The Aborted War in Israel

Even if it were politically and psychologically possible to resume a war under the circumstances, how could Israel realistically win?

Iwish I could be optimistic about Israel’s ability to defeat Hamas in the aborted war, but I am more pessimistic than ever.

I’ve been a pessimist from the start. As Rich Lowry and I have discussed on the podcast, that’s because I’ve never believed Israel’s stated war aims were either politically feasible or reflective of on-the-ground reality — which is much worse than Israel or the Biden administration is willing to acknowledge.

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

In China, every cough and sniffle is a crisis

USE the words ‘China’, ‘respiratory’, ‘virus’ and ‘unknown’ in the same sentence and you will soon get people’s attention. That is just what has happened and, of course, our old friend Global Health Now was on hand to convey the news in its usual alarmist tones.

Its lead article on Monday was headed: China’s Respiratory Illnesses Raise Concerns. This rekindled ‘pandemic fears’ amongst ‘worrisome reports about respiratory illnesses’ emerging from China. It was enough to alarm the WHO, so we should consider ourselves lucky that we are not masked up, locked down and queueing for vaccines again

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

The White House Goes Rogue: Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong.

Don’t believe it.

It doesn’t matter whether you obey every law. The government’s definition of a “bad” guy is extraordinarily broad, and it results in the warrantless surveillance of innocent, law-abiding Americans on a staggering scale

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Ireland needs to talk about immigration

The elites have maintained a conspiracy of silence following the Dublin knife attack.

The knife attack on three primary-school children and a school-care assistant in Dublin last week shocked Ireland. It happened in broad daylight on Parnell Square, close to Dublin’s busiest streets. And it was witnessed by tourists, Dubliners and thousands of CCTV cameras.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Forbes publishes new ‘hall of shame’ naming 10 people it regrets featuring on prized 30 under 30 list – with jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried taking inevitable top spot

Forbes has published a new ‘Hall of Shame’ with 10 people it regrets featuring on its famous 30 Under 30 list in recent years.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was the first person named on the new list after he was found guilty of $10billion in crypto fraud on November 2. He was featured on the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021.

Caroline Ellison, his ex-girlfriend and former co-CEO of FTX sister company Alameda, was also included in the Hall of Shame.

That’s quite a record.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Harm reduction gone rogue: I worked at a safe injection site and it was disturbing

‘I thought I would help people but instead found myself battling drug dealers, overdosing colleagues, neighbourhood theft and inept management’

I fought as best I could to keep drug dealers away from the supervised injection site I worked at, but it was a battle that came with a price. The threats could be terrifying.

One dealer I had kicked out of the facility came up to me outside and tried to pull my COVID mask off. He said he wanted to take a picture of me on his phone so his boss could come and wait for me after work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Behind Pro-Hamas ‘Student’ Walkouts Lurk Manipulative Adults

According to the corporate media, hundreds of high schoolers are taking it upon themselves to walk out of school to protest Israel’s right to defend itself. In New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and more, the nation’s budding humanitarians are banding together with the hope of ushering in a new era of peace, the stories say. As is the case with so many stories surrounding Palestinian terrorism and Israel’s response, the prevailing narrative is wrong.

These walkouts are not the result of well-meaning teenagers choosing to take a stand. These protests are being conceived of and then planned and executed by radical left-wing groups using children as political props.

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

Pope Says Church Leaders Can Baptize Some ‘Transsexual’ Catholics, Allow Some LGBT Godparents

In a November letter to Brazilian Bishop José Negri, Pope Francis laid out rules for transgender and LGBT engagement in the Catholic church.

Bishop Negri had asked the pontiff several questions on how the church should respond to transgender and homosexual-identifying individuals.

Under the pope’s new clarifications of rules for the church, some “transsexual” Catholics are allowed to be baptized, become godparents to children, and act as witnesses at weddings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPope Francis

Would replacing Trudeau help the Liberals? It’s probably unlikely

When Brian Mulroney announced his retirement from office in February 1993, his personal approval ratings were in the teens and his majority Progressive Conservative government had the support of less than 20 per cent of voters.

Mulroney would insist those numbers had nothing to do with this decision to leave but when he did, in the early summer of that year, the party’s fortunes under his successor Kim Campbell immediately began to improve and as the 1993 federal election got underway late that summer, the PCs started in a statistical tie with Jean’s Chrétien’s Liberals.

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

Sabrina Maddeaux: Meek Singh unwilling to stand up to Trudeau as he spits on parties’ pact

The federal NDP’s confidence-and-supply deal with the Liberals was always a dubious venture — propping up an exceptionally unpopular government for any length of time, let alone for over three years, typically doesn’t endear voters to one’s side.

While Jagmeet Singh’s NDP should be merrily capitalizing on the current economic environment with their eyes closed, the party is instead bleeding support from key demographics to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. Even a Liberal slump of epic proportions, particularly among younger voters, hasn’t been enough to breathe life into a party that increasingly resembles a paper straw disintegrating into a useless, soggy mess.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada