U.S. Commandos Kill Two Islamic State Officials in Syria

WASHINGTON — U.S. Special Operations forces carried out a helicopter raid against the Islamic State in northeastern Syria early Sunday, killing two operatives, including one official who the military said was involved in plotting and enabling terrorist attacks.

The Pentagon’s Central Command, which oversees American troops in Syria, said in a statement on Sunday that the main target of the mission, an Islamic State Syria provincial official known by the nom de guerre Anas, was killed in the raid that took place at 2:57 a.m. in an undisclosed part of eastern Syria.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam and violence, USA

Iran: Protests and Paralysis

Almost three months after the current popular uprising against the Islamic Republic started in Iran, three things are clear.

The first is that even if the uprising hits an interlude to recuperate, as is often the case with such movements, it is unlikely to simply fade away. It has mobilized energies that cannot be tamed with time, and raised such hopes and expectations that even the most hard-boiled cynics in power won’t be able to disregard.

Next, most of those who have mobilized those energies, that is to say the thousands of young men and women who risked all to openly challenge one of the most brutal regimes in contemporary history, while knowing what they want, don’t know how to translate their desiderata into the cold political reality of securing and using power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Indonesia sex ban turning off tourists but the stakes are higher for locals

At his upmarket Bali spas, Roger Paulus Silalahi has been overseeing renovations, ready to pamper tourists with herbal massages and milk baths as they return to the Indonesian holiday island after a crippling pandemic lockdown.

But last week the entrepreneur’s optimism was jolted after parliament approved a sweeping new criminal code featuring tough curbs on personal freedoms — including a ban on sex outside marriage, with a punishment of up to one year in jail.

The laws will apply to everyone — Indonesian citizens, foreign residents and tourists — in the world’s third-largest democracy and most populous Muslim nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIndonesia, Islam, WTF?

Christian group denied service at Virginia restaurant over religious views

The head of a conservative Christian group in Virginia is speaking out after members of her organization were turned away from a restaurant based solely on their religious views.

Victoria Cobb, president of the non-profit Christian lobbying organization Family Foundation of Virginia, told Fox News Digital that several members of her group were scheduled to hold a private event at a side room at Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia when they received a call an hour and a half before the reservation saying their reservation had been canceled.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left

Canada’s assisted dying catastrophe is a warning to Britain

In 1936, King George V lay on his deathbed. As his final hours drew near, the royal physician administered two injections of morphine and cocaine to hasten his passing, ensuring that his death would be announced in the morning papers, and not the ‘less appropriate evening journals’.

The King’s death was quick, painless, and utterly illegal; British law continues to view assisting suicide in almost any form as a criminal act. With the news this week that the House of Commons is launching an inquiry into assisted dying, this may soon change. For now, what was fit for the King remains, in the eye of the law, unfit for the common man. And thank God for that. Because before any change is made, lawmakers should seriously consider the catastrophe unfolding in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Outgoing Arizona governor builds ‘wall’ of shipping containers on Mexico border

Arizona’s outgoing Republican governor erected a three-mile barrier of shipping containers on the Mexico-US border in his final days in office before handing power to a Democrat.

Topped with barbed wire, the edifice is intended to fill gaps in Donald Trump’s much-vaunted but never completed border wall.

Doug Ducey, who is due to be replaced as governor by Democrat Katie Hobbs, has announced plans to spend $95 million (£78 million) on a 10-mile barrier before he leaves office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints, USA

‘Black People are the real Jews’

The Jewish presence in the civil right movements has been erased from black history. The Jews have erased their own history.

Black Hebrew Israelites are getting the attention that they didn’t when they spent decades screaming antisemitic and racist slurs in urban centers, killed four people in two separate attacks in New York and New Jersey (one that took place on Chanukah) and provoked the Covington Catholic incident.

That last one led to the New York Times defending the racist hate group as “sidewalk ministers” who practice “tough love” in “blunt and sometimes offensive language.” Examples of that include, “The Holocaust is a damn joke! Heil Hitler!” and “The messiah, who is a black man, is going to kill you”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left

Police are forced to dig up road to remove eco-asshole’s hand after he stuck himself to tarmac using sand mixed with superglue

A German eco-activist who glued himself to a road in Mainz had to have the tarmac around his hand removed after emergency workers were unable to free him.

A member of Letzte Generation, Germany’s version of Just Stop Oil, reportedly stuck his hand to the road using superglue mixed with sand, meaning the authorities could not dissolve the glue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, WTF?

China has tested lockdown to destruction Beijing’s

Zero Covid experiment has ended in catastrophic failure.

In 2020, China was where the world’s Covid lockdowns began – today, they are finally ending there, too. Until recently, China had seemed committed to its draconian Zero Covid approach. In October, President Xi Jinping assured the Chinese Communist Party Congress: ‘We have adhered to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, adhered to dynamic Zero Covid, and achieved major positive results in the overall prevention and control of the epidemic, and economic and social development.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Trudeau government preparing to rain your cash on corporate cronies by subsidizing EV battery production in Canada

Ottawa preparing to go toe-to-toe with U.S. to subsidize EV battery production in Canada

The federal government is preparing to transform its industrial policy in a bid to shelter Canadian production of electric vehicle batteries from the threat posed by the United States’ offer of billions of dollars in new subsidies, sources say.

For the first time, Ottawa is set to subsidize the production costs of large electric vehicle battery producers. It hopes to convince them to set up their plants in Canada, or to maintain their presence here.

The new measures would be a game-changer for Canada’s industrial policy. For decades, government programs have been based on funding “non-recurring” capital expenditures, such as the construction or modernization of factories.

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

US students living in fear month after massacre in shared house

Four friends were knifed in their beds in a remote college town in Idaho. Police have found no motives or suspects

Becca Whitmer used to love a party, but now she tries to be in her room at the University of Idaho by five o’clock each evening with the door bolted. She will not step back out into the snow-blanketed streets until the morning. You can see why.

Almost a month ago in the small, remote college town of Moscow four of her fellow students were stabbed to death in their beds. No motive has emerged for the crimes, which were not discovered until the morning after, and although tips and theories have poured in from across the country, police have released few details as to how the murders were carried out. The killer is still at large.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Think Again – What offering MAID says about us

“Give me liberty or give me death!” So said American revolutionary Patrick Henry back in 1775. It was a poetic way of expressing his desire for American independence.

Patrick Henry wanted freedom so badly that he was willing to die for his cause. While our Canadian Confederation of 1867 was a quieter affair then the American Revolution, there is little doubt that our founding fathers also wanted Canada to be a free country.

Unfortunately, the legalization of MAID (medical aid in dying) has led to a much different rallying cry in modern-day Canada. Our new mantra appears to be “Give me medically assisted death when I become a burden on society!” Not only does it lack Patrick Henry’s poetic cadence, but it also conveys a very different message.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide