Author: Blazingcatfur

Rory Gilfillan: Our once brave nation now leaves the fight to others

In the last gasps of the 1930s, prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King made one last feeble attempt to keep Canada out of the Second World War. The policy would be called “limited liability.” Instead of supplying the soldiers needed to fight the coming war, Canada would instead provide grain to feed the Allies and train Commonwealth aircrews. While the policy was naïve it was at least understandable. In the First World War, Canada had lost 66,000 men and women. Out of a total population of nine million, this was no small thing. Everyone was connected. Everyone was impacted. And while we had fought valiantly, earning a seat at the peace talks in 1919, it hardly seemed worth the cost. Limited liability would be the last-ditch effort to avoid the gathering storm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A person is dead and 16 are hurt after a shooting at Tuskegee University; 1 arrest made

ATLANTA (AP) — A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced hours later.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was taken into custody while leaving the scene of the campus shooting and had been found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. The agency said in a statement that Myrick faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun. It did not accuse him of using the gun in the shooting or provide additional details.

They’ll probably blame Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Two-thirds of Canadians say there are “too many” immigrants. One-quarter of Canadians say immigrants should give up customs: poll

As two-thirds of Canadians have indicated that there are “too many” immigrants in the country, a new national survey highlights another aspect of the immigration issue: concerns about newcomers’ integration in Canada.

Conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS), the poll found that one-fourth of Canadians believe immigrants should give up their customs and traditions, a sentiment shared by one-third of Canadians over the age of 55. In Quebec, one-in-three respondents feel that immigrants should give up their cultural practices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", "Multiculturalism - Code For Anti-White Racism", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How much does Canada owe in climate aid? How bout Zero? Zip? Nada?

How much does Canada owe in climate aid? A trillion-dollar question headlines COP29

This year’s international climate talks are expected to be headlined by fraught negotiations over how Canada and other wealthy countries, who have contributed a disproportionate share of planet-warming emissions, should financially compensate other nations in their fight to tackle climate change.

Many pressing questions for negotiators are on the table: How much should those wealthy countries pay? Which countries will have to contribute? And how should the money be provided?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The World As It Is

Not As We Wish It Were: Random Observations From The Weekend

Good morning from Delaware. I hit the ground running here at the ISI conference, and have barely had time to breathe. Thank God for coffee, else the remnants of the Man Cold and the jet lag would have torn me down. Our dear Linda Arnold brought me Sudafed for the trip, which, along with strong coffee, is keeping me going. Thank you, Linda, for taking such good care of your scribe!

I’m writing this morning — Sunday, before I head to the airport to fly back to Europe — because we are in such an incredible moment. The ISI conference was full of conservative academics, and it’s fair to say that everybody here can hardly believe what just happened in our country this week. For once, “morning in America” doesn’t seem like a stale 1980s cliche.

This is a link to the Thomas Frank column in the NYTimes Dreher discusses. Both pieces are very good reads despite Frank’s TDS.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Canada’s answer to Trump 2.0 worries? Everything’s fine.

OTTAWA — When Donald Trump returns to the White House, Canada will stare down the possibility of a 20 percent tariff, an influx of asylum seekers and no end of hassle over its lackluster defense spending.

Justin Trudeau’s response in the days since Trump’s emphatic victory: Everything is fine.

Canada’s prime minister has unleashed a tiger team of texters — top ministers and senior Trudeau aides who appear tighter with their U.S. counterparts than Trudeau is with Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Progressive Democrats push to take over party leadership

Progressive Democrats are pushing to take over the party leadership as in-fighting breaks out following Kamala Harris’s election defeat.

Left-wingers are hoping to install Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman, to take over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and swing it away from the current centrist leadership ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Pramila Jayapal, who leads the Democrats’ progressive faction in Congress, has said she would “love to see somebody” who is “like a Ben Wikler”, Politico reports.

Like they need crazier???

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

SLOBODIAN: ‘Vigil’ to honour terrorists hijacks Remembrance Day symbol

Muslims Desecrate Remembrance Day

A vigil planned in Mississauga to honour dead Hamas terrorist leaders has desecrated Canada’s revered Remembrance Day symbols.

And so those who love terrorists now freely mock Canada and disdain what we value and cherish. In boldly appropriating a symbol reserved for our veterans — both the living and the dead — men and women who bravely rose to many challenges and sacrificed so much in so many places for so long for Canada, they insult us all. Which of course is part of the plan, to show elsewhere how tamely Canadians accept the contempt of others.

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

Susan Sarandon: ‘I was dropped by my agent, my projects were pulled’

Another teenaged dream crushed.

The actress, 78, thought her politics would never harm her career. Now she tells Will Pavia she may never act in a big-budget Hollywood movie again

‘You wanna hear a story about Brando?” asks Susan Sarandon, her bouncy auburn hair sprayed out across her shoulders; those potent eyes of hers looking at me over Zoom from behind a pair of thick, grey-blue-framed glasses. It’s a gorgeous day in New York City’s West Village, sunshine warms the wall behind her and a tabby cat named Ida sprawls at her side.

Who wouldn’t want to hear a story from her about Marlon Brando? She shrugs her grey cardigan off her shoulders and gives me a look that says: hold on to your hat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood