Author: Blazingcatfur

I’m leaving America with a lack of faith in its media

I’m leaving the big show, canceling my print subscriptions, packing up my DC apartment and chucking away all those unread back issues of the Atlantic

I’m about to fly home to London after five years of reporting from America for the Sunday Times, first from New York, then Washington, taking in really a lot of strange and surprising places along the way. Fortunately, I got one of the last doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine before its suspension sparked yet another wave of national hysteria. I’m proud to be taking a little shot of all-American adenovirus back with me to the Old Country.

No foreigner can ever really claim to know America; there’s just one of you in a country of 330 million. But misapprehensions can be corrected. And of all the many misguided views I had about this country when I arrived, few have changed more than my perceptions of its media.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media Lies

One Year After George Floyd, Minneapolis Is “Murderapolis” Again

Between January 1 and April 25, the number of homicides increased by 92% compared to the same period in 2020. More than 80% of the shooting victims in 2020 were black.

“There’s way more people it seems like with guns now than there ever has been,” another Minneapolis cop told me, and “much less hesitation to use them.” These officers theorize that the explanation for the crime surge is related to the city’s political climate over the past year, which in their view has allowed perpetrators to wreak havoc without consequence. “They feel emboldened and they feel untouchable, in my opinion,” the cop said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing", #BlackLivesMatter

Referring to ‘boys and girls’ as ‘boys and girls’ is now banned at UK school

UK head teacher prompts outrage, heated debate after revealing her school ban on ‘sexist’ expressions like ‘boys and girls’

A UK primary school headmistress has kicked off a storm after revealing that she has instructed her teachers not to use a number of “sexist” phrases, including ‘let’s go, guys’ and ‘boys and girls’.

Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, who heads the Anderton Park primary school in Birmingham, told the Good Morning Britain show on Thursday that students as young as three are taught to reject the use of the banned expressions by holding up posters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Twilight in Paris – Twenty French generals implore the government to take a firm hand against chaos.

In France this week, 20 retired military generals, 80 officers, and 1,000 lower-ranking soldiers signed an open letter expressing concern over “mortal dangers” they say face the Republic. President Macron’s government has instructed the army chief of staff to discipline the signatories for inciting insurrection.

The letter bears close attention on several grounds. Although the signatories warn they wish to act only after  the outbreak of civil conflict, Macron’s response shows the government understands the situation has already deteriorated to a point where a true coup or uprising—an event quite unlike the shambolic ordeal in Washington on January 6th—might erupt at the slightest provocation.

That war is coming.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Rex Murphy: We care nothing for free speech — Trudeau’s plan to regulate the internet is but a symptom

Souvenir T-Shirt from the Section 13 Wars. My talent for graphic design was at its creative height.

Freedom of speech is not the high holy ideal it once was. Freedom of expression, the wider concept, expression as thought, speech, art, performance and protest, is likewise no longer the clear and unchallengeable central core value of our democracies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech

French police are being targeted by Islamists – and by accusations of Islamophobia.

Fear, loathing and the French police

In the elegant commuter town of Rambouillet, south of Paris, last Friday, a Tunisian immigrant, identified as Jamel G, approached a uniformed, unarmed female police administrator from behind. She was returning to the police station after feeding the metre of her parked car. He trapped her in the entrance lobby, stabbed her in the abdomen and then sliced her throat, hollering ‘Allahu Akbar’. A policeman tried to unjam the door to stop him. When he was finally able to, he fired on the attacker after he refused to comply with an order to relinquish his weapon, killing him. For Stéphanie Monfermé, a mother of two, it was already too late. A tweet from President Macron, within hours, linked the attack to Islamist terrorism.

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

Biden’s Racial Spoils System

Biden’s Racial Spoils System

In 2012, Joe Biden warned blacks that the GOP was going to put them “back in chains.” The remark was a foreshadowing of his obsession with critical race theory, which now informs his administration’s policies. Derrick Bell, one of the founding fathers of critical race theory, had laid the groundwork for such incendiary rhetoric. “Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do,” he wrote. Bell, recall, was one of Barack Obama’s favorite professors at Harvard. In 2008, the Obama campaign concealed a video of Obama praising and hugging Bell at a rally in support of one of his crackpot demands.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Rocker Johnny Rotten Says U.S. Collapsing Under Biden: Democrats Wokeness Causing ‘The Destruction of America‘

Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten tore into the Democratic Party and said the “collapse” of America is happening because of Joe Biden’s “nonsense.”

“You have a Democrat party that doesn’t respect anything but the latest woke fashion trend and that’s to the destruction of America,” Rotten told the UK Times in a recent interview. Born Johnny Lydon in Britain, Rotten, became American citizen in 2013.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Impending Online Hate Speech Legislation Worries Free Speech Advocates

Impending Online Hate Speech Legislation Worries Free Speech Advocates

A federal bill to combat harmful content and hate speech online is expected to be tabled soon, but free speech advocates are concerned that it may be too restrictive. Critics are also sounding the alarm on amendments to the existing Bill C-10 that seeks to regulate video content on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.

The hate speech bill soon to be tabled will create a new regulator with the power to levy fines and require transparency from social media outlets, including about their algorithms. The legislation will also set out a legal framework for prohibiting hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, non-consensual sharing of intimate content, and child sexual exploitative content.

You are everything they hate. You are the Hate Crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Freedom of speech, hate crimes, Hate Speech

Cuomo Nursing Home Scandal Worse Than Previously Reported, Aides ‘Spent Months’ Hiding Death Toll

Aides to New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo “spent months” trying to obscure the death toll associated with Cuomo’s now-infamous nursing home policy, according to a report from the New York Times, repeatedly overruling state health officials who authorized sharing the death toll with the public and with other New York legislators.

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

Ashli Babbitt’s family plans to sue Capitol Police, officer who shot her

Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family plans to sue the US Capitol Police and the yet-to-be-named officer who fatally shot her during the riot on Jan. 6, according to an attorney representing the family.

Babbitt, draped in then-President Donald Trump’s campaign flag, was shot as she tried to climb through a smashed-out window into the House of Representatives Speaker’s Lobby.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

‘Should We Decriminalize Antisemitism?’: French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo Protests Shock Decision in Sarah Halimi Murder Case

The latest cover of France’s world-famous satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo features a devastating cartoon about the case of Sarah Halimi — the Jewish woman beaten to death in her Paris apartment in April 2017 by Kobili Traore, an antisemitic intruder — alongside a headline that asks, “Should we decriminalize antisemitism?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West