Author: Blazingcatfur

The World Happiness Report is a sham

Today is World Happiness Day. So, like every year on 20 March, you are likely to see a lot of headlines reporting on the publication of the annual World Happiness Report. ‘Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world [while] the US falls to its lowest-ever position’, a headline in the Associated Press ran this morning. Forbes even got philosophical, promising ‘5 Life Lessons From Finland, Once Again the World’s Happiest Country’.

Published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University, the basic message of the report has remained the same since its launch in 2012. The happiest countries in the world are in Scandinavia; this year, Finland is followed by Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. America, despite being one of the richest large countries in the world, persistently underperforms: this year, the United States only comes in 24th out of the 147 countries covered in the report, placing it behind much poorer countries like Lithuania and Costa Rica. The United Kingdom has also experienced a steady decline in the league table; ranked as the 13th happiest country in the world at its peak, it has now declined to 23rd position. 

Canada drops to 18th in 2025 World Happiness Report rank, among the ‘largest losers’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

COOPER: Is it Europe’s anti-democratic tendencies that attracts Mark Carney?

The picture of Mark Carney with French President Emmanuel Macron showed him with his left hand draped around Macron’s left shoulder, his right held by both Macron’s. The wattage of their collective smiles could light up a coal mine. Clearly, they are best buds.

Carney had the same grin on his face when he met the King. The monarch, however, had an ironic smile when looking down his nose at his former servant, the governor of the Bank of England. Carney did crack a joke: “bit of a disaster today, sir. My Order of Canada pin broke.” Poor Mark. Charles then quipped: “do you want mine?”

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

Pam Bondi Makes Major Announcement Regarding Tesla Terrorists

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced a slew of severe charges Thursday against several violent far-left arsonists who allegedly attacked separate Tesla sites across the country.

A trio of anti-Musk agitators are federally charged over the destruction of these Tesla properties. All three suspects will “face the full force of the law” for allegedly using Molotov cocktails to firebomb Tesla cars and charging stations, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.

Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson Suspended From Twitter For One Month Over ‘Kill Tesla’ Post

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

Insiders say Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford for help — and the premier said he was too busy

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford to ask for his help in the upcoming federal election campaign, but the premier told him he would be too busy governing Ontario, the Star has learned.

Federal and provincial Tory sources said Poilievre phoned the premier on Monday to belatedly offer his congratulations for the Progressive Conservatives’ Feb. 27 re-election.

The conversation — 18 days after Ford’s victory, which then-prime minister Justin Trudeau had saluted moments after it was official — lasted almost half an hour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Canadian Journalists Try to Shut Down Reporting on New Prime Minister’s ‘Trans’ Daughter

This week, a Canadian conservative news outlet, True North, reported on an essay written by the daughter of Canada’s new prime minister for Yale University’s feminist magazine. The woman, Sophia Carney, who is now going by Sasha, is 24 years old, graduated from Yale two years ago, and stylizes herself as an activist and writer.

Yet Canada’s journalists are up in arms over True North’s revelations. They are refusing to report True North’s findings and are slamming those who even speak of them.

Why might that be? Why, of course, it’s because True North’s reporting, which discusses Sasha Carney’s (public) transgender identity, touches upon the topic of child “gender transitions.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, USA

We blew the whistle on the Covid lab leak five years ago and were written off as cranks

If they’re supposed to be members of a band of truculent conspiracy theorists intent on disrupting the machine of the state, Prof Gwythian Prins and John Constable don’t exactly seem like it.

“In some sense we’re all classic establishment figures… but slightly to one side of it,” Constable says, an observation at which Prins nods vigorously. Turning up at a pub just off Trafalgar Square (where Whitehall meets Clubland and visitors to the country mingle with the people who run it) the two men are immaculately turned out and mildly uneasy.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Who Are the Shadowy Figures Defending Mahmoud Khalil?

The accused Hamas sympathizer is shrouded in mystery—and so are his supporters.

As it unfurls, the saga of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week—looks less like a complicated immigration-law dispute and more like something out of a John le Carré novel.

But inspect the details, and Khalil’s case gives us a glimpse a well-established network linking American universities, international progressive NGOs, and government agencies. This network places ideologues like Khalil in positions of power and influence and promoting radical policies that challenge both the will of American voters and our national-security interests.

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

Both the U.S. and Canada should try a little self-awareness

Sun Tzu and Machiavelli – two of history’s greatest experts on power – were of the view that countries or leaders could only achieve success if they had self-awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. … If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle,” Sun Tzu wrote.

It is as valid a proposition today as it was in their times, and self-awareness is likely attained as rarely as it was in ancient China or Renaissance Italy. Indeed, neither Canada nor the United States get great marks for self-awareness today.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Palestinians: ‘We Are Dying Because of Hamas’

Palestinians are again paying a heavy price as a result of Hamas’s refusal to release the remaining 59 Israeli hostages (almost half of whom are believed to be dead) held in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. On that day, thousands of Hamas terrorists and ordinary Palestinians invaded Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis and wounding thousands others. Another 251 Israelis – alive and dead – were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip.

Since then, Hamas could have avoided much of the death and destruction it brought on the Palestinians by simply releasing all the hostages, laying down its weapons and relinquishing control of the Gaza Strip.

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

Almost 70,000 South Africans interested in US asylum

Close to 70,000 South Africans have expressed interest in moving to the US following Washington’s offer to resettle people from the country’s Afrikaner community, a business group has said.

The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (Saccusa) said its website received tens of thousands of registrations from those seeking more information.

In a February executive order, President Donald Trump said Afrikaners – descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century – could be admitted as refugees as they were “victims of unjust racial discrimination”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa, USA

Toronto: Prosecutors want Muslim charged with advocating genocide to be handled as case of terrorism

Crown attorneys pursuing charges against a Toronto man accused of promoting genocide against Jews and vandalizing multiple synagogues want the case prosecuted as terrorism.

Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, faces nearly 30 criminal charges. Prosecutors allege that he set fire to signs outside of Jewish temples, incited hatred on social media and had an arsenal of illegal weapons, including handguns and brass knuckles.

He’s going to be released under house arrest on account he’s not a white person.

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