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Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior

By the time Melinda French Gates decided to end her 27-year marriage, her husband was known globally as a software pioneer, a billionaire and a leading philanthropist.

In 2018, Ms. French Gates wasn’t satisfied with her husband’s handling of a previously undisclosed sexual harassment claim against his longtime money manager, according to two people familiar with the matter. After Mr. Gates moved to settle the matter confidentially, Ms. French Gates insisted on an outside investigation. The money manager, Michael Larson, remains in his job.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•WTF?

A former AP correspondent explains how and why reporters get Israel so wrong, and why it matters

“The lasting importance of this summer’s war, I believe, doesn’t lie in the war itself. It lies instead in the way the war has been described and responded to abroad, and the way this has laid bare the resurgence of an old, twisted pattern of thought and its migration from the margins to the mainstream of Western discourse—namely, a hostile obsession with Jews. The key to understanding this resurgence is not to be found among jihadi webmasters, basement conspiracy theorists, or radical activists. It is instead to be found first among the educated and respectable people who populate the international news industry; decent people, many of them, and some of them my former colleagues.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•Israel bashing, Israeli - Islam Conflict

We need science, not politics, to guide Canada’s re-opening

The Americans’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention (the well-known CDC) had a major conversion this week. It finally let the science of COVID (and not the politics) drive its decision on what vaccinated Americans can and cannot do once they’ve had their shots.

Bottom line kiss summer goodbye.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Rocket sirens continue to blare throughout night in Ashkelon, Beersheba

Rocket sirens continued to blare throughout the night in Ashkelon and Beersheba, with two separate barrages being aimed at each city, as Gaza terror groups continue their assault on Israel late into the night.

Hamas rocket barrages on southern Israel continued Sunday with almost 300 projectiles launched at Israel since Saturday, 120 on Saturday night alone.

This is the damage caused to an Israeli home by just ONE of the 2900 Hamas rockets fired from Gaza into Israel.

Israelis are under attack. We will continue to defend them. pic.twitter.com/RmKgP0Tn71

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 16, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•Israeli - Islam Conflict

Revealed: how Israel tricked Hamas

As an illustration of Mossad’s Biblical motto — ‘by way of deception shall you make war’ — it could not have been better

Ireceived a message from a trusted contact in Israel on Thursday telling me that no ground offensive was planned in Gaza. This was despite the fact that heavy armor and infantry reservists were massing on the border. I decided to hold the story and break it in the morning.

Within hours, however, the official Israeli army Twitter account had suggested to the world that ground troops had gone into action. ‘IDF (Israel Defense Force) air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip,’ it said.

Nobody noted the careful ambiguity.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•Hamas

The Vatican Defends Biden on Communion – Et tu, Brute?

This pontificate is rightly seen as a repudiation of the restorationist priorities of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than on the matter of long-neglected canon law. Discussions about it had intensified under those two previous pontificates. It appeared, for example, that the Church, after many years of laxity, was on the cusp of finally applying canon law to pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Pope Benedict XVI, who was on record favoring a denial of Communion to them, spoke of the “pseudo-pastoral” claims made by progressive churchmen that had rendered canon law impotent. In retrospect, those comments read like a warning about his successor’s pontificate, which has been defined by that pseudo-pastoralism.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Catholic Church

Former Professor Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Using Federal Grants to Aid China’s Medical Research

A biomedical professor has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for carrying out a scheme to use millions of dollars in federal grant money to advance research in China, according to the Justice Department.

Zheng Songguo, a former professor at Ohio State University (OSU), pleaded guilty in November to lying on his National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant applications, in order to use $4.1 million in research grants to develop the fields of rheumatology and immunology for China, the department said.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Espionage, USA

Biden and Iran: Temptation to Save the Zombie

Judging by what Iranian and US diplomats involved in the current talks to revive the moribund “nuclear deal” say, the widow of opportunity opened by Joe Biden’s victory in last year’s presidential election is likely to shut within the next few weeks.

The Iranian side claims that only an agreement reached while President Hassan Rouhani’s team is still in charge, at least nominally, would have a real chance of being pushed through the hurdles set against any international accord by the Islamic Republic. For the US side, however, the problem is that while President Biden is keen to clinch a deal in the hope of normalization with the Khomeinist regime, he cannot be sure that the Iranian team in Vienna would be able to deliver on any promises it makes.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Indian Covid variant: How much faster does it spread?

After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.

England’s full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.

The thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India – B.1.617.2 – and has started spreading around the world.

Concerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

‘You weaken our institution’: Top French cop hits back at 93 ex-officers who signed letter calling for ‘civil war’ to be avoided

France’s top policeman has blasted nearly a hundred of his former colleagues who signed an open letter asking the president to better defend the police from “hordes of masked individuals.”

Striking a similar tone to earlier open letters that were signed by retired and active military personnel, a petition signed by 93 former police officers urged President Emmanuel Macron, the government, and lawmakers to “do everything possible to put an end to the extremely serious situation that France is going through in terms of security and public peace.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

How China Co-Opted the Olympics

Olympics bigwigs dismissed human rights abuses behind closed doors

When Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, the 2022 Beijing Olympics chief, met with Chinese dissidents in a closed-door October meeting, he firmly rejected their plea to relocate the games out of China to protest human rights abuses. “The world lives under very many political systems. We cannot go and say and endorse one or the other. That is not what we do,” Salisachs told activists, according to meeting minutes obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The activists were stunned. “[Salisachs] was talking to me as if he knows so much better than we do,” Frances Hui, a Hong Kong activist who attended the meeting, told the Free Beacon. “We were all in shock—they were so disrespectful to us.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

MALCOLM: Trudeau needs to muster the courage to condemn Hamas

“This note is being written in the midst of a significant missile attack from Gaza so please forgive my brevity. I am trying to get this out before I have to run to another location.”

That was an email I received from a colleague earlier this week who is working in Israel. That country has fallen into a civil war against the terrorist insurgency group Hamas.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Israel double standards, Israeli - Islam Conflict, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

John Kerry: US climate envoy ridiculed for optimism on clean tech … says eating meat is OK though

This is what a permanent political class looks like.

America’s climate envoy John Kerry has been ridiculed for saying technologies that don’t yet exist will play a huge role in stabilising the climate.

Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, he said the US was leading the world on climate change – and rapidly phasing out coal-fired power stations.

But he rejected a suggestion that Americans need to change their consumption patterns by, say, eating less meat.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•Green-Scam

Associated Press Denies Any Knowledge Gaza Office Building Was Shared With Hamas After Israeli Airstrike

The Associated Press denied any knowledge that the Jala Tower—which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike—was also being shared by Hamas, a designated terror group, as claimed by top Israeli leaders.

AP CEO Gary Pruitt issued a statement over the weekend denying that the newswire service knew Hamas terrorists were operating in the building, located in the Gaza Strip. The Jala Tower also hosted Qatar-backed media outlet Al Jazeera and other news organizations.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"Journalists", WTF?

Trumpets and Tank Engines: A Turning Point in Gaza?

During an operation in Gaza last week, the Israel Defence Forces attacked a Hamas tunnel complex with 12 squadrons of 160 combat planes striking over 150 targets with hundreds of bunker-busting JDAMs [Joint Direct Attack Munitions] in less than an hour. Although the battle damage assessment is still underway, the raid destroyed perhaps the most critical element of Hamas infrastructure, wiping out vast stocks of munitions and likely killing dozens if not hundreds of fighters. This was a hammer blow to Hamas and may prove to be a turning point in the conflict. It also sent a powerful message to Iran and Hizballah, foretelling the consequences of an assault on Israel with their arsenal of tens of thousands of missiles in southern Lebanon.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2021May 16, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Israeli - Islam Conflict