Author: Blazingcatfur

Europe’s woke gibberish on Iran, the veil and women

European women wear hijabs on diplomatic visits to Iran, while Iranian women are killed for removing them.

Europeans have been living inside a gigantic episode of South Park for years and now they have found themselves, in the words of Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, also “doing the dirty work of the ayatollahs. The woke West has more in common with Iran’s rulers than with its rebels.”

Mainstream feminists, perhaps too busy rewriting Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to make Oompa Loompas “neutral,” have a knack for double standards. Or in the words of Mila, the French girl threatened with death for having “offended” Islam, in a letter to Afghan women, “your wire-mesh eyes can only see Western cowardice?”.

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

Rout in Bank Stocks Deepens Despite Emergency Measures

Regional bank stocks staged their deepest retreat in three years on Monday, reflecting deepening investor concern about the health of the industry following three bank failures in the past week.

The KBW Nasdaq index of commercial banks dropped more than 10%, with large lenders such as Comerica Inc. and Zions Bancorp declining more than 20%. The SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF dropped more than 15%, putting it on pace for its largest decline since 2008.

Banking is safe, Biden tells US as shares in smaller lenders fall

Shares in regional American lenders tumbled despite an extraordinary bid by regulators to ease pressure on the banking system and prevent contagion following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

President Biden sought to reassure consumers and investors after his administration unveiled an emergency package of measures. “Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” he said at the White House, adding that companies and their employees can “breathe easier”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oh Oh!"

Conservatives had sudden, unusual drop in votes in ridings of concern for Chinese interference: data

OTTAWA — Evidence of China’s alleged influence in the 2021 federal election might be found as much in what didn’t happen as what did — namely, the significant number of previous Conservative voters who did not show up to cast a ballot in ridings in British Columbia and Ontario.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced probes into allegations of foreign interference last week after several media reports suggested Beijing had directed an interference campaign in a few ridings in the Toronto and Vancouver areas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pope Francis calls Catholic Church’s ban on priests having sex ‘temporary’ opening door to review of 1,000-year-old celibacy rules

The Catholic Church is open to reviewing its thousand-year-old practice of celibacy, Pope Francis has suggested.

He said the ban was only ‘temporary’ and there was also ‘no contradiction’ for a priest to marry.

Celibacy was made a requirement by the Catholic Church in the 11th-century for financial reasons, as clergy without children were more likely to leave their wealth to the church.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Ukrainian city ready for ‘brave’ Canadian tourists

Lviv – only a little bit bombed

Two women sit at a table near the front door of a small, nondescript bar in western Ukraine.

Speak the password, and they will escort you to a closet, inside which is a staircase that leads down to a stone cellar.

As they descend, they’re greeted with bass music from the chic restaurant below. It’s decorated with modern art installations that represent Ukrainian independence and the Russian occupation. On the menu is elevated traditional Ukrainian cuisine. All the ingredients and beverages are sourced from within the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Activists vandalize Scotland’s ‘Braveheart’ monument in climate protest

A pair of climate activists in Scotland will face trial after allegedly vandalizing a display case holding national hero William Wallace’s broadsword.

“The police say the accused believe they were raising awareness of climate change and that their actions were necessary for the cause,” prosecutor Eilidh Smith said.

Alexander Cloudley, 29 and Katrielle Chan, 21, both from Glasgow, pleaded not guilty to vandalism in Stirling Sheriff Court last week. They allegedly damaged and spray-painted the case holding Wallace of “Braveheart” fame’s sword.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Trade Minister Mary Ng says I got caught so shut up already

Trade Minister Mary Ng did not consider resigning, repaying money after ethics breach

Canada’s minister for international trade says she never considered resigning after the federal ethics commissioner found she broke rules by awarding a contract to a friend.

“I failed to recuse myself from any dealings that ultimately led to the awarding of that contract, and for that I regret and it was a mistake and I apologize for that,” Mary Ng told host of CTV’s Question Period Vassy Kapelos on Sunday.

“Canadians expect me to continue to keep working hard, I’ve committed to continue to do that.”

 

No Mary I expect you to resign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

‘Absolute madness’: Massive horde of migrants storm El Paso border checkpoint in brazen attempt to enter the US

A massive group of around 1,000 migrants were caught on camera attempting to rush the U.S. southern border from Mexico on Sunday afternoon.

Video captured by a Fox News reporter saw hordes of migrants rushing a border checkpoint from Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas.

Footage sees the group, which consists of mostly of young men but also includes women and young children, running along a border road as they attempted to overwhelm those at official check points as they made their way through the port of entry in El Paso in an effort to get into the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

IP Theft: Communist China diverts so called researchers to Canadian Universities after U.S. visa denials, CSIS says

Beijing is using a “workaround strategy” for postgraduate researchers to study cutting-edge technology at Canadian and U.S. universities after Washington began denying visas for some Chinese students on the grounds that they might steal intellectual property with military uses, according to a Canadian Security Intelligence Service report.

The Dec. 21, 2021, report, labelled secret and viewed by The Globe and Mail, said the strategy sends some scholarship students to Canada from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with the aim of gaining access to critical high tech.

This is what happens when your Prime Minister is a scum sucking punk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Video shows how migrants enter Canada at Roxham Road’s illegal border crossing

Every day since the beginning of the year, over 150 migrants walk or are driven up a long dirt road in upstate New York to a small ditch and a white concrete obelisk marking the border between the United States and Canada. There, on Roxham Road, they will illegally cross over the ditch into the small Quebec municipality of St-Bernard-de-Lacolle to make an asylum claim in Canada. They’re part of a growing wave of migrants from every corner of the world walking over the border at Roxham Road that began in 2017, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

America’s $620 billion ticking time bomb: FDIC reveals the extraordinary amount of ‘unrealized losses’ across U.S. banks amid fears more will collapse after the sudden failure of SVB and Signature

Banks across America are sitting on $620 billion of ‘unrealized losses’ – assets which have decreased in value but have not yet been sold – – the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation warned.

News of the worrying shortfall came amid the closure of Silicon Valley Bank – the largest collapse since Washington Mutual in 2008.

As the government scrambles to prevent contagion, the Federal Reserve announced on Sunday night that all depositors would get their money back.

Wall Street Braces for the Next Silicon Valley Bank

Investors were worried that the fastest interest-rate increases in decades meant that something in the economy might break.
Last week, it did. Now, investors are asking: What else might crack?

… “I think this could be the first cockroach in the cellar,” said Fredric Russell, chief executive of Fredric E. Russell Investment Management Co. in Tulsa, Okla. “Banks get thrown into the dark pool of complacency, and then they lower their quality standards.”

Here’s what’s being done to prevent crisis from Silicon Valley Bank collapse

NEW YORK (AP) — Governments in the UK and U.S. took extraordinary steps to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, even as another major bank was shut down.

The UK Treasury and the Bank of England announced early Monday that they had facilitated the sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK to HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, ensuring the security of 6.7 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) of deposits.

British officials worked throughout the weekend to find a buyer for the UK subsidiary of the California-based bank. Its collapse was the second-largest bank failure in history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oh Oh!"

Montreal ethics prof says Trudeau Liberals are “shameless”, “criminal” and “treasonous”

McGill ethics professor Douglas Farrow issued a scathing condemnation of Prime Minister Trudeau in a recent substack commentary and stated Chinese interference in Canadian elections is only the latest scandal urban Liberal voters apparently tolerate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Worse than Stalingrad’: Ukraine troops battle Wagner fighters in Bakhmut metal works

One soldier said they were ‘trying to knock out’ the Russian mercenaries that stormed the complex Kyiv had hoped to make a stronghold

Russian mercenaries have stormed a sprawling metal works on the northern edge of Bakhmut that Ukrainian forces had hoped to turn into a stronghold.

In a video, a man claiming to be a Ukrainian soldier described a battle with Wagner fighters in the compound of the AZOM metal works. Explosions and gunfire can be heard as he speaks.

“The Russians entered the industrial complex, we are trying to knock them out. They have entrenched themselves at night. We are trying to storm their positions,” the unnamed soldier said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Greta Thunberg’s 2018 Prediction That World Would End In Five Years Doesn’t Turn Out So Well

Greta Thunberg Climate Hysteria Puppet

Being the international spokesperson for a fake crisis can be tough, as the child actor who acts as the mouthpiece for the climate change industry has just been reminded. On Saturday, Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec tweeted at pint-sized climate scold Greta Thunberg, “Hi @GretaThunberg! Why did you delete this?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam