E.U. Cuts Aid to Ukraine Over Corruption Concerns

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anticorruption policies have already provoked Ukraine’s first antigovernment protests since the Russian invasion in 2022. Now, it seems, they may cost the country a portion of its foreign aid from the European Union, in a clear rebuke from the bloc, once a staunch ally.

The European Union said on Friday that it would withhold 1.5 billion euros, or $1.7 billion, from an overall fund of 4.5 billion euros whose disbursement is dependent on achieving good governance standards and that can’t be used for military purchases. The decision is not final, however, and the funding can be restored if Ukraine meets certain benchmarks.

… The E.U.’s decision capped a tumultuous week for Mr. Zelensky, who first pushed a measure through Parliament that stripped the independence of two anticorruption agencies, raising protests from foreign leaders as well as the Ukrainian people.

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

Cory Morgan: Telling the Truth on Pipelines Key to Building Political Support

In supporting the concept of a pipeline corridor across Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney shifted from his predecessor’s approach to oil and gas exports. Carney so far has shown signs of recognizing that if Canada could expand oil and gas exports into overseas markets, the nation wouldn’t be as vulnerable to tariffs and other trade clashes with the United States.

In 2023, 97 percent of Canada’s crude oil exports went to the United States, as did nearly 100 percent of the natural gas exports. Meanwhile, Canada purchased nearly $20 billion worth of foreign crude oil, most of which came from the United States.

Maybe not so much Carney enthusiasm …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump says he does not endorse Netanyahu’s claim there is no starvation in Gaza

Donald Trump has said he believes there is a famine in Gaza and he has told Israel that “maybe they have to do it in a different way”.

Speaking outside his hotel in Turnberry, South Ayrshire, on Monday, the US president said people in Gaza needed “to get food and safety right now” and that he wanted to get ceasefire talks restarted.

Asked if he agreed with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said earlier on Monday that there was no starvation in Gaza, Trump replied: “I don’t know. Based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry. We’re giving a lot of money and a lot of food and other nations are now stepping up.”

Note: Viral images of starving Gaza boy don’t tell the whole story because he suffers from genetic disorders, critics say

A people who celebrate rape, murder and the so-called “martyrdom” of their son’s and daughters are capable of anything if it advances their agenda.

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

MORGAN: Danielle Smith could save Canada from supply management

Canada’s Soviet-style supply management system on dairy, poultry and eggs has been screwing citizens for decades with higher food prices, obliterated family farms and disrupted international trade deals. The dairy cartels are deeply entrenched in Canada and have effectively cowed every federal political party (so to speak,) including the Conservatives. No major federal leader will dare question supply management for fear of upsetting Quebec which benefits from the program. The standoff on this terrible policy robs Canadians of billions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Fans of heavy metal could face jail in Russia as Putin bans ‘satanists’

Russian fans of heavy metal and goth music could face prison after the Kremlin’s top court outlawed the “international satanism movement” as an extremist and terrorist group — even though no such organisation exists.

The Russian Supreme Court’s ruling came after appeals from the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, MPs and other officials. It means that anyone who is alleged to be a member of the non-existent movement could face up to eight years in prison. Critics said the ruling would increase the climate of fear that has gripped Russia since President Putin ordered tanks into Ukraine in 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPutin, Russia, WTF?

‘They were just hell-bent’: Mayor battling Ottawa over ‘really left’ housing mandate

In a very civil tone, the mayor of Windsor, Ont., is asking the fresh faces in the Mark Carney-led Liberal government to butt out of city planning. Mayor Drew Dilkens especially wants to see an end to Trudeau-era affordable housing mandates from Ottawa that don’t serve his community.

“They were just hell-bent on putting forward this really left-principled version of what housing should be,” Drew says of the conditions imposed on cities under the $4-billion housing accelerator fund launched in 2023 by then federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

‘Racist, far-Right’ protesters: a Sikh, a Chinese man and a veteran with mixed-race kids

Of the thousands of bankers in Canary Wharf, only one crossed the footbridge to the newly designated migrant hotel opposite the district’s glass towers, curious to witness the commotion.

Metal fencing surrounded the entrance of the Britannia Hotel, guarded by a wall of police and a private security guard in a surgical mask. Territorial support vans crawled past. It was hard to escape the feeling that a great crime had been committed.

Police Escorted “Anti-Racist” protesters. Civil war soon? No crystal ball but to my view the French riot better than the English or Germans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, UK

Carney’s cuts won’t be able to hide behind Trump forever

In another time, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s talk of steep government spending cuts would be the talk of the town. But these aren’t other times.

We now live in the age of Trump, and the U.S. President’s ongoing trade war with the world is a story that is able to erase much of most other countries’ domestic news agenda. And so it is with Canada and its need to reduce spending after years of Trudeau-era bloat.

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

Pro-Trump Christian musician to play Alberta legislature grounds in Edmonton

A pro-Trump and Christian singer whose events on his East Coast Canadian tour have had to be moved to alternate venues after being cancelled is slated to play at the Alberta legislature grounds in August.

U.S. musician Sean Feucht has faced protests and cancellations this week on the first leg of his cross-country tour, which is slated to stop on Aug. 22 in Edmonton for a performance at the grounds’ south bandshell.

I’m not Feucht’s fan but I hate CBC and our Ugly Canadians even more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Family disintegration, not housing, is behind Anglosphere misery

The decline in wellbeing among young people is an all-too-familiar trend. Less understood is that the situation is significantly worse in the Anglosphere — Britain, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — than in Western Europe. The contrast is documented, chart by chart, in a new report for the Financial Times. Drawing on data from the World Happiness Report, John Burn-Murdoch argues that the “worsening in young adult mental health over the past decade is primarily, if not exclusively, an Anglosphere phenomenon”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Decline & Fall, Illusion of Permanence

‘We Were Commanded [by Allah] to Kill You’: The Persecution of Christians, June 2025

“The horrific killing of Kashif Masih is not just a tragedy—it is a damning indictment of the justice system in Pakistan. That a man could be tortured to death under false allegations, and that the police failed to act promptly or conduct a proper investigation, shows the systemic discrimination Christians face daily. The failure to collect crucial evidence and the reluctance to pursue justice….” — britishasianchristians.org, June 2, 2025.

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

Michael Taube: No, Globe and Mail, Mark Carney isn’t the second coming of Brian Mulroney

Mark Carney has been prime minister of Canada since March. He’s been called many things by many people in this short time period. It never came to mind that he would be described as a “progressive conservative” along the lines of Brian Mulroney.

This, in a nutshell, is the nonsense that the Globe and Mail’s editorial board is currently peddling.

I’m not a fan of either.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Team Obama Is Running Scared as the Russiagate Cover Story Collapses

Team Obama is panicking.

You can see it in every flailing move, every desperate media blitz, and every attempt to deflect from the deep, unresolved questions about the origins of Russiagate. The architects of the infamous hoax—Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey—have all been exposed, thanks to the tenacity of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who recently dropped declassified documents implicating the Obama-era intelligence cabal in concocting and perpetuating the false Russia narrative that hounded President Donald Trump throughout his first term.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

President Trump’s clarion call to Europeans about the perils of endless immigration

Donald Trump is visiting Europe. Upon arriving there, when asked about migration, he had a blunt response, which is that unlimited immigration is killing Europe. The elites were outraged, but I suspect that the common man in Europe had the same response that the dissidents did in 1983, when Ronald Reagan bucked the sophisticated elites and accurately called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Europe, President Trump

This woman claims Air Canada discriminated against her in a case of ‘flying while Black.’ Now her human rights complaint could set a precedent

Months after a knee surgery, June Francis booked a business-class flight from Vancouver for a conference in Toronto, the first leg of a work trip that would also include the U.S. and Peru.

Having waited in the “exceptionally long line” at check-in for business passengers, the 62-year-old Jamaican Canadian said she approached the economy area and attempted to ask an Air Canada staffer for help, out of concern about standing too long on her replaced knees.

But what happened next would lead to a complaint that is believed to be the first case of “flying while Black” that reaches a full hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"racial justice", WTF?