Author: Blazingcatfur

‘Andrew, I need you to stop!’: British historian Dr. Andrew Roberts wipes floor with his woke MSNBC colleague Ali Veshi in heated on air row – after host slammed the Queen for representing ‘brutal colonialism, violence, theft and slavery’

A British historian slammed woke MSNBC host Ali Velshi on live TV on Saturday for only ‘concentrating on the negatives’ after he began a special on the Queen’s legacy by condemning the history of the royal family.

Velshi began his special on the Queen’s legacy Saturday talking about her long reign and saying she ‘was a constant for the British people.

‘She endeared herself to the public, and her popularity is unmatched by any other member of the royal family,’ Velshi, a Canadian-American, mused.

But, he then added: ‘As beloved as Elizabeth was, she also represented an institution that had a long and ugly history of brutal colonialism, violence, theft and slavery.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canada’s Conservatives Pick ‘Freedom Convoy’ Sympathizer to Lead Party Against Trudeau

OTTAWA—Canada’s Conservative Party picked as its new leader a politician who backed the paralyzing protests earlier this year against pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates, hoping his populist appeal with disaffected voters will be enough to unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Pierre Poilievre was declared the winner Saturday, winning 68% from party members voting on the first ballot. Mr. Poilievre’s campaign said it signed up hundreds of thousands of new party members, drawn by his promises to reduce the role of the state in people’s lives and to roll back government spending and taxes that he says helped fuel inflation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen’s bees that the Queen has died and King Charles is their new boss in bizarre tradition dating back centuries

The royal beekeeper – in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries – has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.

And the bees have also been told, in hushed tones, that their new master is now King Charles III.

The official Palace beekeeper, John Chapple, 79, told MailOnline how he travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House on Friday following news of The Queen’s death to carry out the superstitious ritual.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Former York Region teacher & high-profile COVID scold accused of abusing students

Ryan Imgrund, a former teacher and prominent bio-statistician tracking COVID-19 cases, is facing allegations he abused students psychologically, emotionally and sexually at the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB), according to the Ontario College of Teachers.

Kinda related…

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China Moving to Project Power Into the Arctic: Experts

China aims to project power through new economic and military projects in the Arctic, according to experts.

By securing new trade routes and military access in the Arctic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to expand its capacity for “global power projection,” according to Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

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

Russian grip on northeast Ukraine collapses after Kyiv severs supply line

KYIV/HRAKOVE, Ukraine, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after surging Ukrainian forces threatened to encircle the area in a shock advance.

The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Moscow’s worst defeat since its troops were forced back from the capital Kyiv in March, and could prove a decisive turning point in the six-month-old war, with thousands of Russian soldiers abandoning ammunition stockpiles and equipment as they fled.

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

Iran Deal – Reportedly “Off the Table” – Would Not Have Prevented a War

The new “Iran nuclear deal,” it appears, is “off the table for the time being.” Let us hope that the report is accurate.

In spite of the opposition from US allies in the Middle East as well as many US Congressman, both Democrats and Republicans, the Biden administration appeared determined to reward the ruling mullahs of Iran, whose policies and ideology are anchored in “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

The Biden administration seemed to hope that if they could just “contain” Iran with a “deal” — put Iran “in a box” even for a few years — it would “free up” the US to deal other problems, such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran’s growing influence in Venezuela and the Indo-Pacific, with one less distraction. If only.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Be My Brother, or I Will Kill You

Vladimir Putin’s regime seeks to make “friendship” between Russia and Ukraine a supreme bond—rejection of which can only be punished by death.

In 1960, Vasily Grossman submitted the manuscript of his masterwork Life and Fate to the review Znamya. The editor-in-chief, Vadim Kojevnikov, read it but, appalled, passed it to KGB headquarters in Moscow’s Lubyanka building. The work was immediately confiscated, one might even say kidnapped. The lesson of this massive book (1,200 pages) was unbearable for Soviet power: Grossman, who had been at Stalingrad, explains that Nazism and Communism are two warring brothers, who fight so much because they converge on the essential. Their rivalry is essentially mimetic; today, we know of Stalin’s fascination with Hitler—his admired as much as abhorred double—and that, later, Stalin also fascinated the Führer, as the Red Army pushed back the Wehrmacht and invaded eastern Prussia. The fanaticism of race was fully the equal of the fanaticism of class, each a source of mass murder. This was proven by the German-Soviet Pact of 1939, which included, among its secret clauses, the dividing up of Poland and the Baltic States, as well as the USSR’s massive delivery of petroleum, grains, and minerals to Nazi Germany. As Grossman spelled out in his last novel, Everything Flows, those who saw themselves as enemies were indeed twins, but the crushing of the Third Reich by the USSR, and especially by the Allies, has long dissimulated this terrible truth. “Anti-fascism” became a leitmotif of all Moscow leaders: any enemy of Russia must be fascist.

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

Latest survey of gun owners finds interesting facts

“To hear some tell it, gun owners are nothing but a bunch of old white dudes who care nothing about anyone who isn’t old, white, or male. As an old white dude and a gun owner, I kind of resent that characterization.

However, I’ll admit that I fit the model of “gun guy” these folks have built up in their heads. I can’t help it, it’s just who I am.

A recent survey, however, finds that this characterization isn’t remotely fair to gun owners in general, though.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, Guns and Ammo

Will Sweden finally vote for the far-Right?

An orgy of gang crime could swing the election

Last week, Sweden’s far-Right Sverigedemokraterna party published a slick campaign video, a sort of closing argument before this Sunday’s election. “Swedes,” Jimmie Åkesson, the party leader, said, “are not a people who burn cars — we are a people who build cars.”

The messaging had a familiar ring to it: politicians, Åkesson reiterated, had for too long been allowed to make Sweden “uglier, poorer and more dangerous”. It was time to take the power back. “Sweden will be good again,” was the title of the video. Not quite “make Sweden great again”, but close enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden

Is Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown?

Among the many consequences of the war in Ukraine, power dynamics in the EU are changing — or have changed — in response to the profoundly altered circumstances. As a matter of fact, if on the one hand Viktor Orbán’s proximity to Vladimir Putin has de facto paralyzed the Visegrad group (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic), on the other Poland and the Baltic states are gradually coming into a more structured relationship with Nordic countries such as Sweden and Finland, presenting the EU, starting with Germany and France, with a fait accompli.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope

The Lessons of 9/11 Are Still Unlearned

I took this photo when Kathy and I attended the 10th anniversary of 911 in NYC.

Our credentialed mavens can’t break free of their institutional orthodoxy and narratives.

Twenty-one years have passed since the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil, and our foreign policy establishment and ruling elite still have not learned the lessons of that horrendous carnage. The Romans thought even fools could learn from experience, but our credentialed mavens can’t break free of their institutional orthodoxy and narratives. As a consequence, our foreign policy and international relations continue to put our national security at risk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11

The fall of Los Angeles

The ‘progressive’ elites have run the city of the future into the dirt.

For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles symbolised the future. Over the course of the century, the population grew 40-fold to nearly four million people.

But now, for the first time in its history, the population of Los Angeles is in decline, falling by 204,000 between July 2020 and July 2021. LA was once a magnet for investors. But recently many of the area’s corporate linchpins – including aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, Occidental Petroleum and Hilton Hotels – have left, taking with them high-paying jobs and philanthropic resources.

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

Conservative Party of Canada announces Pierre Poilievre as new leader

Conservative Party of Canada announces Pierre Poilievre as new leader

Conservative members pick MP Pierre Poilievre to be their new leader

Conservative Party of Canada members have chosen Ontario MP Pierre Poilievre to be their new leader.

In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest. Poilievre easily clinched victory with an impressive 68.15 per cent of the vote on the first ballot — a decisive result that positions the right-wing and populist politician to lead the party into the next general election.

The campaign was nasty at times. Poilievre squared off against his main opponent, former Quebec premier Jean Charest, in a fight for the leadership and the party’s identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Guns bought through credit cards in the US will now be trackable

Credit card purchases of firearms in the US can now be tracked and purchases deemed suspicious can even be shared with law enforcement, according to a new measure approved by an organization that sets parameters for business transactions.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) voted in favor of creating a merchant code for firearms stores, according to Reuters.

Merchant codes are four-digit codes that categorize retailers across all industries; until now, gun purchases had been classified under “miscellaneous retail stores” or “sporting goods stores.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, Guns and Ammo