Author: Blazingcatfur

Hunter Biden and the ‘big guy’: corruption claims explained

The backdating of President Biden’s pardon for his son to the start of 2014 has angered Republicans because they believe the family should be examined for Hunter Biden’s lucrative job on the board of a Ukrainian gas company and several other murky business dealings.

Hunter, a Yale Law School graduate, was paid an annual salary of $1 million by Burisma when he took up his post at the Kyiv-based company in April 2014, at the time that his father was vice-president with responsibility for Ukraine. This salary was halved in 2017, when Joe Biden left office, and Hunter quit the board in 2019.

Hunter’s 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, documents how his descent into crack-cocaine addiction coincided with his highly paid role, stating that “in the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

These Upstart Classes Hold a Woeful Lack of Civics Education to Be Self-Evident

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – As the autumn sun warms the historic campus outside, a professor specializing in ancient and modern political philosophy guides undergraduate students through the seemingly ruthless nuances of Machiavelli’s 16th-century philosophy of morals.

In another class, a professor specializing in political theory offers students a guided tour of the early American republic, as seen through the enlightened eyes of French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. 

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oh Oh!"

Closing arguments in Daniel Penny’s trial reminds us (yet again!) that progressives possess not one good quality

The Soros-funded attorneys in Manhattan are throwing all they’ve got against Daniel Penny to see what sticks: race was obviously not a factor, a reality with which no one disagrees (there are no “hate crime” charges), but that seems to be the prosecution’s concluding gambit. Here’s what Alvin Bragg’s surrogate Dafna Yoran had to say in her closing arguments, via a report out at Fox News today…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Dirty Green Money

The UN’s latest global warming conference may be one of its last.

“I’m also listening to ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ by Rihanna nonstop,” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, the vice chair for the implementation of the UN Climate Convention, told reporters.

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Baku was all about money.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Does the US Supreme Court know what a woman is?

A case on ‘gender-affirming care’ has the potential to unravel decades of legal protections for women and girls.

On Wednesday this week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of United States v Skrmetti – a case during which the court will confront the question of whether women and girls exist as a sex class.

This is ostensibly a case about whether a US state (Tennessee) may constitutionally prohibit the provision of puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones for under-18s. For that reason alone, it’s hugely important.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Mysterious ‘Car-Sized Drones’ Over New Jersey Prompt FBI Investigation

Several weeks of mysterious drone swarms over the skies of one New Jersey county near the military research and manufacturing facility Picatinny Arsenal have sparked concerns among residents and prompted an FBI investigation.

“It’s kind of unsettling,” Mike Walsh, a Morris County resident who has spotted the drones on numerous occasions, told local media outlet PIX11 News.

They’re everywhere …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Why Syria is back at war

From the BCF Wayback machine, Queen’s Park 2013

There is no incentive for factions to tread gently

The Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) surprised the world and probably itself with its almost unimpeded conquest of Aleppo at the weekend, conquering in hours territory that had been bloodily fought over for many years. And like an ancient bacterium released from melting permafrost, the sudden unfreezing of Syria’s assumed frozen conflict has released noxious old strains of geopolitical discourse into a very different world. One of the things that made the Syrian war, at its height, so hard for casual observers to understand was that it was a series of rapidly-shifting, amoral and pragmatic alliances and betrayals. Yet these convoluted dynamics were filtered for external observers through a moralising internet war, aimed at mobilising foreign intervention: the results were disastrous for Syria’s people, on all sides.

This time around, we may still hope that things turn out differently. Rather than a reversion to the great crisis of a decade ago, the dramatic events of the weekend, and the international reactions, highlight how far the region, and the wider world, have changed since the war’s bloody height.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria

FREQUENT FLYER: Canada’s climate ambassador defends air travel despite massive carbon footprint

Catherine Stewart, Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change, defended her frequent air travel during testimony at the Commons environment committee, citing efficiency and international obligations.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Stewart, who billed $254,089 in travel expenses during her first two years on the job, said flying often “makes more sense” than using alternatives like trains or videoconferencing.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Millennials helped elect Trudeau in 2015. Nearly a decade later, they’re turning to the Conservatives

Back in 2015, Cisco Armstrong was so inspired by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau that nothing was going to stop him from voting in the federal election.

He and his now wife were going abroad and would miss the election, so they voted early to make sure they could register their support for Mr. Trudeau. “He symbolized progress,” says Mr. Armstrong, who is now 35 and lives outside Sherbrooke. “It was inspiring to vote for change.”

The madness of crowds.

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

The Trump Vibe Is Growing and the Left Is Big Mad

Kamala Harris’s losing campaign for president was infamous for its focus on vibe, a kind of inchoate feeling of joy that supposedly swept the nation and was supposed to sweep her into office. We all saw how that turned out. But now, there’s a new vibe in town, and you can feel it. The victory of Donald Trump and the astonishing popularity of his transition is only part of it. There’s more going on here. We may have just turned a corner on the road to civilization’s collapse into woke commie ruin.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

The Road Ahead for America and Canada

Under the Trudeau regime, Canada and the U.S. may have been working at cross purposes but that will not be the case after Canada has elected a Conservative government.

When Justin Trudeau was first elected prime minister of Canada in 2015, it was partly because of the sort of empty bombast that had helped get Barak Obama first elected president in 2008. Obama had promised “Hope and Change” while Trudeau promised “Sunny Ways.” By the time Trudeau was first elected, America had already soured on Obama, among other things because of his abysmal economic management, his divisive rhetoric, and his stoking of racism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, President Trump, USA

The return of Trump has Poilievre talking about a crackdown beyond the U.S. border

… On Sunday, he called for a crackdown on people coming to Canada – tightening visa requirements to make it harder to visit and setting a cap on the number of asylum-seekers.

For a long time, Mr. Poilievre didn’t go there. His party wanted MPs and candidates to steer clear of anything that suggested tough talk on immigration. It’s only in the last few months that

Mr. Poilievre has ramped up criticism of the Liberal government’s failure to control a surge of temporary residents.
Now, he’s talking about cracking down on “false refugees” and warning “our Canadian jobs are being taken.”

A good start but he better learn how to pronounce the words “mass deportation” because Trudeau has literally allowed millions of illegal alien scammers to remain in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party