Iran ‘may have hired useful idiots’ for Jewish ambulance attack

Police say the instigators could have mimicked a Russian model of attack which involves paying recruits with cryptocurrency

Police investigating the arson attack on Jewish ambulances in north London are examining whether it may have been directed by Iran using proxy operatives recruited online, sources said.

Investigators believe that those behind the attack may have followed a model used by Russia, recruiting so-called “useful idiots” through online criminal networks and paying them in cryptocurrency.

Iran has made use of proxies to launch attacks across Europe, including by Chechen and Turkish gangsters, and is also suspected of deploying Iranian expatriates to conduct surveillance on dissidents in the UK.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

US prosecutors argue Maduro ‘plundered’ Venezuelan wealth in court battle over legal fees

A judge appeared sympathetic on Thursday to legal arguments that ex-Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cillia Flores should be allowed to use Venezuelan government money to fund their defence.

Maduro and Flores’s attorneys asked the judge to dismiss the narco-terrorism case against the pair because the US has denied them use of the funds due to sanctions in place against the Latin American country.

Prosecutors argued Maduro “plundered” Venezuela’s wealth and should not be able to use its money for legal fees.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

A visit with Occam’s Razor

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Trump scorches NATO for failing Iran loyalty test, debates bailing on alliance

President Trump blasted NATO on Thursday for its unwillingness to help with the Iran war and implied the US may no longer “be there” for its allies.

Before the Feb. 28 US-Israeli military attacks, Trump said, “we’re always gonna be there” for NATO allies.

“At least we were. I don’t know anymore, to be honest with you,” Trump said Thursday at a cabinet meeting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", NATO, USA

Chief tells senators Kamloops residential school ‘graves’ scam search could take decades

Sacred fake graves money dance

A search for alleged unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site could take decades before yielding answers, the chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation told a Senate committee, while acknowledging no remains have yet been recovered nearly five years after the initial claim.

I am sick of these scammers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Prepare Properly for Domestic Drone Terror, Says Think Tank

National drone defences are underprepared for the threat of domestic extremism, according to a new policy briefing.

The number of potentially violent plots making use of UAVs has increased sharply over the past five years. Researchers James Paterson and Lydia Khalil for Australia’s Lowy Institute claim that

Domestic extremist actors are incorporating drone technology into operational capabilities and attack plots, taking inspiration from the battlefield.

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Bronwyn Eyre: The ‘Gladue principle’ has caused immense harm to Indigenous women

A recent Investigative Journalism Bureau article, which appeared in the National Post, reiterated what we have long known: in Canada, Indigenous women are killed at a much higher rate — tragically, six-times higher — than non-Indigenous women.

The article quoted experts who blame the Canadian justice system for failing Indigenous women. They note that those found guilty of their abuse or murder generally face less serious sentences than perpetrators of crimes committed against non-Indigenous women.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Two Tiered Justice", "Two Tiered Policing"

The Kill Switch Society

Increasingly, automobiles, once tools to facilitate individual independence, have been repurposed into systems of monitoring and control.

There was a time — not very long ago — when the automobile represented one of the clearest expressions of individual choice in a free society. Limited only by fuel, roads, and imagination, a person could choose where to go, when to go, and how to get there. The car was not merely a machine. It was mobility made personal — an extension of autonomy and freedom.

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