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Russia targets Ukraine’s hydroelectric dams with wave of missile attacks

Russia has launched a wave of cruise missiles at hydroelectric dams and other critical infrastructure across Ukraine, with explosions reported near the capital, Kyiv, and in at least 10 other cities and regions.

Ukraine’s air command said it shot down 44 out of 50 enemy rockets. Video footage suggested that several missiles were intercepted in the skies around Kyiv, soon after 8am local time. Air raid sirens went off nationally, with citizens told to seek shelter.

#Ukraine: A bad day for Mi-8 of both sides in the East- a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down by the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade in the vicinity of Berestove, #Donetsk Oblast, apparently using a MANPADS. pic.twitter.com/d66giwq7eK

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) October 31, 2022

Ouchy!

Watch until end!
Those Russian troops somewhere in Kherson Oblast in this footage got under Ukrainian artillery fire and frantically tried to escape. The end of the video shows how this concluded. #Ukraine #Kherson pic.twitter.com/UpLxWYZ7ar

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) October 30, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Freedom Convoy Inquiry: Sloly denied ever saying that he would ‘cut off Dave Springer’s nuts… and use them as bookends,’

Sparks fly in cross-examination of ex-chief Peter Sloly at Freedom Convoy inquiry

Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly denied, deflected or debated most negative assertions about his performance during the Freedom Convoy protests made by the force’s lawyer during a very testy cross-examination at the Emergencies Act inquiry.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Musk: Twitter board defrauded the court — and I own the evidence

“Stay tuned,” Elon Musk tweeted last night. Other than the midterm elections, are we tuned to anything else?

Just days after Musk closed the purchase of Twitter after a brief court battle over alleged fraud in the platform’s metrics, Musk claims he now has evidence to back it up — and to expose Twitter’s former masters…

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Jamie Sarkonak: The Liberals’ illiberal diversity plan for government purchases

If you’ve dismissed identity politics as frivolous, artificial and American, you may want to reconsider. For Canadian businesses dealing with the federal government, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is very real, and its impact can be very expensive. Not only that — it’s unfair and illiberal.

The good news is that Trudeau and his ministers will be sentenced to lengthy prison terms at the future Truth and Reconciliation hearings covering Liberal Party Acts Of Racism against Canadian Citizens.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•"Identity Politics", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Just Stop Oil activists target MI5 and Home Office buildings

Environmental activists have sprayed orange paint on buildings in central London, calling for the government to halt new oil and gas licences.

Just Stop Oil targeted buildings used by the Home Office, MI5, the Bank of England and News Corp.

The group said the buildings were chosen as they represented “the four pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy”.

The Metropolitan Police said six people have been arrested.

This bystander who has had enough, tackled a Just Stop Oil criminal vandalising the MI5 building, leaving them covered in their own orange paint.

Well done that man! What I like to see.👏🏼pic.twitter.com/67rFRTEVxl

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) October 31, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Nearly 20 per cent of Canadians skipping meals amid rising food costs: survey

The majority of respondents in a Canada-wide survey released Monday said they are using coupons or hunting for sales to cope with increasing food costs. Nearly 20 per cent were also reducing meal sizes or skipping meals altogether in order to save money.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Shanghai Disney shuts over COVID, visitors unable to leave

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Oct 31 (Reuters) – Shanghai’s Disney Resort abruptly suspended operations on Monday to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures, with all visitors at the time of the announcement directed to stay in the park until they return a negative test for the virus.

The resort said at 11:39 a.m. local time (03:39 GMT) it would immediately shut the main theme park and surrounding areas including its shopping street until further notice to comply with virus curbs.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

OPP profiled Randy Hillier, convoy organizers and far-right group during protests, documents show

The Ontario Provincial Police’s intelligence efforts during last winter’s convoy protests included preparing a detailed profile of a provincial politician who was advocating against pandemic restrictions, along with similar profiles of a former RCMP sniper, a far-right group, several convoy organizers and others, newly released documents show.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 31, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Greta Thunberg admits COP27 all about “greenwashing, lying and cheating”

Greta Thunberg: COP27 an opportunity for “greenwashing, lying and cheating”

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday called out next month’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being “held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights.”

Speaking at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre where she was promoting her new book, “The Climate Book”, 19-year-old Thunberg dismissed the looming climate summit, known as COP27, as an opportunity for “people in power… to [use] greenwashing, lying and cheating.”

That sums up the green-scam in general.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•Green-Scam

RCMP review prompted by employee’s arrest urges changes to bolster internal security

OTTAWA – A confidential RCMP review, conducted after the arrest of a senior employee for allegedly leaking classified information, calls for a fundamental shift in the security culture of the national police force to be led at the highest levels.

The newly disclosed report makes 43 recommendations, including training updates, stricter adherence to federal security screening standards and the possible introduction of random physical searches.

The review “confirms gaps in the security practices of the RCMP that could be closed or at least narrowed,” says a message in the report from the joint chairs of the exercise.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•RCMP

Rob Reiner Claims Trump ‘Directly’ Responsible for Attack on Paul Pelosi, Calls for Indictment

Director, actor, and longtime Democrat activist Rob Reiner blamed former President Donald Trump for the recent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, claiming it was “directly” tied to Trump challenging the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•Celebrity Idiots, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Pierre Poilievre urges Chrystia Freeland to make good on her internal missive that new programs be funded by budget cuts

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is challenging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland ahead of Thursday’s fall economic statement to make good on the instructions she gave cabinet ministers to fund new government programs with budget cuts.

In a note to Freeland Sunday citing Canada’s high inflation rate, interest rate hikes and the steep cost of living, Poilievre warned “the bubble is finally bursting and the bill is finally coming due.”

“For years my warnings that out-of-control spending would balloon inflation, and then interest rates, were ignored,” he wrote. “Now in a leaked letter the government seems to now agree with me.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•Canada

This Year, the Real Horror of Halloween is Rising Prices

Want to hear a scary story? Halloween is more expensive this year than ever before — thanks to inflation.

Sure, we’re seeing higher prices everywhere we go, but when you look at the different elements of Halloween, the picture is frightening.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•Halloween

‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry this week

OTTAWA – It was a scene of chaos and confusion in the upper tiers of the police service and local government when a convoy of big rigs and protesters arrived in Ottawa to demand an end to pandemic restrictions last winter.

That’s the picture witnesses have painted over the first couple of weeks of hearings at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is investigating the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act in February to bring an end to the weeks-long demonstration.

The inquiry also heard about the plight of the capital’s downtown residents, who recounted their suffering as lawlessness and around-the-clock blaring truck horns took over their community, and businesses that were forced to shut down.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

$7K hotel suites. $93K catering bills. Trudeau’s buying himself a populist backlash

Forty-eight-hundred pounds a night was far, far too much for Canadian taxpayers to shell out for any hotel room for any member of our delegation to the Queen’s funeral. It was too much at $6,000 Canadian — the converted figure the Toronto Sun’s Brian Lilley reported, based on documents received through access-to-information — and it was even more too much at $7,300 Canadian, which is what £4,800 was actually worth on the day of the funeral.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2022October 30, 2022•0•Justin Trudeau - Pissant