Author: Blazingcatfur

Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating O-1 visa requests: ‘This is the American dream now’

Content creators and influencers in the US are now increasingly dominating requests for O-1 work visas. Astoundingly, the number of O-1 visas granted each year increased by 50% between 2014 and 2024, as noted by recent reporting in the Financial Times.

These visas allow non-immigrants to work temporarily in the US. The O-1 category includes the O-1A, which is designated for individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business or athletics and the O-1B, reserved for those with “extraordinary ability or achievement”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

KLEIN: Political theatre puts jobs at risk

Doug Ford’s recent comments about pulling Crown Royal off Ontario liquor store shelves because its parent company is closing a bottling plant should concern every Canadian who cares about jobs, trade, and our country’s reputation.

Crown Royal is a Manitoba-made product with a long history in this country. Threatening to punish it over a corporate decision made by its parent company is not strength. It is political theatre. And political theatre has consequences.

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

Germany planning ‘Arctic Sentry’ Nato mission to protect Greenland

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Germany is planning to set up a joint Nato operation in the Arctic in an effort to dissuade Donald Trump from annexing Greenland.

The “Arctic Sentry” mission to monitor threats in the region could be modelled on Nato’s “Baltic Sentry” operation, which started last year to monitor threats and protect infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, sources told Bloomberg.

Mr Trump has threatened to forcibly take control of the mineral-rich island that is a territory of Denmark, a Nato member.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Greenland, USA, WTF?

Barbara Kay: If the state and police won’t protect Jews, who will?

The Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration massacre, Australia’s deadliest terrorist incident, which resulted in 15 dead and 40 wounded, continues to dominate my thoughts. One particular witness account haunts me. A mother, separated from her three-year-old daughter, found some of the few police officers present. She told a journalist: “These police officers were hiding behind a car… I tried to grab one of their guns. Then one of them grabbed me and said ‘no.’”

Here, I see encapsulated diaspora Jews’ present dilemma in the form of a plea and response: Protect us, state law enforcement agent. No? Then allow us the means to protect ourselves. Also, no.

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

MORGAN: UNDRIP must be banished from Canadian policies

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was a resolution adopted by the UN in 2007. Canada was still under sane governance at the time and was one of the few UN members that voted against it. Canada shed the pretenses of sanity in 2015 and fully endorsed UNDRIP in 2016. The nation is paying a terrible price for the endorsement today. While UNDRIP is not legally binding, its principles have contributed to the indigenous policy catastrophe Canada is enduring.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Does Sweden really prefer rapists to a retired married couple?

SWEDEN has long been regarded by the liberal elite as a socialist utopia. The truth is that, behind the facade, the Swedish deep state is as unpleasant and brutal as some other Western countries.

My Swedish wife and I discovered this to our cost when we tried to secure residency for me, her retired British husband. What followed has shocked even the most patriotic of Swedes and has given the lie to any kind of notion that modern ‘liberal democracies’ have either heart or moral conscience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden, WTF?

How the Bondi Hero Was Weaponised to Deny Islamist Antisemitism

As bullets tore through the crowded Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14th, Ahmed al-Ahmed acted with extraordinary courage. The 43 year-old Syrian born Muslim immigrant and father of two ran towards the gunfire. He tackled an ISIS-inspired shooter and wrestled away his rifle. He was shot twice. His intervention almost certainly saved lives in the massacre that left 15 dead and more than 40 wounded.

Within hours, his story went viral, dominating global headlines and social media. Donations quickly mounted to AUD 2.5 million in a GoFundMe dedicated to his heroism. World leaders praised him, from Australian Prime Minister Albanese to President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Yet the scale and intensity of the acclaim were striking – because his identity carried symbolic weight.

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

Suddenly, the Democrats figure out that Hamas is bad

Yesterday, with remarkable, robotic unanimity, the Democrats discovered that Hamas is a bad organization. Considering that, beginning with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, genocidal attack against Israel, so many in the Democrat party were loath to condemn Hamas, while the party’s foot soldiers openly embraced it, the sudden turnaround is suspect. None of the possible explanations reflects well on the Democrats.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canadians’ immigration views are changing. How will that effect the economy?

If this past year’s generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada’s population peaked and began to decline.

To be sure, the big inflection points on immigration had already passed, including the massive spike in the pandemic, driven by a wild gamble to increase temporary residents to juice the economy, followed eventually by the realization that this was putting impossible strain on housing and services, leading to large cuts in 2024 in the dying days of the Justin Trudeau prime ministership.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

I’ll have two babies with the same dad but I don’t know what he looks like

“Growing up, this isn’t the life I expected at all,” says 41-year-old Lucy who had always imagined motherhood arriving in a more traditional order – a partner, a wedding, then children.

Instead, her journey to becoming a mother began with IVF and donor sperm, a choice she made during the pandemic after she realised how much she missed seeing her sister’s and friend’s children.

She jokingly told her parents that she could have a child on her own and recalls: “I expected them to laugh it off but they said I should and got excited about it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

What the Iranian uprising means for the Middle East

The Middle East has long been organised around two competing logics: pragmatic alignment and ideological alignment. Before the 7 October war, these logics produced two regional blocs that structured most political, diplomatic and security behaviour. The Palestinian attack and invasion that triggered the war ruptured both systems. Incentives shifted, alliances frayed, and assumptions collapsed. What followed has not been the emergence of a calmer order, but a reconfiguration in which ideology has returned in new forms and pragmatism has narrowed, and hardened, requiring deliberate encouragement and support to survive.

For more than a decade, regional politics moved along these two tracks. Pragmatic alliances rested on interests that could be negotiated, measured and enforced. Security cooperation, intelligence sharing, economic integration, technological exchange and opposition to common threats mattered more than symbolic solidarity. Stability carried value. Growth carried legitimacy. Ideological discomfort could be managed or deferred.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran