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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/23/the-grooming-gangs-scandal-is-far-worse-than-you-think/

The details of what grooming gangs did to young British girls are literally unbelievable. They are so grotesque that it is truly hard to believe that one human could do such things to another, never mind to young girls.

That is why court transcripts are such valuable documents. Courts are one of the last places in the UK where you will hear the truth. In trials, there is generally little tolerance of ideology or cliché and claims must be backed up by hard evidence.

When some of the grooming gangs were eventually brought to court and the truth was dragged into the light, their crimes were just as bad or even worse than campaigners had originally claimed. It was easy for many of us to be sceptical about the full extent of the scandal. After all, there have been many cases of grisly sounding crimes that have turned out to be hoaxes, designed to make some kind of ideological point. Like when Jussie Smollett, a gay black actor, falsely claimed he was attacked in liberal Chicago by Trump supporters, who supposedly put a noose around his neck and threw bleach at him. Or when the white players of the Duke University lacrosse team were accused by Crystal Mangum of raping her and using their influence to avoid prosecution – only for Mangum to reveal, 18 years later, that she had lied.

The grooming-gangs scandal sounds like a similarly fantastical story. Mostly Muslim men targeted primarily white British girls and subjected them to rape, trafficking, beatings and forced substance addiction. Meanwhile, police forces ignored and sometimes even facilitated this abuse, afraid that intervening would lead to them being called racist.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/iran-coming-apart-at-the-seams/

Economically, Iran is in the process of coming apart. Its GDP steadily sinks. More than 40% of Iranians are now living below the poverty line. The rial is at an historic low, having lost 25% of its value just since September; it now stands at 820,000 rials to a dollar. Since the establishment of the Islamic government in 1979, the Iranian currency has undergone an 11,000-fold decline in value.

Politically Iran is on its back foot. It has seen all of its major allies, that were formerly part of Iran’s “Shi’a crescent” — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Assad regime in Syria —fall away. In Gaza, Hamas is being systematically dismantled by the IDF, with 20,000 of its fighters killed and many more wounded. In Lebanon, Hezbollah has been battered by the IDF. Four thousand of its operatives have been killed, thousands more wounded, and 80% of its once-formidable arsenal of rockets and missiles destroyed by the IAF. Hezbollah had to beg for a ceasefire that requires it to remove all of its men and weapons north of the Litani River. In Syria, the rebels have toppled the Assad despotism, and once the loyal ally of Iran, Syria has now become the archenemy of the Islamic Republic, precisely because Iran for so long supported the Assad regime. Iran invested $50 billion in keeping Assad in power; now that $50 billion has gone up in smoke, and the Iranian people are keenly aware of that loss, which has enraged many of them.

More on the current dismal of Iran’s economy, its military weakness, and the growing fury of its population with the regime of the mullahs, can be found here: “$50 billion to Syria vanished into thin air: Unrest in Iran grows over economic turmoil – interview,” by Peled Arbeli, Jerusalem Post, January 10, 2025:

Iran’s public discontent surged in recent weeks as economic hardships, including widespread power outages and rising inflation, fueled calls for change, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) researcher Benny Sabti told Maariv on Friday.

https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2025/01/22/danielle-smith-the-only-grown-up-in-the-room-n4936261

Even as most of the country’s provincial premiers and Prime Minister Trudeau are scheming a trade war with the U.S. over President Trump’s threat of imposing tariffs on Canadian goods, Canada’s jingoist glitterati refuse to credit the insight and unflinching character of the one premier, Alberta’s Danielle Smith, who is largely responsible for striving to prevent the disaster. Smith had met with Trump, various governors, senators, and congressional leaders, engaging in rational and mature pre-negotiation discussions treating the contentious tariff issue. She did not come to brandish a cudgel. She came to talk.

The typical Canadian stance, however, was made of equal dollops of bloviation, shortsightedness, and self-infatuation, as press and politicians ganged up on Smith for refusing to join Team Canada’s self-destructive trade vendetta against the threat of U.S. tariffs. Canada’s newspaper of record The Globe and Mail is representative of this mentally sluggish attitude: “Smith is fighting Ottawa rather than Trump’s tariff. This will cost us all.” 

The disingenuous nonsense is palpable since a lax and delinquent Ottawa presiding over a porous border is the culprit here, not Washington. Canada’s new $1.3 billion border security package pales before the $20 billion it sent to defend Ukraine’s borders. For Canada’s primary leftist rag the Toronto Star, Smith’s motives can only be sordid and perhaps even treacherous: “Danielle Smith cozies up to Trump to sell more oil and avoid tariffs”…”Alberta’s premier is playing right into Donald Trump’s hands,” etc. etc. One waits eagerly for such people to crawl back into the woodwork.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/01/24/whos-even-gloomier-about-trumps-big-win-than-the-dems-global-leaders-at-davos/

Could there be anything less MAGA than the annual gathering of the 55th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland? This year, with a shriveled attendance, the assembled corporate leaders, socialist governments, assorted big thinkers, United Nations officials, and woke NGOs don’t seem very happy. Indeed, they seem downright glum about their plans for world government run by euro-centric and Third World globalist elites.

Once a favorite place for preening politicians to show their world-humanitarian feathers, the affair has lost some luster.

“This year the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are skipping the meeting,” Breitbart reported. Why? It seems Trumpism has put a cloud over the once-festive gathering of one-worlders.

Trump addressed the group by video Thursday, stressing that during his second term he would seek to reduce oil and gas prices, slash regulations, cut taxes for domestic companies and put tariffs on goods from countries who treat the U.S. unfairly,

The response by the clique of elitists to Trump’s decidedly non-globalist agenda was entirely predictable, drawing “pockets of laughter and a few moans with his blunt comments to an international audience … “

Laughter? Has the wind gone out of the globalists’ sails? Sure looks that way.

Consider that heavy hitters such as Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, India’s President Narendra Modi, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t bother to show up. Only one G7 leader attended: Desperate German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose economy is now shrinking.