Author: Blazingcatfur

You’re a nobody in Western literary high society if you don’t wear a keffiyeh

American Katie Kitamura, Swedish Fredrik Backman, British Max Porter, Pulitzer Prize winners Jhumpa Lahiri and Hisham Matar have one thing in common: they are well known Western novelists who don’t want their books translated into Hebrew.

Before the current war, there were one or two cases a year of writers refusing Hebrew translation for political reasons. The first was Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple.” Today, there are countless. Like the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, South Korean Han Kang.

Since winning the Nobel, Kang has been contacted by several Israeli publishers. Her agent’s letter in response to the latest request from Yoav Reiss, the Israeli publisher of Persimmon, reads: “Kang does not wish her work to be presented in Israel.” As Chilean Isabel Allende has just decided.

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

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile’s Atacama salt flats.

It’s a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools.

“Before, the Vega was all green,” she says. “You couldn’t see the animals through the grass. Now everything is dry.” She gestures to some grazing llamas.

For generations, her family raised sheep here. As the climate changed, and rain stopped falling, less grass made that much harder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Chances of national projects going ahead without Indigenous participation is almost ‘zero’ says Gull Masty

The minister of Indigenous Services says major projects that arise under the federal government’s One Economy Act that don’t have the support of Indigenous communities will have almost a “zero” chance of being approved.

“The outcome of these projects is for Indigenous interest to be there, so it requires Indigenous participation,” said Mandy Gull Masty during a scrum with reporters after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s summit with First Nations leaders.

“The likelihood of these projects advancing or being completed without Indigenous people at the table, we heard the prime minister in this session, it is, oh, I want to say, almost, sounded to me, sounded like zero.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Blaming The Jews’ – Again

The ways to avoid arrest in London these days, according to British author Douglas Murray, are: “[W]hen first being questioned by a police officer, he should promptly shout ‘Jihad, jihad, jihad’. Next he should whip out a sign saying ‘Slay the infidel’ before rounding it all off with a few cries of ‘Intifada’… Had [Montgomery Toms] followed my advice, the first officer would doubtless have said: ‘Very well, sir, please carry on and have a nice day.'”

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

23 Quebec business owners launch $300 million lawsuit over temporary foreign worker permits

A group of Quebec business owners have launched a $300 million lawsuit against the federal government this month, arguing they’re facing bankruptcy if Ottawa goes ahead with its plan to reduce the number of foreign workers coming into Canada.

The heads of the 23 businesses, which make everything from steel products to winter jackets and airplane parts, say temporary foreign workers are essential to stay afloat.

With Ottawa is pushing to reduce the number of permits its issues, employers are upset.

Subsidized wages for “foreign workers” paid for by tax dollars? Cost savings from never having to train new employees? There has to be a reason these captains of Industry love their slaves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class

New Yorker Review of CIA Book Pretends Russian Collusion Hasn’t Been Disproven

How can it be that in 2025, some leftists are still pretending that Russian collusion is a theory that hasn’t been disproven? That it’s not “fully digested”? There’s still hope, even if “clarity never came.”

Such was the case with Keith Gessen, contributing writer for New Yorker magazine, who was reviewing a book bout the CIA, “The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century,” written by Tim Weiner (no relation to Carlos Danger aka Anthony Weiner).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Family of Montreal woman detained by ICE for over 3 months living a ‘nightmare’

… On March 28, Callejas was arrested for battery after family said there was an altercation with her then-boyfriend. Family say Callejas maintains her innocence in the situation and said she was defending herself.

After posting bail, her family said Callejas was taken into ICE custody.

An ICE spokesperson said Callejas entered the United States on a non-immigrant visitor visa and violated the terms of her admission. ICE said she will “remain in custody pending completion of her immigration proceedings.”

The CBC makes this woman out to be a martyr.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Watch Democrats squirm as they’re grilled on who’s REALLY leading their party as young ‘communists’ rise in ranks

As President Donald Trump has racked up a string of major policy wins in his six months, Democrats are stuck in a rut without a clear party leader, they admitted in interviews with the Daily Mail.

Though House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are technically the left’s top lawmakers, Democrats on Capitol Hill shared that there is still no consensus on who is the party’s head.

In the absence of a clear frontrunner to lead the party in 2028, Democrats are left to tout their current efforts resisting Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party

Tale of two cities: Why Edmonton builds homes faster than Toronto

Canada started building only slightly more homes in June than it did in May, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) said on Wednesday.

Compared to May, the annual rate of housing starts was largely flat with a 0.4 per cent increase, but it rose 14 per cent compared to this time last year.

The national numbers mask stark regional disparities, however.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, WTF?

‘Now it’s quiet, we can swim’ – After foreigners banned from Swiss pool, season ticket sales surge and police incidents stop

After all foreigners were banned from a Swiss swimming pool in Porrentruy over violence, sexual harassment and constant disturbances, Swiss visitors to the pool and employees are generally expressing happiness with the move.

The ban, which came about after “French youths with a migration background” continuously caused problems at the pool and in pool bathrooms, including sexual harassment of young girls. The situation even sparked international headlines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

I4 Year Old Dead Eyed Demon arrested and charged in murder of Shahnaz Pestonji

Male Youth Arrested in Homicide Investigation, Parkway Forest Drive and Sheppard Avenue East area, Victim: Shahnaz Pestonji, 71,

UPDATE: Judicial Authorization to Identify Young Person has expired,

Photograph and name can no longer be published/broadcast

Link to vid if pulled –

h/t Auntie Polly and NeoCon

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime"

Ailing British couple could die in Taliban custody, UN warns

Two British pensioners, imprisoned by the Taliban for more than five and a half months without charge, are in such perilous health that they could die in custody, a panel of United Nations experts has warned.

Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie 76, had been living in Afghanistan for 18 years, running training projects, when they were picked up on February 1 with no explanation. They have spent months locked up in Afghanistan’s most notorious prison then in an underground cell of the intelligence headquarters and Peter has been chained, shackled and hit over the head.

Darwin award nominees.

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

How should Canada rearm itself? Fix aging bases, buy submarines, air-defence systems, experts say

Submarines to prowl Canada’s coasts, surface-to-air missiles to protect its cities and billions of dollars for aging military-base infrastructure that in many cases dates back to the Second World War.

For years, the Canadian military has drawn up lists of what it needs to bolster its readiness and capabilities. Now, it may have the cash to change how Canada defends itself.

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