🚨 Ali Akbar Velayati, advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran: “The serious mistake made in Beirut has crossed the line of patience, the order has already been given. The zero hour has arrived, and the missiles are preparing for launch. Hezbollah is the sword of the Resistance Axis. If the aggression in Lebanon does not cease, the two strategic geographic arms - the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait - will strangle your economy's arteries to the point of strategic suffocation.”

Jeremy, do you believe this story was overlooked or buried for a period of time? And from a broader perspective, how do you think Israel’s actions and response will be viewed as more information becomes public? Genuinely interested in hearing different perspectives on this.

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists. As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them. But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed. After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)? Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate? Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never). Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal? The editors said it was too much, they explained. The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so. It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life. And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it. Still fawning after all these years.

“Just vote yes and we’re our own country.” Cool. Here’s the actual to-do list you’d have to negotiate first You’d have to settle: → Share of the national debt → Split of federal assets → Embassies & foreign property → Crown corporations → Federal pensions → Keep the loonie? Make a new currency? → Central bank access → Deposit insurance & banking rules → Foreign reserves → Citizenship & dual nationality → Passports → Free movement across the new border → Exact land borders → Maritime borders → Indigenous treaty rights (these don’t just transfer) → Whether Indigenous nations can stay with Canada → A whole new trade deal → Status under USMCA, CETA, CPTPP (not automatic) → Tariffs, customs, standards → Professional licensing across the border → UN membership (you re-apply) → Hundreds of treaties, renegotiated → Diplomatic recognition → NATO & NORAD membership → Splitting the armed forces → Military bases & equipment → Intelligence sharing (Five Eyes access) → Border security & the RCMP → Coast guard & airspace → CPP & pension portability → Old Age Security → Health transfers → Employment insurance → Pipelines & the power grid → Railways, highways, seaways → Shared rivers & water → Telecom & spectrum → Air traffic control → Tax systems & taxpayer data → Courts & appeals (no more Supreme Court of Canada) → Every federal regulator: food, drugs, aviation, broadcasting → Thousands of federal employees → …and what happens if talks just collapse 50% 1 creates a duty to negotiate — not a guarantee you get what you want, or that a deal even happens. “Independence” is the easy word. That list is the actual job.

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40,000 gun deaths per year.

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