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China’s Advances in Space Warfare Are Terrifying

“China is steadily progressing toward becoming a world-class space leader, with the intent to match or surpass the United States by 2045.”

The indefatigable Bill Gertz of the Washington Times has a page-one story highlighting a Mitchell Institute report that warns that the United States is falling behind China in “counterspace capabilities” that will be crucial to success in any future war.

To quote the report: “The U.S. advantage in space is at risk … [T]he United States must maintain its access to space capabilities that are now threatened by China. And the United States must have the potential to deny China access to the space capabilities it needs to threaten U.S. space and terrestrial forces and national interests.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2023July 10, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

High Skills, High Stakes – Canada ramps up its efforts to draw high-skilled immigrants away from the U.S.

In a striking move, Canada has unveiled a new pathway for high-skilled immigrants in the United States to migrate north. The policy risks undermining America’s economy and geostrategic position and should serve as a wake-up call to Washington. Reforming the nation’s high-skilled immigration system is a pressing need.

On net, legal immigrants with college degrees create jobs. Immigrants founded most U.S. billion-dollar startups. And the most successful immigrants, like Elon Musk, came to the U.S. as international students and then transitioned to an H-1B visa, designed for specialty occupations.

I call Bullshit, in the US H1-B Visas are a known scam benefitting the corporate class by depressing wages …

THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM HARMS AMERICAN WORKERS AND SHOULD BE REPEALED

“… According to data compiled in 2020, some 60 percent of H-1B workers were paid at the two lowest prevailing wage levels for these top H-1B employers, meaning that three out of five foreign visa workers were being paid wages far below the local median wage for similar occupations. Amazon and Microsoft are particularly egregious in their practices, with over 75 percent of their H-1B workers in 2019 paid at the two lowest prevailing wage rates.

There is substantial data to suggest that the H-1B visa program continues to be one of the most abusive programs condoned by the federal government. The design and implementation of this program necessitate inflicting real harm on middle-class and middle-class-aspiring Americans, their families, and their communities, as well as many of the foreign recipients of the visa.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 10, 2023July 10, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, USA

The moral quandary of Ukrainian cluster bombs

If these munitions are some sort of last resort, then Ukraine is in a double bind

When the war in Ukraine was only a few months old, Amnesty International published a report condemning what it had found to be the extensive use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv — by Russia. It noted that the weapons were banned by more than 100 countries and said that in Kharkiv they had claimed hundreds of civilian victims. Cue accusations of war crimes and western outrage against Russia’s uncivilized way of war.

I think Joe’s handlers want the two sides in peace talks at the least before the election revs up.

by Blazingcatfur•July 10, 2023July 10, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia", USA

Any Deal with Iran Requires Congressional Approval

Iran is pretty much a nuclear threshold state, having enriched enough uranium to build multiple nuclear bombs within a few weeks while hard at work weaponising them in a timeframe that is so far unknown but probably under a year.

Much of this came to pass during Joe Biden’s presidency. When President Donald Trump pulled out of President Barack Obama’s flawed JCPOA nuclear deal, Iran’s uranium enrichment was under 5% and Trump kept it there with his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions. The ayatollahs were also running scared of Trump and didn’t want to tempt him to kinetic action, a fear reinforced by his targeted killing of the international terrorist and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Qasem Soleimani in 2020

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Iran, USA

Iranian Threat in America’s Backyard, Thanks to The Biden Administration

Thanks to the Biden Administration’s apparently lack of policy towards Latin America as well as the Administration’s policy of appeasement towards Iran’s Islamist regime, the ruling mullahs have been freely violating sanctions and increasing their influence in America’s backyard without facing any consequences.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2023July 8, 2023•0•Cuba, Iran, South America, USA

Trudeau government condemns US provision of Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

Canada is reiterating its stance against the use of cluster munitions following the Biden administration’s decision to send the controversial weapon to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.

In a statement sent to CTV News, the Government of Canada said its longstanding position on the weapon is clear in that Canada is fully against its use in accordance with Canada’s ban against landmines.

“Building on the trailblazing work of Lloyd Axworthy on the Ottawa Treaty to ban landmines, Canada championed the adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which is now ratified by more than 100 countries,” the statement said.

Cluster bombs: Biden defends decision to send Ukraine controversial weapons

US President Joe Biden has defended his “very difficult decision” to give Ukraine cluster bombs, which have a record of killing civilians.

The president said it had taken him “a while to be convinced to do it”, but he had acted because “the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition”.

Ukraine’s leader hailed the “timely” move.

But the UK’s PM suggested the country “discourages” the use of cluster bombs, while Spain criticised the decision.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2023July 8, 2023•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Army exempts trans service members from physical fitness standards

Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.

That seems to be the lesson of the Army’s physical fitness standards, which do not apply to people who are getting “gender-affirming” care.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2023July 7, 2023•0•Big Tranny, USA, WTF?

‘Another 9/11:’ Law Enforcement Warns of Terrorists Coming into America Among Illegal Aliens

Former law enforcement officials have been issuing warnings about a renewed threat of terrorism in the United States as the Biden Administration has failed to address the rise in terror suspects sneaking into the country via the southern border.

As reported by Just The News, a recent report by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), an incident occurred last year in which a terrorist was released into the United States by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shortly after his apprehension. The terrorist was then allowed to roam freely throughout the country for about two weeks before he was arrested again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2023July 7, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

Secret Meetings, Friction Over Ukraine’s Place in NATO Hint at New Phase of War

Is the end in sight? With the shock of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine long since replaced by Europe’s exhaustion with war, reports of secret talks between former American national security officials and Kremlin insiders hint at an impending hairpin turn in the conflict.

Separately, less than a week before a much-anticipated NATO summit at Vilnius, there is growing tension on the Continent over the prospect of Ukraine joining the military bloc. That too is an indication that a different dynamic is afoot, and one that spells the expiration if not of the war itself, then of certain expectations as to what the end of the ordeal might look like.

This is convenient, the Democrats don’t really want the Ukraine-Russia war hanging round old Joe’s neck during the next election.

And what’s Joe doing hyping EU Queen Ursula von der Leyen for NATO’s top Spot angering Great Britain?

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2023July 7, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia", USA

US funds shadow police units all over the world

The United States is funding specially vetted shadow police units all over the world, it has been claimed.

Agreements have been signed between the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security and at least a dozen developing countries including Peru and the Philippines, the Wall Street Journal reported.

There are also funding agreements between the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and police forces in Uganda and Nigeria.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2023July 6, 2023•0•USA

‘America’s Darkest Secret’: Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration

The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently “normal” inside the US:

“According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters with illegal immigrants along the southern border.”

These numbers do not include reports that “at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants,” or “gotaways,” who “were confirmed to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2023July 6, 2023•0•Human Trafficking, Mexico, USA

Should US Troops Stay in Syria?

A Syrian website run by opponents of the Assad regime recently reported that in early June that Russian military officials in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Province met with Iranian operatives. The primary agenda of the Russian-Iranian meeting was reportedly “to discuss expelling the United States from Syria, which may indicate Russia’s intent to facilitate Iranian-backed attacks on US forces.”

After a series of Iran-directed attacks on U.S. military outposts in Syria and the kinetic responses from American forces, leaked documents indicate that Iran is planning to target US armored vehicles in Syria by with remotely-detonated roadside bombs.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2023July 5, 2023•0•Syria, USA

White House accused of ‘massive’ attempt to censor Covid jab dissent

Joe Biden’s officials have been temporarily banned from meeting with social media company executives after a court decided there was evidence they sought to suppress free speech during the pandemic.

A judge backed claims that the US president’s administration, including the White House, had engaged in a “massive” attempt to stop Americans questioning the efficacy of vaccines online.

The injunction came after it was revealed last month that UK ministers set up a counter-disinformation unit, which was used to target lockdown critics and those questioning the mass vaccination of children.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2023July 4, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", USA

Happy 4th America!

This is so weird I love it.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2023•0•USA

Hey Frankie Champagne! How much did this tongue bath cost the tax payer?

PARIS — At the Paris Air Show, under the piercing roars of fighter jet demos, Canada’s silver-haired, Canali-clad industry minister sells one executive after another on an unexpected pitch: Amid global disorder, boring is best for business.

“When everything is high risk, you go to Canada and it’s very stable and predictable. It’s very attractive,” said François-Philippe Champagne, a U.S.-educated corporate lawyer turned politician and now Ottawa salesman, zipping between air show meetings in a golf cart.

WTF? Frankie is being praised for being even more stupid with tax payer dollars than Americans.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2023July 3, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Green-Scam, USA