Nothing to see here, just regular old American conservative fascism.
"of the more than $120 million in public funds funneled toward the anniversary celebrations, over $100 million has been "funneled" directly to projects, events and entities with ties to the Trump administration."
Trump and his team – including billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick – “won an agreement from the Kazakh leader to give a little-known American company access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten, a metal that the United States desperately needs for the production of missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips and other critical goods.”
Ahead of the deal’s completion last September, according to the Times, the Trump administration “approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.”
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., along with Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle, are poised to benefit from the project. “Within weeks of the St. Regis negotiations, investors with a firm called Dominari Securities, which is housed at Trump Tower in New York and partly owned by the president’s two eldest sons … joined with other partners to take a 20% stake in a corporate entity related to the Kazakhstan project,”
"According to Buttigieg, a Michigan State Police officer and a child protective services worker came to his home after receiving an anonymous report alleging he posed a danger to his children. He said authorities arranged forensic interviews for his twins and instructed him not to be alone with them until the interviews were complete.
The following day, Buttigieg said investigators told him the anonymous caller claimed he had confessed years earlier to violent crimes during a chance meeting in Alabama. Buttigieg said he had never been to the town where the meeting allegedly occurred. He said police told him the allegation would not be referred to prosecutors, while Child Protective Services found nothing to substantiate the report."
Gunshots rang out Monday morning, June 22, in the center-west part of Montréal, Québec, near one of the main thoroughfares of the Canadian metropolis. Montréal police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, and local resident Michael Mizrahi, 68, were killed. Another officer, a woman whose condition was later reported as stable, was also injured. "This is a tragedy, a nightmare," said Montréal police chief Fady Dagher on Monday.
The shooter, who was killed by the police, left behind a manifesto of about 100 pages in which he expressed his hatred of women, following the ideology of the so-called "incel" (involuntary celibate) movement. This misogynist subculture brings together men who believe they have been rejected by women and hold them responsible for their misfortune and society's ills.
Canada has previously faced attacks linked to the incel ideology. In 2018, a man claiming allegiance to the movement killed 10 people in an attack in Toronto. Before the emergence of this group, the country was traumatized by the Polytechnique massacre on December 6, 1989, in which 14 young women were murdered in an attack motivated by a similar hatred. Speaking on France Culture radio on June 5, an official from the General Directorate of Internal Security warned of the growth of the incel movement, which he described as having "a strong terrorist potential."