Author: Blazingcatfur

Epstein’s massage table could land Maxwell a 40-year sentence

Jeffrey Epstein’s green massage table was rolled into the courtroom as evidence in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial — because it’s key to the top charge the accused madam faces.

The unorthodox piece of evidence was raised by Assistant US Attorney Alison Moe in her closing argument Monday as she explained the lone sex-trafficking charge against Maxwell, which involves an element of interstate commerce.

The sex-trafficking count relates only to testimony from Maxwell accuser Carolyn, who said she was groped by the disgraced socialite at age 14 while preparing to massage Epstein.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Case drop may show South Africa’s omicron peak has passed

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country’s dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical experts say.

Daily virus case counts are notoriously unreliable, as they can be affected by uneven testing, reporting delays and other fluctuations. But they are offering one tantalizing hint — far from conclusive yet — that omicron infections may recede quickly after a ferocious spike.

South Africa has been at the forefront of the omicron wave and the world is watching for any signs of how it may play out there to try to understand what may be in store.

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

DOUBLE-SPEAK: Leftist Fact Police Say They Didn’t ‘Censor’ Med Journal

The pseudo-medical geniuses at Facebook partner Lead Stories tried to fact-check the British Medical Journal. Then they somehow claimed those actions weren’t censorship.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) responded to a bizarre “fact-check” by Lead Stories of its bombshell report headlined: “Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial.” The report in question revealed how “Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.” But Lead Stories Managing Editor Dean Miller, who isn’t a medical professional, wrote a blaring headline in response: “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials.” 

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

The Gathering Cloud of Political Madness

This is a way station on the rockslide of the Trump-hate myth.

The year is ending in an increasing cloud of political madness. The January 6 commission and Trump-hating nightly media commentators professed to find in the fact that Donald Trump’s family and Fox News Trump personalities Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity warned the then-president of backlash if he didn’t take a strong line against the trespassing and vandalism at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, proof that the melee was a pre-planned insurrection and that Trump’s complaints of election fraud were unfounded. (It confirms merely that like almost everyone, they disapproved of the attack on the Capitol, but did not deny Trump’s and his law-abiding supporters’ grievance.)

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Guilbeault moves forward on Styrofoam, plastics ban expected to be in place by end of 2022

OTTAWA — It’s the end of days for plastic grocery bags and Styrofoam takeout containers in Canada.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault published draft regulations Tuesday outlining how Canada will ban the manufacture, sale and import of these items, along with plastic cutlery, stir sticks, straws and six-pack rings, by the end of next year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Americans Fled ‘Woke’ States in ‘Historic’ Numbers in 2021

The communist Chinese-inflicted COVID virus and reactions by American Democrat politicians created devastating changes in the U.S. population in 2021, according to statistics revealed by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday.

The U.S. experienced a “historic” decline in the number of children that were born, and Americans fled Leftist, freedom-sucking, gulag-like cities and states where Democrat dictators toyed with their constituents the way a cat plays with a flapping bird before devouring it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", USA

Pope Francis: ‘No Country Can Exempt Itself’ from Duty to Take in Migrants

ROME — Pope Francis appeared to take a shot at Hungary on Wednesday, insisting “no country can exempt itself” from the obligation to take in migrants.

On Tuesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán rejected a ruling by the European Union’s (EU) Court of Justice that his government had “failed to fulfil its obligations” to relax its immigration laws.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Pope Francis

Sabrina Maddeaux: Scrambling Canadians should be furious booster shots were dismissed for months

It’s OK to be furious right now. In fact, you should be. It becomes clearer by the day just how badly everyone from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) to provincial premiers and public health officials bungled our pandemic response just when something resembling an end to this madness and tragedy was in sight. It didn’t have to be this way.

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

Lawyer loses Fart case

Barrister who sued after colleague asked him to stop farting loses case

A senior barrister who sued the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after a colleague asked him to stop breaking wind in the room they worked in together has lost his case.

Tarique Mohammed sued for harassment and told an employment tribunal that his repetitive flatulence was caused by medication he was on for a heart condition.

He said the comment from his colleague Paul McGorry was “embarrassing” and violated his dignity – but the panel found it was a reasonable request to have asked him to stop.

He should have claimed he was a victim of Islamophartia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", WTF?

Canada’s Federal Health Agency Collecting Cellphone Data to Inform Pandemic Policies

Canada’s federal health agency has been using cellphone data to track the anonymized movements of Canadians since the onset of the pandemic in order to inform policy and public messaging, and it intends to continue the practice after the COVID-19 crisis is over.

Reported by Blacklock’s on Dec. 21, the news was confirmed by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.

Not a surprise. We are wired for control.

h/t Jaedo Drax

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

Ontario reports 4383 new Covid cases… roughly, maybe, no one knows … and YES you aren’t entitled to Justin’s Lockdown benefit!

Ontario reports 4383 new Covid cases… roughly, maybe, no one knows … and YES you aren’t entitled to Justin’s Lockdown benefit!

Ont. reports 4,383 new COVID-19 cases today; highest single-day total since April

Of the news cases confirmed today, 176 involve those who are partially vaccinated, 222 involve people with an unknown vaccination status, 746 involve those who are unvaccinated, and 3,243 involve people who are considered fully vaccinated with two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine.

Omicron is blurring true picture of COVID-19 cases. But experts say there are other ways to capture it

As demand drastically increases for COVID-19 testing across the country, experts say it will quickly become harder to get an exact picture of Omicron case counts in Canada.

And that means health authorities are likely soon going to have to rely more on hospitalization numbers as the main indicator of the extent of the impact of the new coronavirus variant.

“This is such a hyper-contagious disease that it was completely foreseeable … that the rate of spread would overwhelm the testing capacity that we have, as is already happening,” said Raywat Deonandan, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa.

Despite new COVID-19 restrictions, no one is eligible for the new federal benefit

As new restrictions sweep the country just days before Christmas, a new benefit meant to help workers is locking them out of receiving support because of its specific wording.

Last week, parliament passed Bill C-2, which created the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit (CWLB), a program intended to give $300 a week to anyone who can’t work because of a COVID-19 lockdown.

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

Qatar seizes ‘un-Islamic’ children’s toys with rainbow patterns similar to LGBT flags

Authorities in Qatar have seized a line of what they called ‘un-Islamic’ children’s toys that feature rainbow patterns similar to LGBT flags.

The small oil-rich peninsular will host next year’s football World Cup, and despite repeated assertions by authorities that anyone will be welcome to visit for the tournament, homosexuality remains illegal in the conservative Muslim emirate.

The line of rainbow coloured children’s toys were confiscated from stores, with officials saying they were contrary to ‘Islamic values’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, WTF?

Abigail Shrier on Freedom in an Age of Fear

The question I get most often—the thing that most interviewers want to know, even when they’re pretending to care about more high-minded things—is: What’s it like to be so hated? I can only assume that’s what some of you rubberneckers want to know as well: What’s it like to be on a GLAAD black list? What’s it like to have top ACLU lawyers come out in favor of banning your book? What’s it like to have prestigious institutions disavow you as an alum? What’s it like to lose the favor of the fancy people who once claimed you as their own?

So, perhaps I’ll begin by telling you a little bit about myself mainly because I’m not so different from many of you.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Big Tranny