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Pakistani Armed Groups Obtain U.S. Weapons Left Behind In Afghanistan

When the United States pulled out its forces from Afghanistan in 2021, it left behind around $7 billion worth of military equipment and weapons, including firearms, communications gear, and even armored vehicles.

The Taliban seized the arms following the fall of the Western-backed Afghan government during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal, giving the hard-line Islamist group a vast war chest.

Since the Taliban takeover, some of the American military gear and weapons have turned up in neighboring Pakistan, where they have been used by armed groups, according to experts and security officials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, USA

If Americans don’t believe in God, country or hard work, what do they believe in?

A new poll finds that love of money has taken the place of values we once revered

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? It’s all pretty bad, but let’s get it over with: the share of Americans who say patriotism and religion are “very important” to them has fallen sharply, as has the number of Americans who value involvement in their community, hard work and having children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Mexico’s President Attacks U.S. on Human Rights

Mexican President Lopez Obrador has responded to a U.S. State Department report on the Central American country’s Human Rights record.

The U.S. report mentions corruption and the violation of people’s rights by members of the security forces, as well as the failure on the part of Mexico’s judiciary to prosecute certain crimes.

“What if we evaluate their [the USA’s] record on human rights?” asked the President during a speech delivered to members of the press, referring to the high-profile case of Julian Assange by way of example: “Why don’t you free Assange? If you’re talking about journalism and freedom, why do you keep Assange in prison?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, USA

Ending the Fentanyl Crisis Starts by Securing the Border

President Joe Biden has spent two-plus years in office ignoring the border and undermining proven efforts to stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants.

Today, I will hold a town hall in Salem, N.H. But I’ll start by discussing another town, just a few miles to the south. Lawrence, Mass., isn’t a place most people know. But for anyone in New England who has lost a loved one to fentanyl, there’s a good chance Lawrence played a painful role.

The border is a route in, shut it down and new ones will open.  Unless you can stem demand nothing will work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs, USA

TikTok and 9/11

Both pose serious threats to our nation, as Congress’ recent hearing reveals.

What does TikTok have in common with 9/11?

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked airplanes and committed suicide attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. These terrorists took advantage of the freedoms in the U.S. to be trained as pilots and organize the attacks. In responding to this new type of terrorist attack, the U.S. instituted several new measures.

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

Why are Americans dying so young?

US life expectancy is falling well behind Europe

Most of us Brits realise that the US is richer than the UK. But just how much richer still has the power to shock. In 2021, American GDP per capita was $69,185 while the mother country got by on just $46,542. In fact, viewed state by state, America is richer than almost all of Europe. Only special cases like Norway, Denmark and Switzerland do better.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

National Security Threat: Another Latin American Country Chooses China

Honduras recently cut ties with Taiwan and established diplomatic ties with China.

Honduras’ Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina made it clear that the decision was about “pragmatism, not ideology” and that it was motivated by the country’s debt, which totals $20 billion, as well as the need to deal with the country’s energy and other needs. Honduras’ decision came just weeks after the Honduran government announced that it was negotiating with China to build a hydroelectric dam called Patuca II. China has already invested $298 million in a first dam in eastern Honduras inaugurated in January 2021.

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

China campaign to influence local leaders bore fruit in Utah: report

China’s furtive efforts to affect policy and raise its stature worldwide achieved some of its greatest successes in Utah — a deeply religious and conservative state seemingly a world away from the machinations of Beijing’s Communist government, the Associated Press reported Monday.

For years, China and its affiliates in the US have worked behind-the-scenes to cultivate relationships with state and local officials and lawmakers, connections that have allowed Beijing to delay legislation it didn’t like and ditch resolutions that expressed dissatisfaction with its actions.

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

The CCP Has an Inside Informant on Our Military and Supply Chains

The Chinese government may be using its shipping technology as a spy tool.

For more than 15 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has developed an elaborate espionage campaign to gather insight on American businesses, strategic assets, and supply-chain weak links. The goal: to gain a competitive foothold it can leverage against the United States and our allies.

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

Rex Murphy: Ignoring the Chinese ghost at Trudeau and Biden’s banquet

Ah, the Biden visit.

One of the more empty moments of our turbulent times. A distracted American president and a troubled Canadian prime minister sharing a plate and oozing mutual admiration.

Bring on the appetizers.

Wonderful to see the U.S. president finally drop by. A Canadian visit used to be the first “foreign” stop on every new American president’s itinerary. But better late than never at all.

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

U.S. wants Canada to take part in a global economic decoupling from China

If Joe Biden is right, one of the most consequential things for Canada’s economic future is happening right now.

The U.S. President just invited Canada to take part in a global economic decoupling, in a multination effort to repatriate critical supply chains away from authoritarian countries such as China. And Canada said yes.

Details are to come in Tuesday’s federal budget. What we know already is that Canada will follow the U.S. in establishing a major package of industrial subsidies. Those incentives are supposed to create the industrial base for a low-carbon future and bring jobs to North America. But it’s also supposed to separate supply chains from authoritarian countries.

Europe is up in arms about Joe’s plan. It will not work in our favour. Even the CBC reported Joe essentially relegating us to the role of hewers of wood and drawers of water noting he stated value added manufacturing will take place in the US.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ham-fisted CBC propaganda gambit calls on retired US Admiral to run cover for Trudeau and declare 5 Eyes still trusts the ChiCom compromised little weasel

Canadian leaks have not damaged intelligence sharing relationship, senior U.S. official says

A senior American national security official says Canadian leaks of information around allegations of foreign election interference from China have not affected key international intelligence sharing relationships.

“There’s no breach of trust with Canada or the Five Eyes relationship whatsoever,” said John Kirby, co-ordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, in an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live. The Five Eyes alliance is made up of Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

This is the CBC running propaganda for the LPC. They were asked to polish the turd and find someone to speak nicely about Junior. My bet is 5 Eyes considers Trudeau a rat.

There’s a reason Canada wasn’t invited to join AUKUS and it is well known that Canada is no longer considered a reliable partner.

Kirby is retired and works for the National Security Council in communications, he does not advise the President personally and it is doubtful he has access to real information concerning Canada’s status within 5 Eyes, none that he could divulge at any rate. This was a staged pat on the back for optics, all part of the game. It’s not as if it’s his place to publicly denounce our Useful Idiot PM to fangirl Rosie.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

U.S. offers cash to Canadian critical minerals projects during Biden’s visit

The president seemed to suggest at one point that the value-added jobs would go to the U.S.

There was a pot of gold at the end of President Joe Biden’s jaunt to Canada. It’s going to Canada’s mining sector.

The U.S. military will deliver funds this spring to critical minerals projects in both the U.S. and Canada. The goal is to accelerate the development of a critical minerals industry on this continent.

The context is the United States’ intensifying rivalry with China.

I’m surprised CBC allowed this to be reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Green-Scam, USA

Conrad Black: In Canada and U.S., conservatism is poised to make a comeback

As a country with a revolutionary tradition, the United States has always considered the right to own and carry firearms as implicit in the success of the American Revolution, and in the right and ability of all Americans to protect their property. This was implicit in the Declaration of Independence, in particular in Thomas Jefferson’s ungenerous references to the Native people. This helped give to American conservatism the character of individualism, of the rugged citizen, practically completely independent of the state, and in some respects, suspicious of it; patriotic and participating in political life, but above all in a society of individuals. The unallocated powers clause of the Bill of Rights, attached to the constitution at its outset, holds that powers not accorded the federal government belong to the states or the people, to individual citizens themselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA