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Will Europe ever wake up? America loathes the continent’s elites

Stephen Miller is not one for gentility. “Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Trump’s aide asserted brashly on CNN a few days ago, just hours after Maduro’s kidnapping by US forces. But if Miller’s pugnacious style was familiar, European reactions told a different story: they were scattered, confused and deeply revealing. Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, rebutted America’s annexation claims and warned that US aggression against Greenland would effectively mark the end of Nato, while in a joint statement, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the UK and Greenland itself reaffirmed their commitment to the Atlantic Alliance while stating that Greenland belongs to its people and that decisions regarding the island are for Denmark and Greenland alone.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA

I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians

On Jan. 3, United States special forces swooped into Caracas and kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, the despotic Venezuelan president. After the event, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that America now “runs” Venezuela — and plans to seize 50 million barrels of its oil to sell on the open market.

This sort of explicit power-grab is unprecedented among NATO countries. Kidnapping the head of another state, then seizing that state’s assets and taking control of its government, is something even the most autocratic of rulers would shy away from. Yet shortly after abducting Maduro, Trump threatened Colombia’s leftist president Gustavo Petro — a democratically elected leader who is by no stretch of the imagination a despot — with the same fate.

The U.S. has been veering toward fascism for some time. That is why my family and I decided to leave for Canada last March: Canada is a diverse and healthy democracy. Yet in my short time here, I have observed an alarming level of naïveté about what is happening south of the border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Yes, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime Than Natives

Since the news of Minnesota’s sprawling Somali-linked fraud cases went national, debate over immigrant crime has flared once again. President Trump has dispatched federal agents to the Twin Cities to crack down on illegal immigrants. But Trump is overreacting, critics contend: the Somali immigrant population, they claim, does not have particularly high crime rates.

Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute, for instance, set off considerable debate on X by posting a chart showing that Somali-born immigrants have, if anything, slightly lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Among those aged 18 to 54 included in the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), 1,170 of every 100,000 people born in Somalia were incarcerated, versus 1,221 for the native-born.

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

Illegal criminals released into US by Biden admin ID’d as Portland Tren de Aragua gangbangers shot while trying to mow down feds

Venezuelan gangsters Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras

The married Tren de Aragua gangbangers who were shot after they tried to mow down ICE agents in Portland were let loose by the Biden administration despite lengthy rap sheets, Homeland Security officials said.

A CBP agent opened fire on Venezuelan gangsters Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras after they “weaponized” their car fleeing a traffic stop Thursday, said a DHS statement.

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

Scott Bessent Says Feds Are Working to Ban Somali Funds from Leaving the U.S.

Any hope the people of Minnesota had that things would quiet down in their state following revelations of widespread and deep corruption tied to Somali scams has evaporated by now. The Trump administration has been flooding the state and the city of Minneapolis with people from all levels of the federal government and just about every major agency, all determined to assess the extent of the depravity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Macron says Canada ’51st state’ threats an example of U.S. rejecting allies

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday cited U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to make Canada the “51st state” as an example of American foreign policy that is sacrificing allies for “the law of the strongest.”

Macron’s blunt remarks were matched by similar comments from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a separate speech that showed European leaders’ growing concern as Trump seeks to impose U.S. dominance over the Western Hemisphere, including actions in Venezuela and threats of a potential U.S. takeover of Greenland.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance, France Where Cars Go To Burn, USA

Here’s How Many Vehicle Rammings Incidents ICE Has Faced in the Last Year

When Leftist Renee Good hit an ICE agent in Minneapolis yesterday, it wasn’t the first time ICE agents were the targets of vehicle rammings. Cars are deadly weapons, and there’s plenty of legal precedent to justify the ICE agent shooting Good after she struck him with her vehicle.

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

Greenlanders use Trump threats to push for independence from Denmark

Cranky Greenlanders

Greenlanders are using Donald Trump’s threats to take the world’s biggest island by force to push for independence from Denmark.

The Arctic territory’s main opposition party has described the current situation a “window of opportunity”, claiming that Mr Trump’s renewed push to acquire Greenland could help accelerate a breakaway.

Juno Berthelsen, an MP and foreign policy spokesman for the leading opposition party Naleraq, said: “We’ve been seeking independence for many years now, and there’s a window of opportunity here for us, where we could actually go into a dialogue about concrete steps we can take to better Greenlandic people’s lives.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Trump plots six-figure bribes to Greenland residents in audacious bid to seize world’s largest island

Donald Trump is considering sending money directly to residents of Greenland as part of his plotted land grab of the Arctic island.

White House officials are discussing a range of options between $10,000 and $100,000 per person to bribe them to let the US take control, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The population of Greenland sits somewhere around 56,000 and it currently remains a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. This means that on the higher end the US could end up paying Greenland residents $5.6 billion should the bribes be massively accepted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Top Democrats Are Agitating For Insurrection And Political Vigilantism

Forget January 6. It turns out January 7 might go down as the date when insurrection really arrived in America — not from the MAGA right, but from the anti-Trump left.

In the aftermath of the fatal shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis of a woman who appears to have tried to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced at a press conference that he had issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to mobilize to “protect Minnesotans” from “rogue ICE agents.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, USA

With Trump’s Venezuela move and Greenland threats, are Canadians vulnerable?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose stance on taking over Greenland and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are combining to trigger questions and theories about what the White House may have in mind for Canada.

The Trump administration’s moves come on the heels of its vow to “reassert and enforce” American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere, spelled out officially in a new national security strategy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Showdown Expected as U.S. Plans European Visit About Greenland

In justifying his desire to ‘take’ Greenland, Donald Trump effectively dismissed Europe’s militaristic capabilities, saying—in capitals, of course—“I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM.”

Washington insists it needs the island for security, an issue which it clearly doesn’t trust Europe to keep a handle on, and is currently not ruling out military intervention.

Europe’s continued release of statements in support of Denmark’s control of Greenland comes in spite of the fact leaders would rather the matter was settled by others, suggesting that they are well aware of their own weaknesses.

More … Greenland should hold talks with the US without Denmark, opposition leader says

COPENHAGEN, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Greenland should hold direct talks with the U.S. government without Denmark, a Greenlandic opposition leader told Reuters, as the Arctic island weighs how to respond to President Donald Trump’s renewed push to bring it under U.S. control.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Federal agents shoot 2 alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers who ‘weaponized’ car in Portland Oregon

Federal agents allegedly shot two people in Oregon Thursday afternoon – just one day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent gunned down anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota during a chaotic caught-on-camera operation, according to cops.

An unidentified man and woman were both found with gunshot wounds near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside Street in Portland around 2:20 p.m. local time, after the man called authorities for help, according to the Portland Police Department.

Details are a bit sketchy

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

Trump predicts US will run Venezuela for at least a year: ‘I would say much longer’

President Trump suggested Wednesday that the US will oversee Venezuela for at least a year following the Jan. 3 arrest of the South American country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on federal drug and weapons charges.

“We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” Trump told the New York Times in a lengthy interview. “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil. We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela