Author: Blazingcatfur

Nato spending pledge is Trump’s biggest foreign policy success, Rutte tells BBC

Nato countries’ pledge to spend 5% of their economic output on defence is Donald Trump’s “biggest foreign policy success,” the alliance’s chief has said.

In an interview with the BBC, Mark Rutte said it was thanks to Donald Trump that Nato was “stronger than it ever was”, adding that Trump “is good news for collective defence, for Nato and for Ukraine”.

The US leader has harshly criticised European allies for spending very little on defence – even threatening to withdraw US protection if they fail to do so.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO

Hospital birth data suggests increase in birth tourism, says immigration expert

Births in Canada to foreign visitors and other non-residents have risen in the past year, an expert in immigration statistics has found after analyzing hospital data.

The research, published in a report on Wednesday, shows a small increase in births at Canadian hospitals to temporary residents, such as international students and people here on work permits.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBirth Tourism, Canada, WTF?

Bill Gates pictured with women in new Epstein files

Jeffrey Epstein kept photos of Bill Gates posing alongside women, newly published images show.

Democrats published 68 new photographs from Epstein’s estate showing Mr Gates as well as a host of the paedophile’s powerful associates, including Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon.

The Microsoft founder was pictured standing arm in arm with a woman with dark hair and a navy dress. A further photo showed him standing alongside a woman dressed in a white shirt in a hallway. Both had their faces obscured.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

CAF espionage case linked to allegation that Postmedia journalist has ties to Russia

The arrest of a Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator on espionage charges appears to have its origins in another murky episode that has vexed the country’s military establishment for more than a year.

The operator, Master Warrant Officer Matthew Shawn Robar, was arrested and charged Dec. 10 with multiple offences related to passing highly sensitive government secrets to what court documents released this week refer to as a “foreign entity.” He was released from custody Monday under strict conditions.

Accusations of espionage on behalf of both Ukraine and Russia.

I wonder if Freeland is involved in some way!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Espionage

BARCLAY: No ceasefire up North — the reality of Jewish life in Canada post-October 7

On December 14, two Islamic terrorists attacked a Chanukah celebration in Australia and murdered 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, before their rampage was eventually halted by the Bondi police.

Unfortunately, the recent antisemitic attack in Australia has vividly underscored the sad reality that the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hamas does not entail any peace for the international Jewish community or an end to the antisemitic violence that has become a consistent aspect of Jewish life in the wake of October 7.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘Goodbye to Berlin’

In the annals of urban history, few cities embody the tragic interplay of aesthetic aspiration, ideological fanaticism, and moral decay as fully as Berlin. Hailed as the pulsating heart of European cosmopolitanism in the 1920s—a metropolis where artists, intellectuals, and bohemians converged in a symphony of experimentation—it now awaits the course of history, evidently broken. Its trajectory through the twentieth century reads as a somber elegy for lost grandeur. Gone is the magic. The echo of the interwar Berlin that Christopher Isherwood (author of the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin) conveyed so elegantly has long since fallen silent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

A line in the sand: Let’s be honest about the Bondi Beach blood bath

AS WITH every instance of Islamic terrorism in a Western nation, we all talk about it. The politicians and leaders around the world offer their ritual expressions of shock and horror. Platitudes are uttered, heads are bowed, candles are lit.

And, of course, nothing changes.

Nothing changes in policy. Nothing changes in the solutions offered. And nothing changes in the rinse-and-repeat pattern of Islamic terrorism followed by brief platitudes followed by more Islamic terrorism.

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

Retarded: Doug Ford Wants To Build Casino Hotels In Niagara Falls For Homeless Fake Asylum Seekers

Doug Ford wants more casinos in Niagara Falls — but does anyone else?

Premier Doug Ford’s big bet on “more casinos” for Niagara Falls may not pay off.

Ford unveiled a new economic development scheme this week to boost tourism in Ontario, including new gambling houses in the honeymoon capital, in a bid to double the number of annual visitors at wineries, restaurants and other attractions in Niagara Region.

“I’m thrilled to announce our government’s ‘Destination Niagara strategy,’ a multibillion-dollar plan to build new world class attractions, elevate Niagara’s casino and gaming experience — meaning we want more casinos, big, large casinos to come here,” the premier enthused Monday in the Falls.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Religion of the Strong Horse

The world’s major religions needs a better answer to Islam.

“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse,” Osama bin Laden said at the beginning of his talk taking credit for the 9/11 attacks.

The line launched a thousand geopolitical analyses, was quoted by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times and was pored over endlessly by experts who completely missed the point.

Osama bin Laden was not talking about great powers or nations, he was talking about Islam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

I bet Carney will buy ’em

The Ajax tank scandal shames the British Army

By any normal logic, the FillYourBoots forum should never have become a problem for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The Facebook page started as little more than a digital gossip corner: a place where soldiers shared banter, memes and humour too dark, too sharp and too truthful for civilian audiences. It was the army in its most unfiltered form. Harmless, rowdy, even charming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Did Manchester residents CELEBRATE Bondi terror attack? Police investigate claims and say that ‘the intolerable has become normalised’

One of the UK’s largest police forces is investigating after reports people openly celebrated the mass shooting in Sydney on Sunday which killed 15 people.

Sir Stephen Watson, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, also said schoolgirls have been phoning police asking for armed officers to accompany them to Hanukkah parties in the wake of the Bondi massacre.

It came as GMP and the Metropolitan Police launched a joint crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters making anti-Semitic chants such as ‘Globalise the intifada’.

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

Christmas Markets Under Attack

As Christmas approaches, we should celebrate the resilience of normal people and defend a tradition that has become so important to millions.

You love life, we love death”—a phrase the French scholar Olivier Roy attributes to radical Islamists. Its relevance is starkly visible in the ongoing threats to Germany’s Christmas markets.

The toll of the two biggest attacks on such markets—Berlin in 2016 and Magdeburg last year—is devastating: 19 people killed and over 200 severely injured. The ongoing threat was underscored last week when authorities announced the arrest of five men—three Moroccans, an Egyptian, and a Syrian—in Bavaria for planning an Islamist-motivated vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the Dingolfing-Landau area. On the same day, the public learned that a 21-year-old from Central Asia was also arrested for planning a similar attack. These arrests follow many others throughout recent years.

Christmas Bollards.

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

SLOBODIAN: Anointed, ungrateful, gone — how turncoat MP Michael Ma stabbed Conservatives in the back

Turncoat MP Michael Ma was gifted the Conservative candidate nomination for Markham-Unionville.

He wasn’t burdened with having to demonstrate loyalty by going through the gruelling task of selling hundreds or thousands of memberships. He was spared canvassing in sweltering heat and bitter cold and the discomfort of facing rude Liberal or NDP voters while door-knocking.

(Incognito)

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

Brown University Shooter Claudio Neves Valente, 48, A Portuguese National, Found Dead Of A Self Inflicted Wound In A Storage Unit

The gunman who opened fire at Brown University and killed two students has been found dead after law enforcement officials clad in tactical gear descended on a storage facility in New Hampshire.

Authorities had found a vehicle used by the suspect parked outside the building in Salem – more than 80 miles from the Ivy League school – and secured a search warrant for a unit believed to have been rented by the suspect.

Police then found the suspect – Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national – dead inside the unit, authorities announced at a news conference Thursday night.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?