Hegseth Warned of Military Action if Mexico Fails to Meet Trump’s Border Demands

MEXICO CITY—It was the first call U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held with Mexico’s top military officials, and it wasn’t going well.

Hegseth told the officials that if Mexico didn’t deal with the collusion between the country’s government and drug cartels, the U.S. military was prepared to take unilateral action, according to people briefed on the Jan. 31 call. Mexico’s top brass who were on that call were shocked and angered, feeling he was suggesting U.S. military action inside Mexico, these people said. The Defense Department declined to comment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Mexico, USA

Mark Carney says he’s begun the process of renouncing Irish, U.K. citizenship

Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he’s written to the British and Irish governments to begin the process of renouncing his citizenship in both countries, leaving him solely with Canadian citizenship if the process is completed.

At a leadership event in Oakville, Ont., on Friday night, Carney told reporters his belief is that as prime minister, he should hold only one citizenship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Germany’s misinformation plan targets thoughtcrime

“Orwellian” is an overused adjective in our post-Covid, technologically advanced modern world. Yet it is the perfect description of Germany’s new advice centre for people who have friends or family prone to “conspiracy thinking”. The country’s Ministry of the Interior is offering help and material to combat the “wrongthink” of those affected, supposedly to stop the spread of fake news and misinformation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom of speech, Germany

CMHC says housing crisis relief could take 30 years

Wartime Houses

Canada’s housing affordability crisis may persist until 2055 due to lengthy planning and approval processes, according to a new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

Blacklock’s Reporter says the federal insurer’s research found that obtaining municipal permits and completing planning takes twice as long as the actual construction of apartment buildings and townhouse developments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Can Ukraine survive without US aid? The reality of going it alone

After Zelensky’s meeting with Trump, Kyiv must face the prospect of standing up to Russia by itself. Europe’s help may not suffice

The row in the Oval Office between President Zelensky and President Trump has brought the geopolitical nightmare scenarios conjured during last month’s Munich Security Conference closer to reality: an American withdrawal from Europe, a breakup of Nato, even a closer ideological affinity between Washington and Moscow than with its traditional allies. The question of whether Ukraine can continue to defend itself against Russia’s invasion without US support is now an immediate concern.

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

CHARLEBOIS: From Kyiv to Ottawa – the real war is over resources, not borders

The scene in the Oval Office on Friday between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump was deeply unsettling.

The geopolitical ramifications remain uncertain, but one thing is clear: peace in Eastern Europe may have drifted even further out of reach. For global food security, stability in that region is critical, and the current trajectory suggests an increasingly bleak outlook for Ukraine and its ability to regain economic and agricultural footing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Carney and Poilievre both want to stop wasteful spending. But what would they cut?

It is an exciting debate for accountants.

Mark Carney, the presumptive favourite in the Liberal leadership race, says a government led by him would introduce a new budget “framework” that would “separate” the federal government’s operating and capital budgets — drawing a distinction between spending that covers ongoing expenses for programs and services and spending that goes toward building and buying things like infrastructure, housing and military equipment. According to Carney, his government would aim to balance the operating budget within three years, while running a “small deficit” on capital spending.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

DOGE is waging a class war on America’s new clerisy

The ever-mounting hysteria over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seems to largely be coming from that large sector of Americans who work for, or in other ways feed from, Washington’s seemingly bottomless trough. As government employment and spending have cascaded in recent years, this has created not so much a ‘deep state’, as the right-wing paranoids suspect, but a huge and expanding protected class of people who are anxious to defend their livelihoods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Patel’s FBI Could Shine Light On Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto

For those who believe politically weaponized justice is injustice, Pam Bondi running the Department of Justice and Kash Patel at the helm of the FBI feels like a warm spring breeze after a brutally cold winter. For those who turned federal law enforcement into the Stasi and cheered on the myriad abuses (I’m looking at you Schiff, you weasel), things are about to get, well, difficult.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI

Knife Attack in France Exacerbates Ongoing Quarrel With Algiers

The Islamic terror attack by an illegal immigrant from the former colony further entrenches bitter diplomatic relations.

When, once again, innocent French people were attacked by yet another knife-wielding North African, the country’s shock and sorrow soon gave way to anger at the suspect’s native country, Algeria. France was still reeling from the killing spree of Brahim Abdessemed in the Alsatian town of Mulhouse on Feb. 22, when its minister of the interior, Bruno Retailleau, had the unenviable task of informing the nation that he and his predecessor had vainly tried to extradite the man to Algeria no fewer than fourteen times.

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

Netflix propaganda flicks

They said it couldn’t be done! They said it couldn’t be done! Leave it to Netflix to change a much beloved coming-of-age story, Anne of Green Gables, written about 100 years ago, into modern political propaganda. The contemporary version, titled “Anne with an E”, is complete with a gay theme, love is love, I was born this way. (Actually, you weren’t, but that’s not what the elites in the media say, so I stand corrected, yes, you were born this way!) The scourge of institutionalized racism is rampant among the bigoted white people, except for the enlightened ones, of course, who are very few and far between. And worst of all, patriarchy!

Patriarchy! Patriarchy! Patriarchy!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The scandal that could ruin Mark Carney’s bid to rule Canada

Claims of lies by the former Bank of England governor threaten to derail his surging campaign

As Mark Carney stepped out to address the throng of waiting cameras, the Bank of England’s then-governor made every effort to appear calm and collected.

The day was June 24 2016 and millions of people were waking up to the news that Britain had just voted to quit the European Union. Financial markets were having a panic attack. And it was Carney’s job to soothe their nerves.

“Some market and economic volatility can be expected as this process unfolds,” the Canadian said in his television address. “But we are well prepared for this. The Bank of England will not hesitate to take additional measures as required.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The changing face of gun ownership… Liberals reveal the bold reasons they’re taking up arms

Americans who have never owned guns before are now buying their first firearms and reveal they feel compelled to be armed for a variety of different reasons.

Over the Covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 7.5million American adults became new gun owners, half were women, 20 percent were black, and 20 percent were Hispanic, according to Harvard researchers.

Not only is gun ownership becoming more diverse across race and gender, but it also appears to have bridged a divide between political beliefs as more democrats arm themselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Former Nato commander warns end of alliance could be ‘days away’

Nato could be in its final days, a former Supreme Allied Commander has warned, as America’s commitment to the transatlantic alliance wavers.

Admiral James Stavridis, who served as Nato’s Europe commander from 2009-2013, said we could be witnessing the “last days” of the alliance and the start of a new “European Treaty Organisation”.

Donald Trump’s insistence on European leaders increasing their defence budgets, combined with his falling out with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, has sparked concern among members of the alliance.

NATO Secretary General calls for Zelensky to ‘restore relationship’ with Trump following Oval Office clash

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called on March 1 for President Volodymyr Zelensky to mend relations with U.S. President Donald Trump following a tense exchange in White House a day prior.

Zelensky left Washington early without signing a mineral deal with the United States following a tense argument in front of journalists between the two leaders. Trump later reportedly ordered his officials to tell the Ukrainian delegation to leave the White House, despite protest from the Ukrainians.

Speaking to the BBC, Rutte said that it was “important that President Zelensky finds a way to restore his relationship with the American president and with the senior American leadership team.”

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", NATO, President Trump