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Have buildings spontaneously collapsed before? Yes, but it’s a short list

Investigators from around the world have flown in to try to explain the sudden, middle-of-the-night collapse of a nice enough, but largely unremarkable luxury condo building, one that stood for several decades before collapsing but wasn’t nearly as old as some nearby buildings that still stand. It’s nearly unprecedented mystery that experts are struggling to explain.

“It’s really rare to have this kind of failure that a building is doing all well and all of the sudden it just collapses,” said Mohammad Ehsani, engineer and concrete-shoring expert. “It’s not something that should happen or does happen.”

It seems hyperbolic to say “40-year-old buildings don’t just collapse” but it’s not.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•disaster

FUREY: China’s Communist regime, with help from a Canadian Senator, is appropriating the residential schools conversation

Back in March, the government of China scandalously used the death of George Floyd to deflect from criticisms of the systemic human rights abuses that persist all throughout its own country.

“The United States has mountains of human rights problems in its own country,” said Li Xiaojin, a human rights official from China’s State Council Information Office, upon the release of the Chinese government’s 28-page report on supposed human rights violations in the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

RCMP “Investigating” Communist Chinese Scientists Who Were Allowed To Saunter Home To Red China

RCMP investigating Winnipeg scientists fired from lab for possible transfer of intellectual property to China

The RCMP are investigating whether two scientists dismissed from Canada’s top-security infectious-disease laboratory passed on Canadian intellectual property to China, including to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The investigation centres on the possibility that materials such as plasma DNA molecules, which could be used to recreate vaccines or viruses, were transferred to Chinese authorities without the approval of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The Globe and Mail has also learned that the RCMP have been informed that Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, recently relocated to China after they were fired in January from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.

Good work Dudley Do-Right. This is a little too convenient. No?

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Tucker and the NSA: Why Are You Surprised?

Carlson’s revelations about being spied on by the Biden administration are part of a well-established pattern of government abuse.

I’ll allow that this headline might miss the mark with many of our more regular readers, who are anything but surprised at the revelations coming out of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show this week.

But for the rest of you, it might be just what you needed to see.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"Surveillance Society"

Will the American media stand up for Hong Kong before it’s too late?

Don’t count on it

On October 1 of last year, the New York Times printed an op-ed from Regina Ip, executive council and legislative council of Hong Kong, headlined ‘Hong Kong is China, Like it or Not’. Ip advocated on behalf of China’s new ‘security’ law in Hong Kong. This law employed harsh police and military tactics to crack down on pro-democracy protests and resulted in the arrest of Apple Daily editor Jimmy Lai. This week, Apple Daily itself was shut down and several of the newspaper’s journalists were also arrested.

This article is a must read

China’s Communist Party and its American Media Enablers

Much of major U.S. media is controlled not by media corporations, but entertainment-media corporations, and it’s the entertainment that gives the Chinese Communist Party leverage.

To understand the media’s vulnerabilities, you should know who owns what:

NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC are owned by Comcast which also owns Universal Pictures which is a minority partner to five Chinese state-owned companies in the Universal Beijing Resort. The resort will feature attractions from Universal properties, like Harry Potter and Jurassic World, and licensed properties from other American entertainment companies, such as Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures, giving Beijing a single point of pressure on several U.S. media firms. In 2016, Universal and China’s Perfect World Pictures announced a $500 million co-financing deal of a slate of films.
ABC News is owned by The Walt Disney Company which also owns Walt Disney Studios and participates in the Shanghai Disney Resort, where it is a 43% partner to three Chinese companies controlled by the government of the city of Shanghai. The resort saw 11 million visitors in its first year of operation and is a major contributor to Disney’s earnings. Disney also owns 80% of ESPN which shied away from covering the story of Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting Hong Kong demonstrators and the ensuing controversy.
CBS News is owned by ViacomCBS which also owns Paramount Pictures and ViacomCBS Networks International, the latter of which produces MTV and Nickelodeon for the Chinese market.
CNN is owned by AT&T’s WarnerMedia which controls NBA TV. NBA TV had its broadcasts in China suspended in 2019 after the Daryl Morey’s controversy, which prompted the league and its leading players to distance themselves from the protests. WarnerMedia is also a 49% participant in Flagship Entertainment, a film production company located in Hong Kong; the other major participant is venture capital firm China Media Capital.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", The Media, The Media Lies, USA

Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Will Debate Resolution Accusing Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

The nation’s largest teachers’ union will debate two resolutions aimed at boycotting Israel and recognizing a Palestinian state at a conference this week.

The National Education Association will take up the proposals at their multi-day annual meeting, which is set to begin Wednesday. One measure calls on the United States to cut material support and funding to Israel. Another would have the union promote Palestinian causes through a variety of programs at an estimated cost of $71,500.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•Anti-Semitism and the Left

The “Iran Deal” Soon to Be Resuscitated

The latest alteration before the Americans trying to revive the “nuclear weapons deal” — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — with Iran is the carefully staged election this month of Ebrahim Raisi to its presidency. A clerical hardliner known as “the Butcher,” he is responsible for thousands of executions of oppositions leaders, torture and other “ongoing crimes against humanity.”

Raisi’s election, “engineered to guarantee his victory,” looks suspiciously like a ploy by Iran’s Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei to terrify the American negotiators into capitulating to Iran’s demands even faster and more recklessly, to avoid negotiating with an opponent more uncompromising than whomever they are negotiating with at present.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•Iran

CSE responded to more than 2,200 cyber attacks last year amid heightened concern over Chinese, Russian hacks

OTTAWA — Canada’s digital spy agency responded to more than 2,000 attacks on the federal government and its critical infrastructure partners last year, according to a new report, amid heightened concerns over the use of cyber warfare tactics by foreign actors.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, Russia

Convicted One Armed ISIS fighter testifies against Dearborn man in terror case

Detroit — A one-armed Islamic State soldier testified Monday he served alongside a Dearborn man accused of fighting on behalf of the terrorist organization, an unprecedented admission in federal court during the war on terror.

Minnesota resident Abdelhamid Al-Madioum testified during a dramatic, virtual faceoff in federal court in Detroit involving two Americans who prosecutors say fled the country to wage jihad on behalf of a terrorist organization. During more than two hours of testimony, Al-Madioum, 24, said that he met Ibraheem Musaibli four times while both served in the Tariq bin Ziyad brigade, which was filled with foreign fighters — including Americans — who served in war zones in Iraq and Syria

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Huawei lawyers claim emails prove US has no grounds to extradite CFO from Canada

US justice department’s battle to extradite Meng Wanzhou from Canada has taken a fresh turn as lawyers for Huawei’s chief financial officer claimed that internal emails and bank documents prove there is no grounds to extradite her to the US.

Meng, 48, was arrested on a US warrant at Vancouver airport in late 2018, and has been battling extradition to the US. Her detention infuriated the Chinese government and has helped drag relations between Beijing and Ottawa to their lowest point in years.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

California: Try not to recharge your electric cars, folks

California is on track to ban the sale of non-electric vehicles in an effort to “go green” as fast as possible. They’re even banning the construction of new gas stations in the next decade. But a slight hitch may have shown up in that plan, caused by a stretch of high temperatures this summer. How are the two related? Well, their power grid is being increasingly driven by renewable energy, specifically wind and solar power.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•Green-Scam

‘If he was white, they’d call the police’: Britons gobsmacked after viral clip of UK Muslim sharing his views on homosexuality

Britons have vented their anger after a clip, taken from a Sky News broadcast, went viral in which a British Muslim claimed homosexuality is “heinous” and that “women were created for man’s pleasure.”

Muslims giving their verdict on Pride and the role of women to Sky News.
Double bigotry in one sentence. pic.twitter.com/GC9BG03FUP

— AltNewsMedia 🌍 (@AltNewsMedia) June 29, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and homosexuality, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

UK Jews Under Assault: Highest Number of Antisemitic Incidents Ever … ditto Canada

Record numbers of antisemitic incidents have been recorded in the UK since last month’s rocket attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) reveal.

From 8 May to 7 June, 460 incidents were reported to the Jewish charity – the highest monthly total since records began in 1984 – with 316 happening offline and 144 online.

In Canada B’nai Brith claims a similar litany of diversity

SPECIAL REPORT: Last Month’s Surge of Antisemitism Far Worse Than First Thought

OTTAWA – Calls to rape Jewish women. Rocks thrown at peaceful protesters. Nazi emblems in our streets.

From coast to coast, Canada’s Jewish community came under assault on multiple fronts throughout the month of May, 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•Anti-Semitism and the Left, Israeli - Islam Conflict

A Muslim former intelligence officer says systemic racism at CSIS is a threat to national security

A Muslim woman who worked as a senior intelligence officer at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said the systemic racism and lack of diversity she experienced firsthand at CSIS constitute a national security threat — especially in light of a recent deadly attack on a Canadian Muslim family.

Huda Mukbil, a hijab-wearing Arabic-speaker, said she was treated as an insider threat and interrogated about her religion during her 15-year career at CSIS.

Mukbil said she was forced to cut ties with Muslim organizations, ostracized at work and treated like a second-class citizen. She left the intelligence agency in 2017 after helping to launch a civil lawsuit against CSIS over claims of discrimination.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada

182 human remains in unmarked graves found at site of former residential school in Cranbrook, B.C.

The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre say there were recurring outbreaks of influenza, mumps, measles, chicken pox, and tuberculosis at the school.

There has been another discovery of human remains in unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in B.C.

The Lower Kootenay Band confirmed Wednesday that ground-penetrating radar revealed 182 human remains in unmarked graves at the site of the old St. Eugene’s Mission Residential School in Cranbrook, B.C.

Celebratory church arson to follow…

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues