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An investigative project by a Kyiv think tank has identified Canadian-made parts in one type of attack drone used by Russia in its military assault on Ukraine.
Statewatch says it has found antenna components from Ottawa-based Tallysman Wireless in Iranian-made Shahed 136 drones that form part of Russia’s arsenal in its invasion of Ukraine. The investigation, led by Inna Popovych, a Ukraine investigative journalist, was undertaken by a Statewatch project called Trap Aggressor.
An elementary school in Chesapeake, Virginia, will allow an “After School Satan Club” hosted by the Satanic Temple, according to a flyer for the program.
B.M. Williams Primary School will hold the monthly event starting December 15 in its library. The flyer states that children will work on science and community service projects, puzzles and games, nature activities, and crafts. It includes a cartoon of Satan dressed as a professor and claims that Lucifer is merely a literary figure who represents the human mind and spirit. Children who attend the program, the group says, will learn “critical thinking” skills.
Not wanting to date a trans person is transphobic even if it’s because you want biological kids pic.twitter.com/8qJvBkjOrj
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2022
There’s a guy, if you don’t know who the Liver King is, the guy who calls himself the ‘Liver King,’ and he’s this guy who walks around everywhere with no shirt on. I’ve seen him in Vegas with no shirt on, big bushy beard, super jacked. And he was telling people that the way he gets that way is by sunning his balls. He literally lays down with his a***hole staring at the sun and eats raw liver and just lifts like a maniac. And that’s how he’s so jacked. But it’s preposterous.”
Modern celebrity has me confounded.
A northern California robbery suspect won’t face murder charges in the deadly shooting of a gas station clerk in Antioch last weekend since the suspect allegedly returned fire at the clerk — which, under the law, can be considered self-defense, KTVU-TV reported.
Brandy Zadrozny’s appearance on Friday’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC with host Stephanie Ruhle raised the question of whether or not the duo read the same Twitter thread as everybody else, because Zadrozny claimed Matt Taibbi’s thread detailing how Twitter suppressed the New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop actually makes Twitter look good.
Authorities in North Carolina said Saturday that a power outage affecting tens of thousands of people is being investigated as a “criminal occurrence.”
Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement Sunday morning about outages and said that an investigation is underway.
He wrote that “I have spoken with Duke Energy and state law enforcement officials about the power outages in Moore County. They are investigating and working to return electricity to those impacted. The state is providing support as needed.”
Something is rotten in Canada.
Our neighbors to the north in Ontario arrested 23 pedophiles in a sting: Some for possessing kiddie porn, some for producing the material, and others for sexual assault.
h/t formerlynorthofnowhere
As the last light of a sticky autumn afternoon ebbs towards darkness, Carles Conejero counts his syringes. ‘One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,’ he whispers to himself, tapping a grubby index finger on each as he goes. ‘Good, yes, that’s good.’
We are in a quiet residential street in the west of Barcelona. One side is lined by chic gated properties; the other by rough, unlit shrubland. A few metres away, three tanned, unshaven locals loiter with intent next to a white van. They are all wearing faded T-shirts and denim shorts. One carries a large stick; another an iPad; the third the air of a man who could do with a prop.
Worse than racoons?
WTF?
Here's my 2-minute summary of last night's ridiculous woke seminar, "Journalists and Online Hate". 🤡
How can normies, like us, deal with this Woke Ideology Cult?
Laugh at them …Mercilessly. 😂 pic.twitter.com/UFFQnwOBnd
— Adam Beis (@adambeis) December 2, 2022
This looks like an ad for homeschooling pic.twitter.com/cAHF6Po55P
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 2, 2022
Rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for personal chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas on Friday, according to a court filing, as he faces nearly $1.5bn in court judgments over conspiracy theories he spread about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jones was ordered by a Connecticut court last month to pay $473m in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1bn verdict handed down in October for his defamatory lies that the shooting was faked.
Canada has sanctioned a high-profile former Tehran police chief whose appearance at a Toronto-area gym last year sparked outrage and allegations that Canada is a haven for high-ranking members of Iran’s regime and their relatives.
Morteza Talaei is a retired second brigadier general with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was in charge of Tehran’s police in 2003 when Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was beaten to death in custody.
Kazemi was arrested in 2003 for taking photos of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where protests were taking place over students detained by the regime.
Hate rats? Are you a “somewhat bloodthirsty” New Yorker with excellent communication skills and “a general aura of bad assery”? Then you might have what it takes to be the city’s new rat tsar.
City mayor Eric Adams’s administration posted a job listing this week seeking someone to lead the city’s long-running battle against rats. The official job title is “director of rodent mitigation,” although it was promptly dubbed the rat tsar. Salary range is $120,000 to $170,000.
“The ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty, determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and wholesale slaughter,” reads that ad. The posting is whimsical, but the job is daunting.
After an energy-hungry Germany was snubbed by Canada, Berlin has instead gone all-in on a gas contract with Qatar, the small, autocratic nation currently hosting the World Cup.
This week, German firms announced a 15-year contract to buy roughly two million tonnes of LNG per year of Qatari natural gas.
