Author: Blazingcatfur

Why China’s bitcoin miners are moving to Texas

When China announced a crackdown on bitcoin mining and trading in May, Kevin Pan, CEO of Chinese cryptocurrency mining company Poolin, got on a flight the next day to leave the country.

“We decided to move out, once [and] for all. [We’ll] never come back again,” Mr Pan told the BBC.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, Poolin is the second largest bitcoin mining network in the world, with most of its operations in mainland China. The country was home to around 70% of global bitcoin mining power, until the clampdown sent the price of bitcoin into a tailspin and caught miners off guard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Bitcoin, USA

Former FBI Agent Says 9-11 Hijackers had U.S.-based support

At least two of the 9-11 hijackers probably had a U.S.-based support network, according to a former FBI agent.

Danny Gonzalez worked on “Operation Encore,” the still-secret investigation into the two Saudi hijackers who were based in San Diego. Gonzalez told CBS News he’s confident the records of that operation will show the hijackers had help.

“19 hijackers cannot commit 3,000 mass murders by themselves,” Gonzalez told the network.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11

People on watch lists were among Afghanistan evacuees, DHS confirms

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that his department has flagged some Afghan evacuees as potential security risks and blocked them from reaching the U.S., and he vowed to make America’s safety the core of the airlift.

Mr. Mayorkas, in his first briefing on the airlift, said those who reach the U.S. will be resettled in the country, and said it’s a commitment the U.S. owes to those who helped the American effort or who face dangers from the Taliban takeover of their home country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

‘Horse dewormer’ overdose story debunked: We have no such doctor & treat people as normal, hospital says

A shocking story claimed that an Oklahoma hospital had to turn away gunshot victims because so many people had overdosed on “horse dewormer” in a bid to treat Covid-19 themselves. The sensation was destroyed by lack of proof.

As it turns out, the story was horse s**t from top to bottom. When podcast host Joe Rogan announced he was treating his own case of Covid-19 with a cocktail of medications including ivermectin, the establishment commentariat went into overdrive, describing the drug – a Nobel Prize-winning anti-parasitic widely used around the world – as a dangerous substance used in the treatment of livestock.

Not the first time a cure has been dismissed by the establishment, recall the Doctors who proved ulcers were caused by bacteria contrary to accepted “science”: Nobel Came After Years of Battling the System

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

Anti-Vaccine Mandate Protester Shot, Antifa Allegedly Involved

Details are short right now, but an anti-vaccine protester was shot in Olympia, Washington, following an altercation with Antifa. The latter showed up to counter-protest those who were speaking out against so-called “vaccine passports.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Canada, allies watchful of how China will fill Western void in Afghanistan

OTTAWA — With the United States and its allies, Canada included, having left Afghanistan firmly in the hands of the Taliban, another world power is stepping into the void to exert its influence on the troubled country — China.

Analysts predict that could transform the recent political foe into an unexpected Western ally on a shared priority: fighting terrorist groups within Afghanistan and preventing them from threatening neighbouring countries.

Sounds a tad optimistic. But then Justin is a miracle worker.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Revealed: life inside ‘global villages’ of Islamic State jihadis in Afghanistan

Women who joined Islamic State in Afghanistan give rare insight into international network that bombed airport

In 2017, a group of senior Arab fighters travelled from Syria to Afghanistan, to cement the links between Islamic State cells in the two areas.

They arrived in an international village, where the jihadi families included a blond German husband and wife and French, Russian, Chinese Uyghur and central Asian families, according to a rare testimony by an Uzbek woman who was a member the group.

She spent nearly eight years as a fighter’s wife in eastern Nangarhar province under a web of international jihadi groups that have taken root in eastern and northern Afghanistan, shifting names and allegiances, but currently known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), a reference to the historical name for a cross-border region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Belarus Floods EU with Migrants from Middle East

Thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are pouring into the European Union from Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. The surge in illegal immigration is being orchestrated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is accused of trying to blackmail the EU into reversing the sanctions it imposed over his disputed reelection and a crackdown on dissent.

Many of the migrants are being flown to Belarus from the Middle East and then bussed to EU borders by Belarusian authorities. The trips are being organized by Belarus’s state-owned tourism agency, which charges migrants between $1,800 to $12,000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBelarus, Camp Of The Saints

Hundreds March in Downtown Toronto to Protest Against Vaccine Passport Mandates

Several hundred people rallied in downtown Toronto on Saturday to voice their opposition to the vaccine mandates rolled out in Ontario this week.

The crowd set off from Queen’s Park and marched through downtown to protest the new proof-of-vaccination certificates announced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Sept. 1. People will need to provide proof of vaccination along with photo ID to access non-essential services such as restaurants, bars, gyms, and other indoor facilities starting Sept. 22.

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

Harry and Meghan sink to all-time low in UK ‘favorability’ rating – Andy in toilet

Harry and Meghan sink to all-time low in UK ‘favorability’ rating

And just in time for fall sweeps!

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “favorability” rating has fallen to a new record low, according to pollsters YouGov.

According to the group, which queried 1,667 UK adults ranging in age from teens to seniors, Markle is liked by 26 percent of the British population and disliked by 65 percent, which squares to a net approval rating of –39 percent.

Charles ain’t exactly loved either according to the poll.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

California woman in Kabul says Taliban ‘hunting’ for Americans in Afghanistan

A pregnant woman from California who is stranded in Afghanistan said the Taliban is “hunting” Americans now that the US military has withdrawn from the country​.​

The woman, identified by her first name, Nasria, to protect her from reprisals, is among the up to 200 Americans still trapped in Afghanistan.

“There’s been days, you know, where I think to myself, ‘Am I going to make it home? Am I going to end up living here? Am I going to end up dying here?​’​” Nasria ​told Voice of America in an interview recorded on Friday. ​

More … Top Republican says Taliban holding Americans

WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee says some Americans who have been trying to get out of Afghanistan since the U.S. military left are sitting in airplanes at an airport ready to leave but the Taliban are not letting them take off.

Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas says there are six airplanes at the Mazar-e-Sharif airport with American citizens on board, along with their Afghan interpreters, and the Taliban are “holding them hostage” right now.

I bet all the right people are shocked at this development.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Afghanistan: Taliban accused of murdering female police officer … Taliban promises to investigate

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a policewoman in a provincial city, relatives have told the BBC.

The woman, named in local media as Banu Negar, was killed at the family home in front of relatives in Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province.

The killing comes amid increasing reports of escalating repression of women in Afghanistan.

The BBC has asked Taliban authorities for comment. The local Taliban promised to investigate, the family says.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Slim majority of Canadians open to paying more to help cut Canada’s emissions, poll shows

A narrow majority of Canadians are open to paying more to help Canada cut its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll from Nanos Research.

The survey comes amid a federal election campaign in which, for the first time in more than a decade, all of the major parties are proposing some form of a price on carbon as part of their election platform. But the level of the carbon price, how it is rebated back to Canadians and the stringency of emissions-reduction targets vary widely between the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Green Party.

Overall, the poll shows that 27 per cent of Canadians are willing to pay more in areas like taxes and the price of gas to help the country hit its emissions targets. A further 27 per cent said they were somewhat willing to pay more. However, 30 per cent said they were not willing to pay more, 14 per cent said they were somewhat unwilling and two per cent said they were unsure.

Same story at CTV as they and the Globe commissioned the poll.

I don’t have a lot of faith in this poll, it’s a hybrid telephone/online sample. People tell pollsters what they think they want to hear and online polls are meaningless.

The poll consisted of a hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,029 Canadians. The results were gathered between Aug. 28 and 30. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election"

LILLEY: Shootings, gun murders spike under Liberals as they claim their policies work

Liberal MP Bill Blair was asked a pretty basic question about gun control on Saturday morning and couldn’t, or should I say wouldn’t, answer.

Below – Is this any different than Ontario’s LCBO’s allowing non-traditional shoppers in Toronto to walk out with gallons of booze? This is the fate of every “liberal progressive” city.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Another Damn Election"