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The dark Prince – A short history of a very modern mercenary

‘No modern US war would be complete without the involvement of Blackwater founder Erik Prince,’ wrote journalist Jeremy Scahill in his seminal book Dirty Wars. That was back in 2013. Since its founding in 1997, Blackwater, Prince’s private military outfit, has been reincarnated several times under different names. But Prince has stayed the same.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia — Prince, a very 21st-century mercenary, has wreaked havoc in all these places. He comes, he spoils, he leaves a mess that is impossible to clear up.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"Zeitgeist"

Derek Chauvin trial: Why role of TV cameras could come into focus

From Monday, three discreet TV cameras will offer anyone with an internet connection a front-row seat to a criminal trial of global interest.

One of those cameras will be trained on Derek Chauvin, the former policeman accused of killing George Floyd in custody.

Mr Chauvin could be jailed for decades over the 25 May, 2020 death of Mr Floyd, an unarmed black man.

The knee Mr Chauvin placed on Mr Floyd’s neck was filmed for all to see.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

BLM groups demand The Masters and MLB All-Star Game are MOVED from Georgia after Gov. Kemp signed new voting law

Major sporting events could be moved out of the state of Georgia if calls from Civil Rights groups are to be listened to.

Calls to move The Masters golf tournament and for the MLB All-Star game to be moved come after the state passed a controversial voting law Thursday.

Republican supporters say the new law is needed to restore confidence in Georgia’s elections. Democrats say it will restrict voting access, especially for voters of color.

But… 75% Support Voter ID Laws

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

LSU Event Explores the ‘Religion of White Rage,’ Says ‘Conservatism’ May Be a ‘Euphemism for White Supremacy’

Education’s in a state of transition.

Whereas before — it seems to me — the core purpose of tax-funded instruction was to teach very basic, objective facts in the form of reading, general history, writing, science, and math, these days, potent perspective and subjective theory are ultimately on offer.

A component of the government’s new service: a righting of wrongs by way of racial justice.

And at the university level, they’re really trying to fix our flaws.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Murder charge laid against Yannick Bandaogo in North Vancouver fatal stabbing spree

Yannick Bandaogo, 28, has been charged in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in North Vancouver, B.C.

On March 27, 2021 at around 1:40 p.m., the North Vancouver RCMP and other emergency responders were called to the Lynn Valley library for reports of a stabbing. Officers arrived on scene to find multiple victims with stab wounds. Six individuals sustained stab wounds of varying severity and one woman in her late twenties succumbed to her injuries and died. The remaining victims were transported to hospital for non-life threatening emergency medical care. One man was arrested by police at scene and he remains in police custody.

On March 28, 2021, 28-year-old Yannick Bandaogo was charged with second-degree murder. His background, history in BC and relationship to the victims, if any, is still being determined.

Last name indicates it is possible he may be a native of Burkina Faso, a country roiled by Islamist insurrection and whose population is 61% Muslim and 28% Christian, the rest being Animist, according to the CIA World Fact Book.

No word yet on a motive.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•Canada

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s condemnation of China a long time coming

It’s good that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally moving away from his government’s previous policy of appeasing China’s communist dictators.

But what took him so long?

Canada’s China Class was made rich at our expense through their treachery.

They are well connected and influential within our northern Banana Republic.

They don’t want the spigot turned off. That’s why.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

WTF?

Boss’s car?

It’s the sudden stop…

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•WTF?

“Beacon of the Woke” – French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’

The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today’s “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children.

A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman, has unleashed a storm among Parisian “intellos” with his claim that Foucault, who died in 1984 aged 57, was a paedophile rapist who had sex with Arab children while living in Tunisia in the late 1960s.

h/t DZ

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"They really do want your children"

Beijing’s Wolf Warriors in Alaska

Chinese diplomats’ actions at last week’s summit in Alaska suggest that Xi Jinping will treat the Biden administration like Obama 2.0.

Many in the West were surprised when top Chinese diplomats lashed out against the United States publicly during the first high-level meeting between the Biden and Xi Jinping administrations last week in Anchorage, Alaska. Though smaller powers like Australia and Sweden have experienced Beijing’s “wolf-warrior” diplomacy before, rarely have Chinese diplomats displayed such open condescension toward the U.S. Yet if one understands the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party, the performance in Alaska comes as no surprise.

Chinese e-commerce platforms selling accessories of testy exchange with US officials in Alaska

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Erdoganistan: The New Islamic Superpower?

“It was a very special day, July 24 [2020],” said France’s leading expert on Islam, Gilles Kepel.

“It was pilgrimage time to Mecca and, due to the pandemic, no one was there! It was the anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne, the origin of modern Turkey within its current borders. Erdogan was about to twist the arm of the secular Ataturk, who had turned the old Hagia Sophia basilica into a museum that he had donated ‘to humanity’. Erdogan… turned it back into a mosque”.

This was the moment, remarked Kepel – who just published a new book, “Le Prophète et la Pandémie” [“The Prophet and the Pandemic“] — that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the new leader of the umma, or global Islamic community. “Erdogan is trying to appear as the champion of Islam, just like Ayatollah Khomenei in 1989″.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Erdogan, Islam, Islam and violence

BONOKOSKI: Ontario budget blows smoke when it comes to “unregulated” tobacco

Ontario’s new budget shows revenue from tobacco taxes continues to fall like a stone, not because more smokers have quit but because the contraband cigarette trade continues to expand unabated.

When COVID-19 shut down the smoke shacks on Ontario’s reserves, for example, the sale of legitimate cigarettes spiked, proof that quitters played little role in falling cigarette tax revenues.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•Ontario

Scholarships for liberal arts majors threatened under controversial Florida bill

Florida lawmakers are weighing a bill that would cut state-funded scholarship money for college students pursuing degrees with low employment prospects.

SB-86, sponsored by Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, passed the Senate Education Committee earlier this month and is on its way to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, which will consider the measure next week.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•Batshit crazy Universities

Piers Morgan calls Meghan Markle a ‘whiny, privileged, hypocritical celebrity who now cynically exploits victimhood to suppress free speech’

Piers Morgan has launched an impassioned attack on cancel culture and a defence of free speech in recounting his departure from Good Morning Britain for what he said was not believing the Duchess of Sussex.

As the end of a five-page diarised article in the Mail on Sunday, in which he said his doubting of Meghan was condemned as “a racist hate crime”, the controversial media figure said it is time to “cancel the cancel culture before it kills our culture”.

While also rounding on the Duke Of Sussex for his part in a “disgraceful betrayal” of the Queen, Morgan said the intense fallout from his voicing disbelief of Meghan in her interview with Oprah Winfrey was “outrageous”.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"Woke Royals"

GUNTER: Trudeau’s vaccine blunders is why Canada may have a third wave

Big news story at the end of this week: Canada’s vaccination effort finally reaches 10% of the adult population!

Whoop-de-freakin’-do.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government

Washington schools used COVID survey to ask middle schoolers if they’re trans or ‘something else’

Parents are livid that their young children — as young as 10 — were asked about their gender identity and sexual orientation in a survey that was supposed to be about COVID wellness.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2021March 28, 2021•0•Big Tranny, WTF?