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Trump and top aides refuse to rule out war with Venezuela

Donald Trump and his top advisers have refused to rule out the potential for open conflict with Venezuela as Nicolás Maduro urged his navy to escort oil tankers defying the largest US fleet deployed in the region in decades.

In an interview broadcast on Friday morning, Donald Trump told NBC News that going to war with Maduro’s regime remains on the table. “I don’t rule it out, no,” he said in a phone interview with the network.

And at a year-end press conference at the state department, Marco Rubio doubled down on remarks by other top Trump advisers that the US could coerce Maduro through its campaign of strikes on alleged drug boats travelling toward the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Gun-control wackos are actually blaming TRUMP after the shooting at Brown

Even while law-enforcement officers hunted for the gunman who murdered two students and wounded nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island last week, gun restrictionists unleashed their typical unhinged rhetoric.

Take the reliably partisan Sen. Chris Murphy, who blamed President Donald Trump for engaging in a “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”

The anger is performative and cynical.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

US carries out ‘massive’ strike against IS in Syria

The US says its military has carried out a “massive strike” against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery “struck more than 70 targets at multiple locations across central Syria”. Aircraft from Jordan were also involved.

It said the operation “employed more than 100 precision munitions” targeting known IS infrastructure and weapons sites.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria, USA

How Venezuelan crude could shake things up for Canadian producers

With the Trump administration seizing Venezuelan oil tankers, demanding the “return” of oil and other assets and threatening war against the Maduro regime, the fate of the world’s largest proven reserves is once again in doubt.

As a result of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela has been all but frozen out of the international oil market, despite having more known oil than either Canada or Saudi Arabia.

If the oil were to start to flow again — as it did before the arrival of president Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro — it could have profound effects on Canada.

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

US judge blocks Michigan from shutting down Enbridge Line 5 pipeline

A US judge has blocked Michigan from enforcing a 2020 order that would have shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the channel connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.

Reuters reported that on Wednesday US District Judge Robert Jonker ruled that oversight of pipeline safety and the protection of the Straits is a federal responsibility, effectively preventing Michigan from shutting down the pipeline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Don’t Expect Swift Justice in the National Guard Member’s Murder

The murder of a young West Virginia National Guard member on Thanksgiving in Washington, D.C. last month shocked the nation’s conscience. But those expecting a swift application of the death penalty for the alleged killer are in for a jolt.

The average elapsed time from death sentence to execution is now over 23 years, the longest span in U.S. history. A federal judge once called death “the ultimate run-on sentence.” That was in the mid-1990s, when the delay was only 11 years. In the 1980s, it was six years.

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

Washington’s Dangerous Courtship with Bangladesh’s Islamist Bloc

This month, an elderly Hindu couple in Bangladesh were murdered in their home, their throats slit. This week, an Islamist group targeted offices of India’s High Commission in Bangladesh, causing India to suspend visa services there.

Bangladesh is standing at the edge of a historic transformation, and, sadly, Washington is taking a perilous gamble.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Bangladesh, USA

Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination

Andrea Lucas Anti-DEI

The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work.

“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws,” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas, a vocal critic of DEI, wrote on X Wednesday evening. The post urged eligible workers to reach out to the agency “as soon as possible” and referred users to the agency’s fact sheet on “DEI-related discrimination” for more information.

Related …

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", USA

“Mark Carney says Trump wants Canada to be dependent on the U.S.” … Psst … Marky we already are and I prefer them to your pals the CCP

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump wants the relationship with Canada to be one of “dependence” on the United States, and is not talking about ripping up the trilateral free trade pact but renegotiating it, says Prime Minister Mark Carney.

In a pair of French-language interviews marking the year’s end, Carney revealed for the first time details of his private conversation earlier this month with Trump and Mexican President Claudia

Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the World Cup soccer draw in Washington — which came following a stormy six-week hiatus after Trump cut off bilateral trade talks on sectoral tariffs.

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

Conrad Black: Trump Will Not Tolerate Foreign Influences Compromising the Integrity of America’s Hemisphere

The Trump administration’s statement of the strategic goals of the United States, published last week in accordance with recent custom, is much more original than the general press response would indicate. It declares the objective of maintaining America as the “strongest, richest, most powerful, and successful” country in the world.

This is a reasonable ambition that does not imply hostility or disrespect to any other country. The statement replaces what is represented as having been the “laundry lists of wishes or desired end-states and vague platitudes about what we should want,” of previous administrations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump trade rep targets Canada’s beer and dairy rules in new CUSMA review conditions

U.S. President Donald Trump’s point-person on trade laid out a series of conditions Wednesday that Canada must meet in order to extend the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review next year — revealing publicly for the first time what the administration expects Prime Minister Mark Carney to do to keep the pact for the long term.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the U.S. Congress that CUSMA has been “successful to a certain degree” but there need to be changes before Trump agrees to extend it for another 16 years or revert to yearly reviews, something Canada is eager to avoid given the resulting annual uncertainty.

“I don’t think we can say that USMCA is an unqualified success,” Greer said in his remarks, which were shared publicly after his closed-door meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

Foiled Left-Wing Terrorist Attack Must Be The Beginning, Not End, Of Trump’s Antifa Crackdown

Four far-left extremists face a myriad of conspiracy and other felony charges for allegedly plotting a series of New Year’s Eve bombings followed by a similar ambush on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Los Angeles.

The alleged attacks, hatched by the so-called pro-Palestine Turtle Island Liberation Front, were discovered by law enforcement after four of its members were allegedly caught testing out the pipe bombs they planned to plant at five LA businesses.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Terrorism - Domestic, USA, WTF?

Europeans May Not Love Trump—but Many Agree With Him

The “weak” elites he attacks are the real enemies of European democracy.

There has been much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent scathing criticisms of Europe’s “weak” leaders and the danger of “civilisational erasure” on the continent.

Trump has been branded anti-European. But if that was true, then surely millions of European citizens must also be considered “anti-European.” Because they are voting for political parties and supporting protest movements which make strikingly similar criticisms of the EU regime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Jen Gerson: Read this to understand what Donald Trump really has planned

If there’s one conclusion we can draw from the recently released National Security Strategy put out by the Trump administration, it’s that the current crop of Americans in power really do feel like victims of the world that America created.

In that strategy, the White House outlined the Trump administration’s priorities, outlooks and hoped for direction. While it’s common for U.S. presidencies to release high-level documents of this kind, this year’s version is, to put it mildly, a serious vibe check. Taken in toto, the strategy is a rationale for America to withdraw its support for the world order as we know it, and instead take a role that is overtly transactional and self interested. This is an America that sees global leadership not as being a chief among equals, but rather one in which the top dog barks while the rest of us are expected to roll over. One in which American strength and wealth are not built by mutual alliances, but rather through zero-sum infighting.

This is stated quite explicitly in the document, which I implore every Canadian to read fully and understand.

The Star has a surplus of hysterical types.

The shock that after 80 years America isn’t going to pay everyone’s way is just too much to handle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA