Author: Blazingcatfur

The New York Times can’t keep playing the conspiracy card

A stream of corrections is undermining the newspaper’s credibility

The New York Times has, yet again, issued a humiliating correction. Earlier this week, the paper ran a story about a Michigan-based elections software company becoming “a conspiracy theory target” over supposed “election falsehoods”. One example was the claim that Konnech, the company in question, was improperly sharing voter data with China. Yet just 24 hours later, the CEO of Konnech was arrested after investigators found it had stored voter data…in China.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York Times

The FBI’s Double Standard on Abortion

“They know who these people are. They’re choosing not to make arrests.”

Last month, The Mother and Unborn Baby Care Center, a pregnancy center in Southfield, Michigan, was vandalized causing thousands of dollars in damages. Graffiti left behind reading, “If abortion isn’t safe neither are you, Jane” linked the attack to Jane’s Revenge, a leftist pro-abortion domestic terrorist group that is believed to be responsible for as many as 50 attacks on pregnancy centers and pro-life groups.

Southfield police notified the FBI which refused to comment on the case.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate, FBI

Berkeley Law’s “Jew-Free Zone” Controversy

They keep using that word…

In August, nine student groups at Berkeley law school signed a statement sponsored group Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine pledging not to invite “speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views … in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”

Two things need to be clarified. First, by “support” for “the occupation of Palestine” SJP means “supports the existence of Israel.” So any speaker who thinks Israel should exist is forbidden. Second, the pledge is to not invite any speaker on any subject who comes within the scope of the ban. So, for example, if the “Women of Berkeley Law” group wanted to invite a speaker from NARAL to speak about post-Dobbs abortion rights activism, the group would decline to do so if the speaker has ever publicly stated that she’s not in favor of Israel being destroyed (the flip side of Israel existing).

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, Israel bashing

The Russian question

The unravelling of Russian power will shape the future of Europe.

Russia is in a bad place. The war in Ukraine is not going to plan. And its influence over the other nations in its region is starting to unravel.

Until recently, the question of how to integrate a still powerful Russia into the world order was either downplayed or ignored by the West. But no more. Western policymakers and their international allies are finally waking up to the fact that history did not come to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unresolved questions and conflicts dating back to the early part of the 20th century are coming to the fore once again. This means that, beyond the bloody war in Ukraine, there are other, potentially far more devastating, conflicts ready to erupt.

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

‘Move before I pull my gun out!’ Outraged DC commuter threatens to SHOOT climate change activists for blocking busy interstate

Commuters in Washington got into a raging confrontation with climate activists on their way to the nation’s capital Friday, with one even threatening to shoot protesters blocking the highway.

A group called Declare Emergency, which is demanding President Joe Biden declare a ‘climate emergency,’ sat themselves down on I-395, one of the main routes to Washington, and refused to get up.

That soon prompted a furious backlash from drivers. One woman got out of her car and threatened the rabble with a gun if they refused to let her past to go see her mom, while an irate man ripped placards out of the group’s hands and tossed them above the median and onto the other side of the interstate.

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

The last of the Covidians

How should we treat those who refuse to acknowledge the pandemic is over?

They walk among us. The last of the Covidians. We see them every day, masked while walking their dog in the park, or alone in their car. We have that friend or loved one who badgers us about vaccines and boosters like a mid-level PR executive at Pfizer.

There is also the social media warrior who will never admit they got anything wrong about lockdowns, that even with our economy and education system in shambles, we should be grateful.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

The Post-Pandemic Proves the Left Is a Monster

Its ideology is crazed, deformed, and incongruous.

I hate government rescue plans. Whenever the government comes to my rescue, I drown. The post-COVID bailout plan is turning out to be the biggest incompetence fest of the century: in both Europe and the United States, governments are funding environmental awareness activities, checks for kids to buy video games, or drag queen activities for kids like at the San Francisco Public Library’s Queer Cultural Center (ora pro nobis). Even before I get into the aberration that each of these initiatives is, a question comes to mind: what the hell does that have to do with the post-pandemic economic recovery? Nothing, of course.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Big Deviant

How your right to know is getting stymied by the Denial Machine

Thirty-nine years ago, after a wave of post-Watergate epiphanies about government secrecy, the Canadian government passed the first federal Access to Information Act. Ever since then it is has been building a denial machine.

It would be easy to pin the blame on secretive politicians trying to obstruct the public’s ability to know what is going on inside government, because they have done that. Prime ministers including Justin Trudeau and his predecessor, Stephen Harper, have broken promises to open government.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Big Brother

GUNTER: Smith would do well to tie Notley to Trudeau ahead of spring Alberta election

If you want to know why Danielle Smith’s anti-Ottawa message was so popular during the recently concluded UCP leadership campaign, consider this one statistic. Annual investment in Alberta’s energy sector remains only about one-half of what it was before the world price of oil collapsed in 2014.

Article content
Other oil-producing countries, such as the United States, Norway and Saudi Arabia, that aren’t in the midst of war or domestic turmoil (Russia, Venezuela, Iran), have seen their oil and gas investment return to 70 per cent or more of 2014 levels. But not Canada.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

Thanks to the Biden Administration, Russia and Iran Are Closer than Ever

Thanks to the Biden administration’s weak, or absent, leadership, Russia and the regime of Iran’s mullahs have become closer, more emboldened and more empowered than ever.

The two bedfellows, the authoritarian regimes of Russia and Iran, are, thanks to the Biden administration, running the Iran nuclear talks, while the US waits out in the hall. Russia’s chief negotiator, Mikhail Ulyanov, earlier this year praised his Iranian “colleagues”:

“I am absolutely sincere in this regard when I say that Iran got much more than it could expect [from the Biden administration]. Our Chinese friends were also very efficient and useful as co-negotiators.”

Ulyanov also said that the Iranian leaders “are fighting for [their] national interest like lions. They fight for every comma, every word, and as a rule, quite successfully.”

The US, certainly it’s State Dept., wants a strong Iran as a counterpoint to Israel. This will ease their exit from the ME. Or so they believe.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

National Guard struggles as troops leave at faster pace

WASHINGTON (AP) — Soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting, fueling concerns that in the coming years units around the country may not meet military requirements for overseas and other deployments.

For individual states, which rely on their Guard members for a wide range of missions, it means some are falling short of their troop totals this year, while others may fare better. But the losses comes as many are facing an active hurricane season, fires in the West and continued demand for units overseas, including combat tours in Syria and training missions in Europe for nations worried about threats from Russia.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

WH spox ‘clarifies’ Biden’s scary remarks on nuclear Armageddon

President Joe Biden has been far from the calming influence on the nation during tumultuous times as it was falsely claimed during his White House campaign, in reality, it has been the exact opposite and on Thursday, he conjured visions of nuclear apocalypse with his scary remarks that Armageddon is more likely today than it has been in six decades.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Business partner of fake heiress who met Trump at Mar-a-Lago is SHOT in ‘targeted attack’: Ukrainian, 44, was wounded outside upscale hotel in Quebec

Former business partner of fake heiress who infiltrated Mar-A-Lago, was shot outside a Québec hotel

Valeriy Tarasenko, 44, was shot outside of the upscale Estérel Resort hotel, in Estérel, Quebec, around 1pm on Friday. He was not a guest of the hotel, which is near the lake and offers various glamorous guest packages starting as high as $305 US dollars.

Tarasenko, a businessman, was romantically involved with Inna Yashchyshyn, 33, who reportedly posed as a fake heiress to the Rothschild fortune to infiltrate Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?