Author: Blazingcatfur

How woke can you go? In 2021, the answer was ‘very’, apparently

When the holidays arrive, I often take the occasion to write solemn think pieces that survey the human condition in all its many facets — as with my 2019 Christmas essay about how Ambrose of Milan’s response to the Massacre of Thessalonica in 390 A.D. shaped the western Christian tradition. But writing those thumb-suckers takes a lot of “emotional labour.” So this year, as yuletide approaches, I’ve instead acceded to my editor’s request that I write a trashy listicle cataloguing the most hilariously woke Canadian social-justice meltdowns of 2021. “It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely,” Ambrose sagely advised. Here are some social-justice enthusiasts who had challenges on both fronts.

A good compilation of the people who make Canada suck.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Heating or Eating Conundrum Solved! You Can’t Afford Either!

Majority of Canadians will change food buying habits amid rising prices: survey

A majority of Canadians say they are going to change their food buying habits as prices are projected to rise in 2022 amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s according to a new report released by the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, in partnership with Caddle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "The Great Reset"

Canada’s intelligence sector confronts climate change

CSIS Spy Umbrella fights climate change deniers

Since its birth during the Cold War, Canada’s spy agency has occupied itself with three primary threats: terrorism, espionage and foreign interference in domestic politics and business.

Now, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is pointing to a disruptive new player on the field: climate change.

CSIS says it’s trying to get a handle on how climate change will disrupt national security. It has even acknowledged that effort publicly — something intelligence agencies rarely do.

Another budget ask.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CSIS, Green-Scam, WTF?

Ontario reports 8,825 new Covid cases, well those are the ones they could count … and Omicron wants your kids and your brains!

Ontario reports 8,825 new Covid cases, well those are the ones they could count … and Omicron wants your kids and your brains!

Ontario reports 8,825 new COVID-19 cases

Ontario is reporting more than 8,800 new COVID-19 cases as the Omicron variant continues to rapidly spread across the province.

Provincial health officials logged 8,825 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday compared to 3,453 a week ago, according to a tweet from Health Minister Christine Elliott.

They don’t really know the count as many people can’t get tested even if they want to.

Omicron variant fills up children’s hospitals in the U.S.

A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, D.C. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S. are up 35 per cent in just the past week.

The highly transmissible Omicron variant is teaming up with the busy holiday season to infect more children across the United States than ever before, and children’s hospitals are bracing for it to get even worse.

COVID virus can spread to heart, brain days after infection, study says

The virus that causes COVID-19 can spread to a patient’s heart and brain days after infection — and survive for months in organs, according to a new study that may shed light on the so-called “long COVID.”

Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health in Maryland studied tissues taken from 44 people who had died after contracting the illness during the first year of the pandemic in the US, Bloomberg News reported.

They discovered SARS-CoV-2 RNA in various parts of the body — including the heart and brain — for as long as 230 days after the onset of symptoms, according to the news outlet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Seizures of Synthetic Drugs Meth and Fentanyl Rise in Mexico as Cartels Increase Production, Import From China

Federal seizures of synthetic drugs like meth and fentanyl are rising in Mexico, according to seizure figures published on Monday by the country’s Defense Department.

Fentanyl is a highly addictive and deadly drug of which just a 2-milligram dose can prove fatal. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system. The majority of meth in the United States is currently produced by cartels in Mexico.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Mexican drug cartels, Mexico

The Terror-Linked Symbol on Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Packaging

Ben & Jerry’s has recently come under fire for its decision to remove its ice cream products from sale and production in Jewish communities within East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), what the company considers “Israeli occupied territories.” The action has been labeled “anti-Semitic” by the Israeli government and others. Some have even accused Ben & Jerry’s of helping terrorists. The company denies the charges, but what it cannot deny is the fact that it does business with a Muslim food group, IFANCA, that is linked to terror and bigotry, itself. Maybe it is time for Ben & Jerry’s to close up shop not only in Israel, but everywhere.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

Pardon me for not joining in the mourning for Desmond Tutu

Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African bishop known for his fight to end apartheid is being universally lauded. I do not share that sentiment. While I will certainly acknowledge that he was a warrior against one of the great evils of his time, I believe that, on the scales of goodness, he squandered that moral virtue by being an ardent advocate of anti-Semitism and an enemy to Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDesmond Tutu

Adam McKay: another satirist lost to activism His latest film’s agenda is painfully obvious

Adam McKay used to be one of America’s finest satirists. He won several Oscar nominations for his darkly comic The Big Short about the 2008 Great Recession and excoriating portrayal of Dick Cheney in Vice, which were both powerful critiques of how ordinary Americans can suffer from elite crises.

The shift has become all too familiar, but his latest film Don’t Look Up (a heavy-handed attempt at raising awareness about climate change) goes long on activism and short on satire. The film’s laundry-list of targets is reduced to half-baked caricatures that are all too rarely relieved by moments of genuine humour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam, Hollywood

“This year we learned that even the killing of an MP is not enough to force the political class to confront Islamist terror.”

David Amess and the deafening silence on Islamism

Conservative MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death in October in a suspected Islamist terror attack. It shocked the nation.

But the political and media response to his killing revealed something else, too. Namely, that we live in a society that is increasingly indulging in terror denialism – especially when it comes to the threat posed by Islamist terrorism.

This was clear from the way politicians and pundits were quick to blame Amess’s killing on anything but Islamist terrorism.

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

It’s Good to Be Oppressed: Race Huckster Ibram X. Kendi Gets Paid $207 Per Minute for University Lecture

The leading intellectual light behind the Critical Race Theory that has already severely damaged racial harmony in the United States and is corroding American society itself, Ibram X. Kendi, has discovered the fundamental truth of our absurd age: the quickest path to elite status and highly lucrative remuneration is to be oppressed, victimized, and marginalized. Kendi has mastered the art of parlaying his alleged oppression into big bucks, fawning coverage from the establishment media, and respect and influence in the academic world. Many others have done this, but none with the breathtaking audacity and extraordinary success of Ibram X. Kendi.

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

Sowing Winds and Reaping Whirlwinds

The Left is being consumed by its own hatreds and hubris.

Joe Biden, first as a candidate and then in the White House, from the outset saw the COVID-19 pandemic mainly as a means of leveraging political support, from the manner in which the lockdowns allowed him to run a virtual campaign from his basement to equating Donald Trump with the COVID-19 virus.

Like many on the Left, Biden was overt in such cynicism. So were Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, and Jane Fonda—who claimed that COVID was a “never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste” moment. Panic and lockdowns could help achieve single-payer health care, or a recalibrated capitalism, or the end of Donald Trump himself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

BBC Third on ‘Most Antisemitic‘ List, After Only Iran and Hamas

The BBC was ranked third on a “Global Antisemitism Top Ten” list by a major Jewish group, beaten only by Iran and the Hamas terror group.

The head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Marvin Hier, told the Daily Mail that “people might be surprised to see the BBC on our list, but the decision to place the BBC at No. 3 came after months of intense debate and discussion.”

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