Author: Blazingcatfur

A muted COP30 belies declining Western fortunes in a changing world

The COP30 climate conference got under way this week in Brazil under something of a cloud. Boycotted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” it’s attracted less than half the attendees of the one two years ago. Whether pressured by Washington, or seizing licence from it, many countries, Canada among them, have backpedalled on their climate policies as politicians who say we can’t afford the luxury of solving climate change gain influence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Belgium Admits Gaza Arrivals Wearing Pro-Hamas Jihadist Symbols

Junior Jihadi

Belgium’s ongoing evacuation of people from the Gaza Strip has triggered a political storm after footage emerged of two young boys arriving at Ostend Airport wearing black sweatshirts printed with large images of an M16 rifle.

The pair was among 75 Palestinians evacuated at the end of October, part of a wider humanitarian operation that has brought around 850 people to Belgium since 2023.

The incident has sparked renewed debate over screening procedures for arrivals from conflict zones.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Is Mark Carney’s budget a Progressive Conservative budget?

Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the Canadian news media have unfairly focused on dissent within the Conservative caucus, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters on Wednesday to pay as much attention to the recent criticism levelled against the federal government’s budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.

Of course, that Erskine-Smith might deviate from the Liberal government’s official line is hardly surprising at this point. The left-leaning Liberal backbencher has spent much of the past decade displaying a willingness to go his own way, so much so that many members of the parliamentary press gallery probably no longer consider it newsworthy when he does.

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

On the beach where Britons cross the Channel to shout at migrants

Migrant Horde in France are fed while awaiting transport to England

The voices are quiet at first and then loud all at once. On the vast empty beach of Gravelines in northern France, as an orange morning sun rips through grey clouds, two men prowl the dunes. In a few minutes they cross the beach, filming everything on a GoPro, iPhones in hand, stopping occasionally to pick at coats, trainers, sweatshirts, and empty teargas canisters that litter the sand.

Danny Thomas from Portsmouth and Ryan Bridge from Birmingham are filming content for their Instagram pages, one of which is “Raise the Colours”, the account behind this summer’s surge in Union Jacks, of which Bridge is a co-founder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France, UK

BERNARDO: Target criminals, not the compliant

CSSA members agree on three things:

Licensed firearms owners are heavily vetted by government and the RCMP;

Licensed firearms owners are statistically safer than serving police officers;

Most crime committed with firearms is the result of illegal guns smuggled across the border and then used by drug dealers, gangs and organized crime.

What you demand from government …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Zelensky vows energy sector overhaul after $100m corruption scandal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to “overhaul” state-owned energy companies, after a major corruption scandal engulfed the country’s energy sector.

Around $100 million (£76m) has been embezzled, anti-graft investigators said, causing outrage in a country where Russian attacks have resulted in crippling power outages.

“Alongside a full audit of their financial activities, the management of these companies is to be renewed,” Zelensky wrote in a post on X on Saturday.

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

Conrad Black: Conservative MPs leaving Poilievre shame themselves

There has been a good deal of nasty talk recently, especially in notoriously Liberal journalistic circles, about dissenters crumbling away from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre into the outstretched arms of the Liberal government, straining to scavenge itself into a parliamentary majority. The customary version is that the Liberals are rubbing their hands in glee at this anticipated Conservative disintegration but prayerfully hope that it will not shake out the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, whom they believe to be a permanent doormat for them on the threshold of the prime minister’s residence, (if it is ever ready for reoccupation).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

Zohran Mamdani and the ugly rebirth of the socialism of fools

Two events have been referred to as a ‘day of celebration’ by Western leftists in recent years. There’s Zohran Mamdani’s storming to power in New York City, which radicals across the Anglo-American world hailed as a stirring victory for millennial socialism. The other? The mass murder of socialists on a kibbutz in Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Communism, Communists, Islamization of the West, USA