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‘We Will Never Forget’: Canadians and Americans React to US Lifting COVID Border Restrictions

While the United States recently announced it will end its COVID-19 vaccine requirements for international air travellers and at the Canadian border, The Epoch Times spoke with some Canadians and Americans who expressed deep frustration with the rules being implemented in the first place, vowing not to forget being separated from their loved ones.

“We will never thank a government whose deliberate implementation of discriminatory, baseless mandates, targeted a group whose only threat was the rejection of their false political science narrative,” said Hope Vanbeselaere Marsh, a Manitoba woman who was separated from her husband in Texas in March 2020.

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

Canada has nothing to fear from U.S. protectionist rhetoric, envoy to Ottawa insists

… And he cited the specific example of Li-Cycle, a Toronto-based lithium battery recycling operation that’s building a new plant in Rochester, N.Y., with more than US$370 million worth of help from the U.S. Department of Energy, thanks to the IRA.

“They don’t feel like they’re being hurt by Buy American,” said Cohen, who said he met Li-Cycle executives at a recent conference in D.C.

“Buy American didn’t stop them from getting a $370-million grant from the United States government. And they’re not discouraged at all in applying for additional funding to support their lithium recycling business.”

But the fact they are building the plant in the U.S. and not in Canada speaks volumes, said Scotty Greenwood, CEO of the Canadian American Business Council.

“Competition makes us each better and our ultimate competitors and adversaries are in other places in the world — that’s true,” Greenwood said.

“But to say that there’s zero protectionism, and then to give an example of U.S. government money going to a Canadian firm to open a facility in the U.S., it’s precisely the point — the incentives work.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Green-Scam, USA

Politicized Intelligence Community: Danger to a Democracy

Recently Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, was arrested by the FBI and charged with unlawfully retaining and transmitting national defense information classified at the highest level. As reported in numerous media outlets, the documents in question relate to the war in the Ukraine and other sensitive topics, including surveillance on allies and adversaries alike. Teixeira reportedly copied, photographed, and leaked hundreds of pages of highly classified U.S. government secrets to gain admiration and influence among a group of teen-aged boys he befriended on Discord, a popular online platform favored by gamers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Is the US a threat to Christians in the Middle East?

The Iraq war in particular has been devastating to the region’s religious minorities

Religious persecution is a global constant, and no one is exempt. The most conspicuous threats to religious liberty arise in authoritarian and Muslim-majority states; however, Middle Eastern Christians point to an even greater threat: the United States.

At an international conference a couple weeks ago, a beleaguered Christian activist admitted to me what he was reluctant to state publicly: the US poses the most serious danger to his community. American political and military intervention fueled the destructive persecution that was driving Christianity from its geographic birthplace.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Middle East, USA

Muslim Mayor Who Cheered Al Qaeda Angry at Being Barred from White House

Mohamed Khairullah – Muslim Terrorist Sympathizer

Mohamed Khairullah is all over the news ranting that he was banned from entering Biden’s White House Islamist Eid event by the Secret Service. Before this is all over, the Secret Service will be forced to apologize, heads will roll and a bunch of Islamists will be brought in to purge the lists of any fellow Islamists who were flagged as security risks and replace them with Republicans and Jews. The Secret Service would have done better to give the Democrats what they wanted and admit Mohamed Khairullah to the party.

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

Former Rochester pizza shop owner imprisoned for ISIS recruiting now accused of attempted murder

Mufid Elfgeeh – Muslim Terrorist

Mufid Elfgeeh, the former Rochester pizza shop owner imprisoned for recruiting for ISIS, is now accused of attempted murder at a federal prison in Kentucky.

Elfgeeh, 39, was indicted last week in Kentucky on a federal charge of attempted murder. The indictment provides no more information, except identifying the victim by the initials of A.J.W.

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

Is Right-Wing Media Giving Kamala Harris a ‘Bad Rap’? The Word-Salad Transcripts Speak for Themselves

Kamala Harris’s World-Famous Word Salad

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson claimed last week that Vice President Kamala Harris “gets a bad rap.”

“The first duty of the job is to avoid upstaging the president, which means surrendering any political autonomy and never being out in front of the West Wing on any issue,” he wrote in defense of Harris last week after President Biden formally announced the pair’s reelection bid.

He added that Harris had been assigned the unenviable task of being in charge of the border “at a time when there was absolutely no possibility of getting Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that might reduce the flow of would-be migrants.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

First Republic Bank Is Seized by Regulators and Sold to JPMorgan Chase

Regulators seized control of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, a dramatic move aimed at curbing a two-month banking crisis that has rattled the financial system.

First Republic, whose assets were battered by the rise in interest rates, had struggled to stay alive after two other lenders collapsed last month, spooking depositors and investors.

First Republic was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and immediately sold to JPMorgan. The deal was announced hours before U.S. markets are set to open, and after a scramble by officials over the weekend.

h/t Mauser & XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Election Integrity’s Biggest Threat: Big Tech

If I could show you some of the data that we collected, you would be astounded.

There is a lot more that we can find. The bottom line on this is going to be that the types of monitoring systems that we have been developing since 2016, I am pretty sure at this point that they need to be permanent, large scale, and operating in all 50 states to protect our free-and-fair elections from interference by tech companies, which can flip elections any and all ways they please without anyone knowing.

Tech will always be far ahead of laws and regulations, but monitoring is also tech. If we are monitoring them, we are doing to them what they do to us 24/7.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", USA

U.S. asks Canada to reimpose visa requirements for Mexico to stem surge of crossings at northern border

The Biden administration has been asking Ottawa to consider reimposing visa requirements for Mexican nationals visiting Canada, CBC News has learned.

At issue is the sharp increase in illegal crossings from Canada into the United States: Mexicans don’t need a visa to travel to Canada, while the U.S. requires a visa for Mexicans to enter. American border officials say some Mexican nationals are using Canada’s visa-free rule to fly into the country and then cross south illegally into America.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Supporters defy opposition to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day in shadow of the huge Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial

The Sons of Confederate Veterans group’s held their Confederate Memorial Day celebration at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia near Atlanta, despite meeting with opposition from local groups.

The event was canceled for several years due to COVID but was revived in 2022.

Although groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, called for the event’s permit to be revoked, the 2023 Confederate Memorial Day event was allowed to go ahead by the state authority that runs Stone Mountain Park.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

‘God has planned to ambush them’: Tempers flare as furious religious groups protest SatanCon in Boston

Furious Christian groups are attempting to shut down the ‘largest Satanic gathering in history’ after hundreds of The Satanic Temple’s members descended on Boston.

The annual SatanCon festival arrived in town on Friday to celebrate the organization’s 10-year anniversary, kicking off with a bizarre opening ceremony that saw speakers tear up the bible and perform ‘un-baptisms’.

But the arrival of the Devil worshippers on the East Coast has sparked backlash from religious groups, with crowds gathering Saturday to stage a series of demonstrations across the city and combat the hellish three-day event with ‘intense prayer’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?