Author: Blazingcatfur

‘Does my family need to take the iodine pills:’ mistaken Pickering nuclear alert sparked panic, confusion: emails

‘Does my family need to take the iodine pills:’ mistaken Pickering nuclear alert sparked panic, confusion: emails

Last January’s emergency alert sent in error about an incident at the Pickering Generating Station sparked a flurry of panicked messages from nearby residents wondering if they should swallow their radiation-blocking iodide pills and a lengthy game of hot potato among energy workers about what happened and who would correct it.

Hundreds of pages of email exchanges from that morning obtained by CTV News Toronto through access to information legislation show mass confusion over who sent the errant alert, which lasted through the morning and involved cabinet ministers and the Secretary of Cabinet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Wokestradamus? Parody Twitter account ‘Titania McGrath’ perfectly predicted the latest social justice battles

In a bizarre case of life imitating art, a parody Twitter account making fun of the woke movement ended up predicting exactly what that movement would do. Does the line between satire and reality even exist any more?

‘Titania McGrath’ doesn’t exist, and is a creation of Spiked columnist Andrew Doyle. Yet her Twitter account, which parodies and ridicules modern society’s obsession with political correctness, has fooled the unaware before, even earning a ban from Twitter after a biting send-up of critical theory in which she argued doctors were “bullying and dehumanizing” sick people – i.e. “those who do not conform to their perceptions of “‘wellness’” – and thus medical science should be banned as an oppressive, cisnormative, patriarchal construct.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

737 Max: Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ pilots in test after crashes

US Senate investigators say that Boeing officials “inappropriately coached” test pilots during efforts to recertify the company’s 737 Max aircraft.

The planes were grounded in March 2019 following two deadly crashes.

Investigators accused Boeing and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials of “attempting to cover up important information”.

Boeing said it was reviewing the findings and took them “seriously”, while the FAA defended its conduct.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Are There Anti-Semitic Tropes in Obama’s Memoir?

Are There Anti-Semitic Tropes in Obama’s Memoir?

Writing in The Australian, economist Henry Ergas noticed something in Obama’s memoir that has so far been ignored by the mainstream media. Or perhaps it was just never seen before because, really, how many people who bought Obama’s absurd book (which is only the first volume of his presidential memoirs) actually read the thing?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inObama, Obama - Are You Absolutely Sure He Isn't A Muslim?

Mike Pompeo: ‘We can say pretty clearly’ Russia was behind hack of US agencies

Mike Pompeo has become the first member of the Trump administration to blame Russia for wide-ranging hacks of US government agencies and private companies.

“This was a very significant effort,” the secretary of state told rightwing talk radio host Mark Levin on Friday night. “I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.”

On Saturday, Pompeo announced the closure of two US consulates in Russia at which activity had already been curtailed, due to Covid-19.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCyber War, Russia, USA

Teaching Hate: The Seattle school district claims that the U.S. education system is guilty of “spirit murder” against black children.

Seattle Public Schools recently held a training session for teachers in which American schools were deemed guilty of “spirit murder” against black students. The United States is a “race-based white-supremist society,” the training instructed, and white teachers must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance.”

According to whistleblower documents I’ve obtained from the session, the trainers begin by claiming that the teachers are colonizers of “the ancestral lands and traditional territories of the Puget Sound Coast Salish People.” Then, next to an image of the Black Power fist, they claim that “the United States was built off the stolen labor of kidnapped and enslaved Black people’s work, which created the profits that created our nation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

UK: Mutant Covid ‘is spreading 70% faster’ – but is no more lethal

UK: Mutant Covid ‘is spreading 70% faster’ – but is no more lethal

The new mutant strain of Covid is spreading 70% faster than any other form of the virus, Boris Johnson has told the nation.

The prime minister said the strain could increase the UK’s R Rate by 0.4 as he announced brand new ‘tier four’ restrictions for London and the south-east this afternoon.

The festive bubble policy across tiers one, two and three has also been dramatically scaled back, with rules allowing three households to mix now restricted to Christmas Day only.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

China: The Conquest of Hollywood

China: The Conquest of Hollywood

In October, for the first time, China overtook North America as the world’s largest film market. “Movie ticket sales in China for 2020 climbed to $1.988 billion on Sunday, surpassing North America’s total of $1.937 billion, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The gap is expected to widen considerably by year’s end,” wrote The Hollywood Reporter on October 18. “Analysts have long predicted that the world’s most populous country would one day top the global charts. But the results still represent a historic sea change”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Hollywood

Redacted Information in Dominion Audit Report Shows Races Were Flipped: Analyst

Redacted Information in Dominion Audit Report Shows Races Were Flipped: Analyst

The analyst who led the forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems in Michigan said on Friday the information state officials pushed to redact shows that the outcomes of races were changed.

“The original report had log evidence that we published in the report to show exactly what we did and exactly the findings. Now, those did ultimately get redacted. And so now, the complaint is ‘well, but there’s no real proof and Dominion says ‘no, these things can’t be done,’” Russell Ramsland Jr. said during a virtual appearance on Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Presidential Election 2020"

Caliphate: NY Times loses awards for Islamic State podcast over false reporting

The New York Times has returned an award and had another withdrawn after it found discrepancies in its podcast on the Islamic State group.

After a two-month investigation, the newspaper said the podcast, Caliphate, failed to meet its editorial standards.

In the 2018 series, Shehroze Chaudhry, one of its central figures, claims he travelled to Syria and joined IS.

But the Times said on Friday that it found “a history of misrepresentations” about his involvement with the group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNew York Times, The Media Lies

Leader of grooming gang that preyed on school girls freed after just eight years

Ahdel Ali – rapes children

The ringleader of a grooming gang who trafficked school girls as young as 13 into prostitution has been freed from prison after serving just a third of his sentence.

Ahdel ‘Eddie’ Ali, 32, led a sex gang with his brother Mubarak – known as Max- which targeted up to 100 vulnerable young women in Telford, Shropshire between 2006 and 2009.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Pro-death group recruits Satanists in attempt to take over Canadian pro-life palliative care hospice

Pro-death group recruits Satanists in attempt to take over Canadian pro-life palliative care hospice

DELTA, British Columbia, December 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Euthanasia activists campaigning to take over a Canadian hospice society because it refuses to lethally inject sick patients are now recruiting memberships from the Satanic Temple.

Since April 2020, a local group called Take Back Delta Hospice, aided by euthanasia lobby group Dying with Dignity, has been attempting a hostile takeover of the Delta Hospice Society by going door-to-door in the west coast community and signing up pro-euthanasia members.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration event

U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration event

A China-based Zoom executive has been charged by the Justice Department with disrupting video meetings that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Reuters reports.

Why it matters: This case could shake the foundations of U.S. tech cooperation with China. Researchers and U.S. government officials have warned of the possibility that the Chinese government might require China-based employees to hand over private company data to Beijing. This indictment indicates that those fears are, in fact, a reality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA