Author: Blazingcatfur

Rupa Subramanya: Chrystia Freeland’s side gig with the WEF is endangering Canadian democracy

Rupa Subramanya: Chrystia Freeland’s side gig with the WEF is endangering Canadian democracy

There’s no need to invent conspiracy theories. The attempt by global elites to subvert local democracy is fully on and in plain view

The World Economic Forum (WEF), which has met at the Swiss ski resort of Davos every year since its creation in 1971 by German academic and entrepreneur Klaus Schwab, was forced to convert its annual schmoozefest into a virtual event this year due to COVID-19. Of note on the main agenda was a “stakeholder capitalism” panel, which included Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland. The former-journalist-turned-politician has been a fixture at the WEF for years. Rubbing shoulders at Davos with the world’s rich, famous and powerful was one of the inspirations for her 2012 book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset"

Sweden to Teach “Migrants” That Violence, Female Genital Mutilation, and Child Marriage are Wrong

The Swedish government has decided that all asylum seekers who come to the country in the future will undergo a mandatory social introduction course shortly after their arrival.

The Swedish Migration Board has been tasked with preparing an introductory course that will inform the new arrivals about the asylum process, Swedish legislation, and the country’s democratic norms and values. This includes information on the rules that apply to so-called “honour-related” violence and oppression as well as protection from discrimination and abuse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Tackling Big Tech – Diane Francis: Canada must move quickly to combat the social media onslaught

Tackling Big Tech – Diane Francis: Canada must move quickly to combat the social media onslaught

The combination of monopoly power and deregulation has given rise to monolithic social media empires that have become more powerful than nation-states, corporations and societies. Finally, Australia, the European Union, the United States and France are starting to regulate Silicon Valley. This is essential to protect their media, cultures and national political conversations as well as their citizens’ privacy and safety.

Government intervention? What could go wrong? I suspect this will be a case of Government, it’s media, and Big Tech working hand in glove to smother us all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly"

Biden Begins Unraveling Middle East Peace

Biden Begins Unraveling Middle East Peace

He continues to undo the Trump administration’s historic achievements.

The Biden administration, should it play its cards right, could capitalize on the momentum of the Trump administration’s Abraham Accords to gain further diplomatic wins for Middle East peace. The Trump administration departed very close to clinching normalization deals between Israel and Mauritania and Israel and Indonesia, and had made significant progress on the Israel–Oman and Israel–Saudi Arabia tracks as well. So normalization agreements between Israel and these four countries seem reasonable goals for the Biden administration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Israeli - Islam Conflict

GameStop and the Truth Wars

The war to redefine reality has spread from politics to finance.

Who knows exactly when the “truth wars” started, but we can be sure that they have reached a crescendo. In a recent essay, historian Timothy Snyder argued that truth is under attack in America. If it succumbs, he argues, fascism will follow because, without truth to adjudicate disputes, only force remains. Never mind that actually existing fascism was a theory of political truth, and that dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler saw themselves as foes of liberal relativism. Snyder has a point. Americans are engaged in a protracted conflict to determine what they should collectively hold as true, and they are failing in the quest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Andy Ngo Unmasks Antifa in New Book and Warns: ‘Antifa Lives and Thrives Only if America Dies.’

Antifa is the muscle, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other non-profits help pick the targets, and anyone who points out their totalitarian intolerance is called a fascist, promptly canceled, or burned in effigy. That’s the crazy Leftist triangulation playing out these days on the streets of Portland and in many other riot-prone American cities. Journalist Andy Ngo knows this all too well.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa

Russia: Putin Shoots Himself in the Foot

Russia: Putin Shoots Himself in the Foot

Aleksei Navalny, opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, returned to Russia on January 17 after recovering for five months in Germany from having been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent, Novichok. It was an event widely reported to have been an assassination attempt by Russian state agents.

Upon landing, Navalny was immediately arrested on charges that he had violated the parole terms from a suspended sentence received in 2014 for alleged fraud, a conviction that the European Court of Human Rights ruled was “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia

Poland’s Freedom Act Will Empower Public to Overturn Big Tech Shadowbans

Poland’s new Freedom Act against Big Tech censorship will see members of the public automatically notified of “shadowbans” and empowered to overturn restrictions if their speech online is lawful.

Speaking exclusively to Breitbart News, Deputy Minister of Justice Sebastian Kaleta, who is spearheading the new legislation, confirmed that “every time an algorithm is used to limit reach, the user will be informed if and why his reach is being limited.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly"

Scores of former Bush officials leaving GOP because party won’t repudiate Trump, threaten to never come back! … So?

Scores of former Bush officials leaving GOP because party won’t repudiate Trump, threaten to never come back! … So?

Officials associated with the administration of President George W. Bush say they are abandoning the Republican Party because of its refusal to repudiate former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.

At least 60 former Bush administration officials are said to be upset with elected members of the party who won’t or don’t agree with the narrative that Trump’s claims of election fraud sparked the riot, which is being characterized by Democrats and some Republicans as an “insurrection.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

GOLDSTEIN: Pandemic spending doubles government debt to $2 trillion, says report

GOLDSTEIN: Pandemic spending doubles government debt to $2 trillion, says report

Pandemic spending this year is expected to hike Canada’s combined federal and provincial debt to $2 trillion, double the $1 trillion debt in 2007-08, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

The figures, adjusted for inflation, mean that in the current fiscal year, Canada’ combined debt will equal 91.6% of the annual output of the Canadian economy, up from 65.2% last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Acronyms are ‘symptoms of white supremacy’, says San Francisco public schools’ art dept, after dropping its abbreviation

The San Francisco Unified School District Arts Department has decided to abandon its acronym, apparently in a bid to end racism – but many Twitter users have failed to appreciate this historic step forward for equality.

Formerly known as ‘VAPA’, short for ‘Visual and Performing Arts’, the department announced that going forward it would be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department because “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture,” a local ABC affiliate reported.

The name change is a “simple step” that can be taken to ensure families from all backgrounds “better understand who we are,” explained the department’s director, Sam Bass.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, WTF?

Laurentian University, key school for northern Ontario, files for creditor protection

Laurentian University has filed for creditor protection amid what its president calls “unprecedented financial challenges.”

Laurentian’s financial health “is currently amongst the weakest in the province compared to other universities,” Robert Haché, president and vice-chancellor of the Sudbury, Ont.-based school, said in a statement on Monday

“Despite our best efforts over the last year, Laurentian is insolvent.”

I can’t say I’m familiar with Laurentian. What sort of degree programs did they offer? Was it a self-inflicted wound? High administration fees mainly comprised of bureaucratic bloat, impossibly generous salary, retirement and benefit programs have doomed many US colleges. How many useless diversity poobahs does Laurentian have? Has it occurred to anyone that some institutions of alleged “higher learning” deserve to wither and die?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation Bubble