At least 35 killed in Pakistan after explosion at Islamist political rally

At least 35 people have been killed in an explosion in Pakistan during a rally organised by an Islamist party.

At least 200 people were also injured in the explosion in north-west Bajaur district, where Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) was holding a meeting.

Authorities have cordoned off the area and have warned the death toll is likely to rise further.

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Calgary man denied bail on terrorism charges related to TikTok video

CALGARY — A 20-year-old Calgary man has been denied bail on four terrorism-related charges that allegedly stemmed from a TikTok video.

Zakarya Rida Hussein was charged in June with two counts of facilitating terrorist activity and two counts of participating in or contributing to, directly or indirectly, an activity of a terrorist group.

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Transgender double-murderer Jessica Marie Hann who killed both her babies will receive taxpayer-funded BREAST IMPLANTS in California women’s jail’

Jason Michael Hann

A transgender murderer who killed both her babies and stuffed one of their bodies into a Tupperware container is to receive tax payer funded breast implants.

Jessica Marie Hann, born Jason Michael Hann, was sentenced to death in 2014 for murdering her 10 week old daughter Montana and her two month old son Jason in 2001 and 1999.

Hann was convicted over the killing of the two children after authorities discovered their decomposed bodies in storage units in Arkansas and Arizona.

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Canadian Households Get Left Behind As Real Disposable Income Falls

Canadian households are about to be hit with a demand limiting factor—income. Household disposable income growth is failing to keep up with inflation according to StatCan data. Even worse, once adjusted for inflation and the country’s booming population growth, it paints a dreary picture as debt problems surface.

Household disposable income is a household’s income after the net of mandatory transfers. Wages, and social security payments are examples of income included. Paying income taxes, and making social security contributions are examples of mandatory transfers. At a high level, it’s the income that’s left to spend after the government’s cut.

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Tennyson classed as ‘queer’ despite lack of evidence he was gay

Alfred, Lord Tennyson has been named as an LGBT historical figure on a tour for schools, despite a lack of evidence that the poet had any homosexual relationships.

Tennyson – went on to found Fleetwood Mac

The former poet laureate’s personal life has been swept up in a project aimed at “queering” the history of the Isle of Wight, and he has been included on a list of the island’s “notable LGBT people”.

While there is no clear evidence Tennyson was homosexual, the Isle of Wight residence where he lived with his wife of 42 years has been included in a tour of sights linked to LGBT figures whose stories may have been obscured by “cis/heteronormative narratives”.

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Human Rights Group Raises Concerns Over Chinese Canadian Museum’s Sidelining of MP Vocally Opposed to CCP

A human rights group is raising concerns about the Canadian government-funded Chinese Canadian Museum as it opens to the public this month, citing anomalies during the opening ceremony and some board members’ outspoken support of the Chinese communist regime.

The opening ceremony was held at the museum, housed in the historic Wing Sang Building in Vancouver’s Chinatown, on July 1. Dozens of politicians from all three levels of government were invited, including British Columbia Premier David Eby, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, and Mary Ng, the federal minister of international trade, export promotion, small business, and economic development.

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Have the Beckhams been ‘Markled’? David and Victoria’s close friendship with Meghan and Harry is ‘over’ after being left ‘absolutely furious’ at claims they leaked stories about the royal couple

Years ago when she was an actress, Meghan Markle often wrote in her blog The Tig about the group she called her ‘closest friends’. Some were soulmates, others were celebrities she met at showbiz events and parties. Gradually, that circle of chums broadened to include clothes designers, socialites and charity campaigners.

Among them were David and Victoria Beckham, who were guests at her wedding to Prince Harry at Windsor in 2018. However, their friendship seems to have died. Reciprocally, Meghan and Harry were not guests at the wedding of the Beckhams’ son Brooklyn to US heiress Nicola Peltz in April last year.

I think the in thing is to be Markled.

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‘I’m disappointed’: On the Liberal back benches, there’s grumbling about Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle

OTTAWA — Bruised egos and bewilderment about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s revamped front bench are surfacing in the Liberal caucus as the dust settles on this week’s federal cabinet overhaul.

Some Liberal MPs, many of whom spoke to the Star on the condition they not be named, are perplexed and disgruntled by a cabinet Trudeau is touting as a fresher and more energized governing team that is ready to tackle the country’s economic woes.

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Toronto man charged for alleged ISIS recruitment, fundraising campaign: RCMP

A Toronto man has been arrested and charged with terrorism offences for allegedly helping to recruit and fundraise for the Islamic State, the RCMP said Friday.

The charges against Khalilullah Yousuf come months after he was charged with similar offences in the United States for allegedly providing financial support to the terrorist organization.

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Air Force maverick who warned of war with China sticks to his guns

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — He’s been called a “big teddy bear,” a gruff “football coach” and a “cowboy” who needs to be put out to pasture. But one thing Gen. Michael A. Minihan is not: shy.
Here, where the suburbs of St. Louis meet the cornfields of southern Illinois, resides the four-star commander who, in uncommonly confrontational language for such a senior military officer, has ordered the 110,000 troops under his command to prepare for war.

With China.

Two years from now, maybe.

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Elon Musk’s Latest Mission: Rev Up the Electricity Industry

Elon Musk wants more power—literally.

The man behind the race to replace gasoline-fueled cars with electric ones is worried about having enough juice.

In recent days he has reiterated those concerns, predicting U.S. consumption of electricity, driven in part by battery-powered vehicles, will triple by around 2045. That followed his saying earlier this month that he anticipates an electricity shortage in two years that could stunt the energy-hungry development of artificial intelligence.

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The silent spy who made our world a safer place

Klaus Fuchs says nothing in Oppenheimer, but by giving the Russians atomic secrets he maintained a balance of power

There is a character in Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer who lurks in the background of many scenes; a tall, balding, shadowy figure without a single line of dialogue. But he is the second most important person in the story of the atomic bomb.

J Robert Oppenheimer built the bomb. And Klaus Fuchs stole it.

The Manhattan Project, and the Los Alamos Laboratory under Oppenheimer, produced the first nuclear weapons. The project cost some $2 billion (about $21 billion today) and employed 130,000 people. One of them was Fuchs, a brilliant physicist and a KGB agent, who passed those dangerous scientific secrets to Stalin, enabling the Soviet Union to build its own bomb.

Not an honourable act in my view.

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The UN’s climate alarmism has gone too far

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has declared that ‘the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived’. As if that were not enough, Guterres declared that ‘the air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable’.

Something is raging out of control but it isn’t the temperature: last week’s famous ‘heat domes’ have subsided, with only a few patches of southern Europe over 30ºC this afternoon. It is hyperbole over the climate.

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Feverish BBC Reporting on European ‘Heatwaves’ Debunked by Actual Temperature Readings

Last week’s heatwaves in southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without humans altering the climate, reports the BBC, quoting model-produced work rushed to press by World Weather Attribution (WWA). Humans caused the spell of Mediterranean summer heat to be 2.5°C higher, it was said. This latest study confirms what we knew before, says frequent BBC contributor and WWA founder Dr. Friederike Otto. More to the point, last week’s coverage of these heatwaves confirmed what we knew before – the BBC will pull out all the stops to promote weather fear in the cause of the collectivist Net Zero project.

h/t Mauser

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