Trudeau said Canada committed genocide. Why won’t he say the same of China?

Back in 2018, amid continuing diplomatic tensions between Canada and Saudi Arabia, Saudi television and social media lit up with accusations about human-rights abuses in Canada. One commentator on Saudi TV called Canada one of the worst oppressors of women in the world. Social media accounts tweeted identical lines about missing women and about Canada committing “cultural genocide” against Indigenous peoples. These were rich accusations coming from a country where women were stoned to death for adultery and sought permission for everyday activities from male guardians, and Canada at the time largely paid no heed.

Less than one year later, however, Ottawa inadvertently validated all of these Saudi claims – and then some.

(Go incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Will Biden Take On the New Anti-Semitism? He claims to oppose it, but it’s spreading in the progressive wing of his own party.

On February 1, State Department official Kara McDonald announced that the Biden administration “embraces and champions the working definition” of anti-Semitism established by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The Jewish community widely applauded the announcement, which comes at a time when anti-Semitic delusions continue to be normalized in American politics and culture.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Anti-Semitism and the Left

The Failure Of The Texas Power Grid Is Worse Than You Think A rare winter storm has put ordinary Texans in danger — and exposed the corrupt and parasitic nature of the energy industry in oil-rich Texas.

Things are surreal here in Texas right now. From Dallas to San Antonio, century-old low temperature records were shattered almost every day this week. The state is blanketed in snow and ice, and the power grid has failed.

What began Sunday morning as an exciting novelty — six inches of snow in Central Texas — has devolved over the week into something more sinister. Four million Texans are now without power, many of them unable to drive on roads covered in ice and made impassable by snowfall.

Texas was “seconds and minutes” away from catastrophic months long blackouts, officials say

The worst case scenario: Demand for power overwhelms the supply of power generation available on the grid, causing equipment to catch fire, substations to blow and power lines to go down.

If the grid had gone totally offline, the physical damage to power infrastructure from overwhelming the grid can take months to repair, said Bernadette Johnson, senior vice president of power and renewables at Enverus, an oil and gas software and information company headquartered in Austin.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•Green-Scam

In vow to protect campus free speech, Quebec premier joins ‘war on woke’

Quebec Premier François Legault has steered his government toward yet another divisive ideological debate by declaring his intention to move swiftly to protect campus free speech from anti-racism activists.

The contentious part of this debate is not the merits of academic freedom per se. It’s widely accepted that scholars should be able to debate ideas without fear of repercussion from the powerful, or the popular.

Things turn controversial when it comes to identifying what, exactly, is threatening this ideal.

“Anti-Racism” is what they call anti-white bigotry nowadays.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

WTF?

That sinking feeling

Dog meets bat

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•WTF?

How Facebook became so powerful in news

On Thursday, millions of Australians woke up to find a drastically different version of Facebook – one devoid of any news.

Overnight, Facebook banned Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform – in response to a proposed law that would make tech giants pay for such content.

Facebook has, in just a matter of years, established itself as the place where many get their news. And the platform’s outsized influence on how some newsrooms make editorial and hiring decisions has led to it being described as “the absent editor in the room”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•facebook, facebook is evil

Rex Murphy: As Texas winter storm shows, hurling public money at renewable energy is pure folly

It is time that the brand of environmentalism that travels under the cloak of global warming apocalypse drops its halo. Environmentalism, the brand, Global Warming the banner, is pure politics. GW partisans are as hard and as cynical and as manipulative as the most corroded politicians.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•Green-Scam

China Targets America’s Rare Earth Vulnerability

WASHINGTON—China is reportedly looking into curbing the export of rare-earth minerals to the United States, which may become a new source of friction between the two countries.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in January proposed draft controls on the production and export of rare-earth minerals and provided 30 days for public comment.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Iran: The Mullah’s Pursuit of Obtaining Nuclear Weapons

In spite of the Iranian leaders’ claim that their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, evidence reveals that the Iranian regime has long sought to acquire nuclear weapons.

A recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency pointed out that “Samples taken from two sites during inspections in the fall by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) contained traces of radioactive material”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Iranian Nuclear Capability, Islam, Islam and violence

Utah School District Stops Book Program After Trans Tale Told to Third Graders

Parents whose children attend an elementary school in Utah have pushed back after a teacher read a book to third graders about a biological girl who wants to live as a boy.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"They really do want your children", Big Tranny

Sources: Many top NBA players hesitant to promote coronavirus vaccines

Many of the NBA’s top players are expressing apprehension about accepting invitations to participate in league-sponsored public service announcements to bolster broader acceptance of the coronavirus vaccine, sources told ESPN.

The NBA’s outreach to the agents of many of the league’s elite players — with hopes of getting stars to participate in PSAs to promote the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine — has been met with a tepid response, sources said. Player apprehensions about receiving the vaccine are consistent with those that also exist in Black communities throughout the country, agents and players told ESPN.

They probably don’t want to offend China.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Ted Cruz’ Goes Cruising To Cancun — In The Middle Of Texas’ Catastrophe

When the going gets tough, the tough get going — but all the way to Cancun? As millions of fellow Texans freeze and boil water in the weather catastrophe that has descended on them, Ted Cruz apparently decided that Mexico was the better part of valor.

What was he thinking?

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•WTF?

Tory raises taxes while citizens & businesses are locked down and going broke

City council has approved the lowest property tax increase of Mayor John Tory’s tenure, despite hundreds of millions of dollars of ongoing financial pressures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Council voted 20-3 in favour of an inflation-based, 0.7 per cent residential tax hike during a special meeting on Thursday.

That Tory, he’s got the city runnin like a top!

GOLDSTEIN: Toronto’s tree department should be chopped down

In the carefully-controlled language of Toronto Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler, city property taxpayers are “still not receiving value for money for tree maintenance services” and “a culture shift is needed” in the department.

Another way to put it would be that the goldbrickers in this department, including workers and the managers who are supposed to be supervising them, are ripping us off for millions of dollars every year by “actually working on trees” an average of 3.5 hours out of their eight-hour day.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Many lined up at the ‘Bank of Barry’ Sherman: Inside the $10 billion succession battle

Jonathon Sherman, wearing a boxy black suit and narrow tie, separated from his three sisters and crossed the floor of the convention centre-turned funeral home, walking stone-faced toward a row of dignitaries. He shook hands and embraced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario’s then premier Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory. In his eulogy, Jonathon had celebrated the lives of his parents, describing them as “exceptional people” and the “glue that kept us all together.” Returning to his shattered family, he clasped his husband’s hand, and, with his sisters, fell into step as the coffins carrying Barry and Honey Sherman were wheeled side by side towards two hearses.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•Crime

UN Goes Full Sauron Of The Reset

UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK

Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations report says.

Unlike past U.N. reports that focused on one issue and avoided telling leaders actions to take, Thursday’s report combines three intertwined environment crises and tells the world what’s got to change. It calls for changing what governments tax, how nations value economic output, how power is generated, the way people get around, fish and farm, as well as what they eat.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"The Great Reset", WTF?