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Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans

President Donald Trump has decided he’s going to the last-minute global gathering of the nation’s top generals in Quantico, Virginia, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last week.

Trump’s appearance not only upstages Hegseth’s plans, but adds new security concerns to the massive and nearly unprecedented military event.

“We have confirmation from the White House that POTUS is now attending the speech on Tuesday,” a planning document sent Saturday and viewed by The Washington Post states.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump, USA

Trump has Maduro in his sights. Will it mean war in the Caribbean?

At the Doral Park Country Club outside Miami, fevered machinations are under way to overthrow a dictator. For years, in this palm-lined enclave, Venezuelan exiles have schemed to pressure US politicians to bring down Nicolás Maduro, convinced history would one day turn in their favour.

Now they believe it has. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state who is the son of Cuban immigrants, has worked to convince President Trump that Maduro is not only a socialist dictator, but a “narco-terrorist” out to destroy the United States with boat-loads of fentanyl-laced cocaine weaponised to poison American children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Amid threats of annexation, could Canada and Greenland grow closer?

Miilu Gehlert has just spent hours captaining a water taxi deep into the Nuuk Fjord, a winding waterway that lies just north of Greenland’s capital.

But it’s far from the most difficult task he’s had to navigate.

“We were out for four days and maybe managed to get around 10 hours of sleep in four days,” he recalled of one tour. “Full of mosquitoes, not a lot of sleep, had to keep an eye open for enemies — yeah, it was tough.”

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

BARBER: Prime Minister Carney’s “rupture” is not what he claims

Carney’s “rupture” isn’t America’s doing — it’s the collapse of his own globalist illusion.

At the beginning of September, the Prime Minister, speaking in Mississauga, stated that the changes initiated by the Trump administration were not a “transition” but a “rupture.” He expanded on this, emphasizing the rupture’s adversity and calling it “a new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism.” He continued to use this message to rally Canadians under the flag of patriotism. This is “elbows up” without the elbows.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top-level meeting

US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to attend a gathering in Virginia in the upcoming days.

The event, scheduled for Tuesday at Marine Corps University in Quantico, is expected to feature a short address by Hegseth focused on military standards and the “warrior ethos”, according to the Washington Post.

The order to attend the meeting, which has been described as unusual and unprecedented, was reportedly issued with little explanation – and prompted military personnel stationed overseas to have to make last-minute travel arrangements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Conrad Black: Trump exposes the ‘Palestine’ charade at UN

No one should be under the illusion that the histrionic purported recognition of the Palestinian Authority as the government of the fictional state of Palestine, of uncertain borders, by Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Australia is responsible for any progress. The supposed leader of this beneficiary of western appeasement is Mahmoud Abbas, the 89-year-old survivor of 70 years of comparative and well self-paid moderation in a Potemkin regime in Ramallah that has little authority and to which the Palestinians themselves rightly attach no credence. He is a former KGB agent and, to his credit, for decades a rival of Yasser Arafat, and the recognition of him as Palestinian leader is conditional on the so-called Palestinian Authority being renovated by free and fair elections and a comprehensive program of reform and suppression of its profligate corruption. It is also conditional upon the return to Israel of the remaining hostages seized by Hamas, and the removal of Hamas from the government of Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas has no more ability to deliver on those clauses than any reader of this column. The Palestinians see Abbas as a crook and an over-bribed puppet of Israel masquerading as a legitimate spokesman for the Palestinian interest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

Geography and destiny

Two days before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Berlin, Canada put on a little show at the German Foreign Ministry.

This country, the Group of Seven president this year, was one of three that did so at the Auswärtiges Amt’s open house. Walking up the red carpet and through the marbled halls, one could see little Maple Leaf flags sticking out of backpacks and waved by children. Bully, the polar bear mascot for the Eisbären Berlin hockey team, also made an appearance.

But there were few other offerings. Canada gave out a singular maple syrup candy for completing a bingo quiz with questions such as “What is the name of the Prime Minister of Canada?” (One could keep the faux-wooden pen, though.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Texas Jihad Update: It’s WAY Worse Than We Thought

Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah and Ahmad Mawed – Murderous Muslims, what else is new?

As you may have seen, someone fired a hail of bullets at a kids’ baseball tournament in Katy, Texas, hitting a coach as he led his team in a pre-game prayer and sending children and their coaches scrambling for cover.

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

Star Triggered: We have one good reason to thank the infuriating, undiplomatic U.S. ambassador to Canada

When people talk about being “diplomatic” they usually mean something along the lines of being tactful, sensitive, of smoothing over difficult issues.

In that sense Donald Trump’s top diplomat in this country, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, must be the least diplomatic guy around.

If he’d set out deliberately to inflame Canadian opinion, Hoekstra couldn’t be doing a better job of it. He’s been going on about how “disappointed” he is that Canadians have their backs up in the face of Trump’s tariffs and hostile rhetoric and lamenting the “anti-American” tone of the federal election campaign. When it comes to blatant insults like all that “51st state” talk, his advice has been blunt: “Get over it.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘Never come to the U.S. again!’ Video shows alleged border officer yelling at Canadian driver

A video showing what looks to be a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer yelling at a Canadian tourist to “never come to the U.S. again” is being investigated by the CBP.

More to the story?

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

The New Jim Crow in Dearborn

Dearborn, Michigan — Dearborn is not the place to live if you want to criticize government actions without being called an “Islamophobe.” Americans who expect politicians to distance themselves from people who say nice things about terrorist organizations that have killed U.S. citizens in the Middle East should also stay out of the city.

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

Jihad in Texas? Bullets Rain Down on Kids’ Baseball Tournament

A kids’ baseball coach was leading his team in a pre-game prayer when bullets flew across the Ameripark sports complex, locally known as The Rac, in Katy, Texas.

Players ran as the shots rang out. The team’s coach took a bullet to the shoulder. He was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter.

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

When U.S. Tuition Dollars Collide with National Security

In late August, President Donald J. Trump announced that up to 600,000 Chinese students would be allowed to study in the United States. He stated that without the revenue from full tuition and fees from international students, financially vulnerable schools could collapse:

“I like that their students come here, I like that other countries’ students come here. And you know what would happen if they didn’t, our system would go to hell immediately. And it wouldn’t be the top colleges, it would be colleges that struggle on the bottom.”

This policy, however, has drawn criticism across the political spectrum, even from supporters of MAGA. They argue that it prioritizes tuition dollars over national security.

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

Mark Carney put Canada on a clear path away from Trump’s America at the UN

Mark Carney is no doubt aware that when he uses the word “rupture” about Canada-U.S. relations, it grates on the nerves of some in Donald Trump’s circle.

So it was interesting to see the prime minister doubling down on the rupture language in his numerous appearances at the United Nations this week. Now Carney is even using it to say how Canada will use the disruption with the U.S. to its advantage.

“In every moment where there’s a crack, where there’s a rupture, there is possibility,” Carney said at a news conference in New York on Tuesday evening.

I guess we’ll all have to get used to being poorer now. Not Carney of course.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA