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After fending off Russian troops in Kyiv, these Ukrainian special forces members are processing horrors and appealing for weapons

As Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, members of a Ukrainian special forces unit deployed to defend the strategic Hostomel airport outside Kyiv were stunned by what they saw as dawn broke: some 30 Russian attack helicopters coming over the horizon, speeding toward the airport.

An added surprise was that the helicopters were moving on their own toward Hostomel, without supporting ground forces or barrages of long-range missile fire to weaken the Ukrainian defences. It was as if they expected no resistance at all.

Go incognito

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Ex-Guantanamo detainee sues Canada over 14-year ordeal of detention and torture

A former Guantanamo detainee, whose story of detention and torture was featured in a best-selling memoir and Hollywood film, is going to court to try to force the Canadian government to reveal its role in his ordeal.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who lived briefly in Montreal, has launched a $30-million lawsuit against the federal government. He alleges Canadian officials made false claims about him that were then relied upon by his Mauritanian, Jordanian and American interrogators during his more than 14 years of imprisonment without charge.

HMA

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

John Ivison: Why Canada has been slow to bring out the big guns for Ukraine

On any given day, I’m open to the idea that I’m wrong on any given subject. But not on Canada’s over-cautious response to Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.

Being sanctioned by Vladimir Putin’s bandit regime confirmed my conviction that far too often, sober second thought in official Ottawa has been used as an excuse for delay and inaction.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ groups and sex workers say online hate bill makes them hateful

Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ groups and sex workers criticize online hate bill

OTTAWA – Members of the LGBTQ community, Indigenous people and racialized groups fear a proposed law tackling online harm could disproportionately curtail their online freedoms and even make them police targets, responses to a government consultation have warned.

The documents, revealed through an access to information request, contain warnings that federal plans to curb online hate speech could lead to marginalized groups, including sex workers, being unfairly monitored and targeted by the police.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, WTF?

Mariupol: Videos appear to show dead civilians

Video footage has emerged from the city of Mariupol in Ukraine showing the bodies of more than 20 civilians lying along a main road.

The graphic videos, posted on social media in recent days, come as the United Nations has confirmed that it is investigating hundreds of allegations of killing of civilians during the invasion of Ukraine.

The southern port city of Mariupol has been the scene of weeks of intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Almost half of Canadians may have caught COVID

Canada’s COVID-19 immunity landscape has completely transformed since the emergence of Omicron — with new estimates suggesting that almost half of the population has been infected.

Researchers in B.C. analyzed thousands of blood samples in the Lower Mainland throughout the pandemic to track antibody levels in the general population, and found a massive shift in the level of infection in the past few months.

The B.C. data, provided in advance to CBC News, found close to 40 per cent of the population had antibodies from a previous infection in March, up from around 10 per cent in October. That number is even higher in children under 10, with nearly two-thirds now showing evidence of prior infection.

Majority of Canadians back inquiries into national, provincial pandemic responses: poll

A majority of Canadians favour a thorough review into how all levels of government handled the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new poll.

The survey from B.C.-based pollster Research Co. found 66 per cent of respondents backed a public inquiry into how the federal government managed the pandemic, with 23 per cent opposed.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

Ukraine reports Russians trying to storm Mariupol plant

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces attacked a steel plant in the shattered Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, apparently seeking to eliminate the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic city the Kremlin claims its military has otherwise seized.

The assault was reported by an advisor to Ukraine’s presidential office as an estimated 1,000 civilians sheltered in the Azovstal plant alongside the remaining Ukrainian fighters, while Russian forces pressed their offensive elsewhere in the eastern Donbas region amid fierce Ukrainian counterattacks.

Video of Russian T-80BV tanks conducing a tank carousel firing on Ukrainian positions in Mariupol from a few days ago.

Video: Rob Lee#Mariupol #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/us2HVR2EEd

— Qinglian Jushi (@catminh17) April 23, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 23, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

4 people shot in DC, suspect took his own life as cops closed in

A crazed gunman allegedly shot three adults and a girl in a leafy section of Washington, DC, on Friday afternoon before taking his own life hours later as police closed in on the apartment where he was suspected of carrying out the attack, authorities said.

The suspect allegedly erected a “sniper-type setup” inside his fifth floor apartment and fired indiscriminately at passers-by at about 3:20 p.m. on Van Ness Street near Connecticut Avenue in the Northwest section of the city, police said.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting"

Starlink roaming

Looks like the roaming feature was triggered to facilitate practical usage in Ukraine. One penalty, fixed link users will take priority over roamers in a given coverage area.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022•0•technology

Continental Breakfast

Breakfast Pizza

India slams Rep. Ilhan Omar over ‘condemnable’ visit to Pakistan

India’s Ministry of External Affairs blasted far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar’s visit to Pakistan this week, calling her trip to the disputed region of Kashmir “condemnable.”

“We have noted that she has visited a part of Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir that is currently illegally occupied by Pakistan,” ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said of the Minnesota Democrat during a Wednesday press conference. “Let me just say that if such a politician wishes to practice her narrow-minded politics at home … that may be her business.”

Barack and Michelle Obama Are Abandoning Spotify

After signing an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2019, the Obamas will reportedly be leaving the platform after their deal ends in October.

The Fate of Julian Assange Is Now in the Hands of Britain’s Interior Minister

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is one step closer to extradition as a UK judge ruled that the fate of Assange — who published thousands of classified U.S. documents from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — will rest in the hands of the British Interior Minister Priti Patel.

Chris Wallace’s Future Uncertain After Leaving FOX to Join Now Tanked CNN+

With the news that CNN+ will shut down coming less than a month after the streaming platform’s launch, many on social media began to question what former longtime Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will do next.

Germany plans workaround for arms deliveries to Ukraine

Berlin is working on a three-way swap via Slovenia that would see heavy equipment sent to Ukraine. However, criticism of the government’s lack of clarity continues — including from within its own ranks.

US bride and caterer arrested for allegedly drugging guests with cannabis

Police in Florida have arrested a bride and her caterer after finding they allegedly added cannabis to food that was later served to wedding guests.

The arrests came some two months after officials were called to the wedding to assist guests who said they felt as though they had been drugged.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 22, 2022•0•Continental Breakfast

China Lurks Behind Most Crises Facing America

Since the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has felt like the world is on fire. But in the midst of these attention-grabbing crises, there is an even more pernicious threat facing the United States and the signs are all around us. Behind most major foreign policy issues lies China.

Take the Iran nuclear deal. Media reports indicate that Iran’s fleet of tankers has ferried at least $22 billion worth of illicit oil to the People’s Republic of China since 2021. This has provided the Iranian regime with a major source of revenue and raised questions about the Biden administration’s lax enforcement of sanctions.

It is as good an example of China’s duplicity as can be found today. But it is not an isolated incident.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 22, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Radical Gender Lessons for Young Children

Evanston–Skokie’s school district adopts a curriculum that teaches pre-K through third-grade students to “break the binary” of gender.

Evanston–Skokie School District 65 has adopted a radical gender curriculum that teaches pre-kindergarten through third-grade students to celebrate the transgender flag, break the “gender binary” established by white “colonizers,” and experiment with neo-pronouns such as “ze,” “zir,” and “tree.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 22, 2022•0•Big Deviant, Big Tranny

Did virus hunters cover up a lab leak?

The team was assembled to stop a pandemic — and then disappeared

In August 2016, a group of public health experts, policymakers and donors met in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center overlooking Lake Como. Their aim was ambitious: to agree on “bold global action” that would mark the “beginning of the end of the pandemic era”. In other words, they hoped to find which viruses might cause the next pandemic, and get a head start on developing vaccines and drugs.

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2022April 22, 2022•0•WTF?

The warped mind behind Russia’s war

Alexander Dugin has endowed Putin’s brutal imperialism with an almost spiritual significance.

In 2014, a Foreign Affairs article described Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin as ‘Putin’s brain’.

At the time, it seemed a fitting epithet. The then 52-year-old Dugin was championing Russia’s annexation of Crimea and urging on the further conquest of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. Superficially, at least, he seemed to be uncannily in tune with the Kremlin.

by Blazingcatfur•April 22, 2022April 22, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"