Washington hotel shooting raises questions about Trump security

Washington hotel shooting raises questions about Trump security

“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” President Donald Trump told reporters, just hours after he was at the centre of yet another major security incident.

While a small army of Secret Service agents make the president arguably the world’s most protected person, keeping him safe is proving to be no easy task.

First there was the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2024 in which a bullet grazed his ear. Just 64 days later, Trump was again the target of a would-be assassin as he played a round on his Florida golf course.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Trump Derangement Syndrome

OLDCORN: Ottawa should fund deportations, not health benefits for rejected asylum claimants

OLDCORN: Ottawa should fund deportations, not health benefits for rejected asylum claimants

Ottawa has a strange idea of fairness.

Federal figures reported by Blacklock’s Reporter show taxpayers spent more than $43 million last year on healthcare benefits for rejected asylum claimants and illegal immigrants. That included basic healthcare, prescriptions, counselling, physiotherapy, vision care, transportation to appointments, and translation supports.

That is not a rounding error. It is a policy choice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Growing Personnel Shortage Threatens Ukraine’s Front Lines

Growing Personnel Shortage Threatens Ukraine’s Front Lines

Ukraine has found itself in a paradoxical situation: while its “Army of Drones” has achieved unprecedented technical feats—including capturing Russian positions using only autonomous robots—the human foundation of the military is fracturing.

A sobering report from Dutch military intelligence warns that the casualty ratio, once heavily skewed against Russia, has leveled out. For a nation with a significantly smaller population, this parity is a slow-motion disaster.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Canada’s spy watchdog has become too antagonistic, experts warn

Canada’s spy watchdog has become too antagonistic, experts warn

The federal watchdog responsible for keeping Canada’s spy services in check has grown so aggressive in its tactics that the agency is undermining the scrutiny role it was meant to strengthen, two national-security experts warn.

A study by Carleton University professor Stephanie Carvin and University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau, says the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency – established in 2019 to independently review Canada’s intelligence agencies − has adopted what the authors describe as a “lemon-sucker” posture. This is seen as an attitude that presumes the worst of the organizations it reviews and prioritizes conflict over constructive accountability.

Probably on Beijing’s order.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCSIS

The IRGC thinks it’s having a good war. Why accept peace?

The IRGC thinks it’s having a good war. Why accept peace?

The operatives of Sepah, Iran’s state within a state, are many in number. They include the construction workers digging out underground missile bases, the skippers on speedboats harrying oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the co-ordinators of militia activities in neighbouring Iraq. All of them will be reading the runes on how and when the war with America and Israel will end, as continued efforts by Pakistan to mediate a peace deal continue this weekend.

Sepah-e Pasdaran, usually translated as the Guards Corps, but habitually referred to by Iranians by that single word, grew from an army of the ultra-faithful during the bloody 1980s war with Iraq into an entity that controls up to one third of the economy and the military units used to crush dissent in the theocratic republic. However, its future power may depend on the degree to which sanctions on Iran are eased.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been

Best-selling Chinese electric car records everywhere you’ve been

Electric cars made by a best-selling Chinese brand are recording drivers’ every journey and storing them forever, it has emerged.

Security researchers were able to extract the entire location history of a BYD Seal car sold in the UK, from its production in China to its eventual dismantling.

While the company said it was not transmitting location data overseas, experts said the ease with which location history could be obtained represented a security risk.

BYD is moving into the Canadian market.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF?

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Cole Allen, 31-year-old California teacher, ID’d as White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter

Cole Allen, 31-year-old California teacher, ID’d as White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter

WASHINGTON — The gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night has been identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif. — with President Trump calling him a likely “lone wolf whack job” who “looked pretty evil.”

The 31-year-old, identified by federal law enforcement sources, was arrested after allegedly entering the Washington Hilton hotel and charging toward the ballroom where Trump and roughly 2,500 guests had assembled.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Carney has promised regular trade updates. Why is YouTube his platform of choice?

Carney has promised regular trade updates. Why is YouTube his platform of choice?

Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised regular updates on his government’s efforts as Canada continues to work through a U.S. trade war while also seeking to strengthen relationships with other trading partners — and his medium of choice appears to be YouTube.

“I promise you, I will never sugarcoat our challenges,” Carney said in a video posted April 19 and titled Forward Guidance. “Instead, I’ll talk with you directly and regularly about our plan — why we’re doing what we’re doing, what’s working, what isn’t, and what we’re going to do next.”

CBC has much praise for their Great Communicator the one who knows Youtube vids garner larger audiences than the Ceeb.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

WAGNER: Canadian interference in the 2024 US election

WAGNER: Canadian interference in the 2024 US election

What counts as “foreign interference?”

In January, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview that “Alberta has a wealth of natural resources, but they won’t let them build a pipeline to the Pacific,” in this case, “they” being the federal government.

Referring to Alberta, he went on to say, “I think we should let them come down into the US, and Alberta is a natural partner for the US. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, USA

European Politics in Deep Sleep

European Politics in Deep Sleep

With the Hormuz crisis, another element falls into place in the mosaic of the new world order. This order is dominated by the titanic struggle between the U.S. and China, manifesting in commodity and energy markets. That Europe has slept through this transformation is a sign of blatant reality denial.

We are currently receiving conflicting reports from the Strait of Hormuz — that strategic chokepoint where global geopolitical weather is shaped like nowhere else. Sometimes a Greek tanker passes through, sometimes a French one. Most often, tankers destined for India or China navigate without incident.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"