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Six people are feared dead after historic WWII-era B-17 Flying Fortress and Bell P-63 Kingcobra planes collide in mid-air at Dallas airshow

Six people are feared dead after a historic World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress slammed into a P-63 Kingcobra plane in midair outside of Dallas, Texas on Saturday.

The two World War II-era planes collided in mid-air at the Wings Over Dallas event, sending debris flying and igniting a fire nearby.

Jason Evans, a Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman, told the Dallas Morning News that the crash occurred at around 1.30pm above the Dallas Executive Airport.

🚨#BREAKING: Mid-air collision reported at Dallas Airshow⁰⁰📌#Dallas l #Texas ⁰⁰Watch as two aircraft crash in A Mid-air collision reported at Wings Over Dallas Airshow in Texas the number of injuries are currently unknown One of the planes involved was a B-17 Bomber pic.twitter.com/GPf6Jxtf3P

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) November 12, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•WTF?

‘We received no help’: Texts shown at Emergencies Act inquiry show strain between Alberta, federal governments

Text messages entered into evidence at the Emergencies Act inquiry describe a testy exchange between feuding Alberta and federal ministers around the time the act was invoked.

At the time, the province was struggling with a blockade near a southern Alberta village. People protesting COVID-19 restrictions used large trucks and other vehicles to block commercial traffic to and from the U.S. at Coutts between Jan. 29 and Feb. 14.

About a week into the blockade, Alberta turned to Ottawa to ask about the possibility of using Canadian Armed Forces tow trucks to remove the blockade vehicles after local tow operators rejected RCMP requests.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

There is nothing innocent about the false presumption of Indigenous identity

In recent years, there have been a series of high-profile media exposés of people who are falsely taking on an Indigenous identity. They are being called “pretendians.” The word blends “pretend” with “Indians.” It’s a cute word, too cute. The use of the word pretend makes it sound like a game, like something fun, like action with no consequences. People don’t cause harm when they pretend, and pretending has an air of innocence about it because that’s what children do.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•Aboriginal Issues

Historic Drought Causing Mississippi River to Dry Up

WASHINGTON — The serious drought in much of the United States over the past several months is having an impact on the Mississippi River, the second-longest river in the country after the Missouri River.

The Mississippi’s water levels fell so low in some places that they surpassed records set more than 30 years ago.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

New poll finds Ron DeSantis has 7-point edge over Trump in 2024 presidential primary

A new national poll gives Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a 7-point edge over former President Donald Trump in a potential presidential primary battle, the first survey of the 2024 cycle to do so — and the first poll since February 2016 to point to a weakening of Trump’s GOP dominance.

The YouGov poll, released Friday, found that 42% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents prefer DeSantis over Trump as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer, while 35% of those surveyed remain in the 45th president’s corner.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•Republican Party

‘We don’t trust you anymore’: Moment group of 70 Russian wives march to frontline in the cold to find their partners and demand their commanders send them home

This is the emotional moment wives of mobilised Russian men – who ‘hid under corpses to survive’ – travelled close to the frontline to find their retreating husbands and demand commanders return them home from Putin’s war hell.

Up to 70 women had set off on foot from Belgorod to occupied Luhansk region in search of their spouses following a ‘massacre’ blamed on inept senior officers.

Some of the wives reached the men – who have pulled back from the frontline – and confronted commanders who have so far refused to permit them to leave the war zone.

#Ukraine: The Ukrainian 22nd Motorized Infantry Battalion used a claimed 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika artillery strike to hit a Russian T-80BV tank in #Luhansk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/osYpYHuNCw

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 12, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Another Day, Another CNN Discovery of Something Racist

Maintaining the illusion that there is “systemic racism” in the United States, where racial discrimination has been against the law for six decades, requires constant propagandizing, but never fear: CNN is up to the job. On Wednesday, it ran a lengthy, weepy piece entitled “‘Stacked against you’: Critics say the lottery system is preying on poor communities.” Yes, that’s right: Powerball is racist now.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•WTF?

Are autumn vaccine boosters linked to deaths running at 12% above average?

THE excess deaths crisis continues, with 1,232 – 12.3 per cent above the five-year average – registered in England and Wales in the week ending October 28, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Of these, 804 were attributed to an underlying cause other than Covid-19, bringing the total excess non-Covid deaths since the wave began in April to 23,287.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

The truth about eco-fascism

Environmentalism has been hijacked by the technocrats

By now, you have probably heard about the rising threat of “eco-fascism”. If you haven’t, you soon will, because the number of people warning about this new danger to civilisation seems to be growing exponentially. In publications Right and Left and neither, you’ll be able to read long expositions of the origins and intentions of this frightening movement, which seems to be taking root all over the world.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2022November 12, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

The rise of the celebrity oversharer

We would ‘respect their privacy at this difficult time’ — if only they’d let us

Bella Hadid ate burritos today, in case anyone was wondering. Kourtney Kardashian had a smoothie and Paris Hilton had a facial. These snippets of celebrity lives have become so accessible through social media that many of us see these characters more than our family members. But lately, along with recipes and promotions of their new album, fans are increasingly seeing too much.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•Celebrity Idiots

An overweight bloke just won a Miss America beauty pageant

The first trans winner of ‘Miss Greater Derry’ has put the misogyny of transgenderism on full display.

Did you know that men’s legs, which tend to have better muscle definition than women’s, are often used to advertise hosiery? It seems men really do make the best women sometimes. Further proof of this came this week when a 19-year-old bloke called Brían was crowned ‘Miss Greater Derry’ at a Miss America beauty pageant. To look at the photos, one could be forgiven for thinking it was a social-media hoax. A woman of his, let’s say, bulk would have been laughed off stage.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•Big Tranny, WTF?

‘Putin kaput, glory to Ukraine!’ Inside Kherson as it celebrates liberation

Crowds of euphoric residents lined the streets of Kherson today waving yellow and blue Ukrainian flags in greeting as their troops rolled into the city after eight months of brutal Russian occupation.

“Glory to the Ukrainian armed forces! Glory to Ukraine!” they chanted. A cardboard sign taped to a lamppost in Freedom Square read: “Putin kaput!”

Historic scenes of jubilation in Kherson following the city’s liberation from Russian occupation. Amazing to think that just weeks ago, the Kremlin tried to convince the world that that these people wanted to join Russia pic.twitter.com/Q6k9LSP9Ht

— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) November 12, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Islamist radicals claimed girls were being kidnapped by Hindus to stoke tensions in Leicester, report finds

Islamist radicals claimed girls were being kidnapped and harassed by Hindus to inflame community tensions in Leicester and other English cities, a report has claimed.

Influencers used social media platforms with thousands of followers to spread false rumours about the activities of Hindu nationalists, it stated.

The Henry Jackson Society think-tank claims that disinformation about attacks on Muslims prompted a backlash against the Hindu community.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Internal Documents Show How Close the F.B.I. Came to Deploying Spyware

WASHINGTON — During a closed-door session with lawmakers last December, Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., was asked whether the bureau had ever purchased and used Pegasus, the hacking tool that penetrates mobile phones and extracts their contents.

Mr. Wray acknowledged that the F.B.I. had bought a license for Pegasus, but only for research and development. “To be able to figure out how bad guys could use it, for example,” he told Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, according to a transcript of the hearing that was recently declassified.

But dozens of internal F.B.I. documents and court records tell a different story.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•"Surveillance Society"

Canada will soon allow assisted dying for mental illness. Has there been enough time to get it right?

The date whispers in Julie Leblanc’s mind when she is feeling most hopeless. It tugs at her thoughts when, for days, she forgets to eat, or doesn’t shower. She thinks about it more than she knows she should.

On March 17, assisted dying will become legal for Canadians with a mental disorder as their sole condition, and Ms. Leblanc can apply.

She has been struggling with mental illness since she was 8 years old. At 13, she was prescribed her first trial of anti-depressants; now at 31, she has tried too many medications to count, and spent much of her life either in therapy or waiting on a list to receive it. Bounced between doctors, she has been given multiple diagnoses – depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2022November 12, 2022•0•MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide