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Defence minister insists Canada is prepared to face evolving global threats provided they are no more complex than gum chewing and walking

National Defence Minister Anita Anand insists Canada is ready to handle evolving global threats, after missile explosions in Poland prompted concerns about Russia’s war in Ukraine spilling into a NATO country, a tense interaction between the prime minister and China’s president was caught on video, North Korea tested a ballistic missile, and a new report from Canada’s auditor general states there’s a lack of preparedness to properly survey the Arctic, this week.

In an interview with CTV’s Question Period with Joyce Napier, airing Sunday, Anand said it’s vital Canada “be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•Canada

Ukraine says negotiating with Russia would be ‘capitulation’: Zelensky’s presidential advisor condemns West’s ‘bizarre’ attempts to persuade them to enter peace talks

The West’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow are ‘bizarre’ and amount to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian presidency has declared.

‘When you have the initiative on the battlefield, it’s slightly bizarre to receive proposals like: ”you will not be able to do everything by military means anyway, you need to negotiate,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak.

This would mean that the country ‘that recovers its territories, must capitulate to the country that is losing,’ he added during an interview in the presidency building in Kyiv this week.

#Ukraine: The 68th Jager Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army hit a Russian tank on the move with an ATGM, knocking it out. pic.twitter.com/BgltpYhzSU

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

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Which Came First? The Chicken or the Laboratory?

The Food and Drug Administration has happily approved Upside Foods’s sale of lab-grown meat for human consumption, simultaneously announcing their openness to other companies with similar approaches to meat production.

Researchers have been working on cloning organs in the lab for years, allegedly always for honorable medical purposes. Now they want to take cells from biopsies of farm animals, and grow synthetic meat from them in a sterile laboratory, to sell for food.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•The Future

CNN Cans Producer Idris Mukhtar Ibrahim After He Posts About Praising Hamas Terrorism & Writing ‘#TeamHitler’ On Twitter

CNN canned freelance producer Idris Mukhtar Ibrahim after he praised Hamas terrorism and wrote “#TeamHitler” on one of his posts.

HonestReporting revealed Ibrahim, who worked as a producer covering international stories for the network, including reporting on Israel, he wrote a story about Israel’s incoming coalition on November 13.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia"

Old Iranian Slogan Conquers the World

The three-word slogan — “woman, life, freedom” — launched by Iranian protesters in the past two months seems to have found a global resonance that few expected. You see it on giant posters in Tokyo, on a wall in the central railway station in Amsterdam, in neon-light messages in Rio de Janeiro, and scribbled on walls from Indonesia to Argentina.

Hundreds of thousands of women from all walks of life across the globe have cut their hair in solidarity with the Iranian protesters. Suddenly, the global limelight is on womanhood as both a reality and a concept.

Anti-regime protests in Iran have entered their third month and are giving no signs of slowing down. Youths of #Javandroud were out in the streets to support their protesting compatriots elsewhere in the country. #IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/Gev48GSIIg

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) November 20, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•Iran

In eastern Poland, Putin’s war has turned former enemies into friends

Patriot missiles ring the airport in the Polish border city of Rzeszów, and US troops have taken over the Holiday Inn opposite the terminal. On its runway, once the preserve of budget carriers, private jets are lined up beside cargo planes crammed with weapons.

The bristling circle of military protection, set up hastily in early spring as the historic town became the world’s gateway to the war in Ukraine, is both a shield and a constant reminder of the conflict on its doorstep.

When a Russian-made missile slammed into a farm and killed two men in the village of Przewodów, about 100 miles away, many people wondered if it was enough.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

The World Cup has always been a political football

But woke soccerism has made Qatar 2022 even worse.

In the run-up to the World Cup, the nations of an entire continent voted to boycott football’s biggest tournament, to take a stand against racism and inequality.

But this was not a protest against homophobia and oppression in Qatar, controversial host of the 2022 World Cup. Despite all of their pious posturing about Qatar, there is no chance of football nations sacrificing cash and kudos by boycotting the tournament this time. (Although some might wish they had taken the ethical high ground if they’re knocked out early.)

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Bread and Circuses"

Duke and Duchess of Sussex to receive human rights award after ‘heroic stand’ against royal ‘racism’

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be honoured with a prestigious human rights award after taking a stand against “structural racism” within the monarchy, it has emerged.

The couple will receive the Ripple of Hope award on Dec 6 at a glittering gala ceremony that honours “exemplary leaders” who have demonstrated “an unwavering commitment” to social change.

The annual event is organised by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights foundation, named after former president John F Kennedy’s younger brother, who was assassinated in 1968.

No goin back now Harry.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Woke Royals", WTF?

Reminder: The Club Q Shooting May Not Be What the Left Wants You to Believe It Is

Late Saturday night, police responded to a shooting at a gay nightclub called “Club Q” in Colorado Springs, Colo. According to reports, five people are dead and at least another 18 were injured.

It’s early enough that those numbers could change. Yet, before we even know all the facts, the left has already decided who is to blame: Republicans.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Mass Shooting"

Britain was founded on racism, say almost half of young people in poll

Almost half of young people believe Britain was founded on racism and continues to be “structurally racist” today, research has found.

The revelation has prompted concerns that children are being taught contested ideas as fact in the classroom, with six in 10 school leavers saying they had been taught concepts associated with “critical race theory”.

The research was carried out by Eric Kaufmann, an academic at Birkbeck, University of London, for the Policy Exchange think-tank.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, UK

Conrad Black: Klaus Schwab’s obsession with pushing global governance

Last week at the G20 meeting in Indonesia, as U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping wasted their time talking about global warming, a subject the People’s Republic does not take seriously, instead of the origins of COVID or the status of Taiwan, to my utter astonishment, the face and voice of the “Great Reset” appeared. This is the jargon for the readjustment in the world towards so-called stakeholder capitalism that is the ambition of the conveners of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The forum began in 1971 as a conference where a few political leaders and celebrities from different industries and activities gathered and the occasion was paid for by admission fees happily tendered by a selection of prosperous people from different countries who wished to rub shoulders with the prominent featured guests. It was a winning commercial formula and it grew and grew. It never moved to a more commodious and stylish place than the dreary and remote Swiss town of Davos.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2022November 20, 2022•0•World Economic Forum

I’ve seen what’s on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Why hasn’t the rest of America?

I was expecting to hear more about Hunter Biden’s laptop after the midterm elections. But I wasn’t expecting it quite this fast. On Thursday, a day after the Republican Party scraped a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, the Republican congressman James Comer said he would lead an investigation into the overseas business activities of President Biden’s son. But he made clear the real target of his inquiry.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Biden Family Sleaze"

Frozen Bank Accounts, Again: The Arrival of a New Tyranny

Not long ago, I wrote a piece highlighting the arrival of a new form of political control, namely governments’ authorization of banks—without due process—to freeze the bank accounts of members of their citizenry. I noted that this was a form of coercion that had existed in China for some years now, and had recently been adopted by Russia, but I emphasised that it had also been deployed by the Canadian government against a minority of its population—those who participated in the ‘truckers’ protests’—with zero uproar from Canada’s allied nations. I feared that UK parliamentarians had been silent over this tyrannical quashing of the late Queen’s subjects across the Atlantic because, as I wrote then, they were likely “looking over at this innovative model of political control and thinking, ‘Golly, what a clever idea!’”

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2022November 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

WTF?

H/T RH

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

Rupa Subramanya: Canada’s illiberal backsliding

Is Canada becoming an illiberal democracy?

That description is typically associated with developing countries such as India, or recent democracies such as Hungary, where right-of-centre governments are accused by western observers of democratic backsliding and an illiberal turn. It’s ironic, then, that, by some measures, Canada, which we once assumed to be a bastion of liberal democracy, is becoming increasingly illiberal.

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