In Ukraine’s valleys of death, a lethal game of hide and seek is playing out

Big guns are defining a new phase of the war against Russia, with artillery, rocket launchers and mortars likely to decide the outcome

In the leaves, a muzzle barked. A flash of smoke spun out across the field, something whirred into the distance, and the butterflies among the young crops barely flinched.

The howitzers in the trees fired twice in quick succession, then their crews dismounted, scrambled around, replaced dislodged camouflage, and reloaded.

Artillery, rocket launchers and mortars are more likely to decide the outcome of the war in Ukraine than any other weapon system.

In eastern Donbas, massive Russian barrages are pounding a path for the infantry and tanks as they try to surround the city of Severodonetsk – with ghastly consequences for anyone caught in the way.

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

Buffalo and the myth of America’s race war

Talk of rampant white supremacy is divisive nonsense.

This week 19 children and two teachers were killed by a lone gunman at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas. The motive is not yet known.

Two weeks before this, as we all know by now, on 14 May 2022 a lunatic armed with a semi-automatic rifle entered a Tops Friendly Market store in Buffalo, New York, opened fire and killed 10 people while wounding three more. That the gunman is guilty is not in dispute: he livestreamed the attack on the gamer-heavy social-media site, Twitch. That he was a vile racist is not in question: he warned about the ‘replacement’ of whites in a badly written 180-page manifesto and intentionally targeted one of the few Buffalo chain stores located in a heavily black neighbourhood. Even the eventual outcome of the shooter’s trial is not in much doubt – the shooter should, and will, be killed by the state or locked away for years.

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

Gun activity so prevalent in Toronto it scarcely gets mentioned any more

Amidst the Victoria Day weekend mayhem at Woodbine Beach, two people were shot. There was also a home invasion in the north end of the city where one occupant was shot and another struck by a stray bullet.

As long weekends in Toronto go, setting aside the stupid wilding on the beach, the city actually got off relatively lightly for gun violence.

Which also can be said, historically, for those charged with crimes involving a firearm, whether they actually used the weapon or “merely” were in possession of it, upon arrest, who cartwheel through the bail system and are back on the streets lickety-split to continue terrorizing particular neighbourhoods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Geoff Russ: Radical activist is as unhelpful an Indigenous stereotype as the noble warrior

… In the most extreme cases, fringe activists have been normalized as regular members of Indigenous communities. These are the ones who enthusiastically vandalize public property against the wishes of chiefs and other leaders, and celebrate burning churches. Many draw inspiration from far-left American public figures, who spend vast amounts of time denying the cultural genocide of the Uighurs in Western China on social media. The Uighurs are being systematically rounded up and sent to government institutions where they are forcibly stripped of their religion, language, and culture.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Canada supreme court rules life without chance of parole is ‘cruel’ and illegal

Canada’s supreme court has ruled that life sentences without the chance of parole are both “cruel” and unconstitutional, in a landmark decision that could give more than dozen mass killers who committed “inherently despicable acts” the faint hope of release in the future.

The court unanimously determined on Friday that sentencing killers to lengthy prison terms with little hope of freedom risked bringing the “administration of justice into disrepute”.

The closely watched case centred on the fate of Alexandre Bissonnette, the gunman who killed six worshippers at a mosque in Québec City in 2017, but the court’s decision will possibly have consequences for at least 18 others who are serving multiple life sentences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Canada raids emergency stockpile to send medical equipment to Ukraine

OTTAWA – Canada has tapped into its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies — stored for a national emergency — to help Ukraine.
It has donated over 375,000 items of medical equipment and medicines from Canada’s strategic stockpile since the invasion by Russia began.

This includes first aid and trauma kits, medicines and surgical instruments, as well as gloves, masks and gowns.

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

On the Run

In different ways, progressive prosecutors Chesa Boudin, George Gascón, and Larry Krasner are facing backlash against their disastrous policies.

Progressive prosecutors are on the run. Having taken office on promises of de-prosecuting and decarcerating without affecting public safety, they’ve helped usher in the largest one-year homicide increase in U.S. history. A CDC report notes that the nation’s homicide rate has risen to its highest level in over 25 years, with the largest increase coming “among non-Hispanic Black or African American males aged 10–44 years.” No surprise, then, that those who promised leniency without consequences now find themselves in serious trouble.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

America Needs Anti-Racialism

… In the eyes of the anti-racists themselves, the campaigns against CRT, affirmative action, and progressive criminal-justice reform are just racism—a form of “white backlash” against the growing political power of minorities, which is all the more insidious for professing to be “color-blind.” Slightly more difficult to account for is the fact that, on many sensitive racial issues, nonwhite minorities are aligned against the positions of the progressive anti-racists. In a Pew Research Center survey from April, for instance, 59 percent of Black respondents, 68 percent of Hispanic respondents, and 63 percent of Asian respondents agreed that race should not be a factor in college admissions. Research from Zach Goldberg, a doctoral student in political science at Georgia State University, has shown that white liberals consistently express stronger agreement with many tenets of the anti-racist worldview than do minorities. More generally, as the Democratic Party has become more and more identified with anti-racism, it has actually shed support among nonwhite people, especially Hispanics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "racial justice"

Exposing the ‘Digital ID is a Human Right’ Scam

A major component of the Great Reset-Technocratic Agenda is the implementation of a worldwide digital identity scheme. One of the first steps to realize this goal is to convince the public that digital identity programs are a “human right” worth fighting for.

Why is the push for digital identity absolutely vital to the Technocrats visions?

The world of 2030 — the one in which the World Economic Forum imagines “you will own nothing and be happy” — depends on an all-encompassing digital id program. This digital ID will allow a track and trace society where the authorities can see every purchase and every move you make.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Big Brother, The Future

The Real Purpose of the Iran Nuclear Deal

“… Statements by Obama and his senior foreign policy advisors, the same people who are now advising President Biden, reflect a belief — a naïve one, many say — that if Iran were stronger, and traditional American allies — Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — were weaker, the Middle East could achieve a new balance of power that would result in more peaceful region.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Iranian nuclear agreement

Lockdowns saved just 10,000 lives in Europe and US: John Hopkins study finds draconian measures had ‘little to no effect’ on Covid death rate

The first Covid lockdowns saved 10,000 lives in Europe and US and had ‘little or no effect’ on the virus death rate, updated analysis suggests.

A review by an international team of economists found draconian shutdowns only reduced Covid mortality by 3 per cent in the UK, US and Europe in 2020.

The experts, from Johns Hopkins University in the US, Lund University in Sweden and the Danish think-tank the Center for Political Studies, said that equates to 6,000 fewer deaths in Europe and 4,000 fewer in the US.

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

Woke Corporations Really Hate Diversity Of Thought, New ‘Viewpoint Diversity Score’ Reveals

Corporate America does not like the First Amendment, according to a new business index released on Thursday.

The Viewpoint Diversity Score — a joint venture between legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom and Christian financial firm Inspire Investing — examines 50 companies on the Fortune 1000 list to determine “corporate respect for religious and ideological diversity,” according to a press release.

How did those 50 companies score? Not particularly well, according to the project’s business index. The firms averaged 12% on “respecting religious and ideological diversity in the market, workplace, and public square.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Peak Woke"