Author: Blazingcatfur

Canada risks hurling itself into yet another military procurement headache

Controversy and Canadian defence procurement appear to be inseparable, if not co-dependent.

At issue this time is the Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft (CMMA), a project to replace the air force’s fleet of CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft. Ottawa appears to have scrapped earlier plans for a competition, signalling instead that it is likely to sole-source the P-8 Poseidon, built by the U.S. company Boeing, to the tune of about $8-billion. Bombardier, headquartered in Montreal, has fiercely objected to this plan, demanding that it be allowed to bid for the CMMA contract with a modified version of its Global 6500, which is in use by various militaries around the world, though not yet for maritime patrol. Bombardier is proposing to work with General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada, the firm that recently upgraded the Auroras. Both the Ontario and Quebec governments are supporting Bombardier’s call, as has the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Hamas Wants UN To Condemn Wilders for ‘Violating International Law’

Dutch populist firebrand Geert Wilders, fresh after winning the Dutch national elections last week, is facing backlash from the terrorist group Hamas, along with several Arab states, for suggesting that Palestinians should be relocated to Jordan as a means to solve the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and Israel.

Hamas has called on the international community as well as the United Nations to condemn Wilders for breaking international law, seven weeks after the group murdered around 1,200 Israelis in a surprise terror attack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Geert Wilders, WTF?

Liberals announce legislation to set stage for digital services tax

The Liberal government announced legislation Tuesday that will pave the way for the implementation of a digital services tax, but it contains no date for when the tax will come into effect.

The government first pledged in 2020 to bring in a digital services tax (DST) on big tech companies. The tax would apply to revenues of large firms providing digital services such as e-commerce, social media and online advertising.

Biden has been told to say he does not approve, wonder how the US will retaliate?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

A ‘Reality Check’ on Charges of Racial Discrimination in Canada and the US

Progressive politicians and academics often assert that particular communities face racial barriers to employment justice, and full participation in Canadian society.

Recently, a new think tank called The Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy (AFPP) published an intriguing demographic reality check about charges of discrimination in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Why Aren’t Women’s Groups Condemning Hamas?

‘We have come so far in believing survivors of rape and assault in so many situations,” wrote the former Meta executive and founder of LeanIn.org, Sheryl Sandberg, in a recent CNN op-ed. And yet, Western organizations supposedly devoted to women’s issues have spent the weeks since the 10/7 massacre of Israeli civilians — a slaughter that featured the methodical rape, abuse, and torture of Hamas’s female victims — laying low. In conflicts elsewhere around the globe, Sandberg observed, evidence that rape has been used as a weapon of warfare “evoked a loud response from global women’s organizations.” But similar crimes committed by Hamas have not.

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

The possibility Covid is man-made is not a ‘divisive’ issue – the world needs to know

The goal of any inquiry is to learn lessons so a similar calamity can be averted.

So it seems oddly short-sighted that the Covid Inquiry is refusing to examine the origins of the pandemic.

When Michael Gove pointed out that the Government was unprepared because the virus was so unusual – and possibly man-made – he was shut down by Sir Hugo Keith KC who said the issue was divisive and “not part of the terms of reference” of the inquiry.

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

Why are key Republicans resisting transparency on UFOs?

In July, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, announced sweeping legislation to declassify and release government information about unidentified flying objects.

The announcement coincided with, and seemed to corroborate, an extraordinary series of UFO-related developments. But now, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) appear poised to quash this bipartisan transparency initiative.

In the absence of reasonable, good-faith objections to the core provisions of the historic legislation, the question is why.

For more than 80 years, the US government has hidden the existence of UFOs. The question is why. The answer is ominous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

From 18 year-old who shot his girlfriend’s baby while high on marijuana to stoned babysitter who let TWO toddlers drown: we reveal how cannabis has led to nearly 300 brutal child deaths

At least 290 American children have suffered brutal, preventable deaths linked to marijuana over the last decade, according to an analysis seen exclusively by DailyMail.com.

The highest proportion of deaths – 95 – involved extreme violence, the dossier of reports show.

This includes the case of a Texan man who murdered his girlfriend and nine-month baby with a pocket-knife while suffering what was believed to be a cannabis-induced psychotic episode.

This is the issue no one wants to discuss.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana

The Treachery of Gazan Day Laborers

The repayment of evil for good.

In order to help people in Gaza, where unemployment is high, the Israeli government has in recent years allowed thousands of Gazans to work in Israel as day laborers, where they earn salaries that are three to five times what they can earn in Gaza itself. This past year, the number of Gazans receiving Israeli work permits rose to 20,000; in Judea and Samaria, the number of permits for Palestinians increased to 100,000. What Israel has now discovered is that many of those Gazan workers collected intelligence on Israel and provided it to Hamas.

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

Is racial segregation coming back to America’s schools?

A Chicago area school has recently implemented an unusual tactic to racial achievement gaps among its students: encouraging Black and Latino students to opt into racially-segregated classes. Evanston Township High School officials believe these single-race classes offer underperforming minority students greater access to advanced instruction. Though their initial proposal received significant media backlash, Evanston officials remain committed to their race-conscious approach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Hate crime hoaxer charged in arson case that left one dead

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – A man whose house in Huntsville burned down back in June is now the same man charged with first-degree felony arson.

“Racism, power, hungriness, money has gotten us to this place,” said Mario Roberson.

A charge that will land him behind bars for five to 99 years, if he’s found guilty.

Mario Roberson’s home in the Waterwood neighborhood burst into dames June 10. He previously told KTRK that his home was tagged with racist graffiti.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHate crime hoax

Silencing the Irish To Save Them From Themselves

Any Irish person who has a critical thought about the mass migration overtaking the country better keep his mouth shut and not write, tweet, or TikTok anything about it, or face prison.

All European eyes should be on Ireland now. In the wake of last week’s Dublin riots, the Varadkar government is fast-tracking draconian hate-speech legislation that would decimate liberty in the Emerald Isle. The Irish people face being ordered by their woke government, under threat of jail, to acquiesce silently in their country’s colonization via migration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Ireland

Canada’s top admiral says navy might not be able to carry out its basic duties next year

Canada’s top admiral says navy staff, resource needs in ‘critical state’

OTTAWA, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Canada’s understaffed and resource-stretched navy is in “a critical state” and might not be able to carry out its basic duties next year, the top admiral said in a YouTube video released this week.

The comments by Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee are an unusually blunt expression of unhappiness from the military over the state of the armed forces. Canada only spends about 1.3% of its annual gross domestic product on defence, much less than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization target of 2%.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?