Author: Blazingcatfur

Uvalde Police Officers Receiving Death Threats After Texas School Shooting

Multiple law enforcement sources from separate agencies tell Breitbart Texas that Uvalde-area police officers are receiving death threats following the Robb Elementary School shooting that left 21 people dead.

I can’t imagine why…

Official: Girl told 911 ‘send the police now’ as cops waited

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Students trapped inside a classroom with a gunman repeatedly called 911 during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school, including one who pleaded, “Please send the police now,” as officers waited in the hallway for more than 45 minutes, authorities said Friday.

The commander at the scene in Uvalde — the school district’s police chief — believed that 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos was barricaded inside adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School and that children were no longer at risk, Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at a contentious news conference.

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

Germany’s anti-war intellectuals are resurfacing

Can a country truly change overnight? Having cultivated a national culture that is inherently suspicious of intervening in foreign conflicts after 1945, the war in Ukraine seemed to have caused a fundamental shift in the way Berlin sees its position in the international order. Within days of the Russian invasion chancellor Scholz declared to ramp up defence spending above 2% of GDP and dedicating an additional 100bn euros to the German armed forces.

But in recent weeks, some of Germany’s leading intellectuals are coming out of the woodwork to voice their unease about their country’s involvement in Ukraine.

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

World Economic Forum speakers signal a coming dystopian nightmare

Brave New World? You decide.

J. Michael Evans, president of the Alibaba Group– a Chinese multinational technology company—bragged at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: “We’re developing through technology an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint. What does that mean? That’s where are they traveling, how are they traveling, what are they eating, what are they consuming on the platform?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

In Ukraine’s valleys of death, a lethal game of hide and seek is playing out

Big guns are defining a new phase of the war against Russia, with artillery, rocket launchers and mortars likely to decide the outcome

In the leaves, a muzzle barked. A flash of smoke spun out across the field, something whirred into the distance, and the butterflies among the young crops barely flinched.

The howitzers in the trees fired twice in quick succession, then their crews dismounted, scrambled around, replaced dislodged camouflage, and reloaded.

Artillery, rocket launchers and mortars are more likely to decide the outcome of the war in Ukraine than any other weapon system.

In eastern Donbas, massive Russian barrages are pounding a path for the infantry and tanks as they try to surround the city of Severodonetsk – with ghastly consequences for anyone caught in the way.

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

Buffalo and the myth of America’s race war

Talk of rampant white supremacy is divisive nonsense.

This week 19 children and two teachers were killed by a lone gunman at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas. The motive is not yet known.

Two weeks before this, as we all know by now, on 14 May 2022 a lunatic armed with a semi-automatic rifle entered a Tops Friendly Market store in Buffalo, New York, opened fire and killed 10 people while wounding three more. That the gunman is guilty is not in dispute: he livestreamed the attack on the gamer-heavy social-media site, Twitch. That he was a vile racist is not in question: he warned about the ‘replacement’ of whites in a badly written 180-page manifesto and intentionally targeted one of the few Buffalo chain stores located in a heavily black neighbourhood. Even the eventual outcome of the shooter’s trial is not in much doubt – the shooter should, and will, be killed by the state or locked away for years.

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

Gun activity so prevalent in Toronto it scarcely gets mentioned any more

Amidst the Victoria Day weekend mayhem at Woodbine Beach, two people were shot. There was also a home invasion in the north end of the city where one occupant was shot and another struck by a stray bullet.

As long weekends in Toronto go, setting aside the stupid wilding on the beach, the city actually got off relatively lightly for gun violence.

Which also can be said, historically, for those charged with crimes involving a firearm, whether they actually used the weapon or “merely” were in possession of it, upon arrest, who cartwheel through the bail system and are back on the streets lickety-split to continue terrorizing particular neighbourhoods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Geoff Russ: Radical activist is as unhelpful an Indigenous stereotype as the noble warrior

… In the most extreme cases, fringe activists have been normalized as regular members of Indigenous communities. These are the ones who enthusiastically vandalize public property against the wishes of chiefs and other leaders, and celebrate burning churches. Many draw inspiration from far-left American public figures, who spend vast amounts of time denying the cultural genocide of the Uighurs in Western China on social media. The Uighurs are being systematically rounded up and sent to government institutions where they are forcibly stripped of their religion, language, and culture.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Canada supreme court rules life without chance of parole is ‘cruel’ and illegal

Canada’s supreme court has ruled that life sentences without the chance of parole are both “cruel” and unconstitutional, in a landmark decision that could give more than dozen mass killers who committed “inherently despicable acts” the faint hope of release in the future.

The court unanimously determined on Friday that sentencing killers to lengthy prison terms with little hope of freedom risked bringing the “administration of justice into disrepute”.

The closely watched case centred on the fate of Alexandre Bissonnette, the gunman who killed six worshippers at a mosque in Québec City in 2017, but the court’s decision will possibly have consequences for at least 18 others who are serving multiple life sentences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Canada raids emergency stockpile to send medical equipment to Ukraine

OTTAWA – Canada has tapped into its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies — stored for a national emergency — to help Ukraine.
It has donated over 375,000 items of medical equipment and medicines from Canada’s strategic stockpile since the invasion by Russia began.

This includes first aid and trauma kits, medicines and surgical instruments, as well as gloves, masks and gowns.

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

On the Run

In different ways, progressive prosecutors Chesa Boudin, George Gascón, and Larry Krasner are facing backlash against their disastrous policies.

Progressive prosecutors are on the run. Having taken office on promises of de-prosecuting and decarcerating without affecting public safety, they’ve helped usher in the largest one-year homicide increase in U.S. history. A CDC report notes that the nation’s homicide rate has risen to its highest level in over 25 years, with the largest increase coming “among non-Hispanic Black or African American males aged 10–44 years.” No surprise, then, that those who promised leniency without consequences now find themselves in serious trouble.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

America Needs Anti-Racialism

… In the eyes of the anti-racists themselves, the campaigns against CRT, affirmative action, and progressive criminal-justice reform are just racism—a form of “white backlash” against the growing political power of minorities, which is all the more insidious for professing to be “color-blind.” Slightly more difficult to account for is the fact that, on many sensitive racial issues, nonwhite minorities are aligned against the positions of the progressive anti-racists. In a Pew Research Center survey from April, for instance, 59 percent of Black respondents, 68 percent of Hispanic respondents, and 63 percent of Asian respondents agreed that race should not be a factor in college admissions. Research from Zach Goldberg, a doctoral student in political science at Georgia State University, has shown that white liberals consistently express stronger agreement with many tenets of the anti-racist worldview than do minorities. More generally, as the Democratic Party has become more and more identified with anti-racism, it has actually shed support among nonwhite people, especially Hispanics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "racial justice"

The Real Purpose of the Iran Nuclear Deal

“… Statements by Obama and his senior foreign policy advisors, the same people who are now advising President Biden, reflect a belief — a naïve one, many say — that if Iran were stronger, and traditional American allies — Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — were weaker, the Middle East could achieve a new balance of power that would result in more peaceful region.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Iranian nuclear agreement