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Police arrest nine over Indian bridge collapse, toll reaches 134

MORBI, India, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Indian police arrested nine people on Monday, including ticketing clerks and contractors, as they investigate the collapse of a foot bridge in which at least 134 people, including many children, were killed.

CCTV footage from just before the collapse showed a group of young men taking photos while others tried to rock the suspension bridge in Morbi from side to side, before they tumbled into the river below as the cables gave way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIndia, WTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: The Liberals’ illiberal diversity plan for government purchases

If you’ve dismissed identity politics as frivolous, artificial and American, you may want to reconsider. For Canadian businesses dealing with the federal government, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is very real, and its impact can be very expensive. Not only that — it’s unfair and illiberal.

The good news is that Trudeau and his ministers will be sentenced to lengthy prison terms at the future Truth and Reconciliation hearings covering Liberal Party Acts Of Racism against Canadian Citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Shanghai Disney shuts over COVID, visitors unable to leave

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Oct 31 (Reuters) – Shanghai’s Disney Resort abruptly suspended operations on Monday to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures, with all visitors at the time of the announcement directed to stay in the park until they return a negative test for the virus.

The resort said at 11:39 a.m. local time (03:39 GMT) it would immediately shut the main theme park and surrounding areas including its shopping street until further notice to comply with virus curbs.

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

Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism

Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.

Analysis of the incel movement found that online references to inflicting violence and extremely degrading language on dedicated incel forums are running eight times higher than in 2016, when researchers first began tracking misogynist content on the internet.

Academics from the University of Exeter also noted an increasing overlap between incel followers and the far right, with online algorithms blamed for pushing young boys towards extreme rightwing ideology.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"This week's fear driven agenda", WTF?

Iran trembles as Clinton, Freeland, Winfrey and others publish strongly worded letter demanding UN boot Mad Mullahs off Status of Women commission

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s preeminent women leaders in business, politics, advocacy and the arts published an open letter in Sunday’s New York Times calling for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

Signatories of the letter include Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Media Leader & Philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Education Activist Malala Yousafzai, Economic & Political Leader Christine Lagarde, former First Lady of the United States & advocate of girls education Michelle Obama, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Executive Director of UN Women, Christiana Figueres DBE, former head of UN Climate Change Convention, former First Lady of the United States & Education Advocate Laura Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Human Rights Activist Nadia Murad and women in leadership positions from 14 countries (and counting).

Who wants anything to with an organization like the UN that put Iran on the Status of Women thing to begin with? Next they’ll try to get Elon Musk deported!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, WTF?

Car bombings kill at least 100 in Mogadishu, says Somali president

Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed on Saturday in two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital, Mogadishu, and the toll could rise in the country’s deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the site of the explosions in Mogadishu, told journalists that nearly 300 other people were wounded. “We ask our international partners and Muslims around the world to send their medical doctors here since we can’t send all the victims outside the country for treatment,” he said.

How can they tell when a bomb goes off? Does the place look better post detonation?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Somalia, WTF?

No Boys Allowed? New CyberStart Canada Program Will Cater Only to Girls and Non-Binary Students

… Canadian liberals have decided to follow America’s lead on creating their new cyber initiative that reeks with overtones of overt anti-male discrimination, as Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, which is Toronto Metropolitan University’s National Centre for “training, innovation, and collaboration in cybersecurity,” has recently announced a new program called CyberStart Canada.

The program, which is funded by Canadian taxpayers via Public Safety Canada’s Cyber Security Cooperation Program, will initially provide services and education to 700 girls and non-binary students from Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia in 2022-23 in what is being described as a “gamified environment,” and then throughout Canada the following year.

According to the eligibility requirements listed on the program’s website, “Priority in 2022 will be given to students in Ontario, Alberta or British Columbia who self-identify as girls or non-binary. Students must be over the age of 13 to participate.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Equity", "Identity Politics", "Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", Canada, WTF?

AOC claims America is facing ‘an environment of FASCISM’ due to ‘intimidation at the polls’ – and says soaring inflation is fault of Wall Street not Joe Biden

While discussing issues surrounding the upcoming midterm elections, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she believes the United States is ‘facing an environment of fascism.’

The New York representative was joined by Rep. Jamie Raskin in a discussion with MSNBC political commentator Chris Hayes to talk about the nearing elections, recent economic turmoil and infrastructure.

Ocasio-Cortez likened alleged voter suppression in Arizona, a state in which a federal judge refused to bar an activist group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes, to historical instances of racism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Woke Wisconsin students eat Christian’s Bible outside screening of Matt Walsh’s transgender documentary ‘What is a Woman?’

Progressive pro-transgender protesters were observed outside a college speaking event this week shouting down a young man reading passages from his Bible before grabbing the book from him, ripping it up and eating its pages.

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh had been on the University of Madison, Wisconsin campus for a screening of his controversial film ‘What is a Woman?’ when he encountered a hoard of screeching students.

In a shocking video posted by the Young America’s Foundation, a student with a shock of bright red hair can be seen shoving pages from a torn up Bible in her mouth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", WTF?

Seoul Halloween party stampede kills at least 120

At least 120 people were killed and scores injured in a crush in the South Korean capital when crowds surged during a Halloween event.

Thousands of people pushed forward on a narrow street in the Itaewon nightlife district of Seoul on Saturday night during the first Halloween celebrations since the country’s recent easing of Covid restrictions.

Videos on social media showed people in fancy dress outfits being pushed through the narrow streets, with some appearing to climb walls on either side to try to save themselves from the crush.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

WARMINGTON: Canada’s top cop considered using soldiers undercover as Mounties at Freedom Convoy

… We’ve seen police officers dress up as protesters before but military troops potentially dressing up police officers is something new on Canada’s political and law enforcement landscapes. Yet, despite the Canadian government’s insistence the military would not be deployed to help end last winter’s Freedom Convoy protest blocking streets below Parliament Hill, sneaking the military into the middle of the protest disguised as police was discussed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, WTF?