Author: Blazingcatfur

Why Germany won’t get tough on Beijing — even if it invades Taiwan

The German economy is even more dependent on China than it is on Russia.

BERLIN — Germany’s Wagnerian foreign policy spectacle is moving east.

Spoiler alert: It’s even worse than the original.

For months, Berlin has frustrated (read enraged) many allies with its one step forward, two steps back approach to confronting Russia over Ukraine. Yet that tortured episode is looking like little more than an overture to what’s brewing in Asia, as tensions over Taiwan force Berlin to weigh how it would respond if Beijing tries to seize the island nation, which China considers a breakaway region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Germany, WTF?

Douglas Todd: SFU prof targeted by China for groundbreaking Uyghur research

SFU professor Darren Byler has been frequently attacked by China’s state media, which accuses him of being an agent of the U.S. government. Something he denies.

During four groundbreaking expeditions into China, the latest in 2018, Byler has witnessed many colleagues and research subjects disappear into the mass “re-education” camps and forced labour factories endured by more than 1.5 million Uyghur Muslims.

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

The Elite Panic of 2022

From the end of Covid restrictions to Elon Musk’s Twitter bid to the Dobbs ruling, startling developments threaten progressives’ grip on power.

On April 18, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the federal requirement for wearing surgical masks on airplanes, in airports, and while riding mass transit. Online videos showed passengers and airline staff ripping off their masks and celebrating in mid-flight. Given the accumulated frustration of two years of pandemic travel, the reaction was understandable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Whitmer Kidnapping Plot: FBI Informant Slept ‘In The Same Room,’ Smoked Weed With Defendant

The FBI’s use of confidential human sources is again a centerpiece of a second trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

A jury hung on federal conspiracy charges against Adam Fox and Barry Croft in April while acquitting two other men charged in the conspiracy. Two more men pleaded guilty to the charge before the first trial began in March.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI

A Dangerous Triple Fantasy

In his meeting in Tehran with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Islamic Republic’s “Supreme Guide” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised what he called “Your Excellency’s pre-emptive initiative” in launching “Special Operations ” against Ukraine.

He claimed that if Putin had not invaded Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would have started a war against Russia to regain control of the Crimean Peninsula.

Although later removed from the official media in Iran, the remarks started a debate in Tehran’s decision-making circles about the Islamic Republic adopting a similar strategy by going on the offensive against its “enemies”.

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

How Twitter employees ratted out user identities to Saudi Arabia

Being doxxed — having private information exposed, from your real name to your home address — on social media is scary enough. But for outspoken dissidents, having their details revealed to the authoritarian government they are criticizing can be deadly. And having it done by a worker at a social-media platform is a jaw-dropping betrayal.

But this week, a former Twitter employee was found guilty of spying for the Saudi government in 2015 — ferrying private user information to a contact with close ties to the nation’s government and its controversial crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, aka MBS.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil

Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption

Climate activists in southern France have filled golf course holes with cement to protest against the exemption of golf greens from water bans amid the country’s severe drought.

The group targeted sites near the city of Toulouse, calling golf the “leisure industry of the most privileged”.

The exemption of golf greens has sparked controversy as 100 French villages are short of drinking water.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Queen of Canada and supporters arrested

Tables turned as Romana Didulo, supporters attempt to ‘arrest’ Peterborough police

The “queen of Canada” led supporters to Peterborough’s police station on Saturday, calling for the “citizen’s arrest” of local officers.
Instead, two of her supporters were arrested.

Romana Didulo is a B.C. resident who claims to be an alien being with higher powers, and insists she is the ruler of Canada and, more recently, the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The ayatollahs have found their accomplices in western liberals

We blame the Rushdie attack on Muslim fanatics, but we shouldn’t ignore our own complicity

“… I would suggest that this is delusional, a fantasy conjured up by western liberals to distract from a more sinister truth: over 30 years they have worked as the de facto accomplices of the ayatollah, assisting in the task of dismantling free speech, sending fear through those who dare to criticise or ridicule religion or anything else. Rushdie, in this sense, is not — and never was — a historical affair but a live scandal running through the veins of British life, not to mention other western societies.”

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

GUNTER: A jobs recovery that rests on public sector jobs isn’t sustainable

I think I’ve finally figured out why more people who work in the public sector were OK with COVID lockdowns and mask mandates than people in the private sector. And, no, it’s not because they are part of some grand plot dreamt up by the World Economic Forum to strip us of our rights.

It’s because lockdowns and other restrictions didn’t impact their incomes and lives as much as they did for private-sector workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada