Ukraine breaks through enemy lines with ‘tank fist’ in Kharkiv lightning offensive

Kyiv advances 12 miles, as sources on both sides indicate army is trying to reach the strategic junction of Kupiansk

Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian lines with a “tank fist” as they advanced 12 miles on a lightning offensive in Kharkiv region.

The Ukrainian military continued to maintain an official silence about the progress of the battle south of Kharkiv, but multiple unofficial sources on both sides indicated that Ukrainian forces were trying to reach the strategic junction of Kupiansk.

That would leave thousands of Russian troops based in Izyum trapped against the Oskol river, a tributary of the Siversky Donets, with only three vulnerable bridges across which to evacuate.

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

Homeland Security May Have Allowed Dangerous, Unvetted Afghans Into United States: Inspector General

During the evacuation of Afghanistan from July 2021 to January 2022, the United States brought nearly 80,000 Afghan citizens into the United States, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to fully vet some of the evacuees, potentially allowing individuals who pose a national security risk into the country, according to a recent report.

The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit to determine the extent to which the DHS screened, vetted, and inspected the evacuees.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Queen Elizabeth II has died, Buckingham Palace announces

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.

Her family gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlier on Thursday.

The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.

With her death, her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales, will lead the country in mourning as the new King and head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPassings, Royals

Miami-Dade school board rejects plan to make October LGBTQ History month

The Miami-Dade school board overwhelming decided against recognizing October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History month, which included a measure to teach 12th-graders about two supreme court cases affecting the LGBTQ community.

Parents, teachers and students spoke for more than three hours on Wednesday, with one group citing indoctrination of students and the other speaking about how Nazis ostracized gays and lesbians with a pink triangle. The board then voted 8-1 against the measure, which was proffered by board member Lucia Baez Geller.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay

‘Soft-touch’ San Francisco leaders now call for ‘IDEAS’ to be given to them within 90 days to end open-air drug markets ‘without anyone going to jail’

San Francisco officials on Tuesday unveiled what they said was a deliberately ‘soft touch’ scheme to deal with the city’s relentless drug crisis – insisting that under their plan ‘nobody’s going to jail,’ but remaining vague on how to end the problem.

With nearly 1,700 fatal overdoses since the start of 2020, San Francisco’s drug crisis has resulted in almost double the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In June, the city’s mayor, London Breed, announced that their notorious taxpayer-funded open-air drugs market will close at the end of the year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Mozambique: Mohammedans behead 6, shoot Italian Nun

MAPUTO, Sept 7 (Reuters) – At least six people were beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique’s Nampula province, authorities said on Wednesday.

Speaking in the resort town of Xai Xai north of the capital Maputo, President Filipe Nyusi said the insurgents unleashed a killing spree as they fled from soldiers from Mozambique, Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) sent to tackle the violence.

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

Defeating the US Education Mafia

As a teacher, I saw a political movement taking shape via American schools, one contrary to everything that the country supported.

The average student reminds us daily of the failures of the educational system. Many of them, because of academic neglect, become functional illiterates, dropouts, and even angry young men and women who have learned nothing of value during their school years.

Those in doubt should wander into the “better” schools where our privileged youth escape academic boredom with drugs; converse with high school and college students on important subjects and listen to them utter nonsense which they are incapable of defending rationally; observe their activities and how they are being conditioned to measure their self-worth with destructive acts to gain peer acceptance; familiarize yourself with what they enjoy and whom they idolize; and finally, study the syllabi and then ask educators how they justify the nonsensical content.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

China’s creeping media influence and how democracies can repel it

A new report shows the Chinese Communist Party’s effort to expand sway over international media — and what a democracy’s response must be.

The Chinese Communist Party does not take kindly to criticism, either at home or abroad.

But while its extremely low Press Freedom Index ranking reveals the extreme measures it takes to control information in China, influencing media narratives around the world is more difficult.

But that hasn’t stopped it from trying. A new report, released on Thursday by US-based free speech think tank Freedom House, reveals that from 2019 to 2021 China made a concerted effort expand its media footprint and silence critical reporting.

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

The World Wants No Part of Woke, But It’s Glad We Do

The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females.

Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But some consider it racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime.

Major U.S. downtowns almost overnight went from mostly safe and clean to terrifying and toxic — and we brag that we are at least “tolerant” of the medieval conditions.

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

Hateful tweets multiply in extreme temperatures, US analysis finds

Hateful tweets multiply dramatically as temperatures become more extreme, an analysis of 4bn geo-located tweets in the US has found.

Scientists logged rises of up to 22% in racist, misogynist and homophobic tweets when temperatures rose above 42C, and increases of up to 12% when the mercury fell below -3C, according to a study by The Lancet Planetary Health.

With just a little effort anything can be blamed on climate change!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil, WTF?

Investigating the mystery of excess deaths

Science does not operate independently from the realms of politics and culture. This was no more evident than with the coronavirus pandemic: questions of epidemiological modelling, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates and social distancing all saw the world split into different camps. And whatever position one took on lockdowns, for example, became convenient shorthand for their politics writ-large.

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

The Strange Case of Ghislaine Maxwell

Those that love this country, must also love the moral fiber upon which it was founded.

From that truth, it must also be true that as a society, it is a duty of all Americans to remain vigilant to remove any strand of evil that has invaded our culture’s moral fabric — such as the corruption of our government institutions — before it is allowed to weaken and ultimately destroy the nation our founders designed.

Although examples of such corruption now presently abound, few put on full display what’s at stake better than our government’s recent handling of the Ghislaine Maxwell matter.

That must be one hell of a list.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Extinction Rebellion vs democracy

We cannot let a tiny number of eco-extremists impose their will on society.

In CS Lewis’s book, The Screwtape Letters, the main character, Screwtape, says that human nature is marked by a love of both change and permanence. The rhythm of the seasons, he feels, meets both needs – every year change, every year the same change. As we enter autumn, it’s time for the traditional changes to begin. Leaves are turning red and orange, conkers are raining down on the unsuspecting skulls of incautious walkers and, of course, Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists are making everyone’s lives miserable while acting out their messiah complex.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites