Author: Blazingcatfur

We’ll Pay You Not to Shoot

San Francisco will provide monthly stipends to discourage gun violence.

San Francisco has a new plan to stem a recent surge in deadly shootings: pay potential shooters. That’s the principle behind the city’s new Dream Keeper Fellowship, which will enroll 30 individuals deemed at high risk of shooting or being shot and pay them a $300 monthly stipend. They can collect an additional $200 per month for completing such milestones as taking job interviews, complying with probation, or meeting with the life coach assigned to them.

The program has a certain logic. Crime is a highly concentrated phenomenon: in San Francisco, police analysis has found that just 12 criminal gangs are the major drivers of shootings. If incentives work, then paying people not to shoot could conceivably drive down crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

After Floyd’s killing, Minneapolis police retreated, data shows

Bullets crashed through the walls of Brandy Earthman’s house on Minneapolis’ north side one evening this summer. The shots sheared through the door of the living room where her children were playing. One severed a bone in her 19-year-old son’s arm.

The gunfire was part of a wave of shootings this year in Minneapolis, where killings are on the rise and, Earthman and others complain, the police are frequently nowhere to be seen.

“They don’t care anymore,” she said. “They’re just going to let everybody kill themselves.”

h/t OB

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White Coat Supremacy Drops the Mask

Dividing the people and justifying state-sponsored violence against dissenters.

“Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here? They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.”

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

Both woke Leftists and the Taliban destroy books

Strange that it is not only the Taliban who are destroying children’s books, but also our liberal wokes.

The Taliban took control of the Norwegian embassy in Kabul and destroyed bottles of wine and children’s books. It was the Norwegian ambassador to Iran, Sigvald Hauge, who revealed what happened in the Norwegian embassy in Kabul, abandoned during the August escape of those from Western countries.
Nothing strange, no surprise, unless you believed that the “Taliban have changed”, as so many idiots with a certain weight in the press have repeated for weeks.

Strange, however, that it is not only the Taliban who are destroying children’s books, but also our Tolerants.

In recent days, in Canada, Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke were set on fire in Ontario schools (Hergé’s “Tintin in Congo” has become virtually unobtainable in America). These are the imposters of Progress who have just destroyed 5,000 children’s books in a “purification ceremony”.

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

LA Classroom Decorated With ‘F–k the Police,’ ‘F–k Amerikkka’ and Palestinian Flags

A classroom at a Los Angeles public high school was decorated with hateful posters reading “F–k the Police” and “F–k Amerikkka” — as well as a Black Lives Matter flag, photos show.

The vicious, anti-American posters, shared on social media, adorned a history classroom at Alexander Hamilton High School.

One picture shows a poster declaring “F–k Amerikkka, This is Native Land” and another taking aim at law enforcement officials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, WTF?

Islamist Sh^thole Pakistan begins dialogue on “inclusivity” with Islamist Sh^thole Afghanistan

Muslims burn churches in Pakistan

Pakistan PM says he has started dialogue with Taliban over inclusivity

Pakistan’s prime minister says he has initiated a dialogue with the Taliban to encourage them to form an inclusive government that would ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region.

Imran Khan tweeted on Saturday that he took the initiative after his meetings this week in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with leaders of countries neighbouring Afghanistan.

Last week the Taliban announced an all-male interim government that included no women or members of Afghanistan’s minorities, contrary to their earlier pledges on inclusivity. They have also since moved to curb women’s rights, harking back to when they were in power in the 1990s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State, WTF?

David Frum is wrong: Guns save lives and sustain communities

From self defense to funding fire departments, they’re woven into the culture of red America

The debate over guns in the United States could, until recently, be divided into two extreme camps: the liberal elites (invariably protected by armed guards) who call for ever-more restrictive control of firearms, the basic functionality of which they cannot even begin to explain, and the uber-conservative right, for whom guns are a way of life and are ofttimes life-sustaining.

David Frum is evidently of the first faction, writing in The Atlantic this month about how ‘Responsible Gun Ownership Is a Lie.’ Gun sales – especially among first-time gun buyers – surged between 2019 and 2020, and continue to smash records. This trend has Frum worried.

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

The persistent threat of foreign interference in Canada’s democracy – Communist China Backs Trudeau

“… The threat of foreign interference in this election has already been detected. A Chinese Communist Party-owned media platform, Global Times, published an article last week to discredit Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and his party’s platform. The anonymous article threatened Canadians with a “counterstrike” if they elect a Conservative government. The article is the very definition of foreign interference.

MPs from different parties have also been targeted by Beijing aligned actors in efforts to influence the election outcome in their ridings. One of them is Conservative MP, Kenny Chiu, who introduced a private members bill in June 2021 to create a federal Canadian registry for individuals and organizations that act on behalf of identified, malign foreign regimes.”

Canada’s treasonous China class is deeply embedded in the Liberal Party. Both Xi and his minion Justin want to quash inquiries into the Winnipeg virus lab.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"

Contradictions Gone Viral

The controversy over the efficacy and safety of the COVID vaccines and boosters, and the validity of vaccine passports, seems only to have grown more pronounced and, indeed, more vehement with every passing week. The apologists for the vaccines—political leaders, medical “experts” (usually government-affiliated), the media and the punditocracy—have deposed that everyone must be vaccinated, unleashing an army of “fact-checkers” to torpedo any dissident argument and call the credentials and bona fides of highly accredited objectors into question, that is, when they are not being summarily censored.

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Bernier Says Party Will Win Seats in Election

TORONTO, Canada: Populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier is confident his party will win seats in Canada’s federal election on Monday and believes the PPC will force other parties to enter a debate on freedom.

Just days before Monday’s Canadian federal election, populist PPC leader Maxime Bernier held several events on Thursday in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and in Toronto itself.

I hope he’s right!

Individuality and Autonomy: Maxime Bernier and the PPC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election"

Net-zero will be net-painful

How is working towards a complete system change that will lower our standard of living ‘Building Back Better’?

When asked why he called the election, Justin Trudeau said, “The decisions your government makes right now will define the future your kids and grandkids grow up in… Canadians need to choose how we finish the fight against COVID-19 and build back better.” He’s right. The result of this election will decide whether Canada continues to be a free and prosperous country or something else. Vaccine passports are the current focus of campaign debate about our freedom and way of life but there is a longer-term, less obvious, even more important threat to our values and principles: the commitment to a net-zero transition by 2050.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election"

‘China’s Lehman Brothers moment’: Evergrande crisis rattles economy

The crisis engulfing Evergrande, China’s second-biggest property company, is the greatest test yet of President Xi Jinping’s effort to reform the debt-ridden behemoths of the Chinese economy. It could also be the most significant test that China’s financial system has faced in many years.

As angry protesters occupied the headquarters of the troubled property developer in recent weeks, some analysts have described the Evergrande crisis as “China’s Lehman Brothers moment”. Only this time it’s a credit-fuelled housebuilder that suddenly can’t pay its $300bn debts, rather than a blue-chip investment bank that many assumed was too big to fail but was instead thrown to the wolves 13 years ago.

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

Rex Murphy: Sorry Obama, but Trudeau shouldn’t win

Just a couple of days to go. Deo gratias.

And after the nearly six weeks of blather, promises and attacks, where are we?

We are where we were at the beginning, still perplexed behind our masks, crossing the street when we see a fellow Canadian approaching and noticing he’s exhaling a little too lustily, why Justin Trudeau called this vain election during a still-raging pandemic.

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