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Europe sermonizes, U.S. pays the price

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has demanded that Iran return to the negotiating table, stop playing for time, stop holding the region and the world hostage, permanently end its military nuclear program, and refrain from any attack against Israel and the West’s regional partners.

On the surface, none of this sounds especially controversial. The Islamic Republic has long used negotiations to buy time, threatened Middle East stability, and exploited tensions with the West as a tool for survival and leverage.

But the real issue in Merz’s remarks is not merely Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2026May 10, 2026•0•Europe, European Union, USA

NPR Interviews Steve Cohen, the White Guy Who Represents a Majority-Black District

On Friday’s All Things Considered, NPR aired a seven-minute interview lamenting Republican redistricting with a man who’s rarely considered. They interviewed Rep. Steve Cohen, Democrat of Memphis, who is a white man who’s long represented a majority-black district. The online headline had drama: “Tennessee Democrat speaks about his erased district.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•USA, WTF?

Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security

The project’s goal was to expand the pipeline system’s capacity by allowing the transport of up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day over a distance of approximately 1,210 miles. The aim was to provide a more direct route for Canadian oil, and provisions were included for adding American-produced oil from the Bakken formation in Montana and North Dakota.

The last time we reported on this Keystone XL, President Donald Trump was promising to revive the project “on day one.”

h/t patthedog

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 10, 2026•0•"Energy Matters", Canada, USA

Congressional Candidate Attacks Front Page as ‘Anti-Islam’ After His Terror Ties Exposed

Two weeks ago, Freedom Center Investigates ran a blockbuster story exposing the troubling background of Adam Hamawy. a New Jersey congressional candidate, who had testified at the Blind Sheikh’s trial.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2026May 9, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

HANNAFORD: Trump’s energy revolution leaves Carney in the dust

President Trump has largely succeeded in repositioning the Americas as the new centre of world energy markets. Canada – particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan, with the world’s third-largest oil reserves and stable oil-sands production – is exceptionally well placed to benefit, provided Canadian policy stops fighting the continental reality and starts leveraging it.

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Mexican man pleads guilty to smuggling migrants into U.S. from Canada

A Mexican national living illegally in the United States has pleaded guilty to charges of bringing illegal immigrants across the border from Canada into the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice says.

Edgar Sanchez-Solis, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and five counts of alien smuggling for commercial advantage and private financial gain, the DOJ said in a press release on Thursday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 10, and will face a penalty of between five and 15 years in prison.

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Canada, Mexico, USA

That’s a lot of guns …

Three Men Charged With Attempted Smuggling Of 89 Firearms

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), Bryan DiGirolamo, announced today the arrest of MALIK BROMFIELD, FAIZAN ALI, and KAMAL SALMAN, who are charged with multiple offenses relating to the transporting of 89 firearms, including at least 17 that were reported stolen, and attempting to smuggle those firearms to Canada. BROMFIELD, ALI, and SALMAN were presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy in White Plains federal court, and detained.

FBI New York, @SDNYnews, @nyspolice, and @ATFNewYork announced the arrests of Malik Bromfield, Faizan Ali, and Kamal Salman, who are charged with attempting to smuggle nearly 90 firearms from the United States to Canada.

"These three defendants, including two foreign nationals,… pic.twitter.com/UQCunh4RgS

— FBI New York (@NewYorkFBI) May 8, 2026

Bromfield and Salman are Canadian.

h/t Patti Jo & Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 9, 2026•0•Canada, Crime, USA, WTF?

The death of Los Angeles

It was a sentence I never thought I would hear myself uttering: ‘I think I’m going to vote for Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA.’

At a dinner party in the Hollywood Hills last week, I imagined I would instantly be ridiculed by my (mostly) liberal friends for admitting that Pratt – best-known as the loudmouthed bad boy of the reality show The Hills – would get my vote to lead America’s second-largest city and the place I’ve called home for 30 years.

But instead of raised eyebrows, the reaction of the group I was with, which included a senior executive with one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, shocked me by backing the Republican candidate: ‘Oh yes, I might do too,’ the movie executive said, ‘After all, what do we have to lose?’

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by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•USA

Trump indicates US could move troops from Germany to Poland

President Donald Trump said Friday night that the United States military could decide to relocate the troops that are currently stationed in Germany and move them to Poland.

The president touted his friendship with the country’s leader, President Karol Nawrocki, who assumed office last year. The Pentagon previously indicated that the U.S. would move 5,000 troops from Germany in the next six to 12 months.

I’m told this country is Germany …

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by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Germany, USA

Dr Fauci’s top aide’s face says it all as he’s booked in court on federal charges for ‘COVID cover up’

Dr Anthony Fauci’s former top aide who allegedly worked to shield sensitive documents about COVID-19 from public view arrived in court on Friday to face federal charges.

Dr David Morens, 78, of Chester, Maryland, was indicted by the Department of Justice at the end of April for allegedly concealing falsified information to suppress alternative theories of COVID-19’s origins.

He served as a senior advisor to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 2006 through 2022. Fauci was the agency’s director from 1984 to 2022.

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2026May 8, 2026•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

Soros Obama and Carney

BIG PARTY tonight in Toronto 🇨🇦 Looks like SOROS made the trip to meet with Carney and Obama Hosted by Canada 2020 🤯

YIKES pic.twitter.com/ZrZvycfGbo

— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) May 8, 2026

Carney is deliberately sabotaging US relations

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 8, 2026•0•"Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

US officials gravely concerned cartels will take fight at border to the skies

PHOENIX — Officials at the Departments of Homeland Security and War are gravely concerned about the security of the nation’s skies along the land border and have admitted that the airspace is incredibly easy to penetrate from Canada and Mexico.

Recent and continuing major improvements in infrastructure at the U.S.-Mexico border have already begun to push terrorist organizations and cartels into the air to get around ground infrastructure, such as walls, river barriers, and sensors, as they smuggle money and guns into Mexico and drugs into the United States, according to government officials leading efforts to counter unfriendly drones.

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, USA

Trump officials believe Canada ‘slow-walking’ trade talks: Quebec CUSMA envoy

Canada needs to act quickly to push back on a growing belief in Washington that it’s dragging its feet on trade talks, according to the Quebec government’s representative in those negotiations.

Louise Blais, who was appointed last month as Quebec’s envoy for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement review, said that “an impression has set in, in D.C. — for right or wrong — that Canada is looking elsewhere, and that we’re slow-walking this.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 7, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Mexico, USA

Uyghur Forced Labor Imports From China To Canada Must Be Blocked

WASHINGTON — For nearly four decades, I have advocated for justice and human rights for the Uyghur people in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression. Its record of gross human rights violations is well documented, despite an extensive propaganda apparatus designed to obscure it. China’s use of economic leverage to expand its political influence is also widely recognized, with overt examples across the globe. What is often less visible is the breadth and depth of what the CCP is willing to do, and the lengths it will go, to sustain control and project power.

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 7, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

The Masks Are Off: How Europe Betrayed the Trump Administration

Europe has betrayed President Trump. For years, EU leaders and key national governments have undermined the White House’s agenda quietly, working to remove pro-Washington figures from power. We recently witnessed this in Romania, where Cătălin Georgescu — a clear frontrunner who favored closer ties with the U.S. — was effectively sidelined in the presidential race. In Hungary, there was a concerted effort to defeat Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party in April. Now, anti-Trump Europe has stepped out of the shadows and is openly distancing itself from the administration, leaving it to face its challenges in Iran alone.

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 7, 2026•0•Europe, European Union, USA