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Are drive-by shooters victims of ‘systemic racism’?

One member of the Washington state assembly thinks so

SEATTLE — From Roger Baldwin of the ACLU to the Supreme Court’s late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, many Americans have tried to address inequality in the nation’s justice system. Now Washington State’s part-time legislators believe they have discovered a new way.

Later in January, Washington’s state assembly will debate House Bill 1692. If passed, the law would significantly reduce the criminal penalties for the drive-by shootings that have become something of a boom industry here in the Northwest, where violent assaults are up 80 percent on five years ago. It would do so by prohibiting state prosecutors from adding the word “aggravated” to any murder charge involving a perpetrator in a moving vehicle.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, WTF?

David Bowie at 75: why Germany will remember him

Pop stars don’t come more quintessentially British than David Bowie. But during his Berlin years, the English icon left a deep impact on Germany too. When Bowie died exactly six years ago, the German Foreign Office tweeted out its farewells and thanked him ‘for helping to bring down the wall.’ Bowie would have been 75 this weekend, giving Germans cause to reflect on the legacy of a much-loved Cold War hero.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•Germany

What’s really going on with plans to tax the value of Canadian homes?

Every time someone – a Conservative MP or a columnist, perhaps – says the Trudeau Liberals are considering a tax on the equity in your home, the Libs freak out.

“Oh, no, no, no,” they insist. “We would never tax the increase in value of Canadians’ homes.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Fauci Spent Your Tax Dollars Studying Transgender Monkeys

National Institutes of Health paid $205,000 to study transgender monkeys just as the omicron variant of COVID-19 was sending untold numbers of Americans to the hospital.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

WTF?

This is… creepy… 🤢🤢 pic.twitter.com/trkmtCHKsS

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 10, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•WTF?

UK tells asylum seeker he can return to Syria safely

The Home Office has told a Syrian asylum seeker he can return to the country he fled during the war because it is safe to do so, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind.

The 25-year-old asylum seeker sought sanctuary in the UK in May 2020. He fled forcible conscription into Bashar al-Assad’s army in 2017, saying that he would have been forced to kill other Syrians. He said that if he is forced back to Syria he will be targeted as a draft evader, arrested, detained and killed.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•Camp Of The Saints, UK

‘The View’ Spreads COVID Misinformation, Defends Sotomayor’s Falsehoods

According to the rules the left set up at the start of the pandemic, spreading COVID misinformation was an offense that should get you kicked out of society. But the rules don’t apply to them as Monday’s edition of The View demonstrated; as co-host Whoopi Goldberg speculated she got COVID from the wind after opening a window and gave it co-host Ana Navarro “through the camera.”

That’s … not how facts work https://t.co/tHE9weQNVD

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 10, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•WTF?

Nolte: Transwoman Winner Mj Rodriguez Robs Golden Globe from Woman-Woman

Michaela Jaé “Mj” Rodriguez, a guy who identifies as a woman, won a Best Actress Golden Globe Sunday night for a lead role in a television drama.

So a guy walked in and robbed an actual actress, not only from winning a Golden Globe but from being nominated for a Golden Globe.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•Big Tranny, Hollywood, WTF?

CDC Director Admits: Over 75% Of COVID Deaths In People With ‘At Least 4 Comorbidities’

Asked on ABC’s “Good Morning America” about a study showing that vaccines targeting COVID-19 and its variants have successfully prevented serious illness, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control, admitted, “The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So, really, these are people who were unwell to begin with.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Americans should avoid travel to Canada, government advises

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now advises Americans against going to neighboring Canada due to the rising number of Covid cases in the country.

The agency updated its guidance on Monday, and now says that “because of the current situation in Canada, even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Novak Djokavic: How tennis player won visa row court case

At the end of the day, the Australian government gave in.

Facing the weight of the other side’s legal evidence, and an increasingly incredulous tone from the judge, the government’s lawyers didn’t bother proceeding with their rebuttal.

Djokovic is unvaccinated and he may have breached Australia’s border laws, but Australia’s Federal Circuit Court on Monday did not make a ruling on that.

Instead, it set him free on the basis that immigration officials had done the wrong thing when making the decision to cancel his visa.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Booster uptake lags initial vaccinations. Experts worry pandemic fatigue at play

Some nations are already looking to a fourth vaccine dose to help contend with a huge Omicron-driven spike in COVID-19 cases, but early signs suggest repeat vaccination may be a hard sell as beleaguered populations enter their third pandemic year.

Uptake of the first round of boosters in recent months – the third shot for most – has lagged initial vaccinations.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Axios, CNN, WaPo: Let’s face it, the CDC has a major credibility crisis

How good of them to notice! Most people discounted CDC and FDA credibility after they admitted to “noble lies” such as that on masking, but recently the CDC have stepped up their game on obvious incompetence and politicization. The impression of desperate flailing had already been made on many Americans prior to this, but now media outlets like Axios have sat up and taken notice…

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Canada offers to help U.S. de-escalate Russia-Ukraine crisis with potential deterrence measures

Canada has told the U.S. that it’s willing to help with possible deterrence measures against Russia — which could include sanctions — to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, CBC News has learned.

Canada made the offer during a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Dec. 31, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

The source said the message was received well by Blinken.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•Canada, Russia, Ukraine, USA

Coronavirus: ‘Deltacron’ discovery not a mistake, says scientist who claims he found new variant

A Cypriot scientist defended his assertion that a new strain of Covid-19 exists that combines characteristics of the Delta and Omicron variants.

Other scientists have speculated that Leonidos Kostrikis’s findings are a result of laboratory contamination. But he said in an emailed statement on Sunday that the cases he has identified “indicate an evolutionary pressure to an ancestral strain to acquire these mutations and not a result of a single recombination event”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"