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Tucker Carlson confirms that Kanye West is not crazy

Never judge a celebrity by how the media paints him

Tucker Carlson has tackled a question that has long puzzled Cockburn: is Kanye West crazy?

Ye has had his fair share of controversial moments: he appeared on a 2006 cover of Rolling Stone mimicking Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns. He infamously stormed the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards stage to tell Taylor Swift she didn’t deserve her award. For the past couple years, he’s been battling ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her family, during which time he also became religious, started hosting Sunday Services, and bought a ranch in Cody, Wyoming, which he tried to sell but then took off the market. Most recently, Ye incited establishment ire by wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt alongside conservative firebrand buddy Candace Owens at Paris Fashion Week.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2022October 8, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

The Twin Crusades Against Drugs and Guns

The war on drugs conspires with the war on guns to make a mockery of justice.

Weldon Angelos grew up in a musical family. His father, a Greek immigrant, aspired to be a country singer, while relatives on his mother’s side were jazz and country musicians. Angelos’ tastes were somewhat different: By his early 20s, he had gotten a start as a rap producer.

Angelos had collaborated with well-known hip-hop artists, including Snoop Dogg. He had his own label in Salt Lake City, Extravagant Records. To supplement his income and support his two young children, Angelos also sold marijuana, which is how he ended up with a 55-year federal prison sentence.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Crime

How quickly the First World can become the Third!

How quickly the “First World” can become the Third. How fast people can pivot from sanctimonious, virtue-signaling hypocrites into realists trying to survive. How ironic it is that this occurs concurrently with the assault on free-market capitalism and the abundance of wealth, food, comfort, and infrastructure that only it can provide. And the simultaneous abandonment of standards and abasement of history, tradition, and culture that has led to chaos and destruction in too many of our cities.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Decline & Fall

The New York Times can’t keep playing the conspiracy card

A stream of corrections is undermining the newspaper’s credibility

The New York Times has, yet again, issued a humiliating correction. Earlier this week, the paper ran a story about a Michigan-based elections software company becoming “a conspiracy theory target” over supposed “election falsehoods”. One example was the claim that Konnech, the company in question, was improperly sharing voter data with China. Yet just 24 hours later, the CEO of Konnech was arrested after investigators found it had stored voter data…in China.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•New York Times

The FBI’s Double Standard on Abortion

“They know who these people are. They’re choosing not to make arrests.”

Last month, The Mother and Unborn Baby Care Center, a pregnancy center in Southfield, Michigan, was vandalized causing thousands of dollars in damages. Graffiti left behind reading, “If abortion isn’t safe neither are you, Jane” linked the attack to Jane’s Revenge, a leftist pro-abortion domestic terrorist group that is believed to be responsible for as many as 50 attacks on pregnancy centers and pro-life groups.

Southfield police notified the FBI which refused to comment on the case.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Abortion debate, FBI

Berkeley Law’s “Jew-Free Zone” Controversy

In August, nine student groups at Berkeley law school signed a statement sponsored group Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine pledging not to invite “speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views … in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”

Two things need to be clarified. First, by “support” for “the occupation of Palestine” SJP means “supports the existence of Israel.” So any speaker who thinks Israel should exist is forbidden. Second, the pledge is to not invite any speaker on any subject who comes within the scope of the ban. So, for example, if the “Women of Berkeley Law” group wanted to invite a speaker from NARAL to speak about post-Dobbs abortion rights activism, the group would decline to do so if the speaker has ever publicly stated that she’s not in favor of Israel being destroyed (the flip side of Israel existing).

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, Israel bashing

The Russian question

The unravelling of Russian power will shape the future of Europe.

Russia is in a bad place. The war in Ukraine is not going to plan. And its influence over the other nations in its region is starting to unravel.

Until recently, the question of how to integrate a still powerful Russia into the world order was either downplayed or ignored by the West. But no more. Western policymakers and their international allies are finally waking up to the fact that history did not come to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unresolved questions and conflicts dating back to the early part of the 20th century are coming to the fore once again. This means that, beyond the bloody war in Ukraine, there are other, potentially far more devastating, conflicts ready to erupt.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

‘Move before I pull my gun out!’ Outraged DC commuter threatens to SHOOT climate change activists for blocking busy interstate

Commuters in Washington got into a raging confrontation with climate activists on their way to the nation’s capital Friday, with one even threatening to shoot protesters blocking the highway.

A group called Declare Emergency, which is demanding President Joe Biden declare a ‘climate emergency,’ sat themselves down on I-395, one of the main routes to Washington, and refused to get up.

That soon prompted a furious backlash from drivers. One woman got out of her car and threatened the rabble with a gun if they refused to let her past to go see her mom, while an irate man ripped placards out of the group’s hands and tossed them above the median and onto the other side of the interstate.

"Move before I pull my gun out" said a driver to protesters, claiming her mother is in the hospital.

The group let her drive by.

"Test me, fucking test me" she yelled as one activist backed up.

She later told me the driver indeed grabbed a gun then, which my cam didn't catch. pic.twitter.com/uIp8Pwhoa1

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 7, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau talks out of both sides of his mouth on Iran

The Trudeau government is sucking and blowing at the same time by publicly calling Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — the thugs now terrorizing the brave women of Iran — a terrorist organization, while refusing to declare this under Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Iran

Rex Murphy: Canada’s Green party withers on the vine

The swirl and drama of world events can take the mind from all that counts. When a greatly loved monarch, the longest-reigning and probably the most pleasant regent in all history, dies, it steals the headlines from everything else.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Green Party

The last of the Covidians

How should we treat those who refuse to acknowledge the pandemic is over?

They walk among us. The last of the Covidians. We see them every day, masked while walking their dog in the park, or alone in their car. We have that friend or loved one who badgers us about vaccines and boosters like a mid-level PR executive at Pfizer.

There is also the social media warrior who will never admit they got anything wrong about lockdowns, that even with our economy and education system in shambles, we should be grateful.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

The Post-Pandemic Proves the Left Is a Monster

Its ideology is crazed, deformed, and incongruous.

I hate government rescue plans. Whenever the government comes to my rescue, I drown. The post-COVID bailout plan is turning out to be the biggest incompetence fest of the century: in both Europe and the United States, governments are funding environmental awareness activities, checks for kids to buy video games, or drag queen activities for kids like at the San Francisco Public Library’s Queer Cultural Center (ora pro nobis). Even before I get into the aberration that each of these initiatives is, a question comes to mind: what the hell does that have to do with the post-pandemic economic recovery? Nothing, of course.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Big Deviant

How your right to know is getting stymied by the Denial Machine

Thirty-nine years ago, after a wave of post-Watergate epiphanies about government secrecy, the Canadian government passed the first federal Access to Information Act. Ever since then it is has been building a denial machine.

It would be easy to pin the blame on secretive politicians trying to obstruct the public’s ability to know what is going on inside government, because they have done that. Prime ministers including Justin Trudeau and his predecessor, Stephen Harper, have broken promises to open government.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Big Brother

GUNTER: Smith would do well to tie Notley to Trudeau ahead of spring Alberta election

If you want to know why Danielle Smith’s anti-Ottawa message was so popular during the recently concluded UCP leadership campaign, consider this one statistic. Annual investment in Alberta’s energy sector remains only about one-half of what it was before the world price of oil collapsed in 2014.

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Other oil-producing countries, such as the United States, Norway and Saudi Arabia, that aren’t in the midst of war or domestic turmoil (Russia, Venezuela, Iran), have seen their oil and gas investment return to 70 per cent or more of 2014 levels. But not Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Alberta

Thanks to the Biden Administration, Russia and Iran Are Closer than Ever

Thanks to the Biden administration’s weak, or absent, leadership, Russia and the regime of Iran’s mullahs have become closer, more emboldened and more empowered than ever.

The two bedfellows, the authoritarian regimes of Russia and Iran, are, thanks to the Biden administration, running the Iran nuclear talks, while the US waits out in the hall. Russia’s chief negotiator, Mikhail Ulyanov, earlier this year praised his Iranian “colleagues”:

“I am absolutely sincere in this regard when I say that Iran got much more than it could expect [from the Biden administration]. Our Chinese friends were also very efficient and useful as co-negotiators.”

Ulyanov also said that the Iranian leaders “are fighting for [their] national interest like lions. They fight for every comma, every word, and as a rule, quite successfully.”

The US, certainly it’s State Dept., wants a strong Iran as a counterpoint to Israel. This will ease their exit from the ME. Or so they believe.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•Iran