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Turkey detains 15 members of anti-American youth group for assaulting 2 U.S. servicemen

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities on Monday detained 15 members of an anti-American youth organization who physically assaulted two U.S. military personnel in the city of Izmir, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

The agency said members of the Turkish Youth Union, which is affiliated with the Patriotic Party — a small, nationalist political party without parliament seats — were detained on the orders of a prosecutor.

The group posted a video of the incident on social media platform X and said they placed sacks over the heads of soldiers who had disembarked from the U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Wasp.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTurkey, Turkey - no ally to the West, USA

Why a Kamala Harris presidency wouldn’t necessarily be good news for Canada

Who is more Black?

If Kamala Harris’s campaign to become president of the United States is so far a matter of joyful vibes, then they’ve certainly been felt in Canada. Two thirds of Canadians told a recent survey they hold favourable views of the vice president, and a third say they’re relieved by the apparently revived challenge she and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pose to the Republican ticket.

But although much of this enthusiasm is likely driven by a parallel dislike of former president Donald Trump (three-quarters of respondents), it might also be contributing to the perception that the Harris-Walz Democratic ticket will be especially good for Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Canada, USA

Northern border sector continuing to break records in apprehensions

Apprehensions in 10 months surpass previous 13 fiscal years combined

The busiest U.S. Customs and Border Protection sector at the northern border continues to break records in apprehensions with foreign nationals coming from 85 countries to Canada to illegally enter the U.S.

In less than 10 months, Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 15,000 foreign nationals from 85 countries who all illegally entered the U.S. through Canada, the greatest volume reported in this time period in recorded history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canadian/U.S. border, USA

Stop Worrying About the Polls: Kamala’s Lead Is Fake

Yesterday, as I watched a podcast about my favorite NFL football team, a commercial interrupted my reverie. Yes, I know. Podcasts have commercials. However, this was not one of those “buy this, buy that, take this to end constipation” commercials. This was some angry man loudly complaining that Trump had failed to do X, Y, and Z. It made me angry, but not in the way intended. It motivated me to send a campaign contribution to Trump. I thought the Harris campaign deserved to know that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", USA

Press tries to gaslight away illegal border crossers caught trying to board San Diego County children’s school buses

I knew it was coming.

The press is trying to gaslight the public into thinking that any concern about unvetted illegal border crossers attempting to board children’s school buses in San Diego’s back county is all in their heads and there’s “no cause for alarm.” Migrants wouldn’t dream of boarding a children’s school bus, see, because they’re all big on obeying gringo’s laws.

The Los Angeles Times’s report is pretty typical of this narrative

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

Will The Biden-Harris Administration Allow the World’s Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism to Acquire Nuclear Weapons?

Despite widespread concerns over Iran’s advancing nuclear program, the Biden-Harris administration, along with European leaders, are largely inactive in curbing this growing threat. As the clock ticks, there has been no concrete strategy proposed to halt Iran’s march towards nuclear weapons, leaving the world in an alarming position.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israel, USA

‘Joy’ is working for the Kamala campaign, but it won’t work in Canada’s current climate

Canadian politicians love to look down south and try to adopt America’s trends, debates and cultural wars as our own. They rarely fit, but it doesn’t stop them from smashing the wrong puzzle pieces together with their fists and, for example, announcing new Canadian gun control measures after a mass shooting in Texas.

We’re already seeing it happen over the course of the U.S. presidential election campaign. Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen has been trying to transpose the Democrats’ highly effective “weird” label for Republicans onto Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, with little success. Indeed, it’s roughly as effective as trying to cheat off a fellow student’s exam paper when the teacher has scrambled up the order of questions for each test.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The US Air Force wants to replace its best fighter with an economy-class one

The US Air Force startled observers when, back in June, it publicly backed away from its most high-profile project – a potentially $60-billion effort to develop and build 200 new heavyweight, sixth-generation stealth fighters to replace its existing fleet of 180 F-22 Raptor fifth-gen stealth fighters.

The Raptor dates from the 2000s, but unlike the following F-35 it was built largely without regard for expense: it was the best fighter the US, with its unmatched expertise in stealth and other advanced technologies, could build. Russia and China have since produced their own fifth-gen designs, but they are not generally thought to be as capable. In the opinion of most analysts, the Raptor is the best fighter jet in the world. But it won’t last forever.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Justin Trudeau bends over backwards for America

There’s not much doubt what was on the minds of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet when members met in Halifax this week — at least when it comes to policy and not their party’s dismal standing in the polls.

You could tell by who they brought in to speak to them. There was Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan and one of Donald Trump’s leading advisers on trade. There was Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, along with two former Canadian ambassadors and others deeply involved in cross-border issues.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The Adept Mr. Vance

At the outset of J. D. Vance’s vice-presidential candidacy, it was practically mandatory for any story about his launch to include the word “rocky.”

Burdened by his cat-lady comments and deemed “weird” by every Democrat in America, Vance did indeed scuffle out of the gate.

CNN polling analyst Henry Enten called Vance the worst vice-presidential selection since George McGovern picked Thomas Eagleton in 1972.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Republicans Can Win Both Congress and the White House

When Robert F Kennedy Jr. suspended his own presidential campaign and threw his support behind Donald Trump, it sent shivers among the ranks of the Democratic presidential campaign. Prior polling had shown that Kennedy’s voters by varying degrees preferred Trump over Harris; his endorsement, Democrats feared, could be enough to tip the scale permanently in Trump’s favor.

The most recent polling data from RealClearPolling.com suggests that this is exactly what is happening. In polls published by Yahoo News on Tuesday, August 27th, Kamala Harris only ekes out a 1% lead over Trump. Previously, various polls have put her lead at 3-5%. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Alexander Vindman Represents Everything That’s Wrong With Our Officer Class

France just arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov for his alleged failure to sufficiently limit criminal activity on Telegram. What “criminal activity” translates to in European terms is anyone’s guess. In Britain, criminal activity is liking memes or posting dissident opinions on social media. The New York Times reported that the Telegram app had been on law enforcement radar partially due to its use by “far-right extremist groups” for communicating, recruiting, and organizing. That’s Clue Number One, the only clue anyone should need to understand. Durov’s only criminal activity was refusing to censor the free exchange of ideas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Can Justin Trudeau’s Liberals seize on the U.S. Democrats’ success? Here’s where they should start

It was a bit of bad luck for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, having to hold their annual cabinet retreat on the heels of the wildly successful Democratic convention in the U.S.

The comparisons and the questions were going to be inevitable — why can’t the Trudeau Liberals do that kind of progressive political revival here in Canada?

As minister after minister explained, no one is talking about showing Trudeau the exit door, as the Democrats did with Joe Biden.

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

Armed crew flaunts guns inside Colorado apartment building overrun by Venezuelan gang spilling out from sanctuary city

A shocking video shows a crew of gun-wielding men storm through a Colorado apartment building reportedly overrun by a dangerous Venezuelan prison gang.

The group of heavily armed men — including three with handguns and one with a rifle — enter the troubled apartment complex in the Denver suburb of Aurora and break into a unit, the clip obtained by KDVR shows.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?