Germany is aging and shrinking much faster than expected

The latest forecasts predict a sharp decline in the population. One reason is that too few children are being born. Immigration, even in greater numbers, will not offset the trend.

The figure 1.35 should set off alarm bells for policymakers: on average, each woman in Germany now has just 1.35 children — a record low, and far below the 2.1 needed to keep the population stable. These latest calculations from the Federal Statistical Office underscore the scale of the demographic challenge.

In 2025, about 650,000 children were born in Germany, down from around 677,000 the year before. In both years, around one million people died. By December 31, 2025, the population stood at approximately 83.5 million — 100,000 fewer than at the end of 2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography, Germany

The U.S. no longer believes that trade can be a win-win. Buckle up, Canada

Trade negotiations used to be underpinned by an unspoken assumption: that trade barriers were lose-lose propositions. All sides could gain something if they mutually disarmed.

Each country would agree to lower its tariffs, a little or a lot, in return for others doing likewise. Trade negotiations were always about how much tariffs and other walls would go down, not how much they would go up.

Trade deals hollowed out manufacturing in Canada and the US, no one but the connected made money.

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

How Hollywood and Maga aligned over Warner Bros deal

How fast things change in Trump’s America.

It wasn’t long ago that the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros looked a done deal, bar regulatory approval, after its board accepted an $82.7bn offer in December.

Now Netflix has walked away, declining to match Paramount Skydance’s new $111bn offer because the price has got too high.

“The deal is no longer financially attractive,” it said in a statement – so what happened?

It’s kind of a big deal.

‘David Ellison Scares the S— Out of Me’: How Paramount Beat Out Netflix, Won Warner Bros. and Will Change Hollywood Forever

Ted Sarandos had just wrapped up a White House meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday when Warner Bros. Discovery released a statement announcing that Paramount’s latest bid for the media company was a “superior proposal” to the one that Netflix had offered. With his deal to buy the 100-year-old film and television giant hanging in the balance, Sarandos quickly consulted with a key team of executives, which included CFO Spencer Neumann and his co-CEO Greg Peters, who had been overseeing Netflix’s bid for Warners, sources say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Canada’s LGBT revolution has been funded with millions of taxpayers dollars

Taxes in Canada are exceptionally high – in provinces like British Columbia, leftist governments are wringing even more cash from the pockets of beleaguered taxpayers. But the federal government continues to spend millions of dollars on LGBT activism.

I’m often asked how things in Canada got so bad, so quickly. There are many answers, but one is that in Canada, the revolution was funded by the taxpayers. While organizations that attempted to defend Canada’s moral foundation fundraised from fellow Christians, radical LGBT organizations and abortion groups were funded by the government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay

This Is Not a Drill: China Is Building a Base in Canada (and Possibly the Catskills)

As we are distracted, fecklessly try to convince the liberal mental bellyflops on Facebook that, anyway they slice it, Trump wasn’t one of Jeffrey Epstein’s pedos, the Chinese are taking advantage of our botheration and have been creating, quite successfully, a forward operating base (FOB) in Canada, and it’s less than 500 miles from the United States. Even worse, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Canadian government is in on the commie caper to hand Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) over to the filthy Chinese communists who seek to, with Islam, take over the world.

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

Ontario Privacy Commissioner opens investigation into Project South allegations

The office of Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is the latest agency to launch an investigation related to the sprawling allegations in the Project South police corruption probe.

In an e-mail on Friday, Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim said her office hasn’t been officially asked by the government to consult on any matters related to Project South, nor has it been notified of any privacy breaches by police.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Coyne’s latest TDS outburst …

Donald Trump may yet survive – but he is currently losing

There will be no Ceausescu moment, no “at long last sir have you no decency” turning point, no dramatic climax in which the tyrant’s power suddenly evaporates: That instantaneous, simultaneous crystallizing of long-inchoate doubts, wherein those who feared him lose their fear, and those who believed in him lose their faith. Life rarely supplies the needs of narrative, and if it did America is no longer a society capable of coming to that kind of collective moral awakening.

Well played Canada.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Trump: I want ‘friendly takeover’of Cuba’

The United States is discussing a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, Donald Trump has said.

The US president said Washington was pursuing an amicable form of regime change in Havana, as sanctions continue to cripple the communist-run island.

Tensions between the US and Cuba have risen since Mr Trump imposed an oil siege on the island following the capture of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, a key ally and oil supplier of Cuba, in January. He has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that exports oil to Cuba.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

Quebec company charged with hiring 21 unauthorized foreign workers

The Canada Border Services Agency says charges have been laid against a Quebec company that hired several unauthorized foreign workers.

The CBSA said charges were laid on Thursday against Camping Havana Resort, 9267-1551 Québec Inc., company directors Ariane and Dominic Perrier, and an employee named Oscar Fuentes Labrada.

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

30 More People Are Indicted in Anti-ICE Church Protest in Minnesota

The Justice Department announced on Friday that 30 additional people have been charged with disrupting a Sunday worship service with a protest during the peak of the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The new indictments bring the total number of people accused in the protest to 39, including Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor.

The demonstration on Jan. 18 took place at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., where one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is also a senior official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mr. Easterwood was not at the church during the service that day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Camp Of The Saints, USA

Franco Terrazzano: Carney’s trying to sweep Ottawa’s problems under the rug

What does any kid do when their parents tell them to clean their room? They shove their toys underneath the bed. From runaway borrowing to taxes and expensive regulations, Prime Minister Mark Carney is using the same approach to deal with Ottawa’s mess. Instead of fixing problems, Carney is trying to hide them.

Carney’s retreat from Ottawa’s electric vehicle mandate illustrates this point. Canada’s automakers warned about the devastating impacts the ban on new gas and diesel vehicle sales would have.

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

France shows the peril of a Green-Muslim alliance

Gone are the days when the Green Party’s main concern was the Ozone layer. Ahead of today’s Gorton and Denton by-election, the Greens distributed leaflets and videos in Urdu urging voters to “punish Labour for Gaza”. Their keffiyeh-wearing candidate, Hannah Spencer, also says that a vote for her will “stop Islamophobia”.

It is shameless pandering to the Pakistani community, which is approximately 20 per cent of the population of Gorton and Denton. The strategy may be a shock for some but it shouldn’t be a surprise. In the 2024 local elections, a Green councillor celebrated his victory in the Gipton and Harehills ward in Leeds with a cry of “Allahu Akbar”, adding: “We will not be silenced. We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Barbecue rebel Adam Skelly’s legal fate in hands of judge

The legal saga of restaurateur Adam Skelly isn’t out of the slow cooker just yet.

After closing arguments wrapped Friday afternoon, Judge Janet Leiper told a downtown courtroom she’ll need time to weigh the very “technical” legal matters in the case of Skelly, who more than five years ago led and encouraged a protest against COVID-related restrictions at his Etobicoke eatery.

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