Author: Blazingcatfur

We didn’t listen to Churchill

Two West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot just before Thanksgiving Day (allegedly) by an Afghan terrorist immigrant. While one has died and the other remains in critical condition, the question remains why they were shot. The answer may well have been given to us 126 years earlier by a young Winston Churchill.

Before 3:00 pm on November 26th, three Guard members were on foot patrol, blocks away from the White House. Suddenly, without warning, the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, jumped from behind a corner. Armed with a revolver, he first began shooting at Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20.

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

Why this corruption scandal is a disaster for Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky cuts almost as lonely a figure today as he did on the first day after the Russian invasion nearly four years ago, when he vowed not to leave the country, but to fight. But there is a big difference. Then, Ukrainians rallied to the cause, rushing to join combat units, showing enormous resilience and social solidarity. Now, Russia’s military advance in the east is accelerating, Ukrainians are deserting or avoiding mobilisation and a big corruption scandal has deprived Zelensky of his hitherto most loyal lieutenants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Shamed Andrew is formally stripped of his last remaining royal titles as his eviction from the Royal Lodge in Windsor is delayed until early next year

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has today been officially stripped of his last royal titles by his brother – making him a commoner.

The former Duke of York had his membership of the Order of the Garter formally cancelled by King Charles III at Midday on Monday.

It is the oldest British Order of Chivalry, founded by King Edward III in 1348. Andrew’s coat of arms has already been removed from St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where his parents, the Queen and Prince Philip, are buried.

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

Europe’s Growing ‘Honour Killing’ Problem

Last May, two brothers allegedly bound their 18-year-old sister in packing tape, gagged her, and drowned her in a swamp. This was an honour killing, motivated by what the girl’s brothers saw as her ‘westernisation.’ During the trial last week, WhatsApp messages revealed that the family’s main grievances were the fact that she had refused an arranged marriage, had a boyfriend, and had stopped wearing a headscarf. “There is no other solution,” one of the brothers wrote in a message. The girl’s own mother said that she was “a disgrace to the family and deserves to die” and should be “wrapped in a shroud.” In a secretly recorded conversation, one brother said he believed the family had been humiliated by the girl’s behaviour, and the only way out was her death. 

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

Concerns raised that another Canadian Army project is being tailored just for U.S. equipment

A new Canadian Army equipment program that could be worth almost $500 million is designed to select only U.S.-provided equipment, despite claims by Prime Minister Mark Carney the military will be reducing purchases of American systems.

The Joint Fires Modernization program will cost between $250 million and $499 million and see the acquisition of hardware and software to enable the Canadian Army to digitally share data and targeting information between its various units and coalition forces.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Billboard’s Affirmative Action Greatest Rock Bands List

The Kinks

Billboard magazine released its 50 Greatest Rock Bands. The list tells us more about the listers than the listed.

The all-female Sleater-Kinney, the all-Mexican Café Tacvba, and the all-black Earth, Wind, and Fire numbered among Billboard’s peculiar “inclusive” inclusions. Even members of Sleater-Kinney, Café Tacvba, and Earth, Wind, and Fire never considered themselves as playing in one of the greatest rock bands ever.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

If an election were held now, would Canadians vote for Poilievre or Carney? It depends what they’re worried about

What happens when a government survives a big test, but the country still feels stuck?

That is where Canada finds itself today. The Carney government survived its first major budget vote and avoided a holiday election. On paper, that is a win. Our latest Abacus Data survey, conducted between Nov. 20 and 27 with 2,421 adults, shows the Liberals have gained a bit of ground. But the larger story is not a big bounce. It is a stalemate.

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

Problem with our feminist foreign policy was that we never really had a feminist foreign policy, we just called it that

TORONTO—It seems like a million years ago now, but do you remember the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership? It was signed between Canada and some Pacific nations plus the United Kingdom way back in that long-ago time of 2018. I remember being amused by it—not because of what was in the deal, but because of some of the reporting that emerged around the negotiations. Apparently, some of the other nations were irritated that the Canadian delegation insisted on inserting the word “progressive” into the title. It felt performative, tacked on, and kind of meaningless.

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

HANSON: Can the ‘Lost Generation’ be found?

The current “Z” generation — those now roughly between 13 and 28 years old — is becoming our 21st-century version of the “Lost Generation.” Members of Gen Z are often nicknamed “Zoomers,” a term used to describe young adults who came of age in the era of smartphones, social media, and rapid cultural upheaval.

Males in their teens and 20s are prolonging their adolescence — rarely marrying, not buying a home, not having children, and often not working full-time.

What a sad state of affairs.

The Lost Generation and the Writers Who Described Their World

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Thinking About Crime at 50

There’s an old joke that in the 1970s and 1980s, James Q. Wilson waged a one-man battle against a thousand sociologists, criminologists, and other academics. The punchline: “A thousand to one against Wilson—that’s almost a fair fight.” The quip captures both Wilson’s towering intellect—recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, author of dozens of books, and arguably the most important conservative social scientist of the late twentieth century—and the impact of one major strand of his work, launched in high-profile magazine articles and expressed most powerfully in 1975’s Thinking About Crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Nearly half of immigrants say temporary foreign workers fill the jobs Canadians don’t want: OMNI-Leger poll

Diana Donat looks at the construction site where her house once stood, across the street from her restaurant.

She’s not sure whether some of the construction workers she sees are here on temporary visas.

“I think some of them are. The ones that are helping the contractors.”

Bullshit. There is no labour shortage.

Canada’s business community simply prefers low wage foreign labour to employing citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government