Author: Blazingcatfur

Ontario school hid girl’s transition, called CAS on parents questioning trans identity

Julie’s life turned upside down after COVID hit. Barely ten, and physically isolated from much of the world, in early 2021 she installed TikTok and began spending hours online, falling down social media rabbit holes. She eventually “discovered the LGBTQ+ community” and started questioning her identity.

“At first, it was only my sexuality: pansexual, lesbian, maybe bi?” she later wrote in a personal essay. Eventually, videos asking viewers whether they were “anxious and uncomfortable” in their own bodies triggered her to question her gender identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

UK suspends some arms exports to Israel

The UK has suspended some arms sales to Israel, saying there is a “clear risk” the equipment could be used to commit serious violations of international law.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK will be suspending 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel.

The affected equipment includes parts for fighter jets, helicopters and drones.

Mr Lammy said the UK continued to support Israel’s right to defend itself, and this did not amount to an arms embargo.

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

Jewish CUPE members express concern as union doubles-down on leader’s comments

Despite several locals and even the union’s national executive calling for his resignation, CUPE Ontario’s affirmation of their leader and his controversial statements about Israel has alarmed its Jewish members.

You can feel their disease.

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

Police log more non-crime hate incidents despite crackdown

Police are recording more non-crime hate incidents than last year despite a crackdown on the practice, according to official data.

Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, last year told police they should only log reports of hate incidents that were below the criminal threshold if there was a serious risk of harm and not just because someone was offended.

The changes, introduced through statutory guidance in June last year, followed “trivial” cases such as a man who ended up with a police file for whistling the theme tune to Bob the Builder at his neighbour, who perceived racial hatred.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?

Liberal staffers’ rebellion reveals growing tension over party’s stand on Gaza conflict

More than 50 Liberal ministerial staffers, mostly of Muslim and Arab origin, are refusing to volunteer in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election because they object to their own party’s stand on the conflict in Gaza, revealing how deeply that conflict is tearing at the Liberal Party.

And while this speaks to the internal division of a tired government, it also reveals how starkly polarized Canadians have become over the Middle East.

We know what side Trudeau is on.

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

Russia’s Pokrovsk advance could be pivotal in the war

Things are starting to heat up on the Ukrainian front line once more. After a long period of attrition warfare and static front lines, we are starting to see movement that could bring the war to its next phase. The Russians are now advancing on Pokrovsk, a key transport and logistics hub in Donetsk. Some analysts think that if Pokrovsk falls, the entire Ukrainian front line in the Donbas will start to collapse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Trudeau Foundation, premier seek nearly $40K in ‘suretyship’ from alleged sexual harassment victim

The Trudeau Foundation and former Northwest Territories premier Stephen Kakfwi are seeking more than $37,000 in surety from an Indigenous activist suing the foundation and Kakfwi for $2.25 million over alleged sexual harassment.

In a document filed in Quebec Superior Court on Aug. 14, lawyers for the defendants request that Cherry Smiley provide “suretyship for security for the legal costs that the Court could award in favour of the Foundation.”

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

The Three Working Classes

Trump needs a pro-worker policy agenda — and fast

About 60 percent of all registered voters are working-class, defined as adults without a college degree. Many knowledgeable observers seem to think that Donald Trump owns their votes. For instance, Patrick Ruffini, a well-respected Republican pollster, argues that the Trump-led GOP represents a “multiracial populist coalition” and is now America’s “working-class party.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Can RFK Jr.’s Anti-Establishment Coalition Help Swing The Election For Trump?

The consensus that emerged among pollsters and pundits across the political spectrum after RFK Jr.’s shock endorsement of Donald Trump was that it would have little effect on the outcome. But does that consensus reflect the same groupthink that missed the Trump surprise in 2016?

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal warned that while Kennedy’s backing could possibly help Trump marginally in battleground states, “the price could be high if it includes putting Mr. Kennedy in a second Trump Administration,” concluding that “Mr. Trump’s best response is to thank RFK Jr. for his support, make no promises about the future, and by all means avoid joint campaign appearances” to avoid the taint of association with his fringe positions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Iran’s Gaza War: Unfortunately, A Ceasefire Deal Will Not Bring the Hostages Back

The murder of six more Israeli hostages — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino — captured by the terrorist group Hamas appears to be leading many Israelis, along with most of their ever-gullible media (remember the Oslo Accords?) to think that if only their government would agree to a ceasefire, they would get their hostages back. Most people, at least in the West, would desperately like that — not just the American ones — all 120 of them, especially before Hamas finishes murdering them. If the Israelis really want their hostages back, however, they had better think again.

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

Europe’s Populist Surge Isn’t Only About Immigration, It Is About Fading Trust

BERLIN—Antiestablishment populism is on the rise in Europe, fueled not just by migration and economic and security fears, but by a deeper trend: Eroding confidence in governments’ ability to overcome those challenges.

In Germany on Sunday, the far-right AfD and a new far-left populist party obtained almost half the votes cast in the eastern state of Thuringia, and together also took more than 40% in neighboring Saxony. In Thuringia, the AfD finished first, the first time a far-right movement has won a state election in postwar Germany.

In France, a legislative election that returned a hung parliament and gave the far-right National Rally almost a quarter of all seats—up more than 50% from the last election—has yet to yield a government two months later.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPopulism