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What Do the Gulf States Really Want?

There is a question Washington should ask more directly: what do the Gulf states really want?

The official language is familiar: de-escalation, sovereignty, dialogue, Palestinian rights, regional stability, and balanced relations. These are legitimate concerns. But behind the communiqués lies a harder reality. Gulf capitals know that Israel is no longer isolated. They know that Iran is not merely a difficult neighbor. They also know that saying one thing in Washington, another in Tehran, another in Jerusalem, and another to Arab public opinion has become increasingly difficult to sustain.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023"

Douglas Todd: Developers often disguise the true market value of a Canadian home

“Eighty per cent of homes already sold!”

How many times have Canadians seen that kind of marketing of a new residential project?

The developers behind such campaigns aim to create a sense of scarcity. But their claims are often impossible to verify.

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Large groups of men twice seen climbing in and out of manholes in Brooklyn for unknown reason

New York City might have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle problem.

Trespassers were seen climbing into an open manhole on a Brooklyn street early Friday morning not once, but twice, cops said.

Just like the movie creatures who famously lived in the city sewer system, the group of about a half-dozen men have been spending hours in the slimy underground.

Williamsburg Brooklyn NY.

It appears 6 or 7 more individuals was spotted coming out of a different manhole . It appears the men all had tools on them as well .

We have a real problem on our hands. pic.twitter.com/TTmvTaBgT8

— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) May 31, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•WTF?

Rosedale could be ground zero for AI-powered security as rich Liberals come face to face with the diversity they helped import

Drive through the winding, tree-lined streets of Rosedale, and you’ll find yourself admiring the Victorian, Edwardian and Tudor Revival estates.

But what you may not notice, among the manicured lawns and stone gateways, is the growing number of high-tech security measures, some of which could soon be logging licence plates and compiling a “blacklist” of suspicious individuals and vehicles.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•Crime

Here’s Another Reason Cops Aren’t Checking to See If It’s a BB Gun Pointed at Them

When a gun is pointed at you, even for a split second, the barrel seems a whole lot larger than it really is. I’ve been unfortunate enough to experience that due to someone’s unsafe gun handling, so I’m talking from first-hand experience. Because of that, I don’t get worked up when there’s an officer-involved shooting, and the person shot by the police has a BB gun. I hate that it happened, and I feel awful for the officer, because I know that’s got to screw with a person’s head.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Former Snowbird pilots call on Ottawa to scale back aerobatic show instead of suspending it

Former Snowbird pilots are calling on the government to keep the iconic aerobatic show in the air by scaling back the performance rather than suspending it entirely.

The Royal Canadian Air Force recently announced it’s pausing the Snowbirds demonstration squadron at the end of the 2026 flying season until new planes arrive in the early 2030s.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Cuba Falling: A Most Unusual Meeting

There are a lot of stories about Cuba floating around right now. Some are MSM outlets acting like they have a scoop on something that’s been happening or rumored to be happening for months. Some are simply absurd and probably not true. Most aren’t actually verified by the Donald Trump administration and come from anonymous sources. I’m not even going to bother with those today. I saw this happen in the final months before we captured Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Most of these reporters and media outlets didn’t even care about these countries until they became newsworthy, and once they do become hot topics, they’ll publish just about anything to get clicks. I can’t do that.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

There is no reconciliation without truth

Two things can be true, at the same time. Five years after the startling announcement that there were hundreds of possible unmarked graves near a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., there has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains. That is reality, one reality.

Another is this: 3,200 Indigenous children, at least, died at residential schools, according to the 2015 report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Residential school students died at a rate far higher than children in the rest of Canada – a negligence so deep-rooted that it came “within unpleasant nearness” of manslaughter, according to a government official in the early 1900s.

Canada’s newspaper of record says Oops.

Holy shit. @globeandmail editorial board:

“The fact of the crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools over many decades does not automatically validate claims that hundreds of students were dumped into unmarked graves in Kamloops and other residential… https://t.co/ctwF8Z0InA

— Harrison Lowman (@harrisonlowman) May 30, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Yale-Educated Lupita Nyong‘o Admits She Never Heard of ‘The Odyssey‘ Before Helen of Troy Casting

Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has admitted that before being cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the 2,800-year-old Greek classic The Odyssey, she had never even heard of the epic story, despite having graduated from Yale University.

I confess to never having heard of Lupita before this woke casting calamity.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•Hollywood

Amy Hamm: At least Guilbeault has principles — most Liberals don’t

This week, Liberal MP and former environment minister and ex-Greenpeace activist Steven Guilbeault proved he’s capable of protest that doesn’t involve scaling the CN tower or chaining himself to oil sands equipment.

The Quebec MP announced his forthcoming resignation from the House of Commons, days after the CBC broke the news that 14 Liberal MPs (whom the CBC won’t name — but undoubtedly includes Guilbeault) penned a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling him out for allegedly reneging on the party’s environmental commitments. The letter insists that “climate change is the greatest threat of our time,” which certainly sounds as though it was penned by Guilbeault.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking.

Bill Gates’s employees have spent years carefully cultivating his image—down to keeping a custom-size mannequin to test his outfits for different days of the week.

A styling group stores troves of neutral tone crew and V-neck sweaters, button-down shirts, slacks and extra pairs of the Silver Lining Opticians “Carbon” glasses at an off-site building, current and former employees said. Once options are selected for public-facing engagements, employees usually send three options for approval by senior staff. The goal: to depict someone calm and approachable, like Mister Rogers.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"Elite Decadence & Decay"

Poilievre calls for emergency debate on recession in letter to Carney

In a Sunday morning letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary debate to address the state of Canada’s economy.

“You promised you would deliver the fastest-growing economy in the G7. You delivered the only recession in the G7,” wrote the Official Opposition leader.

On Friday, a report from Statistics Canada showed the country’s economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row — meeting the technical definition of a recession.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 31, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

The Myth of Slavery as an Engine of Growth

Over the past two decades, the New History of Capitalism has transformed debates about Western development by restoring slavery to the center of the story of modern economic growth. A burgeoning literature now contends that slavery was not simply a moral atrocity intertwined with capitalism but the essential engine that powered the rise of the Atlantic economy itself. According to this interpretation, slave labor generated the capital accumulation, commodity production, and financial sophistication that made the modern West rich. When British politician Kemi Badenoch publicly opposed this argument, critics accused her of minimizing slavery’s economic significance. Yet the central empirical difficulty with the enrichment thesis remains unresolved: if slavery is such a powerful generator of prosperity, why did societies organized around slavery remain poor for most of human history, despite slavery existing across nearly every major civilization?

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•slavery, Slavery and Reparations

A guide to the (many) groups running Alberta’s separatist and remain camps

Who’s leading the “remain” side in this divisive, near-existential referendum on separation for Alberta? And who’s leading the “leave” side, pushing for a future binding independence question?

These are simple questions. There are not simple answers.

If there’s one thing that unites the disparate sides of this debate, it’s that neither is organized by a single, top-down umbrella group.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada

Palace was told Andrew leaked trade secrets six years ago

Buckingham Palace was made aware of emails allegedly showing that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information with a business contact six years ago, according to court documents.

A tranche of emails during the former prince’s time as a British trade envoy was sent to the Royal Household in 2020.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"Woke Royals"