Author: Blazingcatfur

France election: why it’s now or never for Marine Le Pen

Jacky Ruiz was close to tears. For three hours he had waited to have his photograph taken with Marine Le Pen and now there it was. The former cabaret star stared at the picture on his outdated folding phone.

“Oh my goodness, this is so moving. I told her that I’d danced at a show attended by her father, Jean-Marie, back in the 1980s when she was a small girl and she said she was there and she remembered it,” the 70-year-old said. He pulled a battered black-and-white image of a long-legged dancer in a leotard from his pocket.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarine Le Pen

Pierre Poilievre draws huge crowds, but which candidate will have the memberships?

With 10 days left for candidates to enter the Conservative party leadership race — and 20 before $300,000 worth in fees are due — what’s capturing the attention of those watching as of late are the crowds.

More specifically, who’s drawing them in and who isn’t.

Pierre Poilievre would fall into the first category, as the longtime Ottawa-area MP has been consistently appearing before massive groups of people at rallies across the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

The Star Asks … Should Canada forgive the Taliban?

Habibullah, a Taliban soldier in Afghanistan, remembers setting land mines at age 17 on his first day of fighting near Kandahar. “I saw a Canadian tank explode and knew I had killed for the first time,” he remembers with remorse.

Three of his friends also died that day in 2009 — at the hands of Canadians, he says.

Habibullah, 30, says he forgives Canada for fighting the Taliban. He hopes Canadians can forgive him, too. “Now we must give our hands to each other,” he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Left-Wing Disney Heiress & Rachel Levine Look-a-like Demands Disney to Go More Woke: My Grandfather‘s Company Should ‘Stand for Love‘

They’re like identical cousins!

Abigail Disney, the outspoken, left-wing granddaughter of Disney co-founder Roy O. Disney, is urging the company to embrace more leftist social positions, saying political neutrality is no longer an option for American corporations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Peak Woke"

We tried to kill ourselves to stop the ISIS Beatles torturing us, says French hostage

After being tortured, starved and dragged through the blood of fellow prisoners, a French war photographer kidnapped by ISIS in Syria back in 2013 said he and other hostages attempted to kill themselves.

‘We found plastic bags and ropes,’ Edouard Elias tested Friday during a federal trial against one of his captors, El Shafee Elsheikh, a former British national who was sitting just a feet away in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom. ‘We tried to find a way of suicide.’

Elsheikh is accused of leading a kidnapping plot that resulted in the killings of US aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig and journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

‘Firms will go bust’: Germany prepares for a future without Russian gas

In Germany, they call it “Day X”. Businesses up and down the land are making contingency plans for what is seen as a growing likelihood that Russian gas will stop flowing into Europe’s biggest economy.

“It would be a disaster – one which would have seemed almost unthinkable just two months ago, but which right now feels like a very realistic prospect,” the owner of a hi-tech mechanical engineering company in western Germany said. The firm produces everything from battery cases for electric cars to train clutch systems.

The speaker did not want to be named, or for his company to be identified, in part for fear, he said, of appearing to support Russia’s war by making the case that if the gas is turned off, his century-old business “will likely not survive”. But he says he is in a deep quandary and feeling very vulnerable, as he is not only heavily reliant on gas – the cost of which has already soared – but also on metals such as nickel and aluminium, much of which comes from Russia.

This will test Euro Solidarity.

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

Rupa Subramanya: Doug Ford must resist COVID zero zealots

Just when we thought the pandemic was behind us, COVID hysteria is back with a vengeance in Canada, with Ontario standing out once again as uniquely fearful, where the science apparently works differently than everywhere else on the planet. With most Western countries now ditching the last of their COVID-19 restrictions, there is chatter that Ontario ought to reimpose restrictions that were recently lifted, in particular the mask mandate.

The chatter is not merely from those who never saw a government rule or restriction they didn’t like, but from the self-appointed experts who hold forth in the media and social media on the need to tighten restrictions yet again in the face of a sub-variant, in an apparently never ending battle with the virus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Don’t call her Harvey: Chilling jailhouse interview with trans serial killer

“Perfectly Normal”

“You can call me Marceline.”

The 83-year-old alleged serial killer who was born Harvey Marcelin but now identifies as a lesbian named Marceline Harvey is quick-witted, flirtatious and sometimes terrifying when explaining her anger management issues — and her two identities — from behind a glass wall at Rikers Island.

“Harvey’s not a good guy, he’s a tough guy,” she said. “Marceline’s nice and gentle and loving, you know, lots of laughter, fun to be with. She’s the one who’s perfectly normal.”

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

Ukraine: Inside the spies’ attempts to stop the war

For nearly a dozen days in February, a small group of intelligence officers had been going to bed early.

They had seen the intelligence predicting a war and knew that if Russia was really going to invade Ukraine, it would begin in the early hours of the morning.

But when the news finally came on 24 February, it still felt unreal, one recalls: “It was hard to believe it was actually happening until I woke up early that morning and put the radio on.”

For months they had been sounding the alarm.

Ukraine: Boris Johnson travels to Kyiv for Zelensky talks

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held talks in Kyiv with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Downing Street has said.

No 10 said the visit was “show of solidarity” with the Ukrainian people.

A spokesman said Mr Johnson was using the trip to set out a new package of financial and military aid.

It comes the day after the UK announced £100m of weapons for Ukraine after the bombing of refugees at a railway station.

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

Ottawa and White House in talks to stop future trucker blockades, top U.S. envoy says

 

OTTAWA —Canada and the U.S. are in detailed security talks to ensure there’s no repeat of trucker blockades led in part by “right-wing extremists” who “wanted to overthrow the government,” says Washington’s envoy to Canada.

Ambassador David L. Cohen said the blockades, particularly at the Windsor-Detroit border in early February, raised “significant concerns” within the Biden administration and among American manufacturers about the reliability of cross-border supply chains.

Cohen strongly condemned the protests and voiced concerns they could happen again. He also said Canada and U.S. government officials are looking at how to eliminate jurisdictional snafus that complicated law enforcement efforts to stop the blockades, along with measures to tackle the disinformation that fuelled the protests in the first place.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, USA, WTF?

Exposed: The Russian Companies That Will Get Billions From New Iran Nuclear Deal

Several of Russia’s top state-controlled nuclear companies stand to gain billions of dollars in revenue as part of a new nuclear accord with Iran that will waive sanctions on these firms so that they can build up Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure, according to a U.S. government-authored document reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Russia’s state-controlled Rosatom energy firm and at least four of its major subsidiaries will receive sanctions waivers under a new accord so that they can complete nuclear projects in Iran worth more than $10 billion, according to the 2019 document, which details all the Russian entities involved in these projects.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIranian nuclear agreement, Russia, USA

French election: Far-right Le Pen closes in on Macron ahead of vote

The least a president might expect, when juggling a war in Europe with an election at home, is a bounce in the polls.

But Emmanuel Macron has discovered that all the energy he spent dealing with Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been of little help in France’s unpredictable vote.

“Nothing is impossible,” President Macron has warned, as polls suggest his far-right rival is closer than ever before to winning the presidency.

A month ago, Marine Le Pen was trailing President Macron by 10 points and fighting for a place in the second round against him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Reuters Whitewashes Terrorism — Again

Those incorrigible Israelis and Palestinian are at it again — “cycle of violence” and all that. Those who did not read past the headline may never find out that the dead Palestinian, one of two, had walked down Dizengoff Street, the city’s most crowded commercial district, indiscriminately shooting people. Two Israelis were murdered, and many others are in serious condition. The attack in Tel Aviv is part of string of deadly attacks, perhaps the beginning of a third Intifada, that includes the recent murder of five people in nearby Bnei Brak.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael bashing