Prof. Brenda Shaffer specializes in intl energy, natural gas, Middle East, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Caspian energy, and East-Med. Passion-mountain gorillas
Joined March 2014
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The protesters were encouraged "to rise up against laïcité, France’s principle of secularism. In their sights are the 2004 law banning religious symbols (including the hijab) in schools, and former prime minister Gabriel Attal’s 2023 ban on the abaya in state schools."
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The "Red-Green-Green" network has been active undermining our electricity supply and against AI and data centers.
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Ottawa commits $8.8 million for 30 electric vehicles for a First Nation with 140 people living on reserve
Thirty zero-emission vehicles, $8.8 million in federal commitments, and no ridership figure on the record.
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Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo has a new documentary out on AIPAC, asking whether the "Israel lobby" is really an agent of a foreign power.
A shadowy, fabulously rich network pulling Washington's strings: it's one of the most enduring antisemitic tropes of our age. So I did Mehdi a favour and checked the numbers.
Over the past decade, Israel ranked tenth for registered foreign lobbying spending, behind China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and even the Marshall Islands. AIPAC came 191st among Washington's lobbies. The entire pro-Israel lobbying category spent less than gun-rights groups, and a fraction of what the drug companies spend.
Elections? AIPAC's super PAC spends serious money. But it competes in a system where outside groups have poured in nearly $2 billion this cycle, and six organisations have each spent over $60 million.
Strangely, Zeteo seems far less curious about Riyadh, Beijing or Doha.
The truth about the Israel lobby. Link to my new column here 👇
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Following Iraqi Shi'ite cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr's call, Iraqi schoolgirls demonstrated against secular school uniforms instituted in Azerbaijan that don't allow religious dress, including hijab, on schoolgirls.
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In my latest article in Tablet Magazine I make the case for the alliance with Israel that the NatCon conference in Jerusalem should have made.
I make the case for a real America First position on Israel: treating a capable ally as a force multiplier against the China-Russia-Iran-North Korea axis. Weakening the partnership doesn’t make America safer. It hands adversaries openings and erodes U.S. influence.
I also argue that the right’s growing flirtation with antisemitic conspiracy theories (Carlson, Fuentes, etc) divides Trump's coalition and substitutes ethnic score-settling for strategic judgment. It undercuts the equal citizenship the Founders actually defended.
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Historic: Carney becomes the first ever head of Canadian government to visit Nato ally Turkey
He visited Ataturk’s mausoleum per protocol
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A final methodology for Canada’s sustainable finance taxonomy has been released.
This is an important milestone toward a credible taxonomy that supports climate-related financial risk management.
Access the full report: businessfuturepathways.ca/re…
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☄️Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed large numbers of troops and military equipment to several areas of Kurdistan Province in western Iran, including Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Marivan and Baneh.
According to Iran International, hundreds of IRGC special forces have also been stationed in the mountainous Shaho area, while intelligence personnel have been redeployed from Urmia to a base in Sanandaj.
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“On October 21, President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a phone call to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
During the phone conversation, the heads of state discussed bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Türkiye, as well as regional and global issues.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed confidence that cooperation between Azerbaijan and Türkiye, based on brotherly relations, would continue to reach new heights.
The Turkish President once again congratulated President Ilham Aliyev on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of Azerbaijan’s state independence and invited him to attend the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States, to be held in Ankara.
President Ilham Aliyev thanked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the phone call and his congratulations on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of Azerbaijan’s state independence.
In turn, President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence that the brotherly relations between Azerbaijan and Türkiye would continue to develop successfully.”
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President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a phone call to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
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The protesters were encouraged "to rise up against laïcité, France’s principle of secularism. In their sights are the 2004 law banning religious symbols (including the hijab) in schools, and former prime minister Gabriel Attal’s 2023 ban on the abaya in state schools."
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@NoraBussigny @TheFP
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From the @WSJ: “Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels, as an improvised shipping system under U.S. protection is helping tankers move oil through one of Iran’s fiercest waves of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.”
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The air forces of the UAE and Azerbaijan are conducting a joint exercise in Azerbaijan 🇦🇪🇦🇿
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EXCLUSIVE: We obtained the full text of the Mecca defence pact signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
- The agreement commits the three countries to mutual defence, also barring withdrawal for the first 10 years
THE FULL TEXT IS BELOW
#BREAKING
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Cold-hearted 🖤
Copenhagen pushes elderly in retirement homes to eat little meat to cut CO₂
Can they please get more meat on, say, their birthday?
No. A left-wing councilor:
Climate targets for everyone. And old people are “precisely the generation that polluted the most”
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Heartbreaking 💔
Copenhagen climate politicians push elderly in retirement homes onto minimal meat to cut CO₂
Birthday wishes for beef are sometimes rejected “for the CO₂ accounts”
Residents pay for the food but often get organic vegetarian instead of what they want
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Guidelines (p.45): max 500g meat/week, max 80g beef/veal/lamb (~one kid’s burger/week)
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Important to understand where many Western countries are at in terms of energy security: the UK had a local natural gas field close to ready to provide gas to homes and businesses, but did not allow it to operate due to "climate concerns." Instead, imported gas from foreign countries. And, complain about the rise in gas prices due to the Iran war.
