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Trump: US will become Guardian of the Strait of Hormuz and be reimbursed by 20% cargo toll

The US will take control of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran and be reimbursed for doing so, Donald Trump has said.

The president claimed the US would become the “guardian angel” of the waterway, a major maritime chokepoint for global energy trade that has effectively been closed by the conflict in the Middle East.

“We’re going to keep the ‌strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Mr Trump told Fox News on Monday. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait. And we should be reimbursed for that.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

Bryan Brulotte: Canada can’t afford another unbuilt pipeline

Canada’s greatest energy problem is not that we produce too little oil. It is that we have spent more than a decade making it increasingly difficult to sell it. Ottawa’s decision to support, in principle, a new pipeline to Canada’s Pacific coast is encouraging, but approval alone will not restore investor confidence. Trust, once lost, must be earned back. For years, governments layered Canada’s energy sector with carbon taxes, increasingly complex regulations, emissions caps, tanker restrictions and political uncertainty. Investors responded exactly as rational investors should. They invested elsewhere.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"Energy Matters", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Counter terrorism police take over investigation into Ann Widdecombe’s death

Counter terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe, after “new information and evidence”, officers have said.

A 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was originally arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday but has now been re-arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

“We are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack,” head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said.

Only yesterday the UK Police were assuring us that she had committed an act of racial violence against herself.

🚨 BREAKING: CHILLING CCTV CAPTURES ANN WIDDECOMBE MURDER SUSPECT FLEEING HOME WITH WOODEN BATON HOURS BEFORE BRUTAL KILLING

The Sun has obtained dramatic CCTV showing the prime suspect, a 28-year-old man from Rotherham, jumping into his red hatchback just before 8am last… pic.twitter.com/xlaG5OGT8r

— J Stewart (@triffic_stuff_) July 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•terrorism

Fire at bar in Bangkok kills at least 27 people

BANGKOK (AP) — A huge fire tore through a music bar in Bangkok overnight, killing at least 27 people and leaving 25 hospitalized in critical condition in the Thai capital’s most deadly blaze in 17 years.

Photos from the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar in a northern part of the Thai capital showed people fleeing as flames shot out the single-story building and thick black smoke billowed into the sky. Shoes lost and scattered as their owners sought to flee could be seen in pictures from the aftermath of the tragedy.

🇹🇭🚨‼️ INSANE FIRE IN BANGKOK CLUB!

Flames shot 20 meters (65 feet) out of the entrance. People inside had no chance.

Unfortunately, at least 29 dead.

What caused such a raging fire shooting into the streets? That’s insane. pic.twitter.com/5PvKd25wrG

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•WTF?

Guns and butter: The true cost of Canada’s military spending is yet to be tallied

Canada will never be a military powerhouse. But it is making up for lost time during the post-Cold War years, when spending on fighting machines sank to risible levels. As various MPs have stated, Canada had planes that wouldn’t go up and submarines that wouldn’t go down, and still does for the most part. Today, only one of Canada’s four rust-bucket submarines is in service and its CF-18 fighter jets are twice the age of some of its pilots.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela

Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s populist “Bolivarian” revolution were shaking in what was once a hotbed of support.

Gabriel González remembers his elation when, in 2013, he received the keys to his freshly completed apartment in one of the 12-floor tower blocks El Comandante had ordered to be built in an affluent corner of the resort town of Caraballeda.

The moment a building collapses as the ground shakes violently during the powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Venezuela pic.twitter.com/Pnfy7v15pm

— Surajit (@surajit_ghosh2) July 10, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•Venezuela

Critics question federal prison agency’s AI plans for inmate assessments

OTTAWA—Experts are urging Correctional Service Canada to slow down after it claimed using artificial intelligence to help create criminal profile reports for prisoners would save time and maintain accuracy, despite using just six text cases in a trial.

The warnings come as CSC considers rolling out generative AI tools that would summarize sensitive documents used to write influential assessment profiles of offenders going to prisons, as the Star has reported, raising alarm about the potential for the summaries to be tainted by AI-generated hallucinations or biases.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Iranian newspaper publishes list of ‘revenge’ targets

An Iranian newspaper has published a “revenge list” of world leaders to be targeted for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran.

The rogues’ gallery in the conservative newspaper Hamshahri, which is published by authorities in Tehran and is known for its provocative tone, begins with images of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu with sniper-style targets on their foreheads.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

‘Good deal for Canada:’ PM Carney insists not a lot of profits to split with U.S. on Gordie Howe Bridge

Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists the profits split with the Americans will be minimal.

“The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said in an interview with CTV Calgary’s Tara Nelson at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday when asked about the agreement.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

WTF?

An accurate visual representation of "Modern Britain". pic.twitter.com/auRyaKxjSe

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•WTF?

At competing Stampede breakfasts, 2 very different visions for Alberta emerge

It may have been the final day of the 10-day Calgary Stampede exhibition and rodeo, but two pancake breakfasts held simultaneously Sunday morning made clear the battle for the hearts and minds of Albertans is just ramping up.

At Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall, one of Calgary’s most well-known western bars, the pro-independence group Let Alberta Decide hosted a pancake breakfast, drawing hundreds. One man wore a shirt that read “Alberta First. Ottawa Last,” before grabbing a plate of eggs, sausages, pancakes and fruit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF?

This is not a right-wing parody video

Toronto Police actually posted this pic.twitter.com/50UhYW9zSd

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•WTF?

5 Top Reasons The Smithsonian American History Museum Is A National Disgrace

Warning! If you plan on visiting the nation’s capital this summer, skip the American History Museum. According to a new report by the Domestic Policy Council, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History has failed in its fundamental mission — to instill in visitors a deeper respect for the American story.

Below are the five most disturbing things about the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, according to the report.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•USA

The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West

(JNS) More and more information is surfacing to reveal that the Islamic holy war against the West isn’t just being waged on the battleground of the Middle East.

Even more significantly, it’s also being waged through a trillion-dollar influence campaign to colonize and subvert the Western mind, organized by extremists from the Islamic world.

These have tunneled into the West through a vast civic infrastructure whose real purpose and sources of funding have been as well concealed, and in their own way are just as deadly as the subterranean genocide factories in Gaza and Lebanon.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The Vatican fired me after I claimed a word used 2,570 times in the Bible refers to alien beings

An Italian translator who says he was ‘fired by the Vatican’ for his interpretation of the original Hebrew Bible has revealed a radical reinterpretation of what God in scripture really is.

Mauro Biglino pointed to the word ‘Elohim,’ found 2,570 times in the Holy Book, which translates to ‘God’ or, in his opinion, ‘Gods.’

Biglino, an Italian scholar who worked as a biblical translator for Edizioni San Paolo, a major Catholic publishing house linked to the Vatican, suggested that instead of detailing encounters with one God, the Bible describes encounters with a group of mortal, alien beings armed with high technology.

h/t handy n handsome

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•"UFO's"