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As U.S. Guns Pour Into Canada, the Bodies Pile Up

Guns waving in the air, the partygoers danced inside a recording studio on a fashionable city block, near a bar with craft cocktails like “Espresso Yourself” and a boutique hotel with what a Michelin Guide called a “bohemian-baroque aesthetic.”

Then, just after midnight, three rival gang members descended on the alley behind the studio and began firing. The partygoers cracked a door and shot back wildly. Nearly 100 bullets tore into the night, many striking a nearby supermarket and homes.

It was a miracle no one was killed or injured, the police said. When the dust settled, officers recovered 16 guns tossed into trash bins, dumped in the alleyway and shoved under a couch — each one smuggled across the southern border, the police said.

Canada’s border with the United States, that is.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, USA

No Tears for the End of the American Empire

Trump’s NSS ends endless American interventions — and the pundits are furious.

When I clicked on the website of The American Spectator Saturday morning and began to read Matthew Omolesky’s lament for the end of the American empire, I thought for a moment that I mistakenly accessed the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs or The Economist, which specialize in Trump-bashing and genuflecting at the so-called “rules-based international order.” Then, a friend sent me Fareed Zakaria’s latest column in the Washington Post about Trump making America “small” again. President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy, which prioritizes U.S. national security interests and seeks to get America out of the protectorate business, has upset the Wilsonians and neoconservatives among us who weep for the end of U.S. global hegemony.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

JD Vance, After Days of Backbiting and Infighting, Plays Peacemaker at Turning Point Conference

After days of prominent conservatives taking shots at each other from the main stage of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, Vice President JD Vance is trying to play peacemaker for a party that seems increasingly divided.

During his headline speech on Sunday in Arizona, Mr. Vance took subtle shots at previous speakers, admitted to diving into some of the conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk’s murder, and told conservatives to stop taking potshots inside the tent.

Come 2028, Mr. Vance is most likely to be the first Republican presidential nominee not named Trump in more than a decade. To get there, he must bandage the open wounds fellow conservatives have inflicted on one another in the wake of Kirk’s assassination in September.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

New study finds AI chatbots can influence some Canadians to change their vote

This one just says “Vote Carney”

Study found Canadians were more likely to be swayed than Americans

Talking with an AI chatbot can successfully convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a new study.

The study, which included 1,530 Canadians, also found that the chatbots had more success convincing Canadians to switch their votes than it did with Americans.

Gordon Pennycook, a Canadian and associate professor at Cornell University, said the study set out to discover how persuasive generative AI could be when it comes to politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Canada, USA, WTF?

America’s great migration

The young and ambitious are fleeing the stagnant coastal states for the booming heartland.

‘For many states that were once great have now become small; and those that were great in my time were small formerly. Knowing therefore that human prosperity never continues in one stay.’ So wrote Herodotus in his Histories, in the fifth century BC. He reminds us that world history is not a morality tale between the ‘powerful’ and their victims. Rather, societies evolve, grow stronger and overcome weaker ones. People – and, more recently, capital – migrate to places that offer greater opportunities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Rubio Warns Europe Risks Destroying ‘Shared Culture‘ of the West

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Europe risks destroying the “shared culture” of the West and in turn weaken bonds with the United States.

At a press briefing from the Department of State in Washington DC on Friday, Secretary of State Rubio doubled down on the assertions made in the White House’s National Security Strategy memo, which declared that Europe faces “civilizational erasure” if it continues globalist policies of mass migration and attacks on fundamental liberties such as freedom of speech.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

The midwestern city torn apart by a Somali fraud scandal

Suicidal White Guilt Minnesota

It should have just been a routine arrest, but within minutes the air of southern Minneapolis was thick with pepper spray, tear gas and snowballs.

The pepper spray and tear gas was being fired by immigration agents, who had been cornered by dozens of protesters. One of them radioed the county sheriff in a panic, claiming they were being attacked.

The snowballs were being flung by the demonstrators, outraged by what one of them described to The Telegraph as the officers’ heavy-handed tactics as they arrested at least two people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "White Guilt", Camp Of The Saints, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

RCMP investigating Ryan Wedding, aiming to lay charges in Canada

The RCMP says it is actively investigating Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal activities, in the hopes of laying criminal charges in Canada against members of the organization.

In the wake of charges in the U.S. against Canadians allegedly tied to the Wedding organization, two senior Mounties told The Globe and Mail that they are continuing to pursue their own probe.

“The outcome that is wanted, of course, is to lay charges here in Canada, if we can,” said Superintendent Marie-Eve Lavallée of Eastern Region RCMP, which is leading the Canadian investigation out of Montreal. “If we have enough to charge here, we will.”

So Canada is only now investigating???

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

US intercepts second merchant vessel off coast of Venezuela in international waters

US forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, according to two US officials, the Associated Press reported.

The move comes days after Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers coming in to and out of the South American country and follows the seizure by US forces of an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on 10 December.

The officials were not authorized to discuss publicly the ongoing military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity, the AP said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Conrad Black: Americans ignoring us is to our peril

Last week I carefully read the statement of strategic purpose of the Trump administration, a document published by every recent incoming administration within a year of its inauguration. The strategic statement has been received with misgivings by members of the Fortress America school that holds that the United States should be ready at all times to repulse any initiative from any potential rival country or group of countries, and by Western Europeans always on the lookout for any softening commitment of the United States to the defence of Western Europe.

I will explain why I don’t share those concerns, but my principal reservation about the strategic statement is that the country, and indeed the word, Canada, is mentioned only once in this document. A number of other countries are also overlooked but none of them has as intimate a geographic, commercial, and cultural association with the United States as Canada does.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump and top aides refuse to rule out war with Venezuela

Donald Trump and his top advisers have refused to rule out the potential for open conflict with Venezuela as Nicolás Maduro urged his navy to escort oil tankers defying the largest US fleet deployed in the region in decades.

In an interview broadcast on Friday morning, Donald Trump told NBC News that going to war with Maduro’s regime remains on the table. “I don’t rule it out, no,” he said in a phone interview with the network.

And at a year-end press conference at the state department, Marco Rubio doubled down on remarks by other top Trump advisers that the US could coerce Maduro through its campaign of strikes on alleged drug boats travelling toward the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Gun-control wackos are actually blaming TRUMP after the shooting at Brown

Even while law-enforcement officers hunted for the gunman who murdered two students and wounded nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island last week, gun restrictionists unleashed their typical unhinged rhetoric.

Take the reliably partisan Sen. Chris Murphy, who blamed President Donald Trump for engaging in a “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

The anger is performative and cynical.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

US carries out ‘massive’ strike against IS in Syria

The US says its military has carried out a “massive strike” against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery “struck more than 70 targets at multiple locations across central Syria”. Aircraft from Jordan were also involved.

It said the operation “employed more than 100 precision munitions” targeting known IS infrastructure and weapons sites.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria, USA

How Venezuelan crude could shake things up for Canadian producers

With the Trump administration seizing Venezuelan oil tankers, demanding the “return” of oil and other assets and threatening war against the Maduro regime, the fate of the world’s largest proven reserves is once again in doubt.

As a result of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela has been all but frozen out of the international oil market, despite having more known oil than either Canada or Saudi Arabia.

If the oil were to start to flow again — as it did before the arrival of president Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro — it could have profound effects on Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela