Author: Blazingcatfur

‘Native American’ artist Kay LeClaire accused of being white also ‘made up stories about visions,’ is married to researcher

There were already accusations of fraudulent behavior shadowing Kay LeClaire when they showed off their intricate bead- and basket-work on Etsy and social media over the last two years. The posts described the “visions” and dreams that led the Wisconsin artist — who identifies as non-binary and Native American — to create the elaborate pieces of art.

But more than once, the real creators of the work had come forward to take ownership of pieces that LeClaire, 28, tried to appropriate, said a Native American administrator who has known LeClaire since 2020.

“[LeClaire] passed off people’s crafts as their own, and made up stories about the visions,” said Jon Greendeer, the Health and Wellness Coordinator at the Ho-Chunk Nation, in Black River Falls, Wis. “In this way, they did more damage than any European colonizers did in the old days.”

This gal raised the bar on crazy race faking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Why Palestinians Want to Slaughter Jewish Worshippers

In the past several years, Jews visiting the holy site of Joseph’s Tomb in the city of Nablus in the West Bank have been targeted by Palestinian rioters and gunmen.

The most recent attack took place on December 21, when Jewish worshippers and the Israeli soldiers guarding them came under heavy gunfire.

According to Palestinian sources, during the Palestinians’ attempt to prevent the Jews from entering the holy site, one gunman, Ahmed Atef Daraghmeh, was killed and four others injured.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Sinaloa cartel launches violent response as Mexico recaptures El Chapo’s son

Mexican authorities have captured Ovidio Guzmán, a son of incarcerated drugs kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, prompting a furious response from cartel gunmen in the northern city of Culiacán.

After a night of violence, gunmen exchanged fire with security forces, blocking roads with burning vehicles and shooting at army helicopters and police aeroplanes bringing reinforcements to the city.

According to one resident, heavy fighting raged for hours after Guzmán – a key figure in the Sinaloa cartel since the arrest of his father – was arrested early on Thursday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Queen West takes yet another hit as H&M permanently closes its doors

Swedish fast-fashion retail giant H&M has permanently shuttered one of its first Toronto locations after more than a decade.

The store, at 427-429 Queen St. W., first opened in August 2007 in Toronto’s trendy Queen West neighbourhood, well known as a shopping, nightlife and tourist destination.

The news of its closure follows a spate of popular retail-chain departures on the famous Queen West strip throughout the pandemic, including stores like the Gap, Le Château, GUESS, EB Games and NYX.

I am rarely downtown anymore, perhaps I’m due for a drive through just to get a current sense of things,  closest I’ve been is King & Cowan a couple of times of late.

I wonder if this is the start of the world class urban decline downtown Toronto Liberals have been striving for.

And who cares about them anyway?

Toronto needs a revised motto. How bout’ “We hate you if you’re not diverse like us.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Nuclear reactor pressure tubes are deteriorating faster than expected … so it’s full speed ahead on EV-topia

Early in the summer of 2021, Canada’s nuclear safety regulator received alarming news.

Inspections had revealed that two pressure tubes from different reactors at Canada’s largest nuclear power plant, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, had deteriorated far more quickly than expected. This meant the station’s operator, Bruce Power, had violated the terms of its operating licence. The revelation put the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in a tight spot. How were its leaders to respond?

Pressure tubes are commonly described as the heart of the CANDU reactor, Canada’s homegrown nuclear reactor design. The tubes contain uranium fuel bundles and heavy water, which serves as coolant.

We can barely keep current infrastructure working yet Junior assures us everything will be just dandy in Electric-La-La-Land.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Green-Scam, USA, WTF?

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger left DNA on knife sheath found by cops at crime scene: court docs

Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger was identified as a suspect in the gruesome murders after he left DNA on a knife sheath found by cops at the crime scene, it was revealed Thursday.

As he made his first appearance in a Moscow, Idaho, court, cops released paperwork detailing what led them to suspect Kohberger of killing four University of Idaho students as they slept on Nov. 13.

The affidavit describes how officers discovered a bloody scene over two floors and a leather knife sheath in one room where two victims were discovered in a single bed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Bail hearing dates set for some teens charged in death of Toronto homeless man

Bail hearings are scheduled for later this month for four of eight girls facing second-degree murder charges in the death of a Toronto homeless man.

Police have said that three 13-year-olds, three 14-year-olds, and two 16-year-olds allegedly swarmed and stabbed a 59-year-old man in the city’s downtown core in mid-December.

One teen is set to appear in court for a bail hearing on Jan. 20, two others on Jan. 25, and another on Jan. 27.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada

Biden and the EU abandoned persecuted Christians, let alone Jews

Jews and Christians have been sold for 30 barrels of oil by the politicians of the West. There are also rooms of cash.

Manga is a Christian in Nigeria, the most dangerous country in the world, where a Christian is killed every two hours. Manga had to be one of them. Twenty years old, Manga was returning home like every night after university. His mother was preparing dinner.

Men from Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has sworn allegiance to Al-Qaeda, raided his home. They took Manga, his father and brother out, while his mother and younger brothers locked themselves in another room. “Then they asked my father and the two of us if we were ready to deny Jesus and embrace Islam”, Manga testified to the NGO “Open Doors”. Manga’s father refused. “So they told us, ‘We will kill you.’ I answered them: ‘If you kill us, what do you gain?’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Police quintuple reward for information on pipe bombs planted before Capitol attack

Two years after explosive devices were planted outside the Democratic and Republican headquarters in Washington DC, authorities have quintupled the reward to $500,000 for information that could lead to the would-be bomber’s capture and conviction.

The night before the January 6 Capitol attack, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the building in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win, the suspect placed one pipe bomb in an alley outside the Republican National Committee headquarters around 8pm ET. They put the other bomb on a park bench near the Democratic National Committee headquarters, according to the FBI.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Fleets of made-in-Canada armoured vehicles start reaching Ukrainian battlefields

Seven months after they were first promised by Ottawa, fleets of Canadian-made armoured vehicles have been spotted reaching the Ukrainian frontlines.

At the close of a NATO summit in June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the surprise announcement that 39 armoured vehicles originally intended for the Canadian Armed Forces would instead be diverted to Ukraine.

Anti-Tank missiles, drones, artillery shells etc must be causing a lot of deployment re-thinking.

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

‘Insulting and indecent’: Iran livid after Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons of Khamenei

Iran on Wednesday warned France of “consequences” after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting, AFP reports.

The weekly published dozens of cartoons ridiculing Khamenei as part of a competition it launched in December in support of the three-month-old protest movement in Iran.

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