Author: Blazingcatfur
Pfizer CEO acknowledges vaccine-resistant strains of COVID likely coming
The big problem with vaccines and viruses is that viruses tend to mutate into strains that are resistant to the vaccine. It’s called ADE, “Antibody Dependent Enhancement,” and it is why no effective coronavirus vaccine had ever been developed prior to the current pandemic.
Yazidi women and girls still enslaved by Isis within detention camp
On the seventh anniversary of Islamic State’s genocide of the Yazidi people, about 2,800 women and girls enslaved by the terror group are still missing.
It is thought that many of those who survived may be trapped in the increasingly dangerous Al-Hawl detention camp in northeast Syria, imprisoned with their captors.
Rights groups say that, without international efforts to identify and free them, these women and girls, originally from the Sinjar area in Iraq, are at risk of being smuggled outside the Kurdish-run camp and sent to Islamic State – or Isis – cells in Syria and third countries like Turkey – after which, it may become impossible to find them.
No Jab, No Medicare? How far are they ready to go?
The federal government has become so desperate to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 that it plans to hold Medicare and Medicaid payments hostage.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden, the virtual president, announced that nursing homes will receive federal money for Medicare and Medicaid expenses only if their employees are vaccinated.
The “Delta variant”, it appears, justified the step.
On Afghanistan, Biden sounds increasingly like ‘Baghdad Bob’
Really? If that last claim were true, then how did the Afghan military manage to kill al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu Muhsin al-Masri, in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province last October?
Blackwater founder finds new income stream in flying Americans out of Kabul at $6,500 PER SEAT – reports
Erik Prince may get his privatized war in Afghanistan after all – the tail end of it, at least. The mercenary is reportedly charging $6,500 per head to fly people out of the Taliban-controlled country as the evac deadline looms.
With August 31 as the final deadline for Americans to leave Afghanistan, public and private security forces alike are tripping over themselves trying to get their men (and women) out of the country – and some less scrupulous figures are taking cash to expedite the process, according to a Tuesday report from the Wall Street Journal.
Afghanistan: the graveyard of experts
Western nation-builders thought they knew what was best for Afghanistan – they didn’t have a clue.
The first time Western powers installed and backed a leader in Afghanistan, it didn’t end well. His name was Shah Shujah; when he was lured out of his palace, supposedly for peace talks with the Afghan forces that had been deposed by the West, they shot him.
I get the impression the experts of the west payed attention almost solely to their fellow grifters in the Afghan elite with scant notice of the general populace.
This explains the peculiar fixation on their magic totem Malala who was trotted out at every opportunity to shame the “Islamophobes.”
A sort of working girl gets shot in the face success story that they peddled to show that Islam wasn’t really so bad after all and just look at the proof here in our mighty Malala.
At the end of the day Malala was just one more con.
She made out like a bandit she did.
Joe Biden Is Now the World’s Top Arms Supplier to Terrorists
The dust hasn’t settled in Afghanistan. The crisis that has erupted since Joe Biden decided to abandon Bagram Air Base and the rest of Afghanistan will continue long past his arbitrary August 31 deadline. After that, the people of that country will be subjected to pogroms the likes of which have not been seen since the Vietnam communists and the Khmer Rouge swept across southeast Asia, killing untold numbers along the way. A refugee crisis is already underway and will eventually become a major issue for Afghanistan’s neighboring countries and Europe. It’s no exaggeration to say that Biden has destabilized much of the world along with fracturing U.S. alliances across the board.
Cripes they gave them Russian Equipment!
The Taliban have captured more than 100 Russian-made helicopters in various states of operability, the head of a Russian state arms exporter has said, but will be largely unable to use them with little access to maintenance crews and spare parts.
As the Taliban overran the Afghan army and took control of large stores of arms and vehicles, it also captured at least 100 Mi-17 Hip helicopters, a Russian-made transport aircraft procured by the US for the Afghan armed forces because it was comparatively cheaper and easier to fly than US-made UH-60 Black Hawks.
Canada races to beat US deadline in Afghanistan
Canada is racing to wind down its Afghanistan evacuation effort ahead of America’s 31 August deadline, as officials warn some may be left behind.
As of 24 August, Canada had airlifted more than 2,700 people out of Kabul, including Canadian citizens, Afghans and other foreign nationals.
But efforts have been stymied by chaos on the ground, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan acknowledged on Wednesday.
“We are pushing our people and our aircrafts to their limits,” he said.
Canada has vowed to take in 20,000 Afghan refugees, but has not specified a timeline.
Torrent of online ‘toxicity,’ including hate, targeting election candidates: study
OTTAWA, Kan. – A project examining more than 350,000 comments sent to candidates on Twitter during the first week of the federal election campaign found more than a quarter of the tweets were considered toxic.
The executive director of the Samara Centre for Democracy says the research, which looked only at Twitter, found 20 per cent of the tweets were on the low or middle end of what the project called a “toxicity scale,” in that contained insults, sexist language or rude comments.
Sabreena Delhon says a further seven per cent of the tweets were “severely toxic,” including hateful, aggressive comments or threats of violence against candidates or their families.
There’s just so much to hate about the Liberals!
Conservatives lead in popular support, but Liberals would still eke out a diminished minority win today: poll analysis
OTTAWA — The Conservative party has taken the lead in nationwide federal election campaign polling, and is closing the gap with the Liberals in Ontario, according to an analysis by Vox Pop Labs.
And while the analysis also suggests the Liberals would still win the most seats if the election were held now, it forecasts that they would fall short of the number needed to form a majority government.
Top-line numbers aggregated in The Signal by Vox Pop Labs suggest Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives now have the support of 34.5 per cent of voters, compared to 33.5 per cent for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
The New Democrats are sitting at 19.8 per cent support, a level that has remained virtually unchanged over the first 10 days of campaigning.
A weakened minority? As good as a loss certainly. Would that be enough for the LPC to dump Prince Airhead? I doubt it.
EXCLUSIVE: Justin Trudeau marched out of neigbourhood in Surrey BC today by large crowd. Never before such contempt for a PM displayed.
Also Global’s @AbigailBimman proven to be a zero credibility LIAR alleging anti Semitic slur. None in footage (1/2)#TrudeauMustGoNow pic.twitter.com/vrTXj2RZ3c
— Rowan (@canmericanized) August 25, 2021
SULTANI: Shame on Monsef for calling Taliban ‘our brothers’
In a morning briefing on Afghanistan, Maryam Monsef, Canada’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality called the Taliban her “brothers” and asked them to allow Canadians to get to the Kabul airport in order to leave the country. After facing heavy criticism, Monsef is defending herself on the grounds that she used “brothers” in a cultural context.
As a Canadian who moved to this country as an Afghan refugee, I want to be very clear, there is no cultural context in which calling the Taliban “brothers” is acceptable. Words carry meaning, and meanings imply moral positions.
John Robson: What’s bleak is that no one, including Erin O’Toole, wants to shrink government
If anything could make this federal election even more bleak, it’s a faked Liberal video on Conservative plans to privatize health care. And what’s worst about that stunt: the dishonesty, the arrogance or the stupidity? For this we called the most important election in our lifetimes?
WTF?
“Christian supremacy is white supremacy” 🤨 pic.twitter.com/LJl5kbw4Wa
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) August 25, 2021
RCMP conducting ‘character’ checks on staff as former top intelligence official’s trial approaches
It took the arrest of one of its top intelligence officials to make it happen, but the RCMP says it’s now keeping better tabs on the “character” of the people it employs.
Cameron Ortis, who led the force’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre (NICC), was arrested in September 2019 in Ottawa. He was accused of revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and of planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity or terrorist group.
He is charged with multiple Security of Information Act violations, breach of trust and a computer-related offence.