🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Incident still ongoing, Hamas is shooting at the rescuers.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Red alerts near Sderot amid security incident in the Gaza strip.

🇺🇸 - Trump announces new tariffs of

🇰🇭 Cambodia: 36%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 35%
🇷🇸 Serbia: 35%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 32%
🇧🇦 Bosnia: 30%
🇹🇳 Tunisia: 25%

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - 2 Israeli soldiers killed North of Gaza - @nuseirat1

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - IDF: Following the sirens that sounded at 23:39 in the area of Nir Am, it was determined to be a false identification.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Intense military activity currently unfolding in northern Gaza, with IDF helicopters deploying flares, coinciding with the Sderot municipality informing residents of partial disruptions to local power lines.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Victims of the IED ambush were reportedly in the Nahal Brigade.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Hebrew sources: The search for three soldiers is still ongoing at the scene of the incident in Beit Hanoun, and there is talk that they were evaporated due to the force of the explosion - NewPress1

For the retards pretending not to understand: talking about countries like Sweden. Obviously Ukraine banning Russian church is OK because its wartime, but banning random religions because of geopolitics isn't OK in peacetime.

🇻🇦🇨🇦 - Secret history of Quebec.

If you look at the map of the provincial ridings in Quebec that consistently voted for the PQ from 1976 to 2018... 80% did so because from 1970s to 2000s they have had roman catholics priests that supported the PQ. In fact, most if not all that are not in urban areas did so out of deferrence for religious authorities.

Supporting the PQ was deemed compatible with the teachings of Vatican II, and with some level of influence of the liberation theology.

The archbishops for Quebec city and Montreal likely were kept out of the loop or didn't meddle in what faraway areas priests told their people.

In the 2000s, a Bloc Quebecois MP was forced to resign by the Holy See because he was a priest and John Paul II deemed that enough was enough.

🇫🇷 - French nationalists be like

Story 1: Did you know Arab occupiers steal social housing from real French?
Story 2: Glory to Saddam!

🇾🇪 - Another merchant ship attacked.

🇸🇾🇺🇸- The American envoy to Syria Tom Barrack:

There is only one way in front of
the SDF, which leads to Damascus

•The Syrian government has expressed incredible enthusiasm to include SDF to its institutions within the principle of one country
one nation, one army, one government

•the SDF is slow to respond, negotiate and move forward in this path

•Federalism is not possible in Syria

•The Kurds are a wonderful, amazing and beautiful people within their
countries

•The SDF is slowing the implementation of the agreement with the Syrian government

🇸🇾- SANA agency, quoting the Syrian government:

We welcome any path with the SDF
Enhancing the unity and integrity of the country's lands

We renew the fixed adherence to the principle of Syria, one nation, one army, one government

We categorically reject any form of partition or federalism that contradicts
With the sovereignty of Syria and its territorial integrity

We thank the American efforts made in caring for the implementation of this agreement, based on the keenness on the stability of the country and the unity of the Syrian people

The Syrian army is the national institution of all the people of the country and welcomes the joining of the Syrian fighters from SDF to its ranks within the approved constitutional and legal frameworks

We understand the challenges facing some parties in SDF

We warn that any delay in implementing the signed agreements does not serve the national interest but rather the scene, and impedes efforts to restore security and stability to all Syrian regions

The Syrian state emphasizes the need for official state institutions to return to the northeast of the country to ensure the provision of basic services to citizens, end the state of administrative void, and promote societal stability

🇨🇦 - Mark Carney currently reminds me of pandemic-era Legault.

Currently the "I'm the leader of fifth republic era France and this is an emergency" strategy is working.

But trust me: this kind of strategy works until its not.

The opposition is already starting to do the long, boring job of slowly digging on scandals, potentials topics of public grievances.

Carney is already struggling in some questions periods. Sometimes, he is outright unintelligible in French, and will make tone mistakes even in English.

Here's what's going to happen: parliamentary sessions after parliamentary sessions, the opposition is going to attack him daily about scandals, misfunctionnings and public miscontent. At some point, Carney, who doesn't have the charisma, will lose his temper. He will stop smiling, could also have poor words.

Then, the polls will start to collapse. And at that point, it will be too late: no-confidence motion will be passed, and we will have a strong, stable, national, conservative government.

Mark Carney doesn't have Trump's respect.

🎥🍿- Geopolitics of a highly political (but not woke) Superman film by James Gunn:

The film implicitly
criticises:

Elon Musk: the figure of Lex Luthor, rich tech guy who tries to meddle in american politics and influence geopolitical conflicts.

Russia: the invented slavic like nation of Boravia, an ally of the united states which decides to invade the poor country or Jhanapur and split its territory with Luthor.

American Isolationism:
The only way for Jhanapur to survive is by being helped by Superman.

🇺🇸🇨🇺 - US sanctions Cuban president Diaz-Canel.

🇸🇾🇺🇸🇱🇧-The American envoy to Syria Tom Barrack:

Lebanon is in the existential threat, if it does not move and disarm Hezbollah, it will return to the Levant .

🇨🇦 - Ethnic Catholicism and how it impact Canadian politics at the level of the liberal party, despite claims of secularism.

Since Pierre Trudeau and up to Mark Carney, every Canadian prime ministers from the liberal party has been Catholic men, either from French-Canadian or Irish heritage. While this may seem surprising given how secular the liberal party seems to be, notably with leaders like Justin Trudeau who has little public faith, it is in fact totally compatible with what the catholic culture essentially is.

In Luke 23:42–43, Jesus essentially tells a criminal who is dying along him on the cross that he will be welcomed with him in heaven. This is essential to understand catholic religious culture: "ethnic catholics" (or, as it is officially called, "cultural catholics") are expected to, upon becoming 70, starting having strokes and nearing the end of their lives, to return to Jesus. Even amongst baby boomers, this tradition hasn't died down, and I think that multiple signs indicates that this tradition is still very strong.

This concept of "ethnic catholicism" detached from a practicing faith except late in life is inherited from judaism, and is key to understand why, say, Liberal party leaders like Justin Trudeau, despite being ostensibly secular, will be considered legitimate to be liberal party leaders, while any prots who happens to be liberal party leader will "surprisingly" happen to face calls about them "not being Canadian enough". Yes, I'm thinking about Michael Ignatieff.