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The Warship That Shows Why the U.S. Navy Is Falling Behind China

When a Wisconsin shipyard won the contract to build a new class of Navy frigate in 2020, the project was meant to address an embarrassing reality: The U.S. is now the global laggard in building warships.

Stocked with high-tech weaponry to protect against enemy submarines, missiles and drones, the USS Constellation was expected to be ready for the open water in 2026. That was because the U.S. chose a proven design from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri in an effort to speed the process.

Then the Navy started tinkering.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump’s Tariffs: A Good Idea?

Most of us have heard about the high tariffs that U.S. businesses pay to Canada for the export of dairy and (some) meat products to that country. It is absolutely true that Canada can impose astronomically high tariffs, such as these: milk 250%, butter 290%, whey 208%, cheese 240%, poultry 238%, and some animal meat 265%. However, effective rates can be higher or much lower.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Blame Canada – South Park is the most politically astute show on TV

On CNN recently, the hosts of Saturday morning show Table For Five searched for the words to describe Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that Canada should become America’s 51st state. “It boggles the mind,” co-host Abby Phillip exclaimed. “They’re one of our greatest allies!” agreed pundit John Avalon. It was journalist and YouTube host Touré, though, whose comments cut through. “It’s not a serious concept,” the writer groaned, at the idea of America annexing their neighbours to the north. “It’s a South Park idea!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

How Seriously is Canada Taking Trump?

How seriously are Canadians taking Trump? Some are apparently taking him a little too seriously. Most of us on the right are familiar with Trump’s swagger, his Queens-style approach to negotiation, and his tendency toward acidic one-liners, nicknames, and insults. We know that he means business, but we don’t take him literally. To be honest, most people on the Left know this, too, but it is to their advantage to pretend otherwise.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Poll suggests Canadians are growing more alarmed by U.S. tariffs and aggression

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Canadians are feeling increasingly alarmed by U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump and American economic aggression.

The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 14 to March 16, suggests 41 per cent of respondents see those three factors as the most pressing threats facing Canada today — a 13 point spike since the March 3 survey.

The poll also suggests that people in Quebec are most concerned about tariffs, Trump and U.S. aggression, with 51 per cent of respondents there citing them as the biggest issues.

On cue the CBC has a HUGE Story on US internet NAZIS! Way Worse than the NAZIS parading in our streets every day which they rarely report on for some strange reason!

This violent extremist network targets kids online

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump Effect: German Auto Giant Audi Looks to Move Production to U.S.

German luxury auto manufacturer Audi said it is considering moving car production to the United States to avoid tariffs from the Trump administration.

Volkswagen’s subsidiary Audi brand said this week that it is examining various long-term strategies, including potentially shifting production to America, to deal with President Donald Trump’s restrictions on foreign imports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Chief Pentagon spokesman rips ‘garbage’ NYT article saying Elon Musk will be briefed on ‘top-secret’ China plans

The Pentagon’s chief spokesman ripped a “garbage” New York Times report claiming that billionaire Elon Musk would be briefed Friday about the US military’s top-secret plans for a possible war with China.

“That is completely fake,” Sean Parnell said about the article on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning.

“This is egregious. This is fake. The New York Times should retract this story,” he continued.

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

Canada ignored the warning signs that the U.S. was changing — and now we’re paying a price

Emergence of the New Right and their interest in tariffs was an open secret

Why have Canadian business leaders, policy makers and analysts invariably been on their back feet making miscalculation after miscalculation in dealing with the second Trump administration?

It’s not as if we haven’t been here before. And more to the point, it’s not as if what is now occurring was not clearly telegraphed months if not years in advance.

Why would our “Super Patriot Captains Of Industry” change anything?

They got to flood Canada with cheap foreign labour to depress wages and profit off the ensuing shortages in housing etc.

They got to orchestrate “free trade” deals that shipped your jobs offshore to low wage states making it impossible for domestic competition to succeed.

They got to profit off your back on the “Green Energy Transition” scam which was just a way to siphon your tax dollars into their wallets.

Do you really think our Oligarchs are ready to give up the protection racket that lines their pockets?

That’s why “Orange Man Bad“

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, USA

Usual Suspects Vandalize Tesla Vehicles After Being Fueled On Hate Ginned Up By Pseudo-Patriot Liberals Who’ve Exploited Them For A Decade

Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical

Elon Musk has said that “Canada is not a real country,” just one of his social media jabs at the U.S. neighbor.

But people in Canada have done real damage to the vehicles and dealerships belonging to his electric car company, Tesla, according to the police.

More than 80 Teslas had their tires punctured and bodies scratched at a lot in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said on Thursday. Several acts of vandalism against Tesla property have also been committed in the United States.

These pre-fab patriots seize any excuse to raise havoc, for the most part they’re the same useful idiots you see parading with  the Mohammedans.

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

A Fifth of Canadian Companies Eye Relocation to the US Amid Tariff Concerns: Poll

Whatever happened to the All-Canadian Stronachmobile?

Some Canadian companies are considering a move to the United States as a strategy to evade tariffs and protect the future of their businesses, a new survey suggests.

Nineteen percent of the 283 Canadian companies that participated in the survey indicated they would consider relocating part or all of their production to the United States to safeguard the sustainability of their operations, the survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Canada found.

Many of the businesses considering a move south of the border were from the industrial and automotive industries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

You’d Never Know From Corrupt Media That The ‘Student’ Facing Deportation Is A Hamas Chief’s Son-In-Law

The propaganda press continues to play fast and loose with the truth, and nowhere is that more apparent than in their coverage of the Trump administration’s efforts to detain yet another terrorist sympathizer living in the United States. This time, it’s Badar Khan Suri, a man with ties to a senior Hamas official — but you wouldn’t necessarily glean that from the deliberately misleading headlines and articles.

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

How Canada’s elites are exploiting Trump’s trade war

The ruling Liberal Party has cynically reinvented itself as a patriotic protector of the people.

Once again, Canada is in an emergency. The situation is dire. This will be a difficult time. Canadians are going to suffer enormously. This is because we are at war. We will need to band together and fight back against this unforeseen threat.

This, at least, is what our elected officials have been telling us after Canada began retaliating in the trade war with the US. The same message has been repeated in various ways by leaders across the political spectrum, from Canada’s newly anointed prime minister, the Liberal Party’s Mark Carney, to his main rival, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

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

Canadian Journalists Try to Shut Down Reporting on New Prime Minister’s ‘Trans’ Daughter

This week, a Canadian conservative news outlet, True North, reported on an essay written by the daughter of Canada’s new prime minister for Yale University’s feminist magazine. The woman, Sophia Carney, who is now going by Sasha, is 24 years old, graduated from Yale two years ago, and stylizes herself as an activist and writer.

Yet Canada’s journalists are up in arms over True North’s revelations. They are refusing to report True North’s findings and are slamming those who even speak of them.

Why might that be? Why, of course, it’s because True North’s reporting, which discusses Sasha Carney’s (public) transgender identity, touches upon the topic of child “gender transitions.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, USA

Who Are the Shadowy Figures Defending Mahmoud Khalil?

The accused Hamas sympathizer is shrouded in mystery—and so are his supporters.

As it unfurls, the saga of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week—looks less like a complicated immigration-law dispute and more like something out of a John le Carré novel.

But inspect the details, and Khalil’s case gives us a glimpse a well-established network linking American universities, international progressive NGOs, and government agencies. This network places ideologues like Khalil in positions of power and influence and promoting radical policies that challenge both the will of American voters and our national-security interests.

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

Both the U.S. and Canada should try a little self-awareness

Sun Tzu and Machiavelli – two of history’s greatest experts on power – were of the view that countries or leaders could only achieve success if they had self-awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. … If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle,” Sun Tzu wrote.

It is as valid a proposition today as it was in their times, and self-awareness is likely attained as rarely as it was in ancient China or Renaissance Italy. Indeed, neither Canada nor the United States get great marks for self-awareness today.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA