Michel Maisonneuve: Meritocracy, not wokeness, badly needed in Canadian Armed Forces

We are living in one of the most complex, dangerous, and unpredictable times in human history. We are witnessing increasing global instability and a broader range of threats, now state-on-state as well as from non-state actors. The world will not become less complex or more predictable. Only a few years ago, no one could have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe, or the bloody attack by Hamas on Israel and its justified response. The only way for Canada to manage these new complexities, each seemingly more challenging than the preceding one, is to be better prepared to meet them. Unfortunately, our military is woefully unprepared, even though national security and the defence of democratic values are more important than ever.

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

The Party That Cried ‘Fascist’

Dr. Pepper Nazi Hitler

Democrats have tossed the charge around like a beachball at a music festival for years, so it’s no surprise it’s not landing hard on Trump.

Donald Trump once voiced admiration for the loyalty Hitler commanded from his generals, according to Trump’s former White House chief of staff and retired general John Kelly.

For the Harris campaign, it was a shocking revelation. It was so shocking that Vice President Kamala Harris held a pop-up press conference just to discuss the GOP nominee’s alleged remarks. Yet, despite assurances from Harris, her staffers, her campaign surrogates, Democratic lawmakers, Democratic strategists, retired journalists, working journalists, “democracy experts,” “election experts,” disaffected Republicans, and so on that Trump’s alleged remarks are as serious as they are disqualifying, the story started fading before the weekend was over.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

When Is the Day After in the Middle East?

After the death of Yahya Sinwar, the choir of blessed peacemakers resumed the refrain for an immediate ceasefire and a plan for “the day after.” Kamala Harris, the lead singer, glanced repeatedly at her politically crafted score that proclaimed, “it is time for the day after to begin without Hamas in power.”

What criteria determine when the day after a war begins? Harris claims it has come because “Hamas is decimated and its leadership is eliminated.” But Hamas has not yet surrendered, and even a significant reduction of military capability may not be sufficient. Sinwar’s younger brother Mohammed, who shares his brother’s hardline stance and brutality, will succeed him. This may only complicate the peace process.

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

‘Tortured and Raped Multiple Times’: The Persecution of Christians, September 2024

“Khosravi said the main goal of detention isn’t always punishment or even to gather information, but to break a prisoner at such a fundamental level that they are shattered permanently…. Another Christian, forced to listen to the cries of a woman screaming in a near-by cell, was convinced by guards that it was his wife being raped repeatedly, he said.” — morningstarnews.org, October 1, 2024, Iran.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians

The dangerous martyrdom of Tommy Robinson

Progressive activists should be careful what they wish for

Tommy Robinson is a paradox: he is a brave and enormously successful activist-journalist with a mean right hook. At the same time, he’s prone to sentimentality, sensitive to criticism and sees himself as a victim, tethering his own private troubles — mortgage fraud, travelling to the US on a false passport and an upcoming contempt of court case to name just a few — to the political grievances of the white working class he claims to represent. His greatest contradiction, though, is that while he’s a trenchant critic of identity politics, mercilessly mocking the whiny victimhood of Black Lives Matter, the transgender movement and shady Islamists, he’s also an unmistakable product of that politics, weaponising the language of tribal resentment and self-pity for his own personal and political purposes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTommy Robinson

A Reply by the Editors of Aporia to a Hope Not Hate Hit Job

You may have seen that the Guardian, a newspaper linked to slavery, recently published a big exposé on “race science”. Then about a week later, Britain’s Channel 4 broadcast an hour-and-a-half-long documentary on the “far right”. Much of the material for these two offerings came from footage obtained by an undercover journalist who works for the left-wing activist organisation Hope not Hate. Posing as an investor, he secretly filmed himself talking to various individuals, including our former editor-in-chief Matt Archer.

“Hate” is an industry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHate Groups

What’s really behind America’s men v women election

Donald Trump enjoys a huge lead among men, while women tell pollsters they prefer Kamala Harris by a similarly large margin. The political gender gap reflects a decade of social upheaval and could help decide the US election.

For the first woman of colour to secure a presidential nomination, and only the second woman to ever get this close, Kamala Harris goes to great lengths not to talk about her identity.

“Listen, I am running because I believe that I am the best person to do this job at this moment for all Americans, regardless of race and gender,” the vice-president said in a CNN interview last month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA

Michelle Obama Suggests People Not Supporting Harris Are Racist, Sexist

Former first lady Michelle Obama implied that people who don’t support Vice President Kamala Harris for president are sexist and racist, and she questioned if voters were “ready for this moment.”

During a Harris rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday, Obama spoke about how the race between Harris and former President Donald Trump was “too close.” The former first lady added that Harris was “an extraordinary human being” and candidate, and would be an “extraordinary president.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The problem with ‘critical theory’ – The rise of Hamas and even paedophile apologism reveals an academy that has lost its moral bearings.

In the introduction to my new book, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change, the series editor describes me as ‘a key intellectual architect this century in pushing the psychology of sexuality to engage more closely with critical social theory’. In that book and this essay, I argue, however, that the time has come to draw a line under critical social theory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant

Gad Saad Survived War in Lebanon. He’s Warning About One in the West

In the 1940s, there were around 20,000 Jews still living in Lebanon. Just 20 years later, in the span of one generation, that number dropped to around 3,000. Gad Saad is among those statistics—born in Lebanon in 1964 into one of the last Jewish families to remain in the country.

But the nation that was once called the Paris of the Middle East began to turn when he was a child. He remembers being at school one day when a fellow student told the class he wanted to be a Jew killer when he grew up. The rest of the kids laughed. By 1975, Lebanon had descended into a brutal civil war, and Gad remembers death awaiting him every millisecond of the day. He spent his childhood years mindful of which streets had snipers when he went outside to play. But even then his family thought, This will pass. That is until someone showed up at their home to kill them—at which point the Saad family fled to rebuild their life in Canada. Gad went on to become a professor of marketing and evolutionary behavioral sciences at Concordia University in Montreal.

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

That whiny punk Trudeau who has caused misery to millions says he thinks about how angry messages affect his family

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a podcast that he thinks about the angry messages some Canadians send his way and what impacts they — and his job overall — will have on his children.

Trudeau appeared on an episode of Inside the Village that was released Friday. On top of discussing his children, the prime minister also spoke about what comes next for him and his embattled Liberal Party and the recently announced cuts to immigration targets.

Sorry Justin but you don’t get to play victim you self-centered prick.

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

The Crypto Website Where the Election Odds Swing in Trump’s Favor

Donald J. Trump posted a colorful graphic on social media this week, suggesting that he was headed for victory in the presidential election.

The graphic showed that Mr. Trump had a 64 percent chance of defeating Vice President Kamala Harris next month — a much rosier picture for him than the polls that indicate the election remains a tossup. Mr. Trump’s post was liked more than 10,000 times, as his fans responded with emojis of raised fists and Americans flags.

The election odds cited by Mr. Trump came from a crypto-powered gambling website called Polymarket. Using digital currencies, gamblers on Polymarket have wagered more than $100 million on the outcome of the presidential race, turning the site into the internet betting phenomenon of the 2024 election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Justin Trudeau’s immigration U-turn is too little, too late

After surviving an abortive party revolt this week and with his personal popularity ratings in free fall, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking for ways to regain control of the narrative. And he may have just found one in the form of a major policy U-turn pledging to cut the country’s immigration targets. Flanked by immigration minister Marc Miller, Trudeau announced a 21% cut to next year’s permanent resident arrivals, from 500,000 to 395,000. This is to be followed by further cuts to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.

Abacus Data Poll: Conservatives lead by 22

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