Author: Blazingcatfur

Three key takeaways from the three-person Conservative leadership debate

On Wednesday night in Ottawa, three of the five Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates took part in the third and final official debate of the 2022 race.

Candidates Scott Aitchison, Roman Baber and Jean Charest delved into some of the top issues of the campaign.

The half-English and half-French debate saw the trio discuss leadership, Indigenous issues, transportation, climate change, affordability, rural affairs and health.

TERRAZZANO: Not all Conservatives oppose second carbon tax — but they should

When it comes to scrapping the Trudeau government’s carbon tax, the hardest decision Conservative leadership hopefuls have to make is whether they would scrap it before or after lunch on their first day if elected prime minister. The bigger question is whether a Conservative government would scrap the impending second carbon tax.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she didn’t know Kyiv embassy staff faced threat from Russia

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she and her department were unaware of intelligence reports delivered weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which diplomats in Kyiv were told Ukrainians who worked for the Canadian embassy there were likely on lists of people Moscow intended to detain or kill.

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

Man with sword, other ‘edged weapons,’ charged after vehicle rams Parliament Hill front gates

Ottawa police have arrested a man they say rammed a vehicle into the Parliament Hill gates while in possession of “edged weapons,” including a sword.

The driver, Maxwell Pate, 29, appeared in court later on Wednesday and was charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle and mischief. Pate was previously charged with two counts of assault with a weapon on May 2. He was out on release under the condition to possess no weapons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

So at 4 months …

August 2nd marked 4 months in hospice for my brother.

My sister-in-law and I arrived during “music class” this morning.

My brother was in attendance but soon began to nod in and out of consciousness and then appeared to spasm as if in a mild seizure.

We wheeled him back to his room and waited for the nurse to attend.

She monitored his vitals revealing a very low BP and heart rate, he continued to nod in and out becoming less “coherent” in response to questions.

They put him to bed via the lift and raised his feet.

I flagged down his doctor who was surprised at the sudden turn of events since it was she who had wheeled him to music class.

She was able to rouse him and over the next few minutes he became aware of his surroundings.

Slowly over the course of the afternoon he returned to “normal” even managing to eat some fruit and cheese.

He was not in discomfort and is one resilient fellow still we know his time is likely not long.

We will be back tomorrow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Treasure hunters in final dig for 10 tonnes of hidden Nazi gold

Treasure hunters seeking 10 tonnes of Nazi gold allegedly stashed under a crumbling palace in Poland say they have been given the go-ahead to dig up a canister which may contain the loot.

Since May last year, the Silesian Bridge Foundation, a Polish group of treasure hunters, has been digging for gold that they believe was stashed under the 18th century palace in the village of Minkowskie.

They believe that the treasure was taken from rich German families on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, the SS chief, and buried beneath a conservatory as a war chest for a future Fourth Reich.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Paper Tiger

Though it has achieved impressive historical growth, China’s centralized economic system is headed for trouble.

Americans have legitimate concerns about China—and, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan sparking new tensions, those concerns are only growing—but what many fail to see is that Beijing is not the economic juggernaut it is often believed to be. On the contrary, China’s economy has become increasingly fragile. To use a word heavily overworked these days, its problems are systemic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

Was al-Qaeda leader killed by bladed missile?

Just over an hour after sunrise on 31 July, long-time al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri walked out onto the balcony of a downtown Kabul compound – reportedly a favourite post-prayer activity of the veteran Egyptian jihadist.

It would be the last thing he would do.

At 06:18 local time (01:38 GMT), two missiles slammed into the balcony, killing the 71-year-old but leaving his wife and daughter unscathed inside. All the damage from the strike appears to be centred on the balcony.

How UK spies watched from Harrogate as the 9/11 Al-Qaeda chief responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people was executed by a 6-bladed Ninja missile

It was 6.18am on Sunday, more than an hour after dawn prayers, when the Supreme Leader of Al Qaeda appeared on the balcony of his safe house to enjoy a little sunshine and fresh air.

For Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the masterminds of the 9/11 terror attacks, watching mornings unfold in the centre of the Afghan capital from his supposedly secure perch had become one of the few regular pleasures of his life in hiding.

He wasn’t to know that his balcony was anything but safe and that Taliban spies in the pay of the Americans and the British had been monitoring him for months – their knowledge of his whereabouts so detailed that a scale model of his hideaway had sat on a table in President Biden’s White House office for weeks.

And they were watching him again now, not only from Washington but also from a listening station in – of all places – Harrogate, North Yorkshire, after a Western-recruited intelligence source spotted him on the balcony.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Al Qaeda, Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Palestinians Commit Suicide as Their Leaders Live in Hotels and Villas

It has been 15 years since the Islamist Hamas group seized control of the Gaza Strip, home to some two million Palestinians. Since then, the residents of the Gaza Strip have been reminded on a daily basis of the failure of the Iranian-backed group to provide them with decent living conditions.

Instead, the repressive governance of the Hamas leaders only brings the Palestinians in Gaza more misery.

The situation in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has become so bad that an increasing number of young people have been committing suicide by self-immolation, throwing themselves from rooftops, swallowing large amounts of medicine and hanging.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGaza

Shaun King claims he needed a $40 THOUSAND mastiff guard dog because white supremacists have tried to break into his house

Controversial Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King claimed he needed a pricey guard dog for 24/7 security for his family due to the barrage of threats from white supremacists, who he alleges have tried to break into his home and harass his children.

On Tuesday, King wrote in a lengthy Facebook post about what his ‘life has become.’

‘I spend more time each day now thinking about how to keep my family safe than I do doing the actually work I’m called to do,’ he wrote. ‘⁣So know this, when you see reports about the money it costs to keep me and my family safe, it’s nowhere near enough. Not at all. Not even close.⁣’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Russia brands Ukraine’s Azov Regiment ‘terrorist’ group

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the Ukrainian Azov Regiment a terrorist organization.

Despite its checkered past, the Azov Regiment is hailed in Ukraine as heroes for fighting to defend the country’s embattled east against the Russian invasion.

An estimated 1,000 Azov soldiers are being held by Russia and Moscow’s allied forces in eastern Ukraine.

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

South African police arrest more than 120 after gang-rape of eight women

Dozens of men detained after the alleged gang-rape of eight women on a music video shoot in South Africa are expected back in court on Wednesday as police made more arrests of artisanal miners blamed by local people for widespread violence.

The arrests on Tuesday near Krugersdorp, a city north-west of Johannesburg, bring the total number of people detained since the attack to more than 120.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa, WTF?

Russian soldiers accuse superiors of jailing them for refusing to fight

A group of Russian soldiers have accused their commanders of jailing them in eastern Ukraine for refusing to take part in the war, in a rare public exposure of tensions inside the ranks of Russia’s army over the invasion.

Maxim Grebenyuk, a lawyer who runs the Moscow-based advocacy organisation Military Ombudsman, said at least four Russian soldiers had filed written complaints with the investigative committee, demanding punishment for the superiors who oversaw their detainment.

“We already have a list of 70 Russian soldiers who were held as prisoners. In total, about 140 soldiers were held,” added Grebenyuk, who represented the soldiers.

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

Sabrina Maddeaux: Pierre Poilievre is eating Jagmeet Singh’s lunch

The slow bleed of younger millennials and older Gen Zers to the Conservative party has turned into a torrent that could realign Canadian politics in unexpected ways.

Abacus Data’s latest survey of how Canadians would vote if a federal election were held tomorrow finds 37 per cent of 18-29 year olds in favour of the Conservative Party of Canada. This represents a massive 17-point surge since January when just 20 per cent of this age bracket preferred the CPC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party