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Bye-bye, Little Mr. Tritium: Rollout of cartoon MASCOT to promote dumping Fukushima’s radioactive waters into ocean flops in Japan

Japan’s government has scrapped a mascot promoting the plan to dump contaminated Fukushima wastewaters into the ocean just a day after its release, after the cute character received an extremely poor reception from the public.

The mascot, called ‘Little Mr. Tritium’, was withdrawn by the authorities for redesign on Wednesday.

“Since the theme of radiation is highly specialized and difficult to understand, we will use illustrations to get as many people as possible interested,” Japan’s Reconstruction Agency said in a statement.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•WTF?

Rabbis jump to Tucker Carlson’s defense after ADL boss calls for his resignation over ‘racist’ rhetoric

The Anti-Defamation League is facing pushback from some Jewish leaders after the organization called on Fox News host Tucker Carlson to resign.

“Alas, the ADL has become markedly partisan under your leadership,” a group of 1,500 rabbis wrote to ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, urging the group to “discard its partisan preoccupations and undertake an urgently needed course correction.”

The controversy started when Carlson aired a segment accusing Democrats of being pro-immigration because they are hoping to “replace the current electorate” with voters who are friendlier to Democrats.

The ADL is just a wing of the Democrat Party.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"

Carson Jerema: Trudeau government failed to keep out the variants tearing through Canada

It was in the power of the federal government to contain the current wave of the pandemic, fuelled as it is by more contagious variants, through border controls or more timely vaccine procurement. But you won’t hear any contrition from the prime minister. When asked during question period Tuesday about his government’s slow vaccine rollout, Justin Trudeau deflected and said the “facts” are that health restrictions are what are needed to blunt the spread of COVID-19. In other words, take it up with the provinces.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Official narrative takes another pounding: Mexican-American woman, 70, is battered by racist black woman who thought she was Asian

An elderly Mexican-American woman was badly beaten by a racist bus passenger who mistook her for an Asian-American, the victim’s son said.

The 70-year-old victim, named only as Becky by her son Pete, suffered a concussion, a broken nose, swollen eyes and had her hair pulled out last Friday.

She was attacked while on her way to go grocery shopping in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter, hate crimes

Ford’s cabinet debates Ontario-wide curfew to curb the spread of COVID-19 – based on modelling that’s never been accurate of course

Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet is debating a province-wide curfew and other restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Even though Ontario has been under a “stay at home” order since last week and schools are closed indefinitely, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones conceded Thursday more will likely have to be done.

“All options are on the table,” Jones told reporters at Queen’s Park.

Ford’s cabinet was to meet Thursday afternoon and again Friday as new modelling from the province’s science table was expected to show the worrying trends continuing.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Afghanistan: ‘We have won the war, America has lost’, say Taliban

Driving to Taliban-controlled territory doesn’t take long. Around 30 minutes from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, passing large craters left by roadside bombs, we meet our host: Haji Hekmat, the Taliban’s shadow mayor in Balkh district.

Perfumed and in a black turban, he’s a veteran member of the group, having first joined the militants in the 1990s when they ruled over the majority of the country.

The Taliban have arranged a display of force for us. Lined up on either side of the street are heavily armed men, one carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher, another an M4 assault rifle captured from US forces. Balkh was once one of the more stable parts of the country; now it’s become one of the most violent.

All that “Nation Building,” all that blood and treasure down the drain. Hooda thunk it in a swell place like Afghanistan?

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Taliban

Douglas Todd: Canadian real-estate market better for foreign investors than locals, admits Trudeau government housing secretary Adam Vaughan

Canadians can be grateful Ottawa’s parliamentary secretary for housing isn’t afraid of saying what’s on his mind in front of a microphone.

Liberal apparatchiks must be going squirrely after loquacious MP Adam Vaughan inadvertently outed what has been the party’s real scheme on housing for six years — pushing a policy that only worsens extreme unaffordability in cities like Toronto and Vancouver.

Canada’s immigration policy does not benefit Canadian citizens unless you’re a member of the ruling class. We are a Banana Republic.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Just 11% of Albertans highly impressed with Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole: poll

Asked to rank their impression of federal leaders on a scale from zero to 10 — with zero being “not at all impressed” and 10 being “very impressed” — O’Toole scored the lowest of the three major party leaders at the high end of the scale.

Just 11 per cent of respondents said they were highly impressed by O’Toole (a rating of seven to 10).

By comparison, 16 per cent said the same for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and 17 per cent for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

There’s bad news then there’s Erin O’Toole.

Erin O’Toole’s big problem with right-wing media could hurt his election chances

“Let’s face it, federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is a dud and a dud is never going to defeat Justin Trudeau.”

Ouch!

That stinging criticism of the beleaguered Tory leader came not from a progressive columnist at the Toronto Star or a left-leaning commentator on a CBC political panel.

Rather, it’s from Lorne Gunter, a senior political columnist at the conservative-leaning Edmonton Sun, whose opinion pieces also appear in right-wing papers such as the Toronto Sun.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•Conservative Party

‘Case numbers are DOWN’: No10 slaps down Justin Trudeau after he claims Britain is facing a ‘very serious’ Covid third wave – accusing him of ‘fake news’ to distract from Canada’s woes

Justin Trudeau was slapped down by Downing Street today after claiming Britain is facing a ‘very serious third wave’ – with critics accusing him of a desperate attempt to deflect criticism over his own country’s sluggish vaccine rollout and surging infections.

The Canadian premier referred to the UK’s hugely successful drive, which has 60 per cent of the population given jabs compared to just 20 per cent in Canada, as he sought to justify keeping tough restrictions.

‘Vaccinations on their own are not enough to keep us safe,’ he told MPs in the country’s parliament.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau Mocked On World Stage

George Floyd death: Ex-officer Chauvin will not take the stand

The ex-officer accused of killing George Floyd says he will not testify in his defence as the murder trial hears from its final witnesses.

Derek Chauvin denies killing Mr Floyd. Jurors are due to begin deciding his fate early next week.

Video of Mr Chauvin kneeling on the neck of Mr Floyd led to worldwide protests against racism and policing.

Legal Insurrection has live coverage.

LIVE: Chauvin Trial Day 14 – Defense Calls More Medical Experts As Trial Nears End

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

Conservatives’ climate plan would replace Liberal carbon tax with lower levy of their own

After years of criticizing the Liberal carbon tax, the Conservative party is proposing a climate plan that also puts a price on carbon for consumers, according to a copy of the party’s climate change plan obtained by CBC News.

But instead of the Liberal carbon tax-and-rebate system, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is proposing to charge a levy on fuel purchases and use the money to fund personalized savings accounts, which Canadians can use for environmentally friendly purchases.

“We recognize that the most efficient way to reduce our emissions is to use pricing mechanisms,” notes the plan.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•Conservative Party

Ontario reports record 4,736 new Covid cases … Justin rolls out the Welcome Mat for the virulent Brazil Variant … AstraZeneca very safe they laughed…

Ontario logs 4,736 new COVID-19 cases, another single-day record in the province

Ontario is reporting another single-day record for COVID-19 infections today as hospitalizations and intensive care admissions continue to climb in the province.

Provincial health officials logged 4,736 new cases today, topping the previous record of 4,456 infections confirmed on Sunday.

The rolling seven-day average of new infections now stands at 4,200, up from 3,093 just one week ago.

Ottawa drops specific COVID-19 screening for travellers from Brazil as variant spread throughout British Columbia

Canada has dropped specific screening requirements for travellers arriving from Brazil, measures aimed at reducing the spread of a highly contagious variant of COVID-19 that is now spreading rapidly throughout Western Canada.

The change is taking place as the B.C. government raises the alarm about travellers circumventing the rules imposed by Ottawa for all international arrivals travelling by air. Premier John Horgan said his government may impose travel restrictions unilaterally, after learning that more than 100 passengers arriving at Vancouver International Airport have refused to quarantine as required by Ottawa since Feb. 22. “We haven’t taken travel restrictions off the board, quite frankly.”

The variants of concern spread more rapidly and can cause a more severe case of COVID-19. In particular, the P.1 variant, first associated with Brazil, may be able to re-infect people who have already had the virus, and “current treatments and vaccines may not work as well on cases of this variant,” according to the BC Centre for Disease Control.

See… Whistler silenced by one of the largest Brazil P.1 variant outbreaks outside South America

AstraZeneca very safe, effective, with extremely rare risk of clots: Health Canada

OTTAWA — There is enough evidence to say the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine may cause very rare blood clots but the shot is still extremely safe, very effective and will remain on the Canadian market, Health Canada said Wednesday.

Experts thought Thalidomide was swell too.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Mystery of how BLM co-founder could afford millions for 4 houses only beginning to be solved as documents surface

Kudos to Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation for digging up documents filed with the state of California that reveal some of the big bucks that Patrisse Cullors, AKA Patrisse Khan Cullors, has raked in to help pay for her amazing real estate buying binge. So far, she and her partner, Janaya Khan, have reportedly laid out $3.2 million for four properties across the United States, including a hideaway in lily-white Topanga Canyon, suitable for watching rioters burn urban neighborhoods in complete safety.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 14, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

No, it is not elitist to correct students’ spelling

Some universities now claim it is ‘white, male and elitist’ to expect students to have good English.

I wasn’t surprised when I read that some British universities are adopting the philistine policy of not marking students down for spelling and grammar errors. Nor was I surprised to learn that sections of British higher education have embraced the anti-intellectual practice of ‘inclusive assessment’. The aim of this is to narrow the attainment gap between white and black, Asian and ethnic-minority students.

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 14, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

How Hitler killed the Devil – In a world without God, the Führer is the ultimate benchmark of morality

There is nothing either good or bad, the Nazis liked to insist, but thinking makes it so. Eichmann, interviewed in Argentina shortly before his abduction by Mossad agents, scorned the notion that there was anything evil about his role in the Holocaust. Far from repenting the deaths of six million Jews, he expressed regret that so many had survived the genocide. Just as it was the responsibility of a doctor to combat viruses, or a pest-control agent to eliminate vermin, so was it the responsibility of a good Nazi to defend the fellow members of his race from its most noxious and pestilential foes. To steel oneself for one’s duty, to suppress enfeebling notions of humanity, to keep always before one’s mind loyalty to blood: this, quite simply, was the right thing to do. What, then, was there for Eichmann to repent? “I cannot pretend,” he declared, “that a Saul has become a Paul.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 15, 2021April 14, 2021•0•"Zeitgeist"