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Mexico Worries Trump Will Order Strikes Against Drug Cartels

MEXICO CITY—The once-unthinkable prospect of U.S. military action on Mexican soil is dominating the political conversation in Mexico as the country braces for President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

With Trump and his allies this year floating the use of American military force against Mexico’s drug cartels, Mexican officials have tried to learn whether he is serious or merely blustering to gain leverage in talks about shutting down the pipeline of migrants and drugs heading into the U.S. Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has rushed to blunt criticism from Trump’s orbit and put to rest worries at home that there is any danger from the country’s neighbor to the north.

Maybe Trump could order a strike on Harrington lake?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Trump Backers Battle Online Over Immigrants

Weeks before President-elect Donald J. Trump is to take office, a major rift has emerged among his supporters over immigration and the place of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market.

The debate hinges on how much tolerance, if any, the incoming administration should have for skilled immigrants brought into the country on work visas.

The schism pits immigration hard-liners against many of the president-elect’s most prominent backers from the technology industry — among them Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who helped back Mr. Trump’s election efforts with more than a quarter of a billion dollars, and David Sacks, a venture capitalist picked to be czar for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy.

The H-1B visa program has long been abused at the expense of American born workers.

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

‘We Dug It, We Own It’ – The case for taking back the Panama Canal.

In 1978, the Carter administration made a deal with General Omar Torrijos, the uniformed socialist strongman who had seized power in Panama, to abandon America’s crown jewel.

The Panama Canal had been built with over a decade of labor and half a billion of early twentieth century dollars by American engineers and visionaries who succeeded where the British and the French had failed, in the process they created a new country, Panama, and new trade routes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Canadians are so desperate to move to US they’d swim there and liken liberal nation to old dog that needs shot

Canadians are becoming so disillusioned with their liberal country some said they would happily swim to the US if they could gain legal entry.

The fed-up Canadians complained their country has become ‘stagnant’ under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau was recently trolled by president-elect Donald Trump who referred to him as the ‘Governor’ of Canada and joked the country could become a 51st state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Kevin O’Leary says he is headed to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to discuss U.S.-Canada ‘economic union’

Canadian business mogul Kevin O’Leary says he wants to meet with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the president-elect’s so-called “winter White House,” to discuss the idea of “an economic union” with the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ministers Joly, LeBlanc travel to Florida to get liquored up with Trump’s team

Two members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet will be in Palm Beach, Fla., Friday to meet with members of Donald Trump’s team.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly and newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are making the trip south to further discussions with members of the future Trump administration, ahead of inauguration day on Jan. 20.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The Canadians Who Say: ‘Trump, Take My Country—Please!’

OTTAWA—Every day, just before sunset, 33-year-old Ryan Hemsley heads to Clover Point, a scenic stretch along the southern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province. When the weather is clear, he can look across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and see the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.

“Subconsciously, there’s something that keeps bringing me here every day,” Hemsley told me. Watching the Seattle ferry return to the U.S., his thoughts drift to an unlikely fantasy.

“How can I be a stowaway so I can be an American?” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

It’s time to become the 51st state of the US

We need to get Brexit done properly. Let’s finally face up to reality and put our Maga hats on

‘The Briton… should cheerfully acquiesce in the decree of Destiny, and stand in betimes with the conquering American.” So said William Thomas Stead, the prominent Victorian newspaperman and strident reformer.

Stead looked at Britain’s colonial apotheosis with apprehension, understanding that the growth of new great powers meant “we can never again be the first”. As his countrymen grew fat and complacent on the spoils of imperial decadence, Stead saw clearly that the only avoidance of incipient decline would come by uniting our fortunes with those who had passed us in the great race.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

After the USS Gettysburg Misfire, Can We Talk About TWA 800?

On Sunday, December 22, a US Navy guided-missile cruiser, the USS Gettysburg, mistakenly shot down an American fighter jet over the Red Sea. This was not the first incident of friendly fire by the U.S. Navy, nor the most tragic.

On Sunday morning, July 3, 1988, at the tail end of the Iran-Iraq War, an Aegis cruiser in the Persian Gulf, the USS Vincennes, fired two Standard Missiles at a commercial Iranian Airbus, IR 655. Captain Will Rogers III and his crew had mistaken the ascending passenger jet with 290 people on board for a descending Iranian F-14, a fighter plane.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA

Progressive policies are fuelling rise in New York subway murders

This year will go down as the deadliest in the New York City subways in decades, if not ever. The indescribably savage immolation of a woman passenger on the morning of December 22 brings the number of murders in the subway in 2024 to 11. Since 2020, 40 people have been murdered in the system, more than the total number dating back to 1990.

Images of the scene from Sunday morning are ghastly. A human figure is engulfed in flames while a man, eventually identified as the killer, sits calmly watching a few yards away. The murderer, an illegal migrant from Guatemala, evidently used a lighter to set his victim’s clothes aflame. He was caught later that day, snoozing on another train.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, USA

FBI found evidence Covid was lab leak but was not allowed to brief President, claims bioweapons expert

The FBI found evidence suggesting that Covid-19 was caused by a lab leak but were not allowed to brief the president, it has been claimed.

Jason Bannan, a doctor of microbiology and former senior scientist at the FBI, has dedicated more than a year of his life to discovering the origins of Covid.

But despite being the only US national intelligence agency to conclude that a lab leak was likely, the FBI and Mr Bannan were snubbed from a National Intelligence Council briefing with Joe Biden, it has been claimed.

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

Q&A: Why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sided with Trump about border issues in trade spat

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s 2024 was a year of following through on her promises — from health-care reforms to support for the oil and gas industry — even as her opponents fought her ideas.

In a year-end interview at the legislature in early December, Smith reflected on a few pressing issues.

The Alberta government’s next steps, she said, will be revealed in the provincial budget, set to be tabled on Feb. 27.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump’s Re-election Defines a New Era of American Politics

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When Barack Obama won re-election in 2012, it seemed to mark the beginning of a new era of Democratic dominance, one propelled by the rise of a new generation of young, secular and nonwhite voters.

With hindsight, the 2012 election looks more like the end of an era: the final triumph of the social movements of the 1960s over the once-dominant Reagan Republicans.

Instead, it’s the three Trump elections — in 2016, 2020 and 2024 — that look as if they have the makings of a new era of politics, one defined by Donald J. Trump’s brand of conservative populism.

Thank God that moment passed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump, USA