Author: Blazingcatfur

John Ivison: If Canada can’t properly arm the Ukrainians, we can train more of them to fight

OTTAWA — For decades, Prestwick Airport was the only airport in Scotland offering transatlantic flights — hundreds of thousands of Scots flew to their new home in Canada from the west-coast hub.

Now, Canadians are going the other way. In March, the military set up a facility at Prestwick to receive and redirect cargo aid to Ukraine. This week, Defence Minister Anita Anand said the detachment would be expanded to 55 Canadian Forces personnel and a third aircraft added to transport equipment. The facility now proudly boasts a piece of A4 paper with the words: “Welcome to CFB Prestwick” printed on them.

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

Parkland shooting trial: Can warning signs stop a mass shooting?

Prosecutors in a high-profile US school shooting case have argued that the gunman should get the death penalty. While each mass shooting in the US is its own tragedy, experts say the killers share many things in common. Could identifying these traits help stop the next attack?

In the days and months leading up to the attack in Parkland, Florida, the killer listened to the same song on repeat: “Pumped up kicks,” by Foster the People.

The song’s plucky, whistle-tuned melody clashes with lyrics about a bullied teen who seeks revenge by shooting up his school.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

When Iran’s ‘morality police’ came for me

The “morality police” came for me exactly 13 minutes into my lecture on gender and sexual politics in post-revolutionary Iran. Four sets of auditorium doors swung open simultaneously. In they came, boots pounding, weapons clanking. The Tehran lecture hall erupted in confusion as the komiteh, as the morality police are known, filled the room.

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

Antidepressants, Empathy, and Democracy

Is the American way of life threatened by the growing proportion of citizens taking psychiatric medications?

You can learn much about what a civilization lacks by observing what sentiments it elevates as an ideal. The ancient Greeks, who invented the concept of the “golden mean” between extremes, were, on the basis of Greek tragedy and historical accounts, given to wild eruptions of rage. For years now, Americans have exalted empathy as our king of sentiments, but on the evidence of everyday life, empathy is in short supply.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime

Censorship of wrongthink by Big Tech at the behest of the government is government censorship, which violates the First Amendment

One warm weekend in October of 2020, three impeccably credentialed epidemiologists—Jayanta Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff, of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Universities respectively—gathered with a few journalists, writers, and economists at an estate in the Berkshires where the American Institute for Economic Research had brought together critics of lockdowns and other COVID-related government restrictions. On Sunday morning shortly before the guests departed, the scientists encapsulated their views—that lockdowns do more harm than good, and that resources should be devoted to protecting the vulnerable rather than shutting society down—in a joint communique dubbed the “Great Barrington Declaration,” after the town in which it was written.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Fury over ‘special treatment’ for ISIS Beatle behind horrific beheadings

Fury erupted today over the ‘special treatment’ handed to a British ISIS ‘Beatle’ who killed four hostages as it emerged he would be spared spending the rest of his life in an American supermax prison after concerns were raised about his mental health.

El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, or ‘Ringo’ will allegedly not be jailed in solitary confinement at ADX Florence in Colorado – but instead he’ll spend his sentence at a less restrictive prison on the same site known as USP Florence High.

Elsheikh, from West London, received eight life sentences after committing ‘some of the most barbaric terrorist acts ever seen’ as part of the twisted ‘ISIS Beatles’ group which captured, tortured and killed a group of journalists and aid workers in Syria in 2014.

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

Whether the fake boobs teacher was a hoax or not it shows where the power lies

Last week there was internet uproar at the discovery that a male teacher in Ontario goes to work wearing breasts so huge they’d be absurd by the standards of a seaside postcard.

Photographs of this individual, known as “Kayla Lemieux”, were reportedly leaked by students uncomfortable with the situation. The fake breasts are indeed so gargantuan, and the nipples so prominent, that it’s difficult to see how anyone could wear them except as either fetish gear or a prank.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Abusive Man Evades Justice with Administrative Sex Change

A society in which individuals may legally select a gender other than their biological sex has had some tragic consequences, some concerning the legal protections alotted to biological women. One of these outcomes is on display in the media now. This summer, a Spanish woman, Carmen, was attacked by a man, Agustín, who months earlier had legally altered his gender to female: a maneuver that restricts the woman from prosecuting her attacker to the full extent of the law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Space Force Promotes ‘White Rage’

“Only whites can be racist.”

“Over 200 years ago, Britain’s King George III was forced to accept a Declaration of Independence from former white subjects residing as immigrants in what was to become the United States of America,” reads a paragraph from a book on the Space Force’s reading list.

“Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence” by Derald Wing Sue condemns the “hypocrisy” of the Founding Fathers and claims that the United States “was formed from the fabric of racial oppression, domination and discrimination.”

It’s hard to imagine the Space Force doing anything less patriotic short of defecting to China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, WTF?

Did Putin’s frogmen blow up Europe’s gas supplies?

Western leaders have blamed ‘deliberate’ sabotage after the Nordsteam pipe from Russia suffered ‘unprecedented’ damage off Sweden – causing 3000ft-wide bubbles in the Baltic Sea and causing prices to spike.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said her government believes the leaks were caused by ‘deliberate actions’, adding that the gas supply pipeline will be out of action for around a week.

She said this evening: ‘It is now the clear assessment by authorities that these are deliberate actions. It was not an accident. There is no information yet to indicate who may be behind this action.’

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

Is it a crime to call a male paedophile a man?

‘This is a man, committing sexual offences against children.’ This bald statement of fact on Twitter – about a recently convicted male paedophile – is, according to Sussex Police, a potentially criminal statement of hatred.

The paedophile in question is Sally Ann Dixon, born John Stephen Dixon. He was sentenced to at least 12 years in prison earlier this month, after he was found guilty of 30 sexual offences against seven children in the 1980s and 1990s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

Border-crossing asylum-seekers hit six-year high in Canada

TORONTO, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world.

In the first eight months of 2022, Royal Canadian Mounted Police intercepted 23,358 asylum-seekers crossing into the country at unofficial entry points, 13% more than all of 2017, when an influx of border-crossers at Roxham Road, near the Quebec-New York border, made international headlines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A postcard from Portland

Lost in pathological compassion, much of the city is allied with ‘campers’ and criminals

Portland is one of the nation’s most beautiful cities, positioned at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. But fading livability hangs over it like a raw gray drizzle. After years of political mayhem and an explosion of drug-related homelessness and crime, the city’s fabled quality of life is plunging. Every taxpayer in the 2.5 million metro area knows it.

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