Author: Blazingcatfur

Randall Denley: The tariff reprieve changes the Ontario election balance

Can we stop pretending that the Ontario election has only one issue, which is authorizing Premier Doug Ford to spend tens of billions of dollars to protect Ontario from American tariffs?

U.S. President Donald Trump took much of the urgency out of Ford’s pitch Monday by delaying his onerous tariffs for at least a month. While the president’s end game remains unclear, the delay means Ford had to backtrack for now on crowd-pleasing announcements like pulling American booze out of LCBO stores and cancelling a broadband contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink company.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario

More than 1,000 EPA employees are told they could be dismissed immediately

The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency that they could be dismissed immediately.

Workers who’ve been at the agency less than one year received an email last week notifying them that they had been identified as employees that were likely on a “probationary/ trial period,” according to an email reviewed by NBC News.

H/T DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump World

No names please …

It may harm the perps!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, WTF?

Is Trump’s Gaza Plan A Bluff?

Trump’s Gaza plan: bluff or not, one man benefits

As President Trump laid out his plan to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to “countries of interest with humanitarian hearts”, Binyamin Netanyahu sat next to him, smiling wordlessly and nodding along.

Many commentators agreed that the proposal was too audacious to take seriously. But in pledging a US takeover of Gaza, the president handed the Israeli leader a political lifeline.

Netanyahu, in Washington on a week-long diplomatic mission, has faced threats back home from far-right members of his cabinet to quit the coalition underpinning his government if the war ends with Hamas still in control in Gaza.

Meanwhile …

Trump’s Gaza plan will be seen as flying in face of international law

When US President Donald Trump began speaking 10 days ago of Gaza as a demolition site, calling to “clean out that whole thing”, it wasn’t clear how far these were off-the-cuff remarks.

But in the lead up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit, in his Oval Office comments before the meeting, and in the press conference itself, it’s now clear he is profoundly serious about his proposals.

They amount to the most radical upending in the established US position on Israel and the Palestinians in the recent history of the conflict; and will be seen as flying in the face of international law.

The Guardian Squeals! – Trump’s declaration US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip sparks global condemnation

‘New world order’ or ‘dangerous delusions’? Israeli officials react to Trump’s Gaza plan

Senior Hamas officials call Trump’s proposal for Gazans to relocate from the Gaza Strip “racist” and “a move that could lead to chaos and tension in the Middle East.”

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

Ontario-Musk Starlink Deal Revived After Tariffs Paused

Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford has reneged on his vow to tear up a $100 million agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink after U.S. President Donald Trump paused his tariff threat on Canada for 30 days.

Ford confirmed on Feb. 3 the Starlink agreement with Musk will proceed for the time being and other retaliatory measures planned by Ontario, such as banning U.S. alcohol from LCBO stores, will be put on hold.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trudeau’s ‘science advisor’ tore through $300K on worldwide travel

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Chief Science Advisor Dr. Mona Nemer spent more than $300,000, three quarters of her annual salary, on travel from Tokyo to Oslo, according to records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

“Science can be everywhere,” Nemer, a University of Ottawa biochemist, earlier told MPs.

“I am a science advisor.”

“I appreciate that science can be everywhere.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

USAID’s Long Track Record of Wasteful, Left-Wing Spending Made It an Obvious First Target for Musk

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has come under scrutiny after tech billionaire Elon Musk chose the agency as the first target in his campaign to reduce ballooning government costs and root out progressive ideology from within the executive branch.

Musk’s decision to first declare war on USAID in his role as head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency should come as no surprise, given the agency’s long history of wasteful, ideologically driven spending.

Established in 1961 under the Kennedy administration, USAID is meant to oversee humanitarian, development, and security programs, doing so in over 100 foreign countries. As originally conceived, the agency was meant to distribute aid in a way that advances U.S. interests, ideally without antagonizing the local population.

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

FBI agents try to block administration’s effort to examine Trump, Jan. 6 cases

A group of nine FBI agents asked a federal judge on Tuesday to block the Trump administration’s efforts to collect information on thousands of case agents across the country who worked on investigations tied to the President Donald Trump or the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Attorneys for the agents, who filed suit anonymously in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said any effort to use that information as a basis to fire FBI employees would be unlawful, retaliatory and violation of civil service protections.

They also raised concerns that administration officials might make public the names of agents involved in the Jan. 6 cases, “placing themselves in their families in immediate danger of retribution by the now pardoned and at-large Jan. 6 convicted felons.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI, Trump Derangement Syndrome

How Fentanyl Became Central to Trump’s Tariffs

President Trump has declared that the illegal transit into the U.S. of migrants and drugs, chiefly fentanyl, is a national emergency, and he has targeted Mexico, Canada and China with tariffs to force them to halt the flow.

How fentanyl became part of the tariff equation comes down to the production and smuggling of an opioid that has caused the overdose deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The U.S. has long pressured Mexico, by far the main source of fentanyl, to do more to halt the drug’s production and export, and the money-laundering activities that are vital to the drug trade. Canada entered the picture because of the growing presence of Mexican cartels there.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump, USA

U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for Agency’s Dismantling

Uncertainty and turmoil gripped the U.S. Agency for International Development for a second day, as employees locked out of their offices braced for potential cuts to the work force, while Democrats denounced the Trump administration for what they said was an illegal power grab.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who took control of U.S.A.I.D. as its acting administrator on Monday, insisted during a Fox News interview that night that the takeover was “not about getting rid of foreign aid,” and that the goal had been to reform the agency.

“But now we have rank insubordination,” he said, adding that U.S.A.I.D. employees had been “completely uncooperative, so we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.”

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

Why It’s Absolutely Christian To Swiftly Deport All Illegal Migrants

President Trump is making good on his campaign promise of deporting illegal aliens. So, of course, various self-described Christian leaders are outraged.

Mariann Budde, the Episcopalian “bishop” who reportedly owns a $2 million D.C. mansion, has drawn much attention to herself due to her lecture at the Washington National Cathedral. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” Budde said to Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the inaugural prayer service, adding that “the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals” but are “good neighbors” and members of religious communities.

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

What is Bill Gates afraid of?

The mask is finally coming off

At a moment when the world’s most revered humanitarian faces growing public scrutiny and a fading public profile, what does he do? Try to change the narrative. Over the past year, we’ve seen Bill Gates embark on a powerful PR tour. In addition to his podcast, his blog, and endless speeches and op-eds, he pushed out a five-part self-aggrandising Netflix series last year. And now he’s got a new memoir.

A single volume would not be sufficient for Gates, however, and he has announced that he needs three to tell his life story. The first, Source Code, focuses on his early life, and the initial years of Microsoft, the company that made him a billionaire. As one of the most interviewed and talked about people in history, much of Gates’s personal story has already been told. So what could he tell us at this point that we haven’t heard before?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bad Optics"

Leftist Leader in Germany Suggests Asylum For Millions of ‘Climate Refugees’

The leader of the Left Party in Germany has suggested that the country could grant asylum to a million migrants a year in order to protect them from “the consequences of climate change.”

During an interview with Funke Media Group, Jan van Aken said that Germany accepting a million new migrants every year was “a completely manageable number.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", WTF?