Author: Blazingcatfur

What’s the point of VE Day? Those who remember will soon be gone

Though the Second World War was never fought on British land, only in the skies overhead, the country’s fabric is marked by the conflict in innumerable ways. Near my home is a stretch of woodland I often run through with the dog. In 1945, an Allied plane crashed among its trees, killing several of the men on board. To this day, local legend has it that visitors to the crash site will hear voices or coughing, or smell smoke.

But for how much longer will we remember those ghosts? This week marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day — the moment the war ended in Europe. The youngest surviving veterans are now at least 98. And of the millions of British people who served in the war, only tens of thousands remain: perhaps 0.01% of Britain’s total population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW II, WW II History

HURTY WORDS! Ottawa spends $68K on study asking CBC reporters about political insults

The Department of Canadian Heritage spent $68,640 on a University of British Columbia study that asked Canadian journalists — many of them from CBC — about facing hurtful accusations from conservative politicians and partisan media, Access To Information records reveal.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the study surveyed 95 unnamed journalists across the country, with 41% reportedly working for public outlets like the CBC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trump fixates on US-Canada border – does he actually want to tear it up?

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When Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, met with Donald Trump at the White House this week, the notoriously over-prepared former central banker was no doubt expecting to discuss tariffs, trade and defence policy.

But as he sat beside the president, he was instead treated to a discourse on one of Trump’s more recondite fixations: the centuries-old border between Canada and the United States.

“Somebody drew that line many years ago with, like, a ruler – just a straight line right across the top of the country,” he told Carney and the mass of assembled reporters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

How China helped Pakistan shoot down Indian fighter jets

China PL-15 Missile

The apparent involvement of Chinese aircraft in shooting down a Western-made Rafale has ricocheted through defence circles

At 4am on Wednesday, China’s ambassador to Pakistan hurried to the foreign ministry to celebrate an unprecedented military success.

Pakistan had reportedly shot down several Indian aircraft in the hours before using Chinese J-10C fighter jets.

“Our jet fighters… shot down three Indian Rafales, three Rafales [that] are French,” Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, told parliament on Wednesday. “Ours were J-10C.”

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

Carney in Washington: A Test of Leadership, Failed

Washington—It was supposed to be Mark Carney’s big moment. His first trip to Washington as Prime Minister, the Davos man turned national leader standing toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. He arrived with a polished script, prepped talking points, and just enough smugness to pass for leadership. But by the time he walked out, it was clear who held the cards—and it wasn’t the man from Ottawa.

h/t PA Cat

H/T Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

This pilot is honoured every year in a U.K. town. Will Canada recognize his bravery?

There is a street named after him in a British town.

A plaque at the local hospital tells the story of how the 29-year-old pilot saved many lives while sacrificing his own during the Second World War.

There are even talks of building a statue of Darlington’s “Gallant Airman” to honour his life and death.

But William Stuart McMullen, a Canadian pilot officer from Ontario, is little known in his own country.

Nope. Not today’s “Canada”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCAF", Canada, WW II, WW II History

Want to see the end of Europe? Go to Birmingham

If it is not yet defined a failed city, despite the rats and the stench, it surely looks a lot like one.

Everyone knows that multiculturalism and mass immigration are changing the face of European cities and certainly not for the better. But if you say so, you are labeled a “reactionary”, or worse.

In Germany, it seems that the main problem now is to designate the AfD as a threat to democracy (there are already some states that would like to directly ban it and with them one in five German voters is an enemy of the state), in England a famous writer critical of immigration Renaud Camus is prevented from entering the country and in France the judges do not want to let Marine Le Pen run in the next presidential elections.

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

More than half of Canadians say Alberta separation should be taken seriously: poll

As Alberta lurches towards a potential referendum on seceding from Canada, a majority of Canadians think the threat of separation should be taken seriously.

A new Leger poll for the Association for Canadian Studies shows that 52 per cent of Canadians believe the threats should be taken seriously — a view that’s held most strongly in Alberta itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

Why Hamas Wants To Control Gaza’s Humanitarian Aid

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has reconstituted its “Executive Force” as part of an effort to control humanitarian aid and “impose law and order” in the Gaza Strip.

The 5,000-strong force, originally established in 2006, has been entrusted with preventing the “theft” of food and “deterring thieves and thugs responsible for anarchy and lawlessness.”

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

Justin Trudeau was bad, but Mark Carney will be far worse

“… In a sense, Carney represents the logical next step after Trudeau’s demolition job. Trudeau destabilized Canada’s foundations. Carney is stepping in to rebuild it, not as a nation of free citizens, but as an administrative region within a larger, borderless system of corporate governance. A system where people are no longer protected by a social contract but managed like livestock: monitored, nudged and corrected under the pretext of global crises — climate, pandemics, inequality, disinformation — manufactured or manipulated to justify endless “emergency” rule. The message to Canadians is simple: You had your fun with elections. Now the grown-ups will take it from here…”

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

New Brunswick has no mystery neurological disease, scientific study concludes

A new scientific study has found no evidence of a mystery brain disease in New Brunswick, says a report published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, known as JAMA.

Instead, an independent reassessment of 25 of 222 patients diagnosed by Moncton neurologist Alier Marrero as having a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause” concluded that all of the cases were attributable to well-known conditions.

These include common neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, functional neurological disorder, traumatic brain injury, and metastatic cancer, says the report

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?