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Court of Zelensky rocked by aide’s ‘thirst for power’

Senior officials in Ukraine are increasingly alarmed at the president’s reliance on Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff

At a Nato airbase in Belgium, President Zelensky celebrated his greatest achievement by greeting five of Ukraine’s new F-16 pilots. Looming over his shoulder, carefully positioned for the cameras last week, appeared the man who represents his greatest flaw.

As Zelensky’s first elected term drew to a close, senior government, military, law enforcement and diplomatic sources, many of whom requested anonymity, expressed alarm at his growing dependence on Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff, who is accused of amassing personal power and usurping democratic processes.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Cory Morgan: For the Sake of the Nation, Names of Parliamentarians Compromised by Foreign Power Must Be Released

The foreign interference issue in Canada transcends partisanship as it’s crucial to ensure citizens don’t lose trust in democratic institutions.

A report released by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) was damning as it stated foreign interests have compromised numerous parliamentarians. The seriousness of this issue can’t be overstated. Some people at the highest levels of power in Canada act in the interests of other states and continue to maintain their political roles while citizens don’t know who they are.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

White men have least chance of getting on BBC trainee scheme

‘Discrimination’ as BAME two and a half times more likely to be accepted

Non-white applicants to the BBC’s flagship journalism training scheme were almost two and a half times more likely to get in than their white counterparts.

Since 2022, an average of 22.5 per cent of applicants were classed as coming from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME).

However over that same two-year period, BAME individuals made up 41 per cent of participants on the scheme.

The same crap happens in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"Anti-White Racism"

Cartels and other crime groups are operating along the Canada-U.S. border: Expert

The increasing power of transnational organized crime along the Canada-U.S. border means cross-border co-operation among law enforcement is more important than ever, B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Friday.

Farnworth attended a conference of policing agencies from both sides of the border in Esquimalt to discuss “the challenges that we’re both facing and how we’re dealing with them.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•Canada, USA

What you can learn about politics from Arnold Viersen’s trip to Pierre Poilievre’s woodshed

The podcast interview that earned Conservative MP Arnold Viersen a newspaper across the nose this week was fascinating and confounding just like Cirque du Soleil: There’s so much interesting stuff here, but what is this?

To recap: Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith has a podcast called Uncommons on which he chats with various experts, people in the news, partisan teammates and opponents.

His conversation with Mr. Viersen began with a long discussion of C-270, a bill they’ve worked on aimed at curbing non-consensual online porn. Then the talk branched out.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•Canada

Biden: Slip Slidin’ Away

Time is running out for Biden to save his campaign.

President Biden “shows signs of slipping,” the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Journalists Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes — no conservatives — spoke to 45 people who have met with the president and noticed his mental and physical decline. They recount, in detail, several meetings over the past year where Biden has been forgetful, confused, and out of it. The president, Linskey and Hughes report, “appears slower now, someone who has both good moments and bad ones.”

No kidding.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

The Silent Insurrection of General Milley’s Hand on January 6, McLean Crushes House Committee

In her recent article “The Silent Insurrection: General Milley’s Hand on January 6,” for Declassified with Julie Kelly, author Haley McLean examines the actions and influence of General Mark Milley under President Donald J. Trump, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, leading up to and during the events of January 6, 2021.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Why the Dutch are euthanising physically healthy young adults – and could the UK be next?

Lisa, 40, is waiting to hear if she will be allowed to die. She is married and has two young children who don’t know she plans to end her life. There is just one more medication she has been told to try to treat her chronic depression, and then, she says, her request for euthanasia will be approved. The hardest part will be leaving her children, but she feels she has no choice. She plans to tell them, with the help of a grief counsellor, when she has set a date for her death.

“It’s not that I want to die, it’s that I don’t want to live this life anymore,” she says. “I’ve tried everything there is.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The good parts of Biden’s D-Day speech came straight from Ronald Reagan

We’ve heard a lot about Biden’s D-Day speech. We saw the poopy-pants moment, heard him use this solemn historic commemoration to attack Putin directly and Trump indirectly, and noted how Jill hustled him out double-quick, leaving the assembled WWII vets without any direct congratulations from America’s Commander-in-Chief (proof that he pooped?). But Biden’s speech had some good parts, though, notably when he spoke about events on June 6, 1944. That was weird but now we know how that happened. He plagiarized.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•WTF?

Happy Pride Month?

I didn’t fight so that I should be celebrated for an entire month every year just for my sexual orientation.

For those of us who, back in the day, were serious campaigners for gay rights, for the social acceptance of gay people, and for same–sex marriage, the larger objective was always clear: once gay people, after years of debate, disagreement, dissension, and discussion, managed to achieve our goals, we would drop politics, move on, and enjoy the fruits of our victory. In other words, we would happily take up our place as fully equal citizens and go on with our lives. Victory would mean no more need for Gay Pride marches or rainbow flags or for such phenomena as Gay Pride Month, which, as it happens, is now in its first days and which I, for one, am already sick of. (Somehow, it feels to me as if both Gay Pride Month and Ramadan come along every few weeks, not once a year.) The whole point of the gay movement was to reach a point at which we were no longer demonized, no longer subject to arrest just for being who we were, no longer exposed to public name-calling even when we were behaving ourselves in the most civilized manner possible, no longer singled out constantly in a multitude of unfair and unpleasant ways just because of our sexual orientation. The idea was for our identity as members of a despised minority to fall away as much as possible, and to be recognized – and either respected or disliked, based on our own merits – as individuals.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•Big Gay

And Now, the Associated Press Has Shattered Hamas’ Lies About the Gaza Death Toll

As the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day. The Associated Press beclowned itself for fact-checking Biden’s awkward moment at a D-Day ceremony in France this week. Still, they did well to shatter the rabid antisemite crowd that’s been crowing about genocide in Gaza committed by Israeli forces. There have been non-conservatives who have shredded the genocide myth.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"Oct 7 2023"

Inaugural Address to the Japanese UAP Caucus

Esteemed Members of the Japanese Parliament,

I want to first of all express my profound respect and admiration for the remarkable step you have taken by establishing a caucus dedicated to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, commonly known as ‘UAP.’ This initiative marks an important and admirable commitment to transparency, national security, and scientific inquiry.

For decades, the phenomena we now refer to as UAP has captured the imagination and sparked the curiosity of individuals around the globe, notwithstanding efforts by many to belittle the issue. These UAP occurrences have been the subject of countless discussions, investigations, and speculations. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration quite rightly referred to UAP as “One of the great mysteries of all time.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"UFO's"

Don’t Blame the Russians When Europe Votes Right

An Afghan knifeman tried to assassinate a leading anti-Islamist campaigner at a rally in the German city of Mannheim on Friday, and murdered a young policeman in the attack. The stabbing, carried out by a failed asylum-seeker who had been living in Germany illegally for years, was a searing indictment of successive German governments’ mass migration policies.

A week before the elections to the European Parliament, this attempted assassination of a critic of political Islam provided a graphic illustration of why support for the right-wing, anti-migration Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has soared in recent times.

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2024June 8, 2024•0•Europe, European Union

Canada’s democracy ‘under attack,’ ex-China envoy warns after NSICOP report

Canada’s former ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, says Beijing’s meddling in Canada’s democracy is worse than it has ever been.

Earlier this week, a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) alleged that sitting federal politicians are “witting” participants in foreign interference schemes.

The report did not name names, and the Liberal government is resisting revealing their identities, citing concerns about sharing intelligence information.

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2024June 8, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The ‘Climate Emergency’ is a Myth, Says Nobel Prize Winner John Clauser. Here’s Why He’s Right

In a recent lecture, Nobel Laureate physicist John Clauser exposed how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models and analyses, which are relied upon by politicians and activists to support claims of a ‘climate crisis’, do not meet basic standards of scientific enquiry. Clauser received his Nobel prize in 2022 for the observational measurement of quantum entanglement and understands well the problem of distinguishing a physical signal from background noise.

by Blazingcatfur•June 8, 2024June 8, 2024•0•Green-Scam