The Remembrance Day poppy is 100 years old in Canada. Our attitudes to war and peace must keep evolving with it

The crimson emblem we wear on Remembrance Day is a symbol of recognition and commemoration, of sorrow and of pride. The poppy connects us to history as we bear witness to those who have fallen in service of this country, to those who returned from wars and missions wounded in body, mind and spirit, to those who demobilized or left the forces to contribute to their communities, and to those who continue to serve.

The poppy is pinned to our history, and for many Canadians it has always been a part of our lives. Yet the poppy has its own remarkable history. This year is the 100th anniversary of its adoption by Canadian veterans to mark war, loss and the obligation of remembrance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRemembrance Day

A Message From Your Friends At Pfizer

h/t Mauser98

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Science", Big Pharma, Child Abuse, Propaganda, vaccine controversy

Nicaraguan dictator jails rivals as ‘sorceress’ wife waits in shadows

Another shining example of a Hollywood fave doing Communism right!

Daniel Ortega, due to be elected to a fourth term tomorrow, is using the methods of the corrupt dynasty he toppled

Fuelled by allegations of murder, incest and witchcraft, a sinister drama is unfolding in Nicaragua, the benighted Central American country known for fragrant cigars and a volcanic landscape that matches its volatile politics.

In the lead role is Daniel Ortega, 75, former revolutionary and icon of the left, who has locked up most of his opponents and forced the rest into exile, much like the dictator he toppled 40 years ago. Effectively running unopposed, he is certain to win a fourth term in office in today’s election, which the United States and Europe have dismissed as a “sham”.

Less certain is what the next act will bring: will Rosario Murillo, 70, his wife and increasingly powerful “co-president” eclipse him in power? For her many critics, she is a cruel and Machiavellian figure with mystic interests and a taste for revenge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCommunism, Communists, Nicaragua

Harvey Milk: US Navy launches ship named for gay rights leader

The US Navy has launched a ship named after a gay rights activist forced to resign from the service because of his sexuality in the 1950s.

The USNS Harvey Milk was launched in San Diego on Saturday in a service attended by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Milk’s nephew, Stuart.

It is one of six new ships to be named after famed US civil rights leaders.

Others include former Chief Justice Earl Warren and slain presidential candidate Robert Kennedy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

European Army: Rhetoric versus Reality

Euro Army – Future General

European federalists seeking to transform the 27-member European Union into a European superstate — a so-called United States of Europe — have revived a decades-old proposal to build a European army.

The call for a supranational army, part of a push for Europe to achieve “strategic autonomy” from the United States, is being spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron, who, as part of his reelection campaign, apparently hopes to replace outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the de facto leader of Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union

Travis Scott concerts known for violence and injuries, reports show

Rapper Travis Scott has a history of inciting music festival crowds to ignore security and violently storm the stage, for which he has been arrested and sued by fans.

Scott was arrested at music festivals at Arkansas in 2017 and again at Chicago in 2015 for whipping up hysteria and encouraging moshing that left security guard and concertgoers injured.

Eight people were killed and more than 300 injured in the stampede at Friday night’s Astroworld festival at NRG Park in Scott’s native Houston.

Cops reveal crazed man injected victim with opioids before stampede that killed eight at Travis Scott concert, slam organizers of Astroworld Festival for taking 40 minutes to stop it

I wonder how well insulated he’ll be from lawsuits in this instance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

AOC rips James Carville for blaming Virginia gov. loss on ‘wokeness’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted political strategist James Carville for blaming the Democratic candidate’s loss in Virginia on progressives’ “stupid wokeness” — saying the term is fashionable among “older people.”​

“Like the average audience for people seriously using the word ​’​woke​’​ in a 2021 political discussion are James Carville and Fox News pundits so that should tell you all you need to know​,” the New York Democrat posted on Twitter.​​

She went on to blame Carville, who managed Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, for causing divisions among Democrats by using words like “woke.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressives, Batshit Crazy Social Justice Warriors

Biden Bursts Over Issue Of Illegal Aliens Getting Big Payout: ‘You Deserve Some Kind Of Compensation’

President Joe Biden exploded on Saturday at a reporter who asked him about media reports that his administration was planning to give illegal aliens who were separated from their families at the border under the last administration payouts that could go well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars each in an effort to settle lawsuits.

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

Kenosha cops explain why they ignored Kyle Rittenhouse’s attempt to surrender after shooting

KENOSHA — A Kenosha police officer testified Friday he ignored Kyle Rittenhouse’s attempts to surrender because he believed there was still an active shooter situation and the teen didn’t behave as people typically do when they’re giving themselves up.

In the first public explanation since that night, Officer Pep Moretti said he and his partner were responding to an active shooter call during the Aug. 25, 2020, unrest when they spotted Rittenhouse walking down the street with his hands up. He said neither he nor his partner heard bystanders yell “The dude right there just shot them” as they sat inside their squad car.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

‘Then, I’m out!’ Bill Maher schools pro-CRT leftist professor on critical race theory con

Democrats were taken to the woodshed in Tuesday’s off-year elections and especially in Virginia where they were steamrolled, largely as a result of a long-overdue backlash over the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms.

Having fully embraced the divisive anti-white, anti-American revisionist history of CRT that had gestated for decades on college campuses before spreading like a virus through nearly every major institution in the nation, the ruling party was the recipient of a wake-up call that Americans are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore.

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

Vaccine Mandates Are Dividing Canadians: Former Judge

The vaccine mandates pushed by the federal and provincial governments have divided Canadians, and the way the unvaccinated are berated is “extremely ugly,” a former judge says.

“I would never have thought such a thing could happen in Canada,” said Brian Giesbrecht, who served as a provincial court judge in Manitoba from 1976 to 2007.

“The idea of forcing people to be vaccinated, and then yelling at them if they don’t do what you say, is something that should not occur in a country like Canada.”

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

Winsome Sears and the rise of woke racism

Sears has been denounced as the ‘black mouth’ of white supremacy. This is vile.

Winsome Sears – White Supremacist

When is it okay to dehumanise a black person? When that black person is a conservative Republican. That seems to be the message of the storm of angry commentary that followed the election of Winsome Sears as lieutenant governor of Virginia. Sears has been denounced by Democrats and woke hacks as the black face of white supremacy, as a token black witlessly doing the bidding of evil white men. She’s been depicted as a wide-eyed dupe of political ideologies she probably doesn’t even understand. This is woke racism in action, where any member of an ethnic minority that refuses to bow and scrape to the identitarian script is viciously written off as a dumb Uncle Tom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"