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Somaliland asks Canada for help amid superpower rivalry in Horn of Africa

Somali’s breakaway Somaliland region is asking Canada for international recognition and aid, saying it’s important for Western countries to support a functioning democracy that’s resisting China’s influence in the Horn of Africa.

The self-declared state, which split from Somalia 30 years ago, sent its Foreign Minister, Essa Kayd, to Washington, London and Ottawa recently as part of a campaign to refashion its external relationships. A U.S. congressional staff delegation later visited Somaliland.

… Mr. Kayd alleges that Somaliland only receives a fraction of the aid provided to Somalia from international donors. “Ninety-eight per cent of it is going to Somalia and perhaps 2 per cent is reaching Somaliland,” he said, accusing other players such as militant Islamist group al-Shabaab of taking a share of the aid.

I don’t know if Somalia’s man in Ottawa will care much for this. – Go incognito.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 4, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence

Sweden prosecutes Muslima for recruiting son to fight in Syria as child soldier

A 49-year-old woman from Sweden has been charged with war crimes and breaching international law for allegedly assisting in getting her son to fight in Syria as a child soldier, Swedish public prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The woman, who has been in custody in Sweden since September, is suspected of helping recruit one of her sons – born in 2001 – to fight as a child soldier while they lived between 2013-2016 in Syrian territory once controlled by the Islamic State group.

The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement this is the first time that the country has brought war crimes charges against an individual for abetting in recruiting child soldiers.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 4, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Randall Denley: Ford is inflicting pandemic pain, but offering little gain.

It’s too early to say when Doug Ford’s pandemic performance will reach its low point, but Monday’s new school closure and semi-lockdown is a leading contender. One can argue that the Ontario premier’s latest move is too little, too late or that’s a gross over-reaction. The case for timely and appropriate is a lot tougher to make.

BBC: Omicron stats are huge, but look beyond them

Covid infections have risen to unprecedented levels in recent weeks because of the Omicron variant.

But, as early evidence suggested it would, this variant is causing milder illness, for now at least.

A fall in the proportion of detected cases ending in hospital, shows this. It is now five times lower than it was a year ago.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 4, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Sean Penn slams actresses who jumped on #MeToo bandwagon

Sean Penn is well known for his left-wing activism, but the Hollywood star thinks that the #MeToo movement has become a tool of destruction, no matter how deserving some of its targets were.

… While Penn described “the core of” the #MeToo movement – the campaign against sexual harassment and abuse that most famously saw movie mogul Harvey Weinstein outed as a predator – as necessary, he slammed actresses for jumping on the bandwagon having never said a word on social or political issues before.

“Most of the famous actresses that jumped onto that … had said s**t all about our tax dollars going to bomb Yemeni children, s**t all, for years. But now there was something to jump on in a pack and destroy people,” he said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 4, 2022•0•#MeToo, Hollywood, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Former CBC journalist lowers the boom on its ‘radical agenda’

A veteran CBC journalist who worked as a TV and radio producer and occasional on-air commentator said Monday she quit the state-funded broadcaster last month because its “radical political agenda” made it impossible to do good journalism.

Golly, another of those right wing “conspiracy” theories proves true.

The CBC spews Liberal party propaganda. Propaganda is designed to humiliate the target and is all about about coercion and control. If the CBC had it’s way you would be anally raped live on the National by transgender ISIS lesbians.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 4, 2022•0•"Peak Woke", CBC, CBC Scandals

Ontario ballparks 11,352 new Covid cases … and Two GTA hospitals declare Code Orange

Ontario reports 11,352 new COVID-19 cases; nearly 1,300 in hospitals

Ontario is reporting more than 11,000 new COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations continue to rise due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.

Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted on Tuesday that there are at least 1,290 people with the virus in Ontario hospitals, compared to 1,232 a day ago and 491 a week ago.

William Osler Health System declares ‘code orange’ to address hospital capacity, staffing challenges

The William Osler Health System has declared a “code orange” following what it calls an increase in COVID-19 patients and staffing shortages across its network.

In a news release issued Monday evening, Osler, which oversees the operations of Brampton Civic Hospital and Etobicoke General Hospital, said the measure is typically used when “capacity outpaces demand to ensure internal and external resources are deployed efficiently.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 4, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Can France resist tribalism?

Albert Camus agonised over his divided country

Algeria haunts France as Ireland haunts Britain. The spectres of its history have proved just as hard, or harder, to confront. Imagine, for example, that the Bloody Sunday killings of January 1972 had taken place not in Derry but around Parliament Square. Imagine that armed security forces had killed not 14 peaceful protestors but an estimated 200. Imagine that many bodies were then dumped into the Thames from Westminster Bridge. Imagine, too, that this state atrocity had been dropped into a pit of denial that lasted for half a century. And that a British leader’s eventual, modest admission that these events had been “inexcusable” still provoked howls of outrage.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 3, 2022•0•France

US intelligence errors helped build myth of Nazi Alpine redoubt, says historian

A US spymaster inadvertently helped the Nazis develop one of the most effective disinformation campaigns of the second world war by spreading rumours about Hitler’s plans for a Where Eagles Dare-style Alpine redoubt, a historian with access to classified US military records has found.

The myth that the Nazis were amassing weapons and crack units of 100,000 fanatical soldiers in the spring of 1945 for a last stand in the Austro-Bavarian Alps was without any basis in fact but had a powerful hold on the imagination of American and British military leaders, who feared it could prolong the war for years.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 3, 2022•0•WW II, WW II History

The Complicated History of Jews in America

The Jewish historical narrative in America has, for the most part, been written and shaped by the great wave of Jewish immigrants that arrived in our nation around the turn of the 20th Century. That this wave has had a huge impact on American life and culture is undeniable. But it is not the entire history of Jews in America—far from it. Jews arrived on the heels of the earliest American settlers, primarily making their homes in Charleston, South Carolina, which was a religiously tolerant city, welcoming various Protestant sects, Catholics, and Jews alike. Today that seems common enough, but it certainly wasn’t in the 1600’s, especially in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where even many Protestants were not welcome, much less Catholics and Jews.

This is an interesting piece, religious tolerance in the Confederacy? Who knew!

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 3, 2022•0•Anti-Semitism, USA

People are dying, but not the ones you think for the reasons you think

While the mainstream media, at least in 2020, tracked deaths with the fanaticism of an insurance company, they’ve always lacked accuracy. That’s why it matters when a major American insurance company, which is in the business of accurate data about deaths, announces that Americans in the 18–64 age bracket are dying in unprecedented numbers. The same data suggest that these aren’t COVID deaths, which makes them much more sinister.

OneAmerica is a major insurance company located in Indianapolis with annual revenue of around $2 billion and total assets of around $74 billion. This is not a fly-by-night internet “insurance” company.

by Blazingcatfur•January 4, 2022January 3, 2022•0•USA, WTF?

Woman strips down to her underwear to use her dress as a facemask at ice cream store in Argentina

This is the moment a fearless woman entered an Argentinian ice-cream parlour in her undies because she wanted to use her dress as a face mask to be served.

The bizarre scene was filmed in the city of Godoy Cruz in the western Argentine province of Mendoza at around 10.40pm on January 1.

In the CCTV footage, a father and his three daughters are seen approaching the counter to place their order as the woman enters the parlour, apparently in her undies.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2022January 3, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians

It’s not just Elizabeth Warren.

America has a huge “Fake Indian” problem. It’s hard to know exactly how many people, often white leftists, falsely claim to be descended from the nation’s early Indian population, but census numbers show either a massive population boom or a sharp growth in fake Indians.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2022January 3, 2022•0•"Cultural Appropriation"

Israeli military to roll out all-women combat platoon – reports

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly creating a new women-only combat unit for religious female soldiers who want to serve on the frontlines but have “modesty” concerns about being in close quarters with male troops.

Beginning in March, the military will assign conscripts from women enlisting for combat roles into the new platoon, which will be established within an existing, mixed-gender border defense unit, according to the Times of Israel. The IDF said the move to allow more women to serve in fighting units was based on practical considerations and not a “social agenda,” according to the Times.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2022January 3, 2022•0•WTF?

Lockdown has destroyed the Australian spirit

This once easy-going country has become illiberal, mistrustful and divided.

Australia is currently ranked 104th in the world for coronavirus deaths – a victory of sorts in the eyes of the laptop class which now runs much of our lives. Yet the cost of this achievement is incalculably high and the damage to civil society may never be fully repaired. The ever-changing list of petty edicts has tugged at the threads of the social fabric in countless ways, and Australia is a less companionable country as a result.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2022January 3, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

CAIR Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Missouri Gun Range

“Islamophobia” is reaching epidemic proportions in Old Joe Biden’s America: the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Independence, Mo. law firm of Baldwin & Vernon filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming that Frontier Justice, a gun store and firing range in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, discriminated against a Muslim woman, Rania Barakat, when it wouldn’t allow her to use the range while she was wearing her hijab.

by Blazingcatfur•January 3, 2022January 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", CAIR, Islam's 5th Column, Islamization of the West, USA