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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/08/conservative-colombian-presidential-candidate-shot-in-the-head-n2658373

As if this weekend couldn’t get more chaotic as Los Angeles descends into a pro-illegal alien rager that’s required the deployment of National Guard units, in Colombia, conservative presidential candidate Miguel Uribe is reportedly in stable but critical condition after being shot in the head during a campaign event in Bogota (via Bloomberg):

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at a campaign event in Bogota on Saturday in an act reminiscent of the drug-fueled political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and early 1990s. 

The 39-year old senator from the opposition Democratic Center party was rushed to a medical center. He was stabilized there before being moved to a major hospital in north Bogota, according to the Attorney General’s office. 

Footage posted by local media showed Uribe’s head and back covered in blood.

The gunman has been detained, Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan said on X. Attorney General Luz Camargo said that a 15-year-old youth was arrested, after being beaten up by members of the public, and that authorities captured a 9mm gun. The minor is currently in a medical center, she said. 

https://dianebederman.com/chief-myron-demkiw-and-a-blast-from-the-plast/

December 19, 2022, Ukrainian Canadian Myron Demkiw, a 30-year veteran of the Toronto Police Services, was sworn in as the chief of police in Toronto. Mr. Demkiw, who was born to Ukrainian parents and raised in Toronto, grew up as a proud member of his community and was an active member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in his youth. During the Second World War, Plast scouts were used as allies by Nazi Germany. After the war, the Plast organization was preserved among Ukrainian diaspora in Australia, Argentina, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

Plast  is a Ukrainian youth organization for patriotic, inclusive self-development. Patriotic, because Plast nurtures a love of the Ukrainian community and fosters a willingness to work for its wellbeing. Plast members are effective citizens of countries in which they live. Inclusive – because Plast encourages its members to fulfill their potential, able to both act independently and to cooperate in a group and acquire leadership skills. In Canada, Plast established branches across the country. Today there are Plast centres in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, St.Catharines, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary. Plast in Canada aided in the development of the reborn organization in Ukraine, often with the support and sponsorship of Canadian government programs.

Mr. Demkiw is the top police official in a city of some 3 million people, heading the largest municipal police agency in Canada.  Under his command, he oversees 5,000 police officers and 2,000 civilian employees with a budget of 1.2 billion dollars. Mr. Demkiw studied law at the University of Toronto, later completed university courses in policing, management and psychology, and graduated from the Police Leadership Program at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He said:

“Although I have many priorities in my new role, my first is improving trust in our service and working with our communities to earn and maintain that trust. Secondly, under my leadership, we will accelerate police reform and the professionalization of the Service by continuing to collaborate with our communities to implement their recommendations and by exploring new opportunities to become the modern, community-centric Service our city deserves and expects. And, as my third priority, I will continue working with our members and residents, community organizations, government agencies and our partners in law enforcement to ensure that every resident in every neighbourhood is safe and thriving.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21670/why-iran-will-never-give-up-its-nuclear-weapons

Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, evidently believe that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go.

The regime’s goal is the bomb.

Iran’s Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but devine with a legitimacy given not by man but by God.

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” (Qur’an 8:60) Sahih International Translation

This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, the nuclear bomb is not only permitted, but also necessary. It is both a shield against the regime’s many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming.

Iran’s leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory.

The regime’s lack of response to Soleimani’s killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength.

Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, the regime’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.

The day we wake up to hear that Iran is about to use its nuclear bomb will be the day the world changes forever.

Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, evidently believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. To Iran’s ruling elite, their nuclear program is not just a policy objective to protect the continuation of their regime, but the centerpiece of Iran’s ideology and propaganda.

Despite having some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves, the regime has accepted crushing sanctions and economic ruin, all under the excuse of pursuing nuclear power. The regime’s goal is the bomb.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/05/the-mannheim-stabbings-are-being-memory-holed/

A year after the deadly Islamist terrorist attack in the German city of Mannheim, the debate over what lessons to draw from it remains bitterly contested. Even the question of how to commemorate the attack, in which a police officer was killed and several members of the public seriously injured, has been anything but straightforward.

On one side stands the German establishment. It has been determined to shape both the memory of the attack and the public conversation around it within narrow, politically palatable limits. On the other side are those who argue that radical Islam represents one of the most urgent threats facing Germany today – and that the authorities’ refusal to acknowledge this reality is both dangerous and dishonest.

The depth of this divide was made painfully clear on 31 May, the first anniversary of the attack. A commemoration for the slain officer, Rouven Laur, was held by government representatives, police and Mannheim’s mayor. Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, issued a solemn statement: ‘We will never forget Rouven Laur. He wanted to protect others – and had to pay with his life for this.’ Mannheim’s mayor, Christian Specht, used the occasion to celebrate the city’s diversity, insisting that ‘good and evil are not a question of skin colour or religion’. According to the press, the ceremony concluded with an inter-religious service involving local Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities.

Predictably, no such deference was paid to diversity of opinion. In fact, anyone who might have drawn attention to the Islamist nature of the attack was explicitly excluded. Pax Europa – the anti-Islam group the suspect, an Afghan asylum seeker, allegedly targeted – was not merely unwelcome at the official commemoration. Incredibly, its supporters were actively prevented from holding a vigil of their own in Mannheim, too.

The police union’s statement on the banned vigil was all too telling. The anniversary ‘is a day of silent mourning and dignified remembrance of our colleague, Rouven Laur, who was killed in the line of duty’, it said. ‘The fact that a group such as Pax Europa is organising its own vigil… is something we consider to be irreverent and a politically motivated instrumentalisation of a tragic event.’

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/rape-gangs-liberal-silence

Few issues expose the self-blinding of the Western progressive left more than the sexual violence waged against working-class girls in the UK by predominantly-Pakistani grooming gangs. The scandal, long ignored by polite society and actively buried by both law enforcement and politicians, only broke into a broader American consciousness when Elon Musk began posting about it on X. The king of the techno-barons is no friend of the working class but, on this issue at least, he has successfully played the part of a working-class champion far more convincingly than his progressive counterparts.

The scandal continues to horrify not just because of the systemic sexual violence waged on children and teens, but because it reveals the deliberate sacrifice of vulnerable population groups who in theory should be able to count on the protection of the administrative state. Instead, institutions operating under a calculated bureaucratic plan offer poor and working-class adolescents up as sacrifices to the altar of multiculturalism.

For over a decade in towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford, young native British girls—some as young as eleven—were groomed, drugged, raped, and trafficked by networks of immigrant men from East Asia. The young girls were first love-bombed with gifts and flattery, then lured into private spaces—plied with alcohol and pills—then passed between grown men who raped them repeatedly. Sometimes lines of abusers waited their “turn” to ravage these teens in a manner that merely describing here would provide the reader with images so harrowing that they’re impossible to forget.

Girls who physically resisted their rapists were beaten and threatened with death. Some resistors were threatened with guns, others doused in gasoline with the captors threatening to burn them alive. Some were thrown from moving vehicles. If all this weren’t insane enough, the families who reported the crimes were firebombed by the perpetrators. Those who continued to contact authorities had their windows smashed and often faced further threats of arson.

For years, UK authorities resisted doing anything to address this mass sexual terror inflicted on children. Why? Well, every educated Western liberal person knows exactly why. Because some things are unsayable. To acknowledge the horrific crimes committed against young girls would also mean acknowledging the ethnic and religious backgrounds of their attackers, which might in turn suggest that not all foreign cultures are automatically compatible with the basic norms of Western civilization. And then what?

Educated civil servants and elected officials dehumanized their own citizens—not out of hatred, but out of commitment to a different kind of utopian eschaton.

https://www.irelandisrael.ie/

The Ireland Israel Alliance (IIA) is a grassroots, non-profit organization based in Dublin, Ireland. The aim of the IIA is to bring clarity to public perception of issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to ensure such issues receive fair and impartial treatment within the Irish media. We engage with supporters and organizations from both secular and religious backgrounds across the political spectrum. We seek to engage with the Government of Ireland, the political parties, public interest groups, schools, colleges and other educational establishments. We also use social media to engage with and inform the wider public about such issues. 

Watch this video of Jamie O’Mahoney defending Israel…skip the breaks and read the responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3u6JXOJUk

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21662/brussels-crisis

Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration.

The normalization of radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse we are witnessing in Brussels is the result of 15 years of leaders abrogating their responsibility. Brussels, through its inability — or unwillingness — to make unpleasant but necessary choices, is setting itself up as the first potential locus of protracted European unrest.

The Islamist Team Fouad Ahidar party embodies a new situation: a political Islam that no longer hides its identity. Instead, it advocates that a religious identity be the underpinning of national cohesion. This fragmentation reflects a profound breakdown in the social contract, between the old European society, which confines religion to the private sphere, and the “new Europeans” (Muslims), who want everything to be subject to their religious doctrine.

Crime rates are rising everywhere in Brussels, particularly in an area in the spotlight for its frequent shootings: the Bruxelles-Midi Zone (Saint-Gilles, Forest, Anderlecht). Between 2022 and 2023, notes the newspaper L’Echo, robberies and extortion rose by 23%, robberies without weapons by 34%, pickpocketing by 27%, and armed robberies by a staggering 53%.

The Brussels-Capital Region is not merely on the brink of bankruptcy; it is already at the bottom of a financial abyss.

Jew-hatred, often marketed in unconvincing, transparent disguises as “anti-Zionism,” flourishes in many other Islamic-centered and radical left-wing circles…. in Brussels, Jew-hatred enjoys almost total impunity.

As of 2023, 74% of Brussels’ population is of foreign background, compared to a European average of 10%…. This demographic transformation or “great replacement,” far from being accompanied by an effective integration policy, has saturated Brussels — overcrowded schools, overwhelmed hospitals, sorely inadequate housing — and exacerbated communal tensions.

In 2022, a report revealed that 35% of young people with an immigrant background in Brussels were living in households where nobody has a job — a breeding ground for delinquency and radicalization.

Brussels is not only a city in crisis, it is a city on the brink of implosion.

Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration. For the past 15 years, the signs of a deep crisis — political paralysis, an explosion in crime, fiscal bankruptcy, the rise of Islamism and migratory engulfment — have been piling up, heralding an inevitable tipping point.