Lockdown 2.0: Thousands of pubs and restaurants shut for two days a week as energy bills surge

Nearly 10,000 pubs and restaurants have cut trading by at least two days per week to cope with rocketing energy bills even before the start of winter.

A fifth of food and drink firms have reduced their trading hours while 6pc have closed for two days a week – more than any other sector, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Hospitality industry experts warned that pubs and restaurants could choose to shut their doors temporarily for weeks early next year to counteract a period of slower trade and heavy energy usage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "The Great Reset"

3 dead in University of Virginia shooting; suspect sought

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A fatal shooting at a University of Virginia parking garage killed three people wounded two others and sent police on a manhunt Monday in search of a student suspected in the attack, officials said.

Classes at the school were canceled Monday a day after the shooting and the Charlottesville campus seemed deserted as authorities searched for the suspect, who University of Virginia President Jim Ryan identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Canada announces additional $500M in military aid to Ukraine

Canada is providing Ukraine with an additional $500 million in military assistance and is adding the names of 23 Russians to its sanctions list, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday.

“This additional military assistance will support Ukrainians as they bravely continue to fight against Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion, while these new sanctions will put added pressure on those who support these acts of war,” Trudeau said in a statement.

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

Canada asked to hit itself & Cuba with sanctions for repressing thousands after major protests

A Cuban-Canadian rights group is formally requesting that Ottawa slap sanctions on officials in Cuba for Havana’s repression of demonstrators at a July, 2021, protest.

Democratic Spaces, founded and directed by Michael Lima, a Cuban-Canadian, is filing a request with the Department of Global Affairs’ sanctions policy and operations co-ordination division on Monday morning. Mr. Lima is a human-rights activist and researcher.

“Levels of repression in Cuba today are the highest in two decades,” Mr. Lima said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Cuba, WTF?

Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law

 

Public executions and amputations some of the punishments for crimes including adultery and theft

Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban’s chief spokesman said.

Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Sunday that the “obligatory” command by Haibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges.

Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, rules by decree from Kandahar, the movement’s birthplace and spiritual heartland.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Ontario’s top doctor ‘strongly’ recommends masking indoors

Ontarians should put a mask on in all indoor public settings, the province’s top doctor advised on Monday.

Dr. Kieran Moore is “strongly recommending” the use of masking in those spaces as some pediatric Ontario hospitals say they’ve been overwhelmed by an influx of sick patients in recent weeks.

At this point, the province has not issued a mandate on the use of masks across the province, although some health-care officials have asked for one.

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Question of government’s China strategy looms as attention turns to G20 meetings

Trudeau says international authorities will make determination of Uyghur genocide

Canada is facing a key test of its China strategy, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to come face to face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 meetings in Indonesia.

Questions about Canada’s stance on Beijing — which are expected to be articulated more clearly in an upcoming release of an Indo-Pacific strategy document — followed Trudeau as he began a tour of Southeast Asia, including several days at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia.

The opposition has also criticized the prime minister over reports that China sought to sway the 2019 federal election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Europe has picked a side in the new Cold War – China

In the new Cold War economy, trade will be restricted, technology fenced off, and intellectual property fiercely protected. Manufacturing capabilities will be built up, and supply chains brought closer to home to ensure resilience whatever happens.

As relations between the West and China deteriorate sharply, every developed economy will have to pick a side. And it is already becoming clear which one the major powers of Europe – and the European Union itself – have chosen. China.

Over the last few weeks, we have seen example after example of major industrial and commercial ties with China deepening.

Worth your while to read this, likely indicates Junior’s leanings as well. The extent of business being done with China is eye opening.

As usual America provides protection in the Ukraine while Europe (and Canada) enjoy a free ride. That can’t last. 

It reinforces my own suspicions that the USA was behind the NordStream pipeline sabotage.

Gotta keep those reluctant “allies” in line.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Europe

Jewish groups denounce upcoming Montreal show by rapper accused of antisemitism

MONTREAL — A Jewish group is calling on a Montreal venue to cancel a performance by a French rapper whose music it describes as “openly antisemitic and hateful.”

B’nai Brith Canada sent a letter on Friday to the owners of L’Olympia theatre in Montreal, urging them to cancel a Dec. 4 show by musician Freeze Corleone.

“Mr. Corleone is openly antisemitic and hateful,” read the letter signed by Marvin Rotrand, the national director of B’nai Brith’s League of Human Rights.

From Ladepche – The musician is accused of “apologizing for Nazism and anti-Semitism” in the texts of his songs. The rapper praises Adolf Hitler and Mullah Omar, before attacking the Jewish community.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, Canada, WTF?

Russia’s War Hawks Step Up Criticism of the Military Over Kherson Withdrawal

Russia’s pro-war activists delivered over the weekend their most cutting criticism of the military’s performance in Ukraine to date, following the humiliating withdrawal of Russian troops from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. By Sunday, the drumbeat of denunciations broke the taboo against singling out President Vladimir V. Putin himself and Russia’s very system of government.

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

Canada’s own (miniature) midterm election will be in Mississauga-Lakeshore

While the United States was hurtling toward the dramatic conclusion of another round of national elections last week, Canada was quietly embarking on its own, smaller (much, much smaller) version of the American midterms: a byelection in the Ontario riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore.

Unlike the recently completed U.S. elections, the balance of power and the future of democracy are not at stake in Mississauga-Lakeshore. But because of where the riding is, how competitive the race could be and when it is happening, this single byelection has unusually high narrative value.

A touch melodramatic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Iran protests: Court sentences ‘rioter’ to death

A Tehran court on Sunday issued a death sentence linked to “riots,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.

Iran has been rocked by nationwide protests since the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody. The 22-year-old woman was arrested by Iran’s notorious morality police for allegedly improperly dressing in line with the country’s strict dress code.

According to Mizan Online, Sunday’s sentence was handed for the crime of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and an enemy of God and corruption on earth.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

A gingerbread PERSON?

They’ve been a much-loved treat for more than 200 years, but now Morrisons has brought gingerbread men bang up to date – with a gender-neutral makeover.

The traditional biscuit has been renamed a ‘gingerbread person’ by the supermarket in the name of ‘inclusivity’ after getting complaints from shoppers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘I’m not Trump’: AOC fires back when Green New Deal called a ‘cotton candy media concoction’

Progressive U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is not known for her ability to gracefully accept criticism, so it’s no wonder that, when New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks put her in the same “populist” basket as former President Donald Trump, she threw yet another public Twitter fit.

In a Thursday column, titled, “The Fever is Breaking,” Brooks pointed to the midterm election results and deduced that “performative populism has begun to ebb.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives