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The January 6 Committee’s Final Act: Pointless Criminal Referrals of Trump

If anything, the referrals could undermine the DOJ’s building of a successful prosecution.

There is a danger in repeating the same script ad nauseam, as the House January 6 committee has done in its not one but two final performances.

Recall that the last one, in October, featured the dramatic proclamation that the committee was issuing a subpoena for Donald Trump’s testimony . . . under circumstances where it knew it would never get such testimony. Monday’s theater — apparently the finale, with Republicans poised to take control of the House and shutter the production — featured the dramatic proclamation that the committee is referring the former president to the Justice Department for prosecution . . . under circumstances where it knows such referrals are nonbinding and generally ignored by the Justice Department, except to the extent that they may be counterproductive to the building of a successful prosecution.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Transgender Bathroom Attack Superintendent: Birth Certificate Isn’t Required! Except That’s Not What Enrollment Paperwork Says

Last week, Edmond Schools Superintendent Dr. Angela Grunewald told the world that the reason a boy dressed as a girl was using the girls’ bathroom at Edmond Memorial High School—where he beat two female students and was charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery—was because birth certificates are not required in order to enroll in the school. She also claimed that the boy’s appearance was good enough to fool administrators into thinking he was a girl.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Big Tranny

Why Did the FBI Want Joe Biden to Become President?

Just imagine for a moment that Donald Trump, Jr. (or Eric) sat on the board of directors for a foreign company and “earned” millions of dollars for literally doing nothing. He didn’t know the industry and didn’t speak the language. The only thing Junior brought to the table was his last name. He made deals with foreign agents and foreign corporations to acquire rare materials like cobalt (used in electric cars) that was sold to Chinese interests for profit. While on an extended drug binge, he took a computer with lots of incriminating evidence to a repair shop and forgot or didn’t care what he’d done with it. Then he ignored all the calls from the shop telling him to come pick up his computer. That would be huge news, wouldn’t it?

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", FBI

When Did Artists Become the Mob?

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“The mob’s going to want a chicken to kill and they won’t care much who it is,” wrote John Steinbeck. “Why don’t people look at mobs not as men, but as mobs? A mob nearly always seems to act reasonably, for a mob.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Peak Weimar"

The making of Nineteen Eighty-Four

A new manuscript edition allows us to see Orwell’s masterpiece anew.

‘The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary’, writes Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. ‘This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by 25 years in a forced-labour camp.’ That is what it is like to hold this brand new, manuscript edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four in your hands. You feel as if you are doing something you shouldn’t. You get to see Orwell’s own handwriting. His revisions and reworkings. His mind in motion. It is a clandestine and intimate experience, like having a glimpse into Winston Smith’s diary.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Big Brother

A Feudal Movement

Climate activists push electrification and degrowth, complementary strategies that would lead to lower standards of living and more government control.

“Electrification” is the newest green buzzword. According to its proponents, by 2050, all vehicles, furnaces, water heaters, and even cooking stoves will be powered by electricity generated from wind and solar. On December 14, the White House held an “Electrification Summit” to explore “how electrification can help the United States meet its climate and equity goals.” The invited speakers represented a range of green-subsidy causes—automobile manufacturers, electric utilities, labor unions, regulators, and even teachers’ unions. At the same time, climate activists are putting more emphasis on “degrowth,” which, they claim, is the only way to prevent greenhouse gases from causing the earth’s immolation.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Green-Scam

Twitter aided the Pentagon in its covert online propaganda campaign

Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.

TWITTER EXECUTIVES HAVE claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.

Behind the scenes, however, the social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U.S. military’s network of social media accounts and online personas, whitelisting a batch of accounts at the request of the government. The Pentagon has used this network, which includes U.S. government-generated news portals and memes, in an effort to shape opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and beyond.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Twitter

Leaked slides reveal dark side of Canada’s euthanasia policy

Patients are now seeking death because they cannot afford to live

Since Canada’s euthanasia regime broke into the global public consciousness earlier this year, people across the world have been horrified by stories of ordinary Canadians choosing to die at the hands of a doctor instead of carrying on living in poverty, of disabled Canadians told to kill themselves by bureaucrats, and of plans to extend euthanasia access to the mentally ill and to “mature minors”.

But until now, defenders of Canada’s MAiD (medical assistance in dying) regime have pushed back aggressively, accusing their critics of spreading disinformation, or worse.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words

Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.

… Call yourself an “American”? Please don’t. Better to say “U.S. citizen,” per the bias hunters, lest you slight the rest of the Americas. “Immigrant” is also out, with “person who has immigrated” as the approved alternative. It’s the iron law of academic writing: Why use one word when four will do?

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Peak Woke", WTF?

John Ivison: Canada has the capacity to do more to arm Ukraine, so why hasn’t it?

OTTAWA — There will be many prayers offered up this Christmas that the guns fall silent across Ukraine in the New Year.

But let’s hope that any peace is prompted by Russia’s realization that it cannot win, rather than because the Ukrainians have run out of ammunition.

The latter is a very real prospect. As retired Australian Major Gen. Mick Ryan wrote last week in an influential Twitter thread: “In 2023, the Ukrainian army may run out of munitions before it runs out of fight. Based on current usage of ammunition in the war, production of munitions is increasingly lagging battlefield needs.”

#Ukraine: A Ukrainian 9A310M1 TELAR of the Buk-M1 air-defense system was destroyed by a Russian Lancet loitering munition in Oleksandrivka, #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/8bI8tl2FRl

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) December 20, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Idaho cops may finally have lead in student murders as they probe abandoned white Hyundai

Idaho police are investigating a white Hyundai Elantra found abandoned in Oregon for a possible link to the unsolved slayings of four college students last month.

Aware that Moscow, Idaho, officials were on the lookout for a vehicle fitting that description, Eugene police called the department to alert them to the car, which was badly damaged and had no license plates.

Idaho police have appealed for help finding a white 2011-2013 model Elantra seen in the “immediate area” of the off-campus home where the friends were stabbed to death in the early hours of Nov. 13

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Crime

Ottawa approves purchase of 16 F-35 jets worth $7B: sources

The Department of National Defence recently received quiet approval to spend $7 billion on 16 F-35 fighter jets and related gear.

Two defence sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters not yet made public, said a funding request sent to the Treasury Board got the green light earlier this month.

The Canadian Press also viewed a document summarizing this request to Treasury Board, which is the department that controls the federal purse strings, and independently verified its accuracy.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Canada

Unmitigated Gall: Trudeau says ‘it sucks’ when ethics breaches occur, but system is working

On the heels of the latest confirmed ethics breach within his cabinet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, while “it sucks” when such cases of improper conduct arise, the fact the public knows about them is a sign the system is working.

“We have a system that has the kind of accountability and transparency that works and that is clear to reassure Canadians that if someone is taking advantage of the system — either deliberately or by accident — they’ll get caught and called out on it. And that’s an example of the institutions working,” Trudeau said in a year-end conversation with Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News Omar Sachedina, airing in full on Dec. 31.

“Now, from my perspective, it sucks. Because you don’t want people to be making mistakes, you want people to be able to focus on delivering good things for Canadians.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF?

Apparently people are using emoji pronouns like “🐶” in place of words

This is the content kids are consuming on TikTok pic.twitter.com/XUHlqoWFDw

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 16, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•WTF?

Reader Fave Christmas Carols – Day 5!

Welcome to Day 5 of Reader Fave Carols. A nice selection as usual tonight. Enjoy and leave your faves in the comments, we’ll play them in the run up to the Big Day.

Thanks!

For KING & COUNTRY – Little Drummer Boy – from ElephantInTheThread