Author: Blazingcatfur
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‘Radical chic’ and the left’s problem with race
When it comes to race and the left – certainly the wealthy white left, definitely the middle-class left – it is as if left-wingers have not progressed since being unceremoniously exposed as a type by Tom Wolfe, in his mammoth essay, ‘Radical Chic’, over half a century ago. Other writers also had their number, including black authors James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. The event Wolfe documents may not be familiar to a rising generation charting similar territory as chic revolutionaries on social media. It’s therefore worth providing a summary here. In the season of radical chic, as Wolfe refers to it, super-rich celebrities and socialites were indulging in a political cocktail of nostalgie de la boue and noblesse oblige, by staging fundraising parties – where sumptuous hors d’oeuvre were served – at New York duplexes on Park Avenue. Their pet causes were those raised by ethnic groups who were politicised – often rightfully so – by grievances that needed airing, axes that needed grinding.
Joe Rogan suggests Justin Trudeau is the long-lost son of Fidel Castro
After declaring Canada a communist country last month, Joe Rogan is suggesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take a 23andMe DNA test to confirm that he’s not the child of Fidel Castro.
In protests and politics, Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ reverberates
COUTTS, Alberta/TORONTO (Reuters) – In late January five friends, just a few years out of high school, piled into a rented camper van and drove 37 hours in the Canadian winter from southern Alberta to Ottawa to join anti-government protests led by a convoy of truckers.
“We were worried about vaccine mandates and our freedom, and it all just going to hell,” said Ursula Allred, 22, from her small, rural hometown of Magrath.
Another member of the group, Justin Martin, excitedly phoned home to say the protest — which occupied Ottawa with tractor-trailers, hot tubs, bouncy castles and scattered symbols of hate for weeks until it was broken up by police — was “the best experience, ever,” said his mother, Lynette Atwood.
Canadian Jewish org slams St. John’s Israel ‘apartheid’ bus ads
New anti-Israel bus ads in St. John’s, Newfoundland were denounced by the head of a Canadian Jewish advocacy organization this week.
The ads, one of which was pictured on the back of a St. John’s bus, feature the phrase “The State of Israel practices apartheid.” They were sponsored by Solidarity With Palestine St. John’s and contain a list of NGOs that have alleged Israel is an “apartheid state,” including Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Yesh Din, Amnesty International and Independent Jewish Voices.
The push to label Israel an apartheid state is in full swing. You have to wonder who will seize upon such a label should it become “official.”
As vaccine toll rises, Twitter doubles down… but the edifice is starting to crumble
THE toll of Covid vaccine-related deaths in the UK continues to rise, according to latest figures from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
In the 14 days following the MHRA’s previous summary report for June 29, 2022 – analysed here – there were eight more deaths, bringing total vaccine fatalities to 2,213.
Disney Won‘t Say Gay in Middle East: Censors LGBTQ Content in Gulf Countries While Fighting Florida Law
The Walt Disney Co. won’t say gay in the Middle East.
After picking a political fight with Florida over the state’s Parental Rights in Education Law, and declaring itself an LGBTQ ally to boot, Disney is reportedly censoring gay and transgender content on the version of the Disney+ streaming service that it launched in the region in June.
VP Joe Biden met with two Chinese energy execs in the West Wing – the FIFTEENTH meeting with businessmen tied to his son’s company
Two Chinese businessmen with ties to Hunter Biden’s company met with Joe Biden at the White House and followed up with the VP’s son days later with a fawning email and invitation, records reveal.
The meeting is the fifteenth to be uncovered between Joe and businessmen linked to Hunter.
Executives for Chinese energy company Wanxiang secured a meeting with the vice president in the West Wing in July 2014 with just one day’s notice, according to White House visitor logs.
First Family Of Filth.
New study: Monkeypox may be an STD
A new Lancet study suggests that monkeypox could be a sexually transmitted disease. Researchers analysed a 39-year-old male patient who presented typical symptoms of the disease, including a fever and lesions on the skin.
Trudeau’s latest gun measure more about votes and election posturing than safety
Imagine just for a moment that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government put as much time, effort and money into tackling gun crime as they do picking political fights with legal gun owners.
WTF?
TikToker laughs about dming photos to TERFS of “their” detached breasts from “their” double mastectomy pic.twitter.com/DRdMfo3LY0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 5, 2022
Showdown looms in Mykolaiv as Putin scrambles to save face
President Putin is desperately redeploying thousands of Russian troops to southern Ukraine to stave off a humiliating defeat, moving troops from the Donbas to bolster a force that has been split precariously across two banks of the wide Dnipro river.
The reinforcements bring the total Russian force in the area to more than 25,000 troops, a Ukrainian reconnaissance and intelligence team told The Times, adding that nine Russian battle groups, each between 500 and 800 men, had been moved there from Donbas and Crimea.
#Ukraine: Ukrainian counter-battery fire hit a 9P140 MRL of the 220 mm BM-27 Uragan system, destroying it and sending rockets flying wildly. Thanks @serhiyprytula. pic.twitter.com/WtjP3yURTm
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) August 4, 2022
No, children aren’t being ‘ensnared’ by the far-Right
The Guardian keeps exaggerating the threat of online extremism
The late, great George Carlin has a legendary bit about ‘Airline Announcements’, a brilliant deconstruction of the absurdity and imprecision of modern language. “Please check around your immediate seating area for any personal belongings you might have brought on board”, he drawls, imitating the lifeless delivery of a flight attendant before cocking his head to the side in chummy defiance. “Well”, he winks. “I might have brought my arrowhead collection. I didn’t… so I’m not going to look for it! I’m going to look for things I brought. It would seem to enhance the likelihood of my finding something, wouldn’t you say?”
Revealed: How the Nazis spent their final days on board doomed U-boat
Hundreds of artefacts from submarine U534 have been unearthed, offering clues into the Germans’ activities in the Second World War
Historians in Birkenhead are hoping to uncover the mystery of why the U-boat U534 disobeyed orders to flee Germany in the dying days of the Second World War after unsealing hundreds of objects from the boat for the first time in 80 years.
They have opened dozens of boxes of artefacts found aboard the submarine, which is believed to have been scuttled by its crew after coming under attack from British aircraft off the coast of Denmark.
There are various theories as to what U534 was doing, including that it may have been carrying top-secret torpedo technology to Japan or even the US as part of a defection plan.
Climate policy conflicts with energy security
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s support for Canada providing Europe with liquid natural gas (LNG) to help it cope with looming fuel shortages as Russian President Vladimir Putin restricts gas exports to the continent is a great idea.