Author: Blazingcatfur

BLM’s art fellowship program, cited as reason for $6M mansion purchase, nowhere to be found

Three months have passed since the national Black Lives Matter group announced the launch of an art fellowship program used to justify its secret purchase of a $6 million Los Angeles mansion, but the charity hasn’t even begun to accept applications for the program.

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation announced the fellowship program just days before New York magazine revealed in early April the charity had secretly purchased the property with donor cash in October 2020. BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors filmed videos at the property for her personal YouTube channel, held private events at the compound, and stayed at the mansion for days at a time during the 19-month period BLM concealed its purchase of the property from the public and its donors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Identity Politics for People Without Identities

Wokeness is the emotional pandemic of people without faith or country.

There’s no one quite so woke as a white twenty-something with no identity of his, her or xer own, only peer tastes and consumer products. The corporate fusion of consumerism and identity politics in which everyday brands and retailers from Dove to Walmart champion black nationalism or celebrate ‘pride’ happened because they have the same target demographic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

Brown axed to keep Conservative party ‘beyond reproach,’ top official tells members

OTTAWA – The chair of the Conservatives’ leadership election organizing committee says the party “could not afford the risk” of having a candidate under investigation for breaking federal laws.
In an email sent to party members Friday morning, Ian Brodie doubled down on the decision as the “right thing” to keep the party “beyond reproach” in the long term.

The missive did not address last night’s late-breaking statement from a whistleblower, Debra Jodoin, who alleged that Brown broke election laws by personally directing a private company to pay for her campaign expenses.

Chi-Coms? Muslims? Tamils? Who wasn’t Brown cozying up with?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Far-reaching implications of Rogers outage shows need for competition: Expert

A widespread Rogers Communications Inc. outage that caused trouble for 911 services, retailers and transit operators Friday had many warning the incident is a sign that monopolistic telecommunications companies need more competition.

“The outage is illuminating the general lack of competition in telecommunications in Canada,” said Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy program.

I have Bell for internet and Fido for phone. My phone was a brick all day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", Canada

John Ivison: The rot in Canada’s dysfunctional government is coming from the top

At the outset of the pandemic, a small army of unsung public servants was overwhelmed by a Niagara of employment insurance applications, as one-quarter of the Canadian workforce found itself out of work.

Through a combination of ingenuity and dedication, they processed more than two million claims in three weeks and got money into the hands of the people who needed it.

Healthcare, Passports, Inflation, Trudeau wants it all to turn to shit at once. He’ll use it to impose his ruinous green-scam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Christian mechanic is sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan after he argued with a customer who demanded a discount for being a devoted Muslim

A Christian mechanic has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan after he was found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammed by saying that Jesus Christ is the ‘true prophet’.

Ashfaq Masih, 34, was arrested in 2017 after he got into a verbal disagreement with a Muslim customer at his motorbike repair shop in Lahore after the man refused to pay his bill.

The customer had asked for a waiver on the grounds that he was a religious devotee – but Masih refused the request, saying he believed in Jesus Christ and wasn’t interested in the man’s religious status as a Muslim.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Toronto could spend $68M to house refugees in hotel — weeks after scathing AG report on shelter costs

And you know as I do that most of the “benefit shoppers” will end up in Toronto.

City of Toronto staff have unveiled a plan to lease a North York hotel for more than $68 million and convert it into a temporary home for refugees — just weeks after an auditor’s report slammed the city’s handling of contracts with local hotels it uses as shelters.

Coun. John Filion, who represents the area and is also vice chair of the city’s audit committee, said he only found out about the plan to lease the 17-storey Hotel Novotel from city staff less than two weeks ago. Even so, he said he’s committed to ensuring the red flags pointed out by Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler last month are addressed.

“I’m all over the contract,” said Filion, who represents Ward 18, Willowdale. “I want to know everything that’s going on here.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Bidens are as dysfunctional as the Kennedys — and protected by the press

Joe Biden, as his former daughter-in-law recounts in her new memoir, comes on strong.

That’s no surprise to anyone who has read the allegations of sexual inappropriateness against President Biden, or has seen the multiple videos and photos of creepy Uncle Joe with women and young girls: sniffing their hair, massaging their shoulders, pressing his forehead against theirs, grabbing them by the arm or kissing them on the lips, pulling them in close for a full-contact hug.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Peak Woke?

The ultra-progressive mindset maintains its grip on institutional power, but in terms of what people actually believe, it’s on the downswing.

About a decade ago, something began building steam in America’s elite cultural and intellectual institutions—universities, national newspapers and magazines, museum boards, award committees. Callout culture, cancel culture, identity politics, social justice, critical race theory, postmodern neo-Marxism, wokeness: whatever you want to call it, it was happening. Wokeness developed new and previously extreme ideas around race and gender, and especially around how people ought to conduct themselves in their everyday interactions when race and gender were considered (and race and gender were always to be considered).

America’s Great Awokening produced cottage industries and small fortunes.

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

Derek Chauvin sentenced to 20 years for violating George Floyd’s rights

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights.

Chauvin, 46, pleaded guilty to the separate federal civil rights charges in December.

He is already serving a 22-year state prison sentence for the on-duty murder of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man.

The two sentences will run concurrently and Chauvin will now be moved to a federal prison.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Pope to Appoint Women to Advise Selection of Bishops

Are the laity the future of ecclesiastical administration?

Pope Francis said in an interview with Reuters on July 2 that he would appoint two women to the committee to elect bishops in the Dicastery for Bishops. The announcement comes in the wake of the promulgation of a new administrative constitution, which allows any baptized Catholic to head departments within the Vatican. Previously, the committee was composed solely of clergy, including priests, bishops, and cardinals.

Hope it’s not Pelosi.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Elon Musk terminates $44B Twitter deal

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter, citing material breach of multiple provisions of the agreement.

Shares of Twitter fell 6% in extended trading.

The announcement brings to an end a will-he-won’t-he saga after the world’s richest person clinched a deal for Twitter in April but then put the buyout on hold until the social media company proved that spam bots accounted for less than 5% of its total users.

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

Two Homeland Security Workers Charged In Alleged Chinese Spying Scheme

U.S. prosecutors charged two men with professional ties to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with participating in what federal officials have described as a “transnational repression scheme” that involved spying on and harassing political dissidents in the United States on behalf of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC).

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