Author: Blazingcatfur

Behind enemy lines, Ukraine is busy setting Russia ablaze

Sometimes the metaphors write themselves. As Putin purportedly seeks to showcase the illusion of Russian strength by parading a captured British Saxon armoured personnel carrier from the 1970s in Red Square – donated to Ukraine in 2015 from mothballed British stocks – Ukrainian saboteurs are deep behind Russian lines actually doing the business.

Whereas Russia is desperate to display ‘destroyed’ western kit, Ukraine is hard at work eroding Russian capacity and, crucially, hitting Moscow where it hurts – inside its own borders. The news today that two railway lines in Russia have been destroyed is a clear example of an evolving strategy designed to hurt a security-obsessed Putin and degrade Moscow’s ability to wage war.

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

Far-right Reichstag plotters go on trial for planning ‘violent coup’

One of the largest state security trials in German history, involving suspected members of a far-right plot to seize power which “would involve killing people”, started in Stuttgart on Monday.

In the first of three separate court cases against a total of 27 suspects, nine alleged members of a suspected terrorist organisation went on trial accused of high treason and plotting a violent coup d’état. They are alleged to have planned to storm the Reichstag and install a Fourth Reich, led by the disenchanted aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists", "far right"

Gaza vs. Ukraine: Selective Outrage at America’s Colleges

It has been more than two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. If the latest predictions are correct, Russia may emerge victorious from this war in the coming months. They will probably do so by toppling the Ukrainian government and turning Ukraine into something similar to Belarus: a Russian protectorate.

It has also been about six months since Israel launched its invasion of Gaza. Their overall intention is to eradicate Hamas and secure a new government that is not hell-bent on destroying Israel. So far, they have not accomplished that goal, but the overall impression from a variety of news sources indicates that their victory is only a matter of time.

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

U.S. Campuses: Grooming Terrorists

While protesters at Columbia University and Yale University celebrate Hamas and its “resistance” (a euphemism for violence and terrorism), Arabs have been ridiculing the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators on American college campuses. For these Arabs, including some Palestinians, there is nothing “pro-Palestinian” about supporting the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group, whose members slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped more than 240 others on October 7, 2023.

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

The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population

Behind the scenes at the first Natal Conference, where a motley alliance is throwing out the idea of winning converts to their cause and trying to make their own instead.

The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough babies.

“The entire global financial system, the value of your money, and every asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth,” Kevin Dolan, a 37-year-old father of six from Virginia, tells the crowd that has gathered to hear him speak. “Every country in the developed world and most countries in the developing world face long-term population decline at a level that makes growth impossible to maintain,” Dolan says, “which means we are sitting on the bubble of all bubbles.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Will the English ever revolt?

The threat of ethnonationalism is a progressive fantasy

In The Return of the Native, Hardy observes of the mummers’ St George play that the proof it is a genuine folk tradition lies in the sullen joylessness with which it is carried out, “which sets one wondering why a thing that is done so perfunctorily should be kept up at all”. And yet, Hardy observes, “the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no”. Much of the same could be said of today’s annual St George ritual, in which Twitter liberals set out to slay the dragon of xenophobic nationalism, and their conservative opponents the equivalent monster of oikophobic deracination. No other European nation behaves like this. Even within our home archipelago, the Irish do not do this on St Patrick’s Day, nor the Welsh and Scots on St David’s or St Andrew’s Days: it is no doubt a marker of my fundamental un-Englishness that I find this trait strange and maladaptive. In this hysteric faux-cosmopolitanism, so distinct from the national consciousness of our neighbouring Dutch or Danes or Norwegians, the English prove themselves the very weirdest of the weird. But then: “What should they know of England, who only England know?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

‘What the hell are they thinking?’: Poilievre blames Trudeau Liberals for B.C.’s drug decriminalization chaos

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre lambasted the federal Liberals on Monday for not having yet approved British Columbia’s request to scale back its decriminalization policy for illicit drugs — a request made official on Friday.

The debate became heated in the House of Commons after Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Ya’ara Saks said that she had met with her B.C. counterpart and that she and Health Canada officials were reviewing the province’s exemption request.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drug Legalization, Drugs

McGill calls pro-Palestinian camp illegal, levels accusations of antisemitism at protesters

McGill University on Monday declared a pro-Palestinian encampment on its campus, which grew significantly but remained peaceful over the weekend, illegal and denounced alleged antisemitic behaviour among protesters.

In a statement Monday, McGill said the growing encampment violates the university’s policies and the law. It said it discussed “conditions in place to ensure safety as well as a timeline to remove the tents” with lawyers for McGill students but that students “did not bring any proposals or suggestions to further the dialogue.”

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

Worried about foreign workers, Conservatives demand details of $15B Honda EV deal

Conservative MPs are pushing Ottawa to release details of its agreement with Honda Canada to build a sprawling electric vehicle operation in southern Ontario — disclosure they say is necessary to ensure Canadians get all the jobs in the multi-billion-dollar project.

The push for transparency comes after Canada’s Building Trades Union (CBTU) wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this month asking him to intervene on another EV project, the NextStar plant in Windsor, Ont. that’s backed by Chrysler parent company Stellantis and Korean firm LG.

The union said foreign workers are displacing Canadian labourers at the NextStar construction site while 180 local millwrights and ironworkers are unemployed and available to perform the necessary work.

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

India summons Canadian diplomat after Trudeau stokes flames of imported foreign conflict in Canada

India summons Canadian diplomat over pro-Khalistan separatism slogans at Trudeau speech

OTTAWA — What appeared to be a last-minute trip by the prime minister to attend Khalsa Day celebrations in Toronto has landed Canada in a new diplomatic tiff with India.

The Indian government summoned Canada’s Deputy High Commissioner Stewart Wheeler to explain “separatist slogans” shouted at the parade where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave remarks, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said in a press release on Monday.

A normal PM would know to make a brief statement and leave in such a situation.

Cries of Free Palestine?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India, Khalistan, WTF?

Tesla Running Low on Charge

It will be satisfying to witness Tesla — perhaps the greatest grift ever — go the way of WorldCom and Enron.

Elon’s big grift is in trouble.

His electric vehicle (EV) operation — which allowed car manufacturers to “offset” their carbon footprints by purchasing “credits” from Elon in lieu of making EVs themselves — had been priced with the expectation that the government would make a “market” for battery powered vehicles. But Tesla’s stock just lost about 40 percent of its value.

The reason why is both ironic and  delicious.

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