Blazingcatfur – Page 4401

The dishonesty of how we respond to tragedies

It isn’t hard to notice that some crimes are more important than others. Or at least more politically advantageous.

It is six years since Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in her constituency by somebody who appeared to be a sort of aspiring Nazi. Back then, various campaign groups and newspapers in this country had no problems with claiming that guilt for that attack could be liberally spread around. Some said that everybody on the political right bore responsibility. Others claimed that anyone who was leading Britain’s ‘Leave’ campaign in the EU referendum shared the blame.

It was different in October last year, when Sir David Amess MP was murdered – also in his constituency. Sir David’s killer was an Islamist called Ali Harbi Ali, and there was no attempt whatsoever in the media or among parliamentarians to spread the blame around that time.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting"

Riots at the Funeral Cortege of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

The real story of why Israeli police intervened.

You have all seen the videos of Israeli police appearing to be beating back, for no apparent reason, Palestinian mourners trying to hold onto, or to reach, the coffin of Shireen Abu Akleh. The videos make the police look bad, because the viewer has not been provided with any context: why are the police doing what they are doing?

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•Israeli - Islam Conflict

California’s Epic Homeless Nightmare

What’s the matter with California? “It’s suffering from San Fransickness,” which is “pathological altruism,” answers Michael Shellenberger, author of the book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.

Too many homeless people. Too little common sense. Too much magical thinking.

Shellenberger is running for governor, with a platform to undo the damage done by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature with an approach to homelessness that can best be described as enabling.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise", California

Afghanistan: Policing faces, bodies and beards on Kabul streets

In their long white gowns, the inspectors of the Taliban’s Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue look more like food safety inspectors than “moral police”.

But they’re at the forefront of attempts to mould a new, more “Islamic” identity in Afghanistan, in keeping with the group’s hard-line views.

Their role seems broad. During their last visit to a multi-storey shopping centre in Kabul a few months back, shopkeepers remembered the inspectors checking whether products were past their expiry date, as well as instructing them to remove posters featuring women’s bodies.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•Afghanistan

Islamists Are Weaponizing Britain’s Failing Prison Service

Fears of discrimination, a failure to deal with unruly prisoners, and an unwillingness on the part of prison administrators to address religious demands have created an environment in Britain’s jails that have become “no go zones” for non-Muslims.

These stark findings come from a recently published report: Terrorism in Prisons from the independent reviewer of terrorist legislation Jonathan Hall QC.

The report states that Islamist inmates, over the course of fifteen years, have adopted an “anti-state Islamist stance” that condones violence towards non-Muslim inmates, prison staff, and the general public.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Covid was liberalism’s endgame

Liberal individualism has an innate tendency towards authoritarianism

Throughout history, there have been crises that could be resolved only by suspending the normal rule of law and constitutional principles. A “state of exception” is declared until the emergency passes — it could be a foreign invasion, an earthquake or a plague. During this period, the legislative function is typically relocated from a parliamentary body to the executive, suspending the basic charter of government, and in particular the separation of powers.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Partisans wage guerrilla war in Russian-occupied Melitopol

Partisans fighters have assassinated 100 high-ranking Russians

The bodies of the two Russian officers lay on the pavement for an hour in Melitopol city centre before the sun rose and their comrades picked up the courage to come and collect them.

A few hours later a hand grenade detonated next to the building where the Russians had set up their headquarters. A gunfight ensued in broad daylight before the attackers melted away.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

UK Council Claimed Three-Month-Old Babies Are Racially Biased: Report

A council in London previously claimed that babies as young as three months old are racially biased, a report has uncovered.

Islington Council in London has in the past published claims that babies as young as three months old can show racial bias, demanding that extremely young children should be talked to about the issue of “race”.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

People shouldn’t be excused for what they do as a result of voluntary intoxication

It’s unanimous: If you kill someone while you are extremely intoxicated, you’re not criminally responsible for your actions and can’t be convicted of an offence in court.

That is not something Canadians would likely unanimously agree to, but it was the conclusion of a 9-0 Supreme Court of Canada decision released last week. At issue were a trio of trials involving defendants who were accused of committing offences, including manslaughter, while drunk and high to the point of being in a state of “automatism.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Bad Law"

WTF?

Queer non-binary Indiana teacher says she resigned because the school made teachers listen to parents for students’ names and pronouns pic.twitter.com/M9a9znEeJG

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 22, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•WTF?

FUREY: Progressives keep bleeding support from the working class

One of the more notable aspects of the otherwise sleepy Ontario provincial election has been the endorsements announced by labour unions.

While it was once typical to see the NDP dominate on this front, incumbent Premier Doug Ford’s Ontario Progressive Conservative party is elbowing in.

The NDP is a dinosaur party with its remaining strongholds found among silly academics and journalists.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Progressives

Rex Murphy: How ridiculous is it for universities to ‘cancel’ sonnets? Let me count the ways

Politics offers such sparse opportunities to talk about poetry that when even a sliver of a chance to do so blinks into view I will seize it.

I know in doing so I am missing the opportunity to join the ever swelling chorus of sage pundits warning of the horrible dangers to the Confederation of the Poilievre campaign — it’s another truckers’ convoy! — but there will be other days, other columns.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Peak Woke"

The ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ Fails to Grasp Why She Was Dis-employed

Nina Jankowicz, the former director of the Disinformation Governance Board, made a video where she referred to herself as “The Mary Poppins of Disinformation.”

To be charitable, she should keep her day job.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Surveillance Society"

Lebanon Gives Tehran a Double Whammy

It was only a couple of weeks ago that the general election in Lebanon made the headlines in Tehran’s official media. “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei had labeled the election as “a referendum on the Resistance Front”, a coalition of Iran-controlled groups that have struck roots in Iraq, Syria, north Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon. He had also publicly donated an extra $25 million to the Lebanese branch of Hezbollah to ensure its victory.

Certain about securing a “crushing victory”, partly thanks to the misguided boycott declared by Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the Tehran media had started speculations about whom Khamenei might choose as the next president if Lebanon were to replace the current octogenarian incumbent. The matter had been raised in the audience that Khamenei granted to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a lightning visit to Tehran.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon

‘Extremely active’ jumping worms that can leap a foot raise alarm in California

An invasive worm species known for its “voracious appetite” and ability to jump a foot in the air is raising alarm in California, where scientists have expressed concerns about the threat the worms pose to forest ecosystems.

The Amynthas agrestis, also known as the Asian jumping worm, Alabama jumper or crazy snake worm, have been spotted in California in recent months. The earthworm is native to east Asia, particularly to Japan and the Korean peninsula. However, in recent years the worms made their way to North America via various landscape plants that have been imported from the region.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2022May 22, 2022•0•"Mother Nature Hates You", WTF?