Author: Blazingcatfur

Are Canada and the United States now back on a path towards political and cultural convergence?

Holiday dinners are sometimes about making the best of an awkward situation, forcing smiles and exchanging pleasantries with people you’d rather not be sitting next to for very long. That’s just what Justin Trudeau did at the end of November, when he flew to Florida to dine with the incoming president of the United States. There is no bromance between Mr. Trudeau and Donald Trump, but their neighbouring countries are still better off when they can find a way to fake it, at least long enough to get from the appetizer to dessert.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Russian tanker tugged to shore for suspected Baltic Sea sabotage was ‘loaded with spy equipment’

A Russia-linked tanker suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables has been tugged to port amid reports it was loaded with “spy equipment”.

Finnish authorities boarded the Eagle S tanker at sea after suspecting the vessel of sabotaging undersea power and internet lines on Christmas Day.

The Cook Islands-registered ship was carrying Russian oil when it allegedly slowed down and dragged its anchor along the seabed to damage the Estlink 2 undersea cable, which provides power to Estonia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Just Stop Oil eco-zealots caught importing t-shirts made by low-paid factory workers more than 4,000 miles away

Just Stop Oil has been caught importing T-shirts made by low-paid workers in the Dominican Republic.

The eco activist group was branded a hypocrite for getting merchandise shipped from 4,000 miles away, rather than reducing its carbon footprint by having it made in Britain.

The average textile worker in the Caribbean country makes less than £40 a day, but JSO is charging £20 for the T-shirt.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

FOURNIER: Axe the Tax, Ignore the Cap and Nix Net Zero

Another year around the Sun is drawing to a close and keeping with what has become the Western Standard tradition, I am honored to write my year end synopsis for 2024 and my thoughts looking ahead to 2025.

My year end synopsis is Canadians must Axe the Tax, Ignore the Cap and utterly Nix Net Zero!

I encourage all Canadians and their Conservative constituency associations to simply prioritize getting back to the basics and demanding that our elected officials retreat from all global commitments and initiatives relating to CO2 emissions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

To live up to its enduring promise, Canada must repair what is broken

Two decades ago, I wrote: “Sometime, not too long ago, while no one was watching, Canada became the world’s most successful country.”

The culture of accommodation that we evolved more than a century and a half ago as a way for the French and English populations to co-exist had proved to be ideally suited, I believed, to bringing millions of people from all parts of the world to this country, where they lived, worked and played together in harmony.

A false defense of multicult with a dash of don’t make the Muslims mad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

India’s trafficking claims against Canadian colleges reveal ‘exploited’ immigration system, experts say

An investigation by Indian officials that alleges dozens of Canadian colleges and universities might be linked to a scheme of illegally ferrying students across the Canada-U.S. border reveals the “staggering” extent to which holes in the immigration system can be exploited, some experts say.

“If the allegations are true, it reveals shocking gaps in our integrity protocols.… This is deeply, deeply concerning and problematic,” Raj Sharma, a Calgary-based immigration lawyer, told CBC News Network, adding that the allegations suggest “wide-scale human smuggling.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

South Korea plane carrying 181 people skids off runway and explodes, killing all but two: report

A commercial jet carrying 181 people skidded off a runway at an airport in South Korea and burst into a massive fireball, killing all but two, who somehow miraculously survived the horrifying aviation disaster, according to South Korean media.

The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 airplane was arriving from Thailand at Muan International Airport in the south of the Asian nation on Sunday morning when its landing gear failed to extend just after 9 am and it wound up belly flopping onto the ground.

Bad Day For Boeing.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Secret Assad files show Stasi of Syria put children on trial

Analysis of intelligence documents reveals that family members spied on each other, teachers betrayed pupils — and ‘traitors’ were tortured and killed

Secret intelligence documents uncovered by The Sunday Times in Syria have revealed the terrifying extent of Bashar al-Assad’s Stasi-like surveillance state, where family members spied on each other and the slightest suspicion could result in ordinary people — including children — being swept into a network of prisons notorious for torture and executions, with victims buried in mass graves.

Thousands of files, written in neat biro or typed in formal Arabic, detail the way the regime has infiltrated protest and rebel groups since the revolution began in 2011. They reveal details about the vast network of informants that reported to the regime, and how the intelligence services forced the people they arrested to give up names of alleged collaborators — who would in turn be detained.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria

The Virtue That Enables All Others: A Conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

For the past several decades, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been everywhere. She has been a New Atheist, a Dutch parliamentarian, and a public intellectual living under Islamist death threats; now, to the shock of many, she has converted to Christianity and launched her own media platform to advocate for the restoration of the West called Couarge.Media.

In retrospect, there were indications that Hirsi Ali was considering Christianity. In 2021, I interviewed both Hirsi Ali and her husband historian Niall Ferguson within a few weeks of each other. Both had just released books; I was reviewing Ferguson’s Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe for The American Conservative and Hirsi Ali’s Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights for this publication. Later, going over my transcripts, I noted with interest that both Ferguson and Hirsi Ali had brought up—and defended—Christianity during the interviews unprompted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

Dems Are So Antisemitic Even Elected Jewish Dems are Switching

Rep. Hillary Cassel, a Florida legislator, announced that she was switching parties.

“As a proud Jewish woman, I have been increasingly troubled by the Democratic Party’s failure to unequivocally support Israel and its willingness to tolerate extreme progressive voices that justify or condone acts of terrorism,” she posted on Twitter. “I’m constantly troubled by the inability of the current Democratic Party to relate to everyday Floridians.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"