Trudeau Lied: Foreign workers issue reignites at Windsor’s NextStar plant

The issue of temporary foreign workers being used to build the NextStar Energy battery plant in Windsor has bubbled up again with the Canadian Building Trades Union requesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intervene in the dispute and the federal Conservatives planning to raise the issue on Parliament Hill.

CBTU executive director Sean Strickland penned a letter to Trudeau earlier this month claiming an increasing number of temporary foreign workers were being used in Windsor. The federal Conservatives also announced Friday they plan to press the issue at the Government Operations’ Committee meeting this week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Soviet double agent Anthony Blunt may have helped Hitler too

In 1979 the art historian was outed as one of the Cambridge spies recruited by Stalin. Shocking new evidence suggests he may also have passed deadly secrets to the Nazis, Robert Verkaik reports

This is not the story I intended to tell. I set out to write a book about a distant relative, Eddy Verkaik, who had fought in the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. Eddy had helped alert the British to the treachery of a fellow Dutch resistance fighter — a terrifying giant of a man known as “King Kong”: Christiaan Lindemans.

Lindemans had betrayed Operation Market Garden, the ambitious and ill-fated Allied airborne mission that dropped thousands of paratroopers into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, the 80th anniversary of which falls this September. Had it succeeded, it would have kicked open the door to the heart of Germany and brought the conflict to a speedy end. In the event the Allies lost more than 17,000 men in what was to be their final defeat of the war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEspionage

The scandals haunting Pope Francis

Scheming cardinals are sharpening their knives

The cardinals are already meeting to discuss who should be the next pope. Some of the liberal ones, who feel safe because they’re in favour with the ailing Pope Francis, can be seen comparing notes in a bar near the gates of the Vatican. The conservative cardinals are more nervous: they gather at suppers in each other’s apartments or — if they can trust the fawning waiters not to betray them — in a favourite restaurant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPope Francis

Israel rebukes US calls for investigation into mass graves in Gaza

Israel’s military says it already looked into reports of mass graves and found no wrongdoing by its forces, even as the Biden administration calls for an investigation into the matter.

Over the past few days, U.S. officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, have called for Israel to “thoroughly and transparently” investigate reports of mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which Israeli forces last raided in February. The State Department came under fire from advocates for refusing to call for an independent investigation, instead saying the U.S. will press Israel for information.

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

Canadian government gives generously to Canadian media … to foster independent journalism?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canadian government has proposed a new budget, including $42 million in additional funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

The increased subsides are purportedly to ensure that “Canadians across the country, including rural, remote, Indigenous, and minority language communities, have access to high-quality, independent journalism and entertainment.”

Because nothing fosters “independent journalism” like having the government pay your bills! Canadian taxpayers rejoice!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

John Cleese: Basil Fawlty would be bewildered by the country England has become – and so am I

When I was growing up in the 1950s in Weston-super-Mare, England was largely a middle-class society. The values of the middle class were dictated from above and would work their way down the social ladder. My family may have been on one of that ladder’s lower rungs but we had middle-class values: although my father left school at 16, I never heard him mispronounce a word or make a spelling mistake. People tried to do their job well; they weren’t overly concerned with becoming rich, they just wanted enough money to get by, and live a good life.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

The strange death of the family

That watermelon looks racist.

The world is sleepwalking towards a depopulation crisis.

Over a decade ago, I led a team of Singapore-based researchers to investigate why families were declining. Back then, we were experiencing a historic shift away from population growth and familial ties, towards individualism. Since then, the post-familial age has entered full swing.

This situation would have been unthinkable in the 1960s, when ‘overpopulation’ was seen as inevitable. In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich predicted that the number of people on Earth would rocket to unsustainable levels, resulting in global famine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

College Activists Postpone Anti-Israel Encampment Because Students Are Too White

Students at the University of Washington postponed an anti-Israel demonstration planned for Thursday because too many of the students who signed up are white.

According to MyNorthwest, a Washington-based radio station, the University of Washington’s Progressive Student Union (UWPSU) opted to delay an encampment in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists “to make sure this encampment is a better reflection of the UW community, and having even greater unity with Muslim, Palestinian and Arab students.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Anti-immigrant camp in Dublin ‘not about racism’, residents say

In the nation of ‘Cead Mile Failte’ (a hundred thousand welcomes), the residents of Coolock want to shut the door.

They’ve set up an anti-immigrant camp in the north Dublin suburb, outside a disused factory earmarked to house asylum seekers.

With green, white and orange, they’re staking claim to this ground, their protest tents bedecked with dozens of Irish flags.

Car horns blast every four or five seconds, in response to a large poster reading: “Beep if you support Coolock.”

Wanting to protect your family from the predations of a violent illegal alien invader horde is not “racist”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Ireland

Kurl: Trudeau looks like a sad clown after trying some budget magic

You couldn’t blame Prime Minister Justin Trudeau if he’s been feeling as downcast and rejected as a hapless magician hired for the children’s party. I mean, what hasn’t he done for the young folk?! In a series of spending and program announcements this month all aimed at Millennials and Gen Z adults, he’s performed the political equivalent of pulling rabbits out of his top hat, making animal balloons, doing the never-ending handkerchief trick with his sleeve, with the grand finale of releasing doves. And what’s the audience reaction? They’re on their phones, watching YouTube videos of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.

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

‘I just want to be safe’: Ukrainian man in Ottawa faces limbo amid consular freeze

But a recent decision to restrict consular services for fighting-aged Ukrainian men has made him feel less certain of his next steps — and worried he could be pulled back to the war.

OTTAWA — The future was just starting to appear bright for Mykyta Zakharchenko.

The 18-year-old’s youth in Ukraine was shadowed by two major conflicts with Russia before he escaped to Canada in 2022.

With harrowing experiences of war behind him, he recently graduated high school, competes internationally as a rower and is determined to study finance in a few years.

Ukraine has a recruitment problem so they’ve restricted consular services to coerce the return of fighting aged men.

What about fighting aged women?

Should continued military aid be conditional on “peace negotiations?.

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