Taliban sacks hundreds of men because they can’t grow beards

Militant group has also destroyed thousands of musical instruments in Afghanistan over the past year in campaign to enforce Sharia law

The Taliban has sacked hundreds of men from Afghanistan’s security forces because they are unable to grow beards.

Thousands of musical instruments had also been destroyed by the militant group in the past year, the notorious ministry for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice said in its annual update.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Bonnie Crombie embraces prominent critics of Justin Trudeau as she distances her Ontario party from the federal Liberals

Justin who?

Bonnie Crombie is distancing her provincial party from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s struggling federal Liberals.

As the Ontario Liberals gather in London, Ont. for a Sept. 20-22 policy conference, Crombie has invited some prominent Trudeau critics to speak to delegates.

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

9 Percent of Canadians in Highest Income Quintile Considering Using a Food Bank: StatCan

Few Canadians are immune to the rising cost of living, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, with 9 percent of those in the highest income quintile considering using a food bank.

Data from spring 2024 shows that while 42 percent of Canadians are concerned over rising food prices, about 9 percent of those in the highest income bracket report they may have to turn to a food bank or similar community organization for help. That number rises to 14 percent for those in the second-highest income bracket, StatCan said.

Nearly half of Canadians report struggling to meet day-to-day expenses, up 12 percentage points from 2022 to 45 percent.

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

Kamala Harris Is Wafer Thin

Can they really make this work?

It is appropriate that Kamala Harris is from the town of Oakland, Calif., of which it was famously said there was no there there.

It is hard to think of another presidential nominee who has felt so utterly superficial — not as a campaign tactic, but as a reality.

Certainly, she’s nowhere close to as compelling, distinctive, and commanding as Barack Obama and Donald Trump when they rose to become their parties’ nominees.

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

Woman Lost for 4 Days in Colorado Mountains Is Rescued

Gina Chase went camping with an organization that recommended participants fast and discouraged cellphones during a spiritual retreat, the authorities said.

A Canadian woman was rescued over the weekend after she got lost in the Colorado mountains for four days as part of a guided spiritual “quest,” according to a local sheriff’s department, which said that participants had been encouraged to fast and discouraged from bringing cellphones.

The woman, Gina Chase, 53, of Victoria, British Columbia, was camping near the San Miguel Mountains of Colorado with 10 others through the Animas Valley Institute, an organization based in Durango, Colo., that emphasizes the spiritual value of being alone in nature, the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Around 11 a.m. on Aug. 14, Ms. Chase embarked on a “solo journey” near Lone Cone Peak but was reported missing around 2 p.m. the next day after she did not return to camp, the sheriff’s office said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Kamala Can’t Win Without Extreme Election Interference And That’s Exactly What’s Happening

Everyone invested in a Kamala Harris victory in November isn’t making even the faintest attempt at taking her seriously as a presidential candidate. She’s not one because she has no reason to run for president, no vision, no interest in the job.

The whole point of this herculean, gravity-defying exercise we’re in the midst of isn’t to make Kamala president. It’s to deny Donald Trump the White House. The only way that can happen is for election interference on behalf of Kamala in ways that were once unspeakable.

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

RFK Jr campaign may join forces with Trump

Nicole Shanahan, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s running mate, said she was considering suspending their campaign in order to help Donald Trump win the US election during a podcast appearance released today.

In a conversation with Tom Bilyeu, the vice-presidential candidate said she and Kennedy could stay in the race in the hopes of winning enough votes to establish a strong third party for future elections, but acknowledged this would run the risk of ushering in a Harris-Walz presidency by drawing votes from Trump. The other option, she said, is to “walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Is “Anti-Establishment Rhetoric” Now a ‘Far-Right’ Offence?

A salutary tale for our times. An Englishman who the judge condemned as a “keyboard warrior” has been jailed for three years for posts he made on Twitter/X during the recent UK riots. When Wayne O’Rourke from Lincoln first appeared in court, the BBC reported that prosecutors alleged his posts contained “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric.”

Yes, you read that correctly: the police arrested the idiotic O’Rourke because they decided his online words were not only anti-Muslim, but also “anti-establishment.” Amid all the soul-searching chatter about the causes and consequences of the brief outburst of unrest in UK towns and cities, that should stand out as a warning for the future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

The British state ‘Blob’ has declared war on Israel

The powerful UK network of woke, unelected civil servants and officials known as ‘the Blob’ has become notorious for trying to subvert democracy at home, defying the previous Tory government on everything from Brexit to immigration policy.

Now the Blob is spreading its anti-democratic tentacles internationally, pressing its allies in the Labour government to abandon Israel, which is fighting against Islamist terrorists for its survival as the only democracy in the Middle East. The Blob is so blinded by its loathing of Western-style democracy that it seems prepared, effectively, to declare war on Israel.

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