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In Trump’s shadow, Vance becomes face of Iran deal

As he defended the US-Iran deal at the White House press briefing on Thursday, Vice-President JD Vance brushed aside a question about whether President Donald Trump had positioned him as the “fall guy” for an agreement that is broadly unpopular with Republicans in Washington.

“I think the president was joking,” Vance said, referring to Trump’s comment the previous day that he might blame the vice-president if the deal collapses.

Vance has spent the week defending the memorandum of understanding with Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 20, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

Canadians will pay up to $3,348 this year on government debt interest, study finds

A new study from the Fraser Institute says that every Canadian this year will pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to service the interest on federal and provincial debt, with Newfoundlanders and Manitobans paying the most, and Albertans the least.

“For more than a decade, deficit spending and growing government debt have become a trend for many Canadian governments,” says the report, authored by Jake Fuss, director of Fiscal Studies at the Fraser Institute. “In 2025/26, the federal government and all ten provinces are projected to record deficits.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Police investigating carers’ role in toddler crocodile incident

Police are investigating the role of a vulnerable adult’s carers in an incident in which a three-year-old boy was thrown into a zoo’s crocodile pit.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary officers are understood to be assessing the two carers’ actions after the 30-year-old man was left free to pick up the child and throw him into the enclosure.

The boy, who was rescued by a heroic zookeeper, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital. He suffered serious injuries in the fall and was attacked by at least one crocodile.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•WTF?

CHARLEBOIS: The grocery promotion scam nobody sees

For years, Canadians have been told that food inflation is driven by weather, labour shortages, transportation costs, global conflicts, exchange rates, and climate events. All of those factors matter. But there is another contributor to rising food prices that rarely receives public attention: the way some grocery promotions are funded.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Sierra Leone’s free loading first lady refuses to condemn FGM without ‘reliable data’ on harms

The first lady of Sierra Leone has denied that she supports female genital mutilation amid rising anger around her perceived approval of the practice.

But in an exclusive response to the Guardian, Fatima Maada Bio, the wife of President Julius Maada Bio, also said she would not openly condemn FGM until she saw “reliable data” that the practice was harmful.

What a heel! – London council seizes social housing flat rented by Sierra Leone first lady

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Female genital mutilation, Islam, Islam and violence

Ticket resale sites for World Cup, concerts face surge of complaints, demands for refunds

Kelly Mongillo of Barrie, Ont., began frantically calling StubHub customer service in April to ask for assurances that her World Cup tickets were still valid.

Mongillo paid StubHub, a scalper resale website, $1,700 Cdn in August 2025 for two tickets, figuring she was getting a deal for a game in New Jersey on June 13. She grew up watching World Cup soccer with her father, Larry, and was planning the trip of a lifetime with the 72-year-old to watch Brazil play Morocco.

I don't want to be a buzzkill — we all have enough negativity as it is, after all — but this is just down the street from the World Cup celebration on Granville in Vancouver. I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't share it. People need to see this. pic.twitter.com/PHG5ogImq9

— Alexander Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) June 19, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Bread and Circuses"

Britain Is Giving Free Housing to Americans Who Claim Asylum

Americans, Swedes, and New Zealanders have been given free accommodation and taxpayer-funded benefits in Britain after claiming asylum, despite coming from some of the safest and wealthiest countries in the Western world.

New Home Office figures show that 245 migrants from the European Union, the United States, and other developed Western nations were living in state-funded accommodation as of March while their asylum claims were being processed.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•UK, USA, WTF?

Opinion: Carney’s ‘maple MAGA’ moment rings hollow

In late May, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had a “maple MAGA” moment. Speaking before the Economic Club of New York, Carney claimed that “Canada Strong will help make America great again,” combining his own political slogan with U.S. President Donald Trump’s.

Painting Canada as a reliable supplier of energy and critical minerals and as a partner in an integrated North American auto market, he noted that “the examples are legion where we should work together and compete with the world together.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF?

Might I suggest to migrants of Bristol, if the England flag makes you distressed, you relocate to a country where the national flag makes you feel at home? pic.twitter.com/wj8bVGecWy

— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) June 18, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•WTF?

WTF?

LOL! 😆@fancypants_s https://t.co/MqxuDLySvN

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) June 17, 2026

h/t Auntie Polly

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•WTF?

MACLEOD: Open the books — First Nations governments should meet the same accountability standards as everyone else

There is an entrenched “indigenous industry” in Canada — not ordinary indigenous families, elders, workers, or children, but a professional ecosystem of federal departments, band political insiders, consultants, lawyers, lobbyists, academics, activists, non-profit administrators, media voices, and reconciliation contractors who are funded, directly or indirectly, by Ottawa’s never-ending management of First Nations poverty.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Why Juneteenth Proves The ‘1619 Project’ Crowd Wrong

On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, two months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. He announced to the city’s residents that all slaves in Texas were free by the Emancipation Proclamation. Some slaves remained enchained in the border states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri until the 13th Amendment’s ratification on Dec. 6 of that year, but ratification was a forgone conclusion. The amendment had already passed both houses of Congress, and mourning over Lincoln’s assassination assured assent in three-fourths of loyal state legislatures.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•USA

White flight according to Michelle Obama

recently wrote an article about what it was like for elderly white citizens, but particularly women, to be left behind in a formerly all-white neighborhood that had turned predominately black by 1980. In short, the experience was harrowing. It included harassment, burglary, robbery, home invasion, physical assault, and sexual violence. Most on the Left would prefer to forget about that saga. They prefer to remember an image of Martin Luther King Jr. walking arm-in-arm with fellow protesters through the streets of Selma as emblematic of the period.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"White Flight"

Raped en masse, murdered and ignored: The full horror of the grooming gangs scandal

I CAN’T hold Rupert Lowe’s rushed release of his Rape Gang Inquiry Report against him, despite its politically convenient timing immediately ahead of the Makerfield by-election. I can however raise a cynical eyebrow at his vociferous disbelief that the BBC et al would roundly ignore it. Really, Rupes? You actually thought they’d fall for that?

The Restore Britain party leader’s independent inquiry was and is worthy and meaningful to the very many survivors, whistle-blowers, experts and distraught parents who contributed to it. Rotherham survivor and activist Sammy Woodhouse and her team gave its process a gravity of which I doubt Labour’s anointed national inquiry chair Baroness Longfield will venture within a country mile.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Muslim Rape Gangs, UK

America Has Been Fighting Islamic Attacks for 242 Years

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, it’s also approaching the 242nd year of its ‘endless war’ with Islam which began when Morocco seized an American ship and then continued into the Barbary Wars and eventually into the modern age of Islamic terrorism.

Then – as now – there was a debate and differing voices over whether we should pay ‘tribute’ to Muslim states or, as Thomas Jefferson insisted, confront them on the battlefield.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2026June 19, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", USA