McKenzie Kibler

In a few days we are coming up to the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kapyong. One of the greatest Australian military victories ever. 700 Australian men of the 3 RAR - fighting alongside US Sherman tanks - held off around 10,000 Chinese Communist forces on Hill 504 in hand to hand combat. Australians lost 32 killed, 59 wounded, 3 captured. The Chinese Communist forces lost at least 2,000 men killed and wounded. Australian 3 RAR was awarded the US Presidential Unit Citation - one of very few Australian units ever to receive it. Canadians absorbed the main Chinese effort on the second night at Hill 677. Their 2 PPCLI also received the US Presidential Unit Citation. Kiwis provided critical artillery support with the New Zealand 16th Field Regiment. Total Australian-Commonwealth-US force in the engagement was around 2,800. They held off at least 10,000 Chinese Communist forces and won. Each year in Australia on 24 April we pause to honour the men of Kapyong and all veterans of Korea

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“We prefer to write songs about things that people don’t do very often. Like death." 🎥Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition - tickets now available, in cinemas May 7th Head to ironmaidenfilm.com for more information.

On this day 109 years ago nearly 100,000 Canadians fought together at Vimy Ridge in one of the First World War’s defining battles. Today, the Vimy Memorial stands at Hill 145 in remembrance of their courage, sacrifice, and the legacy left behind. #CanadaRemembers

🇨🇦 "The Ghosts of Vimy Ridge" Canadian soldiers' ghosts march up from the Douai Plain towards the Vimy Ridge Memorial. Painted in 1929 by Captain William Longstaff (1879-1953). Beaverbook Collection of War Art @CanWarMuseum warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/…

@katy_merrifield @BenWoodfinden

@BenWoodfinden Keep this ominous mystery vibe coming pls

I have just read a news story that vaguely mentions me and describes something as the "Woodfinden era." I have an official statement to make in response. The Woodfinden era has not yet begun.

"I think criminals should be stigmatized in a civilized society"

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

Looks like a cutscene. Feels like a calling. This is where strength and determination meet discipline and action. This is the CAF. This is what it looks like when a country shows up. Learn more and apply now: #wj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forces.ca/en/how-to-join…

Ok but kind of looks like oil is still the oil of the 21st century

I expect this same Asian bid to begin pulling additional Canadian heavy barrels west via the uncommitted (comparatively expensive tolls) portion of Trans Mountain. Just shy of 200 kbpd available. Shame we don't have another big 1 MMbpd pipeline to the west coast right now.

We're reaching levels of monitoring the situation heretofore unmonitored.

They’re not, it’s paid for by @CPC_HQ .

If you look at how the F35 is performing in Iran and the wider Middle East and think "we should really buy outdated 4th gen jets instead" you're either being paid by SAAB or you're just stupid and unworthy of being listened to.

This headline (and photo) are journalistic malpractice. @CBCNews

The Pope urged priests not to write sermons using ChatGPT During a meeting with clergy of the Diocese of Rome, Pope Leo XIV warned about the “temptation” to entrust homilies to artificial intelligence. According to him, if one does not train one’s own mind, it will “atrophy.” “AI will never be able to preach the faith,” he stressed. The pontiff added that Christianity is not about the formal recitation of prayers, but about a living relationship with God.

Two Canadian Rangers, Lee Enfields in hand, near Resolute Bay, Nunavut. 📸: Louie Palu from “Distant Early Warning,” 2018.

One of the greatest charts I have ever seen

@RealAlbanianPat Eurasia is our ally and we were always at war with Eastasia.

I still can’t fathom how can a guy votes with Conservative for like 10 years on every bills then suddenly one day he starts to vote with Liberals on every single issues like he was never a Conservative