Iran Says It Has Built Hypersonic Missile

U.N. atomic agency separately reported that Tehran continues to stonewall its investigation into Iranian nuclear activities

TEHRAN–Iran said Thursday it has built a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating any air-defense system, as the United Nations atomic agency reported that Tehran continues to stonewall its investigation into Iranian nuclear activities.

As senior officials lashed out at Tehran’s neighbors and other foreign foes they accuse of fomenting protests sweeping across the country, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the new missile could maneuver both inside and outside the atmosphere, according to state media. He provided no evidence to support the claims.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Bank of Canada signals more rate hikes to come

‘We will come out of this,’ Tiff Macklem pledges as central bank signals more rate hikes to come

In much the same way that Canadian households were forced to adjust on the fly to high and escalating prices, Canada’s job market and overall economy will see some painful changes in the coming months as Canada’s central bank steps up its fight to wrestle inflation into submission.

That was one of the main takeaways of a wide-ranging interview with Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem on Thursday, one in which the central banker said he understands the pain that Canadians are feeling about their finances right now. But he is more resolved than ever that the bank’s actions to establish price stability will be worth it in the long run.

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

One suspect in anti-Jewish Brooklyn gel pellet attack held on bail, two others freed

One of the goons who allegedly blasted a Hasidic Jewish mom and her adult son with gel pellets in an alleged hate crime assault in Brooklyn was held on bail Thursday as the other two suspects were sprung on supervised release.

Jacob Hernandez, 38, begged for mercy as he was led away in handcuffs on $7,500 cash bail while the other two suspects, Zakaria Moataz and Dorian Watt, walked out of the courtroom with their faces covered.

New Yorkers must love this stuff, they voted for more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism

Sabrina Maddeaux: Pierre Poilievre’s crusade against the ‘money printing orgy’

In person, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is relaxed and even cheery. But get him talking about the Bank of Canada (BoC), and he suddenly seems to vibrate on a higher intensity level.

“When I’m prime minister, we’ll have sound money. The Bank of Canada will have one job, and that’s to keep inflation at two per cent with an eye not just to CPI inflation, but asset price inflation. And that’s how we’re going to stabilize demand for assets like housing,” he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Taliban ban women from parks and gyms in Kabul

The Taliban have banned women from entering Kabul’s parks and gyms, accusing them of breaking Islamic laws in the capital.

A spokesman from the vice and virtue ministry said that Afghans managing the city’s parks, gyms and fairgrounds had been ordered to turn women away, including those with male chaperones.

The Taliban had been enforcing gender segregation rules that gave women access to parks on three days a week — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday — while men were allowed to visit on the remaining four days.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

John Robson: Beijing’s Influencers Are Hidden in Plain Sight and We Do Nothing

Even now he thinks they’re “games.” After all the warnings about the Chinese Communist Party’s sinister intentions and methods, our prime minister told a news conference: “Unfortunately we’re seeing that countries, state actors from around the world, whether it’s China or others, are continuing to play aggressive games with our institutions, with our democracies.” If these manoeuvres are “games,” the state actors are playing for keeps. We don’t seem to be.

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

With New Ruling, Sandy Hook Families Win Over $1.4 Billion From Alex Jones

The Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims an additional $473 million in punitive damages for defaming them, a judge in Connecticut ruled on Thursday, bringing the total damages to nearly $1.5 billion.

Last month, a jury in Waterbury, Conn., awarded the families and an F.B.I. agent implicated in Mr. Jones’s false claims $965 million in compensatory damages. The jury also awarded the families punitive damages in the form of lawyers’ fees, to be calculated by the judge. The $473 million awarded on Thursday by Judge Barbara N. Bellis of Connecticut Superior Court represents those damages.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

U.S. races to shore up European support for Ukraine strategy

U.S. officials are increasingly worried about keeping their allies on board with Washington’s approach to countering Russia in Ukraine as economic pressures grow across Europe.

American officials based in Europe are issuing internal warnings to Washington colleagues that some countries with populations that support Russia are growing angry over sanctions and blame the U.S. for rising costs. That sentiment could put pressure on European leaders to pull back support for the sanctions, officials said in internal reports circulated throughout the administration in recent days and viewed by POLITICO.

The NordStream pipeline sabotage seems more like a hostage taking everyday.

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

What’s it going to take for the Liberals to crack down on Chinese subterfuge?

God only knows what it’s going to take.

Twelve years ago, the warning came from Richard Fadden, then the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. At least two provincial cabinet ministers and several municipal politicians were more or less puppets of the People’s Republic of China, he said, initially avoiding mentioning China by name, for the sake of discretion. “I’m making this comment because I think it’s a real danger that people be totally oblivious to this kind of issue,” Fadden said at the time.

Unless a very damaging leak emerges nothing will be done.

Canada’s China Class exemplified by sleazebags such as Dominic Barton, currently involved with turning what’s left of Canada into a 3rd world shithole via mass immigration, hold sway with our political class.

Canada has been sold out by our elites.

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

The normalization of random neighborhood assaults

Thursday morning, on Nov. 3, 2022, I listened to the 1010 WINS radio station, here in New York City.

The extent to which New York’s gubernatorial candidates were focusing on crime was the topic. Then the morning host made a statement about the average citizen’s so-called “frantic” concern about crime. She completed her statement with the words “even if the numbers don’t’ line up.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Using Military Wokeness to Justify Affirmative Action

Biden admin claims racial discrimination in college is needed for “national security.”

The Supreme Court may be on the verge of ending the last vestige of systemic racism.

Affirmative action faces its acid test in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. At stake is the system of racial discrimination imposed on Asian and white students by Harvard and the University of North Carolina. How could the Biden administration possibly justify racial discrimination in college admissions?

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

Elon Musk is not a national security threat — TikTok is

Joe Biden is focusing on the wrong social media giant

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden was asked if the U.S. government should investigate Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on national security grounds. The President responded that it was “worthy of being looked at”. Yet, strangely, there was no mention of TikTok, which poses a far greater threat to American national security.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter

Does Madonna ‘identify’ as young?

Madge’s nude TikToks suggest she has embraced today’s fashion for denying reality.

I’ve always preferred nasty women to nice girls. In the sexy-greedy 1980s, I was spoilt for choice. There was my main squeeze, Margaret Thatcher, and my sidepiece, Madonna Ciccone. Back when she came to public notice with her first single, ‘Holiday’, in 1983 when we were both 24, I wasn’t used to hearing women as ‘candid’, shall we say, as me speaking in public. I especially liked the thing she said when someone asked her what she thought of those women’s libbers, probably in the hope she would call them ugly man-haters: ‘Oh, yes, I believe in everything they do. But I was too impatient. I had to do it for myself.’ This was bra-strap feminism at its finest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Police Say Union Executive Threatened to Lead 1,000 Members to Brawl With Windsor Protesters

An executive from Canada’s largest private sector union threatened to lead 1,000 autoworkers to brawl with protesters at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor last winter, the Public Order Emergency Commission heard on Nov. 8.

“PLT [Provincial Liaison Team] update,” read a Feb. 11 note submitted as evidence before the Commission. “President of autoworkers union looking at closing down a plant, claiming he has spoken to Premier. He will look to come Monday with 1,000 people to crack heads or bring heavy equipment & push them in river.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?