Germany cracks down on ‘pro-life’ protests

Family Minister Lisa Paus (Green Party) announced on January 24 a draft law to prevent demonstrators from approaching or harassing visitors within a 100-meter (320 ft) radius of abortion clinics and family planning centers. Posters or flyers aimed at intimidating women will also be banned. Anyone violating the ban could be punished with a fine of up to €5,000 ($5,445).

Paus said that it was important that women were able to receive good advice in such difficult situations without being confronted with “hatred and agitation.” “That’s why we are striking a balance between freedom of expression and the right of assembly,” Paus told German public broadcaster ZDF.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate

A Hundred Days after Gaza’s October 7

Almost four months to the day, and not in a good way, the world has turned upside down.

In a risibly threadbare case, the victim of a depraved genocidal attack was accused at the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague of committing genocide. Lacking evidence of mens rea (criminal intention) that is prerequisite, or indeed any vestige of substantive evidence, South Africa sought to invert the object and purpose of the Genocide Convention of December 1948, which is specific to the “crime of crimes”. The accused is not just any victim, but the Jewish state, whose re-establishment in the May of the same year that the Convention was brought into effect was no coincidence.

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

CNN Prime-Time Ratings Lag Behind Hallmark, Channel Running Westerns

The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post had some fun with the weekly ratings report, underlining just how badly CNN did in the last week. Despite the attention around the Iowa caucus, CNN came in 10th most-watched channel on cable, getting beat by Hallmark, The History Channel and INSP, a South Carolina-based channel founded in the late 1970s by the Christian televangelist Jim Bakker that now runs mostly Westerns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

70 per cent of Canadians worried they won’t get quality medical attention: poll

OTTAWA – Most Canadians don’t think the quality of health care in their province is likely to improve, a new survey suggests, despite new federal health accords with several provinces designed to quell the health-care crisis unfolding across Canada.

The poll by Leger comes nearly a year after the federal government offered a $196-billion health accord to the provinces to increase health funding and address a growing shortage of health-care workers.

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“… it’s too early to speculate on the shooter’s motive”

Man, 28, charged after shots fired, Molotov cocktail thrown in Edmonton City Hall

The man who allegedly fired a long gun and threw a Molotov cocktail inside Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday has been identified as Bezhani Sarvar, 28.

I’m getting hits on Hungary, Albania and India on his name.

h/t Mauser & SDMATT

Listen to his “manifesto” he sounds like a right wing Muslim in a war against woke.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Michael Higgins: How can Canadians trust Trudeau and Joly when they don’t trust you?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly claim to know Canadians, but what they don’t do is trust the very people they serve.

In the last two days, neither Trudeau nor Joly when asked about a specific issue or a matter of vitally important policy would give an honest answer.

They both think that expressing faux sympathy with Canadians is a better alternative.

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

Frustrated farmers slam EU ‘technocrats’ who ‘call the shots’ in Brussels protest

BRUSSELS — Benoît Laqueue was one of 100 disgruntled French farmers on a bus headed for the European Parliament before sunrise on Wednesday.

The 58-year-old cattle and cereal farmer from the rural Ardennes region, in northeastern France, came with a message for the “technocrats” who “call the shots” in the European Union.

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Five former 2018 Canada world junior hockey players told to surrender to face charges of sexual assault

Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, according to two sources.

The pending charges are connected to an alleged group sexual assault of a woman in a hotel room. The incident occurred following a Hockey Canada fundraising gala in June, 2018, where the players were honoured for their win at the world junior championships.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#MeToo

New Hampshire primary: Nikki Haley fights on, but this is Trump’s party now

Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary, defeating his last remaining rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

His victory means the race for the nomination is all but over, even if Ms Haley is not yet ready to end her campaign – a fact that clearly irked the former president on what was otherwise an evening of celebration.

“She’s doing… a speech like she won,” he said of his rival, who pledged to stay in the race earlier in the evening. “She didn’t win. She lost.”

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Trudeau gov’t ‘green’ heat pump scam to cost nearly quadruple initial estimate

An ideologically charged Canadian federal government “green” program to try and get homeowners to switch their reliable heating oil furnaces for less reliable electric heat pumps via a large grant has been blasted by a taxpayer advocacy group as yet more government waste after it was revealed the program is set to cost nearly four times as much as originally thought.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

“Too cruel for animals”

How nitrogen gas kills: Untested execution method that’s too cruel for animals will be used TOMORROW on an Alabama hitman in world-first

The first-ever execution by nitrogen gas is set to go ahead in America tomorrow using a method so cruel and painful the UN calls it torture.

Alabama hitman Kenneth Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for killing a woman on behalf of her preacher husband in 1988 and was due to be executed by lethal injection in November 2022 but survived after it was botched.

Alabama – one of only three states to have legalized nitrogen executions – ruled that Mr Smith would be put to death via nitrogen instead.

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Commie parasite Jagmeet Singh says a second Trump presidency would be trouble for Canada

EDMONTON – Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says former U.S. president Donald Trump is completely in his own world, and if he makes it back to the White House it could spell trouble for Canada.

During the NDP’s caucus retreat in Edmonton, Singh said Trump operates in his own league, and likened him to an egomaniac who is seeking vengeance on his political enemies.

And communism would be so much better.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Hollywood Spent Years Appeasing Communist China, Now No American Movies Crack 2023 Top Ten Gross List

Hollywood’s losing streak in China continued in 2023, with no American movies cracking the country’s top ten list of the highest grossing titles of the year.

The pitiful results come despite Disney CEO Bob Iger’s aggressive efforts to get Beijing to approve more Hollywood titles for domestic release. Disney managed to score Chinese dates for its woke movies including The Little Mermaid, Elemental, and the latest Indiana Jones sequel — only to see them bomb with local audiences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood