Author: Blazingcatfur

New York City to Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets Against Their Will

Acting to address “a crisis we see all around us” toward the end of a year that has seen a string of high-profile crimes involving homeless people, Mayor Eric Adams announced a major push on Tuesday to remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the city’s streets and subways.

Mr. Adams, who has made clearing homeless encampments a priority since taking office in January, said the effort would require involuntarily hospitalizing people who were a danger to themselves, even if they posed no risk of harm to others, arguing the city had a “moral obligation” to help them.

I don’t disagree. The homeless problem is often a mental illness or addiction problem.

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

Canada’s On Track To Become A Giant Liberal Party Abattoir: Justice Minister David Lametti Says Suicide & Euthanasia The Same Thing

Justice Minister David Lametti under fire for ‘unbelievable’ comparisons between euthanasia and suicide

Did Justice Minister David Lametti say the quiet part out loud?

In a recent interview for the Star’s “It’s Political” podcast, Lametti conflated medical assistance in dying (MAID) and suicide. After I expressed reservations about the expansion of MAID in March to people with mental illness without adequate social and medical supports, Lametti told me to “remember that suicide generally is available to people. This is a group within the population who, for physical reasons and possibly mental reasons, can’t make that choice themselves to do it themselves. And ultimately, this provides a more humane way for them to make a decision they otherwise could have made if they were able in some other way.”

Socialism always ends in mass murder. It’s a feature not a bug.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Danielle Smith unveils sovereignty act in attempt to shield Alberta from federal laws

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has introduced her highly anticipated sovereignty act, which would allow cabinet to direct cities, police, health authorities, universities and other entities to ignore federal laws that the government believes are unconstitutional or harmful to the province.

The bill, formally known as the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, was a central promise of Ms. Smith’s successful United Conservative Party leadership campaign, which focused on escalating the province’s fight with Ottawa on a range of issues from environmental protection to gun control. Legal scholars previously panned the idea as unconstitutional and it has been divisive even within the UCP, with former premier Jason Kenney and most of Ms. Smith’s leadership rivals condemning it during the campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada

Trudeau says he has no knowledge of China funding federal candidates, sidesteps questions of election interference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s never received any intelligence that China clandestinely funded federal candidates in the 2019 and 2021 elections but dodged repeated questions about whether he was ever informed of efforts by Beijing to interfere in Canadian elections or domestic politics.

The leaders of the Conservative Party and Bloc Québécois mounted a concerted bid on Tuesday to find out what exactly the Prime Minister knew about Chinese election meddling after the RCMP announced Monday it is investigating Chinese interference in Canadian affairs.

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

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried claims he only has $100K left in bank account

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried claims he has just $100,000 left in his bank account after the implosion of his cryptocurrency empire.

The remarks Monday marked Bankman-Fried’s first attempt to explain his current personal wealth during intense scrutiny over his handling of FTX’s finances. The firm’s new leaders have condemned Bankman-Fried’s management of the company as they navigate a disastrous bankruptcy.

For some reason I don’t believe him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Canadian Armed Forces Declares War On White People: Critical Race Theory Being Used for “Culture Change”

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Military Says Critical Race Theory Being Used for Culture Change

The ideology considers history as a struggle between the “oppressive” white people and the “oppressed” non-whites, similar to the Marxist view, which sees history as the struggle between the “bourgeoisie” and the “proletariat.”

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is attempting to overhaul its organizational culture to address discrimination and what it calls “systemic racism,” and to do so it’s in part relying on critical race theory, a quasi-Marxist ideology once confined to U.S. academia.

“Since April 2021, DND/CAF has continued to conduct research, seek expert opinions and input, and consult with Defence team members to inform and enhance our approach to conduct and culture change,” Department of National Defence (DND) spokesperson Jessica Lamirande told The Epoch Times.

No wonder they can’t find recruits. The CAF is a sick joke, CRT is a far-left extremist hate ideology targeting white people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Peak Woke", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

CAF Not Pleased That Military Members Supported the Freedom Convoy

Emails from government and Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) officials regarding soldiers and military members who were in favour of the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa in February show that officials condemned any military member supporting the protest.

The emails, now public, were submitted as part of the inquiry into the invocation of the Emergencies Act to quell the convoy protest.

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

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia, has been found guilty of seditious conspiracy, a charge arising from the attack on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

The rarely used, civil war-era charge calls for up to 20 years behind bars.

In an eight-week trial, Rhodes, a Yale Law-educated former paratrooper and disbarred attorney, was accused with four associates of fomenting a plot to use force to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Social media tools were key to ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest, expert tells inquiry

OTTAWA – Social media acted as the “central nervous system” of the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa last winter, the Public Order Emergency Commission heard Tuesday as it considered the role of misinformation in the lead up to the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

The policy phase this week follows six weeks of fact-finding hearings into the events that led to that decision, which included testimony about online threats and the role social media played in organizing the protest against COVID-19 public health measures.

Before thousands of trucks started rolling toward Ottawa last January, a loose group of protest organizers communicated mainly over TikTok and Facebook, the commission heard over those weeks of testimony. Many of them had never met in person until the protest began.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

At least 488 killed in Iran protests — NGO

Iranian security forces have killed at least 488 people in a crackdown on protests, the Iranian Human Rights (IHR) group said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said “more than 300 martyrs and people” have been killed in the unrest, the first time authorities have acknowledged such a figure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Convoy protest lawyers didn’t do their clients any favours

The lawyers representing the organizers of the infamous trucker convoy at the Emergencies Act inquiry certainly didn’t do themselves or their clients any favours over the course of the hearings.

But given that some of the legal team was funded by the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) that should come as no surprise. Its president, John Carpay, is facing professional misconduct charges following a request for a Law Society investigation into lawyers associated with the JCCF by Manitoba’s attorney general.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Canada won’t compromise values in relations with China, says foreign minister

Canada will work with China when needed – but challenge it when necessary, the country’s foreign minister said, as the two nations prepare to co-host a major environmental summit despite years of diplomatic tensions.

Speaking to the Guardian after her government released its long-awaited “Indo-Pacific Strategy”, Mélanie Joly said that Canada will “promote and defend” its national interests in a region where nations are jockeying for influence and power.

“We’re a Pacific nation and what happens there matters for Canada. The future of the Indo-Pacific is linked to ours,” she said.

In other words we’ll take our cues from Canada’s China class.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, WTF?

The Surprising Fact About Minneapolis’ Sky-High Homicide Rate

Last year, as riots, looting, and anarchy erupted on the streets of Minneapolis in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, the city saw its homicide rate skyrocket from 48 murders in 2019 to 84 last year. Things haven’t improved in Minneapolis this year, and the city could end up seeing the most murders in its history, surpassing the 97 homicides recorded in 1995. There’ve been at least 67 homicides in the city in 2021, but as PBS and the Star-Tribune newspaper report, the crime is concentrated in just a handful of the city’s neighborhoods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

The Horrors of the Holodomor Must Not Be Forgotten

The man-made famine has been buried from the beginning — and not just by its perpetrators.

Maria Katchmar was 7 when the troops came to her farm.

The soldiers entered her home in Cherkasy Oblast — a region of Ukraine along the Dnieper River — and immediately began to break everything. Windows and doors. Paintings and linens. Even pots for cooking. Her father was ordered to drown his livestock. When he refused, he was sent to Siberia — and the Soviet troops confiscated the animals anyway.

With the family’s two cows, chickens, and pigs gone, Maria’s mother left to find food, leaving her 10 children to fend for themselves for nearly a month.

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