Author: Blazingcatfur

Musk Goes for the Gold

Asking the most obvious questions about the U.S. gold supply in Fort Knox: What’s there and how much is it worth?

Auric Goldfinger.

For James Bond fans, Goldfinger’s obsessed-with-gold villain in the Bond movie that bore his name way back in 1964 was, to say the least, memorable.

Life magazine memorably ran an immutable image from the film of a “Bond girl” (as such were called in the day) stretched out on a bed quite naked and dead, painted, from head to toe, in gold paint. Dead at the hands of Goldfinger, of course.

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

Opinion: Patients dying on waitlists are finally getting political attention

In the past four months, politicians from across the political spectrum have started talking about something really important — patients dying on waiting lists. It’s about time.

In Alberta, the NDP’s health critic raised concerns about SecondStreet.org research that found the provincial government has stopped tracking data on patients dying while waiting for health services. During B.C.’s fall election, the Conservative Party campaigned on carefully tracking and disclosing data on waiting-list deaths.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

How USAID Shipped Bags of Hundred Dollar Bills to the Taliban

In 2022, the DAB Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban-controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million.

DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal.

Despite that, someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban’s terror bank.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Afghanistan, WTF?

Ottawa spent record amount on outsourcing despite vow to rein in practice

Federal spending on outsourcing reached a record high of $17.8-billion last year, despite the Liberal government’s vow to cut back on the use of outside help.

It’s an increase of 13.5 per cent over the previous fiscal year. Spending in the broad category of professional and special services – which includes contracted work in categories such as lawyers, architects, training and maintenance, as well as various types of consultants – has more than doubled since the Liberals formed government in 2015.

Sounds like parting favours.

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

NBC’s Tom Costello Ties Trump, Musk to Delta Airlines Crash…in Toronto, Canada!?

On Monday afternoon during an NBC News Special Report, NBC senior correspondent and longtime aviation reporter Tom Costello directly linked Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the Delta Airlines crash in Toronto that, fortunately, all 76 passengers survived (as of this blog’s publication).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Like Poilievre, Freeland is pitching a housing plan that would limit immigration

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s plan to fix the housing shortage would tie the number of newcomers Canada admits to housing availability.

The former finance minister made the promise in a 10-point policy document her campaign issued Monday morning. Freeland said the move would slow down population growth until housing affordability stabilizes.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been promising for some time now to tie immigration numbers to housing starts.

Oh yea that’ll turn the race around.

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

Trump’s musings on ‘very large faucet’ in Canada part of looming water crisis, say researchers

Water sharing between Canada and the United States has long been a contentious issue.

In 2005, former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed warned against sharing Canada’s water supply with the United States, suggesting Alberta’s most important resource was water, not oil and gas.

“We should communicate to the United States very quickly how firm we are about it,” Lougheed said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Vance and Hegseth Make a Good Debut for the Trump Administration in Europe

The comments of Vice President Vance and Defense Secretary Hegseth in Europe last week were a refreshing elaboration on President Trump’s well-known view that Europe, in both security and economic matters, has been standing over-complacently on the coattails of America.

The vice president had been preemptively disparaged by the bien pensants of Western Europe, like practically every American statesman since President Franklin D. Roosevelt, (whom they had the decency to recognize as a savior), with the exceptions of Presidents Kennedy and Obama, who seduced Europe — JFK by charm and elegance and Mr. Obama for essentially reasons of ancestry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump World

Michel Maisonneuve: Only an election can save Canada from the old, tired Liberals

With apologies to my friends in polling, I do not like polls. I am a bit surprised that, according to recent polls, the federal Conservative lead over the Liberals is shrinking, though I believe that a 27-point lead was never sustainable. What I don’t understand is what some Canadians do not get: it does not matter who becomes the new Liberal leader. They still will be Liberals with the same extremist progressive ideology, the same mismanagement of Canada’s resources and the same prioritization of the wrong things.

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

Europe’s Leaders, Dazed by an Ally Acting Like an Adversary, Recalculate

Faced with undisguised hostility from the Trump administration, Europeans are preparing for what is shaping up to be a go-it-alone era.

For years, European leaders have fretted about reducing their dependence on a wayward United States. On Monday, at a hastily arranged meeting in Paris, the hand-wringing gave way to harried acceptance of a new world in which Europe’s most powerful ally has begun acting more like an adversary.

President Trump’s plan to negotiate a peace settlement in Ukraine with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, with neither the Ukrainians nor Europeans invited to take part, has forced dazed leaders in capitals like Berlin, London and Paris to confront a series of hard choices, painful trade-offs and costly new burdens.

So the emerging consensus narrative is to smear President Trump’s administration as “adversarial” for asking fellow NATO members to pony up their fair share if they want a seat at the table.

No pay no play was inevitable and they’ve known it for years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, NATO, President Trump, USA

Poilievre sticks with ‘axe the tax,’ adds policy details to slogans as election nears

OTTAWA – The Conservatives’ favourite slogan — “axe the tax” — has been a rallying cry for the better part of three years as frustrated Canadians looked for relief from the rising cost of living.
But now, with key Liberal leadership candidates backing away from the federal consumer carbon price, some have been asking whether the Tories need to axe their slogan as well.

On Saturday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre put the speculation to rest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party