‘All Churches in Egypt Should be Destroyed’: The Persecution of Christians, October 2024

Burkina Faso: On Sunday, October 6, Muslim terrorists launched a surprise attack on the town of Manni, which is home to a large Christian community. More than 200 people were massacred during the jihad. According to one report,

“[T]he terrorists first cut mobile phone networks before attacking the local market, where many people had gathered after Mass. They then opened fire indiscriminately, looted shops and set fire to several buildings, burning some victims alive… [On] the next day, the perpetrators returned to attack medical staff and kill the many wounded in the city’s hospital. A new incursion took place on Tuesday, 8 October, when the terrorists again invaded the town of Manni, massacring all the men they could find.”

“The situation is beyond horrific,” a local said. “But even if the terrorists burned everything, they didn’t burn our faith!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Has X become a Right-wing echo chamber?

Shortly after Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter in April 2022, he wrote that for the platform to maintain the public’s trust, “it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.” More than two years down the line, it would be fair to say that the Left is a lot more upset than the Right. So is Musk turning Twitter, now X, into a Right-wing echo chamber?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Because Shut Up!"

Who is D.B. Cooper? New Evidence May Crack One Of America’s Greatest Mysteries

More than five decades ago, a mild-mannered passenger in a business suit boarded a Seattle-bound flight in Oregon under the name Dan Cooper on Nov. 24, 1971. He ordered a bourbon and soda, and once in the air, handed a stewardess a handwritten note demanding $200,000 in cash and four parachutes under the threat of what appeared to be a bomb in his ratty briefcase.

The plane landed in Seattle, and authorities complied with the hijacker’s demand. After refueling, the airliner took off again.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

How the charge of ‘Islamophobia’ menaces free speech

The term ‘Islamophobia’ tends to almost be taken for granted in Britain today. It is treated by many politicians, commentators and campaigners as an unquestionable wrong, something that we the public need to be made ever more conscious of. Indeed, we are currently in the midst of Islamophobia Awareness month. And earlier this summer, reports emerged that prime minister Keir Starmer was considering adopting a definition of ‘Islamophobia’ for the public sector that could lead to people being censured if they say something too stinging about Islam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

GOLDSTEIN: Annual UN climate gabfest about getting our money, not saving the planet

3rd World Pissants Attempt Climate Shakedown

For anyone mistakenly believing the latest United Nations global gabfest on climate change in Baku, Azerbaijan was all about saving the planet, it was in fact all about money.

This annual 11-day meeting, although it always goes into overtime — formally known as COP29 or the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — was always about money, specifically about redistributing money from developed countries like Canada to developing nations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Britain’s Long, Hot Summer

Mass immigration and an alienated working class are a combustible mix, as the nation’s recent riots showed.

The outbreak of anti-immigrant mob violence in England this summer, in which rioters went as far as to set fire to buildings with immigrants in them—for example, an attack on a Holiday Inn near Rotherham that housed 220 such immigrants, in the course of which a masked attacker entered the building and made a gesture indicating that the residents might have their throats cut—did not surprise me. It broke out after the stabbing to death of three small children, and the injury of ten more, at a dance lesson in Southport, a seaside town north of Liverpool, by the son of Rwandan refugees.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Pierre Poilievre plans to take an axe to Justin Trudeau’s climate policies and push Canada in a new direction. Here’s what we know

OTTAWA—The federal Conservatives lost the last two general elections with very different approaches to the dire threat of the climate crisis.

In 2019, under Andrew Scheer, the party gestured towards the seriousness of the challenge but offered no detailed plan to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it. The centrepiece was a promise to tear down the governing Liberals’ national carbon pricing scheme — lampooned as a costly and ineffectual “tax” by the staunchly pro-fossil fuel Tories and their provincial counterparts across the country.

Green = Impoverishment

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

Vancouver Police Board vice-chair resigns following sensible social media comments on Immigration, Trans lunacy & the beneficial role of Christianity in Canada

The Vancouver Police Board says its vice-chair has resigned following statements she posted to social media that were inconsistent with its code of conduct.

OMG! Behold The Horror!

Of the screenshots shared to Reddit, one post discusses how “mass immigration” and “a growing aversion to assimilation” are “transforming Canada into a place where a shared identity is disappearing.”

Another post questions Diwali celebrations at schools, saying the “push for secular education isn’t about religion — it’s about erasing Christian values from the lives of our children.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity and the left, Christianophobia

Is AI coming for your kids?

… I’m imagining a world where everyone has a personal AI assistant. Perhaps you’ve had it for years; perhaps eventually people will have them from childhood. It knows all about you, and it just wants to make you happy and help you enjoy your life. It takes care of chores and schedules and keeping track of things, it orders ahead for you at restaurants, it smooths your way through traffic or airports, maybe it even communicates with other AI assistants to hook you up with suitable romantic partners. (Who knows what you like better?) Perhaps it’s on your phone, or in a wristband, talking to you via airpods or something like that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"