At least 13 dead as nearly 2 dozen girls at Christian summer camp missing after ‘catastrophic’ Texas floods

Nearly two dozen girls at a Christian summer camp are missing — and potentially dead — after their cabins were apparently washed away by “catastrophic” and fatal flooding in Texas that has left at least 13 people dead, officials announced Friday.

Around 20 children are unaccounted for at Camp Mystic alongside the Guadalupe River in Hunt, a suburb of San Antonio in Kerr County, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said at a news conference.

“That does not mean they’ve been lost. They could be in a tree. They could be out of communication. We’re praying for all those missing to be found alive,” Patrick said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

EU-Backed Report Labels Pro-Family Christians as ‘Extremists’

Last week, on June 26th, the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) launched The Next Wave, a “report” that purports to expose the rise of so-called “anti-gender” and “anti-feminist” religious actors in Europe, whose goal is to “dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.”

Cloaked in the language of human rights, the document is, in truth, a politically charged dossier; reading more like a counter-terrorist threat assessment, and explicitly paints religious advocacy groups as part of an organized extremist threat that needs to be stopped at all costs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Far Left Extremist"

GIESBRECHT: Does Carney know what he is doing?

How will Canadians remember the long reign of Justin Trudeau? Good hair, cool socks, and the ability to recite Liberal talking points with theatrical flair?

Certainly not for his grasp of any of the more complex subjects normally expected to be in the arsenal of a person who believes he should lead a nation. Remember Trudeau saying that budgets balance themselves?

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

Poilievre has to contend with Alberta separatists as he vies for a Commons seat

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s path back to the House of Commons runs through a rural Alberta riding that has become a hotbed for Western discontent and the independence movement — a potentially tricky situation to navigate for a leader with national ambitions.

Poilievre, a Calgarian by birth who has lived away from Alberta for more than two decades, is running in the Aug. 18 byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot, a sprawling riding in the province’s east where the oil and gas industry is a major employer. It includes the small town of Hardisty, which sits at the nexus of the North American oil pipeline system and is home to a huge petroleum tank farm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.

Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.

Most economists lectured that trade deficits did not really matter. Or they insisted that the cures to reduce them were worse than the $1.1 trillion deficit itself.

They reminded us that free, rather than fair, trade alone ensured prosperity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

The Great Canadian Ghost Story: ICE Vans and Imaginary Fear

There was a time, not long ago, when Canada handled disagreements with steel in its spine and clarity in its speech, when travel advisories were reserved for unstable regimes, war zones, or viral outbreaks. Now? Canadians are being told that the United States, their neighbor, ally, and trading partner, might detain them for crossing the border with a suitcase and a hotel reservation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Stephen Marche: Canadians know we need to turn away from America. How might that actually work?

Canadians know that we need less America in our lives. In a recent poll for CNN, ninety one per cent of Canadians agreed that they wanted “to reduce their reliance on the U.S. as a trading partner.” In polling terms, that’s as close as you’ll ever find to unanimity. Later this month, we are promised, insofar as promises mean anything in the second Trump administration, a restored trade and security arrangement with the United States. But any such arrangement will, inevitably, be unstable and temporary. American chaos is deepening, and the questions that face us are bigger than tariffs and trade agreements: What does it mean to reset, not just away from the current American government, but away from America altogether, away from the American system?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

36,000 Preschools Shut Down in China in Sign of Total Doom

Scores of Chinese have stopped getting married or having kids.

Data released by China’s Ministry of Education last month revealed an astonishing reality: In the past two years alone, 36,000 preschools across China have shuttered their doors.

This is not due to a decline in the popularity of preschool or consolidation on the part of the Chinese government. Rather, these preschools have closed simply because not enough children to attend them were born.

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

A Win for Reality at UPenn

The school has reinstated the records of female swimmers who lost their titles to trans-identified male swimmer Lia Thomas.

On Tuesday, the University of Pennsylvania reached an agreement with the Trump administration’s Department of Education regarding trans-identified male swimmer Lia Thomas’s participation on the women’s swim team. Following a federal investigation, the university has agreed to revise records set by Thomas and to restore titles and accolades to the female athletes he displaced. UPenn will also issue personal apologies to the affected swimmers, bar male athletes from competing in women’s sports, and adopt biology-based definitions of “male” and “female” under Title IX.

This correction was inevitable. Reality, in the end, reasserts itself. But the mainstream press hasn’t budged. Instead, they continue to misinform their readers, deploying headlines designed to obscure plain facts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, Big Tranny