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MAGA will win the media war The European insurrection is doomed

In the 20th century, it was customary for Latin American military juntas to start a putsch by seizing control of the national broadcasting company. This often happened during the night or in the early hours of the morning. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet and his troops took over the radio and TV stations in Chile by 8am. On 24 March 1976, the leader of the Argentinian military junta captured Isabel Perón at 1am. By 3.10am, all TV and radio stations started to play military marches.

The actors have changed since then and so have their methods. What is unchanged is the idea that political power is about the control of the media. This is why the US and the EU have been engaged in a raging dispute over social media regulation and content moderation since JD Vance criticised the Europeans at last year’s Munich Security Conference for suppressing free speech.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

‘Get their act together’: Freeland on U.S. relationship with others on world stage

Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland says when it comes to the U.S. and its relationships with other countries on the world stage, it needs to “get their act together.”

Since his 2025 inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened several countries, including Canada, with annexation and tariffs on goods, creating an ongoing trade war.

Freeland, fresh off her January resignation as a member of Parliament, appeared Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Freeland resigned after being appointed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as an adviser on economic development for Ukraine.

Did she ever work for Canada?

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

Trump official: British free speech victims should seek asylum in US

Thousands of miles from Westminster fuelled by gargantuan cans of energy drinks and a vim for free speech, Sarah Rogers is fast becoming a thorn in Sir Keir Starmer’s side.

As Donald Trump’s firebrand undersecretary for public diplomacy, she relishes admonishing Britain over its unfiltered mass migration and failures to safeguard free speech.

From her Washington office, a sprawling suite inside the Harry S Truman Building, the New York lawyer leads the administration’s charge to rescue what it believes are Western civil liberties in terminal decline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Was the raid on Venezuela real?

From the very start, there was something weird about Operation Absolute Resolve. The official story went something like this: after a whirlwind air attack, which included the use of suicide drones for the first time, special operators from the US Army’s renowned but shadowy SFOD-D unit (“Delta Force”) were helicoptered into the Fuerte Tiuna military complex in the south of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. They defeated the local garrison, used “massive blowtorches” to breach heavy metal doors in a fortress-like residential site within the base, captured the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, then spirited them back to the helicopters and flew them out to face charges in the United States. Donald Trump said it had been “an assault like people have not seen since World War Two.”

Painfully real for Maduro I’m betting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Why Some of Trump’s Muslim ‘Allies’ Fear a Loss of Iran More Than They Fear Iran

US President Donald J. Trump’s Gulf Arab allies, according to the New York Times, oppose an American strike on Iran primarily out of fear of regional instability and the possible damage to economies, tourism, and domestic security.

While this explanation may sound credible on the surface, a deeper and far more uncomfortable reality is that for several of these regimes, the real danger is not Iran’s collapse, but an ideological exposure that could follow decisive American action, as well as concern about Israel becoming more prominent in the region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

The Canada F-35 Fighter Deal Might Be Close to Collapse

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is inching closer to a possible decision to end Canada’s F-35 procurement plans and accept an offer from Sweden’s Saab, instead, with news this week revealing that the Swedish manufacturer is now providing Ottawa with detailed, technical information on what a JAS 39 Gripen fighter deal would actually look like in practice.

Among the topics currently being discussed in Ottawa are timelines for technology transfers, the speed at which a Canadian production line could be established, and how Canada could participate in future export sales of the aircraft. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "RCAF", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Sweden, USA

Niall Ferguson: Trump Was Inevitable (and Necessary), Mark Carney Was an Accident

Carney Fades Away

Niall Ferguson is a British Historian affiliated with Harvard University and the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He’s the author of a whole bunch of books about western civilization but also writes a column for the Free Press. He’s a fan of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and has been a recent supporter of the UK conservative party.

Today I came across this video of a discussion he had last December in Vancouver. This was part of a series called the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Voices That Inspire. The snippet I saw starts came only about 7-8 minutes into the discussion. It was literally the second question and Ferguson complained that the interviewer was setting him up for failure by asking him to say something positive about Donald Trump in front of a Canadian audience.

Full video

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

Is Football Doomed?

You will probably watch the Super Bowl on Sunday. Maybe you’re a casual fan. Maybe you’re a football nut who wants to see how New England’s defense matches Seattle’s heavy formations. Maybe you just want to watch the commercials.

Whatever your motivation, you’ll have company. More than 191 million people tuned into the Super Bowl in 2025. Americans are projected to spend more than $20 billion on game-related food, drinks, gear, and more this year. Many households observe the Super Bowl more reverently than Easter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Ugly Confrontation About ICE Signage at Minneapolis Yoga Studio Goes Viral

You may have noticed that there’s a common element for a lot of the anti-ICE folks that we’ve seen out in places like Minnesota. They’re largely white, liberal women, often middle-aged.

They think they are “fighting fascism,” so they think that gives them the right to act as they do.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Camp Of The Saints, USA

Crash by Illegal Immigrant in Indiana Draws National Outrage

Four people in Indiana are dead following a crash involving a semi truck on Feb. 3, 2026. The driver of the semi truck, Bekzhan Beishekeev, is a 30-year-old illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was paroled into the country under the Biden administration’s CBP One app, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS also stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer for Beishkeev and took custody of him on Feb. 5, 2026. “He will remain in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings,” they added.

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

The Globalization of Canadian Rage

The defiance against America that has consumed Canadian life for over a year now has finally spread to the rest of the West. The message of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos last month — that of a “rupture in the world order” — was not new for Canadians. Just after his election in April, Mr. Carney declared that “our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over.” At Davos, the moment caught up with him, and with Canada.

Throughout last year, the consensus among many European policymakers in the face of Donald Trump’s bombast was to wait out the nonsense and appease when possible. Mr. Carney’s speech arrived at the exact point at which that position proved untenable: Mr. Trump’s intensifying threats to forcibly annex Greenland, not to mention his insults to NATO troops who fought and died alongside U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. “They stayed a little back, little off the front lines” is a statement that will be remembered in Europe alongside “Ich bin ein Berliner” and “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” as a presidential remark that embodies the American spirit of its moment. Suddenly, Mr. Trump’s mindless drive toward territorial expansion and his desire to humiliate and degrade were impossible to ignore.

Media manipulated TDS he means.

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

Canada is uniquely unprepared for the dire national-security crisis we are now in

It is doubtful any country has ever been in quite the national security dilemma Canada now finds itself in: with so much land and so few people to defend it; wedged between two expansionist superpowers, one of which was until very recently our best defence against the other, but which has since become more or less aligned with it.

The dilemma is particularly acute in light of our charmed history. A country that had always considered itself invulnerable to attack – because of the oceans that surround us, because of the forbidding climate in our North, because of the Americans – wakes up to discover that it has suddenly become peculiarly vulnerable.

Coyne alert!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

He fled B.C. in 2015. Now he’s been connected to 2 suspected biolabs in the United States

When Jesse Jia-Bei Zhu left British Columbia in 2015, the 62-year-old had a six-month jail sentence and a multimillion-dollar B.C. Supreme Court judgment hanging over his head — fallout from his thwarted plans for global domination of the lucrative bull semen industry.

Nearly a decade later, the wily entrepreneur’s name has resurfaced in the U.S. in connection to equally bizarre — if unsettling — allegations involving a pair of biolabs in California and Nevada stocked with vials of potentially hazardous substances.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA, WTF?

An Anti-ICE Movement Increasingly Run by Revolutionaries

As public support wanes, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become the target of nationwide protests. While many of these protests are peaceful and popular, they have also created an opening for aggressive activist networks with long histories of revolutionary politics. Some of these groups are moving beyond lawful dissent, with organizers and online channels increasingly promoting confrontation, disruption, and other unlawful actions against federal authorities.

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

France has a nasty case of Trump Derangement Syndrome

The French IT giant Capgemini has put its US subsidiary on sale because of its association with the work of ICE in America.

All hell broke loose last week in France after it was revealed by the state broadcaster that Capgemini’s software was being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify foreigners on US soil and track their locations. According to the BBC, Capgemini multi-million dollar contract with ICE was agreed last December and was scheduled to run until 15 March.

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