The Poverty Ravaging Our Streets

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has told the Metropolitan Police to “hunt down and lock up” those responsible for the latest shop looting campaign in London’s Oxford Street.

One would think that such a strategy is obvious for police, given that to do so is surely their job? This would overlook the fact that the Home Office, and essentially the entire government, long ago became a poorly run PR campaign for politicians desperate to appear ‘tough’ in a bid to confront the least possible embarrassment in next year’s General Election.

Perhaps the Home Secretary has also forgotten that it is her job to ensure there are enough police and penalties on hand to stop such crimes from occurring in the first place? In a 2012 report, even The Guardian admitted that longer prison sentences really do cut crime. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Popular Leftist Talking Head Blames Muslim Opposition to Trans Madness on — Guess Who

On Friday, professional whiner and leftist grievance monger Wajahat Ali blamed the Muslim community’s rejection of the LGBTQ agenda not on Islam’s clear and unanimous theological opposition to homosexuality and the death penalty, but on none other than the Republican Party. Really, it’s so absurd and outlandish, why didn’t anyone think of it before?

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

Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberal inaction permitting China to colonize Canada

When will Prime Minister Justin Trudeau call a public inquiry into Chinese interference in Canadian elections? Answer: never, if he can help it. There is no upside in this exercise. It is like getting a root canal for a rotten tooth or fixing a leaky sewer system: a lot of pain, disruption, and expense for no visible improvement. Few see what lies beneath the surface, and most won’t appreciate it when it is fixed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

The Liberals broke the education visa system, but they had lots of help

 

Over the last two decades, the number of foreign students studying in Canada has increased almost sevenfold, to more than 800,000. The jump has been particularly sharp in recent years. At the end of 2022, there were nearly half a million more visa students than in 2015.

At first blush, this sounds like a success story: Canadian higher education must be so outstanding that record numbers from around the world are lining up to pay university and college tuitions several times higher than those for Canadian students.

I wonder which Liberal palms are being greased?

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

Why sanctions aren’t turning Putin’s oligarchs against him

This is one area in which the West is still struggling to get its act together

When personal sanctions on Russian oligarchs and officials were imposed by the US, EU and UK after Putin’s invasion, the rationale was that this would undermine the Kremlin. In the main, this has failed — and there is still no coherent strategy to encourage those Russians willing to turn against the regime.

No end in sight.

Ukraine war: The men who don’t want to fight

Ukraine is struggling to meet its demand for soldiers.

Volunteers aren’t enough. The country constantly needs to replace the tens of thousands who’ve been killed or injured. Many more are just exhausted, after 18 months fighting off Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Some men though don’t want to fight. Thousands have left the country, sometimes after bribing officials, and others are finding ways of dodging recruitment officers, who in turn have been accused of increasingly heavy-handed tactics.

“The system is very outdated,” says Yehor. He watched his father suffer from mental health issues after fighting with the Soviet Army in Afghanistan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Music Elites and the Oliver Anthony Conundrum

There was a time when disputes between intellectuals made headlines and provoked editorials.

One of our young staff, Luther Ray Abel, raised an interesting point the other day in one of our subscriber-only letters about the kinds of issues that divide conservative intellectuals, causing long-time friends to turn on each other and become ex-friends.

Always one for comity and all hands on deck, it occurred to me: Is the quarrel Abel referred to, between one of our contributing editors and a fella at National Review Oliver Anthony, critical to our survival as a free society? Or is it of the academic politics variety, wherein intensity and stakes are inversely proportional?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

The Top 3 Censored Topics in America in 2023

The left likes to whine about alleged “book bans,” which are no more than decisions by wise educators and librarians to keep pornographic and sexually explicit materials out of the hands of minors. In their twisted world, kids should have access to anything and everything they demand. No child should be shielded from materials that could harm their development or pervert their innocent minds. Their ideas about “censorship” are bizarre, to say the least, and often seem more focused on scoring political points and virtue-signaling than protecting children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCensorship

Continuing Atrocities: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan

The utmost violence, it seems, against the Christians in Pakistan has taken a permanent form. According to the Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn, on August 16, following an alleged incident of blasphemy in the town of Jaranwala, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched five churches, and attacked the homes of Christians and the office of the local assistant commissioner.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islamization of the West

Dangers of AI Growing? Listening to Keystrokes, Stealing Passwords

Artificial intelligence can “listen” to keystrokes and steal passwords, according to new research.

An Aug. 3 research paper from the UK, titled “A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards,” examines how hackers could use artificial intelligence (AI) to figure out passwords by “listening” to keystrokes. AI achieved over 90 percent accuracy in determining passwords, and was even able to adjust for variations such as the weight of the finger pressing on a key. This raises new concerns for the already severe risks associated with AI.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

No charges yet after Edmonton police read Riot Act to quell violent clashes within Eritrean community

It was a chaotic scene with few if any parallels in Edmonton’s history: hundreds of men clashing on a field — some in blue, others in orange — carrying sticks and poles flying brightly coloured flags.

Now, police are investigating the weekend violence, which pitted members of the city’s Eritrean community against one another and led officers to take the rare step of proclaiming the Riot Act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Eritrea