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Almost 70,000 South Africans interested in US asylum

Close to 70,000 South Africans have expressed interest in moving to the US following Washington’s offer to resettle people from the country’s Afrikaner community, a business group has said.

The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (Saccusa) said its website received tens of thousands of registrations from those seeking more information.

In a February executive order, President Donald Trump said Afrikaners – descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century – could be admitted as refugees as they were “victims of unjust racial discrimination”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa, USA

Trump: America has been ‘raped and pillaged’ by Europe

The United States has been “raped and pillaged” by the EU, Donald Trump has said in a fresh jibe at European allies amid an expanding trade war.

Addressing his plans to reduce the national debt by imposing trade tariffs, the President claimed that America has been taken advantage of for years by its allies.

“For years, we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged,” Mr Trump told Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night. “Much of it was done by our friends. Look at the European Union.”

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

As many as 80 Tesla vehicles damaged at dealership in Hamilton: police

Hamilton police say they are investigating a “series of mischiefs” after dozens of Tesla vehicles were damaged at a local dealership this week.

According to police, officers were called to a Tesla dealership, located at 999 Upper Wentworth Street, on Wednesday for a report of damage to some of the store’s inventory.

This isn’t patriotism it’s terrorism.

Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla over safety concerns

The Vancouver International Auto Show has removed U.S. electric carmaker Tesla from its event this week, saying its primary concern was the safety of attendees and exhibitors.

Tesla has faced numerous protests in Canada recently due to owner Elon Musk’s proximity to U.S. President Donald Trump, at a time when Trump has imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports and publicly made threats of annexation towards the country.

Smells like terrorism to me.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Terrorism - Domestic, USA

Canadian researchers incensed that Trump will no longer fund the racist, anti-human and anti-American crap they push

Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers

Researchers working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda.

So the US should keep giving them funds to push anti-human, racist and anti-USA crap. Got it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Toronto’s Chairman Chow supports removing U.S. flags ‘wherever possible’

The mayor of Canada’s largest city and economic capital says she supports removing American flags “wherever possible.”

The office of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told Global News in a statement Wednesday that Chow is OK with the measure, which some municipalities in Ontario are starting to adopt.

“We are proudly Canadian and will never be the 51st state,” her office said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

America’s Most Famous Illegal Alien Busted by ICE

Move over Mahmoud Khalil, the open borders crowd is about to have a much bigger martyr.

One of the most obvious signs that we were living in a system where immigration law could be openly flouted was the growing number of illegal aliens who would attend rallies, become professional activists and boast of their illegal status knowing that absolutely nothing would happen to them. This phenomenon really took off under Obama and in some parts of the country simply became the new normal. Illegals were untouchable.

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

Mike Coates: Free trade is dead. The coming election will be about who can navigate this change

As we ready ourselves for a truly consequential election, most pundits are predicting that the ballot question will be about who is best able to negotiate with U.S. President Donald Trump. In reality, our trading system is changing so radically that the real question is: who can best adapt to change? I’d argue it’s Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative party.

Poilievre and the Conservative party have demonstrated that they get it. Putting Canadian interests first by building pipelines, quickly developing mines, cutting taxes, investing in skilled trades, equipping and recruiting for our Armed Forces, breaking down internal trade barriers and diversifying our international trade are all policies that the Conservatives have been talking about consistently since the Harper years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The Islamic Revolution Sweeping US Prisons

Islamic conversion rates are on the rise in American prisons and the West should be concerned.

A quiet yet seismic shift is occurring in America’s prison cells. Fewer inmates are reading the Bible behind bars, while more are reading the Quran.

That’s right.

Islam is quickly becoming the dominant faith in America’s prison system. According to a recent CBS report, tens of thousands of inmates convert to Islam each year. In some prisons, Muslim prisoners make up as much as 20 percent of the population. The conversion rate is astonishing. It goes beyond a mere religious choice.

It represents a complete transformation of identity, loyalty, and ideology.

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

Trump: ‘It‘s Easier to Deal‘ with a Liberal in Canada than Poilievre, He ‘Said Negative Things‘

During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump responded to Canada’s Liberal Party appearing to gain ground electorally by saying that “I think it’s easier to deal, actually, with a Liberal. And maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter to me at all.” And Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre “said negative things. So, when he says negative things, I couldn’t care less.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Fear grows among US’s 390,000 undocumented Chinese immigrants: ‘So many policies have changed’

In 2014, a few years after the birth of her second child, Jenny left China to flee an abusive relationship and government persecution for violating the one-child policy. She brought her younger daughter to San Francisco and, though undocumented, found work at a childcare facility and eventually married a US citizen.

Because of extended delays in visa processing, her green card application remains in limbo after three years, but she’s never been particularly afraid of her immigration status. That is until Donald Trump won re-election last November, fueled in part by a promise to conduct the largest mass deportation program in US history.

Jenny – the Guardian is using an alias to protect her identity – said she had been afraid to go to work, buy groceries or even meet her friends outside. Her husband, she said, urged her not to leave the house unless absolutely necessary until her visa is approved. Many other Chinese immigrants in her community share her fears, she said.

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

Trump is targeting Canada’s dairy industry. Is it time to rethink our decades-old supply management system?

U.S. President Donald Trump may be having a cow over Canadian dairy, but it’s not the first time the U.S. government has complained about the industry’s protectionist policies.

In 2018, during his first term as president, the dairy industry was a target for an angry Trump, who railed against Canada for not allowing foreign competition in.

And he’s not far wrong, according to industry experts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

I’m no fan but Trump’s effect may be positive

Across western democracies, upheavals in the US are prompting a startling realignment of ideas and of parties (Except post-national Canada)

One of the fascinating aspects of the French Revolution, as one convulsion after another swept France in the 1790s, was that it transformed the politics of other countries too.

Like the US today, France was, until then, seen as both the most powerful of all nations and the great upholder of the established order. The dramatic overturning of that order created admirers and enemies all over Europe with a profound effect on politics for generations: in Britain it broke the Whig party, led to Edmund Burke’s defining of conservatism and spurred the industrial and military prowess with which an enormous empire would be governed. Its effect on ideas — such as the whole concept of left and right wings in politics — endures today.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

All the biggest bombshells in new JFK assassination files so far

The new trove of top secret files released on the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy left experts trawling for new clues and Donald Trump’s own staff scrambling.

The release early Tuesday evening included 2,182 PDF documents totaling 63,400 pages on the National Archives website more than 60 years after the president was shot and killed in Dallas.

It included typewritten reports and handwritten notes spanning decades, including details of a top CIA agent who claimed the deep state was responsible, Lee Harvey Oswald being a ‘poor shot’ and that Secret Service had been warned Kennedy would be killed in August, three months before the murder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Joe Rogan tees off on Mark Carney: ‘Just as bad as Trudeau’

After vowing to stop visiting Canada while Justin Trudeau was still in charge, Joe Rogan is weighing in on new Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that Canada should become the 51st state.

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