Author: Blazingcatfur

A Conversation With Rod Dreher on Living in Wonder Part 2: Daemon Ex Machina

Lincoln Brown: The churches, on the whole, outside of the Roman Catholic Church, may not be taking it seriously, but as you point out, other people are, especially in Silicon Valley. We would be surprised at who’s taking the occult seriously.

Rod Dreher: Oh yeah, absolutely, and it blends over into the whole UFO culture thing. And this is probably the most surprising thing I found in my investigation for living in wonder. You know, I’ve been a Christian for most of my life, and mysticism has always been part of my Christian walk as a Catholic and then as an Orthodox. But I never took UFOs seriously. I was just about finished with the manuscript of this book when a Catholic journalist I know in the Vatican, who covers the Vatican said, “Look, I know you don’t take it seriously. I know you laugh at this stuff, but you better start paying attention because there’s some really important spiritual things going on in the whole UFO world.”

Questions on “Drone” provenance …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

What Alice Munro Knew

The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

“My life has gone rosy, again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For Munro, who was then emerging as one of her generation’s leading writers, the previous few years were blighted by heartbreak and upheaval: a painful separation from her husband of two decades; a retreat from British Columbia back to her native Ontario; a series of brief but bruising love affairs, in which, it seems, Munro could never quite make out the writing on the wall. “This time it’s real,” she wrote, speaking of a new romantic partner, the emphasis acknowledging that her friend had heard these words before. “He’s 50, free, a good man if I ever saw one, tough and gentle like in the old tire ads, and this is the big thing — grown-up.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

BLM leader calls on ‘black vigilantes’ to rise up after Daniel Penny is acquitted in Jordan Neely subway death

A Black Lives Matter leader who has been in the courtroom daily during the Daniel Penny subway trial called on ‘black vigilantes’ to step up after the Marine veteran was found not guilty on Monday.

Walter ‘Hawk’ Newsome, who says he is Jordan Neely’s uncle, threatened Penny inside the courtroom during the chaos which immediately followed the verdict.

He shouted ‘it’s a small f**king world, buddy.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter, WTF?

Freeland promises long-awaited deficit update next week

OTTAWA — Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will give Canadians an updated look at the country’s books next week as the government deals with economic headwinds and some big-spending new initiatives.

The finance minister’s long-awaited announcement comes after goading from Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who last week offered Freeland two hours of House of Commons time slated for Conservative motions to deliver the fiscal update.

The fiscal update will take place just two days before the House breaks for Christmas.

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

Western humanitarians: the Islamist avatar

Before disappearing into an Algerian prison, where at 75 years old he now risks ending his days, the great novelist Boualem Sansal gave this last extraordinary interview to the Journal du dimanche:

“Self-flagellation is gaining ground throughout the West and is becoming a danger. I do not understand why governments are not worried about this galloping epidemic and are not taking any action to prevent the disasters that it will eventually cause. We can begin to believe that the West is committing suicide and in the most amusing way. Good deal for the BRICS and the Islamists who dream of a great replacement. We are overwhelmed by fear. And fear causes in man as in animals one or the other reaction, or even both at the same time: the subject becomes violent and attacks or submits to fear and goes as far as mutilating himself to show his submission. Self-flagellation and Wokism are acts of symbolic self-mutilation, they express atonement, submission, preparation for liberating suicide”.

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

The OxyContin Story

‘Painkiller’ does an impressive job of telling a dark and gripping story about a tragic chapter of modern American history.

The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and directed by Peter Berg, was released by Netflix in 2023. During the intervening 28 years, Purdue’s flagship product brought even greater riches to the company’s already rich president, Richard Sackler; brought relief to a good many patients suffering from severe pain that was otherwise untreatable; and brought tragedy to countless families as legitimate patients became addicts and then death statistics and as perfectly healthy people, many of them very young, began using the drug recreationally and, caught in the grip of its addictive power, ended up in morgues all over America.

I watched this flick. It was good. What amazes me is that while the Sacklers have been publicly shunned not one of them has been jailed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Tiny Canadian Town, Fined Thousands for Refusing To Recognize Pride Month, Emerges as Flashpoint in LGBTQ Culture Wars

A Canadian mayor is fighting back against a Pride organization that has persisted in a years-long crusade against him and his remote township for refusing to issue a “Pride month proclamation” — as the tiny town has become a flashpoint in culture wars over LGBTQ issues.

The dispute centers around Emo, Ontario — a township along the American border directly north of Minnesota, which in 2020 refused to oblige a local group’s request to formally declare June as “Pride Month” and fly a Pride flag.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay

Why Arabs and Muslims ‘Betrayed’ Hamas

Fourteen months after the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hamas, attacked Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis and wounding thousands more, Hamas has finally acknowledged that it has been abandoned by many Arabs and Muslims.

When Hamas launched the October 7, 2023 assault on Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, its leaders were hoping that many Arabs and Muslims would join the fight to murder as many Jews as possible to eliminate Israel. Hamas officials expressed hope at the time that the October 7 atrocities would prompt the formation of a large Arab-Islamic battlefront against Israel. The hope was that the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon would launch a similar invasion of Israel, that Iran would unleash thousands of ballistic missiles against Israel, and that tens of thousands of Muslims would invade Israel from Jordan.

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

City of London investigates its links to slavery

The governing body of London’s Square Mile is looking to commission research into its historical associations with the transatlantic slave trade.

The City of London Corporation has said the proposed work detailing its connections with the trade in enslaved African people “will enable us to understand and own our past”.

The plans have been drawn up ahead of the publication by Lancaster University of its own research into the slave trade, expected in 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSlavery and Reparations

Ottawa Police Promote Neglectful Officer Who Failed to Prevent Domestic Murder – Sgt McMullan is Prosecution Witness in Grus Case

Detective Erin McMullan, prosecution witness in the Detective Helen Grus case, promoted despite her record of neglect in a domestic violence case that ended in murder.

Ottawa Police Detective Erin McMullan’s promotion to Sergeant is raising questions, given that her neglect and inaction in a domestic violence case contributed to a tragic outcome. An October 17, 2024, CBC article details how McMullan’s failures may have played a role in the murder of an abused wife – a case that continues to raise concerns about Ottawa Police’s accountability in handling domestic violence situations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", "Law and Order"

Almost 200 massacred in Haiti as Voodoo practitioners reportedly targeted

About 200 people were killed in violence in Haiti’s capital over the weekend, many in a massacre in which a gang boss reportedly targeted Voodoo practitioners.

The killings of at least 110 people were overseen by a “powerful gang leader” convinced that his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to the civil organisation the Committee for Peace and Development (CPD).

“He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and Voodoo practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of sending a bad spell on his son,” a statement from the Haiti-based group said. “The gang’s soldiers were responsible for identifying victims in their homes to take them to the chief’s stronghold to be executed.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHaiti, WTF?