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Conservative leadership candidates jockey for position on the carbon tax

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government prepares to hike the federal carbon tax another ten dollars per tonne of emissions on Friday, the leading Conservative leadership candidates all agree on one thing — it’s the wrong move.

But that’s where their consensus ends. Questions about what Canada should do with carbon pricing, financial offsets to consumers and the broader fight against climate change are still very much up for debate among Conservative leadership candidates. In many cases, the candidates’ master plans are still being written.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2022March 31, 2022•0•Conservative Party

Google’s censorship of jokes about Biden

Someone had shared his grandma’s funny joke about Joe Biden, and after passing it along, a friend asked me to “find me another.”

A Google search for “Biden jokes” results in many pages of “Biden jokes about this or that in recent presser”–type headlines. Pretty much no jokes “about” Biden.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Has Putin made Nato stronger?

America’s leadership is now uncontested

War is the domain of paradox, contradiction, and boundless surprise. It is not merely because of ignorance or stupidity that military history is a record of crimes, follies, defeats, and very few victories worth their cost. Even so, the Ukraine war is exceptional in the amplitude of its paradoxes, the extremity of its contradictions, and the magnitude of its surprises.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Disney Executive Producer Admits to ‘Gay Agenda,’ ‘Adding Queerness’ Wherever She Could

During a staff meeting on Florida’s recent enactment of the Parental Rights in Education bill, an executive producer at Disney said she was advancing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” to insert queerness into children’s animation.

Latoya Raveneau, executive producer for Disney Television Animation, talked about how the studio’s treatment of her progressive ideas defied her negative expectations of the company, in a video obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo. Instead of vetoing her pitches for LGBTQ-friendly Easter eggs or overt references in her series, Disney gladly accepted and included them, she claimed.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Big Gay

Ukraine Has Forever Changed Europe’s Balance of Power

Ukraine is paying the price for its defiance of Moscow. Encouraged by the West since the 2008 Orange Revolution, Kyiv pursued engagement with the European Union and NATO. For more than a decade, it refused to negotiate neutrality or a closer relationship with Moscow. Despite repeated Russian threats and “redlines,” Kyiv stood up to Vladimir Putin. That resistance ultimately resulted in the loss of Crimea; a civil war fomented by Moscow in Donbass; and now, finally, open war with Russia. Western democracies encouraged Ukraine to take this Quixotic approach, even as they made clear that Ukraine had no near-term chance of joining NATO. The bottom line is that the Ukrainians were left to fend for themselves. Despite that, it is possible that Ukraine, with NATO-supplied equipment, will now pull off the impossible: slowing Russia’s invasion into a military stalemate.

by Blazingcatfur•March 31, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Several Russian servicemen seek help avoiding Ukraine war – lawyers

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – Several Russian servicemen are seeking legal help to avoid being sent to fight in the war in Ukraine, two lawyers said, after 12 members of Russia’s National Guard were fired for refusing to go.

Lawyer Mikhail Benyash said around 200 people had been in contact to ask what they should do in a similar situation.

Pavel Chikov, another Russia-based lawyer, wrote on Telegram that there were “analogous stories from Crimea, Novgorod, Omsk, Stavropol… The workers are appealing for legal help.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?

Should Western Christians Provide Life Support to Islam?

It may do well to heed one of the more reliable lessons of history.

When tyrannies are appeased, they tend to grow. That seems to be one of the more reliable lessons of history. Yet, societies continue to appease aggressors in the hope that, maybe this time, appeasement will work.

I’m not talking about appeasing Russia. A great many people are coming to the conclusion, as they should, that Putin should not be appeased. I’m talking instead about the appeasement of Islam that’s been the rule ever since the radical side of Islam reasserted itself about four decades ago.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

ICE officers prepare for ‘massive crash’ in immigration system

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees have been warned to prepare for the end of the border pandemic emergency policy as soon as this week — with predictions that illegal border crossings, already at record levels, could triple.

Agency employees, who usually handle enforcement in the interior of the country, have been warned they may need to be deployed to the border so they can help the Border Patrol with an anticipated migrant surge, according to an ICE officer who received the alert.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

Class-action lawsuit filed in Quebec against meat-packing companies for price fixing

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the largest beef suppliers in Canada for allegedly conspiring to restrict competition and raise prices on beef sold in Quebec.

The lawsuit was filed by the Belleau Lapointe law firm on March 24 in Quebec Superior Court.

It alleges that various companies related to Cargill Inc., JBS Canada ULC, Tyson Food Inc. and National Beef Packing Co LLC acted in concert to “unduly restrict competition related to the production, supply or sale of beef” in the province since Jan. 1, 2015.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Canada, WTF?

The incoherence at the heart of NATO

It spent years stoking a conflict with Russia it had no intention of fighting.

Some seem to believe that the war in Ukraine has galvanised Western alliances. In particular, they argue that Russia’s act of aggression has given that hoary old Cold War institution, NATO, a renewed sense of purpose, reversing decades of drift and division. As US president Joe Biden declared after last week’s NATO summit, ‘Putin was banking on NATO being split – NATO has never, never been more united than it is today’.

That was certainly the impression NATO leaders wanted to give (footage of Boris Johnson looking lost and alone aside). Unity. Commitment. Purpose. NATO leaders talked of imposing ‘unprecedented costs on Russia’. They pledged to pour more weapons – and upgraded ones to boot – into Ukraine. And Biden himself seemed to be on a one-man escalation mission, threatening both regime change in Moscow and to respond ‘in kind’ to any Russian chemical-weapon use.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•NATO

NYT: Trans People Suffer at Restaurants

The paper showcased gender-neutral garments for waitstaff as one solution.

Gender stereotypes are built into traditional restaurant service,” lamented the New York Times Tuesday. Chairs are pulled out for women. Women are served first. People are greeted by either “sir” or “ma’am.” It’s all just another example of the discrimination inflicted on “gender-expansive people,” says the New York Times.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Big Tranny

Quebec media pen letter denouncing criminal trial held in secret, kept off docket

The heads of major Quebec newsrooms penned an open letter Wednesday denouncing a criminal trial involving a police informant held entirely in secret and kept off the official court docket.

The existence of the trial only became public because the police informant accused in the case appealed his or her conviction, and the appeals court issued a heavily redacted ruling in late February critical of the lower court proceedings.

A letter signed by the newsroom leaders of the province’s major media outlets, including The Canadian Press, stated their indignation and deep concern over the “shadow trial” revealed in a judgment rendered by the Quebec Court of Appeal, which was first published by La Presse.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Canada, WTF?

Racist graffiti at California high school perpetrated by black students, sheriff’s office says

Two black female students at a California high school were identified as the culprits in writing racist graffiti that included the N-word and had drawn condemnation from school district officials.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office identified the two students as responsible for the graffiti written on the wall of Rosemont High School in Sacramento, California, by reviewing school surveillance footage.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Hate crime hoax

The FBI ‘Doesn’t Know’ Where Hunter’s Laptop Is

“So where is it? The Laptop?” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) clown-slapped the assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, Bryan A. Vorndran, on Tuesday when Vorndran admitted he didn’t have “any information” on the whereabouts of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.”

‘Today Is Just a Small Taste’: Grassley Drops New Hunter Biden Documents

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•WTF?

Kelly McParland: Liberals’ vote-pandering pact with the NDP is a presage of politics to come

Liberal party members seem well pleased with the deal struck with the New Democrats, as well they might. The agreement solves several problems, in particular their ongoing difficulty attracting popular support in the usual manner.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•Canada