Author: Blazingcatfur

The week Trump turned his back on Europe

It was the rustle of paperwork heard around the world: a 33-page US security plan that upended virtually everything Europe takes for granted about its closest military ally.

In a new national security strategy report (NSS), the Trump administration painted an excoriating picture of a Europe in terminal decline and ruled by weak, corrupt elites.

“Civilisational erasure” loomed for the Continent, the NSS claimed, blaming centrist governments for their fixation on open borders, political correctness and censorship.

Tough love but someone had to do it and I include Canada among the deserving recipients.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

‘Don’t Be Canada’: Journalist’s Book Examines How the Great White North ‘Did Everything Wrong All at Once’

Once a thriving nation, Canada has seen a steep erosion in prosperity and security in just 10 years, a slide journalist Tristin Hopper blames on a string of self-inflicted policy failures detailed in his new book.

“Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once” was released in April. In it, the National Post columnist says Canada has mismanaged several critical issues compared to other developed nations, including drug and crime reform, euthanasia, health care, transgender policy, the judiciary, and housing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Brown University shooting person of interest is ARRESTED after 14 hours on the run as two killed and 9 injured on campus

A person of interest is in custody after two people were killed and multiple were injured in a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island yesterday evening.

Police confirmed that a ‘person of interest’ is in custody, as of 6am Sunday morning. Mayor Brett Smiley said that the people of Providence should breathe a ‘small sigh of relief’ today.

The first 911 call reporting shots fired at Brown’s prestigious engineering building was made at 4.05pm on Saturday afternoon, in the midst of students’ end of semester exam season.

More: Brown University shooting ‘person of interest’ arrested after 2 killed, 9 wounded

Still no ID on the Perp however.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Scrutiny Rising Over Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Ties to Terrorism — and Turkey’s Governmen

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is taking a beating this holiday season. Just before Thanksgiving, Texas designated the civil rights organization, known colloquially as “CAIR,” as a foreign terrorist organization. Florida followed suit on December 8.

The day that Governor Ron DeSantis designated CAIR, news broke that the organization’s political advocacy arm, CAIR Action, has been operating in America “without the licenses, registrations, or legal authority required in any of the 22 states where it raises money or conducts political activity.” Nor does CAIR Action possess the documentation required to “legally operate or solicit funds” at Washington, D.C., where it’s incorporated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", CAIR, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islamization of the West, USA

Canadian donations to charity take a hit, drop to all-time low, study shows

A new study from the Fraser Institute on Canadian generosity has found that the number of Canadians donating to charity dropped to the lowest point in two decades in 2023.

The Canadian public policy think tank study showed that around one-in-six Canadians — or just under 17 per cent — are making charitable donations on their tax returns.

The percentage of Canadians donating to charity dipped to 16.8 per cent in 2023 from 21.9 per cent in 2013, the study showed.

The economy, mass immigration from incompatible cultures, social balkanization I suspect there are many reasons.

Perhaps if the thieves in Ottawa stopped stealing our money to give to foreigners we would have the means once again to be charitable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

GOLDSTEIN: Conservative ‘nobodies’ paving the way to Liberal dynasty

Pierre Trudeau famously said that opposition MPs are nobodies 50 yards from Parliament Hill – and today it’s a handful of Conservative nobodies who are laying the foundation for another Liberal dynasty in Ottawa.

Floor-crossings from the Conservatives to the Liberals by Michael Ma last week and Chris d’Entremont after the Liberal budget in November – hardly national figures – put the Liberals at 171 seats, one-seat shy of a majority government in the 343-seat House of Commons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Trump tells ISIS, ‘we will retaliate’ after ‘terrible’ ambush that killed 3 US troops in Syria

President Trump vowed to respond Saturday after an attack on US and coalition forces killed three US service members in Palmyra, Syria.

“We will retaliate,” Trump said, asked by reporters about the incident as he left the White House Saturday to attend the Army-Navy football game.

“We mourn the loss of three great patriots in Syria. We know how it happened. It was an ambush — terrible,” Trump said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Syria, USA

What hope for peace in Ukraine now?

A FEW days ago it seemed as though President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine still had some mileage.

Last Tuesday the Epoch Times reported hopefully that ‘conversations involving Washington, Moscow, and Kyiv have continued since Trump’s proposed plan to end the conflict came to light in November’. Apace, in fact, the article commented.

Helpfully the ET reminded us where the talks began and where they stood (by last Tuesday). First it went through the original plan drafted by the US special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The 28 points covered an array of topics including territory, the military, future international relations, post-war reconstruction funding, and internal politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

First Nation Police Chiefs Turn to Texas Sheriffs as Sinaloa Cartel Exploits Canada’s Border Gaps

TEXAS — With a lack of funding and support from Canadian officials, First Nation police chiefs on the front lines of a corridor of Sinaloa Cartel–linked border smuggling and drug trafficking have turned to enforcement colleagues they’d never met for help: Texas sheriffs.

Ammon Blair of the Texas Public Policy Foundation organized the innovative collaboration with the two Indigenous police chiefs, who presented along with Blair at a recent panel in Ottawa attended by Canada’s fentanyl “czar” Kevin Brosseau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Why is the Right Promoting Idleness?

We need to discuss why Zack Polanski and Elon Musk are both selling essentially the same dangerously utopian dream. Call these fantasies what you like: universal basic income (UBI), hyperabundance, MMT (unlimited borrowing), work as merely an option – they all boil down to the same idea, that there’s a magic wand available that will wish all our problems away.

For those of you not familiar with UBI I suggest a visit to UBI.org where you can watch interesting videos from Barack Obama, Yanis Varoufakis John McDonnell, Ed Miliband and many others talking about its merits. The site even links to an Economist article by Nicola Sturgeon encouraging us all to take a second look at UBI. And, for those of you not familiar with Elon Musk’s claim that robots and AI will render human work an option, this link is just one of many that will take you to where he makes out the case.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"