Author: Blazingcatfur

Europe is rearming, but will it be united enough to face down Russia?

In the end, the great Anchorage face-off was a muddled affair. But whatever Presidents Putin and Trump did or didn’t agree about the fate of Ukraine over nearly three hours of talks, one thing remains clear: Europe wasn’t in the room.

Sir Keir Starmer and other European leaders were reassured by Trump’s Alaska statement that the US is prepared to give security guarantees as part of a peace deal in Ukraine. The prime minister called this “important progress” and “crucial in deterring Putin from coming back for more”.

But the underlying trend remains: America’s uncoupling from European security continues and it is increasingly apparent that if Europe wishes to be the master of its own fate, it will need to completely transform its approach to defending itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Ford’s ‘Model T moment’ couldn’t come at a worse time

Ford Motor calls its new electric vehicle initiative a “Model T moment” because of what the company says is its potential to revolutionize the sector the way its first car did for motoring more than a century ago.

But the automaker’s announcement last week that it will invest billions of dollars in a redesigned, value-priced EV pickup truck comes at a time when gale-force headwinds threaten to make the effort more of an Edsel moment – and not just for Ford.

It may be too dire to suggest Ford is walking into a propeller of anti-EV factors hampering the market. But the timing of its push could not be more challenging, as demand, sentiment and legislation are all going the wrong way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Syrians in Austria Deliberately Fail German-Language Exams To Stay on Welfare

A new report on Syrian refugees in Austria has ignited political controversy after suggesting that some migrants are deliberately failing the exam after completing German courses to avoid low-paying jobs.

The findings, published in daily Kronen Zeitung and based on the Austrian Labour Market Service’s (AMS) study, have prompted sharp criticism from opposition politicians, particularly the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAustria, Camp Of The Saints

KLEIN: One law for all: End soft sentences for immigrants

When Parliament returns this fall, one bill should be at the top of the priority list: Ending the practice of giving lighter sentences to criminals who aren’t Canadian citizens. Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner has made it clear her party will bring forward legislation to close this loophole, and every Canadian who believes in fairness should be demanding that it pass.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Two Tiered Justice"

‘British women and girls are paying the price for Labour’s lax immigration laws’

This Isn’t Compassion. It’s State-Sponsored Danger.

You can’t claim to protect women while placing unvetted illegal migrant men, whose criminal histories are completely unknown, into our towns and villages.

These aren’t refugees or tourists. They are men of fighting age, arriving without documentation, placed in communities at taxpayer expense, while British families struggle under soaring taxes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

What Canadian schools can learn from the U.K.

My friend Tom Mautner is the chair of the board of governors at a school in North London. This week, with students out for the summer, he took me for a tour. For a visitor from Toronto, where schools are run from the top down by a vast bureaucracy – a.k.a. the Toronto District School Board – it was an eye-opener.

Laurel Park is a public secondary school with around 600 students. It was built in the 1960s in what is now an area of mixed incomes and backgrounds. Until just a couple of years ago, it was faring poorly. School inspectors gave it low ratings. Ambitious families shunned it. Disciplinary problems were rife.

Given the state of Canadian education we could learn from anybody including chimps.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation

‘No going into Nato by Ukraine,’ says Trump as Zelensky prepares for White House talks

Donald Trump has said the Ukrainian president can end Russia’s war “if he wants to”, but there will be “no going into Nato by Ukraine” as part of a peace deal.

Hours before he was due to host Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, Trump also said there would be “no getting back” the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion.

Trump’s remarks follow his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska that resulted in the US president dropping a demand for a ceasefire and calling instead for a permanent peace deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", USA

Waning cross-border travel hurting Canada’s already beleaguered duty-free industry

John Slipp took over his father’s duty-free store in 1994, which had been started more than a decade earlier.

This month, he closed the Woodstock Duty Free Shop Inc. as lower traffic at the U.S.-Canada border dealt the final blow to a business already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, at 59, Slipp says he will have to find another source of income and is advocating for more government support for stores like his.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

COHEN: How to solve Canada’s human rights commissions problem in one easy step: Shut them all down

Originally meant to provide all Canadians with a simple way to protect their fundamental rights, Canada’s human rights commissions and tribunals have degenerated into a dangerous farce. Based on recent evidence, their main job appears to be offering easily offended people a low-cost way to seek vengeance on anyone who has ever hurt their feelings. When they aren’t doing that, the entire human rights industry is actively undermining our most important fundamental rights, including freedom of speech and religion.

The point of reform has long passed. It’s time to shut them all down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice"

Activists Run to Federal Court to Try to Ban Official US Government Report that Blows Holes in ‘Settled’ Climate Science Claims

Science denying cry-babies in the US have toddled over to the Federal court in Massachusetts to seek an injunction against the recent Department of Energy (DoE) working party report about greenhouse gas emissions. The report’s main finding, produced after examining much of the literature from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was that computer models offered “little guidance” on how much of the climate responds to warming gases such as carbon dioxide. This observation is regularly ignored in mainstream media but it is hardly a new opinion. The available data leads to that inevitable conclusion despite all the political nonsense claims of ‘settled’ science. To go to court to seek to ban the report is a new low in the increasingly desperate attempt to keep the Net Zero fantasy alive using science scares that are increasingly being debunked.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

When it comes to colonizing, no European nation comes close to Islam

One of the main forces behind leftism, in addition to its powerful hatred for the West, is profound historical ignorance. Leftist education across the West means that people know the wrong thing or know just a sliver of the right thing, with that sliver managing to be a complete perversion of the whole picture. If you want a visual, check out the classic meme that seemingly shows a despairing child held down by a booted foot on the head, only for the wide-angle to show the child doing it to himself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Canada’s Real Estate Economy, Fueled by Mass Immigration and Offshore Cash, Is Unsustainable, Mayor Brad West Warns

British Columbia, and much of the country, is confronting the consequences of an economic model that was never built to last. For years, we have been told a comforting story about growth — that as long as cranes dot the skyline and property values climb, prosperity will follow. But beneath that veneer lies a stark truth: our economy is not driven by value-added manufacturing, groundbreaking technology, innovation, or by unlocking our vast natural resource potential. It is built almost entirely on real estate and relentless population growth driven by mass immigration. And it relies on the building and selling of homes to the next wave of newcomers.

This is not diversification. This is dependency. And like all dependencies, it eventually demands a price.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada

Inside the trans, vegan death cult

It was a frost-bitten day in late January this year. On the Interstate 91 in Vermont, some 15 kilometres from the Canadian border, US border agents pulled over a blue Toyota Prius.

Law enforcement had been tracking the Prius’s two occupants, 21-year-old Teresa ‘Milo’ Youngblut and 26-year-old Felix ‘Ophelia’ Bauckholt for a couple of days. A hotel employee had raised suspicions about the pair after seeing them both wearing black combat clothes and seeing Youngblut carrying a gun. But beyond that, the agents knew little more about them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny