Four in 10 British Pakistanis think first-cousin marriage should be legal

Almost one in 10 Britons believe marriage between first cousins should be legal, according to new polling. The figures, published today by YouGov, show that while 9% of adults nationwide think cousin marriage should remain legal, this proportion rises to 39% within the British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi communities.

While marriage between first cousins is currently legal in the UK, in December Conservative MP Richard Holden called for the practice to be banned. Parliament is currently reviewing his proposed legislation, with the bill’s second reading planned for July. Holden has argued that the offspring produced by first-cousin marriages are roughly twice as susceptible to birth defects, and that a ban should be enforced for the sake of public health and women’s freedom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, WTF?

O Canada! King Charles visits a realm that ain’t as glorious and free as it used to be.

King Charles’s big day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 27, began with a welcome by four First Nations men in native costume. They sat in a semicircle around a huge drum and banged on it with sticks while wailing loudly. A war chant? Who knows? It did seem to be right out of an old Western — the Indians getting themselves all revved up just before leaping on their horses, tomahawks in hand, to take on the palefaces. Through it all, Charles and Camilla stood there like a couple of chumps, he with a dozen or so shiny medals pinned to his chest, her in a wide-brimmed hat not unlike the one Melania wore to the inauguration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

Are aliens trying to contact Earth? Scientists are BAFFLED by a mysterious cosmic object emitting radio waves AND X-rays

In the dark realms of space, about 14,700 light-years away from our planet, an unusual object is doing something unexpected.

A cosmic entity called ASKAP J1832-0911 is emitting joint pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes every 44 minutes.

This is the first time an object like this, called a long-period transient (LPT), has been detected emitting X-rays.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

The Peasants’ War: Why Germany’s Elite Fear the Past

Some historical events possess such enduring power that they continue to haunt our imagination and fears centuries later. The German Peasants’ War, brutally suppressed in May 1525, is one such event. Involving at least a hundred thousand people—probably many more—it was, as British-Australian historian Lyndal Roper observed, “the greatest popular uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution.” The rebellion spread from what is today southern Germany across Austria, Switzerland, France, and Hungary. The peasants’ famous Twelve Articles—formally titled “The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed”—demanded nothing less than ”Freyheit“ (Freedom).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

HANNAFORD: Carney thinks Canada is a country, now he must convince the West

In this much, Mark Carney is different from his predecessor. He thinks Canada is a country with a defining identity.

Regardless of what so many Albertans may feel about independence for Alberta or Saskatchewan today, Justin Trudeau’s cringeworthy New York Times interview ten years ago left us, well… cringing. Canada, he said, was the world’s “first post-national state,” and seemed pleased with the thought. He added for good measure, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", Canada, USA

Eric Lombardi: Canada can no longer afford to be governed by luxury beliefs

Canada is no longer the world-leading developed country it once was.

We still talk like one, and identify as one. But when you look at how long it takes to build a subway, what it costs to add a housing unit, or how little economic progress we’ve made per person over the last decade, the truth is obvious: we are in decline. The systems that once delivered rising prosperity no longer function in practice—they now produce delay, contradiction, and paralysis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Luxury Values", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

King Charles Undercuts Canada’s Sovereignty While Trying to Affirm It

By all accounts, King Charles III’s major address on Tuesday in Ottawa was meant to be a rebuke to Donald Trump and all his taunts about Canada becoming a 51st state if it had to depend on money from the U.S. in order to survive. Yet when Charles finally delivered his highly anticipated address, he ended up undercutting Canadian sovereignty more than supporting it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

Michael Bonner: We need an immigration policy that will serve all Canadians

Canadians deserve an immigration system that serves the national interest. This is exactly what we once had when most Canadians agreed with the economic and cultural arguments in favour of immigration.

For a long time, Canada avoided the sort of backlash seen in many places abroad. But the economic argument for immigration has collapsed during a time of stagnant wages, housing shortages and high youth unemployment. Likewise, cultural arguments about diversity and multiculturalism have given way to doubts about our ability to integrate newcomers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Blatant Lie of Germany’s Elite

Parties opposed to the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) continue to block it from exercising its rights—all in the name of stopping “fascism.”

Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy.

The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the top vote-getter’s, the Christian Democratic Union’s, 28 percent. The AfD placed well ahead of the once-dominant Social Democratic Party (16 percent) and the Greens (11 percent).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around the World

Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only gotten worse. January home sales were down 5% from last year’s dismal numbers. Record numbers of first-time buyers are stuck on the sidelines as housing affordability stands at the lowest level ever recorded, while one in three Americans now spend over 30% of their income on mortgage or rent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Brookfield firms seek help from Carney days after he takes office

Just two days after the Liberals won the federal election, executives from companies linked to the new prime minister’s former employer, Brookfield Asset Management, began asking for his help.

On April 30, two oil and gas companies owned by Brookfield joined 36 others in signing an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney. The group urged him to speed up resource development by easing regulations and fast-tracking approvals.

For Brandon Anderson, the CEO of the Brookfield-controlled natural gas company NorthRiver Midstream Inc., it was a first, according to federal records. In more than 14 years of overseeing and contributing to lobbying efforts, he had never before contacted a prime minister directly.

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

‘Foxes in the Vineyards’: Israel’s Very Own Subversives

When Yair Golan, an IDF reserve Major-General and former member of Israel’s parliament, falsely implies that the nation’s soldiers “kill babies as a hobby” in Gaza, something is serious amiss among Israel’s leaders at this critical time of an existential war.

Golan continued in his May 20 remarks, “[I]t is time to replace this government as soon as possible so that this war can also come to an end.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"