Author: Blazingcatfur

Denmark’s ‘zero refugee’ policy drives down asylum admissions to record low

Denmark’s strict immigration policies resulted in the granting of 860 asylum requests last year, the lowest number bar 2020, when Covid-19 lockdowns halted new arrivals.

Denmark’s immigration approach has been influenced by Right-wing parties for more than 20 years, with Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister and leader of the centre-Left Social Democrats, pursuing a “zero refugee” policy since coming to power in 2019.

The country of around six million people received 2,300 asylum requests last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Denmark

Trump’s Approval Soars in New Poll, but Concerns About Inflation Loom

President Trump is seeing high approval ratings from the public since returning to office, with many describing him as “focused” and “effective,” according to a poll released Sunday, but many of those polled are concerned that he may not be focused enough on lowering inflation.

The new poll from CBS News and YouGov finds Mr. Trump’s rating at 53 percent — a figure that surpasses his approval numbers during his first stint in the White House. An overwhelming majority of those polled described the president as “tough” and “energetic,” and 70 percent said they believe he is doing what he promised during his campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Could Ontario’s snap election break records for low voter turnout?

When Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford called a snap election at the end of January citing the threat of tariffs from the United States, his political opponents cried foul.

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie, NDP Leader Marit Stiles and the Greens’ Mike Schreiner all said the call was a selfish decision to press home a political advantage and win another four years as premier.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

If Wokeism Dies, What Cause Will the Left Embrace Next?

Progressivism is at a crossroads.

In his recent speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Argentine President Javier Milei delivered an urgent plea against the postmodern Left. He did so not in his usual punk rock tone but with calm aplomb: “Woke ideology is the cancer that must be removed.” And he celebrated Donald Trump’s determination to be America’s surgeon. Many attendees lowered their heads because they have been the promoters of these ideas for years. Milei had gone to the woke temple to humiliate them. What does it all mean for the future of the Left?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Trump is hardly the West’s only trade warrior

The hysteria over Trump’s tariffs ignores just how protectionist most economies have become.

US president Donald Trump has begun his second term as president threatening to impose tariffs on assorted countries, from Canada to China. While some of the tariffs have been postponed, such as those on Canada and Mexico, others remain in the offing, triggering no shortage of hyperbolic media coverage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Migration, Conquest, and Exodus

The irreversible process of “transculturation” is underway. Without question, the West has changed profoundly alongside the sustained immigration from the Third World, legal and otherwise.

Particularly affected by the change is Europe, the “eastern pillar” of the West, which borders the dominion of Islam. In this part of the world, the presence of Muslims has a troubled history; to those with a grain of historical awareness, it brings back painful memories of the war of conquest that began over a thousand years ago in the Levant and reached as far north as the city gates of Vienna.

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

Raquel Garbers: Welcome to the post-America world

We are living in the most historically significant moment since the fall of the Soviet Union. The shift in global power away from the United States has reached the point where the payoff that comes from “running the world” is no longer worth the cost. In upending how it engages in the world, the United States has declared: “We’re out.”

In the post-America world, to borrow Fareed Zakaria’s expression, the United States will be much less burdened by the constraints and costs that come from global leadership. Yet given its commitment to remaining the world’s most powerful state, it will not retreat into isolationism. It will engage in international affairs in ways that privilege its core national interests over those of its allies and partners, for whom there will be no more “special deals.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump’s national security adviser: ‘I don’t think there’s any plans to invade Canada’

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday he doesn’t think the president has “any plans to invade Canada.”

His remarks follow multiple reports that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a closed-door meeting of business leaders last week that the Trump administration “keep[s] talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state.”

On Sunday, Waltz added that many Canadians “do not like the last 10 years of liberal, progressive governance in Trudeau.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

How Somalis see the ‘Black Hawk Down’ battle three decades on

Despite being surrounded by the debris of an ongoing civil war, Mogadishu’s residents in the early 1990s embraced the moments of serenity.

The warm Sunday sunshine and cooling ocean breeze made for the perfect opportunity for Binti Ali Wardhere, 24 at the time, to visit relatives with her mother.

“That day was calm,” she remembers.

But like everyone else in the city she was unaware that the Americans were getting ready to attack warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed – and what happened would change her life forever.

Nuke Somalia

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSomalia, USA

The ties that bind: Why Canada’s auto sector is uniquely hostage to Trump’s tariff threat

For Southwestern Ontario’s auto sector, the reckoning caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened trade war is as intense as anywhere in Canada.

Hundreds of domestic automotive parts and equipment manufacturers, who supply multinational automakers on both sides of the border, were braced at the start of the week for nearly the entire industry to shut down if Mr. Trump made good on his vow to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports.

Not sure Ontario will have much left when Trump is done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA