Author: Blazingcatfur

New York Times Doesn’t Bother Telling You This Key Detail About Its Favorite Gaza Doctor

A good deal of what the world thinks it knows about the supposed “genocide” in Gaza is due to the efforts of Hussam Abu Safyia. In October 2023 and December 2024, Safyia penned two guest essays in the New York Times, giving agog Times readers the lurid, gritty details of what it was like to try to do the work of a physician while the rapacious Israeli war machine racked up ever more innocent victims.

 

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

Former campaign manager says Conservatives should link U.S. relations to cost of living

Former Conservative campaign manager Jenni Byrne says her party’s messaging on the relationship between Canada and the United States is evolving, and should continue evolving as the situation shifts.

Byrne, who is a looming figure in Conservative politics, says linking the trade war with the U.S. to the party’s central affordability message is key to gaining political ground.

“I think you absolutely can do both.… I think it’s staying on top of things, being adaptable and seeing how that is actually going to affect Canadians’ day-to-day life,” Byrne said in an exclusive interview with CBC News.

I’m sure that advice will be well received but to be fair no one anticipated Trump’s election intervention on the LPC’s side.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Leftist Leader Hails Great ‘Replacement‘ with Illegal Migrant Amnesty

The leaders of the far-left Spanish Podemos party celebrated on Saturday the “victory” of the mass amnesty for around half a million illegals and hailed the achievement as a step toward the “replacement” of right-wing Spaniards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Great Replacement

Pierre Poilievre’s leadership victory settles one question — and raises many more

Could be twins, at least on spiritual plane says Star

CALGARY — After a campaign-style speech, heavily borrowed from the Conservatives’ best hits of the 2025 election, Pierre Poilievre secured the leadership of his party with a resounding 87.4 per cent of the delegate vote.

Now, the party must wrestle with the question of what comes next.

Does his solid victory — more than he received in 2022 when he became leader (70.7 per cent) and more than former leader Stephen Harper received in 2005 during his leadership review (84 per cent) — mean Poilievre has no changes to make before the next election? Or does it give him the leash to adjust his offering?

The blitz of “Poilievre’s leadership in jeopardy” articles having failed sees the MSM return to the usual fear mongering nonsense of “CRIME! GUNS! IMMIGRANTS! ETC!”.

It’s like the MSM has a hidden agenda or something.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Alex Pretti Was Part of a Growing Gun Culture in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS—Heather Zielinski had been friends with Alex Pretti for nearly a decade when she discovered something new about him.

By then, she already knew he wasn’t like most guys here. He wasn’t a crazed football fan or a flighty 30-something bachelor, but an outdoorsman who loved mountain biking away from the city.

Still, she perked up last year when she looked around his living room and saw a holstered handgun on a shelf.

Zielinski, a 44-year-old Realtor, was intrigued that Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse at the local veterans hospital, would be a gun owner.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

OLIVER: Playing to Davos and domestic audience, Mark Carney recklessly provoked Donald Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney recklessly provoked President Donald Trump, with the predictable result of a hyperbolic overreaction — a 100% tariff threatened on all goods and services exported to the United States — which, taken at face value, would have a devastating impact on Canada’s economy.

Although we should not accept his threats at face value (take him seriously, but not literally), it was irresponsible for Carney to have indulged his ego for domestic political purposes.

Maybe Carney is working a con stoking the base for an early election while privately walking back his public comments?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump fears Chagos deal will leave US base vulnerable to Chinese spy boats

The White House is concerned that Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands will expose the United States to spying by Chinese boats.

Senior members of Donald Trump’s administration fear handing control over the waters around around the Diego Garcia military base to China-allied Mauritius would open the door to espionage by sea.

It is thought that Beijing operates a fleet of vessels disguised as fishing boats to carry out espionage missions in its neighbours’ exclusive economic zones.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

From Sham Marriages to Fake Colleges: Inside Canada’s Battle Against Immigration Fraud

Federal and provincial governments have announced measures to crack down on immigration fraud by toughening regulations and even closing entire programs. But what if these moves are merely scratching the surface of a much larger problem?

This past December, Canada’s immigration department announced a halt on applications for the Start-up Visa (SUV) Program, which had allowed foreign entrepreneurs to move to Canada to start new businesses.

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

Italy church restoration probed after Meloni angel lookalike

It’s a sign from God!

A recently renovated church in the Italian capital, Rome, has stirred controversy as many noticed that one of the restored angels bore a striking resemblance to the country’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Italy’s press has posed the question of whether Meloni, of the radical right-wing Brothers of Italy Party, inspired the restorer, Bruno Valentinetti, who reportedly has had ties to the Italian right-wing politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

With Poilievre’s leadership review behind them, Conservatives say it’s time to prepare for the next election

OTTAWA — As Pierre Poilievre departed his party’s convention armed with the backing of delegates to lead the federal Conservatives into the next election, senior party figures say getting ready for that contest will be the next challenge.

Poilievre secured 87.4 per cent of support from the more than 2,500 delegates who descended on Calgary for the party’s three-day convention, with his leadership review on Friday night as the main focus of the gathering.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and healthier since the early 1990s, all while sea ice has steadily declined due to climate change.

Polar bears rely on sea ice as a platform from which to hunt the seals that they rely on for blubber-rich meals. The bears’ fat reserves provide energy and insulation and allow mothers to produce rich milk for cubs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Is Canada Really Warming?

Is Canada really warming at double the global average rate, as the Canadian government says it is? A new report says no, because the data Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) uses are apparently corrupted by fundamental mistakes, mistakes so severe that when corrected, all the supposed warming of the past six or seven decades vanishes.

Given that Canada represents a large fraction of global land surface area, one naturally wonders if the world is warming at anything like we are told it is.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, WTF?

Trump says Iran ‘talking to’ US and hints at deal to avoid military strikes

Donald Trump has said Iran is “talking to” the US and hinted at a deal to avoid the use of military strikes.

“[Iran is] talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something, otherwise we’ll see what happens … We have a big fleet heading out there,” he told Fox News. “They are negotiating.”

Trump added that US allies in the region were not being told of plans for possible strikes due to security reasons. He has threatened to intervene in Iran in the wake of a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Conrad Black: Trump isn’t our problem — we are

Since my reference to it last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address in Davos seems to have been both intended and received as a policy manifesto for Canada and also for other countries that feel short-shrifted by what have traditionally been known as the “great powers.” The prime minister quoted the Czech president and former dissident Václav Havel that the communist system sustained itself by adopting the habit initiated by a greengrocer, of placing in his window the Marxist tocsin “Workers of the world, unite!” (The 300 divisions of Stalin’s Red Army had more to do with it.) This gesture to the regime was widely taken up in the Soviet bloc, in what Havel described as “living within a lie.” Carney considers this analogous to the adherence of Canada and other countries to “what we called the rules-based international order” (a clangorous platitude that reminds me of my bossy Grade 1 public school teacher).

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