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Mexico’s Ex-Top Security Official Is Convicted of Cartel Bribery

Genaro García Luna, once the architect and public face of Mexico’s bloody war on its powerful criminal groups, was convicted on Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing.

The guilty verdict, which came after three days of deliberation in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, was a stunning downfall for Mr. García Luna, a jut-jawed former law-enforcement officer who was so enmeshed in his country’s security establishment that he was often described as the J. Edgar Hoover of Mexico.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2023February 21, 2023•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Economic Suicide? Italy Leads Opposition to EU 2035 Ban on Fossil Fuel Cars

On Tuesday, February 14th, the European Parliament voted—340 in favour, 279 against—for legislation to phase out the sale of carbon-emitting gas and diesel vehicles by 2035. The vote endorsed a compromise agreement already reached by the European Council in October 2022, which laid out a roadmap for removing fossil fuel-powered vehicles by midcentury on Europe’s roads.

Under the new rules, manufacturers will be forced to meet a 100% CO2 emissions cut in new vehicles sold by 2035, with new regulations established for monitoring emissions. The new legislation will also hasten emission cuts ahead of schedule, with cars manufactured in 2030 legally required to have reduced emissions by 55% compared to 2021 levels, an increase on the previously agreed 37.5%.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2023February 21, 2023•0•Green-Scam

Barometer of Hate

A major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit rejects beauty and cultivates racial resentment

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has mounted an exhibit whose curatorial philosophy, were it widely adopted, would spell the end of art and of art museums. The art press greeted the show ecstatically, as a sign of the Met’s new direction. This prognosis is undoubtedly correct.

Fictions of Emancipation (on view through March 5, 2023) is built around an 1873 sculpture by the brilliant French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. The marble bust, titled Why Born Enslaved!, portrays a black woman, bound by a rope, looking over her left shoulder with a piercing expression of defiance, incredulity, and contempt.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"Peak Woke"

Just Like ‘Real’ Socialism, ‘Real Feudalism’ Has Never Been Tried

If we judge a political system purely on its promises rather than its actual consequences, why not give feudalism another shot?

The lines of ink of the Communist Manifesto, published 175 years ago today, have led to oceans of blood. Since Karl Marx issued his promise that workers who embrace communism “have nothing to lose but their chains,” regimes inspired by his philosophy have afflicted hundreds of millions of people — including the workers who are supposed to benefit from communism — with things worse than chains: gulags, famines, and firing squads.

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2023February 21, 2023•0•Communism, Communists

She fled the war in Ukraine but failed to find a safe haven in a San Francisco middle school

Everything Yana, a 13-year-old Ukrainian refugee, knew about public schools in the United States was what she had seen on television or in the movies, often idyllic settings where teenage conflict and angst ironed itself out by the end.

She never imagined herself in those American classrooms.

h/t GF

by Blazingcatfur•February 22, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Feminism has a woman problem

Why so many younger feminists have fallen for the delusions of gender ideology.

As the gender-identity wars reached fever-pitch, Rosie Duffield, Labour MP for Canterbury, accused her party of having ‘a woman problem’. Ever since Duffield first tentatively raised her head above the parapet to suggest that the common noun for ‘individuals with a cervix’ is, in fact, ‘women’, she has been subjected to outright hostility and ostracism. The lack of support for her from the parliamentary Labour Party is deafening. For Labour, the question of ‘what is a woman?’ is ‘always a sensitive issue’. According to Keir Starmer, the statement that only women have a cervix is ‘something that shouldn’t be said’.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•Batshit Crazy Feminists

The acceptable face of radical Islam

Online trolls hide behind progressive platitudes

LoonWatch.com was born on April Fool’s Day 2009. At precisely 20:33:38, someone used the pseudonym “Zuhair Thomas” to register the new website with GoDaddy, an internet service provider based in Arizona. What “Zuhair” created was a platform for anonymous character assassins, who used the names of little-known fish species — “Emperor”, “Garibaldi”, “Danios”, “Darter” — to conceal their identities. Their targets were so-called “loons”: anyone who spoke out against Islamic extremism, or in favour of Muslim reform.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Two Air Force vets testify to Pentagon about seeing UFO’s disable ten nuclear warheads and blast test missiles out of the sky

The Pentagon’s UFO office is investigating historic reports of mysterious objects interfering with key nuclear missile silos.

Two Air Force veterans told DailyMail.com they have testified to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) this month about their experiences of UFOs interfering with US nuclear missiles.

One email shows AARO staff contacted former US Air Force ICBM launch officer Robert Salas to gather information about his chilling encounter with an orange flying disc that inexplicably turned off 10 warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana in 1967.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"UFO's"

Child Molester “Dads” Dumbfounded After Judge Warns Their Chats Are Being Leaked

For the first time following Townhall’s bombshell investigation into a suburban LGBTQ pedophile ring near Atlanta, gay activists turned-alleged child rapists Zachary and William Zulock, who are accused of sexually abusing their adopted sons, made physical appearances in the courtroom for separate motion hearings on Feb. 1 as the Georgia child-prostitution case gears up for trial.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"They really do want your children", Big Deviant

University cites Privacy Act in preventing release of “300 far-right groups” list

Ontario Tech University (OTU) is using a provision of the Privacy Act (FIPPA) to prevent the release of a list of the 300 “far-right” extremist groups operating in Canada, which has been cited by the Liberal government to bolster impending anti-hate legislation.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•Hate crime hoax, hate crimes, Hate Groups, WTF?

Trudeau can’t ignore the dangers of China’s attempts to influence Canadian elections

Oh no you don’t, Prime Minister.

Bombshell revelations that suggest Chinese agents actively, fraudulently and successfully manipulated Canada’s electoral integrity in the last two federal elections cannot be dismissed with the standard Justin Trudeau nothing-to-see-here shrug.

The allegations, based on top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) reports viewed by the Globe, are too insidious, too detailed and too important to ignore.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

9 out of 10 “trans” prisoners in Canada are violent criminals

The Western world has been busily playing hide the salamis in women’s prisons, as long as said salamis claim they are actually peaches.

It turns out those peaches are rather hard and sour. I know that you will be as shocked as I am to hear that all those male prisoners who discovered their femininity while in prison are not very nice people. In fact, the vast majority of them turn out to be violent predators, and quite often sex offenders.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•Big Tranny

WTF?

White people denying that they’re racist is literal violence because all white people are racist pic.twitter.com/eyP8RTjVme

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 21, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•WTF?

How Vladimir Putin sells his war against ‘the West’

Unable to explain setbacks in Ukraine, the Kremlin appeals to past victories.

MOSCOW — Every year, during the anniversary of the battle that turned back the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union, the city of Volgograd is briefly renamed Stalingrad, its Soviet-era name.

During this year’s commemoration, however, authorities went further. They unveiled a bust of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and paraded soldiers dressed as secret police in a bid to emphasize the parallels between Russia’s past and its present.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal

Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame.

They’d come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.

Now the feds were closing in on both — and one was going to turn on the other.

“We can make this work,” Sam Bankman-Fried said over Signal, an encrypted messaging app.

Gary Wang didn’t reply.

This says Bankman-Fried is toast. How long he actually remains in jail is something we just have to wait on.

by Blazingcatfur•February 21, 2023February 21, 2023•0•"Digital Currency", Crime