Author: Blazingcatfur

British Ruling Pins Blame on Social Media for Teenager’s Suicide

The internet, according to the ruling, “affected her mental health in a negative way and contributed to her death in a more than minimal way.”

Sitting in the witness box of a small London courtroom this week, a Meta executive faced an uncomfortable question: Did her company contribute to the suicide of a 14-year-old named Molly Russell?

Videos and images of suicide, self-harm and depressive content that the teenager viewed in the months before she died in November 2017 appeared on a screen in the courtroom. The executive was read a post that Molly had liked or saved from Instagram, and heard how it was copied almost verbatim in a note filled with words of self-loathing later found by her parents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up"

Ukraine war: Russian troops forced out of eastern town Lyman

Russia has withdrawn its troops from the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman, in a move seen as a significant setback for its campaign in the east.

The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in the town, Russia’s defence ministry said.

Recapturing Lyman is of strategic significance for Ukraine.

The town had been used as a logistics hub by Russia, and could give Ukrainian troops access to more territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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

Backstage chaos, fears still fresh from 2017 Las Vegas music fest massacre

Five years after a lone gunman opened fire from a Las Vegas hotel on a country music festival crowd, there is little comfort and no answers to what triggered the massacre of scores of people — the worst mass shooting America had ever witnessed.

Today, a memorial at the northeast corner of festival grounds that turned into a killing field is still in the planning stages by Clark County government officials, who hope the victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, bloodshed are never forgotten.

The memories of that carnage still haunt country music executive J.R. Schumann.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Portland retiree dealing with homeless thieves: ‘At some point your compassion just runs out’

“It’s pure hell,” said Bambi Alvey, who has lived in the retirement community for 10 years. “I wake up every morning looking out my window at the homeless people looking through my window back at me.”…

“Every morning I go out, I look at my window to see what they have stolen out of my yard,” added Yvonne McKown who has been living there for eight years…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Iranians only want one thing: replacement of the terrorist regime

Iran’s Islamic regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. The regime’s greatest victims are the Iranian people.

Iranians have been fighting to be free for the last 43 years. A series of protests have broken out in Iran after the killing of a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, who was beaten to death by the morality police in Tehran.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence

Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops

Fed up with stoned visitors and worried by hard-drug criminality, the mayor wants to clean up the city. But will it work?

Strumming gently at a guitar, outside the “nicest” coffee shop in Amsterdam, French tourists Terry Novel and Manon Fouquet enjoy a quiet joint in the sun.

They have no idea of the dark cloud around them and the cannabis sector in Amsterdam. The council has just spent a day debating whether to ban tourists from cafes such as Coffeeshop The Rookies – where the state currently turns a blind eye to foreigners smoking weed and taxes the profits.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHolland, Marijuana

Why the left keeps smearing its political rivals as Hitlers or Mussolinis

Dr. Pepper Nazi Hitler

Want to be Hitler? You don’t have to hate Jews, invade Poland or grow a silly mustache. There’s only one thing you have to do: Win an election against the left, or even look like you might.

We’ve seen that for years, of course. Democrats have likened every GOP presidential candidate back to Tom Dewey to the Austrian corporal.

When the Tea Party movement — best known for leaving the sites of its protests cleaner than it found them, in stark contrast to lefty groups like Occupy or BLM — appeared on the scene, they were immediately likened to Hitler’s brownshirts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"NAZIS! NAZIS EVERYWHERE!"

The ‘freedom convoy’ will keep driving our politics

The so-called “freedom convoy” that blocked Parliament Hill and several Canada-U.S. border crossings may have dispersed earlier this year, but it won’t be leaving our political conversation anytime soon. At least, not if opponents of the federal Conservative Party and their new leader, Pierre Poilievre, have anything to say about it.

The most recent polling Ipsos conducted for Global News shows why.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Canada’s merger laws let companies ‘extinguish competitive threats,’ new report says

Lax merger laws in Canada underestimate the harm to competition caused by mergers and overestimate their benefits, a new report says.

Gaps in Canada’s merger laws have failed to prevent the kind of acquisitions that allow big firms to “extinguish competitive threats and entrench their dominance,” according to the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Canada is Crony Capitalism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Regulating vehicle sales will make life even more unaffordable for Canadians

Canadians are facing a cost-of-living crisis due to soaring prices for everything from transportation to housing, clothing, and food. Nearly three in four Canadians report that rising prices are affecting their ability to meet day-to-day expenses.

Now life is about to get even more expensive for Canadians with the federal government’s plan to regulate vehicle sales.

Sales regulations restrict the gas-powered vehicles available to Canadians, no matter how fuel efficient or for what purpose they are needed. Given the price gap between gas-powered vehicles and zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), that means low- and middle-income, rural, remote and Northern Canadians will bear the brunt of this misguided policy.

It’s the Star so ultimately the author believes EV’s will be our salvation by just throwing more money at them!

No mention of how these deadweights will be charged every evening of course. That’s funny given the Star just published an article about the extension granted the aged Pickering Nuclear station in light of anticipated power shortages.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Overflowing garbage, broken transit, decrepit ferries — Toronto, can’t we do better?

There’s a labyrinth installation in the little Trinity Square Park tucked behind the Eaton Centre — a winding path to “quiet the mind,” in the heart of Toronto’s hustle and bustle. If you visited it in late September, and wandered through its meandering route, you’d have ultimately come to the centre — the heart of your meditative journey, perhaps, the moment of enlightenment — only to be tripped up when you encountered a gaping jagged hole where bricks forming the path were missing, covered in caution tape.

Aha. If you were contemplating the state of Toronto on your journey, you’d have found a piece of the answer: stuff is falling apart.

Toronto has a lot working against it.  For starters it’s run by progressives for progressives.

Its schools are so progressive in fact that menstruating girls are segregated for being impure during in-school Islamic prayer rituals. Just like in Progressive Iran where women are murdered for removing their hijabs.  Contrary to the the city’s motto diversity is not a strength, it is a recipe for a low trust society.

Progressives know how to waste money on worthless endeavors. John Tory is great at proclaiming Left-Handed Vegan Transvestite Amputee Day but little else.

Toronto has 40,739 employees* most unionized. How they can’t fill potholes is beyond me. Maybe designating all pot holes as LGBTQ2S killers would result in better performance.

It won’t get better. Progressive cities only ever spiral into the dirt. Just check in with the residents of Portland or San Francisco.  Taxes go up, services slide, crime rises, businesses leave and white flight follows.

* From the City of Toronto web site – The information above does not capture employees working in the City’s Agencies, Boards or Commissions (TTC, Police, Library, Association of Community Centres, etc.), Accountability Offices, or elected officials.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Mendicino says Alberta’s resistance to federal gun buyback plan is ‘reckless’ and ‘a political stunt’

Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling Alberta Justice Minister and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro’s plan to direct RCMP in the province not to enforce confiscations of prohibited firearms “reckless,” and is amounting it to “a political stunt” that won’t hold up.

On Sept. 26, Shandro made headlines when he announced he had advised the head of the RCMP in Alberta not to take officers off the streets for this purpose, citing a dispute clause in the Provincial Police Service Agreement— saying the “confiscation program” was not a priority.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Canada supports Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, Mélanie Joly says

OTTAWA—Russia’s war on Ukraine escalated sharply Friday after President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed four eastern Ukraine territories, prompting Kyiv to apply for fast-track membership in NATO and the U.S. and Canada to promise more support.

In Moscow, Putin renewed threats to use tactical nuclear weapons and blamed the West for sabotaging Russia-built undersea gas pipelines to Germany — an accusation the White House flatly rejected.

In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly condemned Putin’s latest moves, including “sham” votes this week that were “political theatre” to justify Friday’s “illegitimate” annexations.

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