Blazingcatfur – Page 74

Europe sermonizes, U.S. pays the price

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has demanded that Iran return to the negotiating table, stop playing for time, stop holding the region and the world hostage, permanently end its military nuclear program, and refrain from any attack against Israel and the West’s regional partners.

On the surface, none of this sounds especially controversial. The Islamic Republic has long used negotiations to buy time, threatened Middle East stability, and exploited tensions with the West as a tool for survival and leverage.

But the real issue in Merz’s remarks is not merely Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•Europe, European Union, USA

Conrad Black: Last chance for Carney’s foreign policy

Last week I reviewed mainly the domestic record of the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney over the past 13 months, although, as was mentioned, the principal point that Canadians seem to hold in his favour is the foreign policy perception of his ability ”to stand up to Trump.” Few could forget how Carney, with the connivance of the anti-conservative national political media, represented his campaign as a Churchillian finest hour of national defence against a belligerent America. That burlesque has ended and Carney must now face the question of how to deal with the United States, a subject that our longest-serving prime minister, W.L. Mackenzie King, described to General de Gaulle in 1945 as “an overwhelming contiguity.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump’s UFO files are victory for transparency

The United States government has released its first batch of files on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). These are objects that the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies cannot identify. If they are real and not spurious, there are two possible interpretations: either these are familiar human-made or natural objects, or these are non-human objects. Regardless, the matter is of great importance for both national security and basic science.

However, perhaps the biggest impact of this week’s release is psychological: this topic deserves a place in mainstream public discourse. Like any detective story, the mystery can be resolved with high-quality evidence. Knowing the distance, velocity and acceleration of these objects would address the question of whether any of them lies outside the performance envelope of human-made technologies.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"UFO's"

Despite strained ties, U.S. senator says Canada should be cautious of making deals with China

As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.

“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.

“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn’t mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,” Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The English have revolted

Here are some phrases I don’t want to hear today. ‘Protest vote.’ ‘The cry of the “left behind”.’ ‘A bloody nose for the establishment.’ For while it’s true that the colourless functionaries of our two-party regime will be holding their bloodied snouts today following a bruising blow from the electorate, none of those trite phrases captures the historic nature of what is happening. This is not just a ballot-box ‘screw you’ – it’s an attempted reordering of politics itself by voters with nothing left to lose.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•UK

Canada Fines an 85-Year-Old Hockey Scout for Being Old-Fashioned

Terry Bonner, the Vancouver Giants’ 85-year-old scout, stepped onto the Western Hockey League’s Prospects Draft stream and did what older men sometimes do. He wandered a little, praised Vancouver’s selection of Eli Vickers with the third overall pick, then thanked Cami Kepke, the WHL’s community engagement and content manager, and told her something that’s become something of a lost art.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

Husbands With Two or More Wives Get Increased Benefits

… The DWP has confirmed in its benefits uprating list that “additional spouses” in “polygamous marriages” are being given a 4.8% boost to their benefits from April, which would most likely be for husbands with multiple wives.

Those who are classed as an “additional spouse” in a polygamous marriage and are above state pension age were in 2025–26 able to claim an additional £119.50 per week of Pension Credit or Housing Benefit, with no given limit on the number of separate additional spouses who can claim in one household, other than the overall benefits cap per household per year.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, WTF?

Obama met with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Trump’s MAGA allies flipped out

President Donald Trump’s MAGA allies were in a frenzy of conspiracy theories Friday after former President Barack Obama greeted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a think-tank event in Toronto.

A video, posted by Carney on X, shows him shaking hands with the former president, before Obama also greets the prime minister’s wife, Diana Fox Carney. Obama was in town to deliver a keynote address at a gala for Canada 2020, a progressive think-tank that advocates for inclusivity. Obama and Carney have known each other on a professional level since at least 2008, when he was the U.S. president and the PM served as Governor of the Bank of Canada.

Why is Barack Hussein Obama meeting with world leaders while President Trump is in office?

This is a coup. https://t.co/yqu5Ck5BVv

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 9, 2026

The Independent can be as bad as the Guardian.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Obama, Obama - Are You Absolutely Sure He Isn't A Muslim?

Sweden Presses UN To Allow Deportation of Rapists with Refugee Status

Sweden’s government is stepping up efforts at the United Nations to change the rules for deporting convicted rapists with refugee status.

Migration Minister Johan Forssell is in New York seeking international backing for a Swedish initiative to reinterpret the UN Refugee Convention. The government argues that current rules make it too difficult to expel individuals convicted of rape, as the threshold for what qualifies as a particularly serious crime remains too high. Forssell said it was “terribly unjust” that convicted rapists can avoid deportation by invoking refugee protections.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•WTF?

Statscan sold early hate crime report to Heritage for $72K as questions raised over omitted antisemitism data

Statistics Canada sold an advance copy of a national hate crimes report to the Department of Canadian Heritage for $72,000, granting officials early access for “feedback.”

Blacklock’s Reporter says the confidential agreement between Statistics Canada and Department of Canadian Heritage allowed a designated official in Heritage Minister Marc Miller’s department to review the report Police-Reported Hate Crimes In Canada prior to its public release.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘They Will Be Laughing No Longer’: Trump Gives Stark Warning to Tehran

President Donald Trump slammed Iran for “playing games with the United States” for 47 years, but soon, “they will be laughing no longer,” he said in a Truth Social post on Sunday afternoon.

Good answer

ABC: ‘Trump gave Iran 48 hours to open Strait of Hormuz 50 days ago. Nothing happened’

Trump’s UN envoy Waltz: ‘I think we should take a step back. 50 days to deal with a 50-year-old problem’ pic.twitter.com/NLgZSZwQ1e

— RT (@RT_com) May 10, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada’s shameful international student boom

For years, the stories of the overseas sacrifices that were made to fuel Ontario’s international student boom have been told.

Families in poor countries that sold their few worldly possessions, sometimes the actual farm, to pay the steep college tuition costs for foreign students in the land of milk and honey. Often, they found the education and opportunity were not at all what they expected.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF?

NEW: Mark Carney "Whenever we have something over the Americans, we are going to use it"

"Indigenous people's built this continent, before the Americans left St. Louis"

Fact: natives disfigured women and distributed them among villages as sex slaves pic.twitter.com/TNWMnsVIid

— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) May 10, 2026

h/t Auntie Polly

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•WTF?

Why Did the Pope Appoint an Illegal Alien as an American Bishop?

After more than a decade of chaos, confusion, and pseudo-progressive politics under the pontificate of the late Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV is restoring some sense of stability to the Vatican. The clarity of the pontiff’s words, however, would be greatly aided by a corresponding clarity in his actions. As our own Paul Kengor pointed out recently, Pope Leo has rejected the progressive, globalist call for open borders, instead reaffirming the Catholic Church’s longstanding support for national sovereignty and the authority — indeed, the obligation — for rulers and lawmakers to protect their people.