Author: Blazingcatfur

Corruption scandal rocks Ukraine: Zelensky’s close associate flees country hours before police raids targeting 70 properties, at least $100 million stolen

In yet another sign of the rampant corruption in Ukraine, Ukrainian security forces raided the apartment of Timur Mindich, a businessman associated with President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, the oligarch had already left the country just hours before, likely after being tipped off by an insider.

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) says that $100 million is believed to have been siphoned off due to a “money laundering operation,” and other associates were involved. The 15-month investigation featured 1,000 hours of wiretapping and resulted in 70 raids, according to NABU.

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

Going After Tommy

Tommy Robinson has had yet another day in court.

This time, he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ on the 6th of November in order to answer a charge under Schedule 7 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000, no less. He had been stopped, in July 2024, at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone. When asked by ports police—specialist counter-terrorism officers—to disclose his phone’s pin number, Robinson refused, claiming that journalistic material was stored on it. Under the Terrorism Act, this refusal is, in itself, an offence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTommy Robinson

Chinese-Owned Trailer Park Beside U.S. Stealth Bomber Base Linked to Alleged Vancouver Repression Case

A sprawling U.S. investigative report has placed a Richmond, B.C., couple already identified in a high-profile Chinese-diaspora repression case at the center of an even more explosive national-security controversy south of the border: they are linked to a web of shell companies that own a trailer park beside Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri — home to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and launch point for the June 2025 strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

h/t SC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

European Christian pacifists face truth: Peace requires strength

For centuries, many European Christians have proudly declared that following Jesus means rejecting violence. But as Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine drags into its fourth year, even lifelong pacifists are beginning to ask whether peace can survive without the means to defend it.

Christianity Today reports on a moral and theological shift taking place among Europe’s faithful.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

British courts shouldn’t have to protect criticism of Islam

When a British judge last week ruled that criticism of Islam counts as a “protected belief”, it seemed paradoxical: the Equality Act, long accused by the political Right of stifling free expression, was suddenly upholding it. For some, this appeared to confirm that the law is self-contradictory, a statute designed to protect minorities which is now defending the right to criticise religion. Yet perhaps the contradiction lies not in the Act itself, but in a society that has lost the moral compass to distinguish between the fair criticism of ideas and outright discrimination against people.

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

Conrad Black: The Cowichan Aboriginal Title Ruling Raises More Questions Than It Answers

The Cowichan Tribes versus Canada case, recently decided by the B.C. Supreme Court, has been continuing for 11 years, including 513 days of trial hearings, and is already probably the longest trial in Canadian history and one of the most complicated. It has already been appealed and will presumably end in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Immense controversy has been provoked by the court’s recognition of the superiority in some cases of aboriginal title over the fee simple ownership of subsequent parties. The facts are specialized, and so fears that the native peoples in general could make a successful claim for ownership of the entire country, with the approximately 95 percent of non-aboriginal owners mere tenants of the innumerable tribes, bands, and clans among the First Nations, are exaggerated.

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

Harvard Astronomer Claims Interstellar Object Barreling Around Our Solar System Could Be Alien Technology

A Harvard astronomer is making waves by suggesting that a massive interstellar object hurtling through our solar system might be an alien spacecraft.

Professor Avi Loeb, who also serves as director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has theorized that the object, named 3I/ATLAS, is exhibiting unusual behaviors inconsistent with a natural comet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy

It is a snapshot of cultural collapse: A young German woman with pink hair in clergyman’s robes, facing four men, bestowing her approval on their bizarre sexual arrangement, the details of which we are blessedly unaware. The pro-LGBT pastor is now under fire for blessing the ‘marriage’ of four men who showed up at a pop-up wedding fair at Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church recently. Lena Müller, the 33-year-old clergyperson in question, posted a photo of the ceremony to Instagram.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

C.P. Champion: It’s a problem that Canada doesn’t capitalize on its reserve force

If we go to war, a lot will depend on the reserves. The CAF can’t treat them like an afterthought

The Canadian Armed Forces’ greatest enemy is ignorance — or a certain national cluelessness — and this is especially true for the reserves. From military reporters to regular full-time Canadian Armed Forces members, many don’t know what a reservist actually is or does. Let me offer a few ideas for reflection, based on my 500-page study of 30 years of unvarying reserve problems, Relentless Struggle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Second World War veterans are a shrinking presence on Remembrance Day

As the Second World War came to a close, Elmer Friesen and his brother, Alvin, received a letter from their Mennonite church in Aberdeen, Sask.

They could return to the church, it said, but not without publicly apologizing to the small rural congregation. They had been expecting the ultimatum since first being given the choice at the outset of the war: Serve and renounce your membership to the church, or don’t participate at all.

But the appeal to pacifism – a core belief of the church – didn’t land with the Friesen brothers.

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

The ‘rich countries’ are no longer in any state to pay for everyone else

Residents of the ‘global north’ want their own nations put in order first

They have lost their enthusiasm for combatting climate change, and they are no longer willing to subsidise the fight against global warming. The president of the UN’s climate talks, Andre Correa do Lago, has complained that the “rich countries” of the “global north” have lost their enthusiasm for the fight to save the planet. The checkbooks are starting to close. But hold on. In reality what is so terrible about that?

As he opened the latest Cop summit, and welcomed the usual circus of virtue-signalling politicians, Correa do Lago struck a wistful tone. There is, he complained, “a reduction in enthusiasm” among the global north for fighting climate change, with the momentum moving to the “global south”.

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

ALBERS: MAPLE MIRAGE: Canada – a cautionary tale for America

“When inflation, ideology, and immigration collide in a nation that forgot arithmetic.”

As a Canadian, I confess to watching my country’s troubles not with outrage first — but with disbelief. A stunned, slack-jawed astonishment at how quickly a nation once steady, responsible, and confident has managed to drive itself into the ditch and keep the accelerator pressed.

And now, a fresh Liberal budget is upon us — yet another thick, glossy brochure promising “investments in the future,” which in the plain tongue of the taxpayer means more spending, more debt, and another shovel-load of red ink poured into a pit we can no longer see the bottom of.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Indigenous man caught with ‘killing machine’ of a rifle gets time served due to intergenerational trauma

More than 500 days in harsh pre-trial custody was enough punishment for a Mohawk man caught driving around Peterborough with a crack pipe in his lap and a “killing machine” of a rifle in the back seat, along with a flame thrower in the trunk, according to a recent sentence of time served from Ontario’s Court of Justice.

Jesse Garlow, a convicted drug trafficker who was under a firearms prohibition, had been in custody since June 7, 2024 when he was sentenced. Police initially pulled him over because the car he was driving was weaving.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Justice", WTF?