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Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

Donald Trump’s latest pledge to send the National Guard into Portland feels less like a response to a crisis and more like an unwanted sequel. The original deployment occurred in the summer of 2020, amid months of protests and recurring clashes near courthouses and police stations, some of which turned violent. The city saw a deadly incident that August when Michael Reinoehl, a self-proclaimed anti-fascist, shot and killed Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a member of the far-Right group Patriot Prayer. Reinoehl was subsequently killed by a US Marshals task force.

This time, the backdrop is far quieter: protests over ICE raids in 2025 are real but a fraction of the intensity of the George Floyd era. Plus, there are signs that Portland, like other blue cities, has quietly begun its own course correction.

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

LA tourism slumps with Canadian traffic falling 32% in the three months of Summer.

‘They just don’t come’: What’s making L.A.’s tourism tumble

Months of negative news have triggered a tough summer for tourism in Los Angeles, deepening the economic woes for a city buffeted by natural disasters and immigration raids.

Tourist arrivals fell by close to 10% this season, according to the latest numbers from Visit California.

… Of all the state’s international travelers, the most significant absence was from Canadian tourists. Arrivals from visitors from up north fell 32% in the three months of Summer.

You’ll note that Trump policies are to blame for everything, except the fires but I’m sure they’re working on that.

No mention that LA is a hopelessly mismanaged crime ridden gangsters paradise with a huge homeless problem and its signature industry is fleeing the city and state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The US navy killed 17 in deadly strikes. Now Venezuela is giving civilians guns

Maduro Volkssturm

When Edith Perales was younger, he enlisted in the National Bolivarian Militia, a civilian force created by the late President Hugo Chávez in 2009 to help defend Venezuela.

“We have to be a country capable of defending every last inch of our territory so no one comes to mess with us,” Chávez said at the time.

Sixteen years on, Perales, who is now 68, is joining thousands of other militia members getting ready for a potential US attack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Hamas’s plan to infiltrate media and campuses worked: former FBI agent

In an interview with the Post’s Terry Newman, Burns explains that the Muslim Brotherhood, a global Islamist movement, seeks to impose a strict interpretation of Islamic law and has used Hamas as its armed wing to counter the secular Palestine Liberation Organization and oppose Israel’s existence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The virtue of America First

Sovereign realism is the future

For more than 30 years, Washington pursued a strategy built on globalist illusions: that America could serve as the policeman of the world, that it could enlarge Nato endlessly, extend security guarantees without limit, and launch interventions to remake societies in its image. These projects — sold under the pretext of the “rules-based international order” — have drained their strength while hollowing out the republic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

The Impact of Illegal Aliens Holding Commercial Driver’s Licenses

Fox News – A California father says Gov. Gavin Newsom has ignored his pleas for answers after an illegal immigrant truck driver caused what he says was a devastating crash that left his young daughter with life-altering injuries.”We never did receive anything nack from the governor. We never received a call back. We never received a ‘governor’s going to look into this.’ We didn’t receive anything,” Marcus Coleman told “America’s Newsroom” Thursday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, USA

Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans

President Donald Trump has decided he’s going to the last-minute global gathering of the nation’s top generals in Quantico, Virginia, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last week.

Trump’s appearance not only upstages Hegseth’s plans, but adds new security concerns to the massive and nearly unprecedented military event.

“We have confirmation from the White House that POTUS is now attending the speech on Tuesday,” a planning document sent Saturday and viewed by The Washington Post states.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump, USA

Trump has Maduro in his sights. Will it mean war in the Caribbean?

At the Doral Park Country Club outside Miami, fevered machinations are under way to overthrow a dictator. For years, in this palm-lined enclave, Venezuelan exiles have schemed to pressure US politicians to bring down Nicolás Maduro, convinced history would one day turn in their favour.

Now they believe it has. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state who is the son of Cuban immigrants, has worked to convince President Trump that Maduro is not only a socialist dictator, but a “narco-terrorist” out to destroy the United States with boat-loads of fentanyl-laced cocaine weaponised to poison American children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Amid threats of annexation, could Canada and Greenland grow closer?

Miilu Gehlert has just spent hours captaining a water taxi deep into the Nuuk Fjord, a winding waterway that lies just north of Greenland’s capital.

But it’s far from the most difficult task he’s had to navigate.

“We were out for four days and maybe managed to get around 10 hours of sleep in four days,” he recalled of one tour. “Full of mosquitoes, not a lot of sleep, had to keep an eye open for enemies — yeah, it was tough.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA

BARBER: Prime Minister Carney’s “rupture” is not what he claims

Carney’s “rupture” isn’t America’s doing — it’s the collapse of his own globalist illusion.

At the beginning of September, the Prime Minister, speaking in Mississauga, stated that the changes initiated by the Trump administration were not a “transition” but a “rupture.” He expanded on this, emphasizing the rupture’s adversity and calling it “a new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism.” He continued to use this message to rally Canadians under the flag of patriotism. This is “elbows up” without the elbows.

(Incognito)

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

US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top-level meeting

US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to attend a gathering in Virginia in the upcoming days.

The event, scheduled for Tuesday at Marine Corps University in Quantico, is expected to feature a short address by Hegseth focused on military standards and the “warrior ethos”, according to the Washington Post.

The order to attend the meeting, which has been described as unusual and unprecedented, was reportedly issued with little explanation – and prompted military personnel stationed overseas to have to make last-minute travel arrangements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Conrad Black: Trump exposes the ‘Palestine’ charade at UN

No one should be under the illusion that the histrionic purported recognition of the Palestinian Authority as the government of the fictional state of Palestine, of uncertain borders, by Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Australia is responsible for any progress. The supposed leader of this beneficiary of western appeasement is Mahmoud Abbas, the 89-year-old survivor of 70 years of comparative and well self-paid moderation in a Potemkin regime in Ramallah that has little authority and to which the Palestinians themselves rightly attach no credence. He is a former KGB agent and, to his credit, for decades a rival of Yasser Arafat, and the recognition of him as Palestinian leader is conditional on the so-called Palestinian Authority being renovated by free and fair elections and a comprehensive program of reform and suppression of its profligate corruption. It is also conditional upon the return to Israel of the remaining hostages seized by Hamas, and the removal of Hamas from the government of Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas has no more ability to deliver on those clauses than any reader of this column. The Palestinians see Abbas as a crook and an over-bribed puppet of Israel masquerading as a legitimate spokesman for the Palestinian interest.

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

Geography and destiny

Two days before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Berlin, Canada put on a little show at the German Foreign Ministry.

This country, the Group of Seven president this year, was one of three that did so at the Auswärtiges Amt’s open house. Walking up the red carpet and through the marbled halls, one could see little Maple Leaf flags sticking out of backpacks and waved by children. Bully, the polar bear mascot for the Eisbären Berlin hockey team, also made an appearance.

But there were few other offerings. Canada gave out a singular maple syrup candy for completing a bingo quiz with questions such as “What is the name of the Prime Minister of Canada?” (One could keep the faux-wooden pen, though.)

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