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Americans used to be steadfast in their support for Israel. Those days are gone

I ran from the White House briefing room, past the portico entrance of the West Wing to our camera position on the lawn, and flung on an ear piece connecting me to the studio.

A moment later the presenter asked me about the comments we had just heard live from US President Donald Trump.

I said we were seeing a fundamental shift in a United States’ policy position after decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It was February this year, and Trump had just held talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the first foreign leader since Trump’s inauguration to be invited to the White House. The US president vowed that his country would take control of the Gaza Strip, having earlier pledged the territory would also be “cleaned out” and emptied of its Palestinian population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

As Carney visits Trump to discuss trade-security deal, diplomatic and business leaders warn of potential consequences

Carney and advisor head to Washington

Prime Minister Mark Carney will kick off talks with Donald Trump Tuesday in a bid for a comprehensive deal on trade and security, but top business and diplomatic voices are warning that linking the two issues in a single pact will only make it easier for the U.S. President to punish Canada with tariffs if he’s unhappy with its military or border spending.

Mr. Carney flew to Washington Monday ahead of a working lunch Tuesday with Mr. Trump at the White House – what could be the most important meeting between a U.S. president and Canadian prime minister in decades.

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

Protests erupt in China after furious workers demand back pay as Trump’s tariffs on imports jolt economy

Protests from furious factory workers in China demanding back pay are spreading across the country after President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports began impacting the communist nation’s economy.

Unrest has been reported across the country as workers have taken to the streets protesting unpaid wages and challenging unfair dismissals following the closures of factories squeezed by US tariffs, according to Radio Free Asia.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Liberation Day", USA

New Liberal government should scrap EV tariffs on China to help trade, climate goals, say critics

 

As Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the federal government has its work cut out for it following a tumultuous few months in domestic politics — not just on the tariff front with the U.S., but also with the world’s second-largest economy.

In the fall, Canada followed in the footsteps of then-U.S. president Joe Biden in implementing an additional 100 per cent surtax on Chinese-made electric vehicles — a move critics say makes less sense now considering the fractured relationship with our southern neighbours, our climate goals and China’s counter-tariffs on Canadian canola farmers.

China is Happy, Carney is Happy, Carney’s Cronies are Happy, Canada’s China Class is Happy, Net Zero Loons are Happy and Danielle Smith is Canola Happy!

Orange Man Bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, USA

Trump administration to pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to leave

The American government is also in talks with Rwanda about a deal to take in migrants deported from the US

The Trump administration has announced plans to pay immigrants living illegally in the United States to leave the country.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it would pay $1,000 to those that left voluntarily. They would also receive travel assistance and those who used an app to tell officials that they planned to return home would be “deprioritised” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement agents.

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

Mark Carney’s new skills as a politician will get a workout from Donald Trump

Mark Carney is new to politics, but in a matter of months, he is learning that each fight gets tougher.

He handily won the Liberal leadership in March. His election victory a week ago was tighter. This week, he’s up against Donald Trump, and the newly elected prime minister has to be aware that the stakes in this contest are higher and more daunting than the first two.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Eric Kaufmann: The Americanization of Canadian politics

Canadian politics is entering a new, more American phase, with ideology and polarization playing a stronger role than ever before.

This might seem counterintuitive given that Canadian animosity towards America over Trump’s annexation and tariff threats was the defining issue of the election. But if we peer beneath the surface, a series of structural trends are apparent, in line with a broader realignment of politics across the Western world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump ‘not sure’ what Carney wants to talk about at White House meeting

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not sure” what Prime Minister Mark Carney “wants to see me about” ahead of tomorrow’s meeting.

Trump and Carney are scheduled to speak at the White House on Tuesday in their first in-person meeting since Canada’s election. The two leaders are expected to discuss the months-long trade war that has fractured their countries’ relationship and seeped their respective economies with uncertainty.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conservatives signal they are willing to back Carney’s Liberals on some legislation

After a fractious federal election campaign focused on perceived Liberal failures, the Conservative House leader is now signalling the caucus may be willing to support some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s legislative agenda when the House of Commons returns later this month.

In an interview with CBC News, Andrew Scheer, who is considered by party sources to be the front-runner to serve as their interim parliamentary leader, said the Conservatives could back Carney if he needs legislative support to take on U.S. President Donald Trump and the ongoing trade war, which has already caused some economic dislocation, including automotive job losses at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada

The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.

The idea of a war between Canada and the United States was inconceivable even a few months ago. Most Americans still don’t believe it’s a possibility, or simply haven’t noticed their president’s occupationist rhetoric, or can’t imagine a world in which a neighbor they have been at peace with for 150 years is suddenly an enemy. The very idea seems completely absurd.

But Canada does not have the luxury of dismissing White House rhetoric as trolling. Canadians are imagining the unimaginable because they have to.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Kapow! China turns its back on Marvel movies

Among its retaliatory strikes for President Trump’s tariff war, Beijing targeted Hollywood movies, threatening to deny them Chinese ticket sales. It may not need to.

Initial figures for the latest Marvel superhero film, Thunderbolts* — the first Hollywood blockbuster to premiere in China since Trump’s “liberation day”, when his tariffs were announced — suggest local audiences will not need anything as official as a ban to stay away.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Hollywood, USA