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JIVANI: Patrick Brown defends himself by disparaging Conservatives

Patrick Brown claims he is fighting to stay in the Conservative Party leadership race. But he has already given the final cry of a man who knows he has lost.

When the chips were down and Brown’s campaign was disqualified over an allegation made by a member of his own team, Brown tried to make himself look better by throwing the Conservative base under the bus. In a statement, he said, “I thought Canadians deserved a real conservative alternative … I’m disappointed that we’re being robbed of that opportunity to build a modern, inclusive Conservative Party.”

There was always something off about this guy.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•Conservative Party

Canada’s public service is collapsing. Let us count the ways

**Justin Trudeau meets adoring Civil Servants – What happens when civil servants get partisan?**

If you’ve needed a new passport within the last few months, good luck.

Those whose essential travel document expired within the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic are now facing a harsh new reality when it comes to getting a renewed passport. Long lines, camping overnight outside passport offices, desperation, tears, flared tempers and the occasional fist fight.

That is if they weren’t willing to pony up hundreds of dollars, at a rate of $25 to $50 per hour, to pay someone to wait in line at the passport office for them.

But they’ll all get pay raises and increased benefits at your expense. Our politicians and predatory civil service unions have created a new ruling class. They hate us.

‘Fk my stepmother for being a selfish, silly entitled **.’ Unearthed texts reveal Hunter’s assessment of Jill Biden

Hunter Biden blamed First Lady Jill Biden for forcing him to go back to rehab – calling her a ‘selfish silly entitled c***’, ‘a moron’, ‘stupid’, and ‘vain’ – after she offered him a house and sent him loving messages.

The biting insults were made behind his stepmother’s back in text messages on a newly uncovered backup of Hunter’s cell phone stored on his abandoned laptop.

The vicious verbal attack, appears to be over Hunter’s family asking him to go back to rehab in winter of 2018.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Inside the Ukrainian resistance – In Kherson, Russian collaborators are being hunted down

“The situation in the city is very, very bad. The Russian occupiers are increasing their presence all the time. They ride around the city with impunity and break down the doors of houses and apartments. Soldiers usually come at around midnight and start searching for evidence of partisan activity. Often, they just take people away. Now they’ve turned their attention to officials. A few days ago, they arrested the mayor and some members of the city council. It’s getting worse…”

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Portland homeless break into vacant homes and police don’t have resources to do anything about it

Residents of one Portland neighborhood say as many as 16 people have broken into two vacant houses on their street and are coming in and out at all hours, piling up trash and leaving used needles in the grass.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Pierre Poilievre’s tribute to old wood shows how our politics is straying into the twilight zone

… It would be fooling ourselves to imagine Canada is immune to the lure of populism. Toronto’s Rob Ford rose to power on a promise to wrest the city away from its self-serving elite and “stop the gravy train.” Last winter’s freedom-convoy mess in Ottawa unveiled a seam of anger at overreaching governments and established institutions. Many Canadians are weary of being told to reflect on the wrongs of Canadian history, however real and grave.”

That should read “however real and fake graves” There are so many hit pieces on Poilievre I am beginning to think he plants them to garner public support.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Journalists", Canada

Steve Bannon‘s Washington Home ‘Swatted,‘ Swarmed by Armed Police

“Heavily armed” police descended on the home of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Friday, following a call to law enforcement falsely claiming there was a shooter at the address.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•WTF?

Rex Murphy: Liberal ineptitude reaches a new low with the great passport drought

It’s a sad thing about Boris Johnson. His resignation/ouster I mean. Just as we were getting used to his wonderfully comic interludes — the exchange on Putin’s pecs at the G7 last week, that was a real winner — there he is, gone.

That leaves Justin Trudeau — who played backup during the Putin-pecs riff (“bare-chested horseback riding” was his killer line) — without a partner. All very sad. The world needs its chuckles.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Sex work is rewarding, pupils told by education providers

Providers of sex education in schools are teaching children that prostitution is a “rewarding job” and failed to advise a 14-year-old girl having sex with a 16-year-old boy that it was illegal.

Outside organisations teaching children about sex also promote “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, The Times has found.

One organisation encouraged pupils to demonstrate where they like to touch themselves sexually, in a practise criticised as “sex abuse” by campaigners.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"They really do want your children", WTF?

Seniors, low-income earners among those most impacted by rising inflation, economists say

Canada is experiencing a rate of inflation not seen since 1983, but economists say not everyone is experiencing it in the same way.

Canada’s inflation rate — an increase in the cost of goods and services measured by the consumer price index — hit 7.7 per cent in May, according to Statistics Canada, driven by a combination of increased cost of living, supply chain issues and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Convoy organizers discussed playing ‘race card’ with Lich’s Métis heritage … So What? Trudeau’s Liberals Employ The Identity Politics Grift 24/7

Organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” discussed using their ties to Métis identity to play the “race card” as part of an overall strategy to control their public image and garner sympathy for their cause, text messages suggest.

The messages between Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, obtained by Ottawa police and entered as evidence by the Crown in Lich’s bail hearing this week, indicate how acutely aware the organizers were of the optics of the protest.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 9, 2022•0•"Identity Politics", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Dutch farmers are fed up with totalitarianism rebranded as ‘Climate Change’

The ‘Climate Change’ agenda is a global, existential threat to prosperity and freedom from tyranny – nowhere else is that more apparent right now than in the small European country of the Netherlands. Under the tutelage of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte became a “golden pin-up boy” for the Agenda 2030 cause.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 8, 2022•0•"The Great Reset"

Ukraine Reveals the Need for an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy

SINCE 1989 the United States has had an almost perfect record of winning wars and losing the peace—or failing to achieve peace in the first place. The scorecard begins not with the 1991 Persian Gulf War but with the proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Children of the 1980s can recall when Afghan freedom fighters were celebrated the same way the Ukrainians are today.

Losing the peace also means losing it at home. When Americans look back on a war, what do they see? Do they remember why George H.W. Bush’s approval ratings shot into the stratosphere in 1991, or do they remember the aftermath of “Gulf War syndrome” and domestic terrorism? Do they view the results of the Iraq War or Afghan War with pride or shame? Do they place more or less faith in the policymakers responsible for those wars?

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 8, 2022•0•USA

Another Year, Another Bloody Summer

The surge in violent crime that began a few years ago continues. It will abate only when Americans demand and get action from local and national leaders.

The crime numbers we’ve seen already this year highlight the problem.

A serious upswing in violent crime often follows significant anti-police protests and less aggressive policing. Researchers call this the Ferguson Effect or the Minneapolis Effect.

The events of the summer of 2020 created a perfect storm.

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

Is Russia winning the war?

Ukraine will lose without drastic Western mobilisation

A couple of weeks ago, I was smoking a cigarette outside my hotel in Kharkiv when a Ukrainian man, hearing me speak English, came over to show me a photo on his phone. It was of his 21-year-old son who he had just buried that day, killed fighting as part of a volunteer battalion outside Izyum. “He was my only son,” the man told me, “I still can’t believe my line has died out. I keep calling his phone and then remembering. Tomorrow I will join his unit and take his place.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2022July 8, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"