Author: Blazingcatfur

Blaming Trump

It is truly startling to review the extent to which conservative thinkers, writers, and commentators have joined in the vituperative Democrat and media campaign against their former president and benefactor. Blaming Trump causes evident glee in conservatism’s enemies, who have had Trump in their crosshairs for six years and more. Democrats report conservative disputes and backbiting with great satisfaction. We should not endorse such strategic machinations, which demoralize our side and give succor and aid to those who wish us permanently in the political wilderness — a wish, if things do not change, they may well realize.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

The FBI and Disinformation

A worthy inquiry for a Republican House.

Now that Republicans appear poised to capture a House majority, what should they do with it? This column is largely in agreement with those urging the GOP to focus on thoughtful legislative proposals to advance individual liberty and fiscal sanity, rather than partisan investigations. But there is at least one issue at the heart of individual liberty that demands investigation, even if Democrats aren’t eager to participate. U.S. citizens will not continue to enjoy foundational constitutional liberties if the FBI is permitted to abuse its powers as it did in targeting the 2016 Trump campaign and may have done in assisting the 2020 Biden campaign. A responsible defense of our First Amendment freedoms requires a thorough inquiry to determine to what extent the FBI and other federal agencies lean on social media companies to suppress government-designated “disinformation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI

The Nineties: our last decade of freedom?

There is a telling moment in former GQ editor Dylan Jones’s insider account of the 1990s, Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That. Loaded journalist Martin Deeson has gatecrashed a Cannes Film Festival party with his photographer in tow. ‘I ordered a large scotch, two gin and tonics, two glasses of champagne and then asked Derek what he wanted’, recalls Deeson. The two journalists then staggered around rat-arsed chatting to various A-listers before bumping into Sixties style icon Terence Stamp: ‘After looking at me for a while Stamp said, “I just don’t think I want to talk to you”, and walked away.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Europe faces ‘cancer epidemic’ after estimated 1m cases missed during Covid

Experts have warned that Europe faces a “cancer epidemic” unless urgent action is taken to boost treatment and research, after an estimated 1m diagnoses were missed during the pandemic.

The impact of Covid-19 and the focus on it has exposed “weaknesses” in cancer health systems and in the cancer research landscape across the continent, which, if not addressed as a matter of urgency, will set back cancer outcomes by almost a decade, leading healthcare and scientific experts say.

A report, European Groundshot – Addressing Europe’s Cancer Research Challenges: a Lancet Oncology Commission, brought together a wide range of patient, scientific, and healthcare experts with detailed knowledge of cancer across Europe.

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

Let’s imagine Europe with 30% of its citizens Muslim – it’s almost reality

Is Israel going to crack down on criminal Israeli Arab behavior? Europe has let itself be taken over. Will we learn?

“What will Denmark be like if a third are Muslims? Here is a vision of a dystopian future. We are at a crossroads. We can passively watch as voluntary apartheid spreads, or we can have an honest conversation about how society will change as Democrats and Islamists segregate from each other”.

A few lines are enough to understand how sensational the essay beginning with this paragraph and published by the main Danish newspaper, the liberal Politiken, is. Birgithe Kosovic, multi-award-winning writer, wrote it.

“If you understand the gravity of this, then you will be afraid for yourself when you say these things out loud. Immigration from non-Western countries is in the process of dividing the national community in the once homogeneous Western European countries”

The elite can celebrate “diversity” in restaurants, away from the real world. “But integration is a utopian dream. And it is not the state that leads to division and segregation, but the reluctant population,” she writes.

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

Donald Trump announces 2024 presidential run to make US ‘great and glorious again’

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump ended months of speculation and launched his bid to retake the White House in 2024 Tuesday, in an early attempt to clear the GOP primary field ahead of a potential rematch against Joe Biden.

“Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, America’s comeback starts right now,” Trump, 76, told hundreds of cheering supporters who gathered in the ornate ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago resort for the official announcement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Drug shortages worsen across Canada, extend beyond kids’ pain and fever meds

HALIFAX – Drugstore shortages in Canada are now extending beyond the children’s pain and fever medication aisle into other over-the-counter and prescription drugs as supply problems worsen across the country.

Hundreds of medications are either running low or out of stock completely, with some store shelves depleted of children’s allergy medication, adult cough and cold syrup, eye drops and even some oral antibiotics, industry experts say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Tories Ask Feds to Identify 11 ChiCom Spy Candidates Who Allegedly Received Funding From Red China

Conservative MP Michael Chong is calling on the Liberal government to identify the 11 candidates who allegedly received funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 2019 federal election.

“It is clear that Beijing interfered in last year’s 2021 election. Beijing’s ambassador to Canada commented critically and publicly during that election campaign and Beijing spread disinformation through proxies on Chinese-language social media platforms,” Chong, who is the shadow minister for foreign affairs, said in Parliament on Nov. 14.

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

Lucki blames lack of rules for allegations of political interference

Under fire over claims of political interference, Lucki calls for new rules on RCMP’s relationship with Ottawa

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says it’s time to bring in better guardrails between the national police force and the federal government to avoid future allegations of political interference.

“I think it’s time that we put something to writing that outlines the what you can and cannot do from both the commissioner’s perspective and the politicians,” she said under questioning at the Emergencies Act inquiry on Tuesday.

“I think it’s time to clarify, because it’s been a topic of conversation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRCMP

From our bulging everything is racist file … Girl Guides of Canada renaming ‘Brownies’

Girl Guides of Canada renaming ‘Brownies’ as it’s caused ‘personal harm’ to racialized girls

Girl Guides of Canada announced Tuesday that the organization is renaming “Brownies,” as it says the name has caused “personal harm” to racialized girls and the change will reflect its goals of empowering girls.

“We heard from several members and former members that the name Brownies has caused them personal harm, so we are changing the name of this branch to further remove barriers for belonging for racialized girls and women,” Jill Zelmanovits, CEO of Girl Guides of Canada, said in a press release.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", WTF?

Sam Bankman-Fried was hailed as the next Warren Buffett. Now he looks more like the next Elizabeth Holmes. Or perhaps Bernie Madoff.

The $32 Billion Crypto Scammer

“The Next Warren Buffett.” That’s how Fortune magazine dubbed Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto wunderkind who wore shorts, schlubby socks, and sneakers on stage with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. But Bankman-Fried, worth an estimated $32 billion at his height, wouldn’t just be a financial oracle like Buffett. He would also be the second-coming of George Soros: By the end of this midterm election cycle, he’d become the second largest donor to the Democratic Party.

Over the past few days, all of that has come spectacularly undone.

Now, Bankman-Fried looks, at best, like the original storyline for Michael Saylor of Microstrategy during the Dotcom bust. Or, more likely, like Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy. Or, with increasing plausibility, like a less civic-minded Bernie Madoff. 

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

Nigeria Jihadists Kill Women Over Witchcraft Charges

Boko Haram jihadists killed a group of women in Nigeria after accusing them of witchcraft following the death of a militant commander’s children in northeast Borno State, relatives, residents and a woman who escaped have told AFP.

Accusations of witchcraft are not uncommon in Nigeria, a religious conservative country almost equally divided between the mostly Muslim north and Christian south.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

Socialized Medicine Is No Cure: Britain’s Broken Benefit System

Winning the hearts and minds of society is arguably easier to achieve by promising hand-outs. Also, especially in the age of rapid communication, emotion sells — a handy method for sneaking political takeovers through the back door. So, when it comes to something as fraught with emotion as medicine, it is difficult to argue the downsides for fear of appearing heartless.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"