Author: Blazingcatfur

The world after Trump

The world after Trump

For future historians, Donald Trump’s awkward curtsey when greeting Xi Jinping’s wife, Peng Liyuan, when they arrived at the White House for tea in September of this year may serve as a turning point. In a genuflection not accorded to his allies, the President saluted the epoch he has brought into being. Impelled by a degenerate capitalism in which everything is for sale, and a singularly manipulable demagogue, America is aligning itself with the adversaries of what used to be called the Western world. As in the Yalta conference in February 1945, when a triumvirate of the US, Britain and the Soviet Union carved up Europe into spheres of influence, a new global order is taking shape. Unlike the Yalta settlement, which ended with the Soviet collapse, the international system projected by America, China and Russia today implies a precipitous retreat of Western power.

A bit overwrought. I remain convinced history will treat Trump much more favourably than today’s assessments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

America Has Welcomed the Trojan Horse

America Has Welcomed the Trojan Horse

I am an American. An 80-year-old American. Daughter and granddaughter of Italian immigrants.

My paternal grandmother was a wise but illiterate woman. She helped me understand that knowledge and wisdom are two different things.

My mother and my paternal grandparents came to America in search of freedom and opportunity. In their eagerness to assimilate, they found both. In only two generations, my family went from illiteracy to the doctorate. My father was the first college graduate in our family. I am the first Ph.D.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

There is no future without oil and gas

There is no future without oil and gas

On 9 November, delegates from almost every country will gather in Antalya, on Turkey’s south coast, for COP 31, the United Nations’ annual climate summit. In 2023, at COP 28 in Dubai, they agreed on ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems’, and that ‘transitional fuels can play a role’ along the way. Britain put that second line into practice on 21 October, when the Labour government announced its approval of the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.

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

MORGAN: Smith’s suggestion to cut tax funding for advocacy groups is a positive step

MORGAN: Smith’s suggestion to cut tax funding for advocacy groups is a positive step

At an event held by Rebel News in Calgary last weekend, Premier Danielle Smith spoke of an initiative called Tracking Receipts and Allocations for Canadian Expenditures (TRACE), which was inspired partially by Elon Musk’s DOGE south of the border. Smith explicitly noted that the tracker will scrutinize taxpayer money flowing to groups whose work or advocacy directly opposes provincial interests or political priorities. This includes heavily auditing environmental organizations opposing oil sands expansion and advocacy groups supporting supervised drug consumption services.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Liberals Lead by 11 Points, Carney Government Approval Remains Strong, But Declining Ratings on Cost of Living Are a Warning Sign

Liberals Lead by 11 Points, Carney Government Approval Remains Strong, But Declining Ratings on Cost of Living Are a Warning Sign

Our latest national tracking survey, conducted from October 30 to November 4, 2026, finds the Liberal Party and federal government led by Mark Carney remain in a strong political position, although there are signs of growing dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of some of the economic issues that matter most to Canadians.

This survey was conducted before the federal budget was tabled on November 5.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Europe’s right turn is inevitable

Europe’s right turn is inevitable

he French Revolution remade not only France but Europe, some 230-odd years ago. Even Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo was not really the end of what the rebellious Estates General had set in motion in 1789. The Revolution proved that an ancien régime could be overthrown and, once that was demonstrated, no king anywhere could feel completely safe. The Revolution continued as an ideological struggle long after the shooting ceased. Indeed, the world wars of the 20th century were arguably a late phase of the processes begun by the Revolution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Even socialist Sweden has robust private health care and education. Why shouldn’t Canada?

Even socialist Sweden has robust private health care and education. Why shouldn’t Canada?

To understand modern Sweden and how the country has transformed, consider Jens Eriksson’s career trajectory.

In his youth, Mr. Eriksson worked at music labels such as Stockholm Records, repping Swedish bands like the Cardigans around the world. Thirty years later, the arts aficionado runs a network of private health care clinics, a job he took after running a network of private schools – all in a high-tax, socialist country.

He admits he was an unlikely candidate for this leap. His own kids went to public school, and he had, too. But Mr. Eriksson’s evolution, like his country’s, was borne out of necessity. And it’s a path that provides Canadians with rather significant insights.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", "Healthcare", Canada, Sweden

Robespierres With Guillotines: Lust for Revenge Could Fuel the Next America First Resurgence

Robespierres With Guillotines: Lust for Revenge Could Fuel the Next America First Resurgence

A prominent theme in The Counterrevolution, Victor Davis Hanson’s new book about the “fall and rise” of Donald Trump, is the unwitting role that Trump’s enemies played in his rehabilitation from 2022 to 2024. I sense that the public memory of the assault against Trump and his lieutenants is already beginning to fade. It is worth revisiting, especially in light of the likely reaction by the Left to its astonishing (astonishing to me, anyway) victory in the midterms.

There were essentially three parts to the assault.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

They fought for their country. Their reward? Euthanasia. Canadian veterans with serious injuries invited to end their lives

They fought for their country. Their reward? Euthanasia. Canadian veterans with serious injuries invited to end their lives

It was two days before Christmas when David Baltzer, a physically healthy man in his 30s, received a call from a Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker offering him medically assisted death.

A former soldier who had served two tours in Afghanistan, Baltzer had been receiving psychological treatment for PTSD and suicidal thoughts.

He relied on veterans’ benefits to survive after struggling to reintegrate into civilian life, so he was shocked when he received a letter informing him that his benefits had been cut.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, WTF?

Trump’s Pressure on NATO Is Finally Making Europe Stronger

Trump’s Pressure on NATO Is Finally Making Europe Stronger

When Ursula von der Leyen flew to Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland in July 2025 to end a trade fight, she came home with a 15 percent tariff on most European goods and a promise that Europe would not retaliate. The European Parliament’s trade chief called the deal lopsided. Germany’s chancellor welcomed it anyway. That is how a continent behaves when it believes the other side holds the stronger hand.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, USA

Bridle Path attack shines light on surge in Toronto home invasions. It’s not the only crime on the rise

Bridle Path attack shines light on surge in Toronto home invasions. It’s not the only crime on the rise

The masked men who stormed a Bridle Path mansion last month — guns drawn, demanding valuables before shooting three members of a family — carried out an attack that was an outlier for its level of violence, but part of a broader surge in home invasions across Toronto.

The Bridle Path case is extreme — a shooting, a still-unresolved manhunt — but it’s far from unique. While several crime indicators are down across the GTA — and North America — there are some crimes that are on the rise across the region, including home invasions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime

Math Is Still Worth Studying in the Age of AI

Math Is Still Worth Studying in the Age of AI

AI has turned mathematics upside down.

On September 8, OpenAI announced a resolution of the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem — one of the most famous outstanding problems in mathematics. Navier–Stokes was difficult enough to be designated one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000, with each problem bearing a $1 million reward for a satisfactory answer.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"