Author: Blazingcatfur

Scandal of shoddy military homes as cash is lavished on asylum seekers

THE announcement that £9billion is to be invested in refurbishing military housing for British servicemen and women sounds like a welcome move, but it came only days after it was revealed that the government has probably already spent over £15billion on homes and hotels for asylum seekers. This is against a backdrop of an estimated 7,500 homeless ex-forces personnel, more than 400 empty barracks with thousands of potential beds, and plans to make more of these available to asylum seekers.

Our own CAF deserve available cash more than alien migrant benefit seekers.

Stephanie Shapiro: To fix the Armed Forces, military families must be supported

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Ottawa plans to spend big on defence. But is there a long-term vision for Canada’s military?

I spent many happy hours building popsicle stick bunkers. No. Not last week.

Mark Carney’s first budget has delivered the biggest increase in defence spending in decades, as the government seeks to rebuild the military at a time when the Prime Minister says Canada can no longer rely on the United States for protection.

The fiscal plan, tabled a week before Remembrance Day, includes $84-billion to the Department of National Defence over five years, believed to be the biggest short-term cash infusion for the military since the Korean War. The new spending will go to pay raises, precision-strike capabilities, upgrading aging infrastructure and cyberdefences, among other things.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

‘Going back to acting was never Meghan’s plan’… Has Duchess of Sussex resumed her on-screen career because she and Harry fear running out of money?

Smiling, graciously waving and elegant in a blue striped shirt, white jeans and dark glasses – the Duchess of Sussex made her surprise return to acting with all the deliberately applied polish you might expect.

Photographed on the set of the film Close Personal Friends, which is shooting in Pasadena, California, she radiated confidence. A well-placed insider told her favoured People magazine: ‘She seemed very relaxed and happy. She was very sweet and down-to-earth.’

Parading about as fake Royals ain’t the lucrative gig they thought it might be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

U.S. Halts Funding for EU-Aligned Radio Free Europe

Washington says American taxpayers will no longer support media outlets interfering in the domestic affairs of ally nations like Hungary.

The chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Kari Lake, informed lawmakers in a letter that Washington will terminate the Hungarian-language service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), known as Szabad Európa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Mark Carney’s budget exposes Canada’s deeper malaise

Suspense is high in Ottawa as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney steers his first budget through to passage. A masterpiece of centrist triangulation, it promises steep cuts — or “sacrifices” — in spending and government personnel, while simultaneously committing to “generational investments”. It outlines C$141 billion in total spending over five years, offset by $51.2 billion in savings, resulting in a $78 billion deficit.

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

Canadians feel optimistic about their personal lives, but pessimistic about the country, poll finds

WTF?

Canadians have a quite glum view of the near future for Canada’s social and economic situation, with only one person in four expressing optimism and significantly more expressing pessimism, but Canadians’ views of their own personal fortunes are much rosier, according to a new polling project.

This strange divergence of attitudes — happy about home, gloomy about country — is also driven by geographical differences, and by a clear partisan split between pessimistic Conservative supporters and optimistic Liberals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

J6 Shocker: FBI informants warned of armed violence, Antifa presence before riot, lawmaker reveals

Numerous confidential informants alerted the FBI prior to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot that there was the strong possibility of “armed” conflict at the U.S. Capitol, but that intelligence was not disbursed aggressively enough to force a change in security that fateful day, the first congressman to review those source reports tells Just the News.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Conrad Black: Carney squanders all his goodwill on bloated budget

No Canadian federal budget in my conscient lifetime, going back to finance minister Walter Harris in the St. Laurent government, has been as noisily hyped or widely anticipated as the Carney-Champagne budget of this past Tuesday, and none has been such a stultifying anti-climax. What was promised was a cornucopia of “generational investments” that would ”define our next century” by making a series of “difficult choices (and) sacrifices.” The same prime minister who is in a photo finish with his British analogue Keir Starmer for who can be more obsequious to President Donald Trump, but who promised to keep his ”elbows up,” promised also to “swing for the fences” in the budget with intermittent hints of ”austerity.”

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

Craft brewers push back against Senate bill mandating cancer warnings on beer

Small breweries across Canada say a proposed Senate law forcing cancer warning labels on alcohol would saddle them with massive costs and needless red tape.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Bill S-202, introduced in the Senate as an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act, would require all alcohol products to display health warnings about the risks of consumption.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Nanny

Has the Left Moved on From Climate Change?

Not this guy.

Average Americans have moved on from climate change, and the Left is pretending to not care either.

No one cares about climate change anymore.

According to research by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, media coverage of climate change has dropped by half since 2023. The decline also shows up in Google searches for “climate change,” which have also decreased by half since 2023.

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

NYPD already losing officers with morale plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares to take reins

An NYPD exodus is already underway, with a surge of officers quitting in the month leading up to anti-cop socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win — and more might go if Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch exits, according to data and department sources.

The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data.

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

Deportation must mean deportation, not debate

How many times do we have to circle the same argument before we finally stand firm on what’s right? A man convicted for his role in the violent killing of a McMaster student more than a decade ago has again won the chance to stay in Canada. Luis Carlos Rebelo was ordered deported six years ago after being convicted of manslaughter in the senseless death of Tyler Johnson. He’s now being given yet another opportunity to argue why he should be allowed to remain in this country. That is unacceptable.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Poilievre’s Conservatives struggling to stay united, source says, as Carney government survives a second budget vote

OTTAWA—The dramatic defection of a Nova Scotia Conservative MP to the Liberals, and the looming exit of another Tory, capped a week of political intrigue that ended with Mark Carney’s government surviving two big budget challenges and still facing a third, but saw bigger questions swirling around Pierre Poilievre’s grip on his own caucus.

As many as 10 to 15 MPs in Poilievre’s caucus are “very frustrated” with him and his senior leadership team, according to one source with knowledge of internal Conservative caucus dynamics. Another suggested “several” MPs have concerns, but many other Conservatives, and Poilievre’s senior leadership team, are closing ranks to insist Poilievre’s leadership is secure.

This reads like a Star wish dream.

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