California reparations: How do you put a price on racism?

Alvin Taylor and his sister, Pearl, were kids when the City of Palm Springs, California began burning down their neighbours’ homes. But they still remember the smell of the smoke.

“We would come home, and a neighbour’s house would be gone – just burned rubble,” Pearl Taylor Devers said.

In 1965, the City of Palm Springs began razing the Taylor’s predominately black neighbourhood to make way for commercial development near the city centre. Their father, a carpenter, had built their modest home from the foundation up. Their mother, a house cleaner, worked for celebrities like Lucille Ball and Amelia Earnhardt and took the children to church every Sunday

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSlavery and Reparations

Mystery cluster of brain disease is paralyzing healthy adults and robbing them of the ability to talk — and doctors fear it’s due to toxic ALGAE

A cluster of mysterious brain diseases has struck down at least 200 people in a small province and baffled doctors.

More than 200 residents in New Brunswick, Canada, have been affected by the dementia-like disorder that causes vivid hallucinations, an inability to talk and write, memory lapses and even physical paralysis.

Experts say the cases date back to 2015 and are among people aged 18 to 84, dozens of whom were healthy before being struck down by the mystery illness.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

French rioters set mayor’s home on fire while family sleeps inside & Animals roam Paris streets after Protesters Open Zoo

Rioters rammed a car into the home of a mayor in southern Paris before setting it on fire while his wife and children were sleeping.

Protesters chased Melanie Nowak and her two children behind the house and into the garden as the family tried to escape, in the latest example of fierce violence gripping France.

The mother suffered a serious leg fracture after trying to push her children over the wall that separates her garden from her neighbour’s backyard and was recovering in hospital on Sunday morning. One of the children was also injured.

Animals roam Paris streets after Protesters Open Zoo

Cars, libraries, supermarkets, residential areas were set on fire as France protests intensified amid the death of a teen. Amid all this, the protesters freed zoo animals in Paris which have since then been freely roaming around in the city.

h/t Mauser

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

Conrad Black: How the Postmedia-Nordstar merger can save journalism

It was announced this week that advanced negotiations are underway for an effective merger between Nordstar Capital, the publisher of the Toronto Star and the Metroland suburban newspapers, and Postmedia, which publishes this newspaper as well as the Sun newspapers and the principal English-language daily newspapers in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. This is not surprising, as both companies have been losing money, which is a process that even our governments in all their profligacy will eventually discover cannot continue indefinitely. The commercial advantage of such an arrangement would be to merge the business aspects of the two companies, while maintaining editorial separation: the savings would be considerable, at no cost to editorial quality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

Hunter Biden pictured himself smoking Crack behind the wheel & driving at 172mph en route to a days-long Vegas bender with prostitutes

Hunter Biden picked up his phone to snap a picture while driving at an incredible 172mph on a highway outside Las Vegas, DailyMail.com can reveal.

He was racing his Porsche 911 to Sin City on August 1, 2018 for an encounter with multiple prostitutes when he took a snap of his dashboard showing how fast he was speeding.

The picture was found on the First Son’s abandoned laptop.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Trudeau Foundation Held Not 1 but 3 Meetings in PM’s Building

Opposition MPs have raised questions about a meeting in April 2016 between the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and senior government officials in the building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office. It turns out the foundation had two more such meetings in the building, according to records seen by The Epoch Times.

Along with the April 2016 meeting, which was first reported by Montreal’s La Presse newspaper in April 2022, documents obtained through access to information indicate the foundation held another meeting in the building in January 2016 and a subsequent one in March 2017.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Just Stop Oil protesters halt Pride parade: Police arrest seven

Just Stop Oil have stormed London’s historic Pride parade, after issuing threats to the LGBTQ+ event earlier this week.

Seven eco-zealots have been arrested after nine blocked the capital’s Pride March today amidst calls for the event to condemn new oil, gas and coal.

At around 1:25pm, the group sat down in front of the festival’s Coca-Cola float, branding it ‘the world’s worst plastic polluter, accused of numerous human rights abuses’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Greg Piasetzki: John A. Macdonald saved more Indigenous lives than any other prime minister

Given that he died in 1891, the facts of Sir John A. Macdonald’s life are unchangeable. The story of his life, however, has changed dramatically. For most of Canada’s history, Macdonald was considered a nation-builder worthy of celebration and veneration. Today he is a war criminal, at least to hear some tell it. But a proper and balanced consideration of Macdonald’s life reveals that, through his own actions and policies, Canada’s first prime minister was directly and deliberately responsible for saving the lives of untold numbers of Indigenous people. Given the temper of our times, this is not likely to be a popular notion. But that does not make it any less true.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Canada

Why Germany’s Catholics turn their back on the church

Germany’s Catholic Church is in shock following this week’s report on the record number of people leaving it: Altogether 522,821 Catholics left their church in 2022, according to the German Bishops’ Conference. That’s an increase of more than 45% over 2021 and a figure that fits with the mounting criticism of the church’s sluggish reform process, over which many bishops don’t see eye to eye. And there’s no sign that the membership decline is going to slow, let alone reverse.

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

CBC Ponders Locking Chickens & Fox In Henhouse: As gender protests move closer to students, is it time for ‘bubble zones’ outside of schools?

As gender-related policies in schools draw debate, some are calling for “safe zones” to be established around schools to allow students to remain focused on education.

Safe zones — also known as bubble zones — effectively create a perimeter around institutions by either limiting or prohibiting certain activities, like protests, in a defined area.

It comes after hundreds of protesters and counter-protesters swarmed the streets outside of three schools in Ottawa last month, rallying on opposite sides over how gender identity is taught. At least one school went under a lockdown for the day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"

Baltimore mass shooting kills 2 victims with 28 injured including 3 critically, police say

At least two people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured in a mass shooting that took place during a block party early Sunday morning in Baltimore.

Baltimore Police Department Acting Commissioner Richard Worley said an 18-year-old woman was found dead at the scene. A 20-year-old man also died, and three others are in critical condition, WBAL TV reported.

Other block party attendees were taken by first responders to hospitals and as many as 20 victims arrived at area hospitals with their own transportation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Death of Nahel: 64 arrested in Brussels as mass riots spread over France to Belgium & Switzerland

A total of 64 people were arrested in the incidents that took place in Brussels on Thursday evening in protest over the shooting of a 17-year-old by a police officer in France.

One minor was judicially arrested in Brussels (meaning the person was taken to a police station and questioned) after he was seen beating and wounding a police officer, the City of Brussels/ Ixelles local police wrote in a statement on Friday morning.

Swiss police detain 7 people during riots in Lausanne

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