Author: Blazingcatfur

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Progressive sports media and LGBT advocates condemn Ivan Provorov for declining participation in the NHL’s Pride Night.

On Tuesday, Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov declined to signify support for the National Hockey League’s “Pride Night” in support of LGBGT activism, citing his Russian Orthodox faith. Pride Night is part of the NHL’s “Hockey for Everyone” initiative, intended to use “the game of hockey—and the League’s global influence—to drive positive social change and foster more inclusive communities.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Big Gay

Proud Boys on defensive at sedition trial haunted by absent Trump

While federal prosecutors are casting the Capitol insurrection trial of five far-right Proud Boys leaders as an attempt to bring participants of an attack on US democracy to account, the members of the group are using the proceedings to ask one question even some of their opponents on the political left agree is valid.

Why have prosecutors so far only focused their energy on the supporters of Donald Trump who are accused of a coordinated invasion of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the congressional certification of his defeat to Joe Biden in the previous year’s presidential election? Is it because they regard the former Republican president himself – who urged his supporters to “fight like hell” that deadly day – as too formidable and them as easier targets?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Ukraine: Waiting for the Stinger Moment

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, many analysts expected a quick catharsis in line with the prevailing view of war as a short hymn to military power.

That view had taken shape over many decades as memories of wars in ancient times through the 18th century faded. The 200-year long Roman-Persian War was far away as were the Hundred Years’ War and the Thirty Years’ War in Europe. Wars became shorter and shorter. The Napoleonic Wars, starting with the French Revolution, lasted 23 years.

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

Sad Rolling Stone: Concern Over Civil Liberties, Surveillance ‘Right-Wing Paranoia’

Under the heading “Tin Foil Hat Party,” a headline in the once-influential music magazine Rolling Stone spouted about “The Conspiracies Powering the GOP-Controlled House — How Republicans have put disinformation and falsehoods at the center of their governing agenda.”

What are some of the ghastly things the GOP wants to do with a new committee?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Is Seattle finished? Crime-ridden woke city’s dying downtown

Crime-ridden Seattle has lost its downtown Nike flagship store and multiplex movie theater as crime runs rampant and the number of homeless people dying soars.

The Rain City’s downtown area suffered its latest blow on Friday when the popular Nike store, located at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pike Street, shut its doors for good.

Nike’s exit came right after Regal Cinemas announced it would reject the lease of the Meridian 16 multiplex located on Seventh Avenue and Pike Street.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Antifa torch police car, damage businesses in Atlanta after activist killed

Antifa hates scooters

An angry crowd took to the streets of Atlanta Saturday night, smashing windows and torching a police car in response to the death of a 26-year-old protester Wednesday, reports said.

Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters that multiple protesters were found with explosive devices on them. One of the devices was used to set an Atlanta Police car on fire.

Protesters — who hit the streets after calls for a “Night of Rage” by Antifa members — were also seen throwing bricks at Atlanta Police Department vehicles smashing property, 11Alive reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa

Police release image of Monterey Park shooting suspect – attack sparked by domestic dispute

‘This is not a hate crime’: Local leader says Chinese Lunar New Year dance studio massacre that left ten dead and ten hospitalized was sparked by fallout between husband and wife – as cops hunt ‘Asian man’

Update: Driver of white van ‘may have shot himself’ – report

Eyewitness accounts have said the driver of the parked van, in Torrance, which is south of Monterey Park, appears to be slouched over the wheel without moving.

“As officers gave commands for the occupant to exit the van, they heard and believed the driver may have shot himself,” CNN’s John Valerio wrote on Twitter a short while ago.

That’s a lot of cops!

Body of ‘suspected Chinese Lunar New Year gunman’ is found slumped over in white van after ‘he shot himself’ during intense stand off: Shooter killed 10 and left 10 hospitalized in dance studio bloodbath

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Norwegian Shipping Company Bans Electrified Vehicles Over Fire Fears

Another shipment of electric cars is on its way.

Norway’s Havila Krystruten is one of two shipping companies that sails between the coastal cities of Bergen and Kierkenes and says that it will no longer carry electric or electrified vehicles on its ships following the results of an external investigation.

The company mostly carries passengers and goods on the route, but now says that it will only carry private vehicles with internal combustion engines. Havila Krystruten cited fire safety as the main reason for its decision.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

As TikTok faces data-harvesting claims, spy agency warns Canadians to protect themselves

The man who oversees cybersecurity for the federal government says Canadians should be wary of apps that could leave their data in the “wrong hands” — a warning that comes as the wildly popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok faces claims that it has spied on its users.

Sami Khoury, head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, said users need to be aware of what they’re agreeing to when they download an app, and should ask whether it enables access to their personal data.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

Counter-terrorism chiefs ‘to target Muslim extremists’ after blasphemy threat to teacher who showed drawing of Muhammad the murder cult’s idol

Muslim murder cultists

Muslim extremists who threaten people they accuse of blasphemy must be targeted by counter-terrorism operatives, a landmark Government report will recommend.

Tackling so-called ‘blasphemy violence’ will be a key recommendation in the long-awaited report on Prevent, the Government’s flagship counter-terrorism programme, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

In Islam, it is considered blasphemy to depict the Prophet Muhammad or any members of his close family – and among hardliners, the punishment for such an act is death.

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

Poland’s bravery has humiliated Germany

Kyiv had hoped for a clear green light from Germany at the Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting at Ramstein air base on Friday to provide them with Leopard 2 battle tanks. Instead, the new German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, equivocated all day, at one stage saying it could take a month to reach a decision.

That sort of procrastination might be acceptable in peace time, but this is a war in which every day counts. We’re almost one year into the most deadly conflict in Europe since 1945 and Germany has been an unreliable partner since the start. First, they only wanted to send 5000 helmets while other countries quickly dispatched lethal weapons; now they have been dithering over tanks, dividing NATO, putting all of the West in a difficult position and – worst of all – jeopardizing Ukraine’s war effort.

Poland ready to build ‘smaller coalition’ to send tanks to Ukraine without Germany

If Germany won’t play ball, then Poland will find other partners to deliver Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in pointed remarks accusing Berlin of foot-dragging in its support of Kyiv against invading Russian forces.

Poland is prepared to go around German opposition to build a “smaller coalition” of countries and find allies willing to send the tanks to Ukraine, Morawiecki said in an interview with the Polish Press Agency published on Sunday.

“We will not passively watch Ukraine bleed to death,” Morawiecki said.

What is going on? I wonder if the Germans know or deeply suspect it was “our side” that blew up the NordStream pipes to keep them on-side.

Certainly there exists an anti-war culture but some German politicians do wish to release the Leopards.

This stubbornness may indicate pushback against the strong-arming by the US Deep State (No one seriously believes Biden runs anything). 

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