Author: Blazingcatfur

Virginia teacher shot by six-year-old says that the school had been told three times boy was armed but failed to act

A Virginia teacher who was shot by a disabled six-year-old pupil texted a loved one an hour before she was wounded to say the boy was armed and school officials were failing to act, a source has revealed.

Abbey Zwerner, 25, had just finished reading a story when the child pulled out the handgun and shot her in the chest in front of her first grade class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on January 6.

A source close to the investigation told NBC that Zwerner messaged a loved one saying she was ‘frustrated because she was trying to get help with this child, for this child, and then when she needed help, no one was coming.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Terence Corcoran: Calling on CEO ‘silent majority’ to speak up

Just before Christmas, Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota Motors, told reporters that he doubts automakers should be attempting to shift all their production away from fossil-fuel power to focus exclusively on electric vehicles (EVs). General Motors, for example, is publicly committed to an “all-electric future” within a few years. The CEO of Toyota, however, says such objectives may not be grounded in business and economic realities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Most Canadians pessimistic about Canada’s economy, survey finds

As many as 62 per cent of respondents described current economic condition in Canada as “bad” or “very bad”, up five points since Research Co. conducted a similar story in July 2022. In addition, just 35 per cent of Canadians (down five points) rate the economic conditions tight now as “very good” or “good”.

When it comes to their own personal finances, 51 per cent of respondents described their personal finances as “very good” or “good,” which is down six points, while 47 per cent (up six points) defined them as “poor” or “very poor.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Governments Doubled Down on Lockdowns After Evidence Proved They Were Ineffective: Professor

A newly released essay by Douglas Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, examines why governments repeatedly used lockdowns during COVID-19 even after it became clear lockdowns were ineffective and “failed to isolate the virus and stop it from spreading.”

Lockdowns were sustained with political support, suggests Allen, and lockdowns had “many winners.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Ontario claims $75M stolen in ‘kickback schemes’ run by alleged ringleader of COVID-19 fraud

The Ontario government is alleging that as much as $75 million in taxpayers’ money was stolen as part of elaborate “kickback schemes” in the awarding of computer contracts.

In a dramatic expansion of the province’s civil case against the ex-bureaucrat accused in the alleged $11 million theft of COVID-19 relief funds, the Crown claims at least nine others are involved in a separate “conspiracy” dating back more than a decade.

“The plaintiff (the Ontario government) paid out approximately $40 million pursuant to FFSCs (fee-for-service contracts) resulting from the kickback schemes. The secret commissions totalled approximately $35 million,” government lawyers say in Ontario Superior Court civil filings.

WTF??

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Biden Admin Blasts Florida for Rejecting “Rape the White Girls” Poet

“Rape the white girls. Rape / their fathers. Cut the mothers’ throats.”

The media is still attacking Gov. DeSantis for rejecting an AP African-American class over BLM, queer theory, police defunding and general racism. The governor’s people have yet to note that it includes the writings of domestic terrorist Angela Davis or racist Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Swedish PM Addresses Continued Wave of Bombings, Shootings, and Deaths

Following the spiral of violence witnessed since Christmas which so far has seen some 20 shootings and explosive detonations across Sweden—mainly in the Stockholm area—that have resulted in at least two people losing their lives, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) called this past weekend’s wave of violence as “among the worst” to hit the country in a “very long time.”

While speaking to the Swedish state-run broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) on Monday, January 24th, the center-Right prime minister, who only assumed high office several months ago, did not mince his words, referring to those responsible for the violence, namely gang-related groups, “the domestic terrorists of our time.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Rogue AI ‘could kill everyone’

A rogue artificial intelligence system could kill everyone and the technology must be regulated in a similar way to nuclear weapons, MPs have been told.

Researchers from Oxford University told the science and technology committee that AI could eventually pose an “existential threat” to humanity. Just as humans wiped out the dodo, the machines might eradicate us, they said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Inside a Nuclear War Bunker Built to Save Canada’s Leaders

OTTAWA — Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Christine McGuire’s museum began receiving inquiries unlike anything she’d previously encountered during her career.

“We had people asking us if we still functioned as a fallout shelter,” said Ms. McGuire, the executive director of Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum. “That fear is still very real for people. It seems to have come back into the public psyche.”

The Diefenbunker still has most of the form and features of the nuclear fallout shelter it once was for Canadian government and military V.I.P.s. But the underground complex, decommissioned in 1994, has shifted from being a functioning military asset to being a potent symbol of a return to an age when the world’s destruction again seems a real possibility with a nuclear-armed Russia raising the specter of using the weapons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

In Ukraine, it appears America will soon be arming both side’s combatants

From Afghanistan to Putin

I happen to be one who believes that the escalating war in Ukraine is entirely Biden’s fault, that the current Ukraine government is completely corrupt, and that the entire thing, which has seen tens of thousands of Ukrainian deaths and the destruction of large swaths of that country, has become a profitable boondoggle for politicians and military contractors. Call me cynical or naïve, but that’s where I am. I also think the whole enterprise has taken on a truly hallucinatory quality, exacerbated by the news today: Putin is negotiating to buy abandoned American weapons from Afghanistan while Biden is sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. We will have armed both sides to the battle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Afghanistan, USA, WTF?

Furries vs feminists: a new nadir for the trans lobby

Next month, followers of what is known as the ‘furry fandom’ will descend on Glasgow for the ‘ScotiaCon’ convention, Scotland’s leading get-together for furries. Furries are people who identify with and often dress as anthropomorphised cartoon animals. At a glance, you could be forgiven for thinking that furries were children’s entertainers. But please, don’t try to book one for your kid’s birthday party.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

What’s the truth about casualty numbers in Ukraine?

Inaccurate and piecemeal information has been a fixture of this war

The Russia-Ukraine war looks set to be one of the bloodiest in modern history. Even by conservative estimates, both sides are losing hundreds of soldiers per day, putting it within the top 10% of deadliest wars since 1812.

Over the past week, two major military figures in the West appeared to confirm the scale of suffering. Last Friday, Norway’s Chief of Defence, General Eirik Kristoffersen, claimed that Russia has endured 180,000 casualties to Ukraine’s 100,000 (plus another 30,000 Ukrainian civilian casualties). Meanwhile, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said on Friday that Russian casualties are “significantly well over 100,00 now.” The Sun reports American intelligence services suggesting this figure is around 188,000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"