Toronto police chief apologizes after officers hand coffee to protesters

Toronto’s police chief apologized Sunday after a video posted on social media of officers handing coffee to protesters supporting Palestinians was criticized by politicians.

On Saturday, police closed the overpass on Avenue Road at Highway 401, saying on social media they were on the scene to keep demonstrators and passing traffic safe. Video from the overpass posted on Facebook by Palestine House, a community organization, shows protesters holding Palestinian flags and chanting “Free Palestine.”

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

JPMorgan’s 10 shockers for 2024: Biden will pull out of presidential race over poor health, rolling blackouts will hit cities and driverless cars boycotted

A top JPMorgan strategist has predicted Biden will pull out of the presidential race, American cities will be hit by rolling blackouts and driverless cars will face boycotts.

Michael Cembalest has compiled a list of his ‘Ten Surprises’ for 2024, speculating on topics ranging from the value of the dollar to the war in Ukraine.

The investor theorized that Biden would drop out of the 2024 election after Super Tuesday and cite health reasons as he faces dismal poll numbers.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Politicians’ grand housing visions forget to involve folks who actually build homes

Housing was a hot topic long before federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released his recent mini-documentary on the subject. Housing Hell has now been viewed by millions of Canadians, discussed by pundits, applauded as a master-class in political communications and derided as inaccurate and ignorant of how COVID-19 affected our economy.

But regardless of your position on Mr. Poilievre’s video, it nonetheless continues down the same problematic path such discussions always take. Specifically, it leaves out the people who build the vast majority of houses for Canadians: the private sector.

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

The Rise of AfD and the Failure of the German Political Mainstream

The German-nationalist political party has prospered from the recent inability of other parties to be trusted on issues of national sovereignty.

‘Liberalism is the death of nations” — a famous line from an infamous book. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, the author, did not have American progressivism in mind. His critique was aimed at liberal democracy as a political regime. Moeller coined the term “Third Reich” in his 1923 book, where these words originate. He was not a National Socialist but part of the “conservative revolution,” a diverse group of writers in the Weimar Republic. Alongside the more radical Völkische Bewegung, an influential ethno-nationalist movement, the “conservative revolutionaries” shaped the social atmosphere that paved the way for National Socialism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

Good terrorists versus bad terrorists

Mahmoud Abbas

We are supposed to believe that overnight the PA has changed its spots. After all, Abbas wears a suit.

No more is it between good and bad. Now, for 2024 and beyond, it’s between bad and worse.

Take your pick. For instance, between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which is better, which is worse?

Which terrorists, in other words, should get to run Gaza, “the day after?” Biden and his people prefer the PA…the lesser of two evils.

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

‘A Gory Christmas’: Christians Slaughtered in the Nigerian Genocide

Today, January 7, 2024, marks the Eastern Orthodox Christmas, according to the Julian calendar. It seems an appropriate time to recall that less than two weeks ago, on December 25, 2023, the more familiar Roman Catholic and Protestant Christmas was being celebrated in the West. This winter, however, festivities were cancelled. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, was a ghost town . “This year,” said Brother John Vinh a Franciscan monk, “without the Christmas tree and without lights, there’s just darkness.” Alas, for many other Christians, Christmas was also just darkness.

While around much of the world, the holiday was being celebrated with peace and joy, in Nigeria, starting on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day, Muslims massacred nearly 200 Christians.

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

Uncontrolled Frequency: Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Are Wrecking Stable Power Grids

Designed by engineers, our electricity grids are remarkable, but finely balanced affairs, being wrecked by the chaotic delivery of wind and solar power.

There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Wind and solar score NIL on all three counts. Wind is wholly weather-dependent and solar is both weather and sunshine dependent, despite the hype the occasional power they generate can’t be economically stored at any scale. And, adding the staggering cost of the subsidies they attract, cost multitudes more than coal, gas or nuclear power.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

2024 is the year of the New Right

Europe’s populists are on the cusp of real power

Of the torrent of elections scheduled throughout the world this year, the most transformative promises to span an entire continent. In all of the 27 nations which constitute the European Union, and which will ask their citizens to vote for EU parliamentarians in early June, at least one New or far-Right party is now active. In several (Finland, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden), they form part of a coalition government of the Right. In three (Hungary, Italy, Slovakia), they lead the government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPopulism

Is Bill Gates the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

Even after giving away billions of dollars, Gates seems to have become no less poor. How does he do it?

Ironically, I am typing this review using the product of Microsoft, for which Gates is probably most famous. Even someone using a computer manufactured by his great rival Steve Jobs will most likely be using a Microsoft package for their word processing and presentations. But ask someone about Bill Gates now, and they will also associate him with global vaccination programmes via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and, more specifically, the COVID vaccination programme. There is so much more to Bill Gates, though, and some of it is pure evil.

In his new book, Gates of Hell, Daniel Jupp first points out how indescribably ugly Gates is. This may seem unkind and irrelevant, but Jupp reckons that his physical appearance largely accounts for his character. On the one hand, he is a ‘nerd’ and, on the other hand, he is intensely competitive, which, in later life, is expressed in being a bully.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

East London borough accused of ‘criminal offences’ over Palestinian flags

An east London borough led by a controversial mayor has been accused of “multiple criminal offences” over its failure to take down Palestinian flags.

Lawyers have written to the Metropolitan Police over the “proliferation” of flags, as well as posters and stickers, with allegedly inflammatory messages in Tower Hamlets.

Lutfur Rahman, the borough’s mayor, had previously been barred from public office for five years for corruption, but having served his ban was voted back into the post in elections in May 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

MPs Criticize Toronto Police for Bringing Coffee to Protesters Targeting Jewish Neighbourhood

A number of MPs and other politicians have criticized the Toronto police for delivering coffee to pro-Palestine protesters. Amid public concerns that these demonstrations pose a threat to Jewish communities and also disrupt traffic, this action has heightened those worries.

In a video posted on social media platform X, Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d captured a Toronto police constable delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee along with a stack of cups to a protester during an anti-Israel demonstration that blocked access to the Highway 401 overpass at Avenue Road on Jan. 6. This location is in close proximity to neighbourhoods like Armour Heights, in the district of North York, that are known for their dense Jewish population.

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

They finally found a grave …

‘Ancient remains’ unearthed at construction site in Toronto’s east end

Workers unearthed human remains Friday while installing a water service line in the east end, the City of Toronto says.

The remains were found at the construction site on Withrow Avenue. The city said crews subsequently contacted Toronto police, who launched an investigation led by an anthropologist.

“The anthropologist confirmed they are ancient remains. Construction is halted while the investigation is ongoing,” the city said in a statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canada must expand eligibility to welcome Hamas supporters fleeing the place they made the ‘Worst Place on Earth’ says Der Starmer

On Dec. 22, as Ottawa shut down for the holidays, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced what many in Canada with loved ones in Gaza had been seeking for months: special immigration measures that allow Palestinians with family in Canada to seek temporary refuge here from the bombing, mass displacement, and impending crises of famine and disease in Gaza.
These conditions led Global Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, as early as Oct. 14, to describe Gaza as “one of the worst places on Earth to be right now.”

The policy as announced, however, suffers from serious deficiencies. It excludes the families of Palestinians who are in Canada seeking protection, even if they have already been found to be refugees under Canadian law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

FBI ‘must release Epstein mansion CCTV that could show Prince Andrew’

A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein has urged the FBI to release CCTV footage that he claims could show Prince Andrew at the paedophile’s mansion.

Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who has represented nine victims of Epstein, is urging US law enforcement to release the footage from home surveillance cameras in the wake of newly released records detailing Andrew’s connections to the convicted sex offender.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"