What does Putin want out of the Alaska summit with Trump?

President Putin’s talks in Alaska with President Trump on Friday will be his seventh US-Russia summit meeting since he came to power 25 years ago. It will, however, be the first to take place during a full-scale Russian invasion of a European country.

Trump has already had at least six telephone conversations with Putin since he returned to the White House in January. Critics have asked why the Russian leader is being rewarded with a summit on US soil while his forces are attacking Ukraine.

However, in Kyiv, Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Zelensky, said that face-to-face talks with Putin would help Trump grasp the depths of the Russian leader’s irrationality and his desire to keep fighting, despite massive losses of his own troops.

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

Families whose ancestors gave up Indigenous status sue to have rights restored

VANCOUVER — A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Federal Court says the Canadian government wrongfully denies people status under the country’s Indian Act if their ancestors “voluntarily” gave up Indigenous status under laws that predate Confederation.

Plaintiffs Charles Wesley, Christopher Wesley, Sharon Nicholas and Nicole Nicholas filed a statement of claim in Vancouver this month seeking damages from the federal government for “being deprived of the benefits” of status under the act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

It’s a fantasy to think the USMCA will survive

As the Carney government tries to sort out Canada’s relationship with the Trump administration, almost nothing’s been disclosed about the scope, content, timing or ultimate objectives of these talks, even though their outcome – whether success or failure – will be hugely significant for the country.

What we got from Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. relations, as he left Washington last week was that Canada had “a better understanding of the American concerns in the trading relationship…. So we’re prepared to stick around and do the work needed.”

Lots of poverty ahead, just what Carney and his cronies want.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Kidnap, Rape, Convert to Islam, and Marry Underage Christian Girls – Welcome to Pakistan.

The harrowing cases of Mahak Siddique and Alshaba Adnan expose a deeply disturbing pattern of violence, exploitation, and systemic failure in addressing crimes against underage girls from minority communities in Pakistan. Babar son of Mukhtar, operating under aliases such as Ghulam Rasool and Muhammad Babar Ali, emerges as a serial predator who manipulates religious institutions to perpetrate kidnapping, forced conversion, rape, and child marriage. These acts, committed with impunity and aided by accomplices including Muhammad Aftab, Shan Masih, and Khurram Masih, reveal a chilling disregard for human dignity and legal accountability.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and Child Marriage, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Pakistan

The tyranny of the eco-aristocracy

Environmentalism is the ultimate ‘luxury belief’.

It’s not becoming to boast, but I was an extremely early sceptic when it comes to matters ecological. In 1990, I wrote a short play – starring Lesley Manville, who has since risen to stellar heights – for the Royal Court in London. It made a frankly biased, unreasonable, anti-green argument which I have had no reason whatsoever to regret ever since. If anything, I feel even more strongly that environmentalism – which has now ‘grown’ to include those adolescent maniacs who chuck muck over masterpieces – is the ‘luxury belief’ to top them all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s energy minister makes business case for natural gas

Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says he “knows there are buyers” for Canada’s liquified natural gas (LNG) globally, quite the change in emphasis from former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s argument there was no business case for such projects.

Trudeau is a monster, putting his ego before people. Carney is no different an eco-nut.

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

Scrooge to be portrayed as a ‘British Indian who hates refugees’ in new version of A Christmas Carol

A Bollywood-inspired adaptation of A Christmas Carol will star a version of Ebenezer Scrooge who ‘despises refugees’, the director has revealed.

The musical, which is directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, will feature a ‘British-Indian’ man named Sood as the lead character.

He is described as a wealthy man who hates poor people and refugees on the basis they ‘haven’t worked as hard as him to get where he is’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation", WTF?

Captain Rolfe Monteith, Canadian teenage volunteer who survived the Arctic convoys

Captain Rolfe Monteith, of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has died aged 101, was one of the teenage Dominion volunteers who crossed the Atlantic to serve in the Second World War, and one of the last survivors of the wartime Arctic convoys.

Inspired by family holidays in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, young Monteith was eager to go to sea. In 1941, aged 17, he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy and soon found himself on his first Atlantic crossing – not yet in uniform – aboard the armed merchant cruiser Laconia with convoy HX 147. The voyage was perilous, passing through wreckage from convoy SC 42, which had recently been mauled by German U-boats off Greenland.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPassings

Canadians are torn about whether to put their elbows up or down in U.S. trade war: poll

OTTAWA — Canadians are split on whether Canada should go into trade negotiations with the U.S. with elbows up or down when it comes to retaliatory tariffs, according to a new poll.

The Leger/Postmedia poll suggests that 45 per cent of Canadians still believe Canada’s position vis-à-vis U.S. President Donald Trump should be “elbows up.” That means that Canada should impose counter-tariffs on all new U.S. border levies, even if it risks further retaliation from the Trump administration.

I’m not sure faith in Carney is justifiable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Chaos at Canary Wharf migrant hotel as protesters claim migrant entered woman’s home – but police let him go

Chaos erupted outside a controversial Canary Wharf migrant hotel after a man believed to be staying there allegedly walked into a woman’s house.

The man is said to have entered the house after being followed by a group of men on the street and told to ‘go back to the hotel’ where anti-migrant protesters were gathered outside.

The Britannia International Hotel is being used to house hundreds of asylum seekers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

‘Block Everything’: France Braces for a September in Flames

The return to the political season could turn into a veritable powder keg in France. Since mid-July, the slogan “Bloquons tout!” (“Let’s block everything!”) has spread like wildfire on social media, calling for a total shutdown of the country on September 10. The spark: the drastic cuts announced by Prime Minister François Bayrou, which include a €43.8 billion adjustment, the freezing of social spending, the elimination of two public holidays, and other austerity measures that have lit the fuse of public discontent, primed for years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Most Canadians want proof before accepting unmarked indigenous graves at Kamloops residential school

As Canada continues to deal with Indian Residential schools, new research shows most people believe the schools caused “cultural genocide.”

However, a significant majority also feel more evidence is needed before accepting soil anomalies at the former Kamloops school represent unmarked graves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Gun-control advocates fear Mark Carney will delay buyback program

OTTAWA—Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?

The Liberal government vowed once more in the April election campaign that it will finally complete its long-delayed plan to buy back more than a 100,000 long guns it has banned across the country. But Prime Minister Mark Carney is all but certain to need one more deadline extension.

Ottawa appears to be moving ahead with efforts to get police forces, or anyone else, to take on the task of collecting the weapons from gun owners, but with no plan announced yet and a looming deadline, stakeholders and insiders expect the government to push back for a third time the amnesty order that protects the owners of more than 2,000 variants of “assault-style” weapons that were banned in 2020.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

DC sandwich slinger ID’d as DOJ trial attorney, fired from position after hurling sub at fed agent

WASHINGTON — His career is toast.

A DC man who hurled a Subway sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of the capital earlier this week has been identified as a now-former Justice Department trial attorney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA