Author: Blazingcatfur
Failure of Imagination
We’re fighting among ourselves while our real adversary is watching with glee.
We are a vast country, but too many of us have a limited understanding of the rest of the world. We have the right to vote and freedom of speech. We can move around our country as we wish, and we with can start a company or quit a job as we desire. We get to determine who our friends are and where we spend our time. With such great freedom comes a failure of imagination. We forget that our system is special, unique, so we believe that every other country is like ours.
We have a “China Class” comprised of politicians, academics and the usual assortment of corporate sociopaths who have happily sold us out for their 30 pieces of silver.
Racist Interstate Highways?
Revamping some of the national highway system makes sense—but basing those decisions on vague notions of social justice is not the way to do it.
The Interstate Highway System, which the U.S. began constructing in the 1950s, has a complicated legacy, to say the least. Boosters see it as the greatest infrastructure program undertaken in the country during the second half of the twentieth century, connecting vast areas in new and important ways, unlocking largely untapped regions outside of cities that helped spark a new kind of middle-class living. Detractors accuse the system’s planners and builders of emptying out cities and encouraging the rise of low-density suburban sprawl. That process, critics argue, prompted “white flight” to the suburbs, while stranding poor minorities in urban neighborhoods disfigured by the highways that bisected them. To these critics, the Interstate Highway System is just another example of America’s racist past.
Years-Long Court Battle in Georgia Reveals Dominion’s Security Flaws, Weak Testing
Behind the current controversy surrounding the integrity of results from the Nov. 3 presidential election in Georgia are years of court battles over an outdated voting system and the controversial $107 million purchase of new touchscreen machines from Dominion Voting Systems in July 2019.
A review of court documents and sworn expert testimonies raise troubling questions about the Dominion voting system and its rushed implementation by the State of Georgia.
Terrorism: A Warning from Iran to Europe
Last month the trial began in Belgium of Assadolah Assadi and three other Iranians accused of planning a bomb attack in Paris in 2018. Since 2015 Assadi had been the most senior officer of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security in Europe, at the time operating under diplomatic cover at the Iranian embassy in Vienna. He is the first Iranian government official to be tried by an EU country for terrorist offences, despite numerous attack attempts on EU soil ordered by Tehran.
State supported terrorism is not just an act in itself but also an instrument of national power and coercion. Together, these plots were a malevolent message and clear threat to Europe that unfortunately have been received and acted upon as intended in London, Berlin, Paris and Brussels.
‘Suckers’: Hollywood Celebs View Trump Supporters As Gullible Fools
What’s angry, malevolent, unforgiving, verbally abusive, foul-mouthed, and fond of ranting on Twitter? If you answered a woke, leftist, Hollywood actor or director, you’d be correct.
Sweden’s New Children’s Bible Focuses on Diversity, Gender
In the new children’s Bible, which is claimed to be more in line with the original, it is not a given that man came before woman, and God is kept non-gendered whenever possible.
JK Rowling calls for civility in trans debate after ‘heart-breaking’ letters from women who regret irreversible surgery
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has appealed for an end to the “climate of fear” in the trans debate, saying she has received hundreds of “heart-breaking” letters from women who regret having gender reassignment surgery.
Rowling found herself at the centre of a storm of controversy after questioning the use of the term “people who menstruate” earlier this year.
In a new interview with Good Housekeeping magazine, the writer claimed the vast majority of letters she received in the wake of the controversy were from people who wanted to express their support for her stance.
Calgary promises ‘escalating’ enforcement, court injunctions against anti-mask protests
People gathering to protest COVID-19 restrictions this weekend could be hit with much larger fines and court injunctions, the city’s top bylaw officer warned Wednesday.
While senior city officials said they’re still reluctant to physically prevent the weekly demonstrations from occurring, hiking fines to the maximum $100,000 and using the courts to forestall them are options.
Related… Germany notes ‘violent potential’ among anti-lockdown protesters
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, said large turnouts of the “Querdenker” (lateral thinker) movement — seen at recent anti-Corona-lockdown protests — harbored “intensified escalation potential.”
The Cologne-based office tasked with upholding Germany’s post-war constitution told newspapers of the Funke Media Group on Thursday that this had been the case at large protests where far-right groups had urged attendance.
‘Under the rug:’ Sexual misconduct shakes FBI’s senior ranks
WASHINGTON (AP) — An assistant FBI director retired after he was accused of drunkenly groping a female subordinate in a stairwell. Another senior FBI official left after he was found to have sexually harassed eight employees. Yet another high-ranking FBI agent retired after he was accused of blackmailing a young employee into sexual encounters.
An Associated Press investigation has identified at least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials over the past five years, including two new claims brought this week by women who say they were sexually assaulted by ranking agents.
GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s medical wait times longest ever because of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic increased wait times for medical treatment in Canada this year to the longest they have ever been in the modern era, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
The median wait time for treatment across 12 medical specialities was 22.6 weeks, compared to 20.9 weeks last year and the previous record of 21.2 weeks in 2017, according to the study Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada: 2020.
Defund: Minneapolis Cuts Police Budget By $8M — But Not Staffing Levels — As Murders Skyrocket By 50%
What do cities do when murders suddenly rocket up by over 50% and carjackings by 537%? Here in Minneapolis, the city council cuts police spending by $8 million. Believe it or not, this deal is actually the good news, as the council initially wanted to cap the force at 750 employees — far below its currently authorized 888, a move stymied by Mayor Jacob Frey’s veto threat.
Chinese Military Bases in The Caribbean?
China’s Communist Party (CCP) seems to be implementing a multidimensional strategy in the Caribbean, reaping economic, political and potentially military gains a few miles offshore the United States. China’s ultimate objective of its Caribbean strategy may well be to confront the US, not only with its presence near the mainland US, but also with a situation analogous to America’s military presence in the region of the South China Sea. There, China created new islands in the sea, pledged not to militarize them, then went and militarized them.
It is important to remember that China also promised Hong Kong autonomy until 2047, then, in 2020, jumped the gun by 27 years. “Hong Kong will be another communist-run city under China’s strict control,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared in July. China is clearly not a government that honors its agreements.
Setting Up a Siege? Antifa Has Armed Guards, Stockpiled Weapons at Portland Autonomous Zone
The antifa occupiers at the autonomous zone that sprung up in Portland this week appear to be preparing for a siege. As PJ Media’s Victoria Taft reported, antifa squatters took over a house in Portland and when the government rightly evicted them, they set up an autonomous zone.
French Former Top General Says He Fears Civil War
French General Pierre de Villiers, the former chief of staff of the French armed forces, has warned that France could be heading for civil conflict, due to Islamist radicals and growing urban violence.
General de Villiers, who made headlines by quitting as armed forces chief of staff in 2017 over clashes on army budget cuts with President Emmanuel Macron, warned of a variety of factors that could see France heading to potential civil conflict.
I maintain my prediction: We will see France cede territory to the Islamists in our lifetime.