Author: Blazingcatfur

‘Sometimes you have to take medicine’: Trump defends sweeping tariffs

US President Donald Trump has defended sweeping tariffs on imports that sent shockwaves through global stock markets, saying “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something”.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, he said jobs and investment would return to the US to make it “wealthy like never before”.

Trump’s top officials stressed that the tariffs – announced last week – would be implemented as planned, playing down recession fears.

I see the so-called stock market meltdown as nothing more than an orchestrated temper tantrum by our threatened elites.

h/t Hermes

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day"

More U.S. academics are looking to Canada amid Trump’s crackdown on universities. What does it mean for schools here?

Amid the turbulent Donald Trump presidency, many American scholars are considering relocating abroad, including to Canada. Some here view this potential influx as a “brain gain” for the country, but others worry it could exacerbate existing problems in the post-secondary system.

Critics argue that the arrival of U.S. talent could limit job opportunities for Canadian academics and intensify challenges like underfunding, program cuts and faculty layoffs. They warn that while attracting top scholars may be beneficial, it could hinder the development of Canada’s own academic and research capacities.

It means they get worse. Hard as it is to believe that’s even possible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", WTF?

Defiant Trump officials vow to stay course as countries scramble over tariffs

US President Donald Trump’s advisers have defended sweeping tariffs on imports and vowed to stay the course, despite market turmoil and calls to avoid a trade war.

In a series of television interviews, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent played down recent stock market falls and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, insisted reciprocal tariffs would be implemented as planned.

Bessent said there was “no reason” to expect a recession as a result of the turmoil. “This is an adjustment process,” he said.

Here is Carney admitting he’s a carpetbagger.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day", Canada, USA

Should Canada build a human-focused, foreign intelligence service?

Should Canada build a spy service to gather foreign intelligence via human sources?

It’s a question worth asking as the country faces an increasingly unstable relationship with its next-door neighbour, from which Canada has long relied upon to glean key intelligence.

Stephanie Carvin, a former national security analyst for the federal government, says it’s “something we should consider,” or at least have a debate on — and she’s not alone in advocating for Canada to assess how it can boost its foreign-intelligence efforts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Germany ‘weaponises immigration law’ to deport Palestinian sympathisers

Roberta Murray, a 31-year-old Irish national, has lived in Berlin for two and a half years, putting on art exhibitions and working in a café. Murray has no criminal convictions, and has a basic right to settle and work anywhere in the European Union.

However, along with three other pro-Palestinian activists, from Ireland, Poland and the US, Murray is facing deportation and a two-year ban on re-entering Germany even before a legal appeal can be heard in court.

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

Michael Taube: Poilievre’s winning formula to become prime minister

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are ahead of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives by a cumulative average of 5 to 6 points. Contrary to popular (Liberal) belief, this doesn’t mean the federal election is over. There’s plenty of political runway left, and more than enough time for Poilievre to make up ground.

How can this be done? Some Conservative strategists and thinkers have called for significant policy shifts and massive transformations. I believe the answer can still be found on the path well travelled by Poilievre.

Abacus Data Poll: Liberals and Conservatives remain deadlocked at 39% each.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

Germany: Priest calls altar boy a ‘Nazi’ and fires him after he takes photo with AfD politician

An altar boy who served in a Bavarian church for nine years was slammed as a “Nazi” by the parish priest and dismissed from his position after the boy took a photo with Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Maximilian Krah.

The family says they are shocked by the conduct of the Bavarian priest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, Germany, Germany - AfD party

Inside the NDP’s struggling campaign as party faces possible collapse

The bus is orange. The seats are carpeted. And the battle cry for the partisans on board is borrowed from the late Jack Layton: “Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.”

Layton led the NDP to its best-ever election result in 2011, when the party won 100 seats and, for the first and only time, became the official opposition.

Jagmeet Singh, by contrast, is fighting to keep official party status.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025, NDP

Carney’s ‘values’ the wrong ones at the wrong time

For those who haven’t had the misfortune of parsing through Mark Carney’s ‘Values,’ it reads like a sermon from a high priest of globalism — polished, preachy, and packed with ideas that should send shivers down the spine of anyone who cares about Canada’s economy, especially Western energy producers.

Writing as the former Bank of Canada governor and a darling of the Liberal elite, Carney pitches a vision of ‘sustainable finance,’ net-zero absolutism, and heavy-handed regulation. To the National Citizens Coalition, it’s clear: this isn’t a roadmap to prosperity, it’s a wrecking ball aimed at the heart of Canada’s resource sector and the West’s economic lifeline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Are the Democrats drifting further Left?

The Democrats are at a historic ebb and now is a good time to examine what the party believes in, who its main protagonists are and what their agenda is. Amid the fraught divisions in the party, however, one faction is emerging strong: the Big Red One.

That the Left of the party is in the ascendancy is evident at both the local and national level. Rather than let the fallout of Donald Trump’s tariffs speak for itself, the new head of the Democratic National Committee engaged in mad fighting talk. Ken Martin said: “We’re coming. This is a new Democratic Party. We’re taking the gloves off.” Martin draws his support from the likes of prominent anti-Israel figure Attorney General Keith Ellison. He is also a close ally of Left-leaning Minnesota Governor and Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz, who just released a textbook for students that echoes Critical Race Theory, including an attack on “racial capitalism”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party, WTF?

Taming the military-transfer complex

Dwight Eisenhower sounded the alarm about the military-industrial complex. What he did not anticipate was the military-transfer complex.

The military-transfer complex emerged in the Great Society Programs launched by Lyndon Johnson at the height of the Vietnam War. Politicians decided that we could have both guns and butter. Much of this military-transfer complex was financed with debt.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Gilbert and George: the last honest chroniclers of London

No other artists have dared capture the tragicomedy of the capital’s multiculturalism.

Art duo Gilbert and George object to the term ‘gentrification’ to describe the ongoing overhaul to the east London neighbourhood that has been their home for almost 60 years. ‘We think it’s classist and sexist, because you’d never say ladyfication. Or Jewification. Or blackification. Or Bangladeshification’, they once informed the Guardian, with their signature prankishness. ‘They’ve only got it in for white people. It’s punishing the honkies.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Multiculturalism", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Stuck between Trump and China, Canada faces a stacked the deck

The ache of Donald Trump’s Liberation Day noir will go beyond disaster for thousands of Canadians who lose their jobs and see their savings debased by stagflation and battered markets. There will also be historic political implications for whoever forms Canada’s next government.

While we were “spared” the heavier blows that Trump placed on many other countries, Canadian households very much face a painful future of reduced incomes, diminished nest eggs and higher living costs.

Canada is entering its greatest existential upheaval since Confederation. Besides Trump duties that will make Canadian autos, steel and aluminum less affordable to U.S. customers, China has slapped exorbitant tariffs on Canadian canola, seafood and pork exports that will punish farming and commercial fishing families.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA