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UK Universities face fines as part of ‘twin assault’ on cancel culture

Ministers will fine universities which stifle freedom of speech and tell heritage groups “public funds must never be used for political purposes” in a major new bid to torpedo efforts at rewriting Britain’s history, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.

Gavin Williamson, the Education secretary, will announce this week that a ‘Free Speech Champion’ will be given powers to defend free speech and academic freedom on campuses.

Colleges or student bodies that try to cancel, dismiss or demote people over their views will be sanctioned in a major Government escalation on the ‘war on woke’.

Separately, Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has summoned 25 of the UK’s biggest heritage bodies and charities to a summit next week where they will be told “to defend our culture and history from the noisy minority of activists constantly trying to do Britain down”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 14, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

‘Document dump’ of thousands of pages reveals federal government’s behind-the-scenes scramble on COVID-19

OTTAWA—Is it time for the federal government to name an independent review of Canada’s pandemic response?

The prime minister says no, not now, while we’re still in the midst of the crisis; there’ll be time for that later.

Yet, as Canada stares down the emergence of variants, warnings of a third wave and predictions that this is not the last global pandemic to come, figuring out where we went wrong and what we need to fix is a mammoth and pressing task.

It may be one that a minority Parliament — where opposition parties and the government vie to frame ballot questions for the next election, whenever it comes — is ill placed to tackle with the objectivity and impartiality required.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 14, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians want to drop the monarch but what would come next?

Is it time for Canada to cut the apron strings with the motherland that is Great Britain?

Most of us could go through our daily lives without giving two thoughts to the idea that Canada has ever had anything to do with the United Kingdom, well other than the Queen being on so much of our money.

When the Queen passes there will be an increased momentum to sever ties. The Royal Dysfunctionals have seen to that.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 14, 2021•0•"Woke Royals"

Food Network Star Denied Bail in Murder Case of Foster Care Victim Victoria Rose Smith

“The toddler suffered from extensive injuries, including deep purple bruising on her abdomen, bruising on her ear, abrasions on her face, bruising down her back, and bruising up and down both legs after her death on January 14, prosecutors told the judge. The coroner ruled that the child died from blunt force trauma, but prosecutors said Ariel had told first responders she believed the girl had drowned from drinking too much water.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 14, 2021•0•Crime

Hollywood Celebrity Idiots Melt Down After Trump Acquitted, Declare 43 Republicans ‘Traitors,‘ ‘Fascists‘

Hollywood celebrities flew into a paroxysm of rage on Saturday after the Senate acquitted former president Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol Hill riots of January 6. Left-wing stars lashed out at the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit, calling them “traitors” and “fascists.”

How do they forget they work in an industry that kowtow’s to Communist China?

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 14, 2021•0•Celebrity Idiots, Hollywood, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Ontario reports 981new Covid cases

Ontario is reporting 981 cases of #COVID19 and over 48,700 tests completed. Locally, there are 209 new cases in Peel, 171 in York Region and 122 in Toronto.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 467,626 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 14, 2021

WARMINGTON: COVID hotels — violation of rights or necessary public safety measure?

It’s a tale of two headlines.

One is the Trudeau government drilling down on forcing returning Canadians into mandated isolation in locked hotels at their own expense. The other is the government being put on notice that doing so allegedly violates every free person’s constitutional rights.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 14, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl commercial might actually bring Americans together

Poet W.B. Yeats came to recognize something precious and profound at center of his this-worldly identity during family vacations in County Sligo: his Irishness. In 1923, at the age of 58, Yeats accepted the Nobel Prize the only way he could — as an Irishman on behalf of Ireland. What motivated the committee was “[Yeats’s] always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 13, 2021•0•Celebrity Idiots

#DisruptTexts Tries to Cancel the Odyssey

The woke Left has come for Odysseus, that hyacinth-haired favorite of Athena, master mariner, foremost of men, and King of Ithaca. Last month, a teacher named Heather Levine bragged on social media that she’d gotten the Odyssey removed from her school’s curriculum. Her effort is part of a larger woke movement called #DisruptTexts.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 13, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"

This endless lockdown cycle grows more sinister by the day

IN a grim caricature of Christian penance, these are the months we are meant to be taking our punishment in the aftermath of a Christmas feast gifted to us by our rulers. Except there was no Christmas feast. And now Easter too is to be drastically curtailed, with Boris Johnson ‘privately sharing an aspiration to see restrictions begin to ease by Good Friday to allow families some small contact again’.

Ah, but fret ye not at this cancellation of all that we hold most sacred. This latest lockdown, unlike those that went before it, is morally justified apparently.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 13, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

While Europe Slept, 15 Years Later

This book, which appeared first in English, has already been translated into several other languages, but it is a special pleasure to see it published in Polish. My father’s parents were both Polish, although they came from municipalities that, in their time, were located in the Austrian Empire and that are now part of Ukraine, not far from the Polish border. My grandfather was a native of the Galician town of Brody; my grandmother was raised in the Galician city of Krystynopol (now Chervonohrad). He emigrated to America before World War I; she left her childhood home – which was blasted half to bits during exchanges of gunfire between the Central Powers and the Russians – during the war, traveling all alone at the age of fifteen and waiting for several months in Rotterdam until it was determined that the shipping route was safe from German mines.

by Blazingcatfur•February 14, 2021February 13, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Pentagon ADMITS that it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes

The Pentagon has admitted to possessing and testing out wreckage from UFO crashes, with the researcher who found the startling news hypothesizing that the debris may be from the famous Roswell, New Mexico, crash in 1947.

Researcher Anthony Bragalia made the revelation on his blog UFO Explorations, sharing that he secured more than 150 pages from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) after the agency responded to a three-year Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he submitted.

‘Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man,’ Bragalia wrote in his blog.

This is looking more and more like the acclimating drip drip drip before the Big Reveal.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2021February 13, 2021•0•"UFO's"

GOLDSTEIN: Why does Trudeau not want us to see vaccine deals?

The fact Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Procurement Minister Anita Anand refuse to disclose the contracts they’ve signed with vaccine manufacturers raises the question of what’s in them that they don’t want us to see.

They’ve rejected appeals from the opposition parties, Canada’s premiers and provincial public health experts to release the contracts on the grounds this would violate confidentiality provisions, which could lead to their cancellation.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2021February 13, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

California is collapsing – Once seen as a progressive’s paradise, the state is drifting towards a new kind of feudalism

If one were to explore the most blessed places on earth, California, my home for a half century, would surely be up there. The state, with its salubrious climate, spectacular scenery, vast natural resources, and entrepreneurial heritage is home to the world’s fifth-largest economy and its still-dominant technological centre. It is also — as some progressives see it — the incubator of “a capitalism we can believe in”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2021February 13, 2021•0•California

David Baddiel vs woke anti-Semitism

David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count is a short, sharp attack on ‘progressive’ attitudes towards anti-Semitism. As such, it makes for a compelling polemic.

As Baddiel characterises them, progressives are a broadly left-leaning coalition who ‘define themselves as being on the right side of history’. You can find them on the one-time Corbynista wing of the Labour Party, or hash-tagging their support for Black Lives Matter, or maybe penning op-eds for the Guardian. They are not necessarily ‘classically left-wing’, as Baddiel puts it, given many are none too concerned with economics and the interests of ‘the working man’. Rather, they are interested in fighting what is best thought of as a cultural battle, promoting the ‘right’ attitudes and, above all, tackling all forms of prejudice.

All except one, that is.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2021February 13, 2021•0•Anti-Semitism and the Left, Jewicidal

Actor James Dreyfus slam trans activists as ‘misogynistic guys in skirts’ for waging war of hatred on JK Rowling

Actor James Dreyfus today slammed trans activists as ‘misogynistic guys in skirts’ for waging a war of hatred against Harry Potter author JK Rowling.

The Gimme, Gimme, Gimme star, 52, claimed those involved were ‘angry, young, anarchist people’ who harboured a deep hatred of women and ‘what they represent’.

He also accused them of being behind an alleged campaign of threats to kill and rape women in order to ‘put them back in their place’.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2021February 13, 2021•0•Big Tranny