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‘A lull not a loss’: Islamic State is rebuilding in Syria, say Kurdish forces

On a blazing afternoon in Syria’s eastern desert this month, a Kurdish commander was hot under the collar. An American raid had just taken place against remnants of Islamic State (IS), and Lukman Khalil, the region’s most senior military leader, had known nothing about it.

The US forces had flown across the wasteland of the terrorist group’s last redoubt. Three years ago it was teeming with diehard IS members, but when thousands of holdouts emerged from the decimated town of Baghuz, the war against the so-called caliphate was won, or so it seemed.

“People couldn’t be more wrong,” said Khalil. “[IS] thinks this was a lull, not a loss. And now they’re back to fighting us from the shadows.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Reading stabbings: Islamist Khairi Saadallah refused appeal against whole-life term

A terrorist who murdered three men in a Reading park has been denied permission to appeal his whole-life jail term.

Khairi Saadallah, 27, stabbed James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett in June last year in Forbury Gardens.

He was sentenced in January after admitting to the murders and three attempted murders.

The Court of Appeal ruled there was “no substance” to Saadallah’s criticisms towards the judge who sentenced him.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Dear America: Don’t Become Canada

An obviously aroused Justin Trudeau abandons all sense of decorum while prancing about at a Gay Pride event.

Canada was the first “woke nation” on the planet.

If you missed Canada’s election late last month, you can be forgiven. It ended just like the last two before it: with Justin Trudeau’s left-wing Liberal Party handedly beating out the Conservative opposition just as most predicted. Being the perennial party of choice for the financial and media elite in Toronto and Montreal, the Liberals have won a whopping 75 percent of Canada’s elections since 1900, making the country resemble a kind of one-party-state of sorts.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•Canada

Conservative Party’s national council suspends Ontario councillor Chen for launching petition to oust O’Toole

The national council of the Conservative Party has suspended elected Ontario councillor Bert Chen for two months for launching the petition to recall Erin O’Toole as party leader.

“Following complaints by grassroots members of the Conservative Party of Canada about the conduct of national councillor Bert Chen, national council exercised its authority under Article 8.13 of the party’s constitution to suspend Mr. Chen from national council for up to 60 days,” said Conservative Party president Robert Batherson in an emailed statement to The Hill Times.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•Conservative Party

Trudeau’s scandalous collaboration with Communist China’s slave regime delayed made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine plans

Failed deal with China delayed made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine plans

The federal government’s failed collaboration with a vaccine manufacturing company in China early in the pandemic has led to a delay of nearly two years in efforts to create a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine.

Government documents obtained by The Fifth Estate show that Canadian officials wasted months waiting for a proposed vaccine to arrive from China for further testing and spent millions upgrading a production facility that never made a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) signed an agreement with Tianjin-based CanSino Biologics in early May 2020 to “fast-track the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada for emergency pandemic use.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Ontario reports 417 new Covid cases … and the 4 million Mixxy Matchy Vaxxed best not make travel plans

Ontario reports 417 new COVID-19 cases, 3 more deaths

Ontario is reporting just over 400 new COVID-19 cases today as the seven-day average dips below 500 for the first time in several weeks.

Provincial health officials logged 417 new COVID-19 infections today, up from 306 on Wednesday but down from 587 one week ago.

The U.S. land border is reopening, but Canadians with mixed vaccines are still in limbo

While it’s welcome news that the U.S. will reopen its shared land border with Canada to non-essential travel in early November, some Canadians with mixed vaccine doses aren’t celebrating just yet.

That’s because at the same time the U.S. reopens the land border, it will start requiring that foreign land and air travellers entering the country be fully vaccinated.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) currently doesn’t recognize mixed COVID-19 vaccines — such as one dose of AstraZeneca, and one dose of Pfizer or Moderna — and hasn’t yet said if travellers with two different doses will be blocked from entry when the vaccine requirement kicks in.

I am beginning to suspect the government will not kick up much of a fuss if the US keeps its ban as it considers the restricted travel of 4 million mixed vaxxers a good thing helping to prevent virus spread.

Doug Ford expected to lift COVID-19 capacity restrictions for restaurants, bars and gyms as part of ‘pandemic plan 2.0’

Premier Doug Ford will lift COVID-19 capacity limits in restaurants, bars, and gyms when he unveils additional benchmarks for further reopening Ontario’s economy.

Ford, who is expected to meet with reporters Friday, hopes to deliver encouraging news for restaurateurs and others — such as publicans and fitness centre owners — who are concerned about restrictions on their businesses.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Norway bow-and-arrow attack appears to be ‘act of terror’, domestic security service says, follow-up violence a risk

The bow and arrow incident in Norway’s Kongsberg appears to be an act of terrorism, the country’s security services have reported. The attack by a suspected Islamist claimed five lives and left two people injured.

Further investigation into the details of the attack and the motives behind it is still required, the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) said in a statement. The domestic security service pledged its support to the police force in the investigation and said it still considered the terrorist threat in Norway to be “moderate”.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 14, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Norway

WTF?

Ten cars and police van smashed into ‘traffic calming post’ in just four weeks in ‘nightmare’ scheme pic.twitter.com/92QBOmE3nw

— The Sun (@TheSun) October 14, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021•0•WTF?

Politically Incorrect in Hollywood: Dave Chappelle Wins the TERF War

Critics have been calling on Netflix to cancel Dave Chappelle’s new special titled The Closer. However, the Hollywood actor/comedian’s show currently has a 96 percent audience score at Rotten Tomatoes, making it somewhat doubtful that the cancel mob will get their way this time.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 13, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"

UK Border Force could be given immunity over refugee deaths

Border Force staff who enact Priti Patel’s plans to “ push back” migrant boats in the Channel could be given immunity from conviction if a refugee dies, officials have confirmed.

The home secretary is seeking to introduce a provision in the nationality and borders bill that could give officials legal protections in the event that someone drowns.

Whether the provision, tucked away in an obscure corner of the bill, would actually protect officers from conviction under international maritime laws could be tested in the courts.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 13, 2021•0•Camp Of The Saints, UK

Insulate Britain is in bed with the establishment

The tabloids have had a field day with the revelation that an Insulate Britain activist is married to a director of Transport for London (TfL). Cathy Eastburn of Insulate Britain has been busy trying to bring transport to a standstill. She has been arrested four times for acts such as blocking roads and gluing her hands to a train. Meanwhile, her husband, Benedict Plowden, is in charge of ‘getting London moving after the pandemic’.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 13, 2021•0•Green-Scam

We’re all playing Squid Game

The appeal of class war isn’t confined to South Korea

The pivot point of Squid Game, the captivating South Korean miniseries that has become Netflix’s most popular series at launch, is its second episode. By now the premise has been vividly established: 456 financially desperate people have been transported to a private island to compete in a series of homicidally souped-up children’s games to win a jackpot of 45.6 billion won (£29 million). The winner takes all; the losers die.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2021October 13, 2021•0•"Zeitgeist"

COVID Mandates Were Never Meant for Those Who Made Them

Do you trust the government or other people?

Hardly a week goes by without another Democrat mayor, San Fran’s Breed or D.C.’s Bowser, another Democrat member of Congress like Tlaib or Pelosi, or even Joe Biden, flouting their own mask mandates in public. There’s also no great reason to believe that they’re abiding by their own vaccine mandates. Not after it was revealed that Governor Newsom, fresh from his French Laundry scandal, hadn’t vaccinated his daughter despite mandating vaccines for children her age. But the more rules there are, the fewer of them apply to the rulers.

by Blazingcatfur•October 13, 2021October 13, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Cambridge Students’ Union publishes pro-trans guide claiming that being a woman is not just down to ‘biological sex’ – and accuses feminists opposing such views as being linked to ‘far right’

Cambridge Students’ Union has published a pro-trans guide claiming that being a woman is not just down to ‘biological sex’.

‘How To Spot TERF Ideology’ accuses feminists who question this mantra as being ‘transphobic’ and suggets they could even be linked to the ‘far right’.

Written by new women’s officer Milo Eyre-Morgan, the guide accuses Terfs – short for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists – of having a ‘narrow definition’ of women.

by Blazingcatfur•October 13, 2021October 13, 2021•0•Big Tranny, WTF?

Rotten Tomatoes and the cultural gap between critics and audiences

Comedian Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, The Closer, has drawn praise from audiences and social media, while eliciting scorn from media reviewers and professional critics over its jokes about the LGBTQ and trans communities. Critics have even gone so far as to label the stand-up special “a betrayal” on Chappelle’s part.

But how far does this divide extend between what appears to be mass audience approval and universal critic disapproval? Rotten Tomatoes, the film critic aggregation site that averages reviews of visual media in film, television, and streaming, has become the latest tool to measure this.

by Blazingcatfur•October 13, 2021October 13, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"