Author: Blazingcatfur

Are Secret ‘Puppeteers’ Still Directing American Public Policy?*

Over the years much has made about the lobbyists and advisors who prowl the corridors of power in Washington D.C. Many seek publicity profiles in the hope it will convince potential clients and countries that they have high-level “access.” Others cultivate their cable news appearances as pundits and commentators, relishing the limelight.

Yet what we have come to learn over time that the greater the media exposure, the less these individuals play a role in actually affecting the nation’s policies and politics.

Consider the role of Michael Podhorzer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Ottawa Police’s New Measures Against Protesting Truckers Are Those Used by ‘Oppressive Regimes,’ Says Organizers’ Lawyer

The new measures announced by the chief of Ottawa police against truck convoy protesters are those used by oppressive regimes around the world, says a lawyer representing organizers of the Freedom Convoy protesting COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa.

“He effectively announced that he is going to be taking away Canadians’ charter right of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression,” Keith Wilson, a lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), said in a video on Feb. 4.

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Susan Sarandon apologises for social media post comparing fallen NYPD rookie officer’s funeral to ‘fascism’

Actress Susan Sarandon has apologized for a social media comment about the funeral of slain NYPD officer where she compared it to ‘fascism’ and called the event ‘insensitive.’

Sarandon, 75, posted a tweet about officer Jason Rivera’s funeral after he was shot and killed in East Harlem on January 21.

Rivera and his partner Wilbert Mora were shot dead after responding to a domestic call which involved a mother and son.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots

On GoFundMe’s betrayal of the Canadian truckers

They’ve shut down the convoy’s campaign, reminding us that this is a fight for freedom

… This is an outrageously political move. The justification proffered by GoFundMe is feeble and deceives no one: they claim the demonstration has become an “occupation” and that “violence and other unlawful activity” is taking place, thus violating their terms of service.

But is it? Where and who are the bad actors? Surely the names of these violent offenders and the precise nature of their connection with the Freedom Convoy are all over the internet by now. Yes, we’ve heard a lot about a swastika flag and a Confederate flag, but if police have established their identities and their relation to the convoy, the world has yet to hear about it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Parents of unmasked children threatened with ‘criminal charges’

The Ripon Unified School District in California’s Central Valley warned parents this week about “potential actions” that could be taken against parents and students who do not comply with a mask mandate in place.

In a letter sent to parents this week, first reported on by Red State, parents are told to “remove” any children from campus who do not have face coverings. It goes on to say children who do not comply could lead to labeling the offending child’s presence as a “clear and present danger to the life, safety, or health of a pupil or school personnel.”

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We need to recover our right to dissent

Free speech has been one of the chief casualties of the pandemic.

As Covid becomes both endemic and milder in its Omicron variant, it is time to reassert our rights.

While we have never had a right to governmental protection from viruses, we do have rights to freedom of conscience, thought and religion – indeed, the right to go about our lawful business unimpeded by the state. Or at least we thought we had those rights.
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Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it

So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there’s no justice, there’s no peace.

Naturally, the left hates it.

For more than a century, lefties have talked about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.

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‘Something’s coming’: is America finally ready to take UFOs seriously?

Last year was a breakthrough time for UFOs, as a landmark government report prompted the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors to finally be taken seriously by everyone from senators, to a former president, to the Pentagon.

But 2022 could be even more profound, experts say, as the clamor for UFO disclosure and discovery continues to grow, and as new scientific projects bring us closer than ever to – potentially – discovering non-Earth life.

In June, the Pentagon released a highly anticipated report on unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), the now preferred nomenclature by some in the extraterrestrial community, which found more than 140 instances of UAPs that could not be explained.

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Terry Fox and the Truckers

 

Canadian national hero Terry Fox (1958-1981), after having had a leg amputated due to cancer in 1977, embarked on a cross-country run in 1980 to raise money for cancer research. An annual event held across Canada continues to honor his memory. Terry Fox became a national hero because he represented the spirit of courage and defiance, of rising above the odds, of refusing to surrender to the trials of his condition. He began his “Marathon of Hope” in St. John’s on the island of Newfoundland and ran many thousand kilometers to Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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Counter-protest calls for an end to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ demonstration in downtown Ottawa

Ottawa residents are calling for an end to the “Freedom Convoy” demonstration taking over the Parliamentary Precinct.

Hundreds of people gathered at Ottawa City Hall Saturday afternoon, demanding an end to the protest over COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other public health measures less than a kilometre away.

Signs in the crowd said, “Get The Truck Out,” “Go Home,” and “Go Home Please.”

WTF?

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Whoopi Goldberg’s fake Jewish past

The View host wrote 1993 recipe for ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken’ then claimed SHE was a practicing Jew – as insiders slam ‘decades’ of ‘disgusting’ appropriation and anti-Semitism

Whoopi Goldberg’s suspension from The View this week is the pinnacle of a years-long habit of making off-color remarks about Jewish people that includes a recipe she wrote for a celebrity cookbook in the 1990s called ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken’, DailyMail.com can reveal.

In 1993, Goldberg – whose real name is Caryn Johnson – submitted the recipe to Cooking in The Litchfield Hills, a charity cookbook comprised of recipes from the well-heeled residents of the leafy Connecticut suburb.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left, Celebrity Idiots