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Eric Ham: Canada beware, Trump’s Venezuela invasion is a clear warning shot

WASHINGTON – A surprise pre-dawn raid on a sovereign country was the opening salvo by an American strongman hellbent on bringing the world’s most resource-rich nations under U.S. control.

In 2025, Donald Trump tested the reach of his authority, faced down the system of checks and balances and dared the world to push back. Meeting no resistance, the twice-impeached commander-in-chief orchestrated his fait accompli, stealing the world’s largest oil reserves with nary an outcry from the international community.

I think Canada will split apart frankly and given the way we’ve been abused by the Liberal Government this past decade that’s not really such a bad thing.

So long as Trump deports the migrants I’m good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

‘Our minerals could be used to annex us’: why Canada doesn’t want US mining

The Outaouais region on the western edge of Quebec is home to thousands of lakes, vast forests and extensive wetlands. It is also the setting of a swathe of wooded land known as La Petite-Nation, which, although not far from the cities of Montreal and Ottawa, remains relatively untouched.

That, however, is to change with the arrival of a controversial graphite mine with financing from the Pentagon.

Lomiko Metals, a company based in British Columbia, is planning to build an open-air graphite mine in La Petite-Nation. Once operational, the mine will produce 100,000 tonnes of graphite for 15 years.

Warning Guardian ahead.

My neck of the woods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 VP candidate, won’t run for a third term as Minnesota governor

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term as governor less than four months after launching a reelection campaign.

Walz said in a statement Monday that he believes he would have won another term but decided “that I can’t give a political campaign my all” after what he described as an “extraordinarily difficult year for our state.”

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

Thirty-two Cubans killed during US attack on Venezuela

The Cuban government has said 32 of its nationals were killed during the US operation to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

It said the dead were members of its armed forces and intelligence agencies, with two days of national mourning declared.

A short statement did not elaborate on the role of the Cubans in Venezuela, but the two governments are long-standing allies, with Cuba providing security support in exchange for oil.

Justin Trudeau was unavailable for comment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA, Venezuela

Can Maduro’s trusted lieutenant now work for Trump?

Many of those who tuned in to US President Donald Trump’s news conference on Saturday were probably hoping to hear dramatic details of how US forces seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a pre-dawn raid.

But arguably a more surprising moment came when Trump announced that now that Maduro was in custody, the US would “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”.

In another unexpected development, he added that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been speaking to Maduro’s Vice-President, Delcy Rodríguez, who he said was “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

After US Venezuela Operation, Poilievre Says Canada in ‘Weakened’ Position Without More Oil Pipelines to Tidewater

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Liberal government’s oil tanker ban, which led to the cancellation of a pipeline that would have transported Alberta oil to British Columbia for international markets, has put Canada in a “weakened and dependent” position.

Poilievre’s remarks came shortly after the United States announced on Jan. 3 that it had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States will run Venezuela until a peaceful transition of power is completed, adding that it will be heavily involved in the nation’s oil industry.

Bonus Gilmore h/t all who sent this in

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

Canadian woman charged with illegally crossing into U.S., kicking border agent’s face

A Canadian woman has been charged in the United States with crossing into Washington state and kicking a border agent in the face.

The accused is facing one count each of assault on a federal officer and improper entry after the incident Tuesday.

In U.S. district court documents, the FBI alleges the woman was denied entry at the Peace Arch border crossing, south of Surrey, B.C., because she had a marijuana vape pen.

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

Canada’s oil sector shouldn’t panic, stay competitive after Maduro’s seizure: expert

EDMONTON – A political scientist says U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in transforming Venezuela’s oil-rich sector is a reminder for Canada’s oil and gas industry to not panic and stay competitive.

Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment with the think-tank Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says Canada has always competed with other oil-rich countries, and Trump’s recent claims his country will “run” oil-rich Venezuela is a medium-term risk to Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

Trump sets sights on Greenland

Donald Trump has signalled Greenland is in his sights with Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator, captured and preparing to face an American courtroom.

“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” he told The Atlantic magazine, adding that the Danish territory was “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships”.

He said officials in his administration would decide what happened with Greenland, which Mr Trump has claimed the US must annex for its security.

Oops …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

AUBUT: The divergent paths of liberty and loyalty, comparing America and Canada

The year 1629 marks the quiet divide that determined the fates of two nations. In the south, the English colonies that became the United States were founded by literate settlers who sought not comfort but freedom. They brought with them the conviction that faith and conscience were their own, that government was to be distrusted and restrained, and that their destiny depended on their own labour and judgment

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Venezuela’s fate is a warning for Canada

U.S. military action to seize Nicolás Maduro marks the formal debut of an imperial America

No one need shed a single tear for Nicolás Maduro, a ruthless dictator who extinguished Venezuela’s democracy and set its economy into a death spiral.

His sins are many: stolen elections, numerous alleged crimes against humanity, and more than a decade of exploitation of what once was and should still be a prosperous country. And of course, the Trump administration alleges that Mr. Maduro is a narco-terrorist in league with drug cartels.

Wonder if he’ll kick out the migrants?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

What analysts say about Carney’s statement on Venezuela

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a “Venezuelan-led transition process” away from what he called the criminal regime of President Nicolás Maduro in a Saturday post on X.

It was just one of his requests following the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to remove Maduro from power early Saturday Morning. He also called on “all parties” to respect international law, mirroring a previous statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Neither response mentioned the United States directly.

Two observers who spoke with CTV News Channel said the prime minister’s response should have gone further.

Not insulting enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The Somali fraud scandal is a turning point

I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they had spent more time studying the wit and wisdom of Gertrude Stein.

Stein, had she lived in our own day, might well have become commissioner of New York City’s Fire Department. She had the one qualification that Zohran Mamdani seems to deem essential to the post.

Sadly, that was not to be. But there is no denying that, on certain matters, Stein was a font of practical wisdom that remains as pertinent today as it was when she was pontificating in Paris a century ago. It is important, Stein warned those aspiring to be part of the avant garde, “to know how far to go when going too far.” This is true of all the arts. It is just as true of fraud as of painting, poetry, dance or music.

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