Author: Blazingcatfur

The Sham of ‘Disarming’ Hamas

Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have again rejected demands by US President Donald J. Trump’s “Board of Peace” to lay down their weapons. This rejection underscores the determination of terror groups to continue their fight against Israel.

The Palestinian terror groups’ refusal to hand over their weapons shows they do not take seriously Trump’s repeated threats that they must disarm as part of the October 2025 US-brokered ceasefire and reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip. Trump made his latest threat in February 2026, when he warned that Hamas would be “harshly met” if they failed to disarm.

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

Internal RCMP report warns nitazenes could surpass fentanyl as ‘defining issue in Canada’s opioid crisis’

An internal RCMP report says that nitazenes — synthetic opioids police describe as “20 to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl” — could become a defining feature of the opioid crisis in Canada in the coming years.

Those drugs, which have been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada, “are emerging as a growing threat,” the report says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, Drugs

Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?

Sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradition. How executives explain those decisions, however, has changed.

Out are buzzwords like efficiency, over-hiring, and too many management layers.

Today, all explanations stem from artificial intelligence (AI).

In recent weeks, giants including Google, Amazon, Meta, as well as smaller firms such as Pinterest and Atlassian, have all announced or warned of plans to shrink their workforce, pointing to developments in AI that they say are allowing their firms to do more with fewer people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

She had a family and a business in Mississauga’s Afghan community. How did Mezhgan Aini vanish and no one reported it for three years?

Mezhgan Aini had a husband and three children she cared about, family in Afghanistan who she talked to regularly, and a thriving seamstress business in Mississauga.

Then she was gone.

Mezhgan, 38, was reported missing by her sister in August 2025. Seven months later, Peel police issued a news release: The probe into her disappearance was now a homicide investigation.

Maybe the same reluctance that lead to the torture and death of a child was at work on this case?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

‘Equity cards’ arguments take over NDP Leadership Convention: ‘CANADA IS COOKED’

As you already know, the New Democrat Party over the weekend elected a new leader in Avi Lewis.

But prior to him stepping into Jagmeet Singh’s Gucci loafers, there were some other events that took place during the NDP Leadership Convention in Winnipeg.

My suspicion is the Juno’s and the NDP Convention are the same event rebranded.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, NDP, WTF?

Israel targets Iran’s leaders with lethal expertise using new AI platform

TEL AVIV — As U.S. and Israeli military commanders met to map out war with Iran, they deliberated over how to divide responsibility for an array of targets, including missile batteries, military bases and nuclear sites.

It was clear from the outset, however, that one grim mission would belong to Israel: hunting and killing Iran’s leaders.

Israel has pursued this assignment with ruthless efficiency, killing Iran’s supreme leader in the opening salvo of the war and more than 250 other “senior Iranian officials” since, according to a count maintained by the Israeli military. The latest blow came Thursday when Israel said it had killed the naval commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Iran’s Wealth Is Parked on London’s Billionaires’ Row

Years of Western sanctions haven’t prevented money flows out of Tehran: ‘They probably learned from the Russian oligarchs’

On a leafy residential stretch of North London dubbed Billionaires’ Row, Saudi royals and wealthy Russians have long come shopping for high-end real estate. The Iranians were a more surprising addition to the neighborhood.

Several sprawling mansion plots along the thoroughfare more formally known as The Bishops Avenue make up a chunk of the extensive London property holdings funded by Iranian money that Western officials have linked to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iranian banker Ali Ansari acquired the Bishops Avenue plots and other nearby property in 2018 for around 90 million pounds, equivalent to around $120 million today, according to people familiar with the deal. The transaction took place offshore through an entity registered in the Isle of Man, the people said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Pro-Palestine activists wanted to test the limits of a residential protest ban in North York. Here’s what happened

A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators was met by a large police presence on Sunday, as they marched in North York to test a directive banning them from residential parts of a local Jewish neighbourhood.

At 1 p.m., about 20 people carrying Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel slogans walked west along Sheppard Avenue from its intersection with Bathurst Street, the site of competing weekly rallies about the Mideast conflict since at least fall 2024.

A line of Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers and cruisers blocked off each side street along the main thoroughfare. At each one, organizers asked if they would be allowed down the street, and officers instructed them to keep moving.

That’s a lot of cops and firemen to deploy. The cost of policing these cranks is unsustainable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

AfD demands US troops leave Germany

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has called for the withdrawal of all US soldiers from the country.

Tino Chrupalla, the far-Right party’s co-leader, told a meeting on Saturday that it was time to remove allied troops and nuclear weapons from Germany in order to pursue an “independent” foreign policy.

“Let’s start implementing this with the withdrawal of US troops from Germany,” he told supporters in Saxony.

Long a popular opinion in Germany, it may hasten the end of NATO.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party, NATO, USA

Nope. Not worried one bit …

A major immigration reform bill is now law in Canada. Some worry it rolls back refugee rights

A major bill reforming immigration powers is now law in Canada, giving Ottawa powers to mass cancel groups of visas and setting time limits on asylum claims in the name of bringing immigration numbers under control.

But the legislation, passed Thursday, has also raised concerns from a coalition of civil society groups, including Amnesty International, immigration lawyers and public sector unions, that says it places too much authority in the government’s hands and is vowing to fight it.

“Bill C-12 attacks the rights of refugees and migrants,” Julia Sande, a lawyer specializing in privacy and migrant rights at Amnesty International Canada, said in an interview with CBC News. “It makes it harder for people to have their claims for refugee protection fairly assessed, so it puts people at risk of being deported to face persecution and torture.”

Just the usual scammers dislike this and frankly it doesn’t go far enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Europe’s pre-revolutionary conditions are taking shape

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to address members of the European Parliament. Many of the things I said will sound familiar to regular readers of my column, but I believe I was able to deepen some of my thoughts, and would like to share them with you here.

Revolutions make for fascinating case studies in hindsight. We like to imagine them as eruptions of grand philosophical discontent, the oppressed masses rising against an unjust order in the name of some great principle. And there is always a philosophical dimension lurking in the background. But the spark that actually ignites a revolution is often far more mundane than historians care to admit.

Closer to home …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civil Unrest", "Civil War", Europe

‘Expect extremely high grocery prices,’ farmer warns as diesel costs rise

Farmers around the world are feeling the squeeze of the Iran war. Gas prices have shot up and fertilizer supplies are waning due to Tehran’s near shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli bombing.

Iran is seriously limiting shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage that usually handles about a fifth of the world’s oil shipments and nearly a third of global fertilizer trade.

Canadian farmers are also bracing for higher costs and warning consumers could soon feel the impact at the checkout line.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized