European Countries Will Pay Syrian Migrants Cash to Go Home

Europe has millions of Syrians who claimed refugee status on the basis of the Assad family, now some are making the calculation it is cheaper in the long run to make a a single cash payment to go home than keep the guests on social welfare programmes indefinitely.

Austria will offer Syrians a €1,000 ($1,000) cash payment “return bonus” to go home, Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said, stating the clearest reason they had for claiming asylum in the first place has now gone. Kronen Zeitung cites Nehammer as having said in a podcast this week: “We are now helping everyone who wants to return voluntarily. There is up to 1,000 euros for this.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inEurope, Syrian Refugees

Canadians wait a record-breaking 30 weeks on average for medical care: study

“Canada’s healthcare system is struggling to provide timely care,” Mackenzie Moir, a study co-author, told True North in an interview. “Long delays for care can result in increased and prolonged suffering for patients, alongside a decreased quality of life.”

He said long wait times for medical care could also lead to a loss of productivity and, in the worst cases, disability or death.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada's incompetent Liberal Government, Health care

End of the Line for Nancy Pelosi: Hip Fractures, Mortality Rates, and Father Time

The good news is, she’s a wealthy, politically-connected woman. All three matter: when you’re wealthy, you have more options; when you’re politically-connected, you don’t wait in line; and women are way better at longevity than men are.

And not just because men are dopey, drink more, and think it’s wicked cool to play with fireworks. (Or play with fireworks while drunk.) There’s a genetic component, too.

There’s a reason why 85% of centenarians (and 90% of supercentenarians) are women. And this reason isn’t purely behavioral.

When it comes to longevity, genetics are king. (Or, more commonly: queen.)

Still, the short-term and long-term outlook for Nancy Pelosi’s political career is dismal. It’s a sad, brutal — and painful — end for one of the most influential legislators in American history. The purpose of this column isn’t to gloat (only a cretin delights in the physical suffering of others), but to be truthful and candid about what happens next.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inHealth care, Leftists - intolerance of political right

Free speech group challenges teacher’s list of banned words: ‘Ohio,’ ‘sigma,’ ‘chat,’ ‘meow’

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has contacted officials at an Iowa school to inform them that a social studies teacher’s list of “banned words” doesn’t pass constitutional muster.

The list, created by a seventh grade teacher at Fremont-Mills Middle and Senior HS, includes terms such as “pimp,” “womp womp,” “Ohio,” “sigma,” “chat,” and “meow.”

Violation of the word ban “automatically results in a thirty-minute detention” for which the teacher already has disciplined “at least ten students,” FIRE notes.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Teachers, Censorship

Ditching NYC insane ‘sanctuary’ laws requires an all-hands war with the local hard left

Great news: Mayor Adams and Trump border czar-designate Tom Homan seemed to reach a real meeting of minds in Thursday’s sitdown.

But can they get the City Council and Gov. Hochul on board with the effort to free Gotham of thousands of “known offender” criminal illegal migrants?

Adams has now embraced Queens Councilman Robert Holden’s call to reopen the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at Rikers — but city law says no resources can go to assist ICE and bars NYPD and jail officials from reporting any wrongdoers to the feds.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inNew York City, Sanctuary Cities

BREAKING: ABC, George Stephanopoulos to Pay $15M to Trump in Rape Defamation Suit

ABC News and its anchor, George Stephanopoulos, have reached a settlement with President-elect Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit. The agreement, filed publicly on Saturday, will see ABC News pay Trump $15 million as a charitable contribution toward his Presidential foundation and museum. In addition, the network will cover $1 million in Trump’s attorney fees.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inMedia Bias, Trump Curse Strikes Again!, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Reid Claims Trump Is ‘In The Same Category’ As Hitler, Stalin, Khomeini, Putin

As President-elect Donald Trump celebrated being named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2024, MSNBC’s Joy Reid tried to throw cold water on the occasion by pointing out that not everyone who has won the award historically has done so because they made the world a better place. The ReidOut host claimed “we all know” which side Trump is on, and it is the one with “Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Is domestic terrorism the next step for antisemitic radicals?

Americans were shocked and outraged by the assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the UnitedHealthcare insurance company. Or at least most Americans were. Some were apparently happy about it, as a torrent of hate on social media directed towards the victim and sympathy for the murderer indicated.

There have already been several thwarted plots in Canada alone and with their ideological kin getting trounced in the ME perhaps a few more losers will step up in solidarity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

JAY GOLDBERG: Another provincial Liberal leader defects on Trudeau’s carbon tax

Bonnie Crombie – More fake than her eyelashes

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie had an epiphany: Carbon taxes are bad and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should scrap his.

After pledging last month to remove the provincial portion of the HST from home heating and hydro bills if elected, Crombie faced further pressure from taxpayers to call on Trudeau to scrap his carbon tax.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Fate of Nazi monster lies in Assad’s ruins

Alois Brunner evaded the Allies in 1945 and was welcomed by Syria but the mystery of how and when he died persists

On September 13, 1961, a tall, balding man with “spiteful eyes” (according to a CIA report), collected a large package from a Damascus post office addressed to “Abu Hussein”. He took the parcel home to his luxury apartment on the Rue Georges Haddad in the diplomatic quarter of the Syrian capital and opened it, whereupon the packet exploded, removing his eye and parts of his arm.

The bomb was a gift from Yitzhak Shamir, later prime minister of Israel but then head of Mifratz, the special operations unit of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria

Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie says identity politics are ‘dead and gone.’ Are they really?

Earlier this month an Ontario Liberal fundraiser, leader Bonnie Crombie charted out a plan to become more centrist and create distance between her party and their federal counterparts, who are struggling in the polls.

In a speech prepared for delivery at the Metro Convention Centre, Crombie said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “wrong” on the carbon tax.

As part of her speech, she made another remark that evening that later caught my ear and is garnering some traction on social media.

She asserted that if the results of the U.S. election teach us anything, it’s that “identity politics is dead and buried.”

It is odd to find myself in agreement with a Star editor but I believe Trudeau has poisoned the well in Canada with mass immigration from incompatible cultures.

Identity politics are sadly here to stay.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Canada

Volodymyr Zelensky’s deepening unpopularity

A steady drip of shocking stories about corruption has fueled anger among voters

Perhaps all political careers must end, inevitably, in failure. But few politicians have had careers as meteoric, as surprising, as consequential or as heroic as that of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. In just five years he has gone from TV comedian to victor of the biggest presidential landslide in his country’s history to inspiring wartime leader who impressed the world with his resolve and personal bravery. But now with the war entering its third (and probably last) winter, Zelensky’s extraordinary story as Ukraine’s leader has reached its final chapter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Mysterious drones shut down runways of NY airport, causing Hochul to demand feds step in: ‘Gone too far’

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.

“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.

Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDrones, New York City