Author: Blazingcatfur

Europe’s ‘painful’ realisation it must be bolder with US set out in security report

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no longer shares a commitment to liberal democratic norms and values, a report prepared by the Munich Security Conference asserts.

The report sets the scene for an all-out ideological confrontation with the Trump White House at the high-level annual meeting of security policy specialists, which starts on Friday.

In a now infamous speech to last year’s MSC, the US vice-president, JD Vance, claimed European elites were suppressing free speech and “opening the floodgates” to mass migration. The address marked the moment Europe realised the Trump administration would no longer be a reliable trading and security partner.

Whatever is in the water at the Guardian calls for quarantine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA

Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus will be sentenced for Discreditable Conduct – May 19, 2026

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent"

Warning raised as youth unemployment threatens students’ lifetime earnings

Canada’s top budget watchdog is sounding the alarm over soaring youth unemployment, warning that postsecondary students shut out of early work experience risk lower lifetime earnings and weaker attachment to the labour force.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques told the Senate national finance committee that failing to land a first job — especially one tied to a student’s field of study — can have lasting economic consequences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Cuba says airlines can no longer refuel on the island as US blockade deepens energy crisis

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn’t enough fuel for airplanes to refuel on the island, the latest step in its moves to ration energy as the Trump administration cuts the Caribbean nation off from its fuel resources.

The government of Cuba published the notices to airlines and pilots on Sunday night, warning that jet fuel won’t be available at nine airports across the island, including José Martí International Airport in Havana, starting Tuesday and continuing until March 11.

Political pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump on Latin America has effectively severed Cuba’s access to its primary petroleum sources in Venezuela and Mexico.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba

Matthew Lau: Carney government should scrap all damaging EV policies

As the iron door of reality slams onto the toe of even the most fervent advocates of climate change action, the Carney government has walked back its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which would have banned the sale of new conventionally powered vehicles in Canada by 2035.

However, the government will not abandon its push to switch Canadians to EVs. It’s bringing back rebates of $5,000 for EVs under $50,000 (for vehicles made in Canada or in countries where we have free-trade agreements) and plans to offer billions in subsidies to automakers. The continued push for EVs highlights the significant discrepancy between how individual Canadians want to spend their money and how the federal government thinks they ought to spend it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Widespread Naturalization Test Fraud in Germany Uncovered

German police have uncovered a large-scale fraud network that enabled migrants to obtain language certificates and naturalization documents without meeting the required standards.

Authorities in Nuremberg said several suspects organised German-speaking deputies to sit language and naturalization tests on behalf of applicants who were unable to pass the exams themselves. The forged certificates were sold for between €2,500 and €6,000 and later used to secure residence permits or German citizenship.

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

Any new online harms bill must stick to protecting kids – not policing speech

If regulating social media to protect children from online harms was a simple matter, the nation’s Culture and Identity Minister, Marc Miller, wouldn’t be vowing to “act swiftly” almost five years after the Liberals tabled their first effort at an online harms bill.

That initial legislation, titled Bill C-36, came two years after then-public safety minister Ralph Goodale first raised the issue. That triggered a year of public consultations before the government rolled out legislation that died when the 2021 election was called.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.

But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canada delays destroying WW2 pistols while Ukraine figures out if it wants them

The Canadian military has destroyed 2,000 Second World War pistols but is still waiting to hear from Ukraine on whether it wants the rest of the guns for its arsenal.

The latest update from the Department of National Defence on the fate of the Browning Hi-Power pistols reveals a topsy-turvy strategy for the aging handguns.

In October 2022, the Canadian Forces decided that it would destroy the almost 11,000 sidearms since a new handgun was being purchased.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

‘White saviors’: Delicious infighting among ICE protesters

Fox News Digital published a lengthy piece Saturday morning entitled “‘White saviors’ use of whistles causes bitter internal rift inside anti-ICE movement.” It’s a festival of exactly the kind of “white privilege” you’d expect from these ‘60s burnouts and wannabes. It would be funny if it weren’t all so criminal, and cringe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites