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National Guard struggles as troops leave at faster pace

WASHINGTON (AP) — Soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting, fueling concerns that in the coming years units around the country may not meet military requirements for overseas and other deployments.

For individual states, which rely on their Guard members for a wide range of missions, it means some are falling short of their troop totals this year, while others may fare better. But the losses comes as many are facing an active hurricane season, fires in the West and continued demand for units overseas, including combat tours in Syria and training missions in Europe for nations worried about threats from Russia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Business partner of fake heiress who met Trump at Mar-a-Lago is SHOT in ‘targeted attack’: Ukrainian, 44, was wounded outside upscale hotel in Quebec

Former business partner of fake heiress who infiltrated Mar-A-Lago, was shot outside a Québec hotel

Valeriy Tarasenko, 44, was shot outside of the upscale Estérel Resort hotel, in Estérel, Quebec, around 1pm on Friday. He was not a guest of the hotel, which is near the lake and offers various glamorous guest packages starting as high as $305 US dollars.

Tarasenko, a businessman, was romantically involved with Inna Yashchyshyn, 33, who reportedly posed as a fake heiress to the Rothschild fortune to infiltrate Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

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

CCP Runs Police Outpost in New York City, Part of Global Network of Transnational Repression: Report

Chinese authorities have opened at least one “overseas police service station” in the United States as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) global transnational repression, according to human rights group Safeguard Defenders.

“These operations eschew official bilateral police and judicial cooperation and violate the international rule of law, and may violate the territorial integrity in third countries involved in setting up a parallel policing mechanism using illegal methods,” the Spain-based group said in a recent report.

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

Are Democrats Allowed to Replace Biden With a White Guy?

Gavin Newsom Oily Evangelist

California’s governor is a leading contender for 2024. But there’s a problem.

Gavin Newsom appears to be making a presidential bid.

Aside from placing full-page ads in Texas newspapers and funding billboards in Indiana — efforts designed to raise his national profile — the California governor is exercising some uncharacteristic moderation. He vetoed drug-injection sites for addicts, for instance, a turnabout from his election pledge in California. What’s changed is not his desire to shoot up junkies but rather his fear that Michiganders or Arizonans may not take well to such a program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

OPEC+’s oil cuts signal a new world order

The oil needs of the West are no longer a primary concern

OPEC+ announced on Wednesday that it would make production cuts of 2 million barrels per day, which is roughly equivalent to 2% of global supply. The decision is monumental. It shows that a new type of world is emerging in the wake of the war in Ukraine, and one that does not revolve around the West. As White House spokesperson Karin Jean-Pierre said this week: “It’s clear that Opec+ is aligning with Russia.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", USA

Canada: Supreme Court to hear if US is ‘safe’ for illegal alien invader benefit shoppers

Canada’s Supreme Court will for the first time hear a Canada-US asylum pact case that will weigh whether the country can consider its southern neighbour “safe” for those seeking refugee status.

The outcome of Thursday’s hearing could determine whether Canada can trust that the US treats migrants properly, and could answer whether Canada holds any responsibility for migrants turned back at its border.

At the heart of the matter is the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) – a pact between the two countries that has been in place since 2004 and that requires refugee claimants to request protection in the first “safe” country they reach.

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

ISIS commander responsible for ‘killing an American officer’ shot dead by US special forces in midnight raid in Syria

A top ISIS leader accused of killing an American officer was shot dead by US special forces in a midnight raid deep in the heart of government controlled-territory in Syria.

Local sources said that US troops landed in the village Muluk Saray in the countryside of the Qamishli region in northeast Syria, where territory is controlled in part by US-backed Kurdish fighters and partly by the Russia-backed government.

They told news channel Al Mayadeen that the victim was named Rakan Abu Hayel, originally from the village of Tuwaimin in the eastern countryside.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, USA

US midterms: The Trump voters who see a coming storm

Karen and Steve don’t want to take up arms. But if Republicans lose in November this elderly Arizona couple say a civil war is coming and, yes, they will fight. They have discussed it between them, and feel that taking up arms is their best option. It was at this point that our conversation grew a little dark and my faith in the strength of American democracy grew a little shaky.

I met the Slatons at their Trump paraphernalia store in Show Low, Arizona. It was one of the first stops on a month-long road trip that I took around America this summer, a journey to understand why the upcoming elections feel so consequential, perhaps even a little ominous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

America’s Dependence on China Is a Crisis in the Making

America’s supply chain crisis is far from over. Persistent backlogs at West Coast ports have led shippers to reroute their cargoes to the east. As a result, container ships now sit offshore at ports such as New York, Houston, and Savannah, waiting in queue to offload.

What first triggered the unfamiliar phenomenon of our barren shop shelves was COVID-19 and a series of ill-advised policies implemented to “stop the spread.” Suddenly, there were too few dockworkers, too few warehouse workers, and too few truckers, creating what Lori Fellmer, chair of the ocean committee for the National Industrial Transportation League, called “a horror show.”

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

From Superpower to Paper Tiger: Part Two

This is a recipe for losing the next big war.

Last week, I illuminated how President Joe Biden is forcing “wokeness” on our military and explained its inevitable effect, which is to lower both the lethality and readiness of our forces.

This is worse than the social experimentation of the Clinton and Obama days. Biden’s policies are changing the culture of the military, perhaps irreparably.

The other half of the equation is how we are — and aren’t — planning our military budgets to meet the threats we face from China, Russia, Iran, and other adversary nations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", USA

Molotov Cocktail-Throwing NYC Lawyer Offers New Cocktail in Her Own Defense: Vodka with a Dash of Islamophobia

Urooj Rahman is an attorney, not a bartender, but she knows her cocktails. She tossed a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD cruiser during the 2020 George Floyd riots in New York City. But now, in asking for a light sentence, she is serving up a different cocktail: vodka with a dash of Islamophobia. And really, it’s the Islamophobia that gives it its flavor.

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

Jeffrey Sachs: The rest of the world thinks USA probably blew up the pipelines

We recently looked at all of the finger-pointing going on over the mysterious “leaks” that shut down the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea. Most western leaders continue to suggest that Russia did it, though none are offering any hard evidence to support that claim. But economist Jeffrey Sachs, the Bloomberg TV host and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University isn’t jumping on that bandwagon. Yesterday he told another host on the same network that most of the world believes that the pipelines were blown up in some sort of covert operation between the United States and Poland. The reason most Americans aren’t aware of this, at least according to Sachs, is that the possibility is almost never mentioned on American news networks.

A Deep State that attempted to bring down a sitting president with the Russia Collusion hoax is every bit dangerous enough to have sabotaged the pipelines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", USA