Author: Blazingcatfur

Dutch feminists campaign for national monument to ‘witches’

Three feminist campaigners in the Netherlands want to reclaim the insult “witch” and recognise the innocent victims of Dutch witch-hunts from the 15th to the 17th centuries with a national monument.

Susan Smit, Bregje Hofstede and Manja Bedner, the chair and board members of the National Witches Monument foundation, have raised €35,000 (£29,000) for an official site of memory for about 70,000 people who died during a Satanic panic that swept Europe and the Americas.

“It’s about creating more awareness around this history of, basically, femicide,” Hofstede said. “To this day a witch is still a comic figure. In the Netherlands, every year at the carnaval, people burn effigies of witches … but there’s hardly any knowledge of the actual history of people being burned at the stake.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Former editor testifies Chinese media in Canada ‘controlled by Communist Party’

A retired editor from one of Canada’s leading Chinese-language newspapers has raised alarms about the dominance of Chinese Communist Party influence over local ethnic media.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Victor Ho, who served as the Vancouver editor of Sing Tao Daily for 13 years, testified before the Commission on Foreign Interference, warning that Chinese media in Canada, especially those targeting recent immigrants, have long been under the sway of Beijing’s agenda.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Poll shows Canadians have generational divide on new federal spending

Canadians are divided over whether the Liberal government should target specific age groups for new spending in the fall economic update, with more than a quarter of respondents to a new poll saying there should be no new spending at all.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has said she and her team are working on a fall economic update but a date has not yet been released.

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

Amy Hamm: I’ll take political apathy over shilling for terrorism, thanks

The most civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada has been over the last year. Sounds lovely, right? It sounds suggestive of a much-needed renaissance within Canadian civil society. But alas, it was not.

Sadly, the civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada over the past year has been enacted by shills for terrorist organizations, organized street mobs braying for genocide, while falsely accusing Israel of the same, and by Canadians celebrating October 7 and (we can only assume) the killing, raping, or burning of victims — some babies — and the kidnapping of hostages that occurred on that terrible day one year ago. In our capital, Canadians shouted “Long live October 7!” Useful idiots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Botched Plea Deals with 9/11 Plotters Get Worse for Biden Administration

By attempting to renege on the deals, the administration may have taken the death penalty off the table for some of the plotters.

The botched plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists is a signature Biden-Harris administration moment: a scheme, apparently double-wrapped in incompetence, to spare the Democrats’ presidential candidate — first the senescent one, then the vacuous one — from an unpopular political decision.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11, USA, WTF?

How the Massacre of Israeli Female Soldiers Came to Symbolize Oct. 7 Failures

NAHAL OZ BASE, Israel—It was about 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 when dozens of heavily armed men burst into view on Maya Desiatnik’s video screen. The Israeli soldier, charged with monitoring a stretch of the Gaza frontier, picked up the radio at her side and raised the alarm.

“There is a Turkish knight!” she said, using the Israeli military code word for an incursion into Israeli territory. Palestinian militants were breaching the border.

For months, Desiatnik, now 20 years old, and her colleagues in the observer unit, all of them young women, had warned their superiors repeatedly—and with increasing vehemence—that the Islamist militant group Hamas seemed to be preparing a major attack. Their concerns were dismissed.

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

October Surprise

Tuesday night’s veep palaver could be the last time you see the frightened animal known as Tim Walz for the duration of the campaign. He’s famous for his wild body language — jumping around on stage, flapping his arms — but this time the action was all concentrated in his face. You saw his eyes bug out, dart left and right, as if something fierce was coming at him (it was), and more than a few times, his head jerked around sideways so hard you wondered if it might do a whole three-sixty. His mouth, a pain-inflected frown in repose, turned down so deeply it looked like he had sashweights hanging from the corners. Altogether, his face said more than the embarrassing mishmash of mangled English that came out of it. I expect to see a few Tim Walz masks on the little goblins begging for Kit-kat bars the night of October 31.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The electric vehicle doom loop gets absurd

As the electric vehicle (EV) market continues to collapse into a smoking pile of melted metal and plastic politicians, and EV makers, are finally, belatedly, taking notice. How could they do otherwise? Government hasn’t yet taken upon itself the power to force Americans to buy EVs or to destroy their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, but whenever the election is decided after November 5—if Trump’s ahead, there will be many votes to “find”—that might change.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Free us, Trump: we’re the white-collar ‘martyrs’ of January 6

To the outside world, Thomas Sibick seemed to have it made. He was 35 years old with a master’s degree in public health and a good job as an administrator. He lived in a flat with his girlfriend in his home town of Buffalo, New York.

His father Eugene was a successful dentist, his mother a teacher, and when Sibick and his three brothers were growing up they would spend school holidays in Florida or at the family’s second home in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Hurricane Helene is America’s Chernobyl moment

The tragedy exposes the weakness of the US military

Hurricane Katrina looms large in American cultural consciousness. As one of the defining events during George W. Bush’s second term as president, the scale of the devastation that struck Louisiana — combined with the inadequacy of the relief effort — earned notoriety even outside the United States. Almost 20 years after the levees broke, another storm has swept in an unprecedented catastrophe: the economic and human cost of Hurricane Helene might be even greater than that of Katrina. So why, then, are so few people acting like that is the case?

In Appalachia, one of the poorest regions in the country, the common belief is that the mountains protect the locals from storms. Unfortunately, this is true only up to a point: when a hurricane like Helene hits — bringing once-in-a-thousand-years levels of rainfall — the mountains become a curse rather than a blessing. Helene has brought the mountains down, triggering mudslides and rockfalls that have destroyed entire towns and obliterated almost every road in a vast radius.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You", USA

Diddy tells Justin Bieber not to talk about ‘things he does with big brother Puff’ in resurfaced clip

Sean “Diddy” Combs warned Justin Bieber against speaking out publicly about “the things” they do together, according to a resurfaced clip.

In the video, the 54-year-old disgraced music mogul, who is in jail facing federal racketeering, sex trafficking and fraud charges, joined the 16-year-old Justin Bieber for an appearance on a 2011 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

More here …

h/t HallsOfMacadamia

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Shadows of hate: The alarming rise of antisemitism in Canada

When we think of antisemitism, Canada is not the first place that comes to mind. However, the country, known for its cosmopolitan citizenry, beautiful landscapes, and high quality of life, has increasingly emerged as a place in which Jews are fearful.

Adam from Vancouver needs to think twice about attending synagogue for Rosh Hashanah. “Walking around Vancouver, you would think that we live next door to the Gaza Strip. Pro-Hamas protests and bomb threats to Jewish institutions make me feel uncomfortable disclosing I am Jewish and for my own safety.”

h/t MP & Patti Jo

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