Author: Blazingcatfur

Trump says Starmer and Macron ‘haven’t done anything’ to end Ukraine war

US President Donald Trump has said French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “haven’t done anything” to end the war in Ukraine, ahead of their visits to the White House next week.

Trump also said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had “no cards” in peace negotiations, adding: “I don’t think he’s very important to be in meetings.”

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the UK, France and other allies have been supplying Kyiv with weapons and other aid.

Donald Trump is following through on long-promised policies – our leaders are still unprepared

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. It’s one of the oldest pieces of homespun wisdom in the book, but rarely is it practised. History is littered with examples of failure to prepare. Instead, we are much more likely simply to hope for the best. Sometimes it works out; often it doesn’t.

Nobody can say they weren’t warned. Donald Trump has never made any secret of his sympathies for Vladimir Putin. Settling the war in Ukraine was one of his promises while campaigning to be US president, and he has long warned fellow members of Nato that they need to stop sponging off America and take better care of their own defences.

And yet the spectacle of Trump actually doing what he said he was going to do has still taken European leaders entirely by surprise. They’ve been caught with their trousers down, woefully unprepared for the extreme security challenges that Trump’s actions pose. Having shamelessly milked the post-Cold War “peace dividend”, they find themselves naked before the storm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Carney and Freeland’s friendly decades-long rivalry comes to a head as Liberal leadership vote nears

The Liberal leadership debates next week will feature something that has been notably absent from the contest so far: Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland taking direct swings at each other.

The two leading contenders to replace Justin Trudeau and become Canada’s next prime minister have, until now, avoided going toe to toe, or talking much about each other at all. But on Monday and Tuesday, in both official languages, they will be forced into very visible opposition on the same debate stage, highlighting a curiosity of this race: The two are – or were – friends with each other.

Being a good candidate for Liberal Party leader means bad news for Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon

Soldier of Woke

President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer as part of an extraordinary Friday night purge at the Pentagon that injected politics into the selection of the nation’s top military leaders.

Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a little-known retired three-star Air Force general, Dan Caine, who endeared himself to the president when they met in Iraq six years ago.

In all, six Pentagon officials were fired, including Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy; Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the Air Force; and the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump World

France: Muslim on terrorist watch list yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ in knife attack killing police officer and inflicting wounds on multiple people

A police officer has died and four more have been injured after an armed man, who was heard yelling Allahu Akbhar, attacked several people at a French market.

The bloodbath unfolded at a market in the eastern city of Mulhouse, on the border of Germany, on Saturday afternoon when witnesses heard the cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’.

The officers were slashed repeatedly by the man – an Algerian aged 37 who was on a terrorist watch list and faced deportation.

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

President Trump calls Justin Trudeau a ‘loser’ after Team Canada beats U.S. at 4 Nations final

Donald Trump is firing back at Justin Trudeau after the Prime Minister celebrated Team Canada’s win over the U.S. at the 4 Nations Face-Off final.

Following Canada’s victory Thursday night, Trudeau — who Trump has repeatedly referred to as the “Governor of Canada” — bragged over the squad’s 3-2 overtime triumph over the USA.

“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

A train through Germany: is Europe’s powerhouse going off the rails?

In the run-up to Sunday’s crucial election, the Guardian took a long journey through Europe’s heartland to talk to voters

Creaking, overcrowded, neglected, Germany’s railways, once a source of national pride, have taken a battering to their image in recent years. Amid wider concerns about the health of Europe’s stagnating largest economy, the state of its trains has become something of a metaphor for a more general sense of malaise.

On Sunday Germans will go to the polls in one of the most important elections in recent times, with an emboldened far right hoping to more than double its share of votes. In the run-up, the Guardian travelled more than 850 miles on trains across Germany to hear what its citizens have to say about the state of their nation.

The Guardian is beside itself with anxiety over the Afd.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

Jamie Sarkonak: Even Carney can’t explain his discredited ‘carbon offset’ plan

Carbon offsets are unreliable, fraud-ridden financial tokens that often fail to make any environmental impact at all. And if Mark Carney gets his way, they’re going to be Canada’s next big industry.

In his carbon reduction pitch to Liberal voters, Carney pledged himself to “developing and integrating a new consumer carbon credit market” that works with the existing industrial carbon tax, and promised it would bring about price certainty, market efficiency and fiscal neutrality.

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

Egyptian NHS doctor who ‘glorified’ Hamas spared deportation

An Egyptian NHS doctor who mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen on Oct 7 has won a legal challenge against deportation.

An immigration tribunal judge backed Dr Mennah Elwan, 34, in her claim that James Cleverly, the home secretary at the time, was wrong to cancel her leave to remain in the UK after ruling that her presence was “not conducive to the public good”.

It followed what Stephen Davies, an upper tribunal judge, said were three “shocking and inexcusable” posts on X in which he agreed with Mr Cleverly that Dr Elwan had supported, justified and glorified the terrorist violence by Hamas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Internal military report blames botched shooter drill on poor organization

An internal report blames a lack of communication for a debacle on a Canadian Armed Forces base last fall, when masked men taking part in active-shooter drill fired blanks at civil servants who didn’t know it was a training exercise.

During the drill, which took place on Nov. 12 at a service depot at CFB Longue-Pointe in Montreal, military police also confused a racialized employee with a drill participant playing an active shooter and wrestled him to the ground.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Six Israeli hostages handed over by Hamas as part of ceasefire deal

Six living hostages set to be returned to Israel from Gaza have been handed over as the ceasefire holds despite being shaken by the misidentification of the body of the Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas.

The Israeli army said it had received the first two hostages, Tal Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengistu, 39, from the Red Cross after the handover in Gaza. They were then being transported to hospital in an Israeli air force helicopter accompanied by family members, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

New Diversity Initiative Invites Imported Belligerent Cultures To Terrorize High School Students

Police investigating assault at Waterloo high school

Waterloo Regional Police are investigating an assault at Laurel Heights Secondary School in Waterloo.

Police were told six males went to the school during a sporting event on Feb. 11. Officers were told the males threatened and assaulted multiple students. One student received minor physical injuries.

Investigators believe the suspects are adults and not students at the school.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, WTF?

Southport survivors’ parents: We don’t feel lucky

Seven months after their daughters were injured in the attack, a family speaks for the first time about the day that shattered their world

It has been seven months since the attack and seven months since the parents last shared a bed. They take it in turns to lie next to each of their traumatised daughters, alternating every night. They have swapped out the singles in the girls’ shared bedroom for a king-size bed, in the hope of snatching a few hours of rest themselves.

Since July 29 sleep, however fitful, has become vanishingly rare. Before bed, the girls insist on checking again and again that every door in the house has been locked. They pore over doorbell video, looking for shapes in the dark.

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

Canada Must End Foreign Interference on University Campuses

The Chinese philosopher Confucius is of course a household name for many. He may have lived 2,500 years ago, but many of his sayings still reverberate today. Here is a sampling relevant to the topic at hand:

“Study the past if you would define the future” and “An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”

In this country, some may be aware of the presence of “Confucius Institutes” on several university campuses and within school boards. These bodies, sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, were founded in 2007 to “promote the learning of Chinese language in Canada, to foster Sino-Canada educational exchanges and to improve the understanding between Canada and China.” Who could argue with such lofty goals?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada

Berlin Holocaust Memorial Knife Attacker Identified As Wassim al M. A Muslim Asylum Seeker from Syria Who Wanted To Kill Jews

Berlin – Wassim al M. was a recognized refugee who allegedly fled the Assad regime in Syria at the age of 17 – on Friday he was arrested with blood on his hands after allegedly stabbing a tourist in the middle of Berlin.

During his interrogation, the now 19-year-old Syrian stated that he wanted to kill people out of hatred of Jews. This decision had been brewing in him for several weeks. Investigators found a Koran, a prayer rug and the suspected murder weapon, a hunting knife, in the perpetrator’s backpack. He approached his victim from behind and tried to cut the Spaniard’s throat.

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