‘France killed my husband’ – the rising anger of the gendarmes

A gendarme was killed in France on Monday evening when a driver ran him over at a routine roadside checkpoint in Provence.

The driver of the BMW was an intoxicated 39-year-old from Cape Verde who during his time in France has racked up a lengthy criminal record including ten convictions, two for drunk driving.

On Wednesday the wife of 54-year-old Éric Comyn paid tribute to him at a service attended by local dignitaries and members of the gendarmerie. She described a devoted father of two teenage children, who was soon to retire after 30 years’ service.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", France

Bad Economists Are Advising Our Governments: Money printing and mass immigration will not strengthen Western economies.

Labour’s recent victory in the general election was hardly welcomed by the public. After all, they received fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn’s failed campaign in 2019. Keir Starmer’s victory was only secured because Reform ate into large swathes of the Tory base, a reality that also redounded to the benefit of the Liberal Democrats. Nigel Farage’s rise to Parliament, with the capture of the Clacton constituency, is to be celebrated as a step in the right direction, but at the same time we should not ignore the monumental problems that a Labour government will now face.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

The rise of ‘left-conservatism’

It’s not often that German regional elections capture the world’s attention, but establishment parties all across the West have good reason to be terrified by Sunday’s results. In the east German states of Thuringia and Saxony, the three ruling parties – the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Liberals – came under assault from both ends of the political spectrum. The right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) scored an historic victory in Thuringia, winning its first-ever state election. Just as striking was the success of another consciously populist party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which emerged from the rubble of the German left.

She preaches old school leftism. Pro-worker, anti-open borders/mass immigration and an avoidance of foreign entanglements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Populism, WTF?

Manifesto Reveals Trans-Identifying Nashville Shooter’s Disdain For Christianity, Obsession With Racial Politics

The 2023 Nashville school shooter responsible for the deaths of half a dozen Christians expressed disdain for Christianity and her parents’ biblical beliefs, according to a copy of her long-hidden manifesto released on Tuesday.

Obtained and published by The Tennessee Star, the 90-page journal documents the mental breakdown of Audrey Hale leading up to her attack on The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2023. Hale, who identified as a male, killed six people during her rampage, including three small children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

The curious death of ‘Whaledimir’ the Russian spy whale

When a lone beluga whale began rubbing up against Norwegian fishing boats in April 2019, a few alarm bells should have started ringing – not just for conservationists, but also among the suits on the top floor at the headquarters of the Norwegian Intelligence Service in Lutvann.

First, the whale didn’t seem to have a pod. Toothed whales (which include beluga, dolphins and orca among other species) are not naturally solitary. They don’t roam the high seas alone. They are pack animals – social mammals that move in pods and can sense how another member of their group is feeling (not just physically, but emotionally) through echolocation. Spot one alone and that should be your first indication that something is up. Second, pod or not, he was a good deal further south of the high arctic than he should have been. Third, he appeared to be wearing a harness, which was causing him some distress – enough that he seemed to be approaching boats which would ordinarily scare belugas (white whales have a bloody history of being hunted) to try to get the harness off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Democrats Fear Harris Campaign Could Falter in Post-Labor Day Push

Establishment Democrats remain concerned about preventing former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest political comeback in modern American history — even after President Joe Biden stepped aside for Vice President Kamala Harris.

The concern spotlights Harris’s lack of a post-convention bump and the September 10 presidential debate, which will force Harris to speak about her radical record and how she plans to address the nation’s decline.

This is a very quiet election, I do not sense genuine enthusiasm for Kamala only media manufactured slop.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

Smith slams Trudeau’s weekend appointment of two Liberal donors to the Senate

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s weekend appointment of two Liberal Party donors as Alberta senators was denounced by the Government of Alberta.

It marks the 35th anniversary of Alberta holding Canada’s first Senate election, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Premier Danielle Smith said Trudeau’s administration “blatantly disregarded” Alberta’s interests.

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

A little distracted …

157 KB to 14 KB. Sweet.

It’s been a day.

Last night as you are aware we were unexpectedly taken off-line.

BCF’s most excellent blog host has plans to move us to a quicker, better server and in prep for that something went wrong.

That was fixed in due course. Of course.

Meanwhile I have been keeping watch on the image optimization program I purchased.

BCF has accumulated over 100,000 images in over 200,000 blog posts during our long and less than illustrious career.

That’s a lot of pics and now they take up so much space the blog has become like an overstuffed pinata as I never much cared to follow best practices for image size.

I have been running the image optimizer for the past 48 hours.

It works as advertised, and so far 15 GB of images have been reduced to 4 GB in size.

But that’s like 15% of the total so it’ll be awhile.

See the cat pic above – 157 KB to 14 KB. Sweet.

The good news is that once running it just hums in the background unattended.

Sorry for the day’s inconvenience and thank you all for your help and patience!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted intechnology

Michael Higgins: Shame on Trudeau for wanting to give in to Hamas after executions

Even as he pleaded for a deal to be done, Jonathan Dekel-Chen was under no illusions. To get his son released from the clutches of Hamas meant negotiating with the devil.

“We’re dealing with Satan,” Dekel-Chen told CBS news on Sunday as he talked about his son Sagui, a father of three girls, who is being held in Gaza.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ford rules out Ontario election in 2024, but could call an early election in 2025

Ontario Premier Doug Ford ruled out calling an early election this year, but left the door open on Tuesday to calling one in 2025.

The province’s next fixed election date isn’t until June 2026, but Ford continued to dance around the issue of whether or not he’ll call an early election.

“We aren’t having an election this year,” the premier said at an unrelated news conference, without providing further clarity on whether he would call an early vote.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario

Justin Trudeau tops list of Canada’s worst prime ministers, says new poll

Timing is everything in politics.

If New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton had not emerged as the clear winner of the 2011 federal leaders’ English language debate in Canada, the Liberal Party may have had a chance to regroup and stop the Conservative Party from forming a majority government.

If a televised debate had not aired so early on CNN in the presidential electoral season this year, Democratic Party supporters in the United States would not have realized that Joe Biden had to be replaced as their nominee.

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

Adam Pankratz: AfD’s rise in Germany offers stark lessons for Canada

Any sentence that ends with “for the first time since 1945” is likely to garner attention. When the first part of the sentence is “Germany votes for far-right government,” drinks are spat out and the volume on the telly is turned up.

And so it is. Over the weekend, German voters in Thuringia easily lifted the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the top spot in regional elections. In Saxony, the party placed a close second, right behind the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which, together with the centre-left Social Democratic party, has had a lock on power nearly everywhere in Germany since the modern Germany state was founded in 1949.

There is nothing “extremist” about defending your best interests from vile politicians and a rapacious corporate class as we are faced with in Canada.

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

Criminalizing Dissent Is Coming

Ah, I arrived at the gate for my Berlin flight, and found that it’s delayed for 90 minutes. So I have time to dash off something. I think this is important, actually.

Yesterday Politico dropped a story about how “former GOP officials are sounding the alarm over Trump’s Orban embrace.” Gosh, where would we be without Former GOP Officials, eh? The story attempts to demonize anyone who has anything to do with the Hungarian prime minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"