How dangerous is the Islamist victory in Jordan’s elections?

Before last week’s elections, Jordan’s most popular political party, the Islamic Action Front, regularly organized protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and recent incursions into the occupied West Bank.

During these, party supporters called out slogans like “we are all Hamas” and “Yahya Sinwar [who heads Hamas] is our leader.” Supporters of the Islamic Action Front, or IAF, also often demanded that Jordan scupper its long-running peace treaty with neighboring Israel, signed in 1994.

Perhaps, given the anger in Jordan about the civilian impact of Israel’s military campaign against the Hamas militant group in Gaza and the fact that around half of Jordan’s population has Palestinian roots, it should not have come as a surprise that the IAF did particularly well in Jordan’s parliamentary elections last week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Jordan

Calgary: Muslim sentenced to six years in prison for sharing terrorism videos on TikTok

CALGARY – A Calgary man who pleaded guilty to sharing Islamic State recruitment videos and propaganda on TikTok will spend the next six years behind bars.

Zakarya Rida Hussein was sentenced during a court appearance on Friday after he pleaded guilty to one of four terrorism-related charges.

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

Suspicious packages sent to election officials across US

The FBI and the US Postal Department are investigating suspicious packages received by election officials in 17 states.

Federal investigators said they were collecting the packages and that some contained “an unknown substance”, though there were no reports of injuries.

They were sent to secretaries of state and state election officials across a swathe of the country from New York to Alaska.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA

As some Ontario plants hit the brakes, are Canada’s EV ambitions under threat?

LOYALIST TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO, CANADA – The plant was expected to produce batteries for a million electric vehicles a year. Once up and running, it was supposed to create hundreds of permanent jobs in a small southeastern Ontario municipality.

It was, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time, “big news” that Belgium-based Umicore chose Loyalist Township for its battery component production facility — evidence, the federal and provincial governments said, of success in the quest to make Canada a global electric-vehicle production hotspot.

But two years later, spending on the construction of the Umicore plant has been delayed in what the company calls a “significant worsening of the EV market context.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

French Springfield: Migrants Attack Hunters and Kill Pet Ducks

At a time when the case of the American town of Springfield, Ohio—where the aggressive presence of migrants is said to have led to violence against animals—is fuelling the debate in the U.S. presidential election, a remarkably similar incident has been reported in France in the Pas-de-Calais region. Three hunters and a child, with their ducks, were attacked by around sixty migrants.

The incident occurred on the night of September 14-15. Three hunters and a 3-year-old child were stalking in a hut on the Côte d’Opale on the Channel coast when, at around 4 a.m., they were attacked by a gang of around sixty extremely violent migrants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, WTF?

WTF?

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Tories will likely get chance to introduce non-confidence motion next week

Next week could be the first opportunity for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to introduce a non-confidence motion asking the other parties to topple the Liberal government.

Poilievre promised he would bring such a motion at the first chance he had, after the NDP ended its supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals earlier this month.

It now appears that chance will come on Sept. 24.

Singh doesn’t have his pension yet and as far as I’m concerned an informal secret version of the Trudeau-Singh pact still exists.

The official pact was blown up to provide them both with room to shape a preferred narrative.

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

The Indictment of Sean “Puffy” Combs — RICO Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking, and Interstate Transportation to Facilitate Prostitution

Diddy and Clinton: Scumbags R’US

No — that is not a mug shot. I expect we’ll be seeing some pictures of Puff Diddy not wearing a tuxedo fairly soon.

Unsealed in the Southern District of New York this morning was a three count indictment charging Sean Combs with leading a RICO Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and interstate transportation of females to facility prostitution. Combs was arrested on Monday evening in Manhattan, spent the night in the federal detention center, and made an appearance on Tuesday morning in federal court to be arraigned on the indictment.

h/t MZ for this

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

John Robson: A Recipe to Overhaul Canada’s Ailing Military

Decades ago, British Prime Minister John Major announced a revolutionary approach to budgeting. Alas, he didn’t implement it and became a footnote to history. But the idea, sound in principle, was that instead of duct-taping this year’s budget together from the wreckage of last year’s while cramming in some unaffordable voter-bait baubles, they would start from scratch by deciding what they needed and what they could afford, then work out the details within those firm big limits. Which brings me to Canadian defence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

WAGNER: Mark Carney, not a friend of freedom

Ignatieff but without the charm.

Recently, Mark Carney was named an economic advisor to the Liberal Party of Canada to help shape the party’s policies. Considering the Liberals currently form government, his efforts could have substantial effects upon Canadians.

Carney is most famous for successful stints as the Governor of both the Bank of Canada (2008 – 2013) and then the Governor of the Bank of England (2013 – 2020.) He has also held other high-level financial positions., including that of UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.

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

The Assassination Attempt and the Election

If you will permit me some license to be crass — a moment of bloodless dispassion utterly divorced from the response we expect from properly socialized adults — I’d like to dwell on what we’re all wondering but is still too gauche to ask in mixed company: How will the second attempt on Trump’s life matter?

The 2nd attempt combined with the media’s crass efforts to blame the victim will along with the rigged debate silently swing voters to Trump.

Kamala is reminding me of Hillary, all her so called widespread support is just media noise and Astro turf.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

FBI Agent Investigating Second Assassination Attempt Allegedly Made ‘Anti-Trump’ Posts

When FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Veltri addressed a room of reporters Sunday, he presented himself as a disinterested investigator in the second attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life. But Veltri was known at the FBI to be “adamantly and vocally anti-Trump,” according to a whistleblower account reported by The Washington Times.

“The FBI has assumed the role as the lead federal law enforcement agency in the investigation,” said Veltri, who is in charge of the FBI Miami Field Office, in the press conference. “We will continue to support this investigation with the full resources of the FBI.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", FBI, Trump Derangement Syndrome

The reason people want to kill Trump – Weaponized conspiracies are more potent than facts

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”, asked Henry II in 1170, to no one in particular. He was referring to his fractious Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket; in turn, some of Henry’s knights took his remark as their cue to murder the Archbishop.

This is hardly the last time incendiary language has, however indirectly, prompted violence in the real world. Nine centuries on from Henry II, Donald Trump’s characteristically florid turn of phrase has been repeatedly linked to real-world threats to public safety. Then just last week, his repetition of a rumour about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating local pets sparked a media furore — and reported bomb threats in Springfield itself.

Speaking of which …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

Attorney General Kamala Harris Presided Over 64% Rise in Rapes

There is a story that Kamala Harris likes to tell about why she became a prosecutor. Her friend was molested by her father and the young Kamala vowed to protect other women and girls. The pledge did not survive her relationship with Mayor Willie Brown, who was accused of covering up sexual harassment, her favorable plea deal for Mayor Bob ‘Filthy’ Filner who was accused by over 30 women of everything from groping them to putting them in headlocks, and alleged sexual harassment by a close associate in her office during her time as attorney general.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"