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Canadians are delusional captives to a broken health care system

Canadians are delusional captives to a broken health care system. We cling to the status quo with grim complacency, comforting ourselves with the notion that it could be worse. We could wait 18 hours in a hospital emergency room and then be charged for seeing the on-call resident. We could wait nine months to see a specialist and then have to fork over a substantial co-pay. We could languish in a hospital hallway for days, waiting for a room to become available, and then have to fight with insurance for coverage for an out-of-network hospital visit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Canada

The Problem with “Disinformation”

Agencies must draw a bright line between foreign intelligence operations and Americans’ speech.

The German language is famous for its compound words expressing some ineffable truth difficult to convey in English. Among them: Irrweg, which means, roughly, “a path that should not have been taken.” For the American national-security apparatus, the recent turn toward spotting “disinformation” in American public discourse has been such a path.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"Disinformation"

SNOBELEN: Wilson-Raybould reveals caucus-cabinet disconnect

I finally got around to reading Jody Wilson-Raybould’s account of her time in the Trudeau government and in cabinet.

Wilson-Raybould’s account of her days in (and out) of the Trudeau government is interesting, if only for her take on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The PMO is the inner sanctum of government where the unelected make or break political careers and dictate the future of the country.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Biden Administration: The Friendliest to Iran’s Mullahs?

Prior to the Biden administration, since the ruling mullahs came to power in 1979, two US administrations — the Obama and Carter administrations — appeared soft on the Iranian regime. Now, the Biden administration seems to have perfected the skill of appeasing the ruling mullahs of Iran.

Even they probably cannot believe that they have gotten away with so many violations since the Biden administration assumed office.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Iran

UPenn Taps Guy For NCAA Woman Of The Year Award

The University of Pennsylvania has nominated transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who is biologically male and self-identifies as a woman, for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Big Tranny

TikTok accused of hampering Ukraine war crimes investigations: report

Activists and lawyers who have been trying to use TikTok to gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine say they face roadblocks from the Chinese-owned app, according to a report.

As videos from Ukrainian and Russian soldiers and civilians flood TikTok, activists and lawyers have called on the app to better preserve and hand over videos that could potentially be used as evidence in war crimes investigations and prosecutions, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

But TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, deletes nearly 90% of videos that it considers “inappropriate” before anyone sees them, according to the report.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

In Lebanon, ‘Soldiers of God’ threaten the LGBT community and condemn civil marriage

At the end of June, a widely circulated video showed a floral display, installed for Pride Month in Beirut, being vandalised. The video was shot by the perpetrators themselves, a group who call themselves the “Soldiers of God”. This group says they are fighting against civil marriage and the “abuses” committed by the LGBT community in Lebanon.

On June 24, a group of men filmed themselves in front of a rainbow-coloured flower arrangement in the predominately Christian neighbourhood of Achrafieh, Beriut, on Sassine Street. They were reciting verses from the Old Testament.

“[They are] wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are kidnapping our children. [Homosexuality] is a sin fatal to the body and soul,” one of them rages.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•WTF?

Document Shows Uvalde Officials Sought Favorable Account of Police Action

Top Uvalde officials wanted to highlight the heroics of officers at Robb Elementary. The state police director refused to do so.

HOUSTON — Days after the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the leaders of the grieving city fumed during a closed-door meeting with Steven McCraw, the state’s top police official.

They objected to Mr. McCraw’s public criticism of the response by city police officers to the May 24 massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers and, in a one-page document, laid out their own version of events, one that praised the officers for initially rushing to the gunfire and saving hundreds of other children in the school.

The document prepared by Uvalde officials and labeled “narrative” was obtained by The New York Times after a public information request. Its account of events differed in significant aspects from the one described by Mr. McCraw’s agency, the Department of Public Safety, which is leading the police investigation into the shooting and the law enforcement response.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting"

Brave new wombs

Sometime this century, or early in the next, women will no longer have to give birth

Sometime this century, or early in the next, women will no longer have to give birth. Already conception can take place within a test tube, and incubators have pushed back the earliest time when prematurely born infants can survive outside of the womb. We can edit genes and modify animal organs for successful implantation into human beings. We can grow meat from cell cultures, and we can clone vertebrates.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•The Future

Report: Saudi Arabia Doubling Purchases of Cheap Russian Oil

The amount of Russian fuel oil imported by Saudi Arabia between April and June of this year more than doubled compared to last year, Reuters reported Friday.

“Data obtained by Reuters through Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking showed Saudi Arabia imported 647,000 tonnes (48,000 barrels per day) of fuel oil from Russia via Russian and Estonian ports in April-June this year. That was up from 320,000 tonnes in the same period a year ago,” the news agency reported on July 15.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Saudi Arabia

Jack Mintz: Shifting Alberta winds might help fix ‘Broke Canada’

Many Albertans expect Pierre Poilievre to win the federal Conservative leadership on the first ballot

This week, I donned my embroidered cowboy shirt and Stetson to participate in the Calgary Stampede. I enjoy Stampede not so much for its fun activities but to be an eyewitness to the genuine Alberta community spirit. Stampede has a long tradition — 136 years since its first fair. Despite that heritage, Albertans are not tradition-bound: they are quite willing to change when change is needed.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Conservative Party

Prominent Pro-Abortion Group Appears To Be Front For Radical Revolutionary Communists

A prominent pro-abortion activist group downplaying its association with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) shares significant infrastructure and leadership with the radical outfit’s other offshoot groups, a Daily Caller analysis has found.

Although RiseUp4AbortionRights seems like most other pro-abortion groups at first glance, other pro-abortion activists released a statement in late June asserting that RiseUp is a front for a “pyramid scheme” and cult of personality. The Daily Caller’s examination of the organization’s leaders, online presence, and fundraising platforms lend credence to the claim that RiseUp is an offshoot front group for the RCP.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Abortion debate, Communism, Communists

WaPo censors its own headline telling Dems to ‘forget pronouns’ after liberals come unglued on Twitter

The Washington Post censored a headline by liberal political commentator Fareed Zakaria who was ripped apart by leftists on Twitter after he advised Democrats to “forget pronouns” to avoid being wiped out in the midterm elections.

On Thursday, The Washington Post ran with Zakaria’s headline, “Forget Pronouns: Democrats need to become the party of building things.” He shared the opinion piece link on Twitter, stating that getting “stuff done” is “a lot more important to most Americans than using the right pronouns.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•"Peak Woke"

WTF?

America’s representatives at the French Ambassador’s residence this week. pic.twitter.com/4QpjSiuMBw

— R.J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) July 15, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Big Tranny, WTF?

‘Narco of narcos’: drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero arrested in Mexico

Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord known as “the narco of narcos” who was behind the killing of a US drug enforcement agent in 1985, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of prison, according to the country’s navy.

Caro Quintero was arrested after a search dog named Max found him hiding in brush in the town of San Simon in Sinaloa state during a joint operation by the navy and the attorney general’s office, a navy statement said. The site was in the mountains near Sinaloa’s border with the northern border state of Chihuahua.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2022July 16, 2022•0•Crime