Author: Blazingcatfur

‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

Germany has been forced to admit it was a terrible mistake to become so dependent on Russian oil and gas. So why did it happen?

On Sunday 1 February 1970, senior politicians and gas executives from Russia and Germany gathered at the upmarket Hotel Kaiserhof in Essen. They were there to celebrate the signing of a contract for the first major Russia-Germany gas pipeline, which was to run from Siberia to the West German border at Marktredwitz in Bavaria. The contract was the result of nine months of intense bargaining over the price of the gas, the cost of 1.2m tonnes of German pipes to be sold to Russia, and the credit terms offered to Moscow by a consortium of 17 German banks. Aware of the risk of Russia defaulting, the German banks’ chief financial negotiator, Friedrich Wilhelm Christians, took the precaution of asking for a loan from the federal government, explaining: “I don’t do any somersaults without a net, especially not on a trapeze.”

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

The lessons we can learn from one serial looter

We now live in an era where mass looting is viewed as an urban sport more than a crime. While retail sellers have always had to deal with some degree of theft, in just the past few years the problem has turned into an epidemic, with some stores being hit so often that they’ve been forced to close. Some looters travel in packs while others operate as lone wolves. So what’s at the core of this problem? If we can identify the cause, we may stand a better chance of finding a cure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Urban Dystopia"

Turkey, Terrorists and NATO

Turkey, reportedly on the verge of yet another military incursion into Syria, appears up to other fun and games as well.

While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine remains ongoing, two Nordic nations have applied for NATO membership: Sweden and Finland.

However, one NATO member, Turkey, said it is opposed to their NATO membership based on their alleged support of “terrorism”. On May 25, delegations from Sweden and Finland arrived in Ankara, seeking to address Turkish objections to their joining the military alliance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTurkey

Complaint: McDonald’s intentionally sold Muslim family bacon

BOSTON (AP) — Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Not buying it, no one puts bacon on a fish sandwich.

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

Tulsa gunman Michael Louis targeted doctor who had operated on him: cops

Michael Louis – “white adjacent”

A deranged gunman with a rifle and a handgun who killed four people at an Oklahoma medical building targeted a doctor who previously operated on him “and anyone who got in his way,” authorities said Thursday.

The gunman, identified as Michael Louis, opened fire at about 5 p.m. Wednesday at an orthopedic office on the second floor of the Natalie Medical Building at Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Police Chief Wendell Franklin told reporters at a press conference.

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

FL Health Agency Issues Report Challenging Science of Transgenderism

The State of Florida is set to issue a formal report questioning the science behind “gender-affirming” care for people who believe they are transgender.

Breitbart News exclusively obtained a 45-page report on Thursday completed by Florida Medicaid and requested by the Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which oversees Florida’s Medicaid program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Hamas-Loving, Israel-Hating Newspaper Publisher Successfully Lobbies Biden Admin To Create Muslim Outreach Post

Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas created a Muslim community outreach position after meeting with an Arab-American activist who has cheered violence against Israel and praised the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas.

Mayorkas met on March 18 with Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani, who has called Hamas and Hezbollah “freedom fighters,” and other activists in Dearborn, Mich., over their concerns with racial profiling by the Department of Homeland Security. Siblani, who urged Arabs last month to fight Israel with “stones” and “guns,” has lobbied DHS for years to appoint a liaison between the agency and Michigan’s robust Arab community. He praised Mayorkas after he announced the position on March 30.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Hamas, USA

Putin Treated for Cancer in April, U.S. Intelligence Report Says

Vladimir Putin’s health is a subject of intense conversation inside the Biden administration after the intelligence community produced its fourth comprehensive assessment at the end of May. The classified U.S. report says Putin seems to have re-emerged after undergoing treatment in April for advanced cancer, three U.S. intelligence leaders who have read the reports tell Newsweek.

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

South Africans take law into their own hands to drive out foreigners

South Africa’s president says he’s “deeply disturbed” at the abuse of foreign nationals working in the country. It is a particular problem in the township of Alexandra, which was at the centre of xenophobic riots in 2008. Some immigrants there have told the BBC they now live in fear.

“When they came here for the first time there were seven of them. They made us lie all down. They took the machines, hairdryers and sprays. We had no choice but to let them take them because they had guns”.

David – not his real name – sits nervously in front of me at his barber’s shop in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township.

The Mozambican looks down at his hands as he describes the numerous attacks he’s been the target of, simply for being a foreigner.

Imagine the headline if the South Africans were white.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa

Muslim call to prayer arrives to Minneapolis soundscape

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive bar that shares a wall with Minneapolis’ oldest Somali mosque.

Dozens of men in fashionably ripped jeans or impeccably ironed kameez tunics rushed toward the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. Teens clutched smartphones, and some of the older devout shuffled in with the aid of walkers from the high-rise complex across the street where thousands of Somalis live.

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

Nightclub needle attacks puzzle European authorities

PARIS (AP) — Across France, more than 300 people have reported being pricked out of the blue with needles at nightclubs or concerts in recent months. Doctors and multiple prosecutors are on the case, but no one knows who’s doing it or why, and whether the victims have been injected with drugs — or indeed any substance at all.

Club owners and police are trying to raise awareness, and a rapper even interrupted his recent show to warn concert-goers about the risk of surprise needle attacks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Morneau unleashes on Trudeau’s economic policies

OTTAWA, Ont. — Justin Trudeau’s former finance minister Bill Morneau had choice words for his former colleagues in a rare public speech Wednesday night in which he criticized the Liberal government’s economic policies.

Morneau, who has kept a low profile since leaving politics amid controversy nearly two years ago, told a Toronto business audience that during his time in office too much energy was spent on finding ways to redistribute Canada’s wealth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Terry Glavin: When narrative replaces facts

The furor over my ‘The year of graves’ feature illustrated perfectly what the piece was about

I didn’t want to write about my personal entanglement in it, but that’s what’s happened, so I need to deal with that right off the top and get it out of the way. It’s because of a furor that’s erupted over something I wrote to mark the anniversary of the kick-off of what has been described as a long-overdue reckoning with the legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Google warns every MP, senator not to fast track Canadian online news bill

Google has taken the extraordinary step of writing to every MP and senator expressing fears that the online news bill is being rushed through Parliament without proper debate or consideration.

In its letter, Google warns that the bill needs more scrutiny because of its implications, including for the way the search engine ranks content and elevates information from “trusted sources” such as the government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Google, Google is Evil