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China Threatens “Counterstrikes” If Trudeau Not Re-Elected

According to the Ottawa Citizen, Canadian voters have been warned that Canada would be subjected to “counterstrikes” if voters replace Liberal Justin Trudeau with leader of the Conservative Party Erin O”Toole.

Maxime Bernier says election is referendum on vaccine mandates

In an exclusive interview with True North’s Andrew Lawton, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier says Monday’s election is a referendum on vaccine passports and vaccine mandates, which is how he explains the PPC’s rise in the polls.

Trudeau Wants To Talk About Everything Except Surging Inflation

The Liberals know that if Canadians are focused on the cost-of-living, they will punish Trudeau at the polls.

Without Warning, Biden Admin Cuts Supply Of Life-Saving COVID Treatment By Half

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent weeks touring the state and touting the effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies as a treatment for COVID-19.

But without warning, and for no publicly stated purpose, the Biden administration has cut the supply of the drugs to Florida by more than half, potentially putting Floridians’ lives at risk.

Newest mask threat to adults: Make kids wear them or face jail

A local CBS affiliate is reporting the dispute arose after the superintendent of Littleton’s school system recently “told the school board … they could be held criminally liable for not enforcing the mask mandate.”

Now, “Some parents are suing Tri-County Health Department over its mask mandate. At issue is whether teachers and administrators can be arrested, charged and prosecuted, not only if they don’t wear masks themselves in school, but if their students don’t wear masks,” the report said.

Leaked Document Shows Joe Biden Taking Orders From Planned Parenthood

The Biden administration hurriedly pushed through a new pro-abortion rule to benefit Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups at the expense of American taxpayers, according to a document leaked to The Federalist this week.

The leak involves the Biden administration’s plans to eliminate a measure that protects taxpayers from being forced to secretly fund the killing of unborn babies in elective abortions through Obamacare.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inContinental Breakfast

A glimmer of hope in Venezuela

The news in our country and abroad has been relentlessly bad ever since we entered the calamitous Biden Era just months ago, but there are a few hopeful signs out there still.

One of the best is a story receiving almost no coverage in the larger press: the Venezuela elections this November. The democratic opposition has agreed to participate after years of boycotting the Maduro regime’s rigged voting. The EU will send a large team of election monitors and Maduro has already been releasing some political prisoners in a bid to end sanctions. Some are even predicting Maduro would be willing to retire from office at the end of his current term in 2024.

Get back to me when Maduro is toppled.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inVenezuela

The Corrupt University and 9/11 – Ideas have consequences.

In the Nineties I wrote frequently about the role of multiculturalism, leftist politics, and postmodern theory in the degradation of the humanities and social sciences. It was clear to many of us tracking these developments that since the Seventies, foundational skills and knowledge had been slowly eroded, their place taken by politics and dubious theory. Back then, the danger seemed confined to the elite groves of postgraduate education. As a consequence, liberal education, the “free play of the mind on all subjects,” as Matthew Arnold put it, and “the instinct to know the best that is known and thought in the world,” was being replaced by the “boots are better than Shakespeare” philistinism of political activism, and the “higher nonsense” of postmodern theory.

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

How Satanism conquered America

Untrammelled individualism is no longer a sin

Proverbially, the Devil has all the best tunes. Does he have the best books too? Apparently so, at least where soft porn is concerned: last week, it was reported that Xavier Nobell, a prominent Catholic exorcist and bishop, has resigned from the Church in order to be with his lover, a writer of “erotic-satanic” fiction.

The whole story evoked The Exorcist, which came out a few years before I was born and was considered the ne plus ultra of shocking content into my tween years in the nineties. But even setting aside the fact that the other “side” seems to have won, Nobell’s story evoked less shock than nostalgia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Stop this moral rehabilitation of Shamima Begum

Forget the ‘glow up’ and the stilted expressions of regret – Shamima is a traitor and should be judged as such.

Where’s the outrage over a mainstream broadcaster giving a platform to a former follower of a fascistic death cult? That happened today, on Good Morning Britain, when Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley had an early morning chat with Shamima Begum, the young British woman who ran off to join ISIS in 2015 and who stayed with it as it enslaved Yazidi women, slaughtered Christians, executed homosexuals and instigated acts of barbarism against men, women and children in Paris, Barcelona, Manchester and elsewhere in Europe. The No Platform lobby has been strangely silent. No writing to Ofcom, no Twitterstorm, no cries of ‘How dare you give this vile supremacist the oxygen of publicity!?’. An actual one-time extremist hits our TV screens and it’s tumbleweed from the self-styled protectors of the public from the toxins of dangerous ideologies.

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

Budapest and Paris: The Contrast Between Civilization and Barbarism

Pope Francis went recently to Hungary for a few hours to preach the eternal sacred truths of political correctness. Of course, these truths may change in time, indeed they are certain to do so, but their sacrosanctity will remain. After all, the sacred must move with the times.

I also went to Hungary recently for a short trip, rather longer than that of the Pope, the shortness of whose visit was widely interpreted as political disapproval. I went to Hungary from, and returned to, Paris rather than Rome. I must say that, superficially, Paris seems a far more authoritarian place than Budapest. For example, there is more political propaganda within a short distance of my flat in Paris, extolling the virtues of official, and one might almost say militant, laicity, than I saw in Hungary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Heroin will decide the Taliban’s fate

Afghan power always stems from the poppy fields

In his 2015 documentary Bitter Lake, the filmmaker Adam Curtis observes that Afghanistan’s opium poppies grow in a “wonderland of vegetation and power”. Amid the conspiratorial hyperbole that characterises much of his work, it is a striking phrase — but also a perceptive one. The poppy is integral to modern Afghanistan because of its relationship to both vegetation (and the communities it sustains) and the exercise of raw power: two of the main forces which drive Afghan politics.

Understand this imperishable fact and it becomes clear how the country fell so quickly to the Taliban over recent weeks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

The Delusions of the Ruling Class – It was Trump Derangement Syndrome, not Trump, that posed the greatest threat to the country.

The ruling class treated the Trump presidency as a singular crisis in the history of the country. From the constant shrieking of the media, one might have thought that America had fallen into the hands of a foreign occupier. Because the ruling class viewed Trump as illegitimate from the start, it cast almost all of his executive actions, no matter how prosaic, as deeply scandalous and troubling. The media ginned up endless controversies about Trump, but they never amounted to much. Most of them revolved around Trump’s infractions of taste or his deviations from this or that unimportant Beltway “norm.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Afghanistan and climate change: the West’s twin failures both have the same cause – a failure to accept reality

The West’s humiliation in Afghanistan has an older brother: climate change.

As siblings, the two share characteristics, most obviously an inability to confront unwelcome facts. In Afghanistan, there was a large constituency led by the Pentagon invested in the mantra of proclaiming progress in the fight against the Taliban. Climate has its own industrial complex of NGOs, climate scientists, renewable energy lobbyists profiting from the energy transition, eager helpers in the media, and politicians posing as world saviors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inClimate Change

Woke Colleges Have No Tolerance for Freedom or White People

In the list of 45 communist goals, as read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963, you’ll find #17:

17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teacher’s associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
How are they doing? If you’re a communist, you’d be breaking out the Stolichnaya.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Batshit Crazy Socialist Commies

Terry Glavin: Why Trudeau Liberals don’t want to talk about China

Of the many obstacles that have been strategically placed in the path of the voting public’s comprehension of where the parties situate themselves in the federal election campaign that’s just now heading into its final lap around the track, there’s nothing quite so peculiar as the cordon sanitaire Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been allowed to construct around any serious discussion of foreign policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election"

We are about to hit a production wall setting us up for all-time high oil prices

The world is hurtling towards an energy crisis, one in which the demand for oil, in my opinion, will grow for at least the next decade, yet the global oil supply chain can no longer adequately respond to it due to stringent environment, social and governance regulations and pressure from investors.

It could lead to all-time high oil prices in the years ahead that could crimp global economic growth, despite the decades-long runway for oil substitutes needed to reach critical mass and achieve decarbonization.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election"