Why, prime minister, did Canada support an increasingly belligerent U.S. president in unleashing the dogs of war?

HALIFAX—Even the most partisan Conservative has to admit that Prime Minister Mark Carney has had a pretty solid first year as prime minister.

True, the official opposition has accused him of conflicts of interest flowing from his corporate connections before entering politics. And, yes, they have tried to paint him as a sneaky, rich guy.

Those scurrilous allegations didn’t take root. Instead, there was Carney’s record in office. Mega trade deals like the recent one with India, improved working relationships with the provinces, renewed international respect for this country, and a growing lead in the polls over his rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

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

Trump says Iran war ‘very complete’ after call with Putin

Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete” after an hour-long phone call with Vladimir Putin.

The US president said his country’s joint operation with Israel had left Iran with “no navy, no communications … no air force”.

“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” he told CBS News, adding that the US was “very far” ahead of schedule.

His comments came after a lengthy call with Putin, who presented Mr Trump with several proposals to end the war quickly, according to the Kremlin.

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

Poilievre says Canada should support replacing Iran’s regime, calls for crackdown on IRGC agents

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada should support replacing Iran’s current government and called for the removal of individuals linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from the country.

Speaking at a press conference Monday, Poilievre described Iran’s leadership as a “terrorist regime” and said Conservatives support efforts that would lead to a democratically elected government in the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Iran war, day ten: Everything you need to know

Pete Hegseth said US strikes on Iran are “only just the beginning”, as he promised to deliver Donald Trump’s demand for the regime’s unconditional surrender.

The US defence secretary said the US was “willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful”, and refused to rule out putting boots on the ground inside the Islamic Republic.

Speaking to CBS News, he said: “This is war. This is conflict. This is bringing your enemy to their knees.”

h/t patthedog

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

Adam Pankratz: Hey Liberals, an oil pipeline would have been good right about now

The folly of Canada’s last decade of energy policy is a never-ending saga for which the costs to Canadians and Canadian industry seem only to rise. As the price of a barrel of oil and LNG skyrocket due to American and Israel military action in Iran and its fallout, Canada should be sitting on a massive opportunity to benefit from soaring prices. However, a decade of neglect and underinvestment in pipelines and egress capacity sees us looking wistfully on as other nations, such as the Untied States benefit while we toil away for little gain.

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

Cuba’s Long Night Nears Its End

I grew up listening to a beautiful classic folk song about Cuba, La Paloma (The Dove), beloved of my parents and their circle. It’s about a sailor who falls in love with the island and a beautiful woman on it. I didn’t hear it much over the past 40 years while becoming totally Americanized. But Cuba never left me like I did her at age six.

For one thing, my father was making a prestigious mark at Georgetown University teaching and about Cuba’s descent into Marxist hell—much to the irritation of his old school chum, Fidel Castro. And dad started at a time—the late Sixties—when many college students deemed Castro a Byronic hero, and anti-capitalist fervor was at its peak.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

Carney should have consulted Grit caucus before supporting U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, say some Liberal MPs: ‘what the hell’

Prime Minister Mark Carney declared his support for the deadly American-Israeli attack on Iran shortly after it began on Feb. 28, which has drawn a significant amount of pushback from Liberal MPs. Some caucus members say he should have consulted caucus before endorsing such a consequential move, and add they hope to receive a clear explanation at this week’s caucus meeting about why Canada took this position in the first place.

“I don’t know why he jumped into this to support him [United States President Donald Trump] for no reason without speaking to caucus,” said one Liberal MP who spoke on a not-for-attribution basis to offer their candid views.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Eulogizing Khamenei

Who could forget the Washington Post‘s foolish unforced error in 2019 when its obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of ISIS, called him an “austere religious scholar“?

Apparently, the editors at the Washington Post forgot, because they printed an obituary for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that makes its praise for al-Baghdadi look restrained.

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

LILLEY: Private property versus Aboriginal title just got more complicated

Homeowners in the Vancouver area should know that the title to their land hasn’t been taken away from them by the Mark Carney government. That said, an expert in constitutional law and Indigenous rights said he understands why people are anxious when they hear about the recently signed agreement between Ottawa and the Musqueam Indian Band in the Vancouver area.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Encrypted transmission: Iran may be activating sleeper cells outside the country, alert says

The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.

The alert, reviewed by ABC News, cites “preliminary signals analysis” of a transmission “likely of Iranian origin” that was relayed across multiple countries shortly after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28.

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

Ottawa pledges faster security funding, stronger hate laws after Toronto-area synagogues shot at

Lying Liberal DEI MP

Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangeree says Ottawa will address complaints from Jewish groups about delayed funding for security measures and will tighten its hate laws, after bullets were fired at three Toronto-area synagogues over the past week.

“When they attack a synagogue, they attack Canada,” Mr. Anandasangeree told reporters on Sunday in front of the Shaarei Shomayim synagogue, which was shot at in the early hours of Saturday morning in the North York area of Toronto. Minutes earlier, a synagogue in nearby Thornhill, Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, had also been targeted.

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

Belgium at risk of becoming ‘narco-state’, judge warns

International drug crime poses a danger to social stability in Belgium, a senior judge has said, after his colleague warned the country was evolving into “a narco-state” where mafia groups were forming “a parallel force” in society.

Bart Willocx, the president of the Antwerp court of appeal, said Belgium was vulnerable to criminality from drug smuggling through the city’s vast port, one of the main entry points into Europe for cocaine smugglers.

“The amount of money that is involved – to influence people, to corrupt people and to bribe – it is so big that it is really a danger for the stability of our society,” he told the Guardian in an interview at his court.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBelgium, Crime