Author: Blazingcatfur

Habeas Corpus

The rampage of John Robichaud, the Boston underworld’s version of Michael Myers

I could do the rest of my time on Block 10 standing on my head!” he hollered at the deputy superintendent of Walpole State Prison after a hearing didn’t go his way. “How do you think you’re going to straighten me out—you fuckin’ knob-head guinea!” He’d target every authority figure he could—“From now on, you better keep your right up!” Especially the guards—“Why don’t you resign like Angus did? You’re yellow just like him, I scared him, and now you’re scared!” He threw his urine and stools at them so often that they wore raincoats during their rounds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Still Not Dead: Canadian students hunger-strike for college to divest from Israel-linked firms

A group of students at McGill University have spent more than three weeks on hunger strike in an effort to force the Canadian college to divest from “companies supporting the Israeli military”.

The move follows months of protests and sit-ins at McGill and at universities around the world, as students and faculty members have protested against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Documents on McGill’s website show that it held investments in companies including Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor which has sold fighter jets to Israel, and Safran, a French air and defense company.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, WTF?

The Nazi hunter, the IRA and the man who met the Queen

A Nazi hunter with ties to Israeli intelligence was given access to some of the IRA’s most sensitive secrets just when the group believed it was about the drive Britain out of Northern Ireland.

An upcoming BBC documentary follows the story of Zwy Aldouby.

Right at the bloodiest point of the Northern Ireland Troubles, he filmed bombers unmasked and met most of the IRA’s underground leadership.

The film disappeared for almost 50 years and former IRA members have now told the BBC it was a huge mistake to allow Aldouby such unprecedented access.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Biden Administration’s Jitterbug with Iran’s Regime

In the intricate and often perilous world of international relations, every decision carries weight, consequences, and the potential to shape the course of events. At the heart of this delicate dance lies the Biden administration’s policy towards Iran — a policy that has been veering dangerously off-course, betraying not only the principles of national security but also the essence of American values.

The recent decision to shower Iran, the “leading state sponsor of global terrorism,” with yet another $10 billion in sanctions waivers, “freeing up $10 billion elsewhere to spend on terrorism, missiles, nuclear weapons and the repression of Iranian women,” defies logic and morality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Putin Claims Suspected Terror Shooters Attempted to Flee Into Ukraine

(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to punish those behind a “barbaric terrorist attack” on a Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine.

Kyiv has strongly denied any connection, and Putin made no reference to claims of responsibility by the Islamic State in his first public remarks on the attack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia

OMG! NOT A REBUKE!! MPs looking to have ArriveCan contractor rebuked by Speaker of the House of Commons

MPs are looking to bring an ArriveCan contractor before the House of Commons to be formally rebuked by Speaker Greg Fergus.

On Friday, Fergus found there was a prima facie breach of MPs’ privilege when GC Strategies’ Kristian Firth declined to answer certain questions during a committee appearance earlier this month.

Following Fergus’ ruling, Conservative MP Michael Barrett moved a motion calling on MPs to order that Firth appear before the bar of the House to be publicly admonished.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

CNN Scoffs ‘World Is Upside Down’ As Michigan Poll Shows Trump Up 20 On Israel/Gaza

CNN’s Dana Bash took time on Friday’s edition of Inside Politics to discuss some of the network’s latest polling data that showed Donald Trump with a 20-point lead over Joe Biden on who would do a better job on the issue of Israel and Gaza. Bash simply couldn’t believe as she scoffed that “the world is upside down.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

SBF repeatedly lied to get out of “supervillain” prison term, FTX CEO alleges

FTX CEO: “The harm was vast. The remorse is nonexistent.”

The CEO of FTX Trading, John Ray, sent a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan Wednesday to correct what he called “callously” and “demonstrably false” claims that disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried made in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence for crimes including defrauding FTX customers.

In a sentencing memo, Bankman-Fried asked the court to drastically slash his prison sentence from what he considered a “grotesque” 110-year maximum to five to six years. Prosecutors have suggested the sentence should be between 40 and 50 years, but Bankman-Fried claimed such a sentence painted him as a “depraved supervillain,” Bloomberg reported.

The lightest sentence was appropriate, Bankman-Fried claimed, because the “most reasonable estimate of loss” and “harm” to customers, lenders, and investors is “zero.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

GUNTER: Federal bureaucracy a seven-layer dip of management

With respect to the adage “No one can serve two masters,” that’s unfortunate because Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux calculates that the average federal frontline worker has seven managers.

We may finally have discovered why the current federal government is incapable of getting anything done. There are so many layers of management piled one on top of another that very little gets done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Sex reassignment in minors may be medical history’s ‘greatest ethical scandal’, French report says

French Senators want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”.

The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.

The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"