Donald Trump was the essential element for the Gaza ceasefire

For the last two years, when Israelis or diaspora Jews would talk about bringing the last living hostages home, there was a belief their spoken words would never betray: the hostages would not come home. Not all of them. Not all at once.

The hostages were too valuable to Hamas, serving as their only real bargaining chip in a war that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will win on strength, military intelligence and strategy every time. In 2011, Israel exchanged 1,027 prisoners for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held in captivity for five years. So what concessions could Hamas extract holding onto a handful now?

But he’s still a despot!

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

DEI Hire?

You can’t park there! Boeing 737 Max dramatically collides with two other jets as hapless airport ground staff misjudge space on the tarmac

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Melanie Joly pushing F-35 maker for economic benefits in Canada

The federal industry minister is putting pressure on U.S.-based Lockheed Martin to provide more economic benefits in Canada if the government is to proceed with its planned purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.

Otherwise, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a French-language interview on Radio-Canada’s Les coulisses du pouvoir, Ottawa could move forward with a smaller fleet of F-35s and the acquisition of a second fleet of Gripen-E fighter jets manufactured by Sweden’s Saab. That company has offered to assemble Gripens in Canada.

Joly made the comments as Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is still mulling the fate of the $27.7-billion fighter jet contract.

Yes you read that right. Melanie Joly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCAF", Canada, USA

Ford calls on Stellantis to ‘live up to their promise’ to Brampton workers

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Stellantis to “live up to their promise” to Brampton workers after the automaker was reported to be moving production slated for an assembly plant to Illinois.

In a statement, Ford says he has spoken with Stellantis to stress his “disappointment with their decision to prioritize investment into the U.S.”

If I were Ford I would be calling Trump bad names and stuff.

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

Case dropped against woman who unfurled Union Jack at migrant hotel protest

A woman arrested and charged after unfurling a Union flag from a council building during an anti-migrant protest has been told she faces no further action.

Sarah White, 40, was due to appear in court on Wednesday over a protest against migrants being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.

The Bell Hotel has been the scene of protests this summer after an Ethiopian migrant staying there sexually assaulted a girl.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civil Unrest", "Civilizationists"

Canada’s plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine appears to be on the scrap heap

Ukraine has yet to receive the more than two dozen refurbished light armoured vehicles Canada promised to the war-torn country in September 2023, CBC News has learned.

The vehicles remain stuck in bureaucratic and corporate limbo — even though the Department of National Defence delivered the decommissioned vehicles to an Ontario-based company for reconstruction almost two years ago.

The fate of the restoration contract, publicly acknowledged around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s high-profile visit to Ottawa and believed to be worth between $150 million and $250 million, yet is now shrouded in secrecy.

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

Greta Thunberg: I was tortured, beaten and starved by Israel

Greta Thunberg has claimed she was “hit, kicked, starved and tortured” during her time in Israeli custody.

The Swedish activist accused Israeli guards of defacing her suitcase with the words “whore Greta”, drawings of a penis and images of the Star of David.

The 22-year-old was detained by Israel earlier this month after taking part in an attempt by the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Cars or canola? Canada between a rock and a hard place

“One of the remarkable things about life,” said the great sage Calvin — co-star, along with Hobbes, the tiger, of “the last great newspaper comic strip” — is that “it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.” So did the Canadian auto industry find out last Sunday, when the Chinese ambassador to our country, Wang Di, told CTV News reporter Vassy Kapelos that “China [would] remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada” if we, in turn, eliminated the tariffs we’ve imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.

Tough call for the Elbow people ahead.

Carney luvs China as does our China class but his Liberal Party also hates the West.  

Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-shore auto assembly and as we have seen with Stellantis  auto manufacturers are heeding his call.

It may be that Canada’s auto-industry or what’s left of it is part supply only.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Charlie Kirk: US revokes 6 visas over social media comments

The US State Department on Tuesday revoked six visas over social media comments on the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was shot dead when speaking at a rally at a Utah university in September. The suspect in the assassination faces the death penalty if convicted.

Read the Twitter thread.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, USA

Some flights delayed after Kelowna airport public information system hacked with pro-Hamas messaging

Kelowna International Airport says some flights have been delayed after a third party hacked its terminal display screens and public address system with pro-Hamas messaging on Tuesday evening.

The incident happened at about 5:15 p.m.

“We are experiencing some delayed flights,” the airport said in a news release.

h/t Auntie Polly

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

Hostage families confirm identities of three of four bodies handed over by Hamas

Israeli hostage families have confirmed the identities of three of four bodies handed over by Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday.

The bodies of Tamir Nimrodi, 20, Eitan Levy, 53, and Uriel Baruch, 35, were part of the latest return, the Hostages Families Forum said. Scientists are still working to identify the fourth body.

So far seven hostages’ bodies are confirmed to have been sent back from Gaza. Hamas has yet to return the other bodies as agreed under a ceasefire deal brokered by the US.

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

B.C. premier calls on feds to support forestry workers amid new U.S. tariffs on lumber, wood

B.C. Premier David Eby is calling on the federal government to protect forestry workers as new tariffs imposed by the U.S. president threaten to topple an already struggling industry.

On Tuesday, the U.S. slapped a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber — on top of a 35 per cent duty already in place.

The U.S. also put a 25 per cent tariff on some Canadian wood products, like furniture.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA