Author: Blazingcatfur

Germany has not sent promised large arms to Ukraine, leaked documents show

German broadsheet Welt says it has seen official papers that show Germany has not supplied any significant weapons to Ukraine for weeks

Germany has failed to provide any heavy weapons to Ukrainian forces in recent weeks and appears to be scaling back its military support in a break from Western policy, leaked documents have revealed.

German broadsheet Welt said it had seen official papers that showed Germany had not supplied any significant weapons to Ukraine since the end of March, despite vowing to grant its forces the weapons they need to repulse the Russian army.

In the nine weeks since the end of March Germany has made just two deliveries to Ukraine consisting of small arms.

In contrast with Western allies who are sending huge quantities of anti-tank and air defence weaponry such as NLAW launchers, as well as artillery, Germany has provided around 4,600 anti-tank mines.

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

BLM tax filings reveal co-founder family members received more money than Trayvon Martin Foundation

On Feb. 26, 2012, a 17-year old African-American was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, triggering a wave of civil rights activism. Armed with a can of pop and a bag of Skittles, Trayvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer who claimed he felt threatened by the unarmed teenager. Following Zimmerman’s acquittal, thousands of Americans protested the injustice. Although social activism was already prominent in the African-American community, this event propelled it onto the world stage. From there, the Black Lives Matter movement was born.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Working with provinces to ban handguns a priority says Trudeau government

Tougher bail rules, sentences for gun violence in Canada ‘certainly an option’: minister

Justice Minister David Lametti says imposing tougher bail conditions and longer sentences for gun violence in Canada is “certainly an option” as the government eyes further reform to firearms laws.

At the same time, he suggested helping provinces and territories ban handguns remains a “top” priority.

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

André Pratte: The troubled states of America. Shall this union perish from the Earth?

Ten days ago, I climbed the long stairs towards Lincoln’s imposing statue, the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C. Once I had made it to the top, I was immediately struck by the silence, the calm that reigned around the monument, even though there were, as usual, many visitors. No one talked on the phone, no one yelled at a child, no one made remarks out loud. You could sense the respect that the tourists, mostly Americans, felt towards the great man. Indeed, as inscribed over the head of the marble statue, “in the hearts of the people (…) the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Clashes in Jerusalem as Israeli nationalists march through Muslim Quarter

Some 70,000 people marched through the Old City of Jerusalem as part of the Jerusalem Day flag march on Sunday afternoon, hours after a record 2,600 Israelis visited the Temple Mount compound on Sunday morning.

Despite threats from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other groups in the Gaza Strip, no rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip despite scuffles that broke out between Israelis and Palestinians in the Old City throughout the day, with several lightly injured and close to two dozen arrested by Israel Police.

Much gnashing of Pallie Teeth

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

GOLDSTEIN: Stop blaming climate change for political incompetence

Politicians today love to blame the damage caused by every extreme weather event on “climate change” because it masks the crisis governments are responsible for — Canada’s fragile and aging public infrastructure.

From Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to provincial premiers, to municipal mayors, they pontificate endlessly about “climate change” as if there were never storms, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and wildfires before we started burning fossil fuels for energy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Green-Scam

Is the US’s gun problem becoming Canada’s gun problem?

Relatively strict laws help keep firearms violence well below US levels but advocates say ‘there’s much more we could be doing’

On a spring evening in 2020, a gunman disguised as a police officer and armed with automatic weapons began a shooting rampage in rural Nova Scotia that left 23 dead.

Days after Canada’s worst mass shooting, the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, promised swift action, announcing an immediate ban on about 1,500 makes and models of military-grade and “assault-style” weapons in the country.

“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada,” he said. “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country.”

Guardianista gun grabbers ahead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, USA

Sorrow and Precaution, Not Hysteria

School shootings are horrific and heartbreaking, but they remain statistically rare

Another senseless mass shooting, another national wave of mourning and anger, another presidential visit to a grief-stricken community. But as President Biden faces the cameras in Uvalde, Texas, this weekend, as he and other leaders offer their prescriptions for easing the public’s fears, let me suggest a more practical and immediate way for Americans to cope with this tragedy: turn off the television.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Russia: Lone Wolf of the Steppes

Whatever its outcome, the Russian war against Ukraine, now in its fourth month, is already studied by many analysts with emphasis on two issues. First, will it put an end to Vladimir Putin’s ambition to surround his Russia with autocratic regimes or “illiberal democracies”?

Of the 15 nations that emerged as independent entities after the fall of the Soviet Union, only three, the Baltic republics, have managed to build Western-style capitalist democracies, becoming full members of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, all three, annexed by Stalin, were never fully Sovietized.

I remember that during a visit to Latvia in August 1974, our “minder” from Moscow observed that Riga, the Latvian capital, was “almost like Europe.”

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

A sickness in once Torah-loving America

Where once the Hebrew Bible’s value system was our guiding light…all of our early presidents knew and revered the Hebrew Bible…today we take orders from AOC, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

A sickness has infected America

Suddenly, the televised Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial is not the main event anymore here in America.

Something else happened.

Interesting how intrusively real-life steps in while you’re having fun.

Heard-Depp was a nightmare of a marriage made in Hollywood, presented for the pleasure of knowing that, in comparison, you have it pretty good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left

FBI records on search for fabled gold raise more questions

A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface, according to newly released government documents and photos that deepen the mystery of the 2018 excavation in remote western Pennsylvania.

The report, by a geophysicist who performed microgravity testing at the site, hinted at an underground object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize the gold — if there was any to be found.

The government has long claimed its dig was a bust. But a father-son pair of treasure hunters who spent years hunting for the fabled Civil War-era gold — and who led agents to the woodland site, hoping for a finder’s fee — suspect the FBI double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The FBI has a massive credibility problem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI

War in Ukraine: The making of a new Russian propaganda machine

The port city of Berdyansk had been occupied by Russian troops for less than a week, but a new pro-Kremlin online media outlet had already moved in.

The company, whose name translates as Southern Front, makes and distributes pro-Vladimir Putin propaganda across YouTube, social media app Telegram, and through a website that targets areas newly under Russian control.

The Southern Front news site posted its first message on day one of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and now has several correspondents filing stories on a daily basis.

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

‘Empress of terror’: Fusako Shigenobu Japanese Red Army founder believed to have masterminded deadly Tel Aviv attack released after 20 years in prison

The founder of one of the most feared terrorist organisations of the 1970s has walked free from a Japanese prison after completing a 20-year sentence for the siege of the French embassy in the Netherlands.

Once described as “the empress of terror”, Fusako Shigenobu founded the Japanese Red Army, a radical leftist group that carried out armed attacks worldwide in support of the Palestinian cause.

On Saturday, 76-year-old Shigenobu left the prison in Tokyo with her daughter as several supporters held a banner saying “We love Fusako”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists"