Justice Department targets Cuban officials, aims for indictments

The Justice Department has formed a working group to examine possible federal charges against officials or entities within Cuba’s government, according to an official familiar with the group.

The formation of the group could be a significant step in the Trump administration’s public push to topple the regime in Cuba.

Officials from government agencies including the Treasury Department will be part of the recently formed group. Treasury’s involvement could mean the Trump administration is considering further sanctions against Cuba, already the subject of intense U.S. economic sanctions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

Defense Without U.S. Help Is a Live Topic for Canada, Japan and Australia

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada landed in Japan on Friday as part of a 10-day tour that also included Australia. All three countries share at least one major concern: how to adapt now that President Trump has made it clear that they will need to look after their own security.

After Mr. Carney met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan, the two leaders provided something of an answer — try to do more together.

“First, most importantly and fundamentally, we are enhancing our security and defense cooperation,” Mr. Carney said after a brief signing ceremony.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Epstein prison guard googled him minutes before body found — and made mysterious deposit before pedophile’s suicide: DOJ

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell suicide, new Department of Justice documents reveal.

Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.

They’re not even trying any more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", WTF?

Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say

Police in Canada have concluded that a missing Iranian activist was most likely the victim of murder, prompting fears that his disappearance has the hallmarks of a transnational repression campaign targeting critics of Tehran.

Masood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah, went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran, WTF?

Flying a Union Jack flag is branded a ‘tool of hate’ in Government’s leaked ‘social cohesion’ strategy

Flying English, Scottish and Union Jack flags has been branded as ‘tools of hate’ in a leaked draft of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy.

A leaked draft of the proposals suggests national symbols were sometimes used last summer to ‘exclude or intimidate’.

It warned that the ‘extreme right has tried to turn symbols of pride into tools of hate’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", "Remigration", The Great Replacement, WTF?

How we knew Ayatollah was a sitting duck, by Trump’s top general

General Jack Keane reveals how US tech and undercover Israeli agents with perfect accents combined to mark Iran’s leadership for death

By the time the Ayatollah began his day in Tehran, the spies listening to his calls were already extremely familiar with the habits of a supreme leader whose number was up. In orbit overhead, an Orion, the largest and most secretive of all American space satellites, could detect the voices of the regime as they exchanged increasingly worried messages about the build up of forces in the region.

There were other high-tech efforts to track what is known as “life-pattern surveillance” of Ali Khamenei and his henchmen, including the now well-documented hacking of Tehran’s traffic camera network to track the movement of his bodyguards.

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

Is It Still Legal To Criticize Gender Ideology in Canada?

British comedian John Cleese of Monty Python fame has announced on X that he will not risk performing in British Columbia during his upcoming theatrical tour of Canada this fall after the BC Human Rights Tribunal ordered a former school trustee to pay one of the largest hate speech fines in history for his public opposition to gender ideology and stating that there are only two sexes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

How the Royal Navy went from being the envy of the world to a shadow of its former self

The question from the Prime Minister was blunt and emphatic, and so was the answer from the First Sea Lord.

“How long would it take to assemble such a task force?” asked Margaret Thatcher on March 31 1982, as she learnt that Argentina was about to seize the Falkland Islands and only a naval armada could retake them.

“48 hours,” replied Admiral Sir Henry Leach, who proceeded to break the convention that military officers should steer clear of policy advice by telling the Prime Minister that “we could” regain the islands and “we should”, because otherwise “we shall be living in a different country whose word counts for little”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Canada-U.S. trade talks have restarted. Here’s what’s at stake

For the first time since U.S. President Donald Trump called off negotiations last October — ostensibly over a TV ad — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s point man on trade met face to face with his White House counterpart.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc was in Washington, D.C., on Friday to meet U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

When LeBlanc emerged from the meeting, CBC News asked him what happened in the talks, but his only comment before getting into a waiting vehicle was “Have a good weekend.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

South Africa’s president calls Trump’s policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners ‘racist’

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called Donald Trump’s policy of allowing white Afrikaners to apply for refugee status in the US “racist”, saying the US president was “truly uninformed” in a rare instance of direct criticism.

Ramaphosa told the New York Times that last year’s Oval Office meeting with the US leader, when Trump turned down the lights and played a video that he falsely claimed showed there was a “white genocide” in South Africa, was a “spectacle” and an “ambush”.

“I just thought that he is so uninformed, truly uninformed,” Ramaphosa said. “I realised that he is looking at South Africa through a completely, sort of, foggy lens, without realising the real, real harm that apartheid did. In my view, he was just dismissive.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa, USA