The Phantom Stealth Fighter That Exposes Europe’s Deep Divisions Over Defense

Duplicated efforts, fragmented industry and soured collaborations are among reasons region isn’t getting more bang for its defense buck

It was billed as the answer to high-tech U.S. stealth fighters. Instead, an ambitious pan-European project has become a case study into some of what has gone wrong with the region’s defense push.

The French, German and Spanish Future Combat Air System project was meant to build a next-generation aircraft to catch up with the latest U.S., Chinese and Russian models. Now the venture has devolved into bickering between defense companies Airbus and Dassault Aviation—and between Berlin and Paris—over who gets to lead its development, with all sides now questioning its future.

This is who Carney wants us to hook up with, maybe he’ll make Canada a conduit for ChiCom IP theft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, WTF?

Canada’s reliance on the U.S. for our food is a recipe for disaster

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump mused about blocking the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge – built to ease the movement of products, including food, into our country. It highlighted an existential problem: Canada is dependent on the United States for access to nutritious foods, like fruits and vegetables.

Our research team has been tracking the global flows of fresh fruits and vegetables into Canada to assess our country’s food security, and we now have the numbers that should sound the alarm, and inspire the country to take action. The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada. Not only do we import much of our fruits and vegetables from the U.S. – a whopping 98 per cent of our imported lettuce is grown there – but even produce from other countries largely travels here via American highways and shipping ports.

I don’t know why but I get a “The Choco ration has been increased from 25 to 20 grams” vibe from the authors.

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

TfL advert showing black man and his white friend harassing white girl on bus is banned after just one complaint… for ‘reinforcing negative racial stereotypes’

A Transport for London advert showing a black man and his white friend harassing a white girl on a bus has been banned for ‘reinforcing negative racial stereotypes’.

The Facebook advert was pulled after just one complaint from a viewer, who said it was irresponsible, harmful and offensive due to how it portrayed black teenage boys.

The short clip showed a black male verbally harassing a young girl. He was accompanied by a white male friend, who sat down close to the victim ‘boxing her in’.

A series of UK PSA’s that featured only white men as sex pests was deservedly mocked given Britain is overrun by migrant sex criminals and Muslim grooming gangs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Soft racism of lowered expectations"

Federal bureaucracy costs skyrocket 80% in 10 years: Report

Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing calls to immediately shrink the federal bureaucracy after Tuesday’s report released by the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows costs continue to increase at an alarming rate.

The PBO’s Personnel Expenditure Analysis says the federal bureaucracy cost taxpayers $71.4 billion in 2024-25. In 2015-16, that number stood at $39.6 billion, a rise of 80% in 10 years.

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

Judge declares mistrial in Texas ‘antifa’ protest case over attorney’s T-shirt

A federal judge in Texas declared a mistrial on Tuesday after a defense lawyer wore a shirt in court with images from the civil rights movement, delaying a closely watched case in which the Trump administration is accusing a group of protesters of being terrorists and says they are part of a “North-Texas antifa cell”.

US district judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of Donald Trump, declared a mistrial only hours after jury selection began at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Worth. He abruptly halted the proceedings after MarQuetta Clayton, an attorney for one of the defendants, had been questioning potential jurors for about 20 minutes, taking issue with a shirt she was wearing underneath a black blazer. The shirt contained images of civil rights movement leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr and Shirley Chisholm, as well as images of protests from that time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa, Terrorism - Domestic

Don’t Celebrate Canada’s Falling Unemployment Rate Just Yet

Canada’s falling unemployment rate is being read as good news. It isn’t. The decline reflects fewer Canadians working because fewer people are looking for work and fewer people are here to work at all.

We in Canada rely on Statistics Canada for the labour and population data that tell us how the economy is actually performing, not how we might wish it to be performing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

I would scream in my sleep: Women from Syria’s Alawite minority tell of kidnap and rape

Ramia was preparing for a family picnic, on a warm summer day in her village in Latakia province in western Syria, when a white car drove up, she said.

Three armed men got out, saying they were government security forces, and dragged her into the vehicle, the teenager, whose name has been changed for her safety and to protect her identity, told the BBC World Service.

The men beat her, she said, hitting her harder when she started crying and screaming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Syria

Canada’s Shadow Refugee Claim System: How Tens of Thousands Are Approved Without a Single Question

New report warns Canada’s paper-based refugee fast track may be prone to abuse by terror-linked and transnational fraud networks.

OTTAWA — A sweeping new border control investigation has revealed that since 2019, Canada’s refugee hearing board has been quietly accepting tens of thousands of asylum claims without ever questioning the migrants, effectively rubber-stamping applications from some of the most dangerous countries on earth — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran — through a paper-based process that is wide open to fraud and bypasses the security screening architecture designed to protect the nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Iran threatens to send Trump’s aircraft carrier ‘to bottom of the sea’

Iran’s supreme leader threatened to send US aircraft carriers to the “bottom of the sea” while talks to avert a war began in Geneva.

Ali Khamenei dismissed the American military build-up in the Persian Gulf after Donald Trump ordered a second carrier to the region last week.

“They constantly say we have sent an aircraft carrier towards Iran,” the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader said. “Very well, an aircraft carrier is certainly a dangerous machine, but more dangerous than the carrier is the weapon that can send it to the bottom of the sea.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

GWYN MORGAN: Germany’s green energy gamble and open borders backfired, Canada should take note

Muslims in Germany: Caliphate is the solution

Germany was postwar Europe’s greatest economic success story. Today, it is a cautionary tale. Once the continent’s industrial engine, Germany has spent the past decade dismantling the foundations of its prosperity through energy and immigration policies driven more by ideology than evidence or good sense. The results have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash. Canada should study this record closely because we are pursuing many of the same policies.

Germany has one thing going for it Canada does not – The AfD.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Germany

Robot’s 10-mile frontline scramble to rescue Ukrainian soldier

When the soldier codenamed Blackbird was bundled into the back of the rescue robot, wrapped in a sleeping bag and bound with bloodied tourniquets, his life hung in the balance.

One leg was gone and the other was shattered, looking more like a burned branch than flesh and bone. His right arm, too, was smashed.

If his wounds did not kill him, the cold might have done so. It was minus 10C on the front line south of Kostiantynivka in the darkness of Sunday evening, even without the windchill. From time to time, gusts of snow blew across the robot’s camera.

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

Donald Trump may soon start to look weak. Will that prompt Mark Carney to make an early election call?

The opposition parties were all trumped, as it were, in last year’s election. They may well face the same fate again this year as talk of an election call in Canada grows. If an election does occur, Donald Trump’s continued raft of threats, insults and incoherent rants is a gift to the Liberals. His behaviour underlines the threat he represents — and the need for a strong and effective Canadian prime minister to challenge him. Barring unforeseeable events, Mark Carney owns that card.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA