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Confronting My White Privilege

I don’t know about you, but if I’m ever anesthetized and under the surgeon’s knife, I would prefer the chap on the other end of the scalpel be focused solely on correcting my ailment, stitching me up, and most importantly keeping me alive. Ah, but I would prefer that, wouldn’t I, inherent bigot that I am?

Thankfully, the luminaries at Ohio State University now offer a course in which aspiring health professionals, particularly those lacking melanin, are invited to…wait for it…confront their privilege! Because if you’re an anti-racist, then that’s what you want your surgeon worrying about. His privilege. Not your open chest.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Anti-White Racism"

Offshore Wind Stumbles

Ørsted, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind, announced late last year that it was cancelling both of the Ocean Wind projects it had planned to build off the New Jersey coast. Earlier in 2023, the developers of Pilgrim Wind and Mayflower Wind, two prospective wind farms off the Massachusetts coast, paid that state’s electric utilities millions of dollars to cancel their contracts. And in New York, BP and Equinor recently announced cancellation of the contract for Empire Wind 2. But while the offshore-wind industry may have lost these recent battles, the battle against this inefficient and high-cost technology is far from over.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

‘People of Color’ are ‘Mascots’ for the Global Elites

During the World Economic Forum’s annual conclave of plutocrats last week, the attendees enjoyed an exotic display of indigenous culture and their own virtue signaling of their love for “diversity.” The Catholic News Agency reports, “as part of a plenary session on Wednesday titled ‘Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Is Needed,’ Chieftess Putanny Yawanawá of the Amazonian Yawanawá tribe . . . performed a shamanic rite.” Resplendent in her tribal garb and face-paint, she stood close to each of the several panel members’ faces, coughed, then blew on their foreheads.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke"

Canada’s trucker ruling is a victory for civil liberties

For those who have watched or, worse, lived through the onslaught on civil liberties in Canada since the pandemic, there was little sign that the tide would turn. But finally, a major and unambiguous win has been delivered. Yesterday, the country’s Federal Court ruled against the government in a case challenging its February 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act. The judge hearing the case brought by civil liberties groups and two individuals declared that the government overstepped constitutional boundaries in annulling foundational rights, including freedom of expression.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

PETA Dances on the Grave of a Beloved Mascot

University of Georgia alumni and fans are in mourning this week after the passing of the football team’s former mascot, Uga X, whose actual name was Que. Que passed away on Tuesday, less than a year after passing the collar on to Boom, who took the title Uga XI.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•Peta

Bronson Battersby and the hollowing out of working-class communities

The tragic deaths of 60-year-old Kenneth Battersby and his two-year-old son, Bronson, should be a wake-up call for those who dismiss the importance of class in modern Britain. Kenneth and Bronson were found at their home in Skegness, Lincolnshire on 9 January. It is believed that Kenneth died of a heart attack, while Bronson died from starvation and dehydration, curled up beside the body of his father. Bronson died because there was simply no one else to care for him.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 25, 2024•0•Our World

Ottawa Police Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart Likens Detective Helen Grus to Serial Rapist-Murderer Russell Williams

Every time we think that the internal hearing against Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus can’t get any wilder – Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart yells “HOLD MY BEER!” and once again proves us wrong.

Accompanying her outrageous courtroom behaviour with fashion statements and hi-heeled boots that rival anything seen on Ottawa’s Gladstone Strip, Prosecutor Stewart seems to have little sense of decorum and propriety. Every day she makes the hearing into a theatre of the absurd where the audience can’t even guess at her next act.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

‘Freedom Convoy’ supporters and haters now have fresh ammunition

It is a perfect court decision for a polarizing issue — the 2022 convey protests — and for polarizing times.

If you believed that the convoy protest and occupation of Ottawa two years ago was a national emergency, you have had almost 12 months to feel vindicated by Justice Paul Rouleau’s commission finding that Justin Trudeau’s government was right to use extraordinary powers to shut down the demonstrations.

But if you believed the convoy protests were all about freedom of speech and massive overreach by Trudeau’s government, there is now a judge’s ruling for that, too: the Federal Court of Canada’s finding this week that the prime minister was wrong to invoke a national emergency.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Unprecedented level of secrecy surrounds costs and work on $80B warship project

National Defence has brought in a new and unprecedented shroud of secrecy around a controversial warship project now estimated to cost taxpayers more than $80 billion.

After withholding documents for almost three years, the Department of National Defence has released nearly 1,700 pages of records that were supposed to outline specific costs and work done so far on the Canadian Surface Combatant program.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•Canada, WTF?

John Ivison: Emergencies Act karma comes back to bite the Liberals

It is not surprising that judges often disagree after witnessing the same evidence. They are, after all, simply lawyers in robes.

Federal Court Justice Richard Moseley ruled on Tuesday that the Liberal government did not have reasonable grounds to use the Emergencies Act to clear Freedom Convoy protestors in 2022, and doing so was an unreasonable overreach that infringed Canadians’ Charter rights

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Battle Rap Community?

Your Tax Dollars at work.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•WTF?

Calling for the genocide of Jews violates our codes of conduct, Canadian universities say to MPs

OTTAWA—More than two dozen of Canada’s top universities have made it clear to MPs: a call for the genocide of Jews violates their codes of conduct — no matter what.

Their assertions come in letters replying to a demand from five MPs in December that Canadian schools clarify their policies in the wake of a major controversy on the issue in the U.S.

There, the heads of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were lambasted in the U.S. Congress, and faced widespread public condemnation, for saying that whether a call for the genocide of Jews would violate campus policies depended on context.

From the river etc etc will still be chanted by the campus Hamas contingent.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Oct 7 2023"

The ICJ could go either way on genocide

Don’t dismiss a corrupt, down and out country. South Africa as an Iranian proxy can make bad mischief for Israel.

What kind of people are we that we have to justify ourselves before them? And who are they to demand it of us? What is the point of this whole comedy of putting an entire people on trial when the verdict is known in advance? How does it benefit us to participate voluntarily in this comedy, to brighten up these villainous and humiliating proceedings with our speeches for the defence? Our defence is useless and hopeless, our enemies will not believe it.”

No, this is not a voice mad at Israel for defending the claim of ‘Genocide’ at the ICJ on January 11, 2024. It is the voice of the early Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky appealing to hapless Russian Jewry in 1911.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"Oct 7 2023"

Melanie, the singer-songwriter who shot to fame after Woodstock and sang the chart-topping hit Brand New Key, is dead at 76

The singer Melanie, who was best known for her massively popular singles Lay Down (Candles In The Rain), Brand New Key and the Rolling Stones cover Ruby Tuesday, has died.

The songwriter’s children Leilah, Jeordie and Beau-Jarred announced that she died on January 23 at the age of 76.

‘Dear ones,’ they began, using a greeting that their mother often favored when writing to fans, ‘This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there’s no easy way except to say it… Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January 23rd, 2024.’

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•Passings

Douglas Todd: The ‘most diverse’ military regiment in Canada is in Vancouver

… Rohani is frustrated with the way the 97,000 members of Canada’s armed forces are often treated as a cultural punching bag, targets of endless criticism. And he is especially taken aback by a recent edition of The Canadian Military Journal, in which 13 essayists argue the country’s armed forces are thoroughly racist, colonialistic and sexist, and need to be remade from scratch.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2024January 24, 2024•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"