Author: Blazingcatfur

Iran Is Burning: Canada Must Decide

The streets of Iran are once again filled with anger, grief, and bloodshed. What began as economic protests over a collapsing currency and runaway inflation has turned violent, with demonstrators killed and the regime signalling that repression, not reform, will be its response. This is not a sudden crisis. It is the predictable consequence of a system that long ago exhausted every source of legitimacy except fear.

Carney won’t do anything to upset Amira.

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

Why MAGA supports the capture of Nicolás Maduro

Donald Trump’s operation to take out — excuse me, exfiltrate and arrest — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro late last night has produced few objections from MAGA World. Speaking at a press conference today, the US President credited American military power by “air, land and sea”, and said that the US is “going to run” Venezuela until “such a time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” of power. A few Trump-aligned pundits such as Glenn Greenwald are agitated but, on the whole, the reaction has been nothing like the eruption of MAGA dissent that greeted the build-up to and aftermath of Trump’s decision to join Israel’s 12-Day War against Iran last summer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

The climate climbdown is finally upon us

2025 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change, when 195 nations pledged to cut carbon emissions to slow the rise in global temperatures. Yet 10 years on, the political consensus on climate change has all but collapsed. Last year, the seemingly cast-iron conviction that climate change poses an existential threat to humanity – and that we urgently need to eradicate fossil fuels and carbon-intensive industries – came under challenge like never before.

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

Trump sets sights on Greenland

Donald Trump has signalled Greenland is in his sights with Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator, captured and preparing to face an American courtroom.

“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” he told The Atlantic magazine, adding that the Danish territory was “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships”.

He said officials in his administration would decide what happened with Greenland, which Mr Trump has claimed the US must annex for its security.

Oops …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

AUBUT: The divergent paths of liberty and loyalty, comparing America and Canada

The year 1629 marks the quiet divide that determined the fates of two nations. In the south, the English colonies that became the United States were founded by literate settlers who sought not comfort but freedom. They brought with them the conviction that faith and conscience were their own, that government was to be distrusted and restrained, and that their destiny depended on their own labour and judgment

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Venezuela’s fate is a warning for Canada

U.S. military action to seize Nicolás Maduro marks the formal debut of an imperial America

No one need shed a single tear for Nicolás Maduro, a ruthless dictator who extinguished Venezuela’s democracy and set its economy into a death spiral.

His sins are many: stolen elections, numerous alleged crimes against humanity, and more than a decade of exploitation of what once was and should still be a prosperous country. And of course, the Trump administration alleges that Mr. Maduro is a narco-terrorist in league with drug cartels.

Wonder if he’ll kick out the migrants?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

It’s Never Enough. Check Out What Else San Francisco Reparations Activists Are Demanding

San Francisco is ringing in the New Year by pushing for reparations for the city’s black residents, to the tune of $5 million per person.

How will they pay for it? Well, the ordinance creates a fund of both private and public monies to cover the payments. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance into law on December 23. The bill was unanimously passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in early December.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSlavery and Reparations

Opinion: Why Trump’s challenge to Canada’s dairy supply management matters for consumers

Canada is approaching a defining economic moment.

U.S. President Donald Trump has made greater access to Canada’s dairy market one of his stated expectations for a CUSMA renewal.

Ottawa’s response has been swift and defensive.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said this week that supply management would remain untouched.

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

What analysts say about Carney’s statement on Venezuela

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a “Venezuelan-led transition process” away from what he called the criminal regime of President Nicolás Maduro in a Saturday post on X.

It was just one of his requests following the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to remove Maduro from power early Saturday Morning. He also called on “all parties” to respect international law, mirroring a previous statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Neither response mentioned the United States directly.

Two observers who spoke with CTV News Channel said the prime minister’s response should have gone further.

Not insulting enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Is Hostility Against Christians Going to Increase in 2026?

Rising anti-Christian hostility, desecration, and attacks mark a grim start to the new year.

The new year is off to a grim start already for Catholics around the world as anti-Christian hostility proliferates across the West. New Year’s Day saw a 150-year-old former Catholic church in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, leaving behind nothing but rubble and scorched walls. According to Catholic News Agency, it is unclear whether or not arson was the cause of the fire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianophobia

The Somali fraud scandal is a turning point

I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they had spent more time studying the wit and wisdom of Gertrude Stein.

Stein, had she lived in our own day, might well have become commissioner of New York City’s Fire Department. She had the one qualification that Zohran Mamdani seems to deem essential to the post.

Sadly, that was not to be. But there is no denying that, on certain matters, Stein was a font of practical wisdom that remains as pertinent today as it was when she was pontificating in Paris a century ago. It is important, Stein warned those aspiring to be part of the avant garde, “to know how far to go when going too far.” This is true of all the arts. It is just as true of fraud as of painting, poetry, dance or music.

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