Blazingcatfur – Page 407

As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the ‘middle powers’ face a grave new challenge

I had been asked to give a keynote speech at a conference at Columbia University’s Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it in the faces of New Yorkers you spoke to.

In my speech I made a few opening remarks about what the United States had meant to me. “I was born 15 years after the Second World War,” I said, “in a world America made. The peace and security and increasing prosperity of the Western Europe that I was born into was in large part an American achievement.”

American military might had won the war in the West, I continued. It had stopped the further westward expansion of Soviet power.

The elite bubble

Gaslight much? “Majority of Europeans Reject Sending Troops and Arms to Ukraine” https://t.co/PAXcDVhNjp

— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) January 26, 2026

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by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•Our Betters..., Our Corrupt Political Class, Our World

WTF?

I'd like to offer Iggy Pop a sweater, perhaps a cardigan? pic.twitter.com/5oODqRZqJl

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 25, 2026

You don’t have to stop doing things but you should consider doing things differently.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•WTF?

Conrad Black: Carney’s middle powers plan a complete fantasy

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke purposefully at Davos this past week about adopting a more nationalistic policy for Canada. Less persuasive was his call for a league of so-called middle powers to combine to influence the superpowers to set up what he called, in the current tedious jargon, ”a rules-based international order.” He is vaguely addressing, without recognizing directly, the fact that the Western Alliance was established in 1949 to contain the Soviet Union which it successfully did until the USSR disintegrated in 1991 without exchanging a shot with any of the NATO countries. Since then there has been a gradual shift from a collective security-based to a national interest-based foreign policy on the part of the NATO countries, as well as the former blocks of so-called neutral states and the regional blocks in Latin America and Africa, none of which easily mobilized their combined influence or enjoyed much relevance to the course of international affairs. The United Nations and many of its agencies are just primal scream therapy for many of the most retrograde and primitive regimes in the world. Israel can be commended for taking the wrecker’s ball to the outlet of one of its agencies in Jerusalem.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 24, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Snow Night

Still coming down. Streets are virtually deserted.

Dundas is a main route and will be relatively snow free tomorrow. The side streets will be a nightmare.

Update: Snowfall amounts up to 60 cm in parts of the GTHA

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

House GOP preparing for court showdown to unravel why Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrocketed up to $30M

Congressional investigators are preparing for a court fight as they seek to use every tool at their disposal to unravel how “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her hubby Tim Mynett came to be worth up to $30 million in just a few years.

The goal, House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post, is “to win in court” while finding out what caused the “big spike” in Omar’s net worth.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islamization of the West

President Trump – Canada is systematically destroying itself.

Trump Tweet Link

Good read below

Very well explained- Carney’s proposed “strategic partnership” with China represents a fundamental misreading of the current security environment. This isn’t about trade protectionism; it’s about recognising asymmetric competition that’s been underway for decades.

At Davos,… https://t.co/AG4eAfi35v

— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) January 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

After a year of inaction, the Carney Liberals must show up for work in 2026

While Canadians struggle with rising costs, economic uncertainty, and a global environment shifting beneath their feet, the session that just concluded will be remembered as one of the least productive in our Parliament’s history.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘America. We Are Going to Destroy It’: The Persecution of Christians, November 2025

**Bricks and bondage: the hidden reality of Christian slavery in Pakistan**

Father Rico, a priest with the Order of St. Elias in Argentina, and a Christian layman named Diego, have been traveling through Pakistan “with the sole purpose of freeing Christian slaves.” In 2025 they managed to free 110 Christians, and 200 in 2024, thanks to the donations they collected to help free the slaves. — persecution.org, November 21, 2025, Pakistan

Canada’s government imports these monsters.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and slavery, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Trump hasn’t backed off his takeover threats, and Canada’s allies have been readying themselves. What about us?

**CAF Makes The Arctic Safe For Sexual Mutilation Fetishists – Watch Out Trump**

After the Cold War, Canadians lived under the comfortable delusion that security was a service to be provided by someone else. We treated national defence like a subscription — one we underpaid for, assuming the United States would provide the muscle and our geography the shield.

That era has ended. With U.S. President Donald Trump determined to acquire Greenland, and with talk of Canada’s own annexation becoming dangerously mainstream, we are no longer just a neighbour; we are a target. We are in the midst of a geopolitical crisis, and according to our military’s assessment, we are uniquely vulnerable. This will become especially true when we contribute troops to NATO exercises in Greenland, as we must do.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes

Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration.

Observing how hawks select prey, they trained defensive drones to single out and destroy the most vulnerable enemy aircraft. On the other side, the attacking drones were taught how to dodge the hawk-trained defenders based on the behavior of doves. In a five-on-five test, the hawks destroyed all the doves in 5.3 seconds.

That research earned the engineers a patent in April 2024—one of hundreds granted in recent years to Chinese defense companies and universities affiliated with the military for advances in swarm intelligence.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

China’s envoy says Beijing, Ottawa ‘eye to eye’ on supporting Greenland

OTTAWA — China’s envoy to Canada says the two countries “see eye to eye” on the need to support Greenland’s territorial integrity and Beijing wants to play a productive role in the North — even as analysts warn Moscow and Beijing are working together in the region.

“China’s consistent policy is to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries. That goes to Greenland, that goes to Canada, and that goes through all the other countries,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di said through an interpreter this week.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 24, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Greenland, USA, WTF?

The New York Times Wonders Why Americans Are ‘Turning Against Gay People.’ Isn’t It Obvious?

This week, the New York Times published an article called “Americans Are Turning Against Gay People,” and if you’re wondering whether the paper has completely lost touch with reality, the answer is yes.

The piece opens with some gushing about a show I’ve never even heard of — and I suspect you haven’t, either — called Heated Rivalry, featuring gay hockey players, suggesting that its success proves “acceptance of queer love continues to grow.” The authors, Tessa Charlesworth and Eli Finkel, lament that this is not the case. “We wish we could share that optimism,” they write, before citing research showing that acceptance of gay people peaked around 2020 and has “sharply reversed” since then.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•Big Gay, Big Tranny

CBC – Deporting illegal alien criminals is just like Nazi Germany!

ICE nodding to far-right extremists in recruitment posts, experts say

At first glance, there may not appear to be anything unusual about the social media posts that are part of the ongoing recruitment drive by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The posts, which encourage Americans to join ICE, use the same aggressively patriotic imagery that’s become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s online communications.

But to observers of the far-right, and to members of the far-right themselves, there is something else that is recognizable in the language of the posts.

“I would describe it as oddly very familiar as someone who has been looking at the white nationalist and neo-Nazi movement for nearly a decade now,” said Hannah Gais, a senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a non-profit that monitors right-wing extremism.

Any article that cites the extreme left wing hate group Southern Poverty Law Center immediately loses all credibility.

The article is the usual CBC bilge. Patriotism is open borders and criminal illegal aliens running amuck according to the CBC. Deportations are worse than Hitler!

Islamist and ChiCom assets are literally members of our governing party but the CBC is hysterical over a virtually non-existent Nazi threat.

Are they hoping we’ll ignore the well financed, orchestrated violence of the left here and abroad comrade?

Given the CBC is just a bought and paid for LPC propaganda asset I’d say the answer is yes.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Far Left Extremist", "NAZI Adjacent Liberal Party Of Canada", "Remigration", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Germany urged to repatriate £122bn in gold from Trump’s ‘risky’ America

Storage of reserves must be reassessed because US ‘no longer reliable partner of the EU’, say economists

Germany has been urged to withdraw more than £100bn worth of gold from US vaults because Donald Trump’s unpredictability has made the deposits too “risky”.

The country currently stores 1,236 tons of gold, roughly the same weight as three Air Force One jets, at the US Federal Reserve in New York worth around €164bn (£122bn).

Economists and politicians have warned this leaves the vast wealth exposed to the whim of an increasingly erratic US president, who this month alone has threatened Europe with crippling sanctions over Greenland, burst into Venezuela and captured its president, and is poised to launch air strikes on Iran.

As if the EU was ever reliable on any matter.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•Germany, USA

‘Leave Ice Hockey alone!’: Trump says China is ‘taking over’ Canada

U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his recent jabs at Canada by saying “Canada is systematically destroying itself” and calling “the China deal” a “disaster.”

“Will go down as one of the worst deals, of any kind, in history,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday afternoon. “All their businesses are moving to the USA. I wanted to see Canada SURVIVE AND THRIVE!”

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•Uncategorized