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Texas top cop: Uvalde police response an ‘abject failure’

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they never checked a classroom door to see if it was locked, the Texas public safety chief testified Tuesday, pronouncing the police response an “abject failure.”

Police officers with rifles instead stood and waited in a hallway for over an hour before they finally stormed the classroom and killed the gunman, putting an end to the May 24 attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The classroom door, it turned out, could not be locked from the inside, yet there is no indication officers tried to open it while the gunman was holed up, Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in blistering testimony at a state Senate hearing. Instead, he said, police waited around for a key.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting"

BLM Protester Hit by Car While Blocking a Busy Seattle Freeway Sues the Last Bunch You’d Expect

An anti-police Black Lives Matter protester who was hit by a car in a horrific accident as she and fellow Summer of Love activists blocked a freeway is now suing those she believes are responsible for her injuries.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•#BlackLivesMatter

Shocker: Rise in Philly carry permits leads to rise in justified homicides

During the summer of love, as riots and other, unrelated crimewaves were on the rise in Philadelphia, people began applying for permits to purchase and carry firearms at rates previously unseen.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Montreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity loss

The date for a key UN nature summit has finally been confirmed after more than two years of delays and amid fears momentum to halt biodiversity loss across the globe has been lost.

Ahead of the latest round of negotiations in Nairobi this week, the UN convention on biological diversity confirmed that the Cop15 biodiversity conference will now take place in Montreal, Canada, from 5 to 17 December, after it became clear China would not be able to host the event in Kunming due to the country’s zero-Covid policy.

If you ask me that zero-covid policy paid off.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

City News reporter calls NDP candidate ‘transphobic’ for saying ‘you can’t change your entire biological makeup’

An NDP nomination contestant is apologizing after a City News reporter accused him of transphobia for saying “you can’t change your entire biological makeup” in response to a post about Caitlyn Jenner.

Saif Kaisar, an Alberta legislative reporter with City News, accused Sharif Haji, the NDP nomination contestant for Edmonton-Decore, of making “transphobic comments” on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•WTF?

A Copper? Funny, He Doesn’t Look Irish.

Cleveland ‘Officer of the Year’ Under Investigation for Anti-Semitic, Pro-Hitler Tweets

Cleveland’s 2019 police officer of the year is under investigation for a series of anti-Semitic social media posts that include praise for Adolf Hitler and the Hamas terrorist organization.

Ismail Quran is under investigation by the Cleveland police internal affairs unit for posting “inappropriate social media content,” a department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to ‘jeopardize’ mass murder investigation to advance Trudeau’s gun control efforts

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “made a promise” to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law passed.

A week after the murders, Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to release details of the weapons used by the killer. But RCMP commanders in Nova Scotia refused to release such details, saying doing so would threaten their investigation into the murders.

The Trudeau government’s gun control objectives were spelled out in an order in council issued in May 2020, and the legislation codifying them were encapsulated in Bill C-21, which was tabled last month, but the concern in April 2020 was the extent to which politics threatened to interfere with a cross-border police investigation into how the killer managed to obtain and smuggle into Canada four illegal guns used to commit many of the 22 murders.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights, RCMP

WTF?

This is the Navy’s new training video for our service members to create a "safe space" by using "preferred" pronouns. These people have lost their minds. They won’t stop until our troops ask enemies on the battlefield for their pronouns before they shoot.pic.twitter.com/5ynm5QCOMR

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 20, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•WTF?

The Assault on Children’s Psyches

California’s ethnic-studies curriculum is fueling a mental-health crisis among teenagers

Patricia (a pseudonym) is the mother of a teenage girl who in recent years has come to identify as transgender. She lives in California, considers herself progressive, votes Democrat, and leads a group for parents of children with rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD)—that is, youth who suddenly experience distress with their bodies and believe that undergoing medical “transition” will make them whole again. When I spoke to her recently, she recounted how her daughter’s at-first-lesbian and then trans identity emerged in response to feelings of shame about being white.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

Left wing America is destroying itself – Democrat-run cities are rotting, but the people responsible for this calamity are taking over the party

America’s cities are rotting. The Democrat-run cities in particular. And all of them are going wrong in the same way, suffused with the same problems of violence, drugs and homelessness.

In the nation’s capital, the homelessness problem is visible from the moment you enter the city. Arriving into DC used to be a great pleasure, with the visitor immediately thrown into the centre of the grand capital. Today the lawns outside Union station that greet the traveller are covered with tents. It is just the first of the homeless encampments which visitors are now confronted with throughout the city. Almost every green space in DC is now covered with tents, a constant reminder that America seems to be rotting from the centre outwards.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•"Progressive Paradise"

The odious mapping project

Conspiratorial fantasies, Jew-hatred, and the paranoid style of politics.

As if further evidence was needed to reveal the fundamental anti-Semitic nature of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the recently produced Boston “Mapping Project” proved conclusively that anti-Israel activists inhabit an ideological universe replete with conspiracies, delusions, and nihilistic hatred, both for Israel and the Jewish community as a whole.

The BDS Boston Facebook page, which promoted the map, enthusiastically cheered on this fantasy of oppression, wildly claiming, as they did, that the map “illustrate[s] how local support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing, evictions, and privatization locally, and to US imperialist projects worldwide.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•Israeli - Islam Conflict

Ukraine War Blows Up EU’s Superpower Delusion

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy have jointly visited Ukraine in an attempt to present a unified European front regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The one-day visit was long on rhetoric but short on substance: European unity remains elusive.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the European Union responded the following day with a package of unprecedented economic sanctions aimed at isolating Russia.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", European Union

Gun trumps butter knife in California carjacking attempt

A California woman was saved from a carjacking after an armed passerby intervened, sending the would-be thief sprinting away.

According to reports, the carjacker was armed with a butter knife when he approached the woman outside of a restaurant in Merced, California on Friday afternoon. The woman handed over her keys after he demanded them, but the suspect then took off running when an “onlooker” pulled a gun and pointed it at the man.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

French burkini ban upheld as Grenoble loses legal challenge

France’s highest administrative court has upheld a ban on full-body “burkini” swimsuits in public pools, rejecting an appeal by the city of Grenoble.

Last month, Grenoble authorised all swimwear, including burkinis, sparking a legal battle with the government.

Burkinis are worn largely by Muslim women as a way of preserving modesty and upholding their faith.

But the court said it could not allow “selective exceptions to the rules to satisfy religious demands”.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Trudeau Liberals look like a ship run aground

Imagery may not be everything in politics, but it’s an awful lot, especially for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s optics-obsessed government. And the image that comes to mind of the Trudeau government is that of the Ever Given, the giant container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal and was stuck there for days.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2022June 21, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government