Author: Blazingcatfur

NDP motion on Palestinian statehood passes after tense negotiations with Liberals yield major amendments

OTTAWA—A majority of federal MPs voted Monday to support an NDP resolution calling on Canada to work “towards the establishment of the state of Palestine” after sweeping changes demanded by the Liberal government were made to allay fears it would be seen as an anti-Israel move.

The Liberals and NDP agreed late Monday to amend the motion to drop more controversial language recognizing the “state of Palestine” immediately. It is not binding on the government.

In the end, the motion passed in a 204-117 vote, with most Liberals, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, siding with the NDP, the Bloc Québécois, and the Greens supporting it.

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

Two minors among nine arrested over French police station fireworks attack

Nine people, including two minors, have been arrested after a group of about 50 people attacked a police station near the Paris 2024 Olympic village with heavy-duty rocket fireworks, the French capital’s top police official has said.

The attack on Sunday evening in La Courneuve followed the death last Wednesday of a teenager after a police chase. Authorities announced a reinforced police presence across the northern Paris suburb.

“Police have a strong presence there today and that will be even more the case during the Olympics, when we will have a massive presence everywhere in the Paris region, and I have no fear on that level,” the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, said on Monday.

Had this happened in Canada a royal commission would be called. In France it’s just another day at work. We will be France one day.

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

Meet the Canadian mayor trying to attract Gen Z with land for $10

Looking out across the frozen forested wilderness, Peter Politis can see children playing on swings. In his mind’s eye, a group of twentysomethings gather around a barbecue; a young family stroll past pushing a pram.

These are not, he insisted, the delusional ravings of a lunatic. Politis, mayor of the Canadian town of Cochrane, Ontario, is a man with a plan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Canadians ‘Overwhelmingly’ Worried About Ongoing Housing Crisis, Household Finances: Poll

More than two-thirds of Canadians are “overwhelmingly concerned” about the housing crisis and expect to see affordability and accessibility become worse this year, according to a new survey.

The poll from Abacus Data said that 68 percent of respondents were not optimistic that the country’s ongoing housing crisis would improve. Twenty-three percent believed housing issues would remain the same, while only 10 percent predicted improvement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Jamie Sarkonak: The Armed Forces’ inability to replace equipment leaves Canada vulnerable

The life cycle of military planes can be estimated from Day 1. So it’s a head-scratcher that the training aircraft for Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) fighter pilots have reached the end of their useful lives, with no replacement on the way. If you’re even remotely familiar with the Canadian Armed Forces, this failure to prepare is exactly what should be expected.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCAF"

Now It Can Be Told: The Covid School-Closers Were Wrong, and They Harmed Kids

This won’t be news to anybody who has paid attention to American education or science since 2021, but the New York Times has published a lengthy piece by Sarah Mervosh, Claire Cain Miller, and Francesca Paris summarizing studies of Covid school closures that show that “the more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind.” Not only that: “And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.” You won’t see an apology here to red-state governors who were relentlessly smeared for battling to keep their schools open, or any consequences visited upon public health “experts,” teachers’ unions, or voices in journalism who did the smearing. But the studies’ verdict is about as close as you’re going to get.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, USA

The great greenhouse gas numbers game

THERE is a move afoot in the western world which will permanently prevent anyone from having a new idea. It has been tried many times before, mostly successfully. It has been seen operating under the control of common-or-garden varieties of dictators, who proudly boast that 97 per cent of the population loves and agrees with them. This latest version is being disguised as a fully justifiable attempt to protect citizens from harm, the harm that comes from the viral spread of that enchantress Miss Disinformation.

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

Elon Musk: we need to stop talking about racism

Elon Musk has argued that Americans should stop talking about racism in a new interview with former CNN presenter Don Lemon.

“If we keep talking about [racism] non-stop it will never go away. If we keep making it the central thing, it will never go away,” the billionaire said. “We want to get away from making everything a race or a gender or whatever issue and just treat people like individuals.”

If we stopped talking about racism unemployment would skyrocket.

The end of DEI would be an institutional  cleansing.

Teachers would have to teach or face the axe.

Politicians would well not work but hopefully do something almost productive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRacism

Fatah is right – Hamas is to blame for the war in Gaza

So, there you have it: Fatah is now taking a more grown-up line on the Gaza war than most of the woke left. Where Western radicals are still running around damning Israel as a uniquely barbaric state that is carrying out a genocidal pillage of Gaza, Fatah says that, actually, a certain terror army called Hamas bears vast moral responsibility for this calamity. It was Hamas’s ‘adventure’ of 7 October that lit the fire of this war, this ‘horrific and crueller [Nakba] than the Nakba of 1948’, Fatah says. It’s true – so why can so few in the West see it?

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

What happened to America’s capital?

There’s a significant reason why DC workers don’t want to go downtown: crime

Muriel Bowser is a woman with a plan. In late February the mayor of the District of Columbia unveiled a $400 million, five-year economic development strategy to revitalize the capital’s downtown. It involves converting empty office space into residential units and rebranding parts of the neighborhood. Soon, visitors to Washington will be able to watch homeless addicts shoot up in “Historic Green Triangle” and get their phones stolen by moped-riding teenagers in the “Penn West Equity, Innovation & University District.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

‘Multiculturalism’ is damaging our society. There is only one way to stop it

Successive British governments, Labour and Tory, have spoken out against racism while passing regulations which have only served to embed it.

Tony Blair did not seem to care for our nation state. He preferred governance from unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats both here and in Brussels. It suited his brand of left-wing politics for EU nations to lose their values and identity: far easier to hand more power to Europe if national interests and cultures could not get in the way.

Mass migration, at least in the short-term, also worked economically. With an eye on the single most important metric to judge prosperity, New Labour realised immigration would boost growth. With growth in the population would come growth in GDP, a demand for housing and infrastructure and cheap imported labour to power British business. This merry go round would apparently keep working as long as the population kept growing. But in reality, it was a Ponzi scheme.

h/t SweetPea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Biden, in a Major Political Move, Weighs Leaving Israel Short of Arms With Which To Fight Hamas

President Biden, keeping Prime Minister Netanyahu at arm’s length, is reportedly considering leaving Israel short of the armaments it needs to fight Hamas. Such a politically based move risks harming America’s global interests.

By Sunday, Israel must tell America that it is complying with international restrictions on arms supplies, including by facilitating ample humanitarian assistance to Gaza, the national security adviser, Jacob Sullivan, told reporters Monday, adding that it is yet to do so.

Meanwhile, a Jerusalem official noted a recent reduction of American arms supplies to Israel, ABC news reports. The Israel Defense Force is running out of 155 mm artillery shells and 120 mm tank shells, as well as sensitive guidance equipment, the official said.

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