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D-Day gets all the attention, but don’t forget Canada’s role in the invasion of Sicily, 80 years ago

“D-Day Dodgers” was a dismissive slight against the close to 100,000 Canadians who served in the Italian campaign during the Second World War. The moniker came from a cheerful Second World War nameless song that was belted out by soldiers to the tune of Lili Marlene, with the words, “We’re the D-Day Dodgers here in Italy/Drinking all the vino, always on the spree.” While it was typical soldiers’ fare in not taking themselves too seriously, the term occasionally was used callously to describe the hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers who served in the Mediterranean against the fascist forces of Germany and Italy. It implied that they missed the real show in Normandy.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Canada

How asylum chaos and militant farmers led to collapse of Dutch government

The Netherlands is bursting at the seams, so it was perhaps understandable that a row about migration precipitated the political crisis that brought down the most dominant Dutch politician of recent times last week.

But the forces that undermined Mark Rutte’s administration are broader than the cabinet disagreement about asylum restrictions which looks set to end his 13 years as prime minister. They encompass everything from agriculture and the environment to housing and infrastructure.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Denmark

Why Khalistan independence protests are being held this weekend in Vancouver and Toronto

Rallies in support of the Khalistan Freedom movement are being planned for Saturday, July 8 at India’s consulates in Toronto and Vancouver in the wake of the killing of prominent Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Mr. Nijjar was shot dead in the parking lot of the Surrey, B.C. gurdwara where he was president on June 18. Mr. Nijjar, whom India’s National Investigation Agency had accused of being a terrorist, advocated for Sikh independence and urged Sikhs around the world to vote in an international referendum for Punjab, a state in northern India, to secede.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Canada, India, Khalistan

Greg Taylor: Can the army stand on guard in the arctic?

Almost a year ago NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg capped a visit to the air force base at Cold Lake, Alberta, by emphasizing Russian and Chinese military challenges to our Arctic. Russia for example has established a new Arctic command, which includes significant naval, air, army and special operations forces.It has also built new infrastructure such as Nagurskoye airbase, 500 kilometres closer to Canada’s strategic listening post at Alert than a less-capable Canadian base at Iqaluit. As for China, its 2018 Arctic policy paper declared it a “Near Arctic State,” and they will complete one of the world’s largest icebreakers in 2025, part of the Belt and Road Initiative to expand China’s reach world-wide.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

WTF?

Here it is on video! Recorded by @dazed and reposted by London Trans Pride on Instagram.

Convicted kidnapper and torturer, Sarah Jane Baker, on the Trans Pride stage, saying “If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face!” to a cheering crowd 🙂 pic.twitter.com/dK9Jde26sF

— Kat (@unpopulargenz) July 8, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•WTF?

Ex-Spy Boss on Race Riots: Nothing Comparable Has Happened Since the French Revolution

Following the six nights of ultra-violent race riots precipitated by the death of 17-year-old Nahel M—which engulfed more than 200 towns and cities across France, resulting in hundreds of injured police officers and more than a billion euros in damage—the ex-boss of the French foreign intelligence agency has said that the country has not experienced social unrest of this kind since the French Revolution.

In exceptionally rare comments given press, Pierre Brochand—the former director of the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), which is among the world’s eminent foreign intelligence agencies—during an interview with Le Figaro, described the past days’ events as an “uprising or revolt against the French national state by a significant part of the youth of non-European origin present on its territory.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Pope Appoints Extreme Leftist to Doctrine Office

“By far the worst personnel decision in Francis’s ponticate.”

Pope Francis has once again caused controversy with his new pick to lead the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s investigative and doctrinal office. The Vatican officially announced that Argentine Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández would be the new head of the DDF, a role previously held by the likes of Pope St. Pius V and, in more recent times, cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Joseph Ratzinger. The announcement has caused a significant stir for numerous reasons, but chief among them are Fernández’s heterodox views, lack of experience, and personality.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Catholic Church

Worst ruling elites of our lifetime

World-renowned epidemiologist, Professor Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, has made the point that the biggest source of disinformation during the two plus years of the Covid pandemic was government and its agencies. Around the democratic world, and certainly here in Australia, governments deliberately instilled fear that was in no proportion to the actual risk to anyone under 75…

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "The Ruling Class"

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia’s invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days.

Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•"Disinformation", "Ukraine - Russia", Twitter, WTF?

Any Deal with Iran Requires Congressional Approval

Iran is pretty much a nuclear threshold state, having enriched enough uranium to build multiple nuclear bombs within a few weeks while hard at work weaponising them in a timeframe that is so far unknown but probably under a year.

Much of this came to pass during Joe Biden’s presidency. When President Donald Trump pulled out of President Barack Obama’s flawed JCPOA nuclear deal, Iran’s uranium enrichment was under 5% and Trump kept it there with his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions. The ayatollahs were also running scared of Trump and didn’t want to tempt him to kinetic action, a fear reinforced by his targeted killing of the international terrorist and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Qasem Soleimani in 2020

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Iran, USA

Brazen Media Deny Real Reasons for ‘Dial of Destiny’s’ Failure

It’s all but official. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” will put Disney in the red.

Again.

The fifth and presumably final film in the iconic saga opened to a weak $60 million at the U.S. box office. Those numbers would be withering for most would-be blockbusters, witness fiscal failures like “The Flash” ($55 million) and “Black Adam” ($67 million).

“Dial of Destiny” arrives with a bloated $295 million budget (or worse) plus millions in P&A. That means it’ll take a cinematic miracle for “Dial of Destiny” to break even.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•Hollywood

Woke Doctor Suggests Body Cams for Physicians Because of the Rampant Racism She Claims to See

There’s a certain segment of the woke left that is always on the lookout for racism, and if these leftists can’t find it, they’ll make it up. The latest example of this phenomenon comes to us courtesy of an op-ed in the Boston Globe.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•WTF?

Majority of French Public Blame Violent Riots on Mass Migration

The riots that recently swept across France were a result of “failures of migration policy” according to six in ten in the country, despite attempts by the political establishment to gloss over the role of mass migration in the social breakdown in France.

by Blazingcatfur•July 9, 2023July 9, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ontario looks to go ahead with three more small modular nuclear reactors

Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith announced Friday that the province is formally seeking approvals for three more small modular nuclear reactors at its Darlington power plant, where it had already put plans in place for one unit of the novel technology.

Provincially-owned Ontario Power Generation had always contemplated building a total of four of the new units, and had begun clearing enough land for the enlarged project east of the existing Darlington nuclear plant, in Clarington, Ont., east of Toronto. But until Friday, it had been formally proceeding with just one of the new units, the country’s first.

I think SMNR’s are a great idea, better than Wind and Solar by far.

But will the regulatory burden of environmental assessments & endless consultations take a decade to complete before a shovel is even picked up as with the earlier full sized reactor announced this week?