Iran Charges 16, Including Several Teens, For Protests Amid Reports Of Forced Confessions

Iran has charged 16 people, including several teenagers, in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia for planning demonstrations and accusing them of espionage amid reports those detained gave confessions after being beaten.

In November, 25 people were arrested for allegedly having connections with “spy organizations” and “attempted to deceive and incite youth and teenagers through social networks to join protests” against the government after the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in September.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Germany: 5 charged with treason in suspected terror plot

Treason charges have been brought against five people who allegedly planned to overthrow the German government, the federal prosecutor’s office said Monday.

The individuals, all of whom have ties to Germany’s far-right Reichsbürger scene, as well as other neo-Nazi gangs, aimed to trigger “civil war-like conditions in Germany by means of violence” in order to topple the government, the prosecutor said. The defendants are also accused of planning to kidnap German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Did Colorado Man Try to Frame Taco Bell Workers by Eating Rat Poison?

What do you do after causing a scene at Taco Bell because the soda machine wasn’t working, and the workers offered you a free burrito to make it up to you?

If you’re Colorado Man, you take your free food home, eat some rat poison along with it, then become so “violently ill” that police investigate the Taco Bell workers for possible “criminal attempt homicide.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Executive describes ‘scary’ trip to San Francisco bar where ‘hundreds of homeless people and addicts’ were ‘folded over’ outside shuttered businesses

A San Francisco tech executive has branded the downtown area ‘dystopian’ after she walked past ‘hundreds’ of homeless people.

Michelle Tandler, 37, shared a picture from her Saturday night trip to a bar in the wilting Democrat-run city.

She posted the image of a distressing scene that featured a group of homeless men surrounding by trash and graffiti.

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

Politicians are mysteriously blind to trans activists’ misogyny

Public abuse of women is now plain to see, from Glasgow to Westminster

Misogyny has always existed. Sometimes it’s more frowned upon than others, going quiet before bursting out in a fresh guise. But we are entering new and terrifying territory, where spittle-flecked rants against women are everywhere, including the House of Commons. Death and rape threats are openly paraded at demonstrations, prominent women are threatened with murder — and the fear that a woman will be seriously injured is growing by the day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"TERF Wars", Big Tranny

San Francisco Reparations Proposal Could Cost City North of $100 Billion

An advisory committee’s recommendation that San Francisco pay out hefty reparations to longtime black residents could cost the city at least $110 billion, at even a conservative estimate.

The advisory committee released a draft report last month proposing the city make a lump sum payment of $5 million to black residents who are at least 18 and have identified as black or African American on public documents for at least ten years. Residents must also meet at least two of eight other requirements. Among those requirements is that the resident is “personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs” or is a “Descendant of someone enslaved through US chattel slavery before 1865.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inReparations, WTF?

E.U. Rules Will Force Dutch To Ban Livestock Farming

Dutch livestock farmers are increasingly outraged and bewildered over a 2019 court ruling that has begun to force thousands of them out of the business—by design.

The 2019 ruling, issued by the highest court in the Netherlands, upheld lower court rulings that found the country was failing to comply with European Union (E.U.) environmental regulations. The ruling ordered the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020—requiring the country to “nearly double the entire amount of greenhouse gas emission cuts it has made since 1990 within one year” (something it notably failed to do). The chief basis of the ruling appears to be limiting the impacts of greenhouse-gas emissions tied to manure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam, WTF?

Ukraine deputy minister sacked for alleged theft of $400,000

Ukraine’s deputy infrastructure minister, Vasyl Lozinskyi, has been detained and dismissed from his post for allegedly stealing $400,000 (£320,000) intended for purchasing aid, including generators, according to Ukraine’s state anti-corruption detectives and prosecutors.

After the news emerged, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, vowed that the old ways of corruption would not return to Ukraine.

“I want this to be clear: there will be no return to what used to be in the past, to the way various people close to state institutions or those who spent their entire lives chasing a chair [a state position] used to live,” said Zelenskiy in his nightly address on Sunday without specifically mentioning the case.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUkraine

Trudeau calls ArriveCan subcontracts through two-person firm ‘illogical,’ asks Privy Council Clerk to review

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government’s approach to building and maintaining the ArriveCan app through contracts and subcontracts tied to a two-person staffing firm is “illogical” and he has asked for a review by the Clerk of the Privy Council.

The Globe and Mail reported Monday that GCstrategies – the two person Ottawa-area staffing company that has received millions of dollars in federal commissions on IT projects – subcontracted its work on the ArriveCan app to six other companies, including multinationals such as BDO and KPMG.

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

More than 50,000 Canadians have died from COVID-19 since pandemic began

More than 50,000 Canadians have died after contracting COVID-19 since the pandemic emerged nearly three years ago, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirmed Monday — a sobering reminder that the virus remains a deadly concern.

The national death toll first crossed 50,000 last Tuesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and confirmed by a Global News analysis of provincial health data.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

7 dead after elderly Asian male goes on shooting rampage at two California farms, suspect in custody

Shooter Zhao Chunli aged 67 – Old Asian Guy Registry Needed

Seven people were fatally shot at a farm and another business in California’s Half Moon Bay Monday — and a suspect later turned himself in to authorities, according to reports.

The victims were killed in the shootings at Mountain Mushroom Farm and Rice Trucking-Soil Farm, a landscaping supply company, in the small city along the Golden State’s coast, NBC Bay Area reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", USA, WTF?

Olaf Scholz overrules foreign minister – No Leopard tank exports to Ukraine by anyone without German approval

German government split as Olaf Scholz overrules own foreign minister over Leopard tanks

Berlin had said it would not stop Poland re-exporting tanks to Ukraine, but the chancellor has since dismissed the remark

Germany’s government appeared to be split on Monday night after chancellor Olaf Scholz overruled his own foreign minister to insist Poland would need to follow the rules over sending tanks to Ukraine.

Foreign minister Annalena Baerbock had said on Sunday that Berlin would not “stand in the way” of Warsaw re-exporting German Leopard 2 tanks to help Ukraine’s armed forces reclaim territory seized by Russia.

But on Monday a spokesman for Mr Scholz insisted Poland would have to follow an “established procedure” if it wanted to give the German-made tanks to Kyiv.

Fed up with lectures from Biden handlers? Anger at the Poles and their reparations demands?

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