How Canada became poorer than Alabama

Huntsville Alabama

In December, Tommy Battle’s dream came true. The five-term Mayor of Huntsville is Alabama to the bone, born in Birmingham and a graduate of the state university in Tuscaloosa, but for the past

18 years he’s tried to distance his city from the state’s unsavoury stereotypes.
Huntsville, in the north, is the home of the Saturn rocket program that took on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik. It houses the second-largest biotech research hub in the United States. And it has attracted high-end manufacturing investments such as Blue Origin’s rocket engine plant.

But Alabama tropes are hard to shake: The state is backward and full of bible thumpers and bigots – allegedly. When local companies try to hire from afar, Mayor Battle says recruits often hear the same responses when telling their spouses: “‘Huntsville?’ With one question mark. Then they say, ‘Alabama???’ With three question marks.”

Huntsville is now considered “UFO” central with start ups some suspect may be linked to alien tech.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada in decline", Alabama, Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Rotherham ‘monster’ who raped 13-year-old schoolgirl and woman in her 20s is jailed

Riyasth Hussain Rapist

A ‘monster’ who raped a 13-year-old girl ‘passed on from one man to another’ in Rotherham has been jailed for 20 years.

Father-of-three Riyasth Hussain, 45, raped the girl, who had been abused since the age of 11, between 2004 and 2008.

Now in her 30s, the woman told Hussain from the witness box at Sheffield Crown Court: ‘You didn’t just steal my childhood, you stole the rest of my life.’

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

What Does Alberta Want? And How Soon Does The Province Want It?

It’s becoming clear that large parts of the Laurentian Elite have suddenly become nervous about the implications of Alberta’s unrest. After decades of turning a deaf ear to low rumblings of discontent, from somewhere beyond the Lakehead, the Andrew Coyne Brigade is in full force waving their law books, warning about why Alberta independence is against the natural law, God’s plan and more. @acoyne Smith has no mandate to hold a referendum… Among many, many other objections.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Disclosure Is Not Going To Be Fun & Games

At last, we’re (probably) going to get disclosure:

Gosh. As Ross Douthat points out, we had better watch closely to see if the Department of Energy is on Trump’s list of “relevant agencies.” The DOE is where a lot of the UAP stuff has been handled.

If you haven’t already, read Diana Pasulka’s American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, which was foundational for me in getting me to take all this seriously, for once. I just read an advance copy of her forthcoming book (July 28), The Others, and I think it’s her most important one yet. It’s only secondarily about UAPs, but is is about non-human intelligence and the future of humanity. In my view, it is not a happy story, but one that calls for people to develop their powers of discernment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Just how bad are Nato’s armies?

Dad’s Army – and Canada’s

Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s Nato members. Russia, the ninth-largest economy in the world, is up against the third, sixth, seventh and eighth in the shape of Germany, Britain, France and Italy.

Yet the reality is that, militarily, it is the other way around. Russia has the world’s second-strongest military, while France comes sixth, UK eighth, Italy tenth and Germany 12th. To put a few figures on it, Russia has 1.32 million active service personnel, 560 fighter aircraft and 3,941 tanks ready for deployment. For Britain, the corresponding figures are 141,000, 67 and 187; for France 264,000, 178 and 342; and Italy 165,000, 62 and 142.

As for Canada, it ranks a lowly 28th, despite being a G7 nation with the world’s tenth-largest economy. It has 63,000 troops, 50 fighter aircraft and 56 tanks – all to defend a landmass that is larger than that of the US. Looked at from a military perspective, it is not hard to see why Donald Trump is considering incorporating Canada into the US. After all, Canada’s vast Arctic frontier is virtually a demilitarised zone.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO

Does striking down Trump’s ‘emergency’ tariffs make it better or worse for Canada?

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld lower-court rulings on President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Powers Act, confirming that Mr. Trump’s usage of such powers to impose tariffs at will is unconstitutional and must end.

Canada’s long nightmare over U.S. tariffs is poised to change. But whether that is for better or worse depends on who within Canada we are talking about – which industry and, by extension, which province.

CBC Live Feed – Canada retains exemptions in Trump’s new order for 10% global tariffs
Backup plan?

The Many Trump Tariffs That Will Remain in Place

h/t Everyone who sent stuff in

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

The Beauty of Anti-Fascists Recognizing Fascists in the Mirror

The left’s inability to discern truth from fantasy culminates in unintentional performance art in Germany.

Some people fail to see their own irony.

A few of them attended the premiere of Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists in Bochum, Germany, last Saturday.

The play’s theme centers around a Portuguese family’s ritualistic annual murder of a fascist. If the spectre of fascism really hung over the West, then certainly one would expect the audience disruption — in Germany, no less — to come from neo-Brown Shirts. These creatures, however, more densely populate the imaginations of those behind Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists than they do our actual world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"NAZIS! NAZIS EVERYWHERE!"

Poll finds 80% back fast-tracking deportations in extortion cases as Liberal Party Voter Import Program continues to draw negative attention

The sheer amount of extortion attempts and extortion-related shootings in British Columbia has commanded national and international attention. It is not surprising to see more than half of British Columbians (56 per cent) saying they have followed news related to this situation “very closely” or “moderately closely” over the past month.

At this moment, respondents of South Asian descent are more likely to be captivated by this story (67 per cent) than their counterparts whose heritage is Indigenous (59 per cent), European (56 per cent) or East Asian (55 per cent).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Is Gender Medicine Diminishing Trust in Doctors?

Transgender issues have become a serious liability for Democrats, according to a new poll by the Substack-based, left-leaning publication The Argument. The poll, which surveyed 3,003 registered voters nationally between February 4 and 10, asked about hot-button policy questions related to gender self-identification, including access to bathrooms, participation in sports teams, teaching gender identity in schools, and the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries on minors. In all those cases, a majority opposed the policies favored by the progressive faction of the Democratic Party. The only area in which a majority supported trans policies was protection from discrimination in housing and employment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Canadians think Trump’s tariffs are only going to get worse, poll finds

OTTAWA — Canadians fear that tariff threats from the United States are only going to get worse, a new poll found.

Forty-six per cent of Canadians believe that U.S. President Donald Trump will raise tariffs on Canada, which is an increase of 19 percentage points since May 2025. Only 20 per cent of Canadians think that tariffs will be rescinded, a decrease of 20 percentage points from last year.

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

Trump Is Allowing China to Take Over Critical U.S. Tech

The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to allow American data centers to buy Chinese equipment, thereby permitting Beijing to steal as much as it wants and perhaps remotely control or take down these critical facilities. Moreover, Commerce recently has not implemented a number of other obviously needed restrictions on Chinese technology and Chinese companies.

The Trump administration’s effort to protect American infrastructure from China has collapsed. It now appears Beijing has a veto on American tech policy.

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

John Robson: In Mark Carney’s Canada, nothing matters

Not even being conquered seems to matter all that much

The other day I got a really scary idea. Second-hand, this time, from Post columnist Chris Selley who cast it before X last December and I pounced. Does it matter?

Not that I’m pinching it. As John Ruskin said, borrowing is fine if you pay interest. And what Selley said that should interest us all and has been haunting me since was: “Historians will (hopefully) view this as the period when Canadians and their government(s) realize, to their horror, that some things actually matter.”

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