Ozempic has exposed the grift behind the public-health lobby

Has the US turned the tide on obesity? The latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control show that between 2017-20 and 2021-23, the prevalence of obesity fell by two percentage points.

It is perhaps too soon to get out the bunting. The obesity rate is still a hefty 40 per cent (compared with 28 per cent in the UK) and the proportion of Americans who are morbidly obese is 10 per cent (in the UK, the figure is two per cent). It will take another year or two to see whether the decline is sustained. But the signs are promising and – as John Burn-Murdoch argues in the Financial Times – there is only one plausible explanation for it: the weight-loss drug, semaglutide, sold as Ozempic or Wegovy.

I do not know enough about the success of these drugs or their side effects. I am reluctant to proclaim them a miracle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Good Intentions Paving Company"

Sara Sharif ‘had a plastic home-made hood taped over her head’, was ‘hit with a cricket bat’ and ‘left unable to walk’ after being ‘beaten black’ by father

Sara Sharif had a plastic bag taped around her head as a ‘home-made hood’ and was beaten with a cricket bat, a court heard today.

The 10-year-old’s father Urfan Sharif is accused of battering his daughter to death before fleeing to Pakistan last August after subjecting the schoolgirl to weeks of brutal abuse.

Months before the murder, neighbours noted that Sara had started to wear a hijab in January 2023, which Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones, KC, said was a bid to conceal the appalling injuries she was receiving at home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Why Sweden is cracking down on cousin marriages

In Sweden, marrying your first cousin has long been legal, though as in the UK it is widely frowned upon. Yet in response to the growing number of cousin marriages in Sweden after a rise in migration, the government has announced plans to ban the practice next year. A Bill is currently being drafted. In Norway, a ban on cousin marriage was adopted this summer. Denmark may soon follow in the footsteps of its Nordic neighbours.

The reason for the move is the same in all the Nordic countries; within certain large immigrant communities, the practice of cousin marriage remains common. In parts of the Middle East and North Africa, up to half of all marriages are between relatives. Pakistan, which has a significant immigrant population in the UK, has one of the highest prevalence of cousin marriages in the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden

HANNAFORD: Unfit for action, how the Trudeau Liberals broke the armed forces

“We need warriors. We seem to be hell-bent on destroying the warrior culture but if there’s one organization where you want to have warriors, would that not be your military?”

And by the way, sexual predation is nowhere near as common in the armed services, as the attention given to it by the Liberal government, would lead one to believe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberals play diaspora politics to hide their failure to address foreign interference

On Monday, Canada announced the expulsion of six Indian diplomats over allegations of foreign interference. In a full court press conference, RCMP commissioner Michael Duheme warned of widespread violence, homicides, and a public security threat linked to agents of the Indian government. New Delhi has rejected the allegations, and sent six Canadian diplomats packing in return.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Enemy of My Enemy Is Donald J. Trump

A French newspaper journalist asked me last week, “Are you voting for Donald Trump?” As an American, I get this question often from Europeans. The answer is always, “Yes, absolutely.” Which is usually followed by some version of, “Dear God, why on earth?”

The answer is not because I believe in Donald Trump’s abilities, or because I think he embodies any kind of conservative ideal, or even that I think he’s a good man. It is not because I believe Trump is any kind of conservative ideal. The answer is partially because I believe 100% in J.D. Vance. But the answer is mostly because of who Donald Trump is not.

He is not a presidential candidate who wants to continue this pointless and costly war in Ukraine. Like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, he wants to see a peaceful resolution of the intractable and bloody conflict.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Sellout Singh the NDP’s man from Khalistan calls for emergency study into allegations of Indian government links to crimes in Canada

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh calls for emergency study into allegations of Indian government links to crimes in Canada

Federal New Democrats called for an emergency House of Commons study into RCMP allegations that agents of the Indian government are linked to homicides, extortions, and other violent crimes in Canada.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Tuesday made the request amid several other actions he said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should take. The other demands included levelling sanctions on the six Indian diplomats who were expelled by Canada on Monday and banning the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh network, which Mr. Singh described as a “right-wing, extremist, militant group.” The Hindu nationalist network is based in India.

What a farce.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Khalistan, WTF?

India’s crimes in Canada and the politician allegedly behind them

Fourteen bullets fired at a home near Victoria. An Edmonton building torched by arsonists with a red jerrycan. A 39-year-old found dead in a Winnipeg duplex.

The crimes are among several across Canada that were allegedly part of an Indian government campaign against activists and opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Six diplomatic and consular officials posted at India’s foreign missions in Ottawa and its consulates in Toronto and Vancouver have been identified as persons of interest in the scheme.

I hope both sides lose. That said Trudeau and his love of identity politics are squarely to blame for this mess.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India

Worldwide Efforts to Reverse the Baby Shortage Are Falling Flat

Imagine if having children came with more than $150,000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes.

Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no.

These are among the benefits—along with cheap child care, extra vacation and free fertility treatments—that have been doled out to parents in different parts of Europe, a region at the forefront of the worldwide baby shortage. Europe’s overall population shrank during the pandemic and is on track to contract by about 40 million by 2050, according to United Nations statistics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking

Biden’s border policies have led to an explosion in the forced prostitution of migrants in the U.S. ‘If I wanted to, I could order a girl within 15 minutes.’

DALLAS, TEXAS — Lisa slides a Hellcat pistol into her backpack, slinging it over her shoulder. She jumps out of the driver’s seat of her massive Ford F-250 as we head into a barbecue joint for lunch. Steel brass knuckles glint in the console beside a pencil-shaped, pronged object. She sees me looking at it.

“That’s my stabby-stick,” Lisa says before I even ask. “In case I can’t bring my gun somewhere. These guys are dangerous.”

“These guys” are sex traffickers, and dangerous doesn’t begin to describe them.

The Democrats have a sinister appetite.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Election 2024, Human Trafficking

I went for a mastectomy and they offered me assisted dying, Canadian cancer patient reveals

A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room.

The case comes as the number of people opting to end their lives under the country’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program has risen thirteen-fold from 1,018 to 13,241 in 2022.

h/t Sweetpea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Topsy Turvy in the Middle East: The Case for Total Victory

One year ago, in the form of armed Hamas terrorists, death arrived on the wings of the morning at the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Three hundred and sixty-four revellers were murdered there, out of the 1,200 murdered altogether that terrible October 7.

At the London memorial gathering on October 6, 2024, all those faces, overwhelmingly of young people, were projected onto a big screen. Standing in a cold English drizzle, it took more than an hour to view them all, in the knowledge that the fate of those smiling faces was one of utter depravity. Rape, torture and mutilation — both before murder and post-mortem — these crimes were committed by approximately 3,000 Arabs from Gaza, most of whom – but not all — were Hamas terrorists.

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