Author: Blazingcatfur

Postcard From Brussels: My Day in the Capital of Declining Europe

Last week at an event at the European Parliament, an MEP asked me a question that I hear often: “Does JD Vance hate Europe?”

My guess is that he does not hate the Europe of tête de veau in a Rive Gauche brasserie in Paris, of Sunday mass at the Duomo in Milan, of Alpine lakes in Switzerland, or of paintings at the Alte Pinothek in Munich. What he hates is Brussels, or rather, “Brussels”—the symbol of official, bureaucratic Europe, and the dictatorship of managerial liberalism administered from there. He hates the Europe of decrees from the European Commission, of the Digital Services Act circumscribing the access of EU citizens to knowledge and information, and of the EU ruling class refusing to face the overwhelming problem of mass migration, and act to stop it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union

Jill Biden: Lady Macbeth Redivivus?

Does Mrs. Biden lament her Lady Macbeth-like ambition in persuading her husband to try for another four years?

Allusions are stirring and rumors abound about Jill Biden, the former first lady. Aides to Joe Biden are being called to testify on Capitol Hill about accusations of a “cover-up” regarding the former president’s cognitive decline — who knew and when did they know it?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Michael Taube: Why Pierre Poilievre should not fire Jenni Byrne

Election night can be a glorious occasion for some political parties and governments, and a dismal outcome for others. It’s not unusual for the long knives to come out after a poor result. That’s what some people are suggesting is happening right now within the Conservative Party’s inner sanctum — and the main target is Jenni Byrne.

“Pressure is mounting on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to fire Jenni Byrne, his national campaign manager,” according to a May 22 CBC News piece, “whom critics hold responsible for the party’s election defeat last month.” Twelve Conservative sources reportedly spoke with Radio-Canada reporter Christian Noel and were “granted confidentiality to discuss internal party matters.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Mohamed Sabry Soliman: What we know about the Muslim illegal immigrant accused in Colorado terror attack

The suspect accused in a “targeted terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado, where a pro-Israel group was advocating for Hamas to release the Israeli hostages, was in the United States illegally, Fox News has learned.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was arrested and taken to the hospital with minor injuries after his alleged attack on the “Run for Their Lives” group that was gathering on Pearl Street, police said Sunday night.

More … Attack at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall in Colorado burns eight people, officials say; suspect in custody

Meanwhile and closer to home thanks to Canada’s Magic Dirt our Muslim savages haven’t set fire to children … yet

At the .08 mark it appears the Black guy punches the old fellow.

h/t PA Cat and Patti Jo

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

Ten tanks that changed the world

Lord Kitchener thought the tank would never catch on. More than a century later, they’re still a vital weapon on the front line. Mark Urban salutes ten monstrous machines that rewrote the rules of war

When he was invited to a demonstration of a new secret weapon at Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire, in February 1916, the secretary of state for war was distinctly underwhelmed. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, having watched the prototype tanks chugging along at walking pace, left early, dismissing what he had seen as “a pretty mechanical toy, but without serious military value”.

To its advocates this new machine was an answer to the prayers of those fighting and dying in the trenches. The argument between sceptics and enthusiasts never stopped — indeed it is still going on today, as Ukrainian troops try to gain an advantage over their Russian invaders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMilitaria

Trust me: Trump’s revolution is coming to the UK

What I learned from debating at Oxford and Cambridge

When I was growing up, people often said British politics were where America’s would be in five, ten or 20 years. What this meant was that Britain was more to the left of America: more secular, more socially liberal, more environmentalist, more globalized. The assumption was that, over time, the left would always win out, so wherever Britain was now, America would soon be.

I traveled to the United Kingdom in May to debate the students and faculty of Cambridge and Oxford Universities in large part because that old assumption is dead and gone. Donald Trump’s political revolution has destroyed it. Now, Britain is the country trailing behind America. Make no mistake: Trump’s revolution is coming to the UK. But as I learned, just like in America, the students of elite universities may be the last to realize.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Occam’s Razor Gardening, Cooking & Canning – French Toast

Occam’s Razor Gardening, Cooking & Canning – French Toast

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inA Slice Of Life

Thousands fear for their jobs as major city is forced to break up with ‘best friends’ across Canadian border

Detroit has become one of the hardest hit cities in the fallout of America’s deteriorating relationship with Canada.

The Michigan metropolis on Canada’s border has seen traffic from neighboring Windsor drop and suffering businesses slash jobs.

Business leaders and elected officials are concerned that the White House’s policies are forcing the sister cities in to an unwanted ‘break up.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day", Canada, USA

Practicing witch ‘thrown off druid training course after member accused her of being transphobic’

Victim witch in custom witch hat

A practising witch has been left horrified after she claims she was thrown off a druid training course after being accused of transphobia when she spoke up about single-sex spaces.

Angela Howard, a second-generation witch whose mother was a high-priestess who ran a coven in the 1980s, turned to the religion hoping to find ‘spiritual healing’ in 2020 from the faith – even training to become a bard, a division focusing on storytelling, poetry and performance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

It’s time for the truth. Here’s the Covid Paper they don’t want you to read

All the evidence on the Wuhan lab leak, properly organised

Although the world has largely moved on from Covid-19, a lot of trust was destroyed including – unfortunately and worryingly – in science itself. I can think of few things worse for progress than for the public to lose faith in science, which is why I’ve made it something of a personal mission to get to the bottom of the origin of Covid-19. We need to rescue science’s mission of seeking the truth at all costs, even when it comes with an uncomfortable lesson about the dangers of irresponsible experiments.

As readers may know, I began by thinking a lab leak was unlikely, even impossible, as the source of the virus that emerged suddenly in Wuhan at the end of 2019. But during the late spring of 2020 I saw evidence that this hypothesis was in fact quite plausible and needed investigating at the very least. I teamed up with the molecular biologist Alina Chan to write Viral, our book about the search for evidence on both sides of that question. I remained unsure what happened at that stage. Then in the autumn of 2021 more startling evidence emerged to support the lab leak. I now think that is by far the most likely explanation.

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

ALBERS: Alberta’s inevitable rise to independence

By any measure of common sense — and I emphasize common, not the boutique intellectualism of think tanks or the jargon-fed corridors of Ottawa — Alberta stands today at the most consequential fork in its history.

One road loops endlessly through subservience and stasis; the other leads toward dignity, prosperity, and self-determination. The real question echoing across the Prairies is not “Why would Alberta leave?” but “Why on earth would it stay?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence"

This U.S. fugitive lived in Toronto for 21 years without a passport or bank account

A longtime fugitive wanted for manslaughter in Florida admits it was “a mistake” to flee to Toronto, where he was recently arrested after spending more than 21 years on the run.

In a sworn affidavit obtained by CBC News, Patrick Lutts Jr. publicly outlines for the first time how he hid from U.S. authorities after his involvement in a drunk-driving crash in Orlando, Fla., that killed two teens.

Lutts has no passport, he said, no Canadian bank account and had stayed in the same apartment in Toronto’s Church and Wellesley neighbourhood since 2004.

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

New WA law is ‘brazen’ discrimination, Catholic leaders say in lawsuit

Washington’s Catholic leaders sued state leaders and county prosecutors Thursday, alleging that a controversial new law requiring priests to break the confessional seal to report suspected child abuse is “a brazen act of religious discrimination.”

The new law adds clergy to a list of other professions, such as health care workers and school personnel, who are mandatory reporters of abuse. But the church’s lawsuit pushes back on a provision of the law that does not allow carve-outs for things said during confession, and exposes priests to potential arrest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam and violence

What White House reportedly said about the future of Mark Carney’s daughter at Harvard

As Harvard University remains the focus of the Trump administration’s ire, the fate of its international students hangs in balance, including Cleo Carney, the daughter of the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

A little over a week ago, the Trump administration cancelled Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, leaving current foreign students to transfer to other colleges or risk losing their visa status.

The Horror!

Globo Homo thrives at elite schools like Harvard all of them well funded by the Likes of Communist China and Qatar.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA