War crime investigators prepare case against Russia over food attacks

Human rights lawyers believe Kremlin is ‘intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare’

War crimes investigators say they aim to bring the first international prosecution for starvation following Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian food supplies and farming.

The targeting of Ukraine’s agriculture, its farmland and grains stocks, and even civilians searching for food, amounts to a weaponisation of starvation and a clear war crime, investigators argue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

The Censorship Bureaucracy

In a recurring sketch from a popular early 2000s U.K. comedy show called Little Britain, a bank clerk listens to customers’ queries, randomly types on a keyboard, and then deadpans the catchphrase: “computer says no.” Whatever the follow-up questions, no matter how angry or upset customers become, the response remains the same: “computer says no.” This skit lives on in Britons’ collective psyche mainly because it is funny, but also because it points to a familiar sentiment: the frustration of finding oneself stonewalled by an intransigent bureaucracy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCensorship

How the fentanyl crisis’ fourth wave has hit every corner of the US

More Americans than ever are dying from fentanyl overdoses as the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic crashes through every community, in every corner of the country.

It was six years ago that Kim Blake’s son Sean died from an accidental fentanyl overdose in Burlington, Vermont. He was 27 years old.

“Every time I hear of a loss to substance use, my heart breaks a little more,” Ms Blake wrote in a blog dedicated to her son in 2021.

“Another family shattered. Forever grieving the loss of dreams and celebrations.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Why Are Palestinians Fleeing the Gaza Strip?

Thousands of Palestinians are continuing to flee the Gaza Strip in search of a better life in other countries, including Canada and the European Union.

In the past few weeks, several videos of Palestinians leaving the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt have surfaced on social media. Other Palestinians have been documented queuing outside the Gaza offices that issue visas for Turkey to obtain a visa to emigrate. These Palestinians are running away because they can no longer tolerate life under the Islamist movement of Hamas. They are not fleeing because of Israel.

“We want to live in dignity,” said a young Palestinian man in one of the videos. “All those who are seeking to emigrate want a dignified life. The young men are risking their lives, they are prepared to die.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGaza

C’est Ma’am! Gynaecologist Accused of Transphobia for Not Examining Male Patient

A French gynaecologist has come under fire from groups who claim to tackle homophobia after refusing to examine a male-to-female transgender person claiming that he only knew how to take care of women and had no experience treating men.

The alleged ‘anti-hate’ group SOS Homophobie called attention to doctor Victor Acharian, a gynaecologist in the city of Pau, and specifically to an exchange of words on the doctor’s Google review page.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Matthew Lau: Battery plant ‘investments’ confirm Liberals’ financial illiteracy

If Canadians were already frustrated with the Liberal government’s interventionist economic policies, which have produced miserable results to date, then the latest Parliamentary Budget Officer report on a set of floundering subsidies certainly won’t help.

The federal and Ontario governments have promised to give Stellantis-LG Energy Solutions and Volkswagen $28.2 billion to subsidize new electric vehicle battery plants. According to the PBO, it’s going to take them 20 years to break even, far more than the government’s guess of 3.3 years. If this estimate anywhere near accurate, it would make these subsidies a catastrophically bad investment.

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

Unhappy Hookers

TORONTO – Ontario’s Superior Court has dismissed a Charter challenge launched by an alliance of groups advocating for the rights of sex workers, ruling that Canada’s criminal laws on sex work are constitutional.

The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform argued in court last fall that Canada’s prostitution laws violate the industry workers’ Charter rights.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Another FBI Informant in Biden Case Was ‘Shut Down’ Before 2020 Election

Another whistleblower has come forward to reveal the behind-the-scenes efforts in the FBI to protect Hunter Biden (and his father Joe Biden by extension) back in 2020. A former FBI supervisor has informed Congress that the bureau’s Washington field office had a second “politically connected” informant giving them information for the investigation into the Biden crime family but was instructed to “shut down the source” before the 2020 presidential election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

HASKELL: How Ontario teachers pick on white children

Last week, Peel district schools reportedly purged all library books written before 2008. But this incident is just one of many questionable moves made by schools across Ontario in recent years.

For example, in mid-summer 2022, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario began distributing new lesson plans that aimed to indoctrinate children into ‘white-privilege’ ideology. The lesson plans were to be taught in primary, junior and intermediate grades across the province and were an extension of the Federation’s existing and larger ‘White Privilege project.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, White Privilege

J.D. Vance Demands Biden Admin Reveal Info on Ukraine‘s American Trans ‘Spokesperson‘

Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) has written to top Biden administration officials demanding the White House reveal if Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a transgender individual claiming to be a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military, has ties to American intelligence services and if U.S. funds are currently subsidising Ashton-Cirillo’s apparent role in Ukraine after the personality went viral vowing that Russian “propagandists will be hunted down”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?

They can afford gas, but not rent: Why these Torontonians are living in RVs

In the heart of Toronto’s industrial Port Lands, there is a street filled with trailers and motor homes — and a 61-year-old carpenter trying to plan for an unknown future.

He’ll be relying once again on a diesel heater through the dark nights of the approaching winter. It would help to have another solar panel on the roof to provide power.

The California conundrum: Fewer people, more homes, but an acute housing shortage

In the last decade, California home prices and rents have soared, an upswing that’s put homeownership further out of reach and helped drive thousands into homelessness.

This escalation coincided with a unique moment in California history. For much of the last decade, the state’s population growth was historically low.

In the last few years, it ground to halt and then dropped — and all the while developers continued to build.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

US military admits it has lost $80m stealth jet

Marine Corps put out appeal for missing aircraft after pilot ejects over South Carolina

Most public appeals seek help in finding lost pets or wedding rings – but the US military is asking for sightings of a missing $80 million (£65 million) fighter jet.

On Sunday, a Marine Corps pilot ejected out of an F-35 Lightning II during a “mishap” over South Carolina.

The pilot parachuted into a neighbourhood in North Charleston and was taken to a medical centre but the whereabouts of the plane is unknown.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Liberals hoping public dumb enough to swallow “solutions” to housing crisis and rising crime rates that LPC policies created

Liberals hope focus on housing, crime halts their plummet in the polls as Parliament returns

After taking a beating in the polls all summer, Liberal MPs are expected to focus on two areas of political vulnerability for them — housing and public safety — when Parliament resumes today after the summer break.

Conservatives, riding high in the polls and re-energized after a September policy convention, will use every opportunity they have during the fall sitting to argue that after eight years in government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies have failed to address a shortage of housing or to keep communities safe.

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

‘Free speech absolutist’ Elon Musk ‘in early talks’ to open Tesla factory in Saudi Arabia – where man was sentenced to death last month for tweeting negatively about regime

Self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist’ Elon Musk is in talks to open a Tesla factory in Saudi Arabia – which is still killing citizens for negative tweets about the Kingdom.

A deal with the Saudis could help Musk achieve his ambitious goal of selling 20 million vehicles a year by 2030 – up from just 1.3 million sold in 2022.

The move is part of an ambitious push by the kingdom to diversify its economy away from oil and secure metals needed to make electric cars.

More … Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Yet More Outrage

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter