Author: Blazingcatfur

Ireland’s excess deaths rate rivals worst of Covid pandemic

Ireland has seen a huge spike in excess mortality that rivals the peak of the pandemic — yet Covid-19 is no longer the primary cause of death, The Sunday Times can reveal.

Post-pandemic pressures on the HSE such as treatment backlogs and a wave of late diagnoses allied to the added pressures on the health system of a lingering “twindemic” of flu and Covid-19 all appear to be taking their toll.

The seven-day rolling average of deaths reported on January 9, 2023 was 152 — almost as high as the weekly average of 156 reported on January 29, 2021 — the peak of the disastrous third wave that triggered a six-month nationwide lockdown.

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

How Disinformation Journalists Practice Disinformation

While many major media outlets such as CNN have recently announced large layoffs, one journalistic beat is still booming. Call it the Disinformation Desk. The Washington Post has created a new position exclusively reporting on “health disinformation,” which includes “the forces promoting scientific and medical disinformation on subjects such as vaccines, drugs, nutritional supplements and health-care treatments.” National Public Radio hosts an entire “Disinformation Team” whose mission is broad: “From the lies about the 2020 election to the growing influence of anti-vaccine activists, to the enduring influence of climate-change denialism, lies and conspiracy theories have seeped into nearly all aspects of modern-day life, both in the US and around the globe.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

Biden is losing the media, and thus the country

The switch, to aggressive reporting, happened in a blink, and it came crashing about a week ago

Calamity Joe faces a resentful media

No more are they asking which flavor ice cream he prefers, as they did there at the beginning.

“Mr. President…Mr. President…what do you like best, chocolate or vanilla?”

That’s as far as it got for investigative reporting from America’s docile media. Joe had them at hello.

Now is it goodbye?

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

Covid scientists and the best news money can buy

IN THE words of muckraker Upton Sinclair, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ Same may be said about the so-called ‘scientific community’ in their research enterprise on Covid-19. It is particularly so for anything relating to the novel mRNA vaccines, touted as safe and effective but transpiring to be neither.

We wrote recently in the Daily Sceptic about how the method which is central to the scientific publication process, far from being used to assure quality, is being used to maintain prevailing narrative. Peer review has prevented proper debate on Covid-19 by suppressing contrary evidence.

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

Redding, California, Uses Public Health Red Tape to Ban Sharing Food with Homeless

Like many cities on the West Coast, Redding, California, is experiencing a homelessness crisis. And, like too many cities around the country—as I detail in my book and have highlighted in many columns over the years—officials appear to have determined the problem can be best dealt with by making it difficult or impossible to share food with people in need.

Homelessness in Redding is a challenge city residents have recognized and organized to address. Last summer, for example, a group of “regular guys” in Redding partnered with a local taco truck to offer free lunches to those in need. More recently, an obituary for a charitable local resident highlighted her compassionate history of sharing homemade coffee and sandwiches with hungry residents.

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

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.

Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

The problem with the BBC’s reporting on excess deaths

I recall the newsroom conversations during the dark days of the pandemic only too well. They were upsetting at the time. Now, as we see a disturbing rise in excess deaths across the country, the thought of them fills me with horror and outrage.

‘You do realise these lockdowns and restrictions will end up killing people too, don’t you?’ I would say to senior editorial colleagues with something approaching desperation in my voice. ‘Sure, the virus is a serious threat to a small proportion of the population but the longer-term consequences of shutting the economy down and closing off the NHS will be deadly for huge numbers who were never at serious risk from the virus, people with years of life ahead of them. Shouldn’t we be reflecting that in our coverage? Shouldn’t we be considering the possibility that the government is going down the wrong path on this?’

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Drag queens won’t win the next war

The model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who is said to have 30 million followers on Instagram, kvetches that she seems to attract only “emasculated men” — by which she means guys who can’t handle a “strong woman” like her.

A product of the Sexual Revolution, Ms. Ratajkowski believes the essence of femininity is strength and confidence, while a man who isn’t attracted to tough babes is “emasculated.”

She wants a man who’s confident but also deferential.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

How the culture war went global

Authoritarians the world over are weaponising wokeness.

The rise of ‘woke’ identity politics in the Anglophone West is driven by deep shifts in our political economy, institutional architecture and core values. While most of today’s discussions about identity politics tend to focus on its illiberal implications for domestic politics, in a context of growing international authoritarianism, the geopolitical consequences must not be underestimated.

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

CCP State Media Praises ‘Davos Spirit’ as Conference Begins

As the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Davos 2023 conference is set to begin on Monday and elitist attendees fly a thousand private jets to Switzerland to lecture on the climate crisis, one country seems particularly enthusiastic for the event to begin. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state propaganda outlet Global Times praised the “Davos Spirit” in a tweet, claiming, “China’s ideals and achievements also made the Davos Spirit more dazzling.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", World Economic Forum, WTF?

‘Masterclass of Hypocrisy,’ Private Jet Use at Davos Attracts Severe Criticism Due to High Emissions

Private jet use during Davos meetings in May 2022 pushed up carbon emissions by four times, with event participants coming under criticism for pushing the climate change agenda on one hand while not undertaking any actions to rein in their own excessive emissions.

During the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos between May 22–26, 2022, 1,040 private jets flew in and out of airports serving Davos, according to a Jan. 13 report by Greenpeace. This caused carbon dioxide emissions from private jets to be four times greater than when compared to an average week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWorld Economic Forum

Man arrested on suspicion of terror offences after uranium found at Heathrow

A man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of terror offences after the discovery of uranium at Heathrow Airport.

He was arrested and released on bail as part of an ongoing investigation linked to the discovery of traces of the potentially lethal chemical element within a cargo package on Dec 29.

The man was detained under section 9 of the Terrorism Act 2006 when counter terror police swooped on an address in Cheshire on Saturday morning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ukraine plans to ask Canada for some of its Leopard-2 main battle tanks, Zelensky’s top adviser says

Ukraine is planning to ask Canada for some of its Leopard-2 main battle tanks, as soon as Germany drops its opposition to the re-export of the weaponry it manufactured.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, told The Globe and Mail that Mr. Zelensky will make the request to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when the bureaucratic hurdle with Berlin is cleared.

Related … German tank manufacturer’s warning puts pressure on Ukraine’s allies

Defence firm dampens Kyiv hopes other European allies will follow UK’s lead in supplying heavy armour

Battle tanks from German industrial reserves wanted by Ukraine will not be ready to be delivered until 2024, the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has warned, increasing pressure on Nato allies to support Ukraine with armoured vehicles in active service instead, ahead of a key meeting this week.

“Even if the decision to send our Leopard tanks to Kyiv came tomorrow, the delivery would take until the start of next year,” Rheinmetall’s chief executive, Armin Papperger, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

Rheinmetall, which manufactures the battle vehicle’s gun, has 22 Leopard 2 and 88 older Leopard 1 tanks in its stocks. Getting the Leopard tanks ready for battle, however, would take several months and cost hundreds of millions of euros the company could not put up until the order was confirmed, Papperger said.

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

Military concerned by Canada’s absence from American-British-Australian security pact

OTTAWA – There are concerns at the highest levels of the Canadian Armed Forces that this country won’t have access to the same cutting-edge military technology as its closest allies because it is not part of a security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The trilateral treaty, nicknamed “AUKUS” after the three countries involved, was announced in September 2021 in what many have seen as a bid to counter China’s growing military presence in the Indo-Pacific region, where Canada has growing economic and security interests.

I wonder if Canada’s absence was a deliberate move by Trudeau so he could waste the money on pet projects like transgender recycling bins?

Just as realistically it may simply be that Trudeau’s Canada is no longer considered a serious and reliable ally.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"