Author: Blazingcatfur

Protests grip Iran as rights group says 19 children killed

DUBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Protests ignited by the death of a young woman in police custody continued across Iran on Sunday in defiance of a crackdown by the authorities, as a human rights group said at least 185 people, including children, had been killed in demonstrations.

Anti-government protests that began on Sept. 17 at the funeral of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in her Kurdish town of Saqez, have turned into the biggest challenge to Iran’s clerical leaders in years, with protesters calling for the downfall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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

Activist complains SC Dobbs ruling means ‘now I have to be more careful when I have sex’

It’s a fascinating thing, watching the lightbulbs flicker over the heads of liberal ladies in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which overturned the unconstitutional Roe v. Wade decision.

As pro-abortion activists continue to illegally protest with impunity outside the homes of conservative justices, the mental gymnastics they execute while trying to defend their outrage over a ruling that it seems they are incapable of fully understanding (Dobbs didn’t ban abortion, it simply returned the power to legislate the matter to the states, where it belongs) often leads to a sticky landing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Maine University Students Demand Prof Be Fired for Contradicting Their Fantasy That There are Multiple Genders

“A time is coming,” said St. Anthony the Great way back in the fourth century, “when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’” And here we are. Fox News reported Friday that “students at the University of Southern Maine (USM) are demanding that their professor be replaced for saying that only two sexes exist.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Russia realists are the new lockdown sceptics

Moral absolutism plagues our response to Ukraine

Less than a year after 9/11, Dick Cheney had a message for Americans: the “old doctrines of security do not apply… Containment is not possible when dictators obtain weapons of mass destruction.”

Cheney was referring to Saddam Hussein, but it is not difficult to imagine the current President saying something similar about his Russian counterpart. Just last week, Joe Biden stated that Vladimir Putin was “not joking” about the use of nuclear weapons, warning that “we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis”. Cheney’s hawkish worldview has been reinvigorated by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This time, however, those advocating restraint — the “realists” — are no longer just opponents, they are now enemies too.

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

The tech tyrants are out of control

PayPal’s fantasy about fining speechcriminals is a terrifying sign of the times.

Our corporate overlords are out of control. Just look at PayPal. It appears to have flirted with the idea of fining people for saying problematic things, for dealing in wrongthink. A briefly published new policy said users might have a whopping $2,500 seized from their coffers if PayPal believed they were engaged in ‘misinformation’ or ‘hate speech’. Just think about what an egregious affront this would have been not only to freedom of speech but also to the fundamentals of justice. Without a trial, presumably even without the right of representation, an individual or organisation could have been subjected to severe financial punishment on the say so of some hip moderator in California who didn’t like something they said. Tech tyranny is getting serious now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", Freedom of speech

Troubled US teenagers ‘snatched’ at their parents’ request

Thousands of American teenagers end up in correctional institutions aimed at dealing with behavioural problems and drug abuse

David Patterson was shaken from his sleep one night by two strange men who entered his bedroom and forced the 14-year-old out of bed.

It was shortly after 4am and the two men before him were holding up a pair of handcuffs.

“They said, ‘we could do this the easy way or the hard way’,” he later recalled.

He was soon bungled out of the Patterson family’s California home and into a taxi on the way to the airport. He was being “gooned” – forcibly transported to a place aimed at correcting naughty children’s behaviour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

First the Pandemic, Then the Purge

A Coast Guard technician is about to lose his job because he won’t get the jab.

The pandemic is over, but the purge continues,” Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the conservative Thomas More Society, told me.

We were talking about Zach Loesch, a Coast Guard aviation survival technician — a real hero about to lose his job because he won’t betray his deeply held beliefs.

As Hurricane Ian walloped Florida, Loesch kicked through a house wall in order to rescue a disabled woman and her husband. Then he went back to get her wheelchair. He also rescued a bunch of cats and dogs.

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

Proud Boys founder scrambling to salvage ‘bitterly divided’ group after new revelations: report

According to a report from the Daily Beast, the founder of the Proud Boys, who has been keeping his distance from the right-wing group, headed to Las Vegas weeks ago for a meet-up of members and attempted to put down a civil war in the organization that is reportedly coming apart at the seams after revelations that one key leader was an FBI informant.

With Gavin McInnes later describing it as the “weirdest experience of my life,” the report by Will Sommer states the group is still “bitterly divided” into two camps (the “Nationals” and “Standard”) with McInnes himself noting on his radio show: “Both sides say that the other side is racist and tolerates pedophiles.”

According to the report, the Proud Boys are reeling after criminal indictments and finger-pointing in what McInnes labeled a “massive civil war” between members.

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

Wood from B.C. forests is being burned for electricity billed as green — but critics say that’s deceptive

From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows.

They were cut from trees in old growth and primary forests in the province’s Interior.

This timber won’t be used to build homes or furniture, or even to make paper. These logs will be ground and compressed into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia and burned to produce fuel for electricity.

That’s why we call it a green-scam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Alberta’s Kenney urges Poilievre not to focus on ‘fringe issues’ like being a conservative

 

Outgoing Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre needs to steer away from “fringe issues” if he aims to lead not only the party but the country.

And he thinks “[Poilievre] is doing that.” Speaking to The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Kenney said, “I think he’s really in his wheelhouse, focusing on the cost of living, inflation.”

“He understands that to become prime minister, he needs to speak to the aspirations of regular Canadians, not to fringe issues.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

And so it begins… This is every resource project in Canada

How a Quebec graphite mine is dividing a community’s support for the EV revolution

The Matawinie mine is part of a larger plan to make Canada into a manufacturing hub for lithium ion batteries. But some worry the project isn’t as clean as it claims to be

The Matawinie graphite mine, located about two hours north of Montreal, is a small part of an ambitious government plan to make Canada into a manufacturing hub for lithium ion batteries. Electric cars can’t function without somewhere to store electricity, the thinking goes, meaning this country needs battery supply chains if it hopes to stay relevant in a future without fossil fuels.

But the mine has not yet begun producing graphite at commercial scale. It is still in the early phases of construction – and, like many Canadian resource projects, it is riven with controversy. Although some locals welcome the economic boost it represents for them and their neighbours, others say that whatever the project’s ultimate benefits, its effect on their community will be destructive.

I can’t wait till they start trying to build the reactors necessary to charge everyone’s EV.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Green-Scam

An American in Ukraine Finds the War He’s Been Searching For

SOLEDAR, Ukraine — “Please, come with me.”

He was begging. He didn’t have much time. The Russians were blasting this town in eastern Ukraine with rockets, airstrikes and thundering artillery. The ground shook.

Andrew Milburn, a retired Marine colonel, could have been hanging out at home, 6,000 miles away in the Florida suburbs, enjoying retirement. Instead he was standing in Soledar, a town under fierce assault, black smoke filling his nostrils, staring at a Ukrainian woman he had never met, pleading with her to evacuate.

“Please,” he tried again. “You will die here.”

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

The West is on the road to energy ruin

Green policies have crippled Europe. They will do the same to America

Since the beginning of the Ukraine war and the sanctions it triggered, energy prices have skyrocketed. President Joe Biden has called this year’s high energy prices “Putin’s price hike.” British prime minister Liz Truss told households that their high energy bills were a fair price to pay for solidarity with Ukraine. Margrethe Vestager, vice president of the European Commission, has encouraged Europeans to take short, cold showers to conserve energy. “When you turn off the water, say ‘Take that, Putin!’” she urged.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam