The WHO’s anti-alcohol campaign is a war against joy

My wife and I were at a university reunion last week. Twenty years on from our days of wine and roses, our contemporaries were looking well. Inevitably many of our reminiscences involved occasions when, as my Ulster Presbyterian forebears would say, strong drink had been taken.

I certainly hope that no undercover agents from the World Health Organization were present, listening to our stories and tutting. At a panel discussion at the General Assembly of the UN this week, Dr Saia Piukala, the WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific, set out his case for increasingly heavy restrictions on alcohol. It wasn’t quite a roadmap to Prohibition, but it wasn’t far off. He praised countries which have been steeply increasing alcohol taxes, and noted with pride that he had banned booze completely from all WHO events within his region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

BARCLAY: Canada is a failing state

For decades, the Canadian state has consistently located itself at the vanguard of progress and national excellence.

For instance, from 2006-2014, Canada’s GDP steadily increa    sed, crime declined, and the Canadian state was often lauded as a paragon of democracy. Furthermore, throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Canada remained a stalwart, esteemed member of the international community, and Canadians everywhere constantly enjoyed a remarkable quality of life.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

UK: Fury after woke NHS supports first-cousin marriages despite risk of birth defects

The NHS has been accused of ‘taking the knee’ to political correctness by advocating the benefits of marriages between cousins – despite it carrying an increased risk of birth defects and being used as a way to oppress women.

The guidance – which incredibly points out that it has been allowed in Britain since Henry VIII passed a law enabling him to marry Anne Boleyn’s cousin Catherine Howard – says that cousin marriage offers benefits such as ‘stronger extended family support systems’.

The practice, which is common in the British Pakistani community, has been linked to a greater prevalence of disorders such as cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease.

When Cousins Marry

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

‘Recognising Palestine is prize for Hamas’: what young Israelis really think

Air raids, Tel Aviv-style, are a peculiarly relaxed affair.

When the klaxon wailed out on a warm Thursday night, Nahalat Binyamin Street, the main destination for the coolest bars and restaurants, was heaving with immaculate women in minidresses and muscular young men in shorts and T-shirts.

But rather than sprint for cover from the Yemeni rocket attack, the revellers simply picked up their ice creams and wine glasses and, with a collective sigh, slouched into a side door of the swanky Arte gelateria. They called it a bomb shelter, but it seemed to me as if a well-aimed projectile would crush it like a matchbox.

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

Canada’s fertility rate has reached a new low

Canada’s fertility rate has reached a new low

Canada’s total fertility rate fell again last year, reaching a record low of 1.25 children per woman, following years of decline.

Published Wednesday, new data from Statistics Canada show the birth rate slipping 1.6 per cent from 2023; the first year that fertility rates fell below 1.3 children per woman.

Coincidentally last night’s 4 am can’t sleep random Youtube videos … Birthgap

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Alberta has banned graphic books before. In the 1950s, ‘salacious’ comics were the target

OK this is a little bit salacious.

Alberta’s revised restrictions on books in schools take aim at works containing explicit images of sexual acts, but it’s not the first time the province has banned graphics in the name of protecting children.

In 1954, the province established the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications to control the sale of comic books and magazines.

The board was developed in response to a “growing outcry from parents, educators, religious leaders and others,” to investigate so-called “crime comics” that supposedly inspired undesirable behaviour in kids.

This is the CBC’s latest attempt to redraw Alberta’s ban on pervert positive child-grooming propaganda in schools as a “free speech” gender-health issue.

You can just hear the sophisticates at the CBC “Oh man this will rile the rubes!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant

EscalatorGate: The US left’s hatred — of Trump & the right — has now gone global

President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address.

Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some UN programs.

Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met by a series of mysterious coincidences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

As China explores the Arctic, Canada’s military is preparing for confrontation

More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation’s capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada’s Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question: How would they board a foreign vessel that neither wanted to be seen, nor stopped.

What if the crew of that ship was near sensitive military sites in the North?

It may seem far-fetched. But vessels run routinely through the north with their transponders switched off — largely invisible to other ships, and not necessarily seen by Canada’s satellite and surveillance systems.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "China - Communist Slave State", Arctic

WARMINGTON: Tim Hortons manager fired, allegedly ordered $20K ‘girlfriend’ for brother

OPP are also investigating the allegation that a 17-year-old girl was offered an ‘Indian’ boyfriend to help him gain ‘residency’

In a strange story down in Prince Edward County, OPP officers are investigating the case of a Tim Hortons franchise manager allegedly offering a five-figure payment to a teenage girl to be the girlfriend of her adult “brother” to help his goal of attaining “permanent residency” in Canada.

Tim Horton’s is as shitty as it’s franchisees.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Time for the House of York to fall

It is tempting to imagine Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson enduring a mutually resentful existence in Royal Lodge. Like an aristocratic version of Roald Dahl’s The Twits, perhaps. Or, to be vulgar, one might call them The Twats instead. The less-than-grand old Duke of York has now spent several years beset by stories linking him to disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and there seems to be no way back for him in any kind of public role. Yet, at the beginning of the week, he might have thought the tide had turned for a couple of days. For once, it was Fergie who was bearing the brunt of deeply unflattering headlines when it emerged that, after publicly denouncing Epstein as a sex offender in 2011, she had sent him a grovelling email describing him as a ‘steadfast, generous and supreme friend’.

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

Artificial Intelligence Requires Human Understanding

AI does not foresee the future; it extrapolates from the past. A thriving future demands original thought that responds to the needs of the present.

As a longtime book author, lecturer, and journalist, a great part of my time is spent on research. So, the arrival of Artificial Intelligence would seem to be a great boon for my writing.

I mostly use publicly available search and AI. But in thousands and thousands of searches, I have never received a positive right-of-center response first on a search. If looking for a specific product or named person or institution the regular search can usually find it. But finding a Right-oriented article often takes multiple searches going far down the list. Often there is nothing very far Right on the list at all. For AI searches, it is rare to find a serous conservative piece anywhere.

Fear spawns visions of Skynet or a Big Brother like surveillance society created “for our safety”.

In the short term at least we proles may be the most dangerous variable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

PINSKY: The Banality of Carney

When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced recognition of Palestinian statehood — despite its fractured, corrupt leadership, lack of defined territory, and complicity in terror — he did so with technocratic calm. It was an act that exemplifies Hannah Arendt’s description of the banality of evil: policies couched in the ordinary language of progress and diplomacy, but amounting to profound moral abdication.

(Incognito)

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