Death toll from North Macedonia nightclub fire rises to 59

At least 59 people have been killed and more than 155 injured in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, officials say.

The blaze broke out around 02:30 (01:30 GMT) at the Pulse club in Kocani, a town around 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Skopje, where 1,500 people were attending a concert by DNK, a popular hip-hop duo in the country.

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski called it a “difficult and very sad day” for the country which had lost many “young lives.”

Indoor fireworks.

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At least 34 dead as tornadoes tear through southern US

Things are bad when the Waffle House goes down.

At least 34 people have died in the US – including 12 in Missouri alone – after deadly tornadoes tore through several south-eastern states, flipping cars and flattening homes.

In Kansas, at least eight people died after more than 55 vehicles were involved in a crash due to a dust storm.

More than 250,000 properties were without power across seven states – including Michigan, Missouri and Illinois – overnight into Sunday, according to tracker PowerOutage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

French Police Thwart Islamist Teen’s Attack Plot

French police arrested and charged a teenager in connection with a planned terror campaign, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has confirmed.

The 17-year-old from Vesoul in Haute-Saône has been held since Thursday, March 13th. He is under investigation for “participation in a criminal conspiracy with a view to preparing one or more crimes of attack.”

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This is why Doug Ford is so buddy-buddy with Mark Carney. Where does that leave Pierre Poilievre?

Power breakfasts aren’t on the menu at Wally’s Grill most days.

The Etobicoke diner does scrambled eggs for everyday folks. It rarely unscrambles big problems for big politicians.

So when Doug Ford sat down this week with Mark Carney, he set the table for an unlikely alliance: Canada’s most powerful Tory and the country’s most powerful Liberal getting together to start a new day.

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Islamic State-supporting illegal immigrant avoided detention over mental health

An Islamic State-supporting illegal migrant was allowed to leave a detention centre after judges found that being confined was bad for his mental health.

The Iranian man, named only as “D8” in court documents, entered Britain illegally on a small boat in March 2021 and claimed asylum.

A 32-year-old Sunni Muslim, he had previously been granted five years’ leave to remain as a refugee in March 2017 after crossing the English Channel in the back of a lorry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Mississauga mayor celebrates Ramadan with Hamas vigil organizer

Carolyn Parrish

Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish has come under fire for posing for a photograph with a controversial local anti-Israel activist who attempted to organize a vigil for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last year.

Parrish attended a “multi-religious Iftar celebration” at Anatolia Islamic Centre in Mississauga on Wednesday evening, according to a statement on her X account. Iftar is the meal Muslims eat after fasting during Ramadan.

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The View Touts Rosie O’Donnell Leaving U.S. Because Trump Is President

Former co-host of ABC’s The View, Rosie O’Donnell got her desperately needed dose of public attention recently after she announced that she left the United States and moved to Ireland because Donald Trump was president. The bonkers move from the insane 9/11 truther was lauded during Friday’s episode by co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro as rational.

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Covid Tyrants Were Perpetrators, Not Victims

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no shortage of analysis personifying the virus as the villain. In a sense, it’s understandable: SARS-CoV-2 was the catalyst and the killer that drove much of the pandemic destruction. But painting public health leaders as innocent bystanders and Covid as the boogeyman who made people sick and locked down the economy, destroyed businesses, shuttered schools, censored speech, masked children, and suspended constitutional rights and sacred rituals is deceitful historical revisionism.

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Pitesti: Romania’s Communist Nightmare of Re-Education and Torture

A barbaric experiment in a Romanian prison saw inmates subjected to horrific torture, forced betrayals, and psychological destruction.

Recent events in Romania, including the cancellation of elections, have filled social networks with comments about the country’s recent past, back to the days when the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe.

During World War II, the Soviets used Pavlov’s conditioned reflex theories to train their bomb dogs. The animals were starved for several days and then fed under a tank with the engine running, so that the dog associated the noise of the engine with food. Once under the tank, where there is less armour, the explosive charge carried on the dog’s back was activated and destroyed both the animal and the enemy tank.

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Brookfield’s Deep Ties To Chinese Land, Loans & Green Deals

A review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing.

h/t DS

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Will Palestinian refugees be moved to Africa?

It is evident that Israel, with the help of the United States, wishes to shunt its Palestinian refugee problem onto other states. American and Israeli officials this week leaked to the Associated Press that they had contacted the governments of Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland to propose using their countries as potential destinations to resettle Palestinians displaced from Israel. Meanwhile, the Trump administration will proceed with its plan to take over the ruined Gaza and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

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