Author: Blazingcatfur

Ottawa says lawyers don’t deserve $80 million for First Nation child welfare settlement

Ottawa wants to pay class action lawyers roughly half the amount they’re requesting in legal fees for a multi-billion dollar First Nations child welfare compensation case — the largest settlement agreement in Canadian history.

The federal government argued before Federal Court this past week that it should pay the class action lawyers between $40 million and $50 million, rather than the $80 million they’ve requested.

Federal Court Justice Mandy Aylen, who reserved her decision on Thursday, said the court must take into consideration the size of the settlement agreement and the fact that the case was based on more than 10 years of litigation at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

US halts export of most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days

The US has stopped issuing export licenses for most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days for all non-governmental users, the commerce department said on Friday, citing national security and foreign policy interests.

The commerce department did not provide further details for the pause, which also includes shotguns and optical sights, but said an urgent review will assess the “risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Why Aren’t the Arabs the ‘Colonizers’?

A history of conquest and cultural imperialism is ignored.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem sits atop the site of the Second Temple, the central place for Jewish worship before its destruction during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.

One wonders if any of the people braying about the alleged “settler colonialism” of Israel ever wonder how Al-Aqsa got there.

Did the Jews voluntarily erect a version of it in an eighth-century homage to multiculturalism? If not, how did the Muslims who built it come to be in Jerusalem in the first place?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

A Case of Anti-Life Liberalism

Think baby factories are a thing for science fiction? Think again. A Swedish lawmaker wants his government to start researching the idea.

In the brave new world of liberalism, women have been reduced to “uterus carriers.”

Life is created in factories. Babies can be bought and sold like merchandise.

No, this is not science fiction. It is not some dystopian image of an extreme future.

This ‘vision’ of our future is found in a legislative bill introduced in the Swedish national parliament, the Riksdag. The sponsor is Mr. Joar Forssell, a member of parliament for the liberal party. He proposes that taxpayers’ money be spent “on research about artificial uteri” for the purposes of extending “reproductive freedom” to “uterus carriers.”

In other words, Mr. Forssell wants the Swedish government to sponsor the development of machines that can grow a baby from conception to birth, so that no woman will ever have to be pregnant again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘Just Blind Hate’: The Persecution of Christians, September 2023

The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of September 2023.

Nigeria: As the genocide there of Christians continues, a Sept. 1 report found that “Of the 5,500 Christians who were killed last year because of their faith, 90 percent”—or about 4,950—”were Nigerian.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam's Persecution Of Christians

The unfolding of a terrorist massacre at a little Israeli kibbutz, through the WhatsApp

Unlike, say, ISIS, Hamas is a bloodsoaked terrorist organization with a public relations department targeted at Western liberals.

Which in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,400 innocent Israelis and a few foreign visitors, has cranked up to high gear in a bid to shift the “narrative,” putting the spotlight on Israel’s retaliation as somehow bad, and denying anything bad ever happened. Hamas, see, wouldn’t dream of beheading a baby, spitting on a woman’s stripped body from a truckbed, or parading a raped woman in front of the cell phone cameras as radicals cheered, now would they?

h/t Sweetpea

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

Welcome to the cashless dystopia

Your digital identity is the world’s most precious currency

In early August, thousands of Kenyans queued up in Nairobi to have their eyeballs scanned by an ominous silver orb, in a Faustian bargain with Open AI chief, Sam Altman. In exchange for handing over their biometric data — or, as Altman’s company puts it, “verifying your uniqueness” — users received 25 free “Worldcoin” crypto tokens, worth approximately $50, which would be transferred directly via Kenya’s mobile payments app, M-Pesa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", "Dystopia At Last"

Racism in the mask of anti-imperialism

Across the West, ‘Marches for Palestine’ have given cover to some of the vilest anti-Semitism we’ve seen in decades.

Yesterday in London the left marched alongside a mob that was celebrating the mass murder of Jews. They came in from their gentrified suburbs, macchiato in hand, and mingled with keffiyeh-wearing bigots who were using a megaphone to taunt Jews with stories of their annihilation. These lowlifes hollered the Arabic battle cry, ‘Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return!’. That’s a reference to the 7th-century Battle of Khaybar that took place in what is now Saudi Arabia, when Muhammad and his henchmen slaughtered Jews, including women and children, for their ‘treachery’. To hear this vile cry on the streets of London in 2023 is an outrage against our nation. Jew hate is an emergency now.

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

A letter to Greta

Greta,

We, the Israeli Forum of Women in the Environment, are deeply hurt, shocked and disappointed with your tweets and posts regarding Gaza, which are appallingly one-sided, ill-informed, superficial and are in complete contrast to your ability to deep dive into details and get to the bottom of complex issues – at best.

But to be more accurate, by expressing them you take sides with terrorists, with the worst and darkest representatives of humans, and plainly – with the wrong side of history.

Do you think Hamas represents human rights and freedom? Think again!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Netanyahu apologises for blaming intelligence chiefs for lack of Hamas warning

Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to apologise on Sunday for accusing his intelligence chiefs of failing to warn him about the threat of a large-scale attack by Hamas.

In a statement posted on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday and now deleted, Mr Netanyahu said: “At no time and no stage was a warning given to prime minister Netanyahu regarding war intentions of Hamas.

“On the contrary, all security officials, including the head of army intelligence and the head of the Shin Bet, estimated that Hamas was deterred and interested in an arrangement.”

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

Russians storm airport in attempt to attack passengers of Israeli flight

A swarm of local residents in Makhachkala in the Russian Republic of Dagestan stormed an airport in the city in an attempt to attack any Jews and Israelis set to arrive on a “Red Wings” flight from Tel Aviv on Sunday, according to local media reports.

Actually the Israeli flight was diverted to a nearby airport but these goat feckers are likely illiterate.

h/t Sweetpea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam and violence, WTF?

I loved Buffy Saint-Marie. Now, like many Indigenous people, I feel betrayed by her

I remember the evening, so many years ago, that my mother excitedly gathered us in the living room of our house behind the pool hall in Athabasca to watch a show featuring a “Cree girl,” a talented singer.

I don’t remember what songs she sang or who accompanied her, but I do remember that my family was spellbound. The tears in mother’s eyes prompted tears in my eyes, which prompted tears from my younger sisters, brother and a couple of cousins.

A Cree girl had made the big time. She was beautiful, and the intense tremolo in her voice — almost a trill — made her sound so tribal.

I don’t get those defending her. She knew who she was well enough to fill out her marriage documents correctly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation"

Canadian special forces members on the ground in Israel, DND confirms

Canadian special forces members are in Israel helping Canada’s embassy there with “contingency planning,” a Department of National Defence spokesperson confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.

“As there is potential for the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including at the border separating Israel and Lebanon, Global Affairs Canada has requested [Canadian Armed Forces] support to ensure a rapid response should the security situation rapidly deteriorate and support for the evacuation of Canadians is required,” the department said in a statement.

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

Son of Canadian hostage in Gaza: “Military actions don’t solve anything”

If you support this you deserve to be fired from the human race.

OTTAWA – The son of a Canadian woman believed to be among those held hostage by Hamas in Gaza wants the world to push for an end to the fighting and says he fears Israel’s escalating offensive could end all chance of bringing his mother safely home.

Yonatan Zeigen’s mother, Vivian Silver, is one of an estimated 229 hostages taken by Hamas during its bloody Oct. 7 rampage in Israel.

A ceasefire is a victory for Hamas. Israel has to push them into the sea.

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