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Traders with prior knowledge of Hamas attacks made millions shorting Israel, claims report

Suspicious stock market activity suggests more than $100m made betting against Tel Aviv shares prior to Oct 7 massacre

Investors with prior knowledge of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre earned at least tens of millions of pounds short-selling Israeli stocks in the days before, according to a report.
Traders with potential links to Hamas put huge bets against the Israeli economy in the run-up to the attack and could have made more than $100 million (£79.3 million), said the 60-page study by Robert Jackson Jr, of New York University School of Law, and Joshua Mitts, of Columbia Law School.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

WARMINGTON: Turns out about 500 Jews on their way to Ottawa were thrown under the bus


A group of neo-Nazis arrive by bus to try to meet with the governor of South Carolina to discuss their grievances with school integration and other issues. The group are wearing swastikas on their clothing and have decorated their bus with Confederate flags and white power signs. They were not seen by Governor West.

In 1940s Europe, Jews were forbidden by Hitler’s Nazis from stepping onto city buses.

In 2023 Canada, some drivers just didn’t come to work for their shifts, which left up to 500 Jewish people and supporters of Israel out in the cold.

… “Those 17 buses were the responsibility of a particular sub-contracted company. Despite charging in full in advance and confirming its participation, the company did not send a single bus and has declined all communications while refusing to provide any explanation.

Prestige Worldwide is the company. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, WTF?

Conspiracy theories are popular in Canada, especially among conservatives: poll

OTTAWA – The Earth is flat. We have been secretly contacted by intelligent beings from other planets. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not land on the moon in 1969. They may sound like bizarre statements, but a new poll suggests a sizable number of Canadians believe in these and other conspiracy theories.

About five per cent of us are flat-earthers, the poll suggests, while 11 per cent say they think the lunar landings were a hoax. And one-third of respondents say they think evidence that aliens have been in contact with our planet is being hidden from the public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

US prison deaths soared by 77% during height of Covid-19 crisis, study finds

A study of US prison deaths at the height of the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 has found that mortality rates soared by 77% relative to 2019, or more than three times the increase in the general population.

The study, published by Science Advances last week, is the most comprehensive analysis of in-custody deaths since 2020. The report found that “Covid-19 was the primary driver for increases in mortality due to natural causes; some states also experienced substantial increases due to unnatural causes.”

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

EV Owners Waking Up to the Nightmare of Massive Repair Bills

“Sticker shock” has taken on a whole new meaning when new electric vehicle owners get their first repair bill following a simple fender bender. The Wall Street Journal reports that a San Francisco resident got in a minor accident with his electric truck. He thought that repairs would be “a couple-thousand-dollar bill from the repair shop and to be without his truck for a couple of weeks.”

Instead, the first-time EV owner was shocked to get a $22,000 bill for repairs that took 2 1/2 months.

Off on a tangent … New Class A RV Breakdown costs

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", WTF?

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.

Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

The comments were “incredibly concerning” and “verging on climate denial”, scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres.

h/t Mauser & DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", WTF?

NBC Mourns Hollywood’s Anti-Semites Are Facing Consequences

NBC’s entertainment correspondent Chloe Melas intended to do a report on how people on both sides of Hollywood’s Israel-Hamas War debate are facing blowback for their opinions for Saturday’s edition of Today. However, what she actually ended up doing was lamenting that Hollywood’s anti-Semites are facing consequences for their actions by making false equivalency between Holocaust distortion and false accusations of genocide by Israel with Israel supporters comparing Hamas to ISIS.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Dozens of Iranian regime officials denied entry to Canada, says border agency

Don’t believe a thing this lying punk says.

The Canada Border Services Agency has denied entry to dozens of senior Iranian regime officials and is investigating about 100 people with status in Canada for potential ties to Tehran.

The agency also has referred the cases of nine individuals with status in Canada to the Immigration and Refugee Board to determine their admissibility to Canada.

The denials at the border and the investigations stem from a measure the Liberal government adopted last year in the midst of widespread protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman. Amini died while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran, WTF?