Prince Charles Coronation Sets Up Showdown With Angry Civet Lobby

Coronation oil’s traditional recipe ‘is cruel to African cats’ with it extracted in ‘traumatic and painful’ process

The Palace is under pressure over its traditional recipe for the oil used in coronations, because its ingredients are linked to cruelty to African cats.

When King Charles III is crowned next May, he will be anointed with the liquid, which historically includes oil extracted from civets.

Welfare groups say the substance is taken from the animals’ glands in a ‘traumatic and painful’ process, during which some starve to death.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Plastic ban means higher prices, fewer jobs, more garbage and GHGs. Congratulations, Ottawa!

You might remember that famous scene from the 1967 movie The Graduate. Dustin Hoffman’s anxious adult-in-waiting Benjamin Braddock is trapped at a dull graduation party when family friend Mr. McGuire leans in to offer some advice. “I just want to say one word. Just one word. Are you listening?” When Benji assures him that he is, Mr. McGuire responds, “Plastics.” Waiting a beat, he adds, “There’s a great future in plastics.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Documents introduced at the Emergencies Act inquiry will tell ‘quite the story,’ lawyer says

… Lawyer Paul Champ, who is representing a coalition of community associations and business improvement areas in downtown Ottawa, has seen some of those documents already. While he’s prohibited from talking about their contents, he said they aren’t flattering to the various levels of government and law enforcement involved.

“I think there’s going to be a very disturbing story to be told,” he said.

“I think we’re going to see where some of the balls are dropped. We’re gonna see that there were a lot of disagreements, there were a lot of arguments and dysfunction between key actors. And it’s going to be quite the story.”

You can watch the hearing at the link.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Some Canadians Are Leaving

After serving more than five years as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Daniel Pamudja wanted to settle down to a more traditional lifestyle. He got married, had children, and looked to buy a home and raise his family in the security of the country he had grown to love.

But in recent years, he began to sense that the values and history on which Canada was built were quickly eroding, he says. In his view, when laws and practices began to border on being unethical, and when government policy responses to the COVID pandemic infringed on the rights and freedoms he enlisted to defend, the country no longer felt the same.

The Liberal-Left have made Canada a much crappier place than the nation I was born into. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", Canada

John Ivison: Economic ‘friend-shoring’ can’t be our only response to tyranny

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has been criticized for not paying attention to the shifting shadow of tyranny, far less responding to it.

Chrystia Freeland was consequently dispatched to a think-tank event in Washington on Tuesday to offer the most holistic take yet on the government’s new worldview.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

WSJ reports that Biden officials begged Saudis to delay OPEC+ output cutbacks until after the midterms

Citing “people familiar with the talks” between Biden administration officials and the Saudis just before OPEC+ announced its production cuts that already have sent oil and gasoline prices soaring, The Wall Street Journal reports that the request was to delay the cuts for one month – until after the midterm election.

I think Biden and Trudeau are neck and neck in the race to see who is the least respected head of state in the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Are new provincial demands for power just the same old Ottawa-bashing — or something darker?

Welcome to the Canadian constitutional cafeteria. Please remember to stack your trays by the door when you leave.

It was Pierre Trudeau, father of the current prime minister, who famously said many decades ago that Ottawa should be more than a “head waiter to the provinces” when it came to constitutional matters and national government.

Now, roughly 40 years later, his son is contending with an array of provinces who would like to see the federal government even further demoted — to a busboy, perhaps.

Blackie’s Star is worried!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Biden’s DHS Secretary Was Told That Border Patrol ‘Whipping’ Story Didn’t Add Up, Emails Show

The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was informed that the photographer who took pictures of horseback Border Patrol agents said that he and his colleagues didn’t see any migrants being whipped, according to emails obtained by Heritage Foundation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites

PayPal warned over speech restrictions by powerful financial regulator

A top financial regulator and liberal ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren said he was considering investigating PayPal for a policy, now retracted, allowing the company to fine users $2,500 for spreading “misinformation.”

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra commented on a recent update to PayPal’s acceptable use policy that drew accusations that the payments company was positioning itself to regulate the speech of customers.

“I’ve never actually never heard of a payment system thinking that it could fine someone for legal expression that their users are making,” Chopra said during a Wednesday appearance on CNBC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly"

Are Muslim ‘Officials’ Denying Persecuted Christians Refuge in Europe?

The same Germany that took in over a million Muslim migrants in 2015, and ten thousand non-vetted Afghans in 2021—all people who, by definition, could not be experiencing religious persecution back home as they themselves were Muslim—has refused asylum to a Muslim convert to Christianity, even though one of his relatives was tortured and murdered for the same “crime” of apostasy in his native Iran.

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

How to prevent World War III – Only mass engagement can restrain our warmongering elites

… The intimate connection between industrial war and proletarian revolution was understood well enough that, as historians Gabriel Kolko and Azar Gat have demonstrated, most of the distinctive military strategies that emerged across the last century were expressly devised in order to avoid imposing the kinds of costs — especially in blood — that necessitated making promises to the masses. This was true of strategies such as the blockade by the Royal Navy, RAF terror bombing, Nazi Blitzkrieg and US containment, among others. It was also believed that de-massifying politics would help defuse the nationalist passions that fuelled conflict, facilitating diplomacy once elites were freed from explicit commitments to their national populations.

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