John Robson: Canadian Military’s Plan to Boost Ranks Is Woefully Inadequate

The latest pseudo-news from Ottawa, increasingly fantasy island, isn’t Chrystia Freeland “resigning” immediately after being fired. It’s the Canadian military going to recruit in Neverland and defeat the pirates by make-believe.

Or, in bubble-speak, “The Canadian military has an ambitious plan to increase its regular force ranks to 86,000, according to a briefing for senior leaders.” Care to clutch at that straw? Ha ha. Not there.

The video starts at the 25:44 mark at which point Victor Davis Hanson speaks to the current recruitment failure of the US Military to attract white males. I suspect it applies to our own military as well.

It’s a good chat period.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

Taliban bans windows to stop women from being seen at home

The Taliban have banned windows in residential buildings to stop women from being seen while they are at home in Afghanistan.

Hibatullah Akhundzada, Taliban leader, ordered that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman could be sitting or standing.

The order applies to both new buildings as well as already existing ones, according to a four-clause decree posted on social media site X late on Saturday.

Call Malala! She’ll fix this! h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

A Wish List for a Safe and Secure Canada in 2025

At the end of one year and the beginning of another it is customary to look back at what happened and speculate on what is to come. With that in mind, here is an overview of national security as we enter 2025, a year in which we may (very?) likely have a new government. If the polls are to be believed (although if U.S. polls tell us anything, it is to treat these numbers very carefully), odds are that the Trudeau Liberals will be replaced by the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre.

There’s a good number of security risks that the new government will inherit and will have to tackle…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

‘Please Notify Child Protective Services’: Trump’s Immigration Hardliners Slam Elon Musk Despite Mogul’s Olive Branch in Visa Feud

MAGA hardliners on Monday intensified their feud with Elon Musk over immigration policy, despite the Tesla mogul’s conciliatory gesture over the weekend. The harsh words against Mr. Musk deepened the disagreement between two factions of fervent Trump supporters over whether the looming crackdown on immigration should apply to high-skilled tech workers.

Mr. Musk and his co-commissioner for the Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy, kicked off the controversy on Christmas Day, when the latter described American culture itself as unproductive and distracting from economic success — and expressed support for the H-1B visa for skilled technology workers, most of whom come from India and China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

LEDREW: Canadians demand an election, not prorogation!

There’s much talk these days about the options available to the PM to keep himself in power, with many strategists of all parties suggesting that Justin could prorogue Parliament.

Really?

Suspend Parliament so that the opposition would not be able to topple the Liberals in a vote and bring on the election that most Canadians want?

Does this sound democratic?

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

Tren de Aragua gangbangers are attacking border crossings to force their way into US before Trump takes office

Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them, according to a shocking Texas law enforcement memo leaked to The Post.

Last week, 20 of the Venezuelan gangbangers — armed with blades, tire irons and broken liquor bottles — tried to force their way into the US at a border gate, the missive from the Texas Department of Public Safety read.

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

Quebec caucus calls for Trudeau to resign

The Quebec Liberal caucus is also calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down, according to sources.

A Quebec Liberal MP, who requested anonymity to speak freely, said the provincial caucus didn’t have a full meeting but there have been smaller group discussions since the House rose on Dec. 17.

A consensus was reached that the prime minister needs to step down and caucus chair Stéphane Lauzon had been instructed to inform Trudeau of this decision, the MP said. Lauzon did so last week, which was confirmed by another Quebec Liberal MP.

Ontario and Atlantic caucuses have come to similar conclusions already.

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

Let’s be honest, Carter was a terrible president

There are not many politicians who are remembered most for what they do after they leave office, rather than what they achieve, or fail to achieve, in it. However, Jimmy Carter is one such example. In the 44 years since he left the White House he not only managed to rehabilitate his reputation, he became the nearest thing there is to a living saint. At least, that is certainly the case if you read some of the tributes made to him by people on the Left of politics.

He’s gone from being seen as a disastrous failure as president, to an example of a great humanitarian. His contemporary, British prime minister James Callaghan, experienced something similar. He was seen as a dreadful prime minister at the time, presiding over a country in deep decline and riven by industrial strife. I know. I was there. Yet Left-wing revisionist historians now portray him as some sort of political hero.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

I will despise you every bit as much as Trudeau promises Mark Carney

Ignatieff but without the charm.

A new year must bring a new resolve for Canada

Over the holidays, Canadians enjoy spending time with their families and friends to celebrate, catch up, look back on the year, and talk a bit about the future.

It’s around this point during the holidays that my thoughts begin to turn to what I could do differently in the new year, about how I could be better. Some years, I resolve to exercise more, to take up a new hobby, or learn to play an instrument. In others, I resolve to be more present or not to speak ill of others.

Empty twaddle from someone who wouldn’t stop if he ran you over.

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

China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major’ Breach, U.S. Says

A state-sponsored actor in China hacked the U.S. Treasury Department, gaining access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents, the Biden administration said on Monday.

The announcement comes after revelations in recent months that China had penetrated deep into U.S. telecommunications systems, gaining access to the phone conversations and text messages of U.S. officials and others.

In a letter informing lawmakers of the episode, the Treasury Department said that it had been notified on Dec. 8 by a third-party software service company, BeyondTrust, that the hacker had obtained a security key that allowed it to remotely gain access to certain Treasury workstations and documents on them.

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