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George Blake, notorious cold war double agent, dies aged 98

The former British spy and Soviet Union double agent George Blake has died at the age of 98.

The RIA news agency reported that Blake died in Russia, citing the country’s SVR foreign intelligence agency. “We received some bitter news – the legendary George Blake passed away,” it said.

Blake was the last in a line of British spies to operate secretly for the Soviet Union, exposing the identities of hundreds of western agents across eastern Europe in the 1950s and humiliating the intelligence establishment when his work was discovered at the height of the cold war.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020•0•Espionage

Nashville Explosion Motive? Take Your Pick.

This explanation sounds plausible … see this thread

The most mundane possibility: a dramatic suicide.

2020 has been a dark year, and it’s possible that someone planned to kill themselves (but not others) on Christmas in the most dramatic way possible.

24/x

— Alex Little (@AlexLittleTN) December 25, 2020

This one is more fun, I believe it entirely possible Taylor Swift is behind the bombing.

nashville , cctv of the RT playing the recorded message pic.twitter.com/ACPMn1xxLc

— basedengland8 (@basedengland8) December 26, 2020

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 26, 2020•0•WTF?

Ontario enters provincewide lockdown in effort to curb rising COVID-19 case counts

I hope l don’t have to use this pic again next year.

A provincewide lockdown meant to bring down COVID-19 case counts takes effect today in Ontario.

The restrictions will remain in place for southern Ontario until Jan. 23, but will lift for northern Ontario on Jan. 9.

The move was announced on Monday after the provincial government took part in emergency talks last weekend.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 26, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from all of us at BCF!

Thank you all for making this year brighter.

May we all be blessed in the New Year.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 26, 2020•0•Christmas

Clergyman tweets that Christmas season is about God choosing a woman to lead a revolution of reorganizing the structures of societal power

In case leftists haven’t perpetrated enough hoaxes or issued enough preposterous statements for you lately, here is another. United Church of Christ Rev. Jes Kast recently posted on Twitter: “Christmas season is about God choosing a woman to lead a revolution of re-organizing the structures of societal power by her leadership, tenderness, and faith.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 25, 2020•0•WTF?

Democrat Governors Freed the Criminals and Killed the Elderly

They released criminals to protect them from the virus – and locked nursing home patients in with the virus.

In March, Governor Cuomo’s administration ordered nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients and prohibited even testing incoming patients for the virus. The same month that Cuomo began the process of infecting countless nursing home residents with the virus, he also began freeing thousands of criminals from prison to protect them from the virus

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 25, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas

Last week, shortly before he gave us no choice, Boris Johnson urged us to have ourselves “a very little Christmas.” His words were, of course, a reference to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, a song which I used to hate.

First sung by Judy Garland, it’s been covered countless times — mostly in syrup. I blame Frank Sinatra, whose schmaltzy 1957 version smothered the essential sadness of the melody and lyrics. Indeed, he had the words rewritten. Thus “next year all our troubles will be out of sight” became “from now on, our troubles will be out of sight”.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 25, 2020•0•Christmas

‘We’re Not Doing Anything Wrong’: This Pennsylvania Brewery Refuses To Obey State’s Indoor Dining Ban

It’s a few days before Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and there is plenty of room at Seven Sirens Brewing Company.

The brewery’s 7,000-square-foot tasting room has a fire code capacity of 320, but during happy hour on Monday, there are only about a dozen patrons scattered around the place, sitting in ones and twos at socially distanced tables and sipping beers served by two masked bartenders. Whether they know it or not, everyone here is engaged in an act of civil disobedience, challenging Pennsylvania’s ban on indoor drinking and dining that will continue through New Year’s Day, at least. It’s a policy that assumes all establishments in the state are equally risky—that a tiny, crowded diner or coffee shop is no different than a massive, mostly empty beer hall.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 25, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

‘Lasting honour’: Battle for Hong Kong ended on Christmas Day 1941 and Capt. John Reid was among the Canadians there

By December 22, Mount Cameron, several miles north of Reid’s Regimental Aid Post, had become the linchpin of West Brigade’s defensive line as the Japanese forced their way from the east. The position was held by only 100 Winnipeg Grenadiers, reinforced by a platoon of British Royal Engineers — all that could be spared. After raining Mount Cameron’s defenders with artillery and mortar fire, the Japanese attacked during the evening with 1,000 troops. The Grenadiers and Royal Engineers fought back ferociously, but a Japanese breakthrough on their right flank threatened to encircle their position and forced their withdrawal northward to Wan Chai Gap. In his postwar debriefing in October 1945, Reid recalls the confusion of this night…

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•WW II, WW II History

CBS Frets Too Much E-MAILING Contributes to Global Warming

On Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, correspondent Mark Phillips devoted a full report to fretting that all the e-mailing and computer usage, as well as other ways people consume energy at home, is actually counterracting the environmental “silver lining” that liberals have tried to take comfort in during the pandemic as fewer people drive to work.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•Green-Scam

The long legacy of looting – A history of rioting in Chicago

The causes of violent rioting and looting are complicated and often include real, unaddressed grievances. One thing is clear, though: looting has few winners and many losers. The losers in the long run are often those breaking the windows and making off with the bling.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•"Depolicing"

Reader Fave Christmas Carols… Christmas Day Part 2

Enjoy! Merry Christmas and thank you for making this such a great year!

The Kinks “Father Christmas”

From Truthserum – Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas

Libera – Carol of the Bells

From Dana Garcia – Johnny Cash & June Carter – Christmas With You

From Mauser – Alabama – Christmas in Dixie

From Grainger – Ave Maria – Franz Biebl

From Norman – Handel’s Messiah Amen chorus

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•Christmas

Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations

Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of stickers on fuel pumps to warn drivers of the resulting dangers posed by the climate crisis.

The final design of the bright yellow stickers, shared with the Guardian, includes text that warns drivers the burning of gasoline, diesel and ethanol has “major consequences on human health and the environment including contributing to climate change”.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•WTF?

William Watson: The ghost of Trudeau père

Fathers have to deal with sons, and sons with fathers. Such is life since a couple of globs in the primordial goop invented sexual reproduction. Justin Trudeau is into his second government and sixth year in power. We can now begin to compare father and son, each born to wealth, each seen as a dilettante until entering Parliament, at 46 in the case of the father, 37 for the son.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•Canada