Author: Blazingcatfur

France and Germany evaded arms embargo to sell weapons to Russia

Paris and Berlin sent Moscow £230m of military hardware, including bombs, rockets and missiles, that is likely being used in Ukraine

France and Germany armed Russia with €273 million (£230 million) of military hardware now likely being used in Ukraine, an EU analysis shared with The Telegraph has revealed.

They sent equipment, which included bombs, rockets, missiles and guns, to Moscow despite an EU-wide embargo on arms shipments to Russia, introduced in the wake of its 2014 annexation of Crimea.

The European Commission was this month forced to close a loophole in its blockade after it was found that at least 10 member states exported almost €350 million (£294 million) in hardware to Vladimir Putin’s regime. Some 78 per cent of that total was supplied by German and French firms.

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

‘Environmental extremist’ group leader Joseph Dibee pleads guilty to arson

An environmentalist saboteur pleaded guilty to his role in a pair of arson attacks on animal-processing facilities years ago — as a part of a domestic terrorism ring known as “the Family,” federal prosecutors said.

Joseph Mahmoud Dibee admitted to working with at least 15 others as members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front to destroy the Cavel West Meat Packing Plant in Oregon in 1997, as well as a government-run wild horse facility in California in 2001, according to the Department of Justice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Boosts Elon Musk Bid, Slams Twitter Censorship, Says ‘Fire’ Board Members

Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary praised Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s bid for left-wing platform Twitter, ripping the company for censoring views and board members for being ineffective and in need of firing.

O’Leary told Andrew Sorkin, co-anchor CNBC’s Squawk Box, that Twitter “is the most miserable investment you could have put your dollars into in social media. It has totally lagged all its other competitors.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil

Poilievre seems to be tearing a page from Trudeau’s ‘middle class’ agenda

Pierre Poilievre might recoil at the suggestion, but the Conservative leadership campaign he is running in 2022 is not entirely dissimilar to the campaign Justin Trudeau started running a decade ago.

There are certainly discordant notes — and Poilievre is pursuing very different ends. But at the heart of Poilievre’s current stump speech is something that was at the core of Trudeau’s Liberal campaign: financial insecurity.

Trudeau built a campaign for “real change” upon a foundation of addressing the insecurities felt by the “middle class and those working hard to join it.”

Plagiarizing the LPC? This has to be the worst slander CBC has ever uttered against the CPC. The LPC must be desperate!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Midday turnout at 26.41% as Macron and Le Pen vie for French presidency

Midday turnout at 26.41% as Macron and Le Pen vie for French presidency

French voters head to the polls on Sunday in the second and final round of the country’s presidential election, with President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen facing off in a rematch of their 2017 duel. Midday turnout stood at 26.41%, according to the interior ministry, almost 2 points less than at noon in the vote five years ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Climate activist dies after lighting himself on fire outside Supreme Court – hope he bought a carbon offset!

Wynn Bruce dies after lighting himself on fire outside Supreme Court

A climate activist who lit himself on fire on Earth Day outside the United States Supreme Court Building has died, according to reports.

Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, died Saturday, a day after he set himself ablaze in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department told Fox News.

The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on the plaza in front of the court building.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, WTF?

Nolte: Woke Chickens Come Home to Roost at Disney, Netflix Twitter, CNN

The devastation done to the Woke Gestapo at Disney, Netflix, Twitter, and CNN is glorious and proof of God’s love for us.

As you know, my mantra since the Woke Terror began has been: Hang in there. This won’t last. I was confident of this for two reasons: 1) Woke is a violation of human nature, and 2) this is still America.

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

Gun Rights Groups Plan Lawsuits to Challenge Federal ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulation

At least two national gun rights groups are contemplating lawsuits to challenge the new federal regulation on privately made firearms, or so-called “ghost guns.”

The final ruling, published by the ATF on Apr. 11, essentially expands the definition of a firearm to include partially complete and readily convertible firearm receivers (also called frames).

Once the ruling goes into effect, those receivers will be regulated just like regular firearms, subject to requirements such as serial numbers and background checks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

The Middle East Doesn’t Care About Ukraine

At first, they were ready to go to Ukraine to join the international legion fighting there. But in the weeks following the Russian invasion, the three young Syrian men changed their minds.

“Why would we fight somebody else’s war?” one of them explained last week as the trio sat around a café table in central Berlin. All three friends, all in their early 30s, are refugees and have been in Germany since 2015. They had discussed going to Ukraine to fight the Russians, who had ruthlessly bombed their own city, Aleppo.

But they decided against it. “We have our own problems,” another of the men argued. “[Syrian dictator] Assad is still in power, the Russians still support him — and nobody cares.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Middle East

More hypocrisy from Hollywood

Marvel’s most recent installment, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, has been banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar.

The reason according to The Hollywood Reporter, is that the film has a gay character named America Chavez, who also features in the comics.

Since homosexuality is illegal in the Islamic countries in the Middle East, the film didn’t get the approval of the censorship boards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

A Man in a Prom Dress Is a Test Case for the UK’s New Transgender Bathroom Rules

The law allows businesses to decide whether to permit “trans” men in women’s restrooms — but is that enough?

An 18-year-old British man who identifies as non-binary claims he was kicked out of a luxury dress shop last week while trying on prom dresses in the fitting room. The man, Charlie Moore, said he visited the retailer alongside his girlfriend, who also identifies as non-binary.

Moore, a political activist who is the “trans rep” for the youth wing of the U.K.’s Liberal Democratic Party, blasted his claims around social media, naming the business — Monsoon in Birmingham, England — and using his political clout to inflict a firestorm of complaints on the company.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

Durham springs the trap on Hillary Clinton’s lawyer

Michael Sussmann could unravel the whole skein of Russiagate lies

The month of May won’t be a merry one for Michael Sussmann, one of Hillary Clinton’s top lawyers at her favorite election law firm Perkins Coie, who is facing a criminal charge of lying to the FBI when he passed information to the Bureau’s general counsel, James Baker. Sussman stated explicitly that he was acting as a “good citizen,” not as a lawyer for Trump’s election opponents.

Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Call Them Groomers

By the left’s theory of performative speech, teaching radical sexual theories to kids constitutes grooming.

Over the last five years, the left has lobbed an endless barrage of epithets at roughly half the country. They don’t only label staunch opponents of the progressive agenda “extremists,” “racists,” “fascists,” “homophobes,” and “misogynists“—they apply those same smears to anyone with even small misgivings about the cultural aims of the far left. There is rich irony, then, in progressives’ outrage over conservatives’ recent use of the term “groomers” to refer to those teaching pre-pubescent children about sex in the public schools.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"