Author: Blazingcatfur

Freedom Convoy protesters struggling to get seized items back from police

Several Freedom Convoy protesters say thousands of dollars of items seized during February’s enforcement efforts are unaccounted for, and that getting back those items that are in police possession has been a laborious process.

The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) says they received 41 items from the city during the clean-up of the protests, which disrupted life in Ottawa’s downtown for roughly three weeks earlier this year.

Items in the force’s possession include generators, barbecues and space heaters that helped fuel and feed protesters in the city’s core.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The Murdoch funding left-wing disinformation

Kathryn, daughter-in-law of Rupert Murdoch, is propping up partisan dark-money groups

Kathryn Murdoch, wife to former News Corp executive James Murdoch, is a shopaholic, but she doesn’t hoard shoes, purses, or makeup. No, Kathryn is obsessed with spending her family’s money on anti-Republican and Never Trump political causes.

Kathryn handed over $1 million to the Republican Accountability Project in the first quarter of 2022, according to FEC documents. The Republican Accountability Project scores GOP members in regard to how they addressed voter fraud in the 2020 election. The group suggests that members who spoke publicly about concerns of fraud or failed to vote to impeach President Donald Trump were complicit in the January 6 riot at the Capitol building. Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney and Senator Mitt Romney are among the lawmakers who received a perfect score. Kathryn’s million made up nearly a third of the Republican Accountability Project’s overall fundraising in the first quarter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Military Drafts Loom Over Europe Thanks to Russia

Europe’s first war between more-or-less peer powers in over 70 years upsets a lot of assumptions. Not least of them is the belief, or maybe just hope, that the brief and pleasant interlude of relative peace among powerful nations was here to stay. In broad terms, as I’ve written elsewhere, much of the world is back on a war footing, expanding military budgets and cementing defensive alliances. But renewed fears also offer governments that fear international dangers or just want an excuse to regiment their societies an opportunity to revive the unfortunate and previously fading practice of conscription.

A little too libertarian.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Government

Stealth Newspaper Campaign Exposes Jew Hatred at UCLA

In a stealth campaign to circumvent campus censors and reach students directly, the David Horowitz Freedom Center distributed over 4,000 newspapers containing its new report on the rising tide of Jew Hatred and its links to the Hamas-funded campus hate group Students for Justice in Palestine on the UCLA campus.

The newspapers were distributed across the university’s Westwood campus, with copies made available in classroom buildings, dining facilities, student centers, and in distribution boxes for the UCLA Daily Bruin, the university’s chief student-run publication.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left

The climate scaremongers: The weather disaster swindle

ARE weather disasters becoming more common? You’d have thought so, because we keep on being told so. A few months ago, the BBC informed us:

‘The number of weather-related disasters to hit the world has increased five-fold over the past 50 years, says the World Meteorological Organization. As global temperatures have risen in recent decades, there has been a significant uptick in the number of disasters related to weather and water extremes.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Get ready for another ‘summer of love’

In 2020, we watched as rioters destroyed buildings and lives throughout our cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Get ready for another summer of riots and destruction. The White House has legitimized such behavior by calling MAGA Republicans the most extreme in our history.

The leaked working opinion authored by Justice Alito concerning overturning Roe v. Wade has provided the necessary unifying principle for the radical left.  Sen. Warren (D-Mass.) helped light the fuse outside the Supreme Court Building by inciting the crowd when she told them, “We won’t go back.”  In the past, Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) threatened justices on the steps of the Court in 2020: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch.  I want to tell you, Kavanaugh.  You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.  You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists"

Kathy Boudin’s Delusions Did Not Die With Her

Kathy Boudin’s Delusions Did Not Die With Her

The revolutionary liberal activist died Sunday.

The Columbia University Center for Justice titled the obituary of its cofounder “Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and a Great Loss.”

Not until paragraph three does the reader, after first learning of “her lifelong work as an activist, organizer, teacher, and champion of social justice,” encounter an indirect reference to Boudin’s murder conviction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

What America gets right about the abortion debate

That we take it seriously shows we’re still a serious moral country

There are two things non-Americans can almost never understand about America and should probably never speak about. The first is guns. If you have a British accent and arrive in America, or talk about America, you should be very careful before opining on the Second Amendment.

It isn’t a precise analogy, but you might compare it to an American arriving in Britain and suddenly talking about the rights and wrongs of hereditary monarchy. There are lots of reasons why countries end up with the institutions they have. And though Her Majesty the Queen is clearly responsible for fewer fatalities each year than America’s right to bear arms, the Second Amendment is as much a centerpiece of American democracy as the monarchy is of our own. Outsiders might find it crazy, and aspects of the Second Amendment maybe are (notably some of the arms that people are now able to bear). But that is the settlement Americans have — and it is probably for the best for outsiders to keep their wonderment to themselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate

How pro-Russian bloggers are covering the war in Ukraine

Russian bloggers with hundreds of thousands of followers have been publishing reports from the city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine. Embedded in Russian military units, they film videos close to the action, capturing the intense fighting that has been raging in the port city for weeks. On Telegram, they publish these videos to share a pro-Kremlin narrative of the war, which sometimes borders on disinformation.

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

Germany: Woman sentenced for poking holes in partner’s condoms

A court in western Germany found a woman guilty of sexual assault and handed her a six-month suspended sentence for purposefully damaging her partner’s condoms, German media reported.

In handing down the ruling, the judge said the unusual case was one for Germany’s legal history books — representing an instance of criminal “stealthing,” but this time carried out by a woman.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Conrad Black: A D-Day-level assault on the intellectual and spiritual freedom of Canada’s soldiers

The Ministry of National Defence’s Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism and Discrimination recently produced a somewhat horrifying report. This was probably inevitable; there is not a significant number of genuine racists in Canada, nor can Canadian institutions be considered racist. This is just an abrasive cliche that has become faddish for all those who for whatever reason seek to dramatize, or at least aggravate, internal tensions in the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

In Canada, death is cheap

Disabled people are opting for assisted suicide to escape grinding poverty.

Canada refers to ‘euthanasia’ and ‘assisted suicide’ by the friendlier-sounding term of ‘medical assistance in dying’ (MAID). The MAID programme was first introduced to end the suffering of terminally ill people, but its mission creep is now undeniable.

Denise (not her real name), a 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair, is nearing final approval for a medically assisted death. She only applied after her many attempts to move from her apartment, which she says worsens her severe sensitivities to household chemicals, all failed. She told Canada’s CTV News earlier this week that she was ‘relieved and elated’ by the likelihood of the approval. ‘I was scared that they weren’t going to say yes.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide