Author: Blazingcatfur

Prince Andrew’s statement seems to contradict answers he gave me – Emily Maitlis

It is an image now burned into my brain: Prince Andrew, in the eaves of Buckingham Palace, trying to explain to me why he thought a Newsnight interview might be a good idea.

He wanted to get across his innocence. He wanted to tell me he had never met the woman who was accusing him of sex trafficking. He wanted to try and prove that it hadn’t been him in the now-infamous photograph in Ghislaine Maxwell’s house – an arm flung around Virginia Giuffre.

And as he prepared his defence, something became very clear to our team: that this interview – albeit without any legal bearing whatsoever – would have to be as forensic as any court document. The questions were what any journalist would want to ask. But they were asked in a way that would make them a legitimate public record.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

The Real Reason to Worry About Security Agencies’ Domestic Collection

The release last week of a partially declassified letter that Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) wrote last April to the director of national intelligence and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recalls a prominent issue of a few years ago—national security agencies conducting broad collection of data that could cover activities of Americans and be considered an affront to their privacy. Wyden and Heinrich’s heavily redacted letter requests information on an otherwise unspecified “bulk program” of collection by the CIA. The more prominent issue from a few years ago centered on collection of telephone usage data by the National Security Agency (NSA), the primary organization responsible for collecting signals intelligence in support of U.S. national security.

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

Coalition of the unwilling: Western elites prefer not to fight authoritarianism

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan addressed the British Parliament, expressing optimism about the “global campaign for democracy now gathering force.” Less than a decade later, the Soviet Union collapsed. After that, it was widely believed that authoritarianism was in decline and that the community of free nations was bound to grow and prosper.

That belief was incorrect. These days we monitor what political scientist Larry Diamond dubbed the “democratic recession.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

Trudeau’s tactics mark the second time Democrats inspired a dictator

Canada’s Trudeau is not an original thinker; he’s a follower.  He pretends to be Black, Indian, or a cowboy.  He admires dictators (Castro) and dictatorships (China).  That’s why I wasn’t at all surprised to recognize that both his rhetoric regarding the truckers and his response to them perfectly echo the Democrats’ rhetoric and response to the January 6 protesters.  But this isn’t the first time Democrats have inspired dictators.  Back in the 1920s and 1930s, Hitler looked to the Democrats’ eugenics laws, especially in the American South, to craft the Nazi’s eugenics laws.

I don’t want to clutter this post with pictures of Trudeau in blackface, pretending to be an Indian in India, or sauntering around in his little cowboy hat.  But it is important to remind you of his respect for both dictators and dictatorships. 

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

The elite unmasked

Of course celebs don’t wear masks – Covid rules are only for the little people.

The mask has slipped. Literally and metaphorically. On Sunday, at the Super Bowl, in an LA stadium heaving with people, there wasn’t a mask to be seen among the celeb set. The kind of self-righteous maskholes who have derived enormous pleasure over the past two years from telling the plebs to mask up went maskless to the game. Maybe they held their breath for three hours? There was actress Charlize Theron, not a stitch of cloth on her face, despite LA having a mask mandate. This is the same Charlize Theron who once Instagrammed a pic of herself in a fancy mask alongside the words ‘Don’t be an ass #wearadamnmask’. You see, it’s only you, the little guy, who has to wear a damn mask, not people as important and beautiful as Ms Theron.

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Imagine a Trumpdeau. You Can’t

… Right now, the people who donated to the truckers via GiveSendGo, a platform built by conservative Christians to do crowdfunding that could not be canceled, are having their names and data leaked all over the Internet so that CBC, the Canadian public broadcaster, and private citizens can harass them, and presumably strip them of their livelihoods — a repeat of the witch hunt that happened after Proposition 8 in California.

Where was this urgency to disrupt and end the scores of church burnings across Canada last year? It was nowhere. Prime Minister Trudeau called the arsons “fully understandable.” The supposed justification for these rages — supposed mass graves at Catholic schools — could not be found or substantiated upon investigation.

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Trudeau’s state of emergency is all about the money

Civil liberties were suspended to protect foreign investment

… The Canadian people’s rights and civil liberties have been weighed against the “rights” of American capital, and have been passed over. At the time of writing, banks have been granted the ability (free of liability) to freeze the bank accounts of those under mere suspicion of involvement in the protest movement — with no need for a court order. In addition, emergency orders must adhere to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but only according to Justin Trudeau’s interpretation. After two years of severe and unjustified infringements on freedom of association, assembly, religion, expression, and equality under law, many Canadians are now doubtful as to whether they are still citizens of a liberal democratic state.

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

Is it time for freedom-loving Canadians to mount a general strike?

Little Justin and the secession of the plebs

Justin Trudeau, still the prime minister of Canada, is the first person in history to invoke the Emergencies Act, a law enacted in the 1980s to allow the government to take special, temporary action to deal with an “urgent and critical situation” that “seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians.” Little Justin is embarrassed by the thousands of truckers in Canada who are protesting, first of all, the country’s vaccine mandate but, more to the point, the government’s intrusion into the lives and livelihoods of the people. Justin is embarrassed. That’s the real national emergency.

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Russia! Russia! Russia!

Ottawa police warn protesters that a crackdown is coming as federal government cites alleged extremist ties of convoy leaders

… One Liberal MP suggested Russia may also be a player in the disinformation that he said is motivating protesters

MP John McKay, chair of the Commons national defence committee, said in an interview with the Star, that the use of Emergency Act, given the protests that spread across the country, is “absolutely necessary. You cannot govern a country with mass insurrection across from one end of the country to the other.”

“My own view is that it is part of a disinformation misinformation campaign conducted by either state or non-state actors which is manipulating people who have actually, say, a limited understanding of what governments can do and can’t do.”

Asked which “state” actors he meant, McKay said bluntly, “Russians” and observed that the chaos in Ottawa is getting lots of play on Russian TV.

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Canada Goes Tyrannical

This week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the lightweight, unpopular elected leader of a country with a 93% vaccination rate for those over 60 and a total vaccination rate of 84%, announced that he would invoke the Emergencies Act in order to crack down on the Freedom Convoy — a group of protesters opposed to government vaccination mandates for truckers. Trudeau breathily announced that invocation of the law was in fact “reasonable and proportionate.” His public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, said that the actions were required thanks to “intimidation, harassment, and expressions of hate.”

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Regulating cryptocurrency under Emergencies Act not as clear as Freeland suggests

Controversial new rules enacted by the Liberal government under the Emergencies Act will require crowdfunding platforms holding money for illegal convoy protests to report any suspicious transactions, government officials said.

That includes transactions exceeding $10,000,and those suspected to be tied to money laundering or terrorist activity.

But the details of how the new rules will apply to cryptocurrencies weren’t available Tuesday evening, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the government would invoke the Emergencies Act to shut down protests against COVID-19 mandates that have blocked streets in downtown Ottawa and border crossings to the U.S.

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Will Xi Jinping’s ‘End of Days’ Plunge China and the World into War?

When truckers took over Canada’s capital, Ottawa, and shut down border entry points to America, some called it a “nationwide insurrection.” Mass demonstrations have occurred across the democratic world. People have had enough of two years of mandates and other disease-control measures.

Not so in the world’s most populous state, which maintains the world’s strictest COVID-19 controls. There are no known popular protests in the People’s Republic of China against anti-coronavirus efforts.

Yet China is not stable, and Xi Jinping is facing his “End of Days,” as a recent essay by opposition figures (see below) puts it. The revolt is not in society at large but at the top of the Communist Party. As Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Gatestone, Xi Jinping, China’s mighty-looking leader, has an “enormous array of domestic enemies.”

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