Author: Blazingcatfur

UK scientists suggest many more have Omicron coronavirus variant than reported

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Scientific advisors to Britain’s government said it was “almost certain” that hundreds of thousands of people were being infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant every day and hospital admissions were likely to surge.

“Currently observed numbers of Omicron infections admitted to hospital in the UK are probably around one tenth of the true number because the data lags of hospital reporting,” the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies said in minutes of a meeting on Dec. 16.

Covid-19: More than 10,000 new Omicron cases found in UK

A major incident has been declared in London and more than 10,000 new Omicron cases have been confirmed in the UK, as the variant surges across the country.

A further 90,418 daily Covid cases have been reported across the UK on Saturday, after days of record highs.

Scientific advisers have warned England’s hospital admissions could reach 3,000 a day without new measures.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the major incident in the capital showed “how serious things are”.

Covid: Dutch go into Christmas lockdown over Omicron wave

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Stop criticizing Quebec’s ban on religious symbols, Erin O’Toole warns Conservative MPs in tense meeting

 

OTTAWA – Erin O’Toole has told Conservative MPs to stop speaking out publicly against Quebec’s Bill 21 and raise concerns about it at party caucus meetings – or not at all.

The warning from the Tory leader and his closest allies came during a tense caucus meeting this week in which some MPs criticized O’Toole for refusing to categorically condemn a teacher’s withdrawal of a classroom in Quebec because she wears a hijab.

Of course he would… Toronto City Council Approves Funds for Legal Challenge to Quebec’s Secularism Law

Whatever O’Toole’s motivation it’s the right decision. The alleged controversy over Quebec’s religious symbols ban is media manufactured. Only the Islamists along with their useful idiots in the media and the usual cast of vote whoring pols support sharia law in our schools.

h/t Jaedo Drax

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

Mohammedan with Canadian passport pleads guilty in U.S. court for funding ISIS activities

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi – Muslim Terrorist

VANCOUVER — A Canadian citizen has pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Friday for funding ISIS militants in Syria.

In a news release, the U.S. Department of Justice says former Edmonton resident Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi admitted to providing material support for individuals involved in ISIS terrorist activities and has agreed to a sentence of 20 years in prison.

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

Rex Murphy: The not-so-magical erasure of J.K. Rowling

Imagine if you were a young woman, with a child, living on your own in hard circumstances — small income, very poor housing. You’d feel pretty bleak.

You’re living, or rather just getting by, in England, on the bottom end of the economic scale, with no influential family or social contacts. Kind of a Dickensian scenario. You’ve gone through a very turbulent time personally, are without employment, and depressed over what seems an inevitably rocky future.

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

Amazon’s patents could turn whole neighborhoods into ‘surveilled space’

Amazon has registered 17 new patents for biometric technology intended to help its doorbell cameras identify “suspicious” people by scent, skin texture, fingerprints, eyes, voice, and gait.

The tech giant has been developing its doorbell security camera system since 2018, when Amazon acquired the firm named Ring and, with it, the original technology. According to media reports, Jeff Bezos’ company is now preparing to enable the devices to identify “suspicious” people with the help of biometric technology, based on skin texture, gait, finger, voice, retina, iris, and even odor.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

China is buying up the critical green-revolution minerals sector in Canada and elsewhere. Enough already

A week ago, the shareholders of Canada’s Neo Lithium approved the sale of the TSX Venture Exchange-listed company to China’s Zijin Mining for about $960-million. The announcement received little coverage and appears to have bothered almost no one in the federal government. It should have.

While Neo Lithium is hardly a household name, and the company is relatively small, its purchase should have raised a stink not just in Ottawa but in Washington and among North America’s electric-car makers. That’s because lithium is an essential component of the batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs), a suddenly burgeoning market, and vast amounts of the global supply of the light, silvery-white metal are going to Chinese companies.

Go Incognito

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Biden Administration Silent Against Iran’s Mullahs’ Terror Threat

In the wake of the largest seizure of arms and fuel from Iranian terror groups to date, the Biden administration has remained silent.

The US Department of Justice announced on December 7, 2021 the successful forfeiture of two large caches of Iranian weapons. The weapons reportedly included advanced arms such as “171 guided anti-tank missiles, eight surface-to-air missiles, land attack cruise missile components, anti-ship cruise missile components, thermal weapon optics and other components for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles [drones]”. The U.S. Navy also seized Iranian petroleum products from “four foreign-flagged tankers in or around the Arabian Sea while en route to Venezuela. These actions represent the government’s largest-ever forfeitures of fuel and weapons shipments from Iran.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Germany: COVID demonstrations planned across country

Opponents of vaccinations and the German government’s coronavirus policies were planning to hold demonstrations in several German cities on Saturday.

The largest protest was expected to be held in the northern port city of Hamburg, with around 8,000 registered attendees. Under the slogan “Hands off our children,” they planned to march through the city center, police said.

Vaccinations for children are beginning in Germany, following recommendations made by the country’s top vaccine body. However, parents are divided on the issue.

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Men more likely to die of COVID than women, data shows

Men more likely to die of COVID than women, data shows

Men make up a disproportionately large share of U.S. COVID-19 deaths, accounting for 54.4 percent of fatal virus cases, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

The sex split is even starker in New York City, where men make of 57.5 percent of COVID-19 deaths, according the city Department of Health.

This despite men comprising only 49.3 percent of the U.S. population and just 47.7 percent of national COVID-19 cases, according to the CDC.

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Oh No! Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern

Twenty years ago, an area of ice thought to weigh almost 500bn tonnes dramatically broke off the Antarctic continent and shattered into thousands of icebergs into the Weddell Sea.

The 1,255-sq-mile (3,250-sq-km) Larsen B ice shelf was known to be melting fast but no one had predicted that it would take just one month for the 200-metre-thick behemoth to completely disintegrate.

Glaciologists were shocked as much by the speed as by the scale of the collapse. “This is staggering. It’s just broken apart. It fell over like a wall and has broken as if into hundreds of thousands of bricks”, said one.

Maybe it has Covid?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Border Patrol Agent Submits Scathing Resignation, Remarking Agency Has Become “Handmaids” for Illegal Immigrants

A Customs and Border Patrol agent is slamming the left-wing politicization of the agency in a resignation letter to his supervisor, accusing Biden’s federal government of transforming CBP into the “handmaids” of illegal immigrants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints

You’d have to be high to trust those stats.

Legal cannabis sales surpass illicit market for the first time in Ontario: OCS

The latest quarterly report from the Ontario Cannabis Stores (OCS) marks a turning point in Canada’s most populous province.

Nearly 55 per cent of all cannabis sales in the last quarter, running from July to Sept., took place in legal channels.

The calculation for legal market share is estimated from quarterly updates from Statistics Canada, which collects self-reported data from cannabis consumers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana

Afghan Taliban leaders ̷a̷p̷p̷e̷a̷l̷ ̷f̷o̷r̷ ̷h̷e̷l̷p̷ ̷a̷s̷ threaten migrant crisis ̷l̷o̷o̷m̷s̷

KABUL, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Senior Taliban officials appealed on Saturday for international help to combat a deepening economic crisis that has fuelled fears of another refugee exodus from Afghanistan.

The comments, at a special meeting to mark the U.N.’s international migrants day, underlined the new Islamist Taliban government’s push to engage with the world community, four months after they seized power in Kabul.

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