Author: Blazingcatfur

Why Is Hamas So Confident That It’s Winning?

After nearly a year of suffering and grievous losses, most Israelis and Palestinian Arabs will likely observe the anniversary of the war started by Hamas on Oct. 7 with sorrow. But not everyone. An interview The New York Times conducted with Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas’s “political wing,” in his luxurious living quarters in Doha, Qatar, revealed he thinks the war has gone just fine.

As the Times put it, Mashaal thinks that Hamas is “winning the war” and is confident that the genocidal Islamist organization will, despite the battering it has received from the Israel Defense Forces, play a “decisive” role in Gaza in the future.

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

Why does Ottawa keep stoking housing demand instead of addressing supply?

The federal government just announced what it is calling the “boldest mortgage reforms in decades to unlock home ownership for more Canadians.” Unfortunately, there are good reasons to be skeptical that the proposed measures will help anyone buy a first home.

The government is implementing two new measures: increasing the $1-million price cap for insured mortgages to $1.5-million and expanding the eligibility for 30-year amortizations to all first-time homebuyers and all buyers of new builds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Dutch Government Officially Requests Opt-Out From EU Asylum Rules

The Netherlands today officially asked the European Commission for an exemption from the EU asylum rules. In a letter, asylum and migration minister Marjolein Faber told the Commission the new government “aims to drastically reduce the volume of migration to the Netherlands” and that this is necessary to “fulfill our constitutional duties—providing for public housing, health care, and education.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNetherlands

BC Not the First to Consider Mandatory Treatment for Severe Addictions

Although British Columbia has been in the spotlight this week for mulling mandatory care, it’s an approach that has also gained traction in New Brunswick, Alberta, and Ontario.

Mandatory care has been used historically in Canada, but was abandoned in recent decades when the idea took hold that the method infringes on personal liberties. Since the 1990s, the approach to addiction in Canada has moved from abstinence-based models to harm reduction–a method aimed at reducing the negative impacts of drug use rather than a focus on eliminating the use itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish authorities on Thursday charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria — in the first such case of a person to be tried in the Scandinavian country.

Lina Laina Ishaq, who’s a Swedish citizen, allegedly committed the crimes from August 2014 to December 2016, in Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate and home to about 300,000 people.

The crimes “took place under IS rule in Raqqa, and this is the first time that IS attacks against the Yazidi minority have been tried in Sweden,” senior prosecutor Reena Devgun said in a statement.

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

Rebel News not eligible for journalism tax credits, Federal Court rules

A Federal Court judge has upheld the government’s decision that far-right media outlet Rebel News doesn’t qualify for journalism tax credits because it doesn’t produce enough original content.

Rebel News applied in May 2021 to be designated as a qualified Canadian journalism organization, but was rejected by the Canada Revenue Agency, which found that less than one per cent of its content was original news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

After Teamsters Non-Endorsement, Democrats Could Regret Dumping Biden

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters may be sealing Vice President Harris’s fate by declining to endorse a presidential candidate. If President Trump prevails, expect Democrats to lament persuading President Biden not to run — déjà vu from 2016 when they convinced him to step aside for Secretary Clinton, who proved the weaker candidate.

In the Electronic Member Poll of Teamsters, Trump won in a landslide with 59.6 percent to Ms. Harris’s 34 percent. In a phone poll, he prevailed 58 percent to 31 percent. It’s a huge drop of support from Mr. Biden. Members chose him over his predecessor by eight points, 44.3 to 36.3 percent, prior to Democrats swapping candidates.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

CHARLEBOIS: Canada is sobering up — here’s why

Canada is experiencing a notable shift in its alcohol consumption patterns.

Quebec’s SAQ is the latest liquor authority to report a consecutive decline in alcohol sales by volume, a trend that mirrors what is happening across the nation. In the most recent fiscal year, alcohol sales by volume have dropped in all provinces, signaling a significant change in Canadian drinking habits. According to the data, Ontario’s sales fell by 2.0%, Quebec by 2.5%, and Alberta saw a steep 15% decline, based on estimates and liquor board reports. Provinces such as Nova Scotia (-4.2%), Manitoba (-6.7%), and British Columbia (-4.9%) have also reported substantial drops.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – Last Saturday evening, I arrived at the Haitian Community Help and Support Center here on S. Yellow Springs Street, drawn by former President Donald Trump’s explosive claim in the presidential debate days earlier that migrants from Haiti are “eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people who live there.”

But in just 72 hours, I uncovered something sinister that is the real story in this town of about 58,000 locals and an estimated 15,000 migrant workers—a long-standing, hidden human trafficking network that has upended the lives of both the Haitian migrants and local residents. According to sources, with whistleblowers coming forward, FBI anti-trafficking agents and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost are investigating the allegations of human trafficking in Springfield.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHuman Trafficking, WTF?

How construction costs of Royal Canadian Navy Joint Support Ships soared to $3.4B

The difficulties encountered in building Canada’s new supply ships is behind much of the almost billion dollar jump in price for the two vessels, federal statistics show.

The actual construction of the two Joint Support Ships for the Royal Canadian Navy was supposed to cost taxpayers around $2.5 billion but last month the federal government revealed that cost had now jumped to $3.4 billion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCN", WTF?

LeDrew: Trudeau is Canada’s most destructive and charming PM … Uh sure charming like Ted Bundy

Justin Trudeau won in 2015 because he was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada — the most successful political party in the western world.

But Justin Trudeau will lose the next election, so badly that it would embarrass any normal person, becoming the leader of the fourth party in the House of Commons. Trudeau will be obliterated because Canadians now understand that he is not the leader of the Liberal Party, but the leader of a “movement,” as he referred to the party when he became leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

US says Iran sent info from Trump hack to Biden associates

Iranian hackers distributed information about Donald Trump’s electoral campaign to people linked to the Biden campaign, according to the FBI and US intelligence agencies.

US officials now believe that information taken from the Trump campaign was sent in unsolicited emails to people linked to the campaign in late June and early July – before Biden dropped out of the race for president.

There is currently no evidence that the hackers received any reply from any recipients.

They just keep trying.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Iran, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Jason Kenney blasts Trudeau government’s ‘catastrophic’ mass immigration agenda, accuses Liberals of trying to create a ‘voting bloc’

Jason Kenney, former premier of Alberta and federal immigration minister, said the Trudeau government likely “imagined” it would be “creating a new permanent Liberal voting bloc” by rapidly boosting Canada’s immigration numbers, but instead ended up eroding Canada’s pro-immigration consensus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, The Great Replacement

‘I’m prepared to use my gun to defend Trump. It’s the American way’

The war is coming, of that much Chris Quintanilla is sure.

As he queued for Donald Trump’s town hall rally in Flint, Michigan, on Tuesday night he pointed to his “Fight” T-shirt featuring the famous photo of a bloodied Trump raising his fist after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.

“Yes, we’ll see a war,” Quintanilla, a 26-year-old painter, said. “I hope not, but I think we will, and I’m going to fight for him because he’s my president … Trump is loved out here. The Dems hate him because they’re scared they’re going to lose, and they want him gone.”

It’s a Times piece that reeks of British classism.

The author likely sneers at anyone in GB who protests the Islamization of that scepter’d isle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump