Author: Blazingcatfur

Migrant avoids deportation because he lost his phone

An illegal Iraqi migrant who fled his country over his part in an alleged exam fraud has avoided deportation after claiming a people smuggler threw away his ID and phone.

The man fled Iraq after being threatened with arrest for an alleged exam fraud when he was caught on CCTV delivering test papers to an address a day before students were due to sit for the qualification.

He claimed that an “agent” who facilitated his passage to the UK had not only thrown away his ID documents but also made him get rid of his phone, on which he had his family’s numbers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Will Doug Ford join the federal campaign? Trump’s trade war may pull him into the fight

Fresh off his third straight election win, Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems content to watch the fight to form the next federal government from the sidelines — but it’s a battle experts say he may not be able to stay out of even if he tries.

Ford swept back to power nearly a month ago after calling a snap vote in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war. The premier has built up political capital on the file as a vocal opponent of the imposed fees from south of the border, which helped him cement his re-elected majority government.

But while the tariff battle and Trump appear set to become a major ballot box question federally, the Progressive Conservative premier has signalled he’s planning to stay out of that battle — something his office confirmed to CBC News.

He’ll join the Liberal Party campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Danish Officials React Coolly as Second Lady Usha Vance and Trump Officials Announce Plans To Visit Greenland

Second lady Usha Vance will travel to Greenland this week on a cultural mission with her son and American officials, the vice president’s office announced on Sunday. As the administration pushes for some kind of deal to annex the Danish territory, Ms. Vance plans to attend its annual national dogsled competition.

The second lady and her delegation will depart for Greenland on Thursday, where they will visit historical sites and learn more about Greenlandic heritage. “Ms. Vance and the delegation are excited to witness this monumental race and celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity. They will return to the United States on Saturday, March 29, 2025,” the vice president’s office said in a statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

To Fix Canada’s Housing Crisis, Fix Canada’s Immigration Policy

On all sides of the aisle, Canada’s political class has started to acknowledge that immigration plays a role in this country’s housing woes.

While this admission is a good initial starting point, restoring housing affordability will only begin in earnest when we grapple with how unsustainable Canada’s immigration levels have been of late. When you dig into the numbers, it becomes clear that major immigration reform is needed that goes beyond the measures already put in place by the federal government.

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

SLOBODIAN: The end of Trudeau, but not necessarily the Trudeau era

“We got you.” So said a teary-eyed Justin Trudeau on March 6 in his final speech as prime minister. Canadians wept too — jubilant tears over his departure.

The deservedly loathed one, who belittled, betrayed and weakened Canada, moulding it into a socialist shell of its former proud democratic self, offered a wild fairytale account of his decade as PM.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Think USAID was bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Have you heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)? If not, that’s unsurprising. It is a 230-employee agency that supposedly mediates disputes between unions and businesses, but that mediation is “voluntary.” Its headquarters is a nine-story building on K Street in DC, which houses—wait for it—60 employees. Where are the other 270? It’s yet another agency that thought it was independent. It wasn’t. Most FMCS employees “worked” from home. I put “worked” in quotes because if you thought the USAID or other federal agencies thus far exposed by DOGE were corrupt, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Wow.

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

How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins

Five years ago today, based on a highly misleading ‘model’ forecast from one academic, Neil Ferguson, the British government ditched its pandemic plan and locked the entire country down. This decision had disastrous and – as Sweden proves – unnecessary consequences.

It was the first of many dreadful mistakes made by the government during the Covid pandemic: shutting schools at the behest of unions, assuming the virus was not airborne, vaccinating children, overclaiming for vaccines and masks. The government thought it knew best and it let us down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

JFK files expose family secrets: Their relatives were CIA assets

Growing up, John Smith knew his grandfather as a serious academic — a bespectacled professor at the University of Maryland who wrote books on pre-Civil War presidents. He also knew E.B. Smith had traveled the world in his younger years.

What he didn’t know until this week is that his grandfather had once been a U.S. government asset, feeding Soviet-era intelligence to the CIA.

The Trump administration’s release of more than 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has thus far shed little new light on the killing. But the unmasking of many previously redacted names has revealed the identities of people who worked with the clandestine services, roles that in many cases were hidden for decades even from close family members.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Tommy Robinson in jail: 1,250 phone calls and daily doctor visits

The jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been allowed more than 1,250 social phone calls and 80 prison visitors during his time at HMP Woodhill, a court has heard.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court after breaching an injunction. He is currently seeking to launch a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice over his segregation from other prisoners at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTommy Robinson

Charity watchdog’s ‘Islamophobia’ fear gives misogyny a free pass

Is there any public benefit to the “advancement of religion”? Under the Charities Act 2011, places of worship can achieve charitable status if they demonstrate that their activities are for the public benefit. But what if the views espoused in such settings cause harm to wider society?

This is an urgent question, because yet another mosque has fallen foul of the rules. This time it’s the An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre, a registered charity in Birmingham which posted a video of a preacher who effectively condoned domestic violence and marital rape. Mahamed AbdurRazaq was advising a congregation on what a husband could do if his wife refused to have sex with him.

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

Replacing Cash With a Digital Dollar Would Pose a Grave Threat to Our Rights and Freedoms

The Bank of Canada has made no secret of its efforts to explore a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a “digital dollar” issued and controlled by the central bank. The Bank of Canada is not alone. To date, 134 countries and currency unions have explored a CBDC, and 66 countries are already in advanced stages of implementation.

In 2023, cash accounted for a mere 11 percent of total payments made by Canadians. Consumers increasingly tap their credit and debit cards at checkouts, send e-transfers, or use online banking to pay bills, make investments, and donate to charities. For many Canadians, metal coins function less like a currency and more like a locker or shopping cart token; paper bills are for birthday cards, not for “serious” transactions. New legislation in Quebec empowers law enforcement to presume that cash sums of $2,000 or more are the proceeds of unlawful activity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", "Surveillance Society"

Nolte: ‘Snow White’ Bombs — Breaks Record for Lowest Live-Action Remake Opening

With its dreadful $43 million opening, Snow White now holds the record for the lowest debut weekend of any of Disney’s live-action remakes.

The previous record-holder was 2019’s Dumbo, which opened to $46 million.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

GOLDSTEIN: Spare us the hollow ‘patriotism’ of the federal Liberals

For the Liberals to portray themselves as “Team Canada” in this federal election displays a level of shameless hypocrisy, given how they sneered at Canadians during their decade in power.

Led by a self-righteous and hypocritical Justin Trudeau — who took every opportunity to bash Canada, Canadians, our institutions and history — they are in no position now to don the mantle of ginned up patriots because they have a new leader in Mark Carney and an election ad with Mike Myers touting their mutual love for Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Amid Canadian political-poll mayhem, meet the man worth listening to

After a long stretch of dominance in the polls, the Conservative Party of Canada now finds itself the potential underdog. Mark Carney, Canada’s newly appointed (but not yet elected) prime minister is kiting his international credentials, shaking hands with the king and a Europe keen on stability.

This dramatic shift in voter sentiment sparks lively banter among political pollsters. Nik Nanos predicts the upcoming federal election in Canada between the Liberals and the Conservatives will be akin to a “knife fight in a telephone booth.” Others speculate on the duration of leadership honeymoons; they don’t last forever but sometimes they last long enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025