Author: Blazingcatfur

The progressive revolution is in retreat

Across the country, liberals and moderates are calling time on woke excesses

California may be the incubator of some of the worst political trends of our times — affirmative action, climate hysteria, identity politics — but it is also capable of reversing those trends, and those of the nation as well. Yesterday the Golden State shattered the Left’s urban wall, replacing a far-Left prosecutor, Chesa Boudin, in San Francisco. There is now a growing drive to remove LA’s leftist DA, George Gascon, Boudin’s predecessor, who will face Rick Caurso in a run-off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Starbucks: Not Exactly a Corporate Camelot

How much wokeness can its clientele sip and swallow before it all tastes over-roasted?

Founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, Starbucks Corporation has become a beverage and lifestyle behemoth, aspiring to bring the cozy, old-world coffeehouses of Vienna to the United States and elsewhere — and to be woke in the process. According to its most recent 10-K filing for the Securities Exchange Commission and other company sources, Starbucks has nearly 34,000 stores and 380,000 employees in 80 countries. About two-thirds of its workforce is in the U.S. For the fiscal year ending October 3, 2021, the company recorded net revenue of almost $30 billion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

168,000 deleted files recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop

A cyber forensics expert commissioned by the Washington Examiner recovered over 168,000 deleted files from a copy of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.

Many of the deleted files were system files, application files, or duplicates of user files stored elsewhere on the laptop.

Some of the recovered data, however, shed light on his financial dealings in 2018 and early 2019, as well as his personal dealings during that time frame. Also recovered from the drive were deleted pictures of government ID cards for two individuals linked to President Joe Biden’s son.

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

‘Unreliable’ Canada’s Indo-Pacific absence leaves us on the outside looking in

When U.S. President Joe Biden announced the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) during his recent visit to Tokyo, conspicuously missing from the participants was Canada.

The absence is not an exception, but a pattern. Canada is also not part of the Quad, the AUKUS agreement, nor does it have a free trade agreement with ASEAN.4 Strikingly, unlike Denmark, Germany, the EU, Japan, ASEAN, Australia, India, and the U.S., Canada does not have an Indo-Pacific strategy.

Many in the international community (and at home) are asking: Where is Canada? Why the absence?

Like us the world knows Trudeau is a moron.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJustin Trudeau - Pissant

Local gun club members feel targeted by new gun bill

Members of a gun club in Toronto fear the impacts of a new federal gun bill.

“We’re obviously nervous,” said Graham Brown, president of the Toronto Revolver Club, which has more than 200 members.

“The biggest effect will be that it stops the transfer of handguns between legitimate sporting participants. And that’s a big worry for us.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

To hell with Pride Month: Pride has become pompous, grotesque and intolerant.

I first attended Pride in 1985, aged 16. Back then it was a mere afternoon in a specific place, not beamed from every media device across the Western world for an entire month. It was a bad time to be un-heterosexual, with AIDS at its height and the popular press taking open, casual delight in the deaths of young men.

Even then, I found the concept of ‘Pride’ as something to be celebrated rather odd. I wasn’t, and am still not, remotely proud, or indeed ashamed, of my sexual orientation. I consider it utterly unremarkable, and ideally, I’d like everybody else to feel that way too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay

The great vegan diet ‘con’

Despite what the documentaries tell you, a plant-based lifestyle isn’t better for your health and it certainly won’t save the planet

Canola oil, yeast, acidity regulator, methyl­cellulose, corn oil thickener, starch, gelling agent. “Hmm, I don’t like agents in my food,” says Jayne Buxton.

We’re in the refrigerator aisle of a well-known, high-end health-food supermarket in Richmond, London, reading the backs of packets of vegan ­sausages, burgers et al. As far as vegan products go, we’re dining at the Ritz.

Pastrami-style slices, scrambled tofu, vegan chorizo slices, jackfruit rendang, a canister of No-Egg Egg for £4.99. “That’s more than a carton of eggs,” says Buxton as she scans the ingredients. Gum cellulose dextrose, “That’s sugar. Do you want sugar with your eggs?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Vegans

Irpin: Russia’s reign of terror in a quiet neighbourhood near Kyiv

In a corner of the leafy town of Irpin, the brutality of the Russian occupation was clear from the start. The body of a young woman in a red coat would remain in the street for four weeks – lying where she had been trampled not once, but over and over again, under the wheels of Russian armoured vehicles.

Irpin is on the doorstep of Kyiv, and in early March Russian troops intent on conquering the capital took hold of the town.

Its blown-up bridge and river crossing became known internationally as a risky escape route from next-door Bucha, the scene of many of Russia’s alleged war crimes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

UN Will Justify a Mirror Image of Putin’s War

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Permanent Commission of Inquiry into Israel, due to make its initial report on June 13, has a mendacious mandate worthy of Vladimir Putin himself. Putin went to war to turn into reality his much repeated insistence that Ukraine is an illegitimate state that has no right to exist and is inseparable from the rest of Russia. Similarly, the UN mandate allows it to question the very existence of the State of Israel. Unlike all other UN inquiries, this one has no historic time limit and enables the commission to range right back to the foundation of the state. The commissioners won’t be bold enough to explicitly declare that Israel has no right to exist, but you can be certain that will be the subtext running throughout its report.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael bashing, Israeli - Islam Conflict

‘There were up to 60 of them and they began shouting at me. Nazi. Bigot. Transphobe. Racist. They were so close, I felt their spit on my face’

Last month, a story broke in the national Press. It told of a sixth-form student being hounded out of her private girls’ school for alleged ‘transphobia’.

And it received even wider attention when J. K. Rowling — herself the victim of bullies from the fringe element of the pro-trans movement — expressed her disgust at the girl’s treatment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

The Congolese student fighting with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine

Fighting alongside pro-Russia separatists as part of Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine wasn’t mentioned in the brochures of Luhansk University when Jean Claude Sangwa, a 27-year-old student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, moved to the breakaway region last year to study economics.

But when the head of the Kremlin-controlled, self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic announced a full military mobilisation of the region on 19 February, Sangwa, together with two friends and fellow students from DRC and Central African Republic, decided to join the local militia and take up arms against Ukraine.

“I joined because the war came to our republic. What should I have done? I am a man and have to fight,” Sangwa said in broken Russian. “The whole world is fighting against Russia,” he added when asked why he had decided to join the militia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?