Adam Pankratz: Land rights confusion a mess of David Eby’s making

In the never-ending saga that is now land title in British Columbia, another bomb has been set off. It has come to light that the Secwépemc First Nation is seeking a declaration of Aboriginal Title to the entire City of Kamloops, a city in British Columbia’s interior of over 100,000 people, along with the surrounding area, including the ski resort of Sun Peaks, an area with an assessed value of at least $43 billion. While no decision has been made on this claim, the Cowichan ruling from August, which declared fee simple titles and interests in the City of Richmond “defective and invalid” in the title area, has sparked a flurry of interest and panic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Syrian killers who treated victims like dogs get away with murder

After militias called for the so-called remnants of the Assad regime to be ‘crushed’, massacres were turned into memes. Families fear they’ll never get justice

The widows saw their men forced to bark like dogs before they were killed. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians saw their final degradation, too, as well as the faces of the killers, as the deaths were broadcast on social media.

When Hadeel Nakher saw her husband Qais, 50, and son Ahmed, 30, for the last time on the screen of her phone, they were kneeling by a verge with two other captives, her brother-in-law and a neighbour, being beaten with belts and kicks by a group of armed men. “Bark, bark, bark, you bastards!” a jeering Sunni fighter yelled into their faces as the blows rained down. “I don’t hear you barking.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Syria

Drug User Liberation Front founders convicted of drug trafficking

The two founders of a Vancouver “compassion club,” that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to drug users in the Downtown Eastside, have been convicted of drug trafficking charges.

Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx founded the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in 2022 to provide uncontaminated drugs to people who would otherwise be at the mercy of an illicit supply tainted with potentially deadly fentanyl and benzodiazepines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘Vienna a security risk for all of Europe’ – Austrian police discover weapons cache tied to alleged Hamas terror plot

Austrian authorities, investigating suspected Hamas connections since early October, say they have dismantled a terror plot after uncovering a weapons storage depot in Vienna. In response to the weapons cache being discovered, the anti-immigration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) stated it was once again an example of multiculturalism failing in the country.

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

Mark Carney’s budget is presented like an answer, but lands like a question

Mark Carney’s first budget has landed in a House of Commons deeply divided. Now, one of the first wave of post-budget polls shows that Canadians are similarly torn about the fiscal blueprint put before the country this week.

Abacus Data went out in the field the day after the budget was unveiled and came back with what it is calling “a muddled first impression.”

While awareness of the budget is reasonably high, it is eliciting two starkly different political reactions. Just over half of those aware of the budget, 52 per cent, said it was a step in the right direction, but 48 per cent said it set Canada in the wrong direction.

Just no pleasing the Star.

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

In this English city, memories of Canadian soldiers and nurses loom large

I didn’t expect, while on a recent trip to Buxton, England, to find myself crouching before 29 shining white tombstones of Canadian soldiers, clustered under a row of holly trees bearing bright red fruit. Rain fell onto the precisely trimmed grass and a grey October wind blew the red roses growing between the graves.

On Nov. 11, locals will gather for the annual ceremony here, to light candles and lay wreaths to honour these men, casualties of the First World War who now rest far from where they lived and died.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRemembrance Day

Comey’s Own Notes Prove He Knew The Russia Hoax Was A Clinton Plot

On Monday, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan filed an extraordinary batch of documents in the public docket of her case against former FBI Director James Comey. The exhibits range from Comey’s communications with his handpicked FBI leaker, Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor the bureau employed specifically to funnel Comey’s preferred narratives to the press, to text messages between Richman and New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt. But the most significant document by far is Comey’s own handwritten notes proving, beyond any doubt, that he knew early on the entire Russia collusion story was a Clinton campaign fabrication.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Clintons", "Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

German Government Promotes Antifa With Publicly-Funded Guides to Political Violence

While some European countries have hastened to follow US President Donald Trump’s example in designating Antifa as a terrorist organisation, Germany is not one of them. In fact, the German Government actively promotes Antifa.

Thus, as first disclosed by German journalist Stefan Frank on the Achse des Guten (‘Axis of Good’) blog, last year the German Government funded a full-fledged “guide for Antifa thugs”, as the title of Frank’s piece puts it. The description alludes to the Antifa movement’s well-known proclivity for violence. The brochure itself is titled Nazis Hate These Tricks: 20 Reflections on How to Combat Right-Wing Extremism. It was funded, believe it or not, by the German Ministry of Family Affairs – or, per its full title at the time, the Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth – as well as one other German public agency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa

Jamie Sarkonak: The poppy is above politics. Banning it from courtrooms is shameful

The poppy is a symbol of remembrance that’s supposed to transcend political tiffs, honouring those who sacrificed their lives to ensure Canada’s continued existence. And yet, to some judges in the country, it’s now considered so political that it must be banned from the courtroom.

Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan are the prime offenders. In Nova Scotia, “all judges and staff are expected not to wear any symbols of support in the courtroom” as a matter of neutrality, according to spokesperson Andrew Preeper. The Nova Scotia courts consider the poppy to violate that rule.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inpoppyphobia

Why Britain’s Jews no longer feel at home

We are now forced to hide our identities and look over our shoulders.

There is a scene in Annie Hall where Alvy Singer, played by Woody Allen, recounts to his friend instances of supposed anti-Semitism against him: ‘You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC… So I said, “uh, did you eat or what?”, and Tom Christie said, “No, didchoo?”. Not did you – didchoo eat. No, not did you eat, but Jew eat. Jew. You get it? Jew eat?’ Among other examples, Singer also claims that a music-shop assistant is being anti-Semitic by telling him there’s a sale on Wagner records. His friend, Rob, dismisses his concerns as paranoia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023"

Scandal of shoddy military homes as cash is lavished on asylum seekers

THE announcement that £9billion is to be invested in refurbishing military housing for British servicemen and women sounds like a welcome move, but it came only days after it was revealed that the government has probably already spent over £15billion on homes and hotels for asylum seekers. This is against a backdrop of an estimated 7,500 homeless ex-forces personnel, more than 400 empty barracks with thousands of potential beds, and plans to make more of these available to asylum seekers.

Our own CAF deserve available cash more than alien migrant benefit seekers.

Stephanie Shapiro: To fix the Armed Forces, military families must be supported

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Ottawa plans to spend big on defence. But is there a long-term vision for Canada’s military?

I spent many happy hours building popsicle stick bunkers. No. Not last week.

Mark Carney’s first budget has delivered the biggest increase in defence spending in decades, as the government seeks to rebuild the military at a time when the Prime Minister says Canada can no longer rely on the United States for protection.

The fiscal plan, tabled a week before Remembrance Day, includes $84-billion to the Department of National Defence over five years, believed to be the biggest short-term cash infusion for the military since the Korean War. The new spending will go to pay raises, precision-strike capabilities, upgrading aging infrastructure and cyberdefences, among other things.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

‘Going back to acting was never Meghan’s plan’… Has Duchess of Sussex resumed her on-screen career because she and Harry fear running out of money?

Smiling, graciously waving and elegant in a blue striped shirt, white jeans and dark glasses – the Duchess of Sussex made her surprise return to acting with all the deliberately applied polish you might expect.

Photographed on the set of the film Close Personal Friends, which is shooting in Pasadena, California, she radiated confidence. A well-placed insider told her favoured People magazine: ‘She seemed very relaxed and happy. She was very sweet and down-to-earth.’

Parading about as fake Royals ain’t the lucrative gig they thought it might be.

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