Author: Blazingcatfur

Tony Blair takes a swipe at Joe Biden as he says the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will give the West’s enemies ‘a belief our time is over’

Tony Blair today took a swipe at Joe Biden as he said the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will embolden the West’s enemies and give them a ‘belief our time is over’.

The former prime minister said ‘it is clear now’ the US has decided that for the ‘foreseeable future’ it has a ‘very limited appetite for military engagement’.

Mr Blair suggested Europe and NATO should therefore ‘develop the capability to act’ when the US is ‘unwilling’.

I don’t care much for either dog in this fight, but Blair is right about Biden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Trudeau vulnerable as leadership emerges as election’s defining issue

With three weeks down and only 13 days until the election, it may be that the real campaign is only now beginning. The Liberals must hope so, while the Conservatives may be concerned about having peaked too soon.

The Conservatives led the Liberals at the long weekend by 36-33 per cent in the daily Nanos poll, an uptick of two points for the Grits since Thursday’s French debate on TVA.

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

Does China Really Believe in ‘Climate Change’?

China told Biden climate czar John Kerry that it would march to its own drummer on the issue of global warming. The South China Morning Post wrote that “Beijing has rebuffed American calls to make more public pledges on climate change before a UN climate summit in November, insisting it should follow its own plan rather than bowing to US pressure, according to a person familiar with the two countries’ negotiations.”

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

Oz here we come… Trudeau vows legal protection for businesses asking for proof of vaccination

The federal Liberals are promising legal protection for businesses asking for proof of COVID-19 vaccination from staff and customers.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau discussed the platform promise and other proposed supports for businesses and workers at a Labour Day campaign stop in Welland, Ont.

He says his party will table legislation if re-elected that will ensure organizations can require immunization without fear of legal challenges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election", "China eats weird animals disease"

Opioids have killed 600,000 Americans. The Sacklers just got off basically scot-free

A bankruptcy court gave members of the pharma family immunity from further civil suits. They don’t have to admit wrongdoing – and they may end up richer than they started

Corporate money has a powerful and malign influence on so many aspects of American life. But even by that low standard, events this week in a New York bankruptcy court are shocking. The legal system has effectively allowed one of the country’s richest families to buy its way out of accountability for what a White House commission called “America’s national nightmare” of mass opioid addiction.

On Wednesday, the court approved a deal for the dissolution of the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, which kicked off the opioid epidemic two decades ago with its illegal drive to sell a high-strength painkiller, OxyContin. Purdue’s owners, members of two branches of the now-notorious Sackler family, are estimated to have made more than $10bn from the drug – even as the opioid crisis claimed more than 600,000 lives, with the toll climbing higher by the year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

O’Toole’s Flip Flop May Fly Says NatPo

He’s flippy one day and floppy the next.

John Ivison: O’Toole’s reversal on gun policy may save his campaign

Erin O’Toole delivered his morning press conference with his back to the Burrard Inlet but in political terms, his back was to the wall.

The Liberals have found their wedge — gun control — and have been hammering it home with gusto. Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that O’Toole wants to take the country backwards on gun control. O’Toole has had difficulty registering a counter-argument because the platform he waves around with abandon is clear – the Conservatives will maintain the 1977 ban on automatic weapons but repeal the order-in-council from May 2020, in which the Liberals outlawed many semi-automatic weapons. The Conservative leader has argued his position is clear, but the only clarity was that the Liberals and the media would keep poking at this open sore until election day.

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

Afghan repeatedly stabs victim ‘because he didn’t like the fact she was a working woman’

A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany repeatedly stabbed a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

The man stabbed the woman in the neck several times in the city’s Wilmersdorf district on Saturday afternoon.

A 66-year-old man who saw the attack unfold rushed to help the woman but was also stabbed in the neck by the suspect.

Back to gender studies class you go!

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

Canadians have record-high mortgage debt. What happens when rates rise?

New numbers from Equifax this week confirmed what housing market watchers have known for a while now: Canadians are addicted to mortgage debt.

Canadians took out 410,000 home loans in the second quarter. That’s the biggest quarterly jump on record, up 60 per cent compared with the same period a year earlier.

Despite fears in the early days of the pandemic that COVID-19 could be a bucket of ice on Canada’s housing market, the opposite happened. Interest rates slashed to record lows, coupled with millions of Canadians cooped up at home suddenly needing more living space, acted more like gasoline on the housing market than water.

What happens when rates rise? You may lose your house. You don’t want this to happen while you’re PM.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Voters getting split between Liberals and NDP, creating path for Tories: election poll

As the federal election campaign gets tighter, a new poll provides hints on where the parties could see their support grow or shrink — and appears to show a growing split in the progressive vote between the Liberals and the NDP.

The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News suggests that split could create an opening for the Conservative Party, which not only has the most locked-in support but is also seen as the campaign with the most momentum.

 

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

‘If one life is lost, the blood is on White House hands’: Fury at State Department for ‘delaying six flights out of Afghanistan carrying more than 100 US citizens’

The US State Department has been accused of blocking dozens of Americans from fleeing Afghanistan after failing to tell the Taliban it had green-lighted charter flights.

On Sunday, Reuters reported that the delay had been caused by Biden administration officials not telling Taliban leaders it had approved the departures of the chartered flights from an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, 260 miles north of Afghan capital Kabul.

An exasperated flight organizer hit out at the State Department over the fiasco, saying: ‘They need to be held accountable for putting these people’s lives in danger.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Afghanistan: Taliban claim to have taken control of Panjshir valley

The Taliban have fought their way to the capital of Panjshir, the last Afghan province holding out against their rule, and seem on the brink of total victory.

The group posted pictures on social media showing Taliban fighters standing in front of the gate of the governor’s compound. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement, saying Panjshir was under the control of Taliban fighters.

“With this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Six Palestinian prisoners escape Israeli jail through tunnel

Israeli authorities have launched a massive manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country’s most secure jails overnight.

The men are believed to have dug a tunnel from their cell over several months that led to a road outside Gilboa Prison’s walls.

Officials were alerted by farmers who noticed them running through fields.

The fugitives include a former leader of the militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and five Islamic Jihad members.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Most Globalists are power-hungry oligarch tyrants

Rich people and rich corporations including international banks rule the world and their primary goal is to make money the monopolistic capitalist way. Their ideology is not necessarily fascist or communist but most power-hungry oligarch tyrants basically prefer a one party system which has been corrupted by money. In China about 50 families own all the important wealth in the country, but almost all are members of one party, the CCP. In the United States many corporate oligarchs are neither fascist nor communist in their ideology but believe in controlling a one-party system which today seems to be the Democrat party.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization