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NATO Warns Ukraine Fighting Could Last Years As Russians Pound Eastern Cities

NATO’s secretary-general has warned that the war in Ukraine could go on for years and urged the supply of state-of-the-art weapons to Kyiv even if “costs are high,” as Ukraine’s allies sought to preempt any international “fatigue” nearly four months into Russia’s unprovoked invasion.

The cautions came as Russia stepped up its offensives against Syevyerodonetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities and with the European Union readying for a recommendation next week to make Ukraine a candidate to join the bloc.

#Ukraine: Ukrainian M777 155mm howitzers at work in Bohorodychne, #Donetsk Oblast – hitting two parked Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicles, destroying both. pic.twitter.com/hrWV0aKkxm

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 18, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 19, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

‘I will win this’: Charest says Conservatives need a ‘unifier’

Two years ago, Jean Charest suggested the Conservative Party had changed from what he once knew.

Today, he’s seeking to lead it. In an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Charest remained adamant he can win the party’s leadership race, despite claims from his rivals that they have signed up hundreds of thousands of members.

Delusional? Given the way the last two CPC leaderships have turned out anything is possible.

Here’s why a Pierre Poilievre victory in the Conservative leadership race may not be a given

OTTAWA — On the surface, the math looks obvious: Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre claims his supporters equal roughly half of the total number of people expected to be eligible to vote in the party’s leadership race.

So even though the ballots aren’t even in the mail and the victor won’t be announced until Sept. 10, is the race already over?

It’s not quite that simple.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 19, 2022•0•Conservative Party

WHO chief ‘believes Covid DID leak from Wuhan lab’ after a ‘catastrophic accident’ in 2019 despite publicly maintaining ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’

Research into gain-of function at Wuhan Institute of Virology most likely cause of pandemic.

The head of the World Health Organisation privately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory, a senior Government source claims.

While publicly the group maintains that ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’ about the origins of Covid, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread during late 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 19, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Americans Warned of China Potentially Spying via Smart Coffee Makers: Researcher

U.S.-based researcher Christopher Balding says he found evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is obtaining data via smart coffee machines that are made in China, warning that such tactics may be employed against U.S. consumers.

Balding, who released a report via New Kite Data Labs, said issues with the Chinese internet-connected coffee machines are allowing CCP officials to collect data on Americans.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 18, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", WTF?

Bill Maher Takes a Flamethrower to ‘Sad Saga’ of WaPo: ‘Democracy Dies in Dumbness’

On Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher blistered the besieged Washington Post for its recent and ongoing controversies, calling the vaunted newspaper an “unlicensed daycare center.”

Still it’s always fun to watch the Lib-Left eat themselves.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 18, 2022•0•"The Liberal-Left eats its own"

Is The Media’s Support of Radical Trans Ideology Wavering?

Ten years ago, it would have been hard to imagine the chokehold that trans ideology has on American culture and society. But years of relentless bullying from the leftist trans movement has had a measurable impact, and now you can’t expect to escape trans propaganda — be it at school, in entertainment, or even at Disney.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 18, 2022•0•Big Tranny

Germany considers making mask-wearing COMPULSORY from October to March in restaurants, bars and shops to battle Covid this winter

The German government is mulling proposals to enforce compulsory mask-wearing from October to March, it was reported today.

The plans would encompass mask wearing in all public spaces – including bars, restaurants and shops – during the colder half of the year in a bid to battle the spread of Covid, in a so-called ‘O-bis-O’ (Oktober bis Ostern) scheme, German paper Die Welt reported on Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 18, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

This teacher’s arrest is a microcosm of the left’s obsession with child sexuality

A male teacher in Hawaii was arrested for engaging in perverse sexual behavior with a 13-year-old male student, which he recorded, and for trading child pornography with a teacher on the mainland. That’s disgusting enough. What takes the story to a whole other level is the frantic tweets the teacher published haranguing conservatives for having dirty minds and projecting their sins onto innocent educators who merely want to make sure young people truly understand sex. It is a microcosm of the left’s predatory obsession with child sexuality.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•"They really do want your children"

Liberals drop plan to force takedowns of ‘harmful content’ after censorship accusations

“… However, most “if not all” members of the advisory group appointed by Heritage Canada have suggested that the categories of harms targeted should be broadened to include, among other things, “misleading political communications,” “propaganda,” and online content that promotes an “unrealistic body image.” The government has not yet indicated whether it will accept all of the group’s recommendations.”

In theory this should spell the end of the CBC.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•Freedom of speech

Bourgeois leftists are a menace to the class struggle

Privileged millennials seem to think they can tell us what it is to be working class.

Last year, Grace Blakeley, a privately educated leftist and journalist, declared on Twitter that class has nothing to do with your accent, where you live, where you grew up, what your parents do and where you went to school. ‘These things remain important in supporting certain individuals to change their class position’, she tweeted, ‘but they don’t come into the definition of class’.

I wasn’t surprised or even angry. I have been watching this narrative about class in Britain unfold over several years from the bourgeois left – those bright young things who have lived comfy, cushioned, middle-class lives, complete with private educations and Oxbridge degrees, and who now have very nice seats at the table with the chattering classes, the politicians, the academics in Russell Group research universities and the creative industries in elite spaces in London. No doubt, they read The Communist Manifesto at university and are now ‘literally communists’, taking up as much political space as their ever widening middle-class elbows can stretch to.

Think of an even more earnest Bob Rae and the NDP.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Progressives

Dungeon Of Death: Survivor Recounts Dire Conditions For Captives Of Russian Soldiers In Ukraine Basement

The elderly and sick died quietly.

Crowded with hundreds of others held captive by Russian soldiers for four weeks in an airless, unsanitary school basement in Yahidne, a village in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine, the ill and the frail were particularly vulnerable.

Several could not withstand the lack of medicine, food, fresh air, and overall comfort in the dark, stuffy rooms they shared with more than 300 other captives of the invading forces, survivors said.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

A third of youth avoid reading the news because they are worn out and don’t trust it: poll

Interest in the news, among young people in particular, has reached a new low, according to a global survey.

While engagement dipped for all age groups, the highly valued younger demographic was more prone to avoiding the news, most commonly due to fatigue and the negative effect on how they feel, the 2022 Reuters Institute Digital News Report found.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Four of the five most expensive cities on either side of the border are Canadian: study

Four of the five most expensive cities on either side of the border when it comes to cost of living versus income are located in Canada, a new study shows.

Data released by Canadian insurance provider PolicyAdvisor suggests that New York City, Mississauga, Ont., Vancouver, Hamilton, Ont., and Toronto are the most unaffordable places to live in either country.

The study examined the 10 most populous cities in each country and compared the average cost of eight common necessities, items and services: a cinema ticket, a restaurant meal, a bottle of water, a cappuccino, a one-month gym membership, a one-way ticket on transit, a monthly pass on transit, and one month’s rent.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA, WTF?

Musica

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•Music

What we can learn from 1935′s On-to-Ottawa Trek, a convoy of the disillusioned

Earlier this year, a trucker convoy descended on Canada’s capital to complain about federal policies and what it saw as government inaction. But going to Ottawa to protest was a Canadian tradition long before that.

In December, 1910, for example, 500 Prairie farmer delegates marched up Parliament Hill and into the House of Commons, where they took over proceedings. The next year, a small delegation representing Saskatchewan Treaty 4 bands brought their grievances directly to senior Indian Affairs officials. But perhaps the most popular protest to take to the capital and capture the Canadian imagination was the On-to-Ottawa Trek, in 1935 – even though the intended cross-country demonstration never actually made it beyond Regina.

My Dad rode the rails during the depression, nearly froze to death. Later he would land in Normandy on D-Day. Wounds would keep him hospitalized for nearly 2 years.

Trudeau’s callous vanity seems hell bent on seeing history repeat itself.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2022June 18, 2022•0•Canada