Author: Blazingcatfur

US wargames played out scenarios for Maduro’s fall. None of them ended well for Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro is chased out of office by a massive popular revolt but the Venezuelan military takes to the streets, turning its guns on the civilians who have brought him down.

A palace coup sends Venezuela’s authoritarian leader into exile, sparking a bloody power struggle between members of his disintegrating regime.

Maduro or a key ally is assassinated by a US “decapitation” strike but – as foreign soldiers commandeer Caracas and key airports and ports – leftwing insurgents tighten their grip on the country’s mineral-rich hinterlands and regime loyalists launch guerrilla-style attacks on oil refineries and pipelines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy

The controversial Victims of Communism memorial in downtown Ottawa will no longer feature the names of specific individuals after federal officials determined a significant number could be linked to the Nazis.

The memorial, located near the corner of Wellington and Bay streets, was intended to honour those who suffered under communism.

But concerns have been raised over the years by Jewish organizations and historians that names of eastern Europeans who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust have been put forward in an attempt to whitewash their past.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Limiting Compassion: Why Industrialized Niceness Fails the Vulnerable

Modern compassion is loud, immediate, and collective. It is expressed in slogans, hashtags, yard signs, and ritual affirmations that signal moral alignment at scale. What it is less often is personal, costly, or binding. We have become very good at expressing care, but very bad at assuming responsibility.

The danger here is not insincerity. Most people who participate in these displays mean well. The danger is structural. When compassion is industrialized — centralized, abstracted, and detached from consequence — it begins to drift. It no longer asks what can realistically be done, who must pay the cost, or where responsibility lies. Instead, it satisfies the moral needs of the compassionate while leaving the suffering largely untouched.

Two stories — one associated with the political left, one with the right — reveal this problem with uncomfortable clarity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Virtue Signalling"

Want to recall a Canadian politician? It’s not easy — if it’s even allowed where you live

It’s not so easy to remove a politician from office between elections in Canada.

That’s due, in part, to the fact there are few jurisdictions in the country where laws to recall an elected representative are in place. And even where recalls are an option, the requirements to trigger one are challenging, some political observers say.

But the process is currently being played out in a major way in Alberta, where, thanks to citizen-led petition drives, 21 members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) who belong to the governing United Conservative Party (UCP) — including Premier Danielle Smith — are facing recall petitions from constituents. One Alberta NDP MLA is also facing a recall.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

(Bumped) Death Toll Rises To 16 In Bondi Beach Muslim Terror Attack

Naveed Akram, kills for Allah the Muslim murder cult “God”

Telegraph Live Feed – Bondi Beach shooting death toll rises to 16

Twelve people, including children, are dead after two gunmen armed with rifles opened fire at Bondi Beach on Sunday afternoon, in an act of terrorism targeting a Jewish holiday celebration.

Witnesses said two men stepped out of a vehicle on Campbell Parade, near Bondi Pavilion, and opened fire about 6.40pm on Sunday with footage showing blast after blast on the tourist strip. Some witnesses report more than 30 shots.

Video and photos taken by a Daily Mail photographer show a gunman, later identified as Naveed Akram, 24, from Bonnyrigg in Sydney’s southwest, opening fire from an elevated bridge.

9 News Live Feed: Bondi Beach shooting live updates: Twelve people dead, 29 injured; Gunman killed, second shooter in custody; Attack deemed ‘terrorist incident’

TheAgeAustralia Live Feed: Bondi Beach shooting live updates: PM condemns shooting as ‘an act of evil antisemitism’ after 11 people, one shooter killed after attack on Jewish Chanukah by the Sea celebration

BBC Live feed: Eleven killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia’s Bondi Beach, police say

(more…)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Australia, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Someone hates the attention …

Sadiq Khan claims Donald Trump’s attacks on London are ‘grooming’ far-Right extremists in Britain and says US President is ‘obsessed’ with him

Sir Sadiq Khan has suggested Donald Trump’s attacks on Europe and London are ‘grooming’ and ‘radicalising’ extremists in Britain.

In a fresh blast at the US President, the London mayor claimed things said by Mr Trump ‘normalises and brings to the mainstream views that I think are unacceptable’.

The Labour politician also questioned why Mr Trump was ‘obsessed’ with him, amid the latest spat in the long-running feud between the two men.

Khan has had a big hand in turning London into a 3rd World Dumpster good that Trump is shining a light on this scumbag.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Report Raises Concerns About Canadian Universities, Others Collaborating With Beijing-Backed AI Labs

A new report warns that prominent Western universities, including Canadian institutions, have collaborated with Chinese artificial-intelligence labs on research that could advance Beijing’s mass-surveillance apparatus and other tools tied to human rights abuses.

The Dec. 8 report, authored by the New York-based business intelligence firm Strategy Risks in partnership with the non-profit Human Rights Foundation, outlines how leading Western institutions in countries such as the United States, Canada, and others in Europe have collaborated with Chinese AI labs that are part of, or closely connected to, Beijing’s surveillance and security apparatus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Stringent Gun Control Fails to Prevent Mass Killing at Bondi Beach

Stringent gun control failed to prevent a firearm-based mass killing by terrorists that ended the lives of 11 innocents at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday evening.

Breitbart News noted that the Jewish community was targeted in the terrorist attack and that one of the two gunmen behind the attack was also killed.

Watch for the head stomp…

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

Young people less trusting, poll finds

Disaffected Yutes.

Younger Canadians are generally less trusting than older people, according to a recent survey conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.

Atlantic Canadians are the most trusting in general (71 per cent), while British Columbians are least trusting (51 per cent), says Jack Jedwab, president of the association.

“For several years we’ve been monitoring evolving rates of trust in peoples, nations and institutions,” Jedwab explains. With heightened degrees of polarization, especially along ideological lines, he says it’s vital to understand the extent this is accompanied by a breakdown in trust between people and within communities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elite Decadence & Decay"

40-person Somali mob hacked 18-year-old to death in London – and the uncomfortable facts about a diaspora most tiptoe around

Somali Riot Hackney London

Donald Trump spat out the word like something rotten: ‘Garbage,’ he said. ‘They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country.’ His voice rising, his rage unmistakable, he railed against Somali immigrants in the United States.

It was a line designed to explode across the airwaves.

Trump wasn’t shouting into a void – he was pressing on a wound. In Minnesota, home to one of America’s biggest Somali communities, prosecutors are unpicking one of the largest frauds in US history.

The FBI says that during the Covid-era, the Feeding Our Future non-profit organisation – which claimed to be serving more than 40,000 meals to poor schoolchildren every week – siphoned off $250million (£187million) in grants and donations, and funnelled the money into luxury cars, houses and private bank accounts.

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

Donald Trump’s erratic, kleptocratic authoritarianism is a threat to our very existence. This is what Canada must do to survive.

We would like to begin, if we could, with a question of scale. Think for a moment of the sheer vastness of this land. Try to picture it all. The impossible greatness: from the Pacific forests, dense with unspeakable trees, to the grey greens of the Newfoundland coast.

Now look at a map. Think of what you see: A country so large it can at times seem more geological than political, like a fact written into the earth. Let the natural thought come then: Nothing this large could ever go away. And yet, we know now that it could, all of it, at any time.

Two-thousand twenty five was the year the inevitable died in Canada. Thanks to Donald Trump, we know that nothing about our country is guaranteed anymore, not our sovereignty, our democracy, our prosperity.

It seems the folks who most benefited when their “free trade” deals off-shored our jobs, fattened themselves on tax payer funded Net-Zero subsidies, imported cheap labour to feather their nests, and shamelessly discriminated against us because we were white are traumatized Trump has upset their apple cart. I could not care less for the fate of their Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Germany: 5 Muslims Arrested After Plot To Attack Christmas Market Uncovered

Police have arrested five men suspected of planning an attack on a Christmas market in Lower Bavaria. The Munich public prosecutor’s office confirmed this on Saturday evening.

According to the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office, three Moroccans aged 22, 28, and 30, an Egyptian (56), and a Syrian (37) were arrested on Friday. The five men are alleged to have planned an attack on a Christmas market near Dingolfing in Lower Bavaria. The tabloid newspaper ” Bild ” had previously reported on the case.

Remigration Now A Must h/t Patti Jo

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

BLIZZARD: Toronto’s two useless TTC transit lines should have been subways

Back in the day when the Eglinton Crosstown and the Finch LRT were twinkles in the eyes of politicians, I said they should be subways.

Like the late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, I believed in “subways, subways, subways.”

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"