Author: Blazingcatfur

Reader Fave Christmas Carols – Christmas Eve Edition

Howdy and welcome to the Christmas eve edition of reader fave carols. Leave your faves in the comments and we’ll play them Christmas day.

Enjoy!

Sara Davies Nadolig Llawen i Chi Gyd (Merry Christmas in Welsh is Nadolig Llawen.) from Robert Orr

And also … Leanbh Sa Mhainséar (Child in The Manger)

Adam Lambert & Noa Dori singing ‘The Prayer’-David Foster from Norman in New York

And also … Charice SMX Concert: Song #9 Duet “PRAYER”

Grandma Got Run-over by a Reindeer – from Frances

And also …

Jimmy Boyd – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 1952

The High Kings – The Wild Rover – from CLink9

Nothing But A Child – from DavidInNorthBurnaby

Love Catually from Kiki982

And also … Christmas Day

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristmas

Climate Follies in the Developing World

Namibia’s planned energy transition would immiserate the country, while contributing virtually zero to global emissions reductions.

Namibia’s natural beauty, stark desert landscapes, wonderful people, and fascinating flora and fauna can remind an American of the Southwest. To know the country is to wish for its success. Right now, the biggest obstacle to that success is climate change—not its first-order effects but the roadblocks policymakers are erecting in the name of combating them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa

BANGUI, Central African Republic — In early March, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its third week, a Russian diplomat nearly 3,000 miles away in the Central African Republic paid an unusual visit to the head of this country’s top court. His message was blunt: The country’s pro-Kremlin president must remain in office, indefinitely.

To do this, the diplomat, Yevgeny Migunov, the second secretary at the Russian Embassy, argued that the court should abolish the constitutional restriction limiting a president to two terms. He insisted that President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who is in his second term and surrounds himself with Russian mercenaries, should stay on, for the good of the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfrica, Russia

US winter storm: Stranded Native Americans burn clothes for warmth

Native American tribal leaders in South Dakota are appealing for urgent help as snowed-in communities run out of vital supplies amid a winter storm.

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been buried in more than 30in (76cm) of snow, but powerful winds have stacked snow drifts 12ft (3.6m) high.

“We’re fighting a losing battle,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out told BBC News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Trained To Kill: Iranian Mullahs’ Militia Group

While the European Union is busy appeasing the ruling mullahs of Iran who are delivering weapons to Russia with which to kill Ukrainians, and while the United Nations is turning a blind eye to the massive crimes against humanity committed in Iran, neither the UN nor a single European country has yet to hold accountable the Iranian regime’s mercenary paramilitary group, the Basij. It consists of millions of members and they are killing protesters with full impunity.

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

Elite undercover Texas agents disguise themselves as migrants to apprehend smugglers

El Paso, Texas — Wearing baggy blue jeans and hoodies and looking scruffy and unkempt, the state’s elite undercover squad could easily be mistaken for the bedraggled smugglers they are trying to apprehend, or the migrants pouring over the southern border from Mexico.

These specially trained members of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety have perhaps the most dangerous job on the border, acting as double agents and facing certain death if their cover is blown.

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

Massive Police-Led Iris Scan Collection in China Raises Concerns of State Control and Repression: Canadian Study

A new study from the University of Toronto reveals a massive police-led iris scan collection campaign conducted in China’s western province of Qinghai, which researchers said could be used for increased state control and repression of ethnic and religious minorities and critics of the communist regime.

The study, published by U of T’s The Citizen Lab on Dec. 14, looked at nearly 190 publicly available sources, including the official social media accounts of the Chinese regime or public security bureau and local news reports. Among these sources, 53 contained figures showing that between March 2019 and July 2022, Chinese police may have collected between roughly 1,250,000 and 1,450,000 iris scans, representing between one-fifth (21.1 percent) and a quarter (25.6 percent) of Qinghai’s total population of 5.9 million.

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

Trudeau says Canada is fortunate to be a ‘country of peace’ in Christmas message

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking Canadians to remind themselves how fortunate they are “to live in a country of peace.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJustin Trudeau - Pissant

John Ivison: Why Liberals will have to backtrack on ‘aggressive’ push to bump electric vehicle sales

It was announced with all the fanfare of a Canadian beaver cull. On the Wednesday before Christmas, in a nondescript office building north of Toronto, the parliamentary secretary to the environment minister, Julie Dabrusin, released new government regulations on zero-emission vehicles that will require manufacturers to ensure one-fifth of their cars, SUVs and trucks run on electricity by 2026, or pay a $20,000 per car penalty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Jewish liaison officer’ expelled by Labour in anti-Semitism row

A woman appointed by Jeremy Corbyn to rebuild Labour’s relations with the Jewish community has been expelled by the party after accusations she “undermined” its fight against anti-Semitism.

Heather Mendick, who is Jewish, was appointed as a stakeholder officer by the former opposition leader in spring 2019, working one day a week liaising with the Jewish community.

Labour’s investigation into Ms Mendick lasted more than a year and found that she broke party rules in a number of tweets sent at the height of the party’s anti-Semitism crisis that she subsequently refused to apologise for.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left, WTF?

In Bethlehem, the Christian population is shrinking and afraid

More than two billion Christians around the world will remember Bethlehem in their prayers and carols this Christmas but in the modern West Bank city the centuries-old Christian population is dwindling and afraid.

While there is a giant tree and twinkling lights in Manger Square, the celebrations around the 6th-century Church of the Nativity, the site of Jesus’s birth two millennia ago, are being observed by a diminishing number of tourists and locals.

The city’s Christian population has dropped from 84 per cent of the total a century ago to about 20 per cent today, and is falling further in the face of discrimination and threats from elements of the Muslim majority.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristmas, Islam's Persecution Of Christians

Lott blasts CDC over defensive gun use shenanigans

The CDC isn’t likely to be on many gun owners’ Christmas card lists this year. Not after revelations that they removed defensive gun use statistics at the behest of gun control advocates. The decision to do that made it very clear that while the CDC may have been prohibited from advocating for gun control, that didn’t mean they wouldn’t help push it any way they can.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights, USA