Blazingcatfur – Page 4670

The Corruption of Medicine

Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field

The post–George Floyd racial reckoning has hit the field of medicine like an earthquake. Medical education, medical research, and standards of competence have been upended by two related hypotheses: that systemic racism is responsible both for racial disparities in the demographics of the medical profession and for racial disparities in health outcomes. Questioning those hypotheses is professionally suicidal. Vast sums of public and private research funding are being redirected from basic science to political projects aimed at dismantling white supremacy. The result will be declining quality of medical care and a curtailment of scientific progress.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

The West Must Brace for More Chinese Naval Aggression

Between April 26 and May 26, Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) interceptors interfered with the navigation of a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, an Australian P-8 surveillance aircraft, and a Canadian CP-140 Aurora Maritime Patrol Aircraft conducting surveillance off the coast of North Korea. The worst possible outcome from such an encounter is a fatal mid-air collision, which last occurred in April 2001, off the coast of Hainan Island, between a U.S. Air Force EP-3 and a Chinese J-8 fighter aircraft, killing a pilot. Previously, between July 1952 and February 1960, the United States suffered a total of twenty-eight military fatalities in four incidents at sea with China, not including at least a dozen other hostile encounters. In three instances—in 1953, 1956, and 1968—U.S. surveillance aircraft were shot down.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Tehran, the Day After

What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?

What would happen inside Iran if America or Israel bombed its nuclear sites? That intriguing question is rarely broached, in part because many in Washington recoil from any speculation that might make such a military contingency a more concrete exercise. Iran’s atomic program keeps advancing, and the odds of any new nuclear deals seriously constraining it seem low, but neither Israel nor America appears keen on striking.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2022August 7, 2022•0•Iran

Biden administration’s farcical climate policies to devastate farmers, exacerbate food shortages

There has been much talk of food shortages recently.

You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Or so say folks like Stephanie Nash, a fourth generation dairy farmer. She and many other farmers are warning that President Biden’s new climate plans will jeopardize our food supply and eventually force many of them out of business. Deliberately.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "The Great Reset"

I apologize for my white baby

How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism while birthing another white person?

I’m here to apologize to my brothers and sisters of color — my white daughter’s pale skin has brought me nothing but shame. I have failed as an ally.
For if whiteness is the root cause of systemic racism, then what does that make me for having a white child? How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism and dismantle white supremacy while simultaneously birthing another white person? These two seem incompatible. If I were truly honoring my commitment to decolonizing white spaces, I would have had my tubes tied or had myself euthanized and done the BIPOC community and the planet a favor. I’m such a coward.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"White Guilt"

Germany brings in gender self-ID at 14 — and a nation shrugs

For many years Germany was one of the most unpleasant places in the western world for transgender people.

As recently as 2007 married people had to divorce their spouses before they could formally change their gender. Between 1981 and 2011 about 10,000 people were compelled to submit to gender reassignment operations that rendered them sterile.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•WTF?

How Dubai entices crooks Some people are simply too rich to jail

Dubai might be “the planet’s influencer capital”, but the people bankrolling the city aren’t TikTokers arriving with suitcases of bikinis. The Emirati city also attracts the kind of people who jet in on helicopters stuffed with cash, positioning itself as the global centre of crooks, conmen and kleptocrats fleeing their homelands.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"I'm Shocked And Appalled!"

Climate Change Emergency? What a Crock, Part 2

Just last week, congressional Democrats were urging President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency because some Americans were enduring a patch of hot weather. Though more than a bit meshuga, they couldn’t match the fever of Bill Weir. The CNN chief climate correspondent said, also last week, that “the fate of life on earth is at stake” because Washington isn’t doing more to cool the planet.

Yet again, pieces of a puzzle a pre-schooler could put together in a couple of minutes are missing.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•Green-Scam

André Pratte: Trudeau’s departure could cause problems for the Liberals in Quebec

“Will Trudeau know when the moment is right for leaving?” was the title of the analysis authored by La Presse’s Bureau Chief on Parliament Hill. In a column published last Tuesday, Joël-Denis Bellavance, a well-informed reporter, speculated that the prime minister might use his vacation time in Costa Rica to reflect on his future. If, as some expect, Justin Trudeau decides not to run for a fourth mandate, his party’s prospects in Quebec could become bleaker.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•Justin Trudeau - Pissant

WTF?

Georgia couple charged with using their adopted children to make child porn

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•WTF?

Footage appears to show fresh atrocity against Ukrainian PoW

Horrific video and photos have emerged that appear to show the head of a Ukrainian prisoner of war stuck on a pole outside a house in the eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna, which was captured by Russian forces in May and is close to the current frontline in the Donbas.

The Ukrainian governor of Luhansk province, Serhiy Haidai, posted the gruesome photo on his Telegram channel. It has since been widely shared on social media. Ukrainians have accused Russian troops of barbaric medieval behaviour and likened the image to Lord of the Rings.

#Ukraine: A Russian infantry fighting vehicle filmed being hit with an unknown top-attack munition. Though it looks somewhat similar to previously seen SMArt submunitions, some aspects as speed and angle are different here. Possibly we are seeing something not documented before. pic.twitter.com/uS3eb0aAfp

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 29, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

WTF?

Parent makes child inject “his” testosterone shot for him so he can “see the beauty in the process” pic.twitter.com/OEv9JCS9OL

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 4, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•WTF?

The miserable truth is that our leaders don’t want us to have cheap energy

Politicians, in hoc to eco-extremists, have come to believe that consuming fuel is intrinsically sinful

No, the energy crisis is not some unforeseeable consequence of the Ukrainian war. It is the result of years of wishful thinking, preening and short-termism. We sit on 300 years’ supply of coal. We have rich pockets of gas trapped in rocks beneath Central Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Sussex. We have as good a claim as any country to have invented civil nuclear power. Yet, incredibly, we face blackouts and energy rationing.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"Energy Matters", "The Great Reset", Green-Scam

Love and war: Ukrainian women inspire troops with saucy pictures

A woman walks towards the camera, her hips sashaying as she sweeps her hands up from her waist and over her breasts, bending low in front of the lens to fill its view with her cleavage.

In another video, the camera gazes down a man’s bare chest, warm candlelight exaggerating the grooves of his abdominal muscles and a bulge in his trousers.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Cars and the Culture War

Toward a saner conversation about driving in America

Cars seem to be an emerging front in the American culture wars. Consider the reaction to an essay by Carlton Reid, written for the website Works in Progress, arguing that ubiquitous driving does not necessarily create happy, healthy communities. “Cars may seem dominant in many towns and cities right now, but that’s because choices were made to allow such dominance,” Reid noted. “Choices can be remade; minds can be changed.” That quote generated a backlash among conservative critics, who argued that the worldview it represented would “force serfdom on America” and coerce people into “a pod in some blue cesspool.” Any revision to our existing land-use and street-design regimes, the thinking implied, would make the American way of life impossible.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2022August 7, 2022•0•Culture Wars, USA