Zelensky’s Trump meeting reveals futility of ‘victory plan’

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with former President Trump, though it led to nothing concrete, was a sensible move by both sides. In Zelensky’s case, it was an acknowledgement of the obvious fact that Trump may win in November, and it will then be desperately important for Zelensky to have some kind of working relationship with him. For Trump, the meeting was meant to protect him against allegations of being an ally of Putin, and also acknowledged the simple truth that if he is elected and wishes to promote an end to the war in Ukraine, he will have to deal with Zelensky.

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

Vancouver Island is shaping into a Conservative-NDP battleground in the next federal election

There’s a storm brewing on Vancouver Island — and this one isn’t coming in off the coast.

When the next federal election rolls around, five of the six ridings the New Democrats hold on the island could be scooped up by the Conservatives, according to polls aggregator Eric Grenier of The Writ.

It’s a potential shift that residents of Campbell River, B.C. are starting to notice on the ground.

Abacus Data Poll: NDP passes Liberals outside of Quebec; Conservatives lead by 22.

If an election were held today, 43% of committed voters would vote Conservative, while 21% would vote for the Liberals, 19% for the NDP, and 5% for the Greens. The BQ has 37% of the vote in Quebec. The Liberal vote share is down 1, the NDP is up 1, and the Conservatives are unchanged from earlier this month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Taxpayers should fund trans surgery for inmate who murdered baby, judge rules

Jonathan C Richardson – needs brain aerated

Taxpayers must fund sex reassignment surgery for an inmate who murdered an 11-month-old baby, a judge in Indiana has ruled.

Born Jonathan C Richardson, the inmate now known as Autumn Cordellionè is serving a 55-year prison sentence after being convicted of murder by strangulation in 2001. The victim was Cordellionè’s stepdaughter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: The slippery slope reality of criminalizing residential school ‘denialism’

It’s easy to downplay the residential school system. Here’s one example: It wasn’t as bad as the Holocaust, which saw millions of people exterminated, or the Holodomor, which saw millions more intentionally starved to death. That doesn’t mean it didn’t harm people, but it wasn’t as bad as the full-on genocides that had happened in the same time period. There, I just did it.

For now, a 911 call reporting this blasphemous paragraph won’t go far. But that could change.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Migrants want Kamala Harris to beat Donald Trump, Latin American reports claim

News dispatches from Latin America indicate that migrants who hope to cross into the U.S. are worried Donald Trump will win.

There has been reporting from Ecuador to Spain about how migrants will react to the November contest.

Trump has been much tougher and outspoke about how he wants to secure the U.S.-Mexico border while Vice President Kamala Harris has just recently proposed support for the wall after previously calling it anti-American.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

Donald Wright: When it comes to where people want to live, Canada is a very small country

The first article of this series laid out the basic arithmetic of Canada’s current housing crisis—ill-advised levels of immigration far above Canada’s capacity to build sufficient housing to accommodate the consequent rapid increase in population—and pointed out that there remains an undiminished belief that the solution to this is to be found on the supply side, and that a set of policy changes will allow Canada to build significantly more houses in the next eight years than it has in the previous eight years.

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

Liberals urge support for subsidized Swedish battery maker amid job cuts

Justin & Frankie Champagne

Canadian taxpayers must “rally around” Northvolt, the Swedish electric vehicle battery manufacturer, despite significant setbacks, including confirmed job cuts at its Swedish operations, said Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne.

Blacklock’s Reporter says his comments came following Northvolt’s announcement of 1,600 layoffs, which the company attributed to “headwinds in the automotive market.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The death of Hassan Nasrallah shows why this is a just war

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was killed last night in an Israeli air strike on Beirut, as part of its ongoing offensive in southern Lebanon.

Nasrallah’s death exposes the glaring omission in most of the media coverage of the conflict. Few outlets seem willing to recognise the fact that Israel faces an annihilationist threat from the Iran-backed terrorist group and its Islamist allies.

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

Slaughter in Bangladesh and the International Cover-Up

On August 5, 2024, Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country and take refuge in India following a month-long anti-government movement led by Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), ultra-Islamist Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Hizb Ut Tahrir and other Islamist organizations in the country. It was earlier perceived by many that the Biden administration had been trying to topple Sheikh Hasina from power and install Muhammad Yunus as head of the government.

Muhammad Yunus is one of the major donors of Clinton Foundation, and according to a cable leaked by Wikileaks, back in 2007, Hillary Clinton made frantic bids and exerted pressure on Bangladesh Army to make her friend Yunus head of the then military-backed interim government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBangladesh

The Usefulness of Haunting

Halloween may be a bulwark of tradition in the fight for Europe’s future.

Although the end of October is a long way away, the first Halloween items have crept into retail stores here in Southern California. Of course, what most Europeans see in Halloween is yet another American importation—and one of ghoulish or even Satanic orientation at that. One could hardly blame such a reaction, especially as this observance is preceded by a long list of other such, including (but not confined to) Black Friday, Santa Claus, KFC, McDonald’s, and on and on. Not being aware of either the slightly-terror-tinged-but-wholesome thing that Halloween was in my childhood, or of its Christian and Celtic roots, one can easily forgive the devout European for this conclusion. But the whole thing is rather more complex. It is not merely a question of Halloween, but of the whole body of weird lore that underlies Europe’s cultures—and in a sense may be a bulwark of tradition in the fight for her future. There is also the question of whether that lore is strictly fictional, or if it contains some unpleasant realities that are ignored only at one’s peril—even if one wields political power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope

Sean Combs’s White Parties Were Edgy, A-List Affairs. Were They More?

In the 2000s, few events held the cultural cachet of the White Party thrown by Sean Combs — fetes in Beverly Hills, the Hamptons and other playgrounds of the rich, studded with famous names and fabulous tableaus.

At the 2009 party, Demi Moore made the scene with Lil’ Kim, dancers gyrated in giant plastic balloons alongside tottering stilt walkers, and Ashton Kutcher swung, Tarzan-like, across a swimming pool as models in white bikinis lounged beside it.

And at the center of it all was Mr. Combs, the billionaire hip-hop mogul also known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, invariably toasting the scene with a glass of Cîroc vodka, and welcoming comparisons of his revels to those of lore.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood