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Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations

LAKE WORTH, Fla.—Master Sgt. Tony Kingery of the Florida Highway Patrol was driving through a commercial district one recent morning looking for immigrants in the U.S. illegally when he spotted a white van missing its front bumper. He tailed the vehicle, flashed his lights and pulled it over.

Kingery told the driver about the bumper and a broken taillight and asked for his driver’s license. The driver, who was Hispanic, didn’t speak English. He handed over a Guatemalan consular identification card.

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

Do you think prices will go down?

With retaliatory tariffs removed, a look at items that will be cheaper for Canadians

A new chapter in the trade dispute with the United States opened this week when Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. exports included in the existing Canada-U.S. trade deal would be rescinded.

“I think this is a positive step because we had the U.S. ambassador last week saying this was a major impediment to making any progress … that Canada had retaliatory tariffs on some goods that were actually covered under the existing trade agreement,” financial analyst Michael Campbell told Global News.

Maybe a little but not much.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

France summons US envoy over antisemitism claims

France says it will summon the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, over what it says are unacceptable allegations of failing to tackle a surge in antisemitism.

Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron in the Wall Street Journal.

Echoing Israel’s criticism of France days earlier, Kushner said there had been an explosion of hatred towards Jews in France since the war in Gaza began.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, France, USA

Inside sorority rush, the blood sport making college girls millionaires

Kylan Darnell can’t walk out of her sorority house without being stopped by fans. She can’t actually walk out of any house without it happening.

Darnell, 21, is the standard bearer for a lucrative new kind of fame. She is a third-year student at the University of Alabama, a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and the “Queen of RushTok”, the frenzied corner of TikTok which charts the trials of aspiring sorority girls during their August recruitment, or “rush week” and the campus lives that they go on to lead.

“I love my sorority,” said Darnell. “I’ve definitely met my bridesmaids. And it’s also given me a career.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

How Much Violence and Mayhem in Cities Are Dems Willing to Accept?

Brandon Johnson – Loves Looting

Put aside the political rhetoric coming from Democrats in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles about “authoritarian rule,” “abuse of power,” or “presidential overreach.” What upsets the Democrats far more than their hysterical hyperbole would suggest is that the deployment of National Guard troops and federalizing law enforcement exposes the utter and abject failure of the governments in large American cities to fulfill their basic function of protecting their citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

‘Canada can’t replace U.S. market’: Trade expert discusses high stakes in upcoming CUSMA review

With a review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) looming amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, National Post spoke this week with Canadian political and trade policy expert Laura Dawson. Dawson is the former director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where she focused on bilateral economic issues, including NAFTA/CUSMA. She is now the executive director of the Canada-U.S. Future Borders Coalition and a regular media commentator. Much of Dawson’s work involves advising governments, businesses, and organizations on cross-border trade.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Germany: Muslim Harassing Women Stabs American Good Samaritan

Muslim Harassing Women Stabs American Good Samaritan

American good Samaritan stabbed by Syrian immigrant in Germany after stepping in to stop harassment

An American has been stabbed by a Syrian national in Germany after allegedly stepping in to help two female passengers being harassed on a tram, according to reports.

The young man was attacked at around 12:25 a.m. on Sunday after intervening when “two men from a group harassed female passengers” on the tram in the eastern German city of Dresden, police spokesman Luka Reumund told Bild.

Pictures from the scene show blood spattered over the tram. The unidentified American was rushed to the hospital where his condition is unknown.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

FBI raid on John Bolton’s home ‘linked to him sending highly sensitive classified documents using private email server’

An FBI raid on the home of ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton was reportedly linked to allegations he used a private email server to send sensitive documents to his family.

Bolton, who has since turned against Donald Trump after being fired from the White House in his first term, was home at the time of the 7:00 a.m. raid on his D.C.-area house, according to a source familiar.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Unfortunately, there may not be a hockey analogy for the challenge Canada faces

Inevitably, but torturously, this unique moment in the history of this country has come to be understood primarily in hockey terms.

“His elbows have mysteriously gone missing,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday. “He’s not thrown one elbow since he took office.”

A few hours earlier, a reporter had warned the prime minister that his critics might say something like that in the wake of his decision to repeal some of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against American products — that while Carney had once spoken of Canada putting its elbows “up,” now those elbows might be said to be down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘I was scared’ — American man seeks asylum in Windsor after kayaking into Canada

After kayaking across the Detroit River earlier this month, an American asylum-seeker stepped into Canada unsure of what to expect, but considers the reaction so far positive – including a stranger giving him $100.

“I hate the fact that I did what I did, but what was my choice? I was scared,” said Dan Livers, 51, of Michigan. “I hope to become a citizen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in ‘any inappropriate setting’, interview transcript shows

The US Department of Justice has released the transcript and audio recording of an interview conducted by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a post on X, Blanche said the materials were being released “in the interest of transparency”, providing links to the transcript and to audio files.

The release includes documentation from a two-day interview conducted on 24 and 25 July. The materials comprise redacted transcripts for both days, along with multiple audio recordings – seven separate parts plus test recordings for day one, and four parts plus test recordings for day two.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Carney says time is up for ‘elbows up’ as Canada drops many retaliatory tariffs on U.S.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said it’s no longer time for “elbows up” as he announced Friday that Canada will remove retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods covered by the existing trade agreement between the countries minus those on steel, aluminum and autos.

Carney said the move was designed to match the U.S. decision not to levy tariffs on goods that are compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), saying the countries had restored free trade on a “vast majority of our goods.”

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

Mark Carney was once ‘concerned’ about Trump. Now things have gotten worse than anyone could have guessed

In April, just days before he was elected prime minister, I asked Mark Carney whether Canadians ought to start worrying about the state of things down south.

“The U.S. system is one of checks and balances, famously,” Carney began. At the core of the American system of democracy, he went on, “is the rule of law.” He gave a small shrug: “I expect that to continue.” Without taking a beat, “yes,” the prime minister acknowledged, “I’m concerned.”

The Star is desperate to keep the Elbows Up fear mongering con alive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA