Northern Lights10 🇨🇦💙

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Proud Canadian - true north strong and free. Retired, love walking, birds, staying connected with friends and world news. 🚫DM Hell no to 51 State & Elbows Up

Boycott Hilton Chain Hotels, Delta airlines, Home Depot, Target, Chipotle! These companies fund ICE operations & are easy to find alternatives..public pressure works! Don't fund the machine! And if possible avoid Amazon & Google!

$1.4billion+ Follow the money from people, corporations and other nations and into Trump’s greedy little hands as he used the first year of his second term to exploit the presidency for his own gain. 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article)

The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

nytimes.com

It is actually in writing. The USA bought St Thomas, St John and St Croix from Denamark around 1916/1917. Part of the agreement was that Greenland was under Denmark control. I guess France can back the Louisiana purchase money and get their land back if old agreements don't matter

"There's been a longstanding effort by Russia to induce the US to seize Venezuela & Greenland with the goal of re-establishing great power politics & fracturing Western alliances. NATO, the UN, the EU will all be challenged if the US continues on this hemispheric romp." america2.news/the-russian-...

The Russian Roots of Trump's Venezuela and Greenland Operations

We find that Trump's current moves against Venezuela and Greenland have roots in a long-running Russian influence campaign intended to provoke these outcomes.

america2.news

FLASHBACK — TAPPER: “Would the world be better off with Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi in power?” TRUMP: “100%! 100%! We have to rebuild our country… We have 19 trillion in debt.” Trump makes the case against what he just did.

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts. “It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

propublica.org

"Financial decisions" that are "intimate and embarrassing" but "do not relate" to "a governmental body." Was Elon Musk giving Greg Abbott insider information to use for personal investment purposes? That's the first thing that I can think of that would fit those criteria.

Taylor also argued that the communications are confidential under an exception to public records laws known as “common-law privacy” because they consist of “information that is intimate and embarrassing and not of legitimate concern to the public, including financial decisions that do not relate to transactions between an individual and a governmental body.”
ProPublica@propublica.org · 10mo ago

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information. (Published July) With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

Colombia officially accuses the Trump regime of murder after it exposed that Trump and Hegseth ordered the murder of unarmed civilians in order to score political points for themselves. This was civilian murder and a war crime. We demand a criminal investigation and Trump’s arrest.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Colombia: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters” “Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.” “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”

US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters
Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
We await explanations from the US government.
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"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office... "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

msnbc.com

As part of the “America First” program, Pentagon has classified certain weapons types, including Patriot, as “in short supply” and is beginning to block requests for these systems from European partners.

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