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Pictures appear to show Arizona GOP candidate in blackface and brownface

A Republican running for a seat in the Arizona Legislature is facing criticism after two pictures that appeared to show her in blackface and brownface surfaced with just a few weeks to go before the midterm elections.

The two photographs released on social media are believed to show Mary Ann Mendoza, a Republican, dressed in an “Aunt Jemima” costume with blackface and dressed as the Native American figure Pocahontas with her face painted brown.

She’ll be crushed, Justin had his ass licked by the media.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Cultural Appropriation", WTF?

GONE TO THE RATS: Toronto’s rodent population booming since pandemic

Perhaps rats, not raccoons, should be Toronto’s official mascot since their numbers have grown during the pandemic.

Multiple pandemic lockdowns led to bolder rodent activity and migration to residential neighbourhoods, according to Orkin Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany

Claude Monet has become the latest artist to be the focus of food-related climate protests, after members of a German environmental group threw mashed potatoes over one of his paintings in a Potsdam museum on Sunday.

Nine days after Just Stop Oil emptied tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, two activists from Letzte Generation (Last Generation) entered the Museum Barberini and doused Monet’s Les Meules (Haystacks) with potato before glueing their hands to the wall.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Bank of Canada expected to go big with October rate hike as recession risks loom

Canada’s top economists are expecting the Bank of Canada to deliver another outsized rate hike on Wednesday in its continued fight against decades-high inflation.

The central bank is expected to raise the policy rate by 50 or 75 basis points as part of the Bank’s strategy of front-loading rate hikes, but comes at a time when recession calls are growing louder. Some economists are expecting the Bank to take its foot off the gas following this rate decision.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•Canada, Economics, Economy

VEZINA: How our federal government misused the Emergencies Act

Canada’s Emergencies Act is culturally and historically significant to the nation.

Its previous iteration, the War Measures Act, was invoked only three times.

Two of those were during the First and Second World Wars.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Winston Marshall: Quitting Mumford & Sons to Speak Out Against Antifa and Far Left Violence “Let Me Keep My Integrity, My Dignity and My Soul”

Former Mumford & Sons lead guitarist Winston Marshall sensationally quit the band last year after deciding that being able to speak his mind on opposing Antifa and the violent Far Left was more important than keeping his career by kowtowing to the censorious wokerati. Now forging a new career as an anti-woke culture warrior, he says that looking back, he made the right decision as it allowed him to keep “my integrity, my dignity and most importantly my soul”.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•Antifa

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand from Mohammedan terror attack, says agent

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack he suffered while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York state two months ago, his agent has confirmed.

The 75-year-old author, who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s after his novel The Satanic Verses was published, was stabbed in the neck and torso as he came on stage to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institution on 12 August.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The West Turns Its Back on Persecuted Christians, Embraces Radical Muslims

Western authorities appear committed to discriminating against Christian asylum seekers, while welcoming Muslims ones.

Most recently, Germany — which has taken in millions of refugees from the Muslim world, including many, non-vetted, from Afghanistan — denied refuge to an Iranian convert to Christianity, known by the initials “H.H.,” whose brother-in-law had been imprisoned, tortured and killed after converting in their native Iran. According to a report from August 2

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Politburo Standing Committee: Who are the men that rule China now?

The Chinese Communist Party has finally unveiled the men who will rule China for the next five years.

The Politburo Standing Committee is China’s equivalent of the presidential cabinet.

It is considered the elite of the elite within the party, and getting to the top often requires not only a stellar political track record, but also deft manoeuvring of internal rivalries.

It is not unusual to see big reshuffles of the Standing Committee after a term ends, and this time it is no different.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees

… Now spool forward to November 2015 when Nohemi Gonzalez, a young American studying in Paris, was gunned down in a restaurant by the Islamic State terrorists who murdered 129 other people that night. Her family sued Google, arguing that its YouTube subsidiary had used algorithms to push IS videos to impressionable viewers, using the information that the company had collected about them. Their petition seeking a supreme court review argues that “videos that users viewed on YouTube were the central manner in which IS enlisted support and recruits from areas outside the portions of Syria and Iraq which it controlled”.

The key thing about the Gonzalez suit, though, is not that YouTube should not be hosting IS videos (section 230 allows that) but that its machine-learning “recommendation” algorithms, which may push other, perhaps more radicalising, videos, renders it liable for the resulting damage. Or, to put it crudely, while YouTube may have legal protection for hosting whatever its users post on it, it does not – and should not – have protection for an algorithm that determines what they should view next.

Or bring free speech to its knees.

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly", Freedom of speech

Today in History: Muslims Worship Allah Atop 2,400 Decapitated Christian Heads

Today in history, a battle that radical Muslims of the ISIS variety all but venerate took place between Muslims and Christians in Spain, or al-Andalus.

Context: in 1085, Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile captured the Muslim city of Toledo, thereby formally initiating the Reconquista. Great was the lamentation among Muslims and great the rejoicing among Christians. The Muslim emirs of al-Andalus—notorious for their disunity, dissipated lifestyles, and disinterest in jihad—had to act fast, for “the arrogance of the Christian dogs,” to quote one Muslim, had “waxed so great.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 24, 2022October 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Remembering Hill 355 — a forgotten battle in an almost forgotten war

The moment from the Korean War that sticks with retired lieutenant-colonel Brian Simons happened at the beginning of the Battle of Hill 355 — a now largely forgotten struggle in an often overlooked war.

A young signaller attached to the Royal Canadian Regiment, Simons — a newly minted lieutenant at the time — was up on the rocky hillside at a battalion outpost when Chinese artillery and mortars opened up with their first deafening barrage.

by Blazingcatfur•October 23, 2022October 23, 2022•0•Canada

The drug trade has wrecked Amsterdam

Soft policies caused disorder and violent crime

“It’s fine on the other side, it’s fine on the other side!” sing five rowdy, dancing Brits, to the tune of the Pet Shop Boys’ “Go West”. On the other side of the 14th century Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal, a cluster of partying men yodel back. It is midnight on a Friday in the heart of Amsterdam’s De Wallen district, and I am on a reconnaissance tour with Amsterdam’s Night Watch.

by Blazingcatfur•October 23, 2022October 23, 2022•0•Drug Legalization, Drugs

Ol’ Man River is Not Rolling Along

If you think the price of energy and food has reached the limit, I have bad news for you: All signs are it’s going to be much worse. Hot Air described the coming supply chain wreck.. Water levels on the Mississippi are tied with an all-time low. And that portends a bitter winter for consumers…

by Blazingcatfur•October 23, 2022October 23, 2022•0•USA, WTF?

Net Zero Bombshell: The World Does Not Have Enough Lithium and Cobalt to Replace All Batteries Every 10 Years

Influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero – witness last Wednesday’s substantial vote against fracking British gas in the House of Commons – or busy scooping up the almost unlimited amounts of money currently on offer for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impracticable green technologies. Until the lights start to go out and heating fails, they are unlikely to pay much attention to a recent 1,000 page alternative energy investigation undertaken for a Finnish Government agency by Associate Professor Simon Michaux. Referring to the U.K.’s 2050 Net Zero target, Michaux states there is “simply not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target”.

h/t SDMATT

by Blazingcatfur•October 23, 2022October 23, 2022•0•Green-Scam