Author: Blazingcatfur

Iran: Freedom-Lovers Win a Round

As the uprising in Iran enters its fourth week, speculation about its future is rife.

Participants insist that they are on the path to victory, achieving regime change. They cite a number of reasons.

To start with, this is the first time that a national uprising isn’t about any particular grievance that could be rectified by the regime; what is at stake is total rejection of a system.

Next, there is the fact that the regime has been unable to regain control of the public space with the speed and efficiency it did on other occasions since 1979.

The Mullahs are shooting protesters. The protesters are not shooting back. Hold on to your guns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

‘You All Got Caught With Your Sparkly Panties Down’: Mom Wrecks School Board Over Halloween Drag Show

Parents made their voices heard at a school board meeting last week after a North San Diego County school district’s digital community page advertised a “family friendly” Halloween drag show for children and families.

One outraged mother, Brittany Mayer, accused the Encinitas Unified School District school board members of “pimping out” the district’s children to a transgender surgical facility and a 21-and-over gay bar, apparent sponsors of the event.

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

Xi: China will never rule out use of force in Taiwan

President Xi Jinping opened the 20th Communist Party Congress on Sunday. In his speech, Xi said China has not ruled out the use of force regarding Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing considers Chinese territory.

“We insist on striving for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and with the greatest efforts,” he said. “However, we are not committed to abandoning the use of force and we reserve the option to take all necessary measures,” he said.

He added that “the resolution of the Taiwan issue is a matter for the Chinese themselves to decide.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

College leftists expand campaign to silence all talk of Zionism and Israel

On college campuses across the nation, progressive activists have accelerated their efforts to silence and ban any talk of Zionism. Last month, in a campaign initiated by Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) at Berkeley Law at the University of California Berkeley, nine progressive law groups amended their collective bylaws to exclude speakers that support “Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.” The LSJP claimed it as a win for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left

Tens of Thousands March in Paris to Protest Rising Living Costs

PARIS — Tens of thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to protest rising living costs, amid an increasingly tense political atmosphere marked by strikes at oil refineries and nuclear plants that threaten to spread further.

The march had been planned long before the strikes by a coalition of left-wing parties eager to capitalize on the cost-of-living crisis and assert itself as the leading opposition force to President Emmanuel Macron. But on Sunday, organizers signaled that they intended to build momentum from the climate of social unrest to increase pressure on Mr. Macron’s government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "Ukraine - Russia", France

While Condemning Racism, Racist MSNBC Laments ‘Latinos Who Are White’

For the second time in a week, an MSNBC segment that was meant to condemn racism ended up with the segment’s participants spewing hateful and racist comments towards others. This time, the incident occurred on Saturday’s The Cross Connection as host Tiffany Cross and Prof. Tanya Hernandez reacted to the Los Angeles City Council racism scandal by lamenting that some Latinos try to be and are “white.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

A growing wave of targeted police killings

In Bristol, Connecticut this week, two police officers were murdered and a third was wounded by gunfire in what was clearly an ambush after a phony 911 call was received. Thankfully, the wounded police officer, rather than retreating, returned fire and killed the attacker, saving the public the bother of a trial. This would obviously be grim news under any circumstances, but the attack does not appear to be just some random, one-off act by a maniac.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

‘An Empty World Is a Sad World:‘ Internal Facebook Documents Show the Metaverse Is Failing to Take Off

Facebook’s “Horizon Worlds” metaverse, which allows users to interact in virtual worlds with an avatar, is falling far short of performance expectations according to internal documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Data shows most users of the metaverse don’t return after the first month, and the userbase has been in continuous decline since the spring.

It looks ridiculous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Provincial war of words with Trudeau government hides the real crisis Canada is facing

MONTREAL—Federalism as usual or constitutional crisis in the making? What is one to make of the fighting words coming out of various provincial capitals these days?

To separate the wheat from the chaff — and there is quite a bit of the latter — the place to start may be the state of play in some top-of-mind files.

All involve, at least to some degree, the notion of provincial autonomy within the federation, but they are each playing out on distinct scenes and will likely be resolved in different venues.

Healthcare? Enough to topple Trudeau?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Conservative Muslims join forces with Christian right on Michigan book bans

A recent school board meeting at which about 1,000 people gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, to pressure district officials to censor books with LGBTQ+ themes was in most ways similar to hundreds of other recent book ban hearings across the US.

… At the meeting’s conclusion, Dearborn resident Jackson Wagner stood up and declared that he was gay, and told the audience: “The far right in this country despises us all.

“Dearborn should be a city where everyone knows they’re safe and loved and supported,” he continued. Moments later, boos rained down as he concluded his brief speech, and he was confronted by Anoun, who had to be ordered back to his seat by police.

But Muslims aren’t terrorists like those awful “far-right” parents but I’d suggest a change of address for Mr. Wagner.

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

Evin prison fire: Several dead after fire at Iran’s notorious detention centre

Four prisoners have died and 61 have been injured following a major fire at Iran’s notorious Evin prison, according to an Iranian state news agency.

Sources inside the prison – which is known for housing political prisoners – have told BBC Persian the number of casualties is higher.

Videos shared online showed flames and smoke at the site in Tehran, and gunshots and explosions could be heard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Teacher who was sacked ‘after refusing to address schoolgirl, eight, with male pronouns’ launches judicial review over claims ‘transgender affirming’ policy is harming children

A primary school teacher who lost her job after she refused to address an eight-year-old pupil with male pronouns has launched legal action against the school’s governors and the local council.

The anonymous teacher is bringing a judicial review after she was sacked by the school earlier this year, with the case to be heard in the High Court in Birmingham next week.

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

Why ‘Pivoting’ Isn’t an Option for Smith and Poilievre

Winning a party leadership race and winning a general election are two very different things. Policies that appeal to the party faithful may appear unsellable to a large segment of the population.

Newly minted conservative leaders Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith must now figure out the balancing act between staying true to their leadership campaign promises and presenting a winning political product to the electorate. There can be no doubt that self-styled political experts were whispering into the ears of both new leaders and counselling them to pivot from their leadership stances the moment they won their respective races.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The Emergencies Act inquiry will judge whether its use was strictly necessary. Public opinion will judge the rest

Whatever else the public inquiry into the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end the chaos in downtown Ottawa earlier this year may or may not determine, it has already triumphantly vindicated one thing: the Emergencies Act itself.

The inquiry, formally known as the Public Order Emergency Commission, was not struck at the government’s discretion, but was explicitly mandated by the act, as was the joint parliamentary committee that is already holding hearings. The government will not be able to avail itself of the “if you knew what we knew” defence, beloved of tyrants everywhere: After the commission has finished its work, we will know what they knew.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government