Author: Blazingcatfur

Young people are too fat and woke to fight

The U.S. military has a problem. Nearly every branch is falling short of its recruitment goals. Some are starting to admit it’s more than a problem. It’s a full-blown crisis.

Last year, the U.S. Army fell 15,000 short of its onboarding target of 60,000. By May, the secretary of the Army was already telling Congress they were going to fall short again in 2023. Only the Space Force, which draws from a smaller and more selective applicant pool, is keeping pace with its hoped for recruitment numbers.

This has obvious national security implications. The fear is that standards will eventually be lowered intolerably to boost these numbers, or the American armed forces will simply be forced to go without.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Woke white air force colonel who claimed other white colonels were racists gets promoted to brigadier general

The Pentagon has gone to great ends to hide its wokery whenever it gets caught.

They’ve shut down drag shows on U.S. military bases. They’ve kicked openly white-hating wokesters teaching military kids upstairs to other things. They’ve taken down their Pride Month flags and tweets. They’ve changed course on hunting for “extremists” in the ranks when news emerged that they missed actual miscreants under their noses. They’ve investigated dog-sex officer pervert rings that had been going on for a long time in Hawaii. They’ve also denied, in testimony to Congress at appropriations time, that they are wokesters.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Humourless scolds have taken over comedy

This week, Comedy Unleashed, a free-speech-themed stand-up comedy night, was expelled from the Leith Arches in Edinburgh, after revealing that its package show had a concealed member. And so, to no one’s great surprise, this year’s Edinburgh Fringe has been blighted by yet another activist-driven cancellation. Almost exactly a year to the day since the censor’s axe fell on comedian Jerry Sadowitz’s errant todger, another impudent inflorescence has been nipped, not so much in the bud as close to the root.

Why are so many “comics” such unpleasant people?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up"

Vivek Ramaswamy to Tucker: The Government Lied About 9/11

In an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy, Tucker Carlson on his Twitter/X show probed the 2024 candidate’s views on 9/11.

He’s right to question Saudi involvement. Below is the full interview, 911 excerpt at the link.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11, WTF?

Austin police blast ‘miserable’ conditions and 911 callers put on hold as crime rates in Texas city soar after BLM-inspired defund movement

An Austin Police union has exposed the ‘miserable’ conditions faced by officers after the defund movement stripped departments and gutted the workforce.

George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis cop and the resulting Black Lives Matter riots led to widespread demonization of police forces across the US.

Austin PD’s budget was hammered with a $150million cut approved by the Democrat-run Texas city’s council after its own scandal following the shooting of an unarmed black man in April 2020 – just weeks before Floyd’s death.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

The summer the sun turned red: Canadians wake up to the reality of climate change under a veil of smoke

A red sun over Montreal. Crops withering in the field. Thousands of people fleeing a territorial capital. Smoke blanketing cities from Toronto to Ottawa to New York.

These are not scenes out of a dystopian novel but pulled straight from Canada’s summer of fire and smoke, now cresting in the frightening evacuations of Yellowknife and Kelowna.

Two arson incidents in Yellowknife, four people charged, two sought

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

US ‘Rent-a-Womb’ Industry Thrives Due to Demand From Parents in China: Researcher

The “rent-a-womb” industry pipelines children born of surrogates in the United States to parents in China, a researcher said. Babies born this way automatically gain U.S. birthright citizenship.

Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry, has been burgeoning in the United States for about a decade, particularly in California, where laws regulating commercial surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are permissive, said Emma Waters, a research associate for the Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation.

Surrogacy, a practice where a woman carries a pregnancy and gives birth to a baby for another person or couple, is completely banned in China

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA, WTF?

David Krayden: Guilbeault’s Trip to China Is a Betrayal of Canada’s Vital Interests

So Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is going to Beijing from Aug. 26–31 to cuddle up to the Chinese Communist Party.

If you think that is too strong a contention, consider how Guilbeault is executive vice chairperson on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).

Guilbeault’s loyalty is not to Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

Canada’s progressive parties have lost the plot on the housing crisis

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to pretend the high cost of housing isn’t a federal problem, Pierre Poilievre won’t stop talking about it. His description two months ago of a postwar Niagara house as an overpriced “tiny shack” may have been pretty tone-deaf for a politician who lives in a multimillion-dollar publicly funded home, but the Conservative Leader hit pay dirt last week with a heartwarming story of how he lived as a student with his single father near a Calgary rapid transit station. He called for politicians to get serious about affordability for single parents, students, seniors and others in housing need, by getting many more new high-rise apartments approved by municipalities near federally funded public transit.

Mr. Poilievre is absolutely right on many of these counts – and also dead wrong on others.

Something to consider … The Liberal’s Mass immigration scam will cushion the decline if not further inflate real estate values. It’s a cyncial election strategy but protecting voter home equity by inundating cities with migrants might work given urban centre’s are LPC strongholds.

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

Get Ready For DEI Mounties

A recruitment ‘crisis’ threatens the RCMP’s future — the new boss has plans to turn it around

… The Management Advisory Board, an outside panel of experts set up to give impartial advice to the RCMP commissioner, recently reported that the force’s recruitment problem can be described accurately as a “crisis” — one that could threaten its ability to serve as Canada’s national police force.

“If these [regular members] are not replaced by new cadets from diverse backgrounds and with capacity to serve, the RCMP will be even more challenged to meet its service delivery commitments under the provincial, territorial and municipal police service agreements, and to maintain federal policing capacity,” the board said in a report released in May.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", "Diversity", RCMP

The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal

41.73º N, 49.95º W, North Atlantic Ocean, June 18, 2023

Fate cleared up the weather, blew off the fog, and calmed the waves, as the submersible and its five passengers dived through the surface waters and fell into another world. They entered the deep ocean’s uppermost layer, known as the twilight zone, passing creatures glimmering with bioluminescence, tiny fish with enormous teeth. Then they entered the midnight zone, where larger creatures ghost by like alien moons. Two miles down, they entered the abyssal zone—so named because it’s the literal abyss.

Deeper means heavier: pressures of 5,000, then 6,000 pounds per square inch. As it descended, the submersible was gripped in a tightening vise. Maybe they heard a noise then, maybe they heard an alarm.

I hope they watched the abyss with awe through their viewport, because I’d like to think their last sights were magnificent ones.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"