Author: Blazingcatfur

Biden’s Cognitive Decline Continues Apace

Biden has never been an honest man, but his inability to tell fact from fiction puts the nation at risk.

One of the funniest passages in Mark Twain’s autobiography involves the effect of old age on his mental acuity: “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.” It’s less amusing when we recall that this could have been said by President Biden — if he could string together two coherent sentences. The latest example of his ability to remember things that never happened occurred last week, when he told fundraisers that foreign leaders have warned him former President Trump threatens democracy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

More than 70 per cent of people in Canada’s jails awaiting bail or trial: Report

A new report says the crisis in Canada’s bail system has worsened over the last decade, with more people in pre-trial custody and some spending weeks in detention before being released.

A report released today by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says that by 2021-2022, the proportion of people in provincial and territorial jails who were awaiting bail or trial was more than 70 per cent — and nearly 79 per cent in Ontario.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Victory For Hottentots: Mary Poppins film age rating raised over ‘discriminatory language’

Mary Poppins, the classic film starring Julie Andrews, has had its age rating raised by British film censors because it features “discriminatory language”.

The 1964 film has been reclassified from a U, which stands for universal, to a PG, for parental guidance.

In it, a derogatory term originally used by white Europeans about nomadic peoples in southern Africa is used to refer to soot-faced chimney-sweeps.

That now “exceeds our guidelines” for U films, the BBFC said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Palestinians Need New Leaders, Not New Governments

According to a famous Arab proverb, “A dog’s tail is never straight.” It is used to describe people who will never be cured of their bad habits.

This proverb comes to mind when one hears the US administration talking about the need for the “revitalization” of the Palestinian Authority (PA), established exactly 30 years ago in accordance with the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the PLO.

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

Hunter Biden says his sobriety is the key to ‘future of democracy’

Well, at least he’s modest.

First son Hunter Biden said in a rare interview published Monday that him staying clean is vital because “I have something much bigger than even myself at stake.”

“We are in the middle of a fight for the future of democracy,” the twice-indicted 54-year-old added to Axios while discussing his health’s effect on his father’s likely 2024 election battle against former President Donald Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

City workers fired following Toronto fraud investigation

Toronto’s top auditor is reporting a record number of fraud and waste allegations as part of her annual audit into wrongdoing within City Hall, leading to the firing of some city workers and even police prosecution.

The Auditor General’s office received 1,054 complaints via its reporting hotline last year, representing 1,450 allegations — the highest number since the program began in 2002.

“We cannot afford, literally, to have people defraud the taxpayers of the City of Toronto, and have waste,” Toronto Councillor Josh Matlow told CTV Toronto. “We need to make sure that every single dollar goes to the priorities of the people of this city.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Hungary approves Sweden joining Nato after months of delays

Hungary’s parliament has approved Sweden’s Nato accession nearly two years after the historically neutral country applied to join the western military alliance, bringing to an end months of diplomatic wrangling.

Speaking after the vote in Budapest on Monday, the Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, hailed “a historic day”. “The parliaments of all Nato member states have now voted in favour of Swedish accession to Nato. Sweden stands ready to shoulder its responsibility for Euro-Atlantic security,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO

Few Good Solutions as Home Affordability Plummets

… He told me that as the numbers had become clear, he had increasingly despaired for younger Canadians who were “trying to get a home, get started with a family and trying to make it.”
The position of the federal government and most provinces is that by stimulating the construction of new housing, Canada can have affordable homes without lowering the value of current homes.

While Mr. St-Arnaud agrees that building more houses will help with affordability, he is skeptical that it will be enough to make homes truly affordable. And he noted that few, if any, politicians would have any interest in withstanding the political backlash that would come from doing anything that would push down the value of many Canadians’ most valuable asset, perhaps substantially.

“There are a lot of homeowners right now whose house is their only asset,” he said. “All their money goes to their house. They don’t have any pension fund or savings. Their house is everything. So if it’s no longer appreciating, it might put some financial strains on some of them.”

While offering some useful if distressing numbers this is yet another article on the housing crisis that fails to mention the impact mass immigration has had on demand.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Why Germany’s far-right AfD youth wing faces a ban

Anna Leisten is cheerful, young and radical. That’s how she appears in the many images she’s posted on Instagram, at least.

She’s one of the best-known faces of Germany’s Junge Alternative (JA), or Young Alternative, the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Her social media profile says she can be anything “from a braid-wearing sweetie pie to a forged-iron soldier.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

Progressive Paradise: Liberal Party Bastion Of Toronto Has Growing Dumpster Diving Network

Michael McKinlay, stout, determined, his keen mind teeming with ideas and fueled by outrage, marches purposefully down a long row of recycling bins outside a grocery store somewhere in Toronto’s west end, in the waning hours of a bitter cold winter night.

Don’t publicly name the locations. That’s the first rule of the growing corps of dumpster divers in Toronto, although a new term is emerging — food rescuers. They forage in bins for discarded food, for their own consumption and to bring to others who, like them, are increasingly unable to afford the high cost of groceries in an inflationary economy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Houthis Sever Undersea Communications Cables Linking Europe and Asia

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group knocked out four undersea communications cables linking Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, a report by an Israeli news outlet claimed Monday.

The submarine cables were struck out of commission through sabotage in recent months, claimed Israeli news outlet Globes.

Attacks by the Houthis are widely considered to have damaged the cables believed to belong to the AAE-1, Seacom, Europe India Gateway (EIG), and TGN systems.

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

Jamie Sarkonak: Homeless camps deserve to be stigmatized

Homeless camps are full of stories that justifiably tug at heartstrings: residents are destitute, often abandoned by their families, and often victims of crime. But that doesn’t mean that governments should surrender public space to maintain nylon shantytowns. Indeed, they really shouldn’t.

But that’s the suggestion of the federal housing advocate. Her name is Marie-Josée Houle, and her final report on the management of homeless camps was released earlier this month. In her report, she recommends, among many other things, a nationwide end to “forced evictions” of homeless camps.

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

Canada prepares to welcome thousands of Sudanese, but new pathway sparks questions

In the terrifying months after the war in Sudan erupted, Kholoud Abakar and her children abandoned their home five times, moving from city to city in the devastated country in a race for survival.

Now, her Canadian family is fighting to get her and her seven children to safety in Canada. But even as Ottawa prepares a new family-reunification pathway to help thousands of Sudanese reach this country, restrictions in the rules could dash the hopes of Ms. Abakar and many others like her.

On Tuesday, the federal government is set to launch a program for up to 3,250 Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor relatives in Sudan to enter Canada.

Gee, which Muslim state would would welcome Canadian refugees? Oh that’s right none of them.

They don’t even take their own.

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

Denmark drops investigation into Nord Stream pipeline blasts

Denmark has dropped its investigation into the 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to Germany, becoming the second country to do so after Sweden closed a separate inquiry.

The multibillion-dollar Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines transporting gas under the Baltic Sea were ruptured by a series of blasts in the Swedish and Danish economic zones in September 2022, releasing vast amounts of methane into the air.

Russia and the west, at loggerheads over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February that year, have pointed fingers at one another. Each has denied involvement and no one has taken responsibility.

The authorities said best leave it unsolved…

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