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Trump, EU Reach Tariff Deal To Avoid Trade War

President Trump said he reached a trade deal with the European Union late on Sunday, avoiding a trade war with the US’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Trump’s tariffs are promoting free trade — in Canada

TORONTO — In 2024, the grand prize at the Canadian Whisky Awards went to Paradigm Spirits. Its entrant, made with Canadian corn, aged for 19 years in American oak barrels and blended with a splash of Spanish sherry, beat some 200 competitors to be crowned Whisky of the Year. A judge called it “remarkable.”

It was a break for Paradigm, which had opened in an old Kellogg’s factory in London, Ontario, just a few years earlier. The women-owned-and-operated distillery was soon inundated with messages from Canadians across the country eager to buy the award-winning spirit, co-founder Irma Joeveer said.

But there was a problem: Canada’s internal trade barriers. With few exceptions, alcohol producers in one Canadian province are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in another. Vintners in British Columbia, for instance, can often more easily sell their merlots to oenophiles in other countries than within their own.

One thing about Trump – you can never call him all bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

China’s record purchases of Canadian crude could be a harbinger of more deals to come

China is now importing record amounts of Canadian oil after slashing U.S. oil purchases by roughly 90 per cent.

As a result, imports of Canadian crude have surged, reaching a record 7.3 million barrels in March. This massive boon comes as Canadian negotiators are racing against the clock to make a trade deal with the White House.

The expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline has enabled China and other East Asian importers to access Canada’s vast crude reserves, which are relatively cheap and suitable for China’s advanced refineries that process dense, high-sulfur crude.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now? … How about acting like a responsible corporate citizen rather than a caricature of rapacious capitalism?

They gathered in a conference room for the weekly management meeting, even though there was hardly anyone left to manage. Chad Hartmann, the president of Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, pushed a few empty chairs to the side of the room and then passed around a sheet totaling the latest production numbers. “Take a deep breath and brace yourselves,” he said.

For more than a decade, Glenn Valley’s production reports had told a story of steady ascendance — new hires, new manufacturing lines, new sales records for one of the fastest-growing meatpacking companies in the Midwest. But, in a matter of weeks, production had plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew was in the process of being deported, the director of human resources had stopped coming to work, and more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska.

Hartmann, 52, folded the printed sheet into tiny squares and waited out the silence.

The Liberal Government recently introduced a path to citizenship for “construction laborers” working illegally in Canada.

What they really did was reward the criminal construction firms that broke the law by knowingly exploiting the illegals at the expense of Canadians.

The Star like the NYTimes pretends these firms are some kind hero: Canada to grant legal status for thousands of undocumented construction workers

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

What the U.S. dairy industry really wants from Canada

U.S. dairy producers insist they’re not looking for Canada to dismantle its supply management system, but they do want Canada to follow the letter and spirit of the existing deal that governs the dairy trade between the two countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly blasted Canada as “unfair” and “ripping us off” with massive dairy tariffs, in a way that isn’t fully accurate.

However, senior figures in the U.S. dairy industry are concerned there’s also some misrepresentation happening north of the border, creating a false perception of what U.S. producers are actually seeking in terms of access to the Canadian market.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

90% of Dem States Sue to Fund Welfare for Illegal Aliens

A lawsuit by vast majority of Dem states shows how bad the problem is.

In the flurry of lawfare aimed at blocking anything and everything that the Trump administration is doing, it’s easy to dismiss any single lawsuit as just more partisan legal obstructionism, but the lawsuit filed by 20 Democrat states against the Trump administration is a major admission.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Digital Landmines: Beijing’s Quiet Invasion

The Chinese model is disturbingly efficient.

Welcome to 2025, where China’s cyber strategy is no longer espionage. It’s pre-positioning — the digital equivalent of landmines buried deep in our networks, designed not to explode on contact, but to wait in silence until detonation serves strategic purpose.

In June 2025, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Chinese state-sponsored hackers, operating under the codename Salt Typhoon, had spent nine months infiltrating a U.S. state’s Army National Guard network. Not loitering. Not poking. Nesting. They extracted more than 1,400 configuration files, admin credentials, and communication archives tied to secure inter-state systems — a sweep confirmed in the Daily Beast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Cyber War, USA

‘Bring the Head of Trump’: Iran Must Be Stopped

Iran’s regime has crossed a line that no sovereign state has ever crossed before: it openly called for the assassination of a sitting president of the United States.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most powerful clerics in Iran’s theocratic system, has issued an official fatwa — a religious decree — calling for the murder of President Donald J. Trump. It did not come from some fringe radical hiding in a cave. It came directly from the top of Iran’s religious and political hierarchy. This is equivalent to a declaration of war. What makes the fatwa even more outrageous is that the regime is not just issuing threats—it has been raising money, publicly — to pay for Trump’s murder. It is not a joke. It is a direct, state-sanctioned call to eliminate America’s leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

The Left Would Rather Embrace Mass Immigration Than Help Struggling Americans

“For a Haitian family in Springfield, Ohio, the house on Chestnut Avenue represented their future in this country. They’re now wondering what can be salvaged,” a recent feature in the Washington Post described. The article — one of several of its kind — attempts to elicit empathy for hard-working, religious Haitian immigrants, trying to grasp their slice of the American dream. In that respect, the WaPo largely achieves its goal. The pro-immigration rhetoric, however, is not only about celebrating diligent émigrés — it’s about maligning the blue-collar Americans they’ve come to replace.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

They’re Not Sanctuary Cities; They’re Slavery Cities

Sanctuary cities and states exist not for the altruistic reasons blue state leaders claim, but because of profit—the profit of slavery.

Progressives portray sanctuary cities as a necessary means to balance public safety, human rights, and local autonomy in the face of federal immigration enforcement. Sanctuary City supporters harp on false narratives. Thus, they’ll routinely raise a handful of now familiar arguments …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

All six Canadian venues cancel Christian musician Sean Feucht’s shows

U.S. Christian musician Sean Feucht is continuing his Canadian tour in spite of having to find new venues for all six shows.

The City of Vaughan, Ont., where Feucht was to have finished the first leg of the Let Us Worship: Revive in 25 tour on Sunday afternoon at the Dufferin District Park, confirmed to National Post that it had cancelled the special event permit “on the basis of health and safety as well as community standards and well-being.”

The Ugly Canadian is not a myth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Canada, USA, WTF?

Trump’s steel tariffs against Canada have been working just how he wants

For the hundreds of Canadian steelworkers who lost their jobs this year amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, talk of reaching a trade deal between Canada and the U.S. is coming too little, too late.

For Trump, the effects — driving down imports, boosting the U.S. steel industry and winning concessions from Canada — seem to be getting him what he wants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada, we’ve already got Trump’s best trade deal

The frenzied tariff announcements of recent weeks risk obscuring a simple fact: most Canadian exports face no tariffs when entering the United States.

Goods that are compliant with the rules of origin of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement have been exempted from tariffs imposed in February based on White House claims about fentanyl coming from Canada, and what the U.S. calls “reciprocal” tariffs, which are poised to come into effect on Aug. 1. No such exemption has been granted to other countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

U.S. and Canada might not reach trade deal, Trump says

The United States may not reach a negotiated trade deal with Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, suggesting his administration could set a tariff rate unilaterally.

Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House for a trip to Scotland, said: “We haven’t really had a lot of luck with Canada. I think Canada could be one where there’s just a tariff, not really a negotiation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA