‘Fear is everywhere’: The Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud

“The fear is everywhere and the fear is constant,” said paramedic Héctor Torres, 53, from the front seat of the ambulance in Culiacán.

We had just come from the scene of a shooting inside a garage in the city centre.

The owner was lying dead in his office, blood spreading across the white tiled floor. As Héctor and the other paramedic, Julio César Vega, 28, entered the premises, a woman ran in wailing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Poilievre to pitch new policies aimed at dealing with Trump in speech to business leaders

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to unveil a suite of policy proposals meant to address the uncertainty caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a member of his senior staff.

Poilievre will deliver a speech to business leaders at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday that the organization is billing as a “vision for Canada-U.S. relations.”

Katy Merrifield, Poilievre’s head of communications, told CBC News that the speech will include new policy proposals that are intended to be realistic and aimed at restoring Canada’s leverage in an unstable geopolitical environment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Conservative Party

Autism therapist at Milton clinic charged after allegedly assaulting kids during sessions

Muaz Sarfraz

An autism therapist working at a clinic in Milton, Ont., has been charged after allegedly assaulting children during their sessions.

In a release on Wednesday, Halton police said an investigation was launched after they received a complaint involving a therapist working at an Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), Speech and Occupational clinic.

The alleged offences occurred during therapy sessions at Spectacokids, located on Bronte Street South near Derry Road West.

Bonus: Meet Fouzia!

 

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime"

Rubio vows US would respond ‘appropriately’ to Cuba killing 4 people on a Florida speedboat

Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed the United States would get answers about a Cuba shootout that killed four people and injured six others aboard a speedboat from Florida.

“We’re going to find out exactly what happened and then we will respond accordingly,” Rubio said Wednesday while traveling to Saint Kitts and Nevis.

He conceded that “it is highly unusual to see shootouts in the open sea like that. That’s not something that happens every day.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

Julia Malott: Hair salon ruling a threat to the idea of human rights

A quick test for whether our institutions have lost the plot: if a clumsy booking form becomes a human-rights case, something has gone wrong upstream.

That is what recently happened in Quebec. A Montreal hair salon’s online booking process required clients to select either “man” or “woman” to book an appointment. A customer, Alexe Frédéric Migneault, who identifies as non-binary, objected. The dispute ended up before Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal, which ordered the salon to pay $500.00 dollars.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Iran ‘ready to spill American blood — even at a huge cost’

From his secret bunker last June, as Israeli missiles rained down on Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader issued an instruction he had never given before: to prepare for his succession. With the threat of decapitation strikes hanging over him, Ayatollah Khamenei drew up a secret list of three clerics who could take his place and told his assembly of experts to choose between them if he was killed.

It was the first of several key lessons the Islamic regime would take from that war as the prospect of another now looms. Khamenei also picked four layers of succession for all the military and civilian leaders he personally appoints: others beyond that circle were ordered to name their own four rungs of replacements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

World Economic Forum CEO Borge Brende resigns after Epstein links revealed

Mark Carney’s Epstein Linked WEF pal Borge Brende

Borge Brende announces that he is resigning as head of the World Economic Forum, which organizes the annual Davos summit that gathers the world’s political and business elite, after revelations of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“After careful consideration, I have decided to step down as President and CEO of the World Economic Forum,” the former Norwegian foreign minister says in a statement, adding that he believes “now is the right moment for the Forum to continue its important work without distractions.”

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elite Decadence & Decay", World Economic Forum

Let’s just buy the F-35s and not cut off our nose to spite our face

Canadian anger toward U.S. President Donald Trump is understandable, but there is a real risk that this leads to poor policy choices. A case in point is the growing pressure to revisit the decision to buy a fleet of American F-35 fighter jets.

In economics, we think that governments should set policy goals, then decide how many workers to employ and how much capital equipment to use in order to achieve those goals at as low a cost as possible. A key goal underlying the decision to buy fighter jets is to protect Canada from military intervention by hostile countries. Swedish Gripen fighter jets are less costly, but also less militarily effective than the F-35s. Given this cost difference, the key question is whether the policy goal of keeping Canada safe from foreign aggression can be achieved using Gripens instead of F-35s.

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

Austria Targets “Right-Wing Extremism”, Ignores Left-Wing and Islamist Violence

Austria’s government has announced a new National Action Plan against right-wing extremism. The plan, presented on Tuesday, will involve working groups from the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, and Education, aiming to develop a catalogue of measures targeting prevention, early detection, criminal prosecution, resocialization, and democracy promotion. The Directorate of State Protection and Intelligence (DSN) will oversee the implementation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?