Author: Blazingcatfur

BARCLAY: The Liberal attack on democracy in Canada

Over the past decade, left-wing pundits and politicians have attempted to misconstrue all fascism and undemocratic politics as the unique property of conservatives and right-wing ideologies, such as populism.

Even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has become an instrument for the ‘Other’-ing of conservatives in Canada under the auspices of the Liberal government and recently regurgitated the tired leftist trope that any right-wing or “traditional values” are “…a sign that [a person is] becoming more extremist.”

And yet, undemocratic politics and human rights violations are by no means the exclusive purview or property of the Right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Right Questions about America’s Strikes on Venezuelan Narco-Boats

In the Caribbean, we should worry about what is decent and smart, not about what activists say is lawful.

nce again, the United States is using lethal force off its shores. In recent weeks, American drones and warships have sunk or disabled a string of speedboats in international waters off Venezuela. Washington says the vessels belonged to narcoterrorist networks tied to the Maduro regime and Tren de Aragua and that they were carrying cocaine and fentanyl precursors bound for the United States. At least 83 alleged traffickers and others are dead. Caracas calls this extrajudicial murder. Human-rights groups call it assassination. Cable-news panels and UN press releases are already rehearsing the same ritual question: Is this legal under international law?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

King Charles: I don’t want my grandchildren to say I failed on climate

The King has admitted he does not want to be accused by his grandchildren of failing to act to save the planet and leaving them a “ghastly legacy of horror”.

He told environmentalist Steve Backshall on a new ITV documentary that he found it “very frustrating” that scientists’ warnings about climate change still went unheeded, despite the world being at a “tipping point”.

The documentary, Steve Backshall’s Royal Arctic Challenge, looks back at then Prince Charles’s 1975 voyage to the Canadian Arctic, where he braved an under ice dive that organisers now admit was more dangerous than his team realised.

Charles the Eco-Nut King.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Christian Heritage Month: An idea whose time has come

Earlier this week, Bill 229, which proposes recognizing December as Christian Heritage Month, was introduced in the Manitoba legislature. The timing couldn’t be more appropriate.

Brought forward by PC MLA Carrie Hiebert, Bill 229 would formally acknowledge the historical and contemporary contributions that Christians have made to life in Manitoba. As Hiebert explained when introducing the bill: “This bill recognizes the significant contributions that Manitoba’s Christian community has made to the province’s spiritual, cultural and humanitarian landscape. By designating December as Christian Heritage Month, the Act encourages Manitobans to reflect on and appreciate the enduring contributions of Christianity throughout the province.”

May pass in Manitoba but I’m pretty sure Ford would consider this “far right”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristianity

How the ‘decolonisation’ movement betrays black history

In 1947, as the British Empire was starting to unravel, Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria’s foremost independence leaders, wrote:

‘The conquest of one nation by another in an unprovoked act of aggression cannot be justified by any standard of morality… Nevertheless, it would be harsh to condemn Britain today because of her actions in the 19th century. Every nation or tribe, at one time or other, has been guilty of wanton aggression… We must not allow present grievances to blind us to the virtues of the empire.’

Two decades later, with Nigeria independent, Chinua Achebe – whose novels laid bare the wreckage of colonial rule – told an interviewer: ‘I am not one of those who would say that Africa has gained nothing at all during the colonial period… This is ridiculous – we gained a lot.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

The army of machines that will kill the West

THE West – a metaphor abused and rarely understood – is nearing its end. Its decline is no longer exceptional but emblematic. In fact, credible augurs claim its demise is no more than 20 years away. Democracy, for its part, never truly rose from the grave after its passing more than 2,000 years ago.

What is democracy? On paper, it is an arrangement grounded in unconditional pluralism and unreserved respect for individuals, administered by honest civil servants in an atmosphere of frugality, transparency, uprightness, strictly limited terms of office for all officials – elected or unelected – alongside direct citizenship participation. The individual – not the pack, not the people, not society – is the cornerstone of any community worthy of the name. Over body, property and mind, the individual is the uncontested sovereign. True democracy upholds the indisputable supremacy of the individual over the collective. Yet today it is a chimera rather than the system proclaimed to be in force.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDecline & Fall

The moment of truth has dawned for the electric vehicle industry

The nosedive in U.S. sales of electric vehicles since the elimination of the federal EV tax credit at the end of September is the latest moment of truth for the sector.

And that truth, when free market forces determine the true value of a product stripped of artificial sweeteners and incentives for buyers, is harsh.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Crusading reverend puts up anti-ICE sign on church’s NATIVITY scene as MAGA congregation slams foul move

Nativity scene desecrated

A pastor who put up an anti-ICE Nativity scene at his Massachusetts parish has faced backlash from the agency’s director and the Archdiocese of Boston.

Reverend Stephen Josoma placed a sign that says ‘ICE WAS HERE’ over the empty manger of an otherwise classic Nativity scene on display outside the Saint Susanna Parish in the Boston suburb of Dedham.

Attached to the manger is another sign that says, ‘The Holy Family is safe in The Sanctuary of our Church,’ along with the phone number to call LUCE, a group that monitors immigration enforcement and offers support to immigrant communities in Massachusetts.

What a maroon!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

A new tripolar world order is emerging without Europe

Europe has had a good run. It has been at the top of world affairs for half a millennium, since the great age of exploration connected all continents and first gave man a global perspective. The great European empires – initially Portuguese, then Spanish, British, French – dominated much of the planet for some 350 years. The places that lay beyond European control were either inward-facing civilisations like China and Japan, or regional powers without truly global ambitions like the Ottomans, Russia and the United States in its first century of independence.

But over the past 150 years, Europe’s collective weight in the global balance of power has been on a declining path. Two world wars, the loss of empire, the rise of new players with global reach – first America, then the Soviets and now China – have seen Old Europe give up its primacy in international affairs but nonetheless retain a seat at the top geopolitical table.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe

MORGAN: Quit pretending we need indigenous consent!

Albertans are rightly skeptical of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney to build a new pipeline to the Pacific coast. That skepticism morphed into hostile cynicism last weekend as Smith found herself booed at her own AGM in Edmonton at the very mention of the agreement.

Considering the messaging from Ottawa on the issue, though, why on earth should Albertans believe for a second that Carney genuinely wants a pipeline developed?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", Canada

‘Indigenous’ is the new ‘Oriental’ – and that opens the door to pretendians

Grey Owl – Archie Belaney – A visionary!

Like most children, my kids did not have naturally curious taste buds. And like most children, they would often fall back on safe classics, like macaroni and cheese and instant noodles.

My son still enjoys the noodles, and he has remained loyal to the Mr. Noodles brand. That’s because Mr. Noodles alone offers his favourite flavour: “Oriental.”

One afternoon, as I stood stirring a pot of noodles, he asked, “What is Oriental, anyway?” Which is a good question. Because “Oriental” isn’t any particular flavour – it’s not soy sauce, not five-spice, but … “Oriental.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings

Kenneth Santana-Rodriguez brought along his 9mm handgun on a pedicure date with a woman at “A Touch of Beauty” nail salon in Holyoke, Mass.

They were sitting side by side when the father of the woman’s child burst into the salon, demanding to know the nature of their relationship. Santana-Rodriguez told police the man raised his shirt to reveal a firearm and said, You know what’s about to happen.

Santana-Rodriguez pulled out his 9mm and shot twice. “It was him or me,” he told police. Yet he missed his intended target, Irvin Sanchez. One bullet instead struck the chest of an employee who had been working on the woman’s toenails, killing Trung “Michael” Tran, 33 years old. Prosecutors filed a charge of first-degree murder against Santana-Rodriguez.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCastle Law, Gun Control, Gun Rights

‘Expert panel’ told Liberals to ban certain models of the SKS rifle in nearly year-old report

OTTAWA — A new report from an expert panel struck to help guide the Liberals’ efforts to ban firearms shows the government appears to have ignored parts of its advice when it comes to certain makes of the SKS semi-automatic rifle.

That make of firearm has proven to be among the most controversial for the Liberals when it comes to the government’s list of more than 2,500 makes and models of guns it has banned since 2020.

I’m sick of this DEI hire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights