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Ontario reports 1,116 new sorta Covid cases … and Highlights from Statistics Canada’s two-year update on COVID-19 pandemic’s impact

Ontario reports 1,116 new sorta Covid cases … and Highlights from Statistics Canada’s two-year update on COVID-19 pandemic’s impact

Ont. reports no new virus-related deaths today as mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies end in long-term care homes, hospitals

Highlights from Statistics Canada’s two-year update on COVID-19 pandemic’s impact

OTTAWA — The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up many aspects of Canadian life. As the pandemic’s second anniversary arrives, Statistics Canada reviewed the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 across the country. Here are the highlights…

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies in Ontario hospitals, LTC homes, schools end today

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

JK Rowling Warns Politicians of ‘Anger‘ Among Women over Trans Agenda

JK Rowling sent a stern warning to politicians on Saturday, saying women are “outraged and angry” over the radical transgender lobby threatening their rights and safety.

Rowling warned politicians from Britain’s political parties that British women will no longer allow them to “threaten and intimidate them out of speaking publicly about their own rights”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

“Why Are His Killers Still Out?”: Persecution of Christians, January 2022

“When he entered the church, his wife and the children were seated at the back,” the church’s pastor said. “He pulled her out of the church, and about 100 meters away, a member saw him beat his wife.” Another neighbor confirmed that he later heard screaming from the Muslim household, then saw “two men wearing Islamic prayer caps outside [the] house putting together an undefined wooden structure.”

The next morning, the neighbor went to borrow a tool. No one answered, but the door was unlocked, so he entered. There he found the woman and her two young children hanging dead. The recently built wooden structure had served as a scaffold.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Telegram: The digital battlefront between Russia and Ukraine

Western pundits may flock to Twitter and Facebook for the latest news; but the one infosphere that really matters in Russia’s war against Ukraine is Telegram.

The messaging and social media platform has played a central role in the conflict since the outset, both as a vehicle for state propaganda and disinformation, as well as an invaluable news source for ordinary Ukrainians and Russians. That means there’s a lot hinging on a company and app that is poorly understood in the West. And, as the company’s founder Pavel Durov demonstrated when he considered blocking Telegram in both countries last week, a lot also rides on one man’s decisions.

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

Ukraine and the war for your mind

The conflict on the ground isn’t the only one — there’s plenty of propaganda afoot too

Deterrence works. Russia’s nukes are the only thing keeping the US from full-out war in Ukraine just six months after retreating from Afghanistan. The unprecedented propaganda effort by Ukraine and its helpers in the American mass media to drag the US and NATO directly into the fight has failed — so far. But the struggle — the one for your mind space — is not over.

To understand what follows, you have to wipe away a lot of bull being slung your way. Insanity is not the only explanation for Putin’s actions of the past few weeks. From a Russian standpoint, he is carrying out a rational political-military strategy in Ukraine, seizing Russian-speaking territory such as Donbas, demilitarizing eastern Ukraine by force, and most of all creating a physical buffer zone between his country’s southern border and NATO. That zone may end at the Dnieper River with a loop around Odessa, or it may end at the Polish border, depending on how smoothly things go on the ground and on what level of “back away” message Putin wishes to send NATO.

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

On the left, comedy is now officially and completely dead

If there’s one constant with leftists, it’s that they’re humorless. In 1939’s Ninotchka, Greta Garbo played a relentlessly serious Soviet commissar who heads to Paris, where she leaves communism behind—and, with that, she laughs. In 2022, leftist humorlessness has extended to censoring one of the funniest men alive, John Cleese. His sin? Pointing out that Blacks are not the only people who have experienced slavery.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", WTF?

This Isn’t Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.

The last thing the world needs is another nuclear-armed dictatorship flush with cash and attacking its neighbors. But that’s what President Biden and his Iran envoy Robert Malley are creating in the deal they are about to close in Vienna, according to career State Department sources.

Anyone seeking to gauge the imminent outcome of the international talks over Iran’s nuclear program being held in Vienna should take a look at reports from late January that three top U.S. diplomats had quit—largely in protest over the direction set by U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, who serves as the U.S. government’s chief negotiator.

Having served for two years in former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Iran Action Group, I knew that this development was tantamount to a public cry for an intervention. Such resignations—not of conservative dissenters, but of career staff and President Joe Biden’s own political appointees—should have been cause for Biden or Secretary Antony Blinken to recall Malley and investigate. Their failure to do so is a sign either of a troubling lack of attention to the talks, or else the possibility that Malley—who served in the same capacity under President Barack Obama when the first Iran deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was originally negotiated and signed—has been given a free hand to negotiate whatever he wants, as long as he gets Iran to sign.

The State Department wants this, Biden isn’t capable of driving anything.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

The New York Times’ mask has slipped

A senior Times journalist has been caught on tape admitting his paper overreacted to the Capitol riot.

It was like a scene from a political black comedy: a senior journalist for the most powerful newspaper in the world getting doorstepped, like a grubby politician caught with his pants down.

Matthew Rosenberg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war journalist turned national-security correspondent for the New York Times, was secretly recorded running his mouth to an unidentified female companion. Videos of their conversations were released last week by the controversial group Project Veritas. And in one in particular, Rosenberg gives a jaw-dropping interpretation of the events of 6 January 2021, when some Trump supporters rioted at the US Capitol building as Congress was voting to ratify the 2020 election. What makes Rosenberg’s interpretation so shocking is that it is quite at odds with his own reporting in the Times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists"

Elon Is Right: Nuclear Is the Answer

With nuclear power, the West would be self-reliant for its energy needs.

Last Sunday evening, tech billionaire and entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk tweeted, “Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones.” His full-throated support for nuclear energy comes at a pivotal moment in global geopolitics, as energy prices continue to skyrocket and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies. “This is critical to national and international security,” said Musk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

What’s America’s Story of Afghanistan?

Vietnam lingered in the American body politic like a residual infection. Afghanistan could also poison American politics for years to come.

“ALL SORROWS can be borne,” wrote Isak Dinesen, “if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.” Today, America has sorrows to bear. The Afghanistan War has left 2,500 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Afghans dead, the Taliban in control of Kabul, Al Qaeda crowing about victory, and teenage Afghan girls unable to attend school. America needs to tell a story about Afghanistan or craft a narrative of the war that helps Americans make sense of events, learn lessons—and move on.

As the Afghanistan War recedes into the past—at least for Americans—the war moves from the drone’s eye to the mind’s eye. The Vietnamese author Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote: “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Military loss is one of the most arduous traumas that a country can endure. “To lose an empire is to lose yourself,” said one French general in the 1960s. “It takes all the meaning away from the life of a man, the life of a pioneer.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Orwell Was Right

This weekend I re-read 1984, a book I tend to reach for when I get Defcon-1 depressed about the state of the world. Deep in the novel, Winston ponders the intricacies of doublethink:

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them… To forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again… that was the ultimate subtlety.

In the last weeks, Russia took an already exacting speech environment to new extremes.

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

Electric vehicles face roadblocks as feds unsure how to implement communist command economy

Cost, scarcity and a shortage of charging stations are undermining Ottawa’s efforts

Canada’s first emissions reduction plan will be tabled in the House of Commons in two weeks. But the minister in charge says it won’t include specific details on how to meet the federal government’s sales targets for zero-emission cars and trucks over the next decade.

The federal plan is to require that half of all new cars sold in this country be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. Five years after that date, all new cars sold must be zero-emission.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said that while the goal of this national sales mandate is clear, he’s still consulting with the auto sector on the best way to meet it.

“We’re not sure yet exactly how we’ll get there, and the how is going to be developed in the course of the next year with the industry and other stakeholders. But the objectives are clear,” he said in an interview airing on The House this weekend.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

Does Putin have ‘roid rage?’ Sources believe health could explain despot’s behavior: report

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “increasingly erratic behavior” could be caused by ‘roid rage or a brain disorder such as dementia, according to a new report.

People close to the Kremlin and high-up Western intelligence sources told the Mail on Sunday they think there is a medical condition to explain the Russian despot’s reckless invasion of Ukraine and his bizarre other behavior.

“There has been an identifiable change in his decision-making over the past five years or so,” an unnamed security source told the Mail.

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

Is there any justification for Putin’s war?

Nazis, genocide, Nato, history: Russia has no shortage of apparent justifications for its war in Ukraine.

But are any of them valid? Were Russian speakers endangered in the country’s east? Is Nato’s expansion a material threat to Moscow? Were there cliques of neo-Nazis running amok in Ukraine?

We assess whether Russia’s claims justify the invasion of a sovereign country.

A good Guardian piece that debunks Putin’s claims.

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