Author: Blazingcatfur

The Myth of the ‘Liberal International Order’

This “golden age” of “peace and prosperity” was filled with bloodshed.

In his latest Bloomberg op-ed piece, Hal Brands, the globalist academic at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and a fellow at the Trilateral Commission, claims that the world is gradually transitioning away from the “liberal international order” of the post-1945 era. We have entered, he writes, a “more cutthroat age” where “raw strength” matters more than rules. Brands’ evidence: the U.S. destroys drug boats and captures an indicted foreign leader; great powers redraw or attempt to redraw borders; international law and arms control are unraveling while “strategic rivalry intensifies.” Who is largely to blame? You guessed it: President Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"All The News That Fits"

‘We do not need Canada,’ says U.S. Ambassador during Montreal visit

Pete Hoekstra – I’m crushing your head

The U.S. ambassador to Canada, Peter Hoekstra, repeated during his stop in Montreal on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s claim that the United States doesn’t need Canada.

Hoekstra sat down with CJAD 800 Radio to discuss the bilateral relationship and Canadians’ attitude toward their southern neighbour.

“Sometime this summer or sometime hopefully this fall, we will have a new outline of how we do business together,” he said in the interview. “And those relationships that we have put in place, whether those will foster and grow or whether Canadian companies and American companies will go their separate ways because of the decisions that are made by their governments.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Why Gaza Should Be Placed Under US and Israeli Control

US President Donald J. Trump is expected to announce the formation of a “Board of Peace” to oversee temporarily the running of the Gaza Strip and manage its reconstruction. According to multiple reports, Qatar and Turkey are among several countries that have been invited to join the board.

Both countries are widely known as major international supporters of political Islam, specifically through their historical and ongoing backing of terrorist and Muslim Brotherhood groups – including Hamas, which is currently ruling the Gaza Strip and has shown no signs of letting up. With countries such as these, it is, frankly, hard to see how the new board would be able to bring peace, security and stability to the Middle East.

Not sure the base would go for a US occupation.

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

Canadian troops won’t be joining European military force in Greenland

Canadian soldiers won’t be joining their European allies for a show of military force in Greenland.

Danish Armed Forces have begun deploying troops to the Arctic island in response to American insistence that it needs Greenland to bolster national security in the north. The Danes are being joined by small numbers of troops from European countries, including France, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Britain.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA

State Department to Pause Visa Processing for 75 Countries

WASHINGTON—The State Department will indefinitely pause immigrant visa processing for 75 countries as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to block low-income foreigners from immigrating to the U.S.

The pause takes effect starting Jan. 21, and will halt visa issuance to people looking to immigrate permanently, typically through marriage, family ties or work sponsorship. It doesn’t block people from obtaining tourist or temporary work visas.

The countries affected span the globe and include many in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Visa processing will now be paused for Russia, Thailand, Morocco, Colombia and Brazil, among others, according to a State Department official briefed on the plan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Why two Canadian provinces are in a spat over Crown Royal whisky

A British owned, Canadian-made whisky is at the centre of a spat between two provinces that is testing a unified “Team Canada” approach in the face of US tariffs.

It started after the whisky maker, Diageo, said it will shut down a bottling plant in Ontario to move some of it closer to US consumers.

Soon after, Ontario Premier Doug Ford angrily poured out a bottle of Crown Royal in front of reporters, and now says the product will be removed from provincial liquor stores. This has alarmed neighbouring Manitoba, where a Crown Royal distillery is a key employer in the small town of Gimli.

Rifts grow within the Elbow Kingdom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Bettors and players fixed dozens of NCAA basketball games, prosecutors say

Sports bettors worked with dozens of players across NCAA men’s basketball to rig the outcome of at least 29 games, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Thursday.

The athletes played for schools across the country, prosecutors claim, including Tulane, St. Louis University, DePaul, Fordham and others.

Among the defendants named by prosecutors are Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley, who were previously charged in a case involving an NBA coach and players. Prosecutors say Hennen and Fairley were at the head of a gambling ring that recruited college basketball players around the country to manipulate their performances in games that Fairley and Hennen bet on.

Tip of the iceberg extending to all pro sports?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Mark Carney’s minister’s tepid, late-night response was anything but ‘elbows up’

It reads like the kind of thing that, just a few years ago, would have been unbelievable. But on Elon Musk’s social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the AI chatbot Grok built into the site is being used to pump out deepfake non-consensual intimate images and even child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In response to international outcry, Musk limited Grok’s ability to create sexualized deepfakes — including sexualized deepfakes of children — to paid subscribers. In other words, the world’s richest man is quite literally profiting off of the generation of CSAM and other non-consensual intimate images — including one of the mothers of his own children.

It took the Canadian government over a week to release a statement on the issue. AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon said Canada was going to criminalize sexualized deepfakes, making no mention of Musk, Grok or X.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Yes, Trump Would Be Totally Justified If He Invokes the Insurrection Act

President Donald Trump has once again threatened to bust out the Insurrection Act, to quell the violent, organized mob actions against federal law enforcement in blue cities, abetted by the TDS-riddled despots in their “sanctuary” fiefdoms who imagine they are more powerful than the federal government. The situation is making it impossible for the government to go about its business, enforcing the law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Canada welcomes Chinese investment in the energy sector, including oil sands

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said Thursday it would welcome more Chinese investment in Canadian energy, including the oil sands, during a visit to Beijing that the Asian giant’s Premier called a “new starting point” for bilateral relations.

Mr. Carney released a blueprint for warmer and closer relations with Beijing, during his first trip to China this week in search of more foreign investment and markets for Canada to offset the damage of U.S. protectionist tariffs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Three men arrested for ‘attempted murder’ of feds in Minneapolis ID’d as illegal immigrants from Venezuela

The three men arrested for ambushing an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday have all been identified as illegal immigrants from Venezuela who were let into the country under the Biden administration, officials said Thursday, calling the attack an “attempted murder” of federal law enforcement officers.

The Department of Homeland Security said the suspects — Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna and Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez-Ledzema — were all in the country illegally, and are now in ICE custody.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA, WTF?

A hard ‘no’ or two awaits Mark Carney when he gets home from China

Even before Mark Carney headed off to China this week, he got several sharp reminders of challenges that will be awaiting the prime minister when he comes home.

They come from outside the country and inside it too, and none of them are easily fixed.

Donald Trump took some time out of his busy, world-destabilization efforts this month to pronounce that he didn’t care about Canada-U.S. trade, reminding us once again that the Carney government has come up short in efforts to get that issue on track.

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

Greenland could cost the US $700bn

Buying Greenland could cost the United States as much as $700bn, officials have estimated, as Donald Trump presses on with his efforts to acquire the island.

Denmark and Greenland insist the semi-autonomous Danish territory is not for sale, but the US president has insisted he will take it “one way or the other” for national security reasons.

A meeting between American, Danish and Greenlandic officials in Washington on Wednesday failed to resolve the “fundamental disagreement” over the mineral-rich Arctic island.

Ha!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA