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Cuba protests: Internet sheds light on anger – until it goes dark

For several hours on Sunday, crowds of angry Cubans took to the streets to protest against the Communist government. They also took to social media, where they not only shared their discontent but tried to galvanise supporters.

The demonstrations, the biggest in decades, were a rare show of dissent in a country where unauthorised public gatherings are illegal.

There was no formal organiser of the rallies, and people found out about where they were happening on online networks. The live broadcast on Facebook of a gathering in San Antonio de los Baños, near the capital Havana, was seen as the starting point for protests that spread quickly across the island.

Until the internet was cut off.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Cuba

Navy is not ready for war because sailors are forced to focus on diversity training with officers blaming poor leadership

A scathing new report commissioned by members of Congress has claimed that the Navy’s surface warfare forces have systemic training and leadership issues, including a focus on diversity that overshadows basic readiness skills.

The report prepared by Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, both retired, came in response to recent Naval disasters, including the burning of the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego, two collisions involving Navy ships in the Pacific and the surrender of two small craft to Iran.

The authors conducted hour-long interviews with 77 current and retired Navy officers, offering them anonymity to identify issues they wouldn’t feel comfortable raising in the chain of command.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", WTF?

Civic minded Chicago Rapper voluntarily takes all of next weekend’s bullets – 64 of ’em – for Lori

Rapper gunned down outside Chicago jail, shot 64 times

A Chicago rapper was gunned down in a hail of bullets moments after he walked out of jail and had been fitted for an ankle bracelet, reports said.

When 31-year-old Londre Sylvester left Cook County Jail just before 9 p.m. Saturday, gunmen got out of two parked cars and shot him 64 times, according to a police report obtained by the Chicago Tribune.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•WTF?

Biden and the Mullahs: “Feeding the Crocodile”

Winston Churchill famously warned against appeasing the aggressor: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear — I fear greatly — the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, ever more loudly, ever more widely. It will spread to the South; it will spread to the North.”

This is all prelude to the eventual pull-out by the US from the ME begun under Obama.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Iran, USA

Rex Murphy: Why is it OK to harm Christian places of worship in Canada?

How many churches, Catholic, Protestant or other, on Indigenous lands or off, have been vandalized, severely damaged or burnt straight to the ground in recent weeks? By my count, it’s been more than 20. In a strong column in the Post last week, Melissa Mbarki of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute wrote that 10 churches were vandalized in Alberta on Canada Day alone. That figure should be — is — astonishing.

It’s OK because the Liberal government and their media lackeys say its OK.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Just 25 ‘mega-cities’ produce 52 per cent of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions — and 23 of them are in China

Just over half of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions come from just 25 mega-cities — 23 of which are located in China — a study has reported.

The cities that emit the most greenhouse gases included Handan, Suzhou, Dalian, Beijing and Tianjin in China — but also Tokyo, Japan, and Moscow, Russia.

China’s President Xi Jinping has pledged to cap carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 — part of its commitment to the Paris Agreement.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Taliban fighters scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they execute 22 Afghan commandos … and … Canada to continue wasting money on Afghanistan after U.S. troop withdrawal

Taliban fighters scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they execute 22 Afghan commandos

Video has emerged that purports to show the moment 22 Afghan commandos were massacred by the Taliban moments after they surrendered.

The footage appears to have been taken in Dawlat Abad, in northern Faryab province, on June 16 following a major battle between the Taliban and Afghan forces.

The government had sent an elite team of US-trained commandos – including the son of a retired general – into the town to recapture it, but they quickly became surrounded with air support and reinforcements failing to materialise.

Canada to continue wasting money on Afghanistan after U.S. troop withdrawal

Ottawa will continue sending humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan after the United States completes its troop withdrawal from the country next month, International Development Minister Karina Gould says.

U.S. President Joe Biden said last week the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan will end Aug. 31, nearly 20 years after the United States and its allies took down the Taliban government in Kabul.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Afghanistan, Canada, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: More recycling, but most trash goes to dump, says report

Canadians have done a good job of reducing, reusing and recycling their garbage over the past two decades, although the vast majority of it still ends up in the dump, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Green-Scam

Green party brass move to block funding for leader Annamie Paul’s riding campaign

OTTAWA – Green party executives have moved to withhold funding from leader Annamie Paul’s campaign to win a downtown Toronto seat in a likely election later this year.

Four party sources, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal matters, say a motion was tabled at a federal council meeting on June 29 to hold back $250,000 previously earmarked for Paul’s campaign in Toronto Centre.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•Green Party

Don’t Turn Around! Der Kultur Kommissar’s In Town!

‘Culture officers’, restorative justice to be part of military’s new plan to fight misconduct: acting commander

OTTAWA — The acting commander of Canada’s Armed Forces says the military’s new plan to fight misconduct will include posting “culture officers” on warships, developing training workshops with survivors, and launching a restorative justice program in the fall.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 13, 2021•0•WTF?

Ontario reports 146 new Covid cases … and … Mixing vaccines is A OK! Maybe, kinda, sorta, we’ll see

Ontario reports 146 new COVID-19 cases; 7+ million people now have second vaccine dose

Ontario reported 146 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday along with seven additional deaths, as the number of people who have received two doses of an approved vaccine hit seven million.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 170 down from 184 on Monday

Mixing COVID-19 vaccines a ‘dangerous trend,’ WHO chief scientist says

“It will be a chaotic situation in countries if citizens start deciding when and who will be taking a second, a third and a fourth dose.”

Swaminathan later clarified her remarks on Twitter, saying people should follow public health advice and not make their own decisions on vaccine mixing or taking additional doses.

She said public health agencies can provide advice based on available data, but added that studies on mixing various vaccines are ongoing and that “immunogenicity and safety both need to be evaluated.”

Great. I got Pfizered and Modernated.

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

Austria Urges EU to Take Action Against Attempts to Use Migrants as Weapons

VIENNA (Sputnik) – The European Union must respond to Belarus, Afghanistan and Turkey that attempt to use migrants as a weapon against the bloc, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on 12 July.

The minister noted he had been aware of reports of Afghanistan’s intention to suspend deportations for three months, calling it absolutely unacceptable given the agreements between the country and the EU.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 12, 2021•0•Camp Of The Saints

Afghan women’s worst fears realised as Taliban returns

Insurgents make full covering mandatory and ban movement without guardians, say residents of recently captured areas

As the Taliban and government battle for control of Afghanistan, residents of areas seized recently by the insurgents are already experiencing life under the repressive regime toppled two decades ago.

Emboldened by the withdrawal of US and Nato troops, the Taliban launched major offensives into new territory in northern and western provinces. Afghan forces have kept control of provincial capitals, but the insurgents have made gains in surrounding districts.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 12, 2021•0•Afghanistan

Want to Save America? Don’t Act Like a Conservative.

Chest-Thumpers and ‘Aw, Shucks’ Conservatives Personify the Right’s Love Affair with Losing

Chris Rufo is doing something so spectacularly unconservative, he may need to update his political affiliation: he’s winning.

Last week, Rufo’s successful legislative efforts to ban critical race theory in the classroom found critique in the New York Times. The guest essay conspicuously avoided naming him; then again, it didn’t have to.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 12, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Peak Woke"

Can Britain survive the woke wave?

Conflicts over national identity have the potential to tear the fabric of civil society

Back in 1963 a landmark study by academics Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba called, The Civic Culture, looked into why the British did not follow the Germans and the Italians into the abyss of fascism, and why communism has similarly failed to take root here. They concluded that the country’s political culture made it inhospitable to radical ideologies. The British didn’t do ideology.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2021July 12, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"