Author: Blazingcatfur

National security agencies’ relationship with racialized communities marred by a ‘trust gap:’ report

The relationship between “racialized” groups and Canada’s national security and intelligence institutions — like the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency — continues to be bogged down by mistrust, says a new external report prepared for the federal government.

“We frequently heard about the trust gap between the country’s national security institutions and Canadians, and in particular with racialized Canadians,” says the report drafted by the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) — an independent and external body first set up in 2019 to advise the deputy minister of Public Safety and the national security and intelligence community.

“At times, these relations have been marred by mistrust and suspicion, and by errors of judgment by these institutions, which impacted communities have perceived as discriminatory.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity"

Suspected militia member with political hit list kills retired Wisconsin judge: Reports

A retired Wisconsin judge was shot and killed by a man carrying a hit list that targeted state political figures, according to a new report.

Police responded to the home of former Juneau County Judge John Roemer, who retired from the bench in 2017, around 6:30 a.m. Friday after receiving reports of two gunshots being fired. Roemer was identified as the victim who had been shot and killed, sources familiar with the incident told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists", USA

Uvalde mom handcuffed by ‘coward’ cops for trying to save her kids says police threatened her with a probation violation for obstruction of justice if she spoke to media

A mom who was handcuffed by cops for trying to save her children during the Texas school shooting has blasted police for threatening her for talking to the media.

Angeli Rose Gomez slammed officers for warning her with a probation violation for obstruction of justice over her interviews with journalists.

She said she was called by an officer who said she would be hit with legal trouble over a charge against her from over a decade ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

When it comes to stopping gun violence, it’s all about the border, critics say

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino spent much of the past week on the road, promoting his government’s new gun control bill to Canadians just as Canadians witnessed another wave of mass shootings south of the border.

But for all the attention being paid to proposed measures that would freeze handgun ownership in this country, ban the sale of long-gun magazines that hold more than five rounds and implement a mandatory buyback of assault-style weapons, there’s growing concern that the Canada-U.S. border is no barrier to gangs smuggling guns into this country.

It’s a bad law made by stupid people who should never have been elected. If you voted Liberal or NDP go fuck yourself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

For Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau, centrist policies are more powerful than political labels

It’s a good thing Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau have learned to get along so well together over the past couple of years.

Both leaders have won the gift of extra time in office this year. Ford is now in office at Queen’s Park until at least 2026 after his stunning majority victory this week, while Trudeau plans to stick around to 2025, thanks to his governing pact with the federal New Democrats.

The two men have already had a convivial chat about where they’ve been and where they’re going in this unexpected friendship. They were on the phone, in fact, not long after the Conservative victory was declared on Thursday night.

“Both of us sat back and reviewed everything that we got done together,” Ford told reporters on Friday. “And there’s so much that unites us.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Pizza Hut facing boycotts over book suggestion with drag queen protagonist

In an attempt to promote its reading program for children, Pizza Hut came under fire for recommending a book about a child drag queen .

The chain restaurant sent an email to begin its summer program Camp Book It , which began on June 1. As June also marks Pride Month, the email included three recommendations surrounding the topic of the month, including one book titled Big Wig, which features a male child protagonist who decides to dress in drag for his neighborhood costume competition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, Big Tranny

Rival Climate Crazies Battle to See Who Can Vandalise the Most SUVs

Climate crazies in two different British cities have begun competing to see which group can vandalise the greatest number of SUVs under the auspices of fighting climate change.

Two climate crazy groups in Glasgow and Edinburgh have apparently started up a friendly rivalry over which one of them can vandalise the greatest number of SUVs within their respective cities.

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

Should the United States Defend or Ditch Taiwan?

When we discuss whether the United States should defend or ditch Taiwan, what we should really discuss is whether the United States should seek to maintain its supremacy in the Western Pacific and beyond.

President Joe Biden’s recent pledge to defend Taiwan has ignited renewed controversy. When asked if he “was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan” during his visit to Asia on May 23, he answered yes, adding: “That’s the commitment we made.” His remarks are apparently in contradiction with “strategic ambiguity,” the decades-long U.S. policy toward Taiwan that is deliberately ambivalent about the extent of the United States’ commitment to come to the aid of Taiwan. Although the White House, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and later Biden himself denied that the statement reflects a change in U.S. policy, it is unclear whether this was another gaffe by the president or a deliberate statement aimed at enhancing deterrence against China (adding ambiguity to strategic ambiguity), particularly given that this was not the first time Biden expressed his commitment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan, USA

Arms manufacturers are winning after 100 days of war in Ukraine

The United States and Germany this week pledged to equip Ukraine with some of the advanced weapons Kyiv has long desired for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery, as Russian forces close in on capturing a key city in the east.

Despite multiple countries sending arms to Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February, Kyiv has complained that it is still outgunned as it pleaded for more heavy weapons.

Here is a look at the weaponry that has either been promised or sent so far. This is not a complete list given some nations keep their donations secret.

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

Tough week for Hollywood, good week for America

Hollywood is wallowing in angst, and at least half of America couldn’t be happier.

It started with the release of Top Gun: Maverick. The film was a stunning success and was devoid of the typical wokeness that has slithered into just about everything they have created in recent years. None of Hollywood’s usual box-checking to fill the woke agenda was present. Worse yet, it is a pro-American movie, filled mostly with males doing military stuff.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Open Season on the Jews of France

Yet another French Jew is murdered in an anti-Semitic hate crime.

In what has become a disturbing, and all too familiar occurrence in France, another elderly French Jew has been murdered in an unprovoked attack motivated by antisemitism. On May 21, an 89-year-old Lyon resident named René Hadjaj was defenestrated from the 17th floor of the apartment complex where he resided. The perpetrator has been identified as a 51-year-old male of Algerian origin named Rachid Kheniche. Hadjaj was said to have been wearing a kippah at the time of the assault.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Putin’s war is just beginning

Even a ceasefire won’t thwart his masterplan

A hundred days ago, Putin did what he was always going to do: press the red button on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While US and British Intelligence warned an attack was imminent, much of the world was shocked by the sudden, merciless violence set in motion as Russian military forces entered from the north, east, south, and from across Black Sea.

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

Drought-stricken US warned of looming “dead pool”

A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies – but that’s the least of people’s worries.

Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, Lake Mead – formed by the creation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River – is the largest reservoir in the United States and provides water to 25 million people across three states and Mexico. Here, the stunning scale of a drought in the American west has been laid plain for all to see.

The water level is now so low that bodies of murder victims from decades back, once hidden by its depths, have surfaced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"