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Rookie cop attacked by alleged Muslim with machete near Times Square

A rookie NYPD police officer on his first day on the job was attacked with a machete on New Year’s Eve just blocks Times Square — and police are probing whether the suspect is a recently radicalized Islamic extremist, according to police sources.

The officer — who graduated Friday and was assigned to a Staten Island precinct but was working the New Year’s Eve detail for the night — was stationed at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue when the machete-wielding madman approached him and two other officers around 9:30 p.m., NYPD sources told The Post.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023January 1, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

We need a serious political discussion about crime in Canada

Despite what we might wish to believe, we have a real problem here. A Canadian was murdered every 11 hours in 2021; our homicide rate is four times worse than Italy’s.

The warmth of this year’s festive period was undeniably dampened by horrific incidents of violent crime that rattled Canadians to their core. A shocking mass shooting at a condo building in Vaughan, an appalling tale of young girls allegedly stabbing an unhoused man to death in downtown Toronto, and a spate of increasing random attacks on the TTC combined to produce a most dispiriting and tragic holiday news cycle.

But no matter the time of year in which these violent acts unfold, their occurrence and nature point to a deeper truth, one often buried or obscured but made all too clear in recent weeks: Canada has a serious crime problem.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•Crime

Isis has army in waiting, warns US

Islamic State has an “army in waiting” in prisons and displacement camps across Iraq and Syria, the American military has warned in its annual report on the challenge the group still presents across the Middle East.

There are 20,000 Isis fighters and leaders in detention in Iraq and a further 10,000 in Syria, the US central command report said. On top of that, there are 25,000 children in camps like the al-Hawl facility in northeast Syria who are the “potential next generation of Isis”, it said.

“These children in the camp are prime targets for Isis radicalisation,” it said. “The international community must work together to remove these children from this environment by repatriating them to their countries or communities of origin while improving conditions in the camp.”

Nuke em.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

The future of Toronto’s downtown — will remote workers return to the core?

In recent months, Toronto’s transit system has ramped up service, students have returned to in-person classes and daycares are up and running once again.

Things almost seem like they did before COVID-19 changed the world. But despite the gradual return to normal, you might notice the city feels emptier.

A November report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Data Lab analyzed foot traffic trends in cities across the country from January 2020 to September 2022. It found foot traffic in Toronto’s downtown core is 46 per cent lower than before the pandemic hit — a stark contrast to places like Brampton, Brantford and Barrie, where foot traffic actually increased.

Toronto is a pretty dull, Karen’y city and its downtown is unattractive and cold especially in winter.

I don’t blame anyone for not returning.

It doesn’t take much to best living in the downtown core.

Just a place where you could afford to live rather than subsist would be a good start.

A park or ravine without or at least with fewer addicts, drunks and the mentally ill.

A place where it still makes sense to report a crime.

A place where the municipal government and school board hasn’t declared a DEI or CRT race war on you and your family.

A place that hasn’t declared war on your car.

A place where you knew your taxes weren’t being wasted on reparations for minor attracted illegal alien transgendered cannibal animists on bail for gun crimes.

A place where you didn’t have to dream like this.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Inside Ukraine’s fight to purge the Orthodox Church of suspected Russian spies

Suspicions that places of worship are being used to hide Kremlin collaborators have returned with a vengeance

At the foot of a steep wooded hill on the banks of the Siversky Donets river, a white stone statue of the Virgin Mary guards an artillery-scorched wasteland.

The bridge is broken, the homes and shops on the opposite bank reduced to matchwood and rubble.

The white walls of the monastery to her left bear deep shrapnel wounds. She herself is untouched except for her hands, which were blown off by an early salvo of Russian artillery in March.

It was, the monks here decided, a sign.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Boosted Worse Off Than Vaccinated in Many States, Data Show

People in the United States who have received COVID-19 boosters in many states are more likely than those who have gotten just a primary series to get infected, receive hospital care, and die, according to an Epoch Times investigation.

Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among the boosted have been increasing since the booster shots were first introduced in 2021. The boosters were promoted as bolstering protection against adverse outcomes. But, compared to the vaccinated who have not received any boosters, boosted people are testing positive, being hospitalized, and dying at higher levels in many states, according to the review, which went over data in the first two quarters of 2022.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

Erasing History: West Point to Eliminate Robert E. Lee’s Presence

How can we learn from our history if it’s removed from view?

History is a bit like Otto von Bismarck’s famous line about sausages and laws, which, he said, no one should watch being made. Think of all the people you’ve seen in pictures and statues or on coins and currency. Consider figures captured in busts and memorialized in books. Visualize military conquerors and nation builders.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture"

Might Michel Houellebecq become the next Salman Rushdie?

In August this year Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times. The novelist survived the attack, to the outward relief of the West. Prominent figures from the world of religion, politics and the arts offered their unqualified support to Rushdie as he lay in a New York hospital, recovering from the 12 knife wounds to his body.

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, whose city in recent years has been targeted on several occasions by Islamist extremists, tweeted her support for Rushdie, a writer she described as ‘inspiring and a free man’.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Minn. professor reportedly fired after Muslim students complain he showed historic depiction of Prophet Muhammad

When it comes to denigrating Christianity in America there are few guardrails, but there continues to be a whole other standard when it comes to the Muslim faith.

The latest example of this can be seen in Minnesota, where a liberal arts professor at Hamline University in St. Paul was reportedly fired after Muslim students complained that he showed historic depictions of Muhammad on a Powerpoint display while discussing Islamic art.

The unidentified professor “shared two depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in class, the Hamline Oracle reported — one being a 14th century depiction of the Prophet and the other was a 16th century depiction of the Prophet with veil and halo.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The macabre research of PhD student charged over four gruesome murders

The mugshot showed him staring impassively into the camera after police descended on a house in the quiet community of Effort, deep in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania, to lead him away.

Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old doing a PhD in criminology, was wanted for the knife murder of four students at the University of Idaho 2,500 miles away. His arrest was the first big breakthrough in a case that had baffled police, sparked a series of online conspiracy theories and terrorised the small college town of Moscow, Idaho, where the murders were discovered almost seven weeks ago.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2023December 31, 2022•0•Crime

Dinner for One

English subtitles.

European New Year’s Eve TV staple Dinner for One to get prequel treatment

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•WTF?

Prince Andrew braced as accuser Virginia Giuffre to be freed from gagging clause

Agreement signed by Duke of York will come to an end in February, which could mean allegations resurface once more

The Duke of York is braced for his sex abuse accuser to return to the public eye as a gagging clause signed by both parties is lifted in February.

Prince Andrew paid millions to settle a civil case with Virginia Giuffre earlier this year, securing a deal that bought him just one-year of silence. The Duke did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the civil case settlement.

However, that agreement will come to an end within weeks, meaning that Ms Giuffre, who now lives in Australia with her husband and children, will be once again likely to be free to talk about the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•"Woke Royals"

The fire in Morrissey now

Wise words from man wearing cat on his head.

Why the perpetual outsider offends all the right people.

A minor controversy over a major event arose at the start of Morrissey’s career, and a similar experience may soon plague him in the present. Common to both are children, murder and Manchester. What has changed throughout the intervening years is the nature of controversy. What has changed is the nature of those taking offence. It was once the reactionary and the conservative, now it is the radical and the progressive. It was once the old, now it is the young. ‘Manchester, so much to answer for’, he sang in 1984, recalling the bodies on Saddleworth Moor from the 1960s of his childhood. The tragedy of the Moors murders continued to resonate. That’s how the nation grieved back then. It allowed itself to mourn; it allowed itself to be angry. While some events were too sacred to be sung about. ‘Suffer Little Children’ became a tabloid story, hyped up into a minor controversy; the lyric provided a list of the lost. ‘We will be right by your side, until the day you die.’

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture"

Now Ray Epps Admits He ‘Orchestrated’ Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’

Ray Epps is the fellow who was caught on video multiple times telling pro-Trump protesters that they were going to have to storm the Capitol. Yet despite this clear evidence that he was a singular ringleader and instigator of what Democrats insist was an “insurrection” that threatened the very survival of our free republic, Epps has never been charged with insurrection or anything else, or even been arrested. Meanwhile, people who never told anyone to storm the Capitol have languished in prison without trial for nearly two years now, in shocking conditions. All this has given rise to the widespread and lingering suspicion that Ray Epps is a fed, a suspicion that Epps himself has just reinforced by telling his nephew that he “orchestrated” the events of that fateful day. Of course he did.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•USA, WTF?

Could Sam Bankman-Fried’s girlfriend help send him to jail?

Squint and you might think that not much has changed for Sam Bankman-Fried. The 30-year-old crypto tycoon spends his days hanging out at his parents’ $4 million home near Stanford University, in a neighbourhood populated by fellow academics employed by the renowned institution. He can relax by the pool and is visited by the occasional crypto influencer, or Michael Lewis, the Moneyball author who has been shadowing the boy-genius for months.

Look closer, though, and you will see that the street is barricaded, with security checking IDs to ensure the press can’t get through. Bankman-Fried is fitted with an ankle monitor — a condition of his house arrest — and on Tuesday, he will appear in a Manhattan court to face eight criminal charges related to what the government has dubbed an “epic fraud”. The stakes are very high: he could be sent to prison for at least 30 years, and his family might be left financially ruined.

by Blazingcatfur•December 31, 2022December 31, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime