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The Palestinian ‘Constitution’ to Destroy Israel

As part of an attempt to persuade the United States and the rest of the international community that the Palestinians are seeking to create a democratic state “based on the rule of law and human dignity,” the Palestinian Authority leadership last week published a draft of the Palestinians’ temporary “constitution.”

The 162-article draft “constitution,” however, shows that, if and when the Palestinians have a state of their own, it would actually not be different from the two mini-states they have had for the past two decades: the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023"

PM Carney taps former head of public service to spearhead CUSMA negotiations

Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen former clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette to head Canada’s trade negotiations as it prepares for a review of the North American trade pact this year.

Charette’s title is chief trade negotiator to the United States, according to a Monday news release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). She’ll be a senior adviser to Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.

What belt does she have? https://t.co/MEdSicdKbQ

— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 16, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Vanity Fair: ‘Epstein’s Ghost’ Haunts Trump’s Every Move, Despite a Lack of Evidence

A ghost story falls in the category of fantasy. And former ABC reporter Tara Palmeri’s Halloween-in-February hot take in Vanity Fair on Thursday, “Epstein’s Ghost Is Calling All the Shots in Trump’s White House,” certainly falls within the realm of fantasy. She updates Banquo’s ghost to the 21st century and engages in the fantasy that Epstein’s ghost is somehow haunting Trump’s every move.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Uncategorized

LILLEY: Liberals dead-set on attacking Jamil Jivani over effort to help with Trump

Liberals in this country are going out of their way to undermine a man who only wanted to help the country in trade talks with Trump.

First, they said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani wasn’t qualified to go to Washington. Then he was, according to Liberals, a Nazi sympathizer for going to Washington. And then he was too ugly to help.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

The Quiet Architect of Trump’s Global Trade War

Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.

On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to a group of 9-year-olds when one of his phones started blowing up with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was already deploying his favorite weapon: the threat of crippling tariffs to bend countries to his will.

This time, the president was threatening Colombia, after it refused to accept U.S. military planes of deported immigrants. Mr. Greer would not join the Trump administration for some time yet, but he was already a key adviser on trade, flying to Mar-a-Lago in the weeks before to help plan Mr. Trump’s agenda.

“Why do you have two phones?” a student asked him.

“I have a kind of crazy job,” Mr. Greer replied.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The ‘cheating’ scandals, F-bombs and secret filming claims that rocked curling

Curling is often called chess or bowls on ice; a genteel, slow-paced and respectable sport of strategy and precision that stands in sharp contrast to the more extreme edges of the Winter Olympics.

Until Friday that is, when the sport was rocked not just with a cheating scandal, but a stream of F-bombs, accusations of secret filming, claim and counterclaim as well as a whole heap of bad feeling.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

There’s No Meltdown Like a Hillary Meltdown. This Is Her ‘Best Of’ Album.

Over the weekend, we got a nostalgic glimpse of what could have been had Hillary Clinton defeated President Donald Trump back in 2016. My colleagues Stephen Kruiser and David Manney both captured a uniquely “Hillary moment” that happened over the weekend. Here’s how David described Clinton’s panel discussion appearance at the Munich Security Conference…

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Clintons"

Most people view U.S. as a possible threat to Canadian sovereignty: Nanos survey

Nearly two thirds of Canadian survey respondents say they are concerned about the U.S. being a potential threat to Canada’s sovereignty, according to new data from Nanos Research.

According to the survey, 64 per cent of respondents say they feel concerned, while 19 per cent say they are not concerned, and 17 per cent say they are neutral, about the U.S. being a threat to Canadian sovereignty.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The ‘millennial slayer’ whose firm made millions from Trump’s border crackdown

Palmer Luckey was 13 when he read Donald Trump’s The Art of The Deal.

Twenty years later, the 33-year-old — complete with trademark flip-flops, Hawaiian shirts and shorts — is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the president’s border crackdown, having made millions from lucrative contracts with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•USA

Robert Duvall, All-Purpose Actor With Few Peers, Dies at 95

Robert Duvall, the steely-eyed actor whose performances in the first two Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, Lonesome Dove and The Apostle made him one of the finest actors of any generation, has died. He was 95.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Passings

ISIS Ho’s from Oz and their spawn sent back to Syrian detention camp after initial release

Australian women and children held for years without charge were forced to return to a detention camp in northeast Syria on Monday after being released by Kurdish authorities for their expected repatriation to Australia.

The 34 women and children in the group are the wives, widows and children of dead or jailed Islamic State fighters and were being held at al-Roj camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

They were initially handed over to relatives who had helped arrange for their repatriation and were on their way to Damascus to leave the country when they were asked to stop on the way and turn back to the camp.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Australia, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Syria

Canadians are ‘hitting a breaking point’ when it comes to the cost of insuring their vehicles

Alex Bourgeois is car shopping and mentally preparing to pay a whole lot more for auto insurance.

His 15-year-old daughter will soon begin driving lessons and they’ll need a second vehicle.

Mr. Bourgeois, a Toronto-based contractor, needs his truck for work, so he can’t add his daughter as an occasional driver to any new car he purchases – a strategy that can help lower insurance premiums for new drivers.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 15, 2026•0•"Canada in decline"

German and UK military chiefs state case for rearming

The defense chief of Germany’s Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, and the United Kingdom’s chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, have jointly stated the case for rearming, amid the threat posed by Russia.

The top military officials penned a joint letter, published in The Guardian and German newspaper Welt, in which they said there was a “moral” case to be made for rearming.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Germany, UK

Mia Hughes: Major U.S. medical groups take science-based approach to ‘gender-affirming’ care

Recently, two major American medical groups endorsed age restrictions on gender-related surgeries, marking a dramatic shift in a debate long dominated by claims of consensus. First, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a policy statement firmly opposing “gender-affirming” surgeries for people under 19. Then, the American Medical Association (AMA) signalled its support. These pivots deal a significant blow to Canadian activists and politicians who rely on the supposed professional consensus to defend these highly contested, unproven treatments for youth.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 15, 2026•0•Big Tranny

‘Dragged out and set on fire’ – the Bangladesh mob killing that shocked the world

The morning before he died, Dipu Chandra Das left home at first light, stepping out of his tin-sheet house in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh city, overlooking a warren of lanes off the highway from Dhaka.

The 28-year-old woke up his father, said goodbye to his wife, cradled his 18-month-old daughter. Then he boarded a bus for the 60km (37-mile) journey to the garment factory where he worked as a junior quality inspector, checking sweaters bound for global high-street brands such as H&M and Next.

His family would not see him again.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 15, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Bangladesh