Author: Blazingcatfur

UK experts helped shut down Covid lab leak theory – weeks after being told it might be true

Top scientists including Sir Patrick Vallance were warned that Covid-19 could have evolved in laboratory animals, but collaborated in a paper which shut down the lab leak theory, it has emerged.

The paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, argued that a natural spillover event caused the pandemic, and was hugely instrumental in stifling debate into the origins of the virus.

But newly released emails from early 2020 show that in the weeks before publication the authors held lengthy discussions with experts, including Sir Patrick and Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust.

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

Colorado shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich appears dazed, bloodied in court

The person accused of massacring five people in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub was badly battered and covered in bruises from the rampage in new mugshots released Wednesday — after appearing visibly dazed in court.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22 — who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they/them — was seen with huge patches of discoloration on their face and neck in the mugshots after they were subdued by two bystanders in the middle of the alleged attack at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday.

More … Lefty Narratives Crumbling Everywhere: NYC Gay Bar Attacker Is a Gay Man

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Don’t bet on the Emergencies Act inquiry hurting Trudeau

The inquiry into whether Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act was justifiable has a rather peculiar look.

Inquiries normally investigate something that went wrong. Not this one. This one is probing an action that worked, that went off with few hitches, that was met, for the most part, with public acceptance.

The issue of whether the Prime Minister had the right to go so far is a big deal with anti-vaxxers and constitutional scholars and, naturally, the Conservative opposition.

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

Michael Higgins: To Quebec doctors, killing babies is just another ‘form of care’

“…because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.”

The president of the Quebec College of Physicians wants to explore the prospect of euthanizing suffering babies and believes it’s nobody’s business but doctors’.

To be fair, Dr. Mauril Gaudreault would let parents have a say as well, so he’s not being totally arrogant.

Gaudreault’s rather obscene suggestion illustrates just how far down the slippery slope we have plunged when it comes to mercy killing, euthanasia, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) , call it what you will.

Everything new is Nazi again!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEugenics, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

All Quiet in the Audience?

The new version of a World War I classic raises uncomfortable questions about war movies, and those who make them.

The original Hollywood adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s bestselling 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts neues) hit America’s movie houses in April of 1930. Considering that the first talkie, The Jazz Singer — a semi-talkie, really, in which the sound quality was pretty primitive — had been released only two and a half years earlier, All Quiet, directed by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by Maxwell Anderson (the distinguished playwright) and George Abbott (later a top Broadway director), was a remarkable achievement: a war epic that’s still not just watchable but downright effective, right up to its heartbreaking final shot — as in both camera shot and gunshot. 

Great production values, great everything except somehow it can’t hold a candle to the original.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW I

COP27’s bait and switch

Integrity Matters, a report from the UN high-level expert group chaired by former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna, was launched at COP27 last week. Down here at the lower levels, we think its implications should concern, if not even alarm, all Canadians.

So far Canada’s various climate plans and agreements have set emissions targets that balance the production of greenhouse gases against removals from the atmosphere, whether by tree-planting, sequestration or other means. The current plan is that by 2030 we reduce our net emissions by 40-45 per cent from what they were in 2005. But now McKenna’s report is pushing hard, not for offsets, but for absolute reductions in GHG emissions — in other words, for taking much of the “net” out of “net-zero.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Liberty Is Worth the Fight

Freedom’s future always depends upon the courage of a lonely few.

“There comes a time,” Martin Luther King Jr. advised, “when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” Moral imperative, in other words, outweighs personal security, political correctness, and the psychological comfort of identifying with the crowd. During troubling times of human violence and suffering, it is always the lonely few — either blessed with innate courage or made resolute through private, grinding struggle — who dare to take a stand against encroaching evils tacitly accepted by the many. Such is the power of individual free will when man chooses principle as his guide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Unexplained wealth orders will make life harder for B.C. criminals: compliance expert

VANCOUVER – Plans by the British Columbia government to confiscate suspected proceeds of crime with “unexplained wealth orders” are drawing praise from an expert in financial compliance as a way to make life harder from criminals.

Alexandra Wrage, CEO of Trace International, a global business association focused on commercial transparency and good governance, said unexplained wealth orders would help to redress and deter financial crime in the province, including money laundering.

I see a well intended idea abused by corrupt law enforcement. Asset seizures in the US have been nothing less than state sanctioned theft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Good Intentions Paving Company", Crime

Carlson: There Is a Tolerance for Pedophilia Among the Most Powerful in Our Society

Carlson: There Is a Tolerance for Pedophilia Among the Most Powerful in Our Society

Wednesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson criticized the media for ignoring what he deemed to be the sexual exploitation of children, referring to Balenciaga’s child “bondage” ad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"

Police task force busts Los Angeles train cargo theft rings

One year after gangs of thieves looted Western Pacific trains leaving Los Angeles, a police task force has brought down two cartels that stole $18 million in high-priced goods and sold them through online marketplaces.

It was a familiar sight to see tracks leaving the Port of Los Angeles littered with boxes and debris during late 2021, the result of burglars who rifled through slow-moving trains loaded with goods. The items were destined for stores across the nation that had been decimated by the pandemic and awaited new goods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Alberta justice minister calls for firing of RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki

Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro is calling on the federal government to fire RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, saying her continued tenure is damaging to the national police force.

In a statement Wednesday, Shandro calls on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to immediately rescind Lucki’s appointment.

“Alberta has lost confidence” in Lucki, Shandro said in the statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRCMP