Why shootings are on the increase in Sweden’s suburbs

“Our kids are actually dying – and it’s weekly. Mother after mother, after mother is burying their kids,” the heartbreaking words I heard from Maritha, a mother whose son Marley was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm.

Maritha spends her time campaigning to end gun crime, whilst her son’s killer is yet to face justice.

When I travelled to Stockholm for my On Assignment report, Maritha would be the first person to tell me the primary factor driving Sweden’s rising gun crime murders was segregation, but she would not be last.

The headlines about serious youth violence and gang crime bring to mind cities such as London, New York and Sao Paulo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Canada’s Top Judge Spoke Bias Against Trucker Convoy, Lawyers Say

Thirteen lawyers have sent a complaint letter to the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) about comments made by Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner regarding the trucker convoy that staged large-scale protests against COVID-19 mandates in downtown Ottawa earlier this year.

The seven-page letter quotes a full page of excerpts from an April 9 Le Devoir article in which Wager said the convoy was “the beginning of anarchy where some people have decide to take other citizens hostage, to take the law into their own hands, not to respect the mechanism. … That, I find that worrying.”

Wagner characterized the convoy protests as a “circumstance that could undermine our principles such as judicial independence, the rule of law, institutions.” He said the protests included people of “good faith” but also others who were “remotely guided” with “misunderstanding” and “a certain ignorance” of the rule of law, and who were seeking to bypass the political “system.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Milky Way galaxy has four ‘malicious’ alien civilizations that could attack Earth: researcher

There may be four extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way that could attack our planet, a researcher has claimed.

Alberto Caballero, a PhD student at the University of Vigo in Spain, authored a study in the International Journal of Astrobiology earlier this month in which he claimed that he pinpointed the so-called “WoW! Signal.”

The signal, which was first detected by a radio telescope in 1977, was a strange minute-long burst of radio energy that may have originated from a Sun-like star 1,800 lightyears from the Earth, according to Caballero.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Nova Scotia man known online as ‘Raging Dissident’ faces 13 firearms-related charges

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. – A 36-year-old Nova Scotia man charged following an anti-mask protest outside the home of the province’s chief medical officer is facing 13 firearms-related charges in an unrelated incident.

During a brief court hearing in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., it was decided Jeremy Mitchell MacKenzie will be arraigned on 12 firearms charges in Pictou, N.S., on June 6, and on the remaining charge on June 27 in Port Hawkesbury.

RCMP officers in January searched MacKenzie’s Pictou home and allegedly found five restricted firearms, prohibited magazines, body armour and ammunition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

New video shows Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos holding bag of dead cats

Disturbing new video obtained by The Post shows demented Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos grinning as he holds up a bag of blood-soaked dead cats.

The deranged 18-year-old gunman is seen smiling in the undated footage while sitting in the passenger seat of a pal’s car — holding up a clear plastic bag with at least two bloodied cats visible inside.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inanimals, massacre

The uncomfortable truth about France’s ‘local youths’ – Blaming Liverpool fans for the Champions League chaos is misleading

“… Local youths” has become a familiar PC byword in France for what the thinking class is actually referring to: minorities. Their presence was confirmed by BBC reporter Nick Parrott, who filmed groups of French Arabs and Sub-Saharan immigrants trying to force their way into the arena. This led to security closing a number of stadium gates and preventing fans with tickets from entering. Other groups of thugs were filmed storming the gates, while security forces were nowhere to be seen.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Priorities, USA – on Memorial Day

People have asked in recent months why I haven’t been writing much about foreign affairs, geopolitics, military and strategic analysis, and so forth.

There’s certainly enough going on in the world to keep a foreign and security policy geek busy. I appreciate the interest from those who’ve asked.

But the short answer – the best answer – is the one I will take the opportunity of our Memorial Day observance to give.

It’s simply this. With all that’s erupting outside America’s borders, it’s the political conflict inside our borders that is our national security fight.

The author, J.E. Dyer, and I are blog friends from way back. She’s an avid football fan and was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (N2) at Cruiser Destroyer Group 5, the Nimitz Strike Group. Now retired, her blog is The Optimistic Conservative. Tweeter: @OptimisticCon, good Intel.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inmilitary

Monkeypox, Covid and the trouble with our species

There is already a familiar culture war over the origins of this apparently species-leaping virus

I hate to be one of those columnists who says “I told you so.” But I told you so. Looking back this week through the vast underground vaults at Spectator HQ I see that centuries ago in April 2020 I explained the problem with us humans as a species. As I said back then, someone always shags a monkey. There are almost eight billion of us on this planet today, and the likelihood that we’re all going to make judicious decisions all the time is vanishingly small. The mating decisions of the species alone are notoriously prone to trial and error. And the entire future of our species rides perpetually along this cliff edge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Because Shut Up!"

Police Must Rush to the Sound of the Guns

The aftermath of yet another soul-rending attack on an elementary school, this time in Uvalde, Texas, has left little time for reflection on just why these horrific incidents continue to proliferate in the United States. Grappling with the grief attendant upon learning details of the worst K-12 mass shooting since Newtown—with 19 precious grade-schoolers and two teachers senselessly slaughtered—can be all-consuming.

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

National handgun ‘freeze’ among new firearm regulations proposed by Ottawa

A national freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns is a central feature of firearm-control legislation tabled today by the federal Liberals.

The government says the bill would also allow for the removal of gun licences from people involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment, such as stalking.

The government plans to fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, providing more tools to investigate firearms crimes and strengthening border measures.

National handgun freeze key feature of new firearm-control bill

OTTAWA – A national freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns is a central feature of firearm-control legislation tabled today by the federal Liberals.
The government says the bill would also allow for the removal of gun licences from people involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment, such as stalking

The government plans to fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, providing more tools to investigate firearms crimes and strengthening border measures.

Government tables bill to freeze sale, imports of handguns

New gun control legislation the federal government tabled today includes a national freeze on the purchase, sale, importation and transfer of handguns in Canada — the government’s most ambitious attempt yet to restrict access to firearms in this country.

While the proposal falls short of a full ban on handguns, it would effectively limit the number of them in Canada.

“In other words, we’re capping the market for handguns,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press conference Monday.

Until now only criminals were interested in smuggled guns. Now normal citizens will have no choice.

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

‘I can win this,’ says Conservative leadership contender Patrick Brown

Nobody saw Patrick Brown coming when he won the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in 2015. Can the current mayor of Brampton, Ont., former three-term MP and ex-provincial leader repeat the feat at the federal level? In the most wide-ranging interview he’s given, Brown tells John Ivison that he is “cautiously optimistic” about victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party