Author: Blazingcatfur

Once They Were Pets. Now Giant Goldfish Are Menacing the Great Lakes.

Released into the wild, the humble goldfish can grow to a monstrous size and destroy habitats for native species. Canadian researchers are tracking the fish, so that they might be culled.

Inside a fishbowl, the goldfish — a species of carp native to East Asia, bred for aesthetic delight and traditionally believed to bring good fortune — is hardly more than home décor. Usually just a few inches long, it is among the easiest of pets to keep.

But released into the wild, the seemingly humble goldfish, freed from glass boundaries and no longer limited to meager meals of flakes, can grow to monstrous proportions. They can even kill off native marine wildlife and help destroy fragile and economically valuable ecosystems.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

David Staples: Trudeau Liberals and climate alarmists clobbered at Dubai climate conference

Has there ever been a more out-of-touch federal government than the Trudeau Liberals?

Their wobbly perception caught up to them this week in Dubai, host of latest world climate conference. There in the capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, economic and political reality crashed into alarmist fantasies, not to mention the laughable schemes of Trudeau’s most zealous climate activist, Environment Minister Steve Guilbeault.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Israeli MP: UN Agency Drives Islamist Radicalization

It’s no secret that the schools run by the UNRWA—The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the UN agency created in 1949 exclusively to aid Palestinian refugees—use textbooks that glorify terrorism and incite children against Israeli Jews, both in Gaza and the West Bank.

However, the organization’s structural problems run much deeper than just the textbooks, and the entire UNRWA must be dismantled to end the Islamist indoctrination that fuels Hamas’ perpetual war against Israel, Knesset Member Sharren Haskel warned at an event organized by MEPs of the European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) Group. The event, “How to stop radicalisation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” was held in the European Parliament on Wednesday, December 6th.

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

Menstrual Products Now in Men’s Washrooms at Canadian Military Bases, Soon at All Federally Regulated Workplaces

All federally regulated workplaces in Canada must have menstrual products, such as pads and tampons, readily available beginning Dec. 15 to “enable menstruating persons to take part fully in the workforce and society at large.”

The appearance of these products already in men’s washrooms at Canadian Armed Forces bases has been noted by the group Veterans 4 Freedom.

“Now available in men’s washrooms across all Canadian Forces Bases. Menstrual products. ‘Why is everyone quitting the CAF?'” the group said in a Dec. 6 post on X. Two other military sources have confirmed this policy is in practice at the bases.
Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Public service union members speak out against $50K Gaza donation

A decision by Canada’s largest government workers’ union to donate $50,000 to two Gaza-based charities is raising the ire of some members, who say they’re fed up with funding politically-charged causes while concerns among their membership go unaddressed.

Late last month, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) announced two $25,000 donations supporting two Gaza-based charities : The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA.)

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

Human smuggling from Canada to U.S. a ‘lucrative market’ attracting organized crime: RCMP

A lucrative and growing cross-border human smuggling market is attracting domestic and international criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving “vulnerable” people from Canada into the United States, according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.

Chief Supt. Mathieu Bertrand, head of Serious and Organized Crime and Border Integrity at RCMP Federal Policing, said the force has recently recorded an “immense amount of intercepts” of cross-border smuggling attempts headed south, particularly across the Ontario-Quebec border with New York state and Vermont.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada

Universities have let evil grow on campus. They do not deserve to survive

The US Congress has had some disturbing hearings in its time. But few have been more so than this week’s, when the heads of some of America’s top universities appeared in front of a special hearing on anti-Semitism in US campuses.

The hearings came after an upsurge of anti-Jewish hate led not just by students but visiting speakers. Inexplicably, invitations for outside speakers have included Roger Waters, who is perhaps better known today for accusations of anti-Semitism than his music. What exactly does he have to teach Ivy League students?

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

Russia warns US that Ukraine will be its ‘second Vietnam’

The Kremlin’s spy chief Sergei Naryshkin warned the U.S. that Ukraine will turn into its “second Vietnam,” amid disagreement in Congress over funding for Kyiv.

“Ukraine will turn into a ‘black hole’ absorbing more and more resources and people,” Russian foreign intelligence chief Naryshkin said Thursday in a written statement published by his agency’s house journal, the Intelligence Operative.

“Ultimately, the U.S. risks creating a ‘second Vietnam’ for itself, and every new American administration will have to deal with it,” he added.

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

The NYT is wrong about Israeli intelligence

The IDF knew of Hamas’s plan — and made the logical call

The bad-faith reporting of Israeli news in The New York Times can overcome even the simplest arithmetic. Last month, there was a day-long rally for Israel in Washington that filled its Mall, with police attendance estimates ranging between 250,000 and 300,000. In the pages of the NYT, however, this became a gathering of “tens of thousands”.

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

Weimar America

Max Pechstein Poster for periodical An die Laterne (To the Lamp Post) 1919 Pechstein, one of the most politically engaged artists of the early postwar period, made this poster to advertise the short-lived journal An die Laterne (To the lamp post), which promoted the incumbent Social Democratic Party. Its image of clenched-fisted, flag-carrying protestors—probably communists—marching past a man hanged from a lamppost was a warning against the mob violence and anarchy that threatened to destabilize the fledgling Weimar Republic.

A 1930s nightmare on the horizon?

Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Weimar", "Peak Woke"

German State To Refuse Citizenship to Anti-Israel Migrants

The new policy could largely affect Muslim immigrants, who, studies have shown, are far more likely than other Germans to display antisemitic attitudes.

A German state has called for the denial of citizenship to migrants who hold anti-Israel views as the country continues to contend with a surge of antisemitism since the October 7th massacres by the terrorist group Hamas, with the state urging other regional governments to follow their lead.

The state of Saxony-Anhalt, located in Germany’s east, has stated that all migrants looking to become German citizens will be required to write that they do not support the dismantling or destruction of the state of Israel.

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