Author: Blazingcatfur

Germany’s Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win

Germany’s Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has clashed with AfD leader Alice Weidel in parliament, calling her party a “destructive force” with a migration policy that amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers.

Merz was addressing the Bundestag in the aftermath of the anti-immigration party’s sweeping victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where it won almost 44% of the vote, while the chancellor’s conservatives saw their vote halved.

Weidel told MPs that voters had shown that Merz’s coalition with the centre left was a total failure and his time was up.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

GlobalEye gamble: Ottawa chose surveillance plane without knowing it met military needs

GlobalEye gamble: Ottawa chose surveillance plane without knowing it met military needs

Ottawa had no guarantees that Saab’s GlobalEye surveillance plane could meet military requirements when it began negotiations to acquire six of the Swedish manufacturer’s early warning and control aircraft last spring, CBC News has learned.

Sources added that the most recent assessment of the GlobalEye came to the conclusion that the aircraft meets only a portion of the military’s requirements and that modifications will be needed to achieve operational readiness.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCAF", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hijacking pirates exploit regional chaos to return to seas off Somalia

Hijacking pirates exploit regional chaos to return to seas off Somalia

The scourge of Somali piracy targeting cargo ships and smaller dhows off the Horn of Africa has returned to levels not seen in a decade, driven by a convergence of factors including disruptions to the shipping industry caused by the US-Israeli war against Iran and a resurgence of political instability in Somalia.

Since late April there have been eight hijackings by Somali pirates, including two within the space of a fortnight in August: one targeting an oil tanker with ties to Iran, the other a Cameroon-flagged vessel, the Lutuf, carrying military equipment for Turkey.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSomalia

WARMINGTON: Mark Carney says Canada can ‘pivot’ from U.S., but at what cost?

WARMINGTON: Mark Carney says Canada can ‘pivot’ from U.S., but at what cost?

Prime Minister Mark Carney warns there will be a “cost” and tough times ahead to chart a new economic course as a result of the trade rupture with Donald Trump’s America.

“There’s always a cost to action, but it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still,” said Carney on a taped 15-minute speech with no media availability.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The ‘poison’ on Britain’s streets is a failure by the political class

The ‘poison’ on Britain’s streets is a failure by the political class

I claim no particular gift of prophecy, but it’s almost exactly a year since I wrote in this column about John, the lovely man who comes to help me with all the jobs I can’t manage in the garden. With more than 1,200 illegal migrants billeted in a former military base in our county and bussed regularly into nearby towns, John was worried about the safety of his teenage daughter. Like a lot of fathers, he despaired of the failure of successive governments to stop the boats.

“We were talking in the pub the other night,” John said to me, “and we decided that, in the end, it’s men like us who will have to go down and defend our southern border.”

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

Jesse Kline: The Carney Liberals are interfering in Israel’s election

Jesse Kline: The Carney Liberals are interfering in Israel’s election

The federal Liberals’ policy of joining allies in punishing Israel, without providing any constructive solutions for bringing peace to the Middle East, continued apace on Tuesday, when Foreign Minister Anita Anand, along with her counterparts from several European countries, issued a joint statement pledging to “bring forward national measures to ban trade” in goods originating from Israeli settlements.

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

Ukraine’s prosecutor general quits after anti-corruption agents raid his office

Ukraine’s prosecutor general quits after anti-corruption agents raid his office

Ukraine’s prosecutor general has resigned after investigators used ladders to raid his office in connection with a major corruption scandal that threatens to embarrass Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ruslan Kravchenko quit his post on Monday after allegations that some of his officials were involved in large-scale money laundering. They received cash to protect call centres involved in illegal phone scams, it was claimed.

Kravchenko, who denies wrongdoing, left his job after meeting Zelenskyy. Ukraine’s president also spoke to the heads of Nabu and Sapo, the two anti-corruption agencies that have uncovered a sprawling criminal scheme involving government officials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

FINLAYSON: Carney government’s ‘export’ plan relies on Canada’s natural resource sector

FINLAYSON: Carney government’s ‘export’ plan relies on Canada’s natural resource sector

The Carney government wants to double Canada’s exports to countries other than the United States by 2035 to help reduce dependence on the U.S. market and deepen Canadian trade and commercial ties with other economies. The idea commands significant public support. Canada faces a volatile mercantilist president determined to dismantle much of the architecture governing the global economy and upend America’s longstanding trade relationships.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

My friend called me after seeing the balaclava march in Dover. I was shocked by her reaction… until she told me about her clash with a group of foreign men outside her business

My friend called me after seeing the balaclava march in Dover. I was shocked by her reaction… until she told me about her clash with a group of foreign men outside her business

At around eight on Saturday evening a friend called and told me to switch on Sky News to watch its coverage of the demonstration in Dover, where more than 100 men – dressed in black and wearing balaclavas – could be seen marching through the streets to protest against illegal migration, the only sound an occasional chant of ‘Stop the boats’.

As it happens, I had already seen the footage she was referring to but I was shocked by her reaction to it: ‘At last, someone is finally speaking out for us.’

The reason I was taken aback is that she’s a mum of three in her fifties who runs her own successful hair salon – someone I’d never describe as a Right-wing head banger, or a racist, or any of the other terms the Left uses to condemn anyone who supports such protests.

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

Olivia Chow says city facing ‘moment of emboldened antisemitism’ as police details plans for Jewish holidays

Olivia Chow says city facing ‘moment of emboldened antisemitism’ as police details plans for Jewish holidays

Mayor Olivia Chow also spoke at Tuesday’s news conference and addressed what she said has been a “despicable” rise in antisemitism in Toronto.

“Jewish Torontonians should not need police presence to go to a synagogue or a community centre, or simply to live proudly Jewish in our city but they do. In this moment of emboldened antisemitism, Jews, Jewish institutions and even Jewish neighbourhoods are being targeted,” she said.

What a despicable bitch.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Smithsonian Leader Behind Leftward Degradation Resigns

Smithsonian Leader Behind Leftward Degradation Resigns

Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution who led its leftward degradation, resigned Tuesday after years of overseeing the advancement of anti-American propaganda at the nation’s premier art, culture, and history establishment.

Bunch, who took over as secretary in 2019 but has been at the Smithsonian for almost 38 years, founded the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture prior to becoming secretary. Under his leadership, the Smithsonian added to its insidious track record of partitioning its museums along racial and gender ideology lines. He plans to leave the Smithsonian by the end of the year, according to the resignation announcement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", USA