The difference between leftist and rightist antisemitism

Jews should be more concerned about leftist antisemitism than rightist antisemitism.

My friend and the co-founder of the Jewish Studies Zionist Network, Professor Jarrod Tanny points out that whereas rightist antisemitism is a fringe element on the right of the North American political spectrum, leftist antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism is steadily advancing into mainstream academic and political discourse. For this reason, he warns that Jewish organizations should be even more concerned and alert about leftist antisemitism than about rightist antisemitism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left

Incentives: The Most Powerful Force In The World

By age 35, Akinola Bolaji had already spent two decades scamming people online, posing as an American fisherman to con vulnerable widows into sending him money.

The New York Times asked the Nigerian how he felt about causing so much harm to innocent people. He replied:

“Definitely there is always conscience. But poverty will not make you feel the pain.”

Scamming people is easier to justify in your head when you’re starving.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

A sweet goodbye to ‘The Science’

I have always hated goodbyes, whether something so simple as seeing someone off at the airport after an enjoyable visit or a more difficult final goodbye to parents after long, rich lives, and a sibling gone well before his time. I have never found even the smallest bit of joy in a goodbye. Granted, in a long life, there have been a number of good riddances, but I’m not counting those.

So this goodbye was a bit different for me. Today, I heard a goodbye that was music to my ears, even symphonic. Dr. Anthony “Phony Tony” Fauci said goodbye to the nation as White House chief medical adviser.

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

Islamism is still the biggest terror threat we face

Mohammed cartoon protest London, England.

Fear-mongering about ‘Islamophobia’ must not get in the way of confronting terrorism.

Islamist terror remains the largest terror threat to the UK, by a significant margin. According to MI5 director general Ken McCallum, who gave his annual threat update last week, Islamists make up three-quarters of the MI5’s terrorist caseload. Yet despite this, it seems there is a widespread reluctance not only to acknowledge this threat, but also to name it.

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

Asked About Joe Biden’s Involvement In Hunter’s Shady Dealing, Karine Jean-Pierre Flails and Sputters

Hopeless.

Will the Democrat strategy of dodging and deflecting save Hunter and Joe?

On Friday, Old Joe Biden’s chief propaganda minister, Karine Jean-Pierre, was asked about Kentucky Congressman and House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer’s announcement that he plans to begin “investigating the President’s involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings.” The reporter also asked: “And then, on the merits of the allegations, can you address whether the President was involved in any of his son, uh, Hunter or his brother’s, uh, foreign business deals?” Jean-Pierre gave one of her characteristic stuttering, sputtering, deer-in-the-headlights responses, and never did quite get around to answering the key question. This was no surprise: there is no chance that anyone connected with the Biden regime is ever going to answer such questions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

UK experts helped shut down Covid lab leak theory – weeks after being told it might be true

Top scientists including Sir Patrick Vallance were warned that Covid-19 could have evolved in laboratory animals, but collaborated in a paper which shut down the lab leak theory, it has emerged.

The paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, argued that a natural spillover event caused the pandemic, and was hugely instrumental in stifling debate into the origins of the virus.

But newly released emails from early 2020 show that in the weeks before publication the authors held lengthy discussions with experts, including Sir Patrick and Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust.

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

Colorado shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich appears dazed, bloodied in court

The person accused of massacring five people in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub was badly battered and covered in bruises from the rampage in new mugshots released Wednesday — after appearing visibly dazed in court.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22 — who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they/them — was seen with huge patches of discoloration on their face and neck in the mugshots after they were subdued by two bystanders in the middle of the alleged attack at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday.

More … Lefty Narratives Crumbling Everywhere: NYC Gay Bar Attacker Is a Gay Man

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

Don’t bet on the Emergencies Act inquiry hurting Trudeau

The inquiry into whether Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act was justifiable has a rather peculiar look.

Inquiries normally investigate something that went wrong. Not this one. This one is probing an action that worked, that went off with few hitches, that was met, for the most part, with public acceptance.

The issue of whether the Prime Minister had the right to go so far is a big deal with anti-vaxxers and constitutional scholars and, naturally, the Conservative opposition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Michael Higgins: To Quebec doctors, killing babies is just another ‘form of care’

“…because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.”

The president of the Quebec College of Physicians wants to explore the prospect of euthanizing suffering babies and believes it’s nobody’s business but doctors’.

To be fair, Dr. Mauril Gaudreault would let parents have a say as well, so he’s not being totally arrogant.

Gaudreault’s rather obscene suggestion illustrates just how far down the slippery slope we have plunged when it comes to mercy killing, euthanasia, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) , call it what you will.

Everything new is Nazi again!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEugenics, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

All Quiet in the Audience?

The new version of a World War I classic raises uncomfortable questions about war movies, and those who make them.

The original Hollywood adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s bestselling 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts neues) hit America’s movie houses in April of 1930. Considering that the first talkie, The Jazz Singer — a semi-talkie, really, in which the sound quality was pretty primitive — had been released only two and a half years earlier, All Quiet, directed by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by Maxwell Anderson (the distinguished playwright) and George Abbott (later a top Broadway director), was a remarkable achievement: a war epic that’s still not just watchable but downright effective, right up to its heartbreaking final shot — as in both camera shot and gunshot. 

Great production values, great everything except somehow it can’t hold a candle to the original.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW I

COP27’s bait and switch

Integrity Matters, a report from the UN high-level expert group chaired by former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna, was launched at COP27 last week. Down here at the lower levels, we think its implications should concern, if not even alarm, all Canadians.

So far Canada’s various climate plans and agreements have set emissions targets that balance the production of greenhouse gases against removals from the atmosphere, whether by tree-planting, sequestration or other means. The current plan is that by 2030 we reduce our net emissions by 40-45 per cent from what they were in 2005. But now McKenna’s report is pushing hard, not for offsets, but for absolute reductions in GHG emissions — in other words, for taking much of the “net” out of “net-zero.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Liberty Is Worth the Fight

Freedom’s future always depends upon the courage of a lonely few.

“There comes a time,” Martin Luther King Jr. advised, “when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” Moral imperative, in other words, outweighs personal security, political correctness, and the psychological comfort of identifying with the crowd. During troubling times of human violence and suffering, it is always the lonely few — either blessed with innate courage or made resolute through private, grinding struggle — who dare to take a stand against encroaching evils tacitly accepted by the many. Such is the power of individual free will when man chooses principle as his guide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA