously racist way: as rapists, as people who sell their children for money and do other degrading acts and as a threat to European society.

    The book has been referenced by Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s brutal attempt to increase deportations and imprisonment of immigrants in U.S. cities. Steve Bannon, a former strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, has also talked about the book.

    The National Post’s review of the book acknowledges that the novel is “generally considered a racist book towards Indians.” But the bulk of the piece is devoted to arguing the book’s ideas and warnings about “third-world migration” have merit and should be more widely read.



  • I’m not sure this will change anything for you and I’m only even commenting due your upvote count in my tagger.

    There is very prevailent thing from right wing these days where specific phrases or words make people very uncomfortable and for that they like to use them even more.

    You should know that even many on the left feel very negatively towards actual Communism and there’s a lot of Socialism without actually getting into Communism.

    I would advise on reflecting on the manner of how you convey your point.





  • BC really should have done something like this as well. They were going to be in a deficit either way, might as well try to quell the people with something like this.

    Food and drinks considered “basic groceries” are already exempted from the tax in Manitoba, including fruits and vegetables, most meat and milk products, eggs, coffee and oil.

    Winnipegger Sanjay Sewpaul, who has four kids and pays about $1,500 on groceries each moth, said the move is good news and likely to help businesses, but he doesn’t feel like it will “do too much” for consumers.

    He spent $305 on groceries in Winnipeg on Tuesday, including $6.58 in PST.









  • The reason I’m posting this here and overall context:

    • France and Europe has been having a energy crisis for a while now.
    • When Iran effectively closed the straight it substantially impacted Europe and Asia a lot more then America.
    • As such Macron has been saying France might participate in military action in the straight to keep ships flowing
    • This incident gives Macron a certain level of justification to participate.
    • The probable cases of France participating wouldn’t materially change anything beyond a NATO ally sending their soldier to their deaths for Trump’s war.
    • This really starts to muddy the waters as to Canada’s role if Iran starts to directly threatening France.

    Tldr: Macron is a moron. He should have withdrawn his soldier from a active war zone.

    No one was injured in the first attack, after which Italy said it was temporarily withdrawing its military personnel from the base.



  • This is pretty wild. The judge made judgement not friendly to America so she got sanctioned which even outside of America means she can’t use a lot of services.

    For example even in Canada if you couldn’t use proper IOS and Google Android it would make it very difficult to use mobile bank apps given how current app security works.

    This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.

    There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.

    For those wondering about the numbered of sanctions people.

    According to OFAC, there are approximately

    12,000 names on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) list, [17] which is the most restrictive category of targeted U.S. sanctions, targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers) by blocking their U.S. assets and restricting U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with them

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions



  • The guy is a idiot. The CBC should broadcast news with substance and accuracy neither are ever present from Conservative dialogue these days.

    I also don’t know how CBC could lose this one since they probably have hundreds of articles in the last few years showing they go out of their way to find a Conservative to provide their idiotic opinion.

    He said he felt shows like Power & Politics would just have Liberal talking points on all the time, and that as a network, the CBC needed balance.

    “There were repeated episodes of Conservatives being blocked. I mean, I have the G-chats right here. I said in terms of getting folks on, that we need to have balance,” Dhanraj said.



  • The article doesn’t really mention how they’d keep the redirection of the arms once received the the initial nations. Seems like some sort of honor system unless they want to cut off the future sales.

    The Bloc Québécois expressed reservations as well. Bloc MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe said the bill is well intentioned but too broad…

    He also said the U.S. may simply choose not to play ball.

    “The idea that the United States would start asking for Canada’s approval to ship small arms and light weapons is wishful thinking,” he said.