Author: Blazingcatfur

Uncertainty remains, after 19 days of war in Iran

Four years and 24 days. Nineteen days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first numbers — 1,485 days altogether — is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number — just 19 days — is the number of days since U.S. and Israeli forces on Feb. 28 began bombing strategic targets in Iran.

The two attacks have this in common: their initial responses were far different from what many experts, in the United States and beyond, expected and predicted.

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

Liberal government appeals ruling against use of Emergencies Act to Supreme Court

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is honking its final horn in its legal battle to validate its use of the Emergencies Act to deal with the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government filed its application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on Tuesday in the hopes that the highest court in the land will overturn two earlier decisions that ruled the use of the draconian act was unjustified as a way to stop the protests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

To Live and Die in LA’s Film Industry

Someone likened it to ‘killing the Golden goose,’ and if there was ever anything golden about Los Angeles, it was the glitter of its legendary film industry.

I mean, the celebrity culture and mystique of the movie industry was, next to palm tree-lined boulevards, the association most often made in the average American’s mind when asked what represented Los Angeles to him.

The strident incoherence of Hollywood’s pampered leftists is nothing new but the internet has made it harder to get away with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Cuba vows ‘unbreakable resistance’ to any takeover attempt

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has responded to takeover threats from Donald Trump, saying that the US would face “unbreakable resistance” if it tried to seize the country.

His remarks come as Cuba struggles with a multitude of economic woes largely brought about by pressure from the US, which is trying to cut off the flow of foreign currency and oil to the Caribbean island.

In his comments on X, Diaz-Canel accused the US of threatening “almost daily” to overthrow his country’s constitutional order by force, using as its pretext a weakened economy that Washington itself had “attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

Israel confirms: Iranian Intelligence Minister eliminated

Esmaeil Khatib – blowed up

An Israeli official confirmed Wednesday morning that the Israeli Air Force carried out an attempted targeted assassination against Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib on Tuesday night.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed Khatib’s death, saying that Khatib had been “in charge of the Iranian regime’s mechanisms for murder and internal repression, and of advancing external threats.”

“Israel’s policy is clear and unambiguous: No one in Iran is immune, and they are all targets.”

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

Border agency ‘systemic collapse’ allows man found guilty of immigration fraud to walk free and sue Canada

Gurpreet Singh, a 40-year-old Indian national, is suing the Canadian government and employees of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), alleging they prosecuted him maliciously and violated his charter rights.

It’s the latest twist in a massive immigration fraud saga in Saskatchewan that has been winding its way through the justice system for many years.

At the heart of that drama lies a big mistake by the CBSA.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Islamist ideology rife within Civil Service, says ex-ambassador

A former UK ambassador has said it is undeniable that “Islamist entryism” is creating anti-Israel sentiment within the Civil Service.

Edmund Fitton-Brown, who was a British diplomat for more than 30 years, claimed that rising hostility towards the Jewish state in wider society was being mirrored across Whitehall.

His comments come after The Telegraph revealed Foreign Office staff attended an event at the Iranian embassy in London to celebrate the Islamic revolution, just weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its own people.

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

Canada’s Conservatives Want Chinese EVs Barred and Their Software Banned

Canada’s Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre on Sunday unveiled a plan to double the country’s vehicle production.

Polievre called for a tariff-free auto pact with the United States while pledging to scrap both the Liberal government’s Chinese EV import quota and its electric vehicle mandate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ten Years After the Brussels Attacks: An Open Wound for Europe

Ten years after jihadist bombings tore through Brussels, killing 32 people and injuring hundreds, survivors and officials gathered near Maelbeek station to mark an anniversary that remains unresolved for many of those who lived through it.

The tribute took place just metres from the metro stop where one of the explosions struck during the morning rush hour on March 22, 2016, when coordinated attacks on Zaventem airport and the city’s underground network brought the Belgian capital to a halt.

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

Can Hezbollah hang on? Militants defiant but attitudes shift as bombs fall

In Hezbollah’s northern stronghold, officials explained how far the tentacles of the Lebanese militant group extend into everyday life. “They run schools, food banks and hospitals, operate banks which support the poor,” said Ahmad Tfayli, the mayor of Baalbek. The Shia group, he claimed, never ask about religion and, he added, keeps the peace.

However, there’s little sign of peace in Lebanon, where as Israel’s land invasion of the south gets under way, thick plumes of smoke rise from Beirut’s southern suburbs — Hezbollah’s bastion in the capital.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHezbollah