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Highlights from the 1st Ontario party leaders’ debate

Affordability largely took centre stage as Ontario’s political party leaders converged in North Bay for the first of two debates that also included some fiery exchanges on highways and housing.

The debate hosted by the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities was ostensibly focused on issues affecting residents in the north but touched on themes that will make a difference in the lives of voters across the province.

Affordability has emerged as by far the number one issue for voters during the early part of the campaign as the cost of living continues to rise across the province.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•Ontario

WTF?

Preschool teacher brags about reading book on gender identity (which includes a page that says doctors guess a baby’s gender) to 3 year old student who then questions his gender. pic.twitter.com/Vg2Qfc81qn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 10, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•WTF?

Yes, Policing Is Getting More Dangerous

The recent surge in attacks on cops reflects a broader increase in violence.

Recent headlines give the impression that it’s dangerous to be a cop right now. In just the past six months, we’ve seen a Baltimore police officer ambushed and shot dead in her cruiser, a Houston cop shot by a serial felon during a routine traffic stop, an NYPD officer slashed with a machete, and dozens more attacks on law enforcement officials.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Depolicing"

The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering

Airpower should have been one of Russia’s greatest advantages over Ukraine. With almost 4,000 combat aircraft and extensive experience bombing targets in Syria, Georgia, and Chechnya, Russia’s air force was expected to play a vital role in the invasion, allowing the Russian army to plunge deep into Ukraine, seize Kyiv, and destroy the Ukrainian military. But more than two months into the war, Vladimir Putin’s air force is still fighting for control of the skies.

The Russian air force’s failure is perhaps the most important, but least discussed, story of the military conflict so far. Ukrainian forces showed surprising strength in the air war, and adapted as the fighting progressed. But either side of this war could still gain air supremacy—and fundamentally change the course of the conflict.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Sadiq Khan Tells Muslim Crowd They Are Trump‘s ‘Worst Nightmare‘

Thousands of Muslims gathered in London on Saturday to celebrate the Islamic holiday of Eid, in an event sponsored by a controversial Islamic charity and arranged by Mayor Sadiq Khan, who described the event as Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare”.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Harvard President Should Use His First Amendment Right to Condemn The Harvard Crimson’s Antisemitism

The President of Harvard — a proud Jewish supporter of Israel and a good person— has thus far refused explicitly to condemn The Harvard Crimson’s blatantly anti-Semitic editorial singling out Israel for a political boycott. The Crimson editors justify their bigotry by subtly invoking the classic antisemitic trope of Jewish “power,” and by presenting a one-sided history that places no fault on the Palestinian leadership, ignores the threats faced by Israel from Palestinian terrorist and Iranian nuclear threats, and mendaciously omits the numerous Palestinian rejections of Israel’s offers to accept a two-state solution.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left

Elon Musk says he would reverse Trump’s Twitter ban

Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s permanent ban on former President Donald Trump if the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive’s $44 billion bid to buy the social media company is approved.

“I would reverse the ‘permaban,’” Musk said in a live interview with the Financial Times on Tuesday.

Trump was permanently suspended by Twitter, as well as by Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, for what the companies described as his role in inciting violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•Twitter

How the Taliban are ‘eliminating women’ in Afghanistan

If there was any hope that the Taliban would pay heed to repeated calls from Afghanistan’s civil society and the international community to uphold women’s rights, the Islamic fundamentalist group’s latest decree for women to cover their faces in public has dashed it.

The latest order to make veil compulsory is one of the harshest controls on women’s lives in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in August last year. It is also reminiscent of the Islamist outfit’s strict Shariah-based rule in the late 1990s.

20 years of blood and treasure.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•Afghanistan

The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board

There are dangers to using censorship as a political tool

In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s Democratic administration passed a piece of legislation it hoped would accelerate the end of the First World War. The new law didn’t directly concern the military — nor was it a revolutionary act of foreign policy. Rather, its target was ordinary American citizens.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Disinformation", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

DHS disinformation ‘czar’ Jankowicz pushed Trump-Russia claims at center of Durham case

If the Biden administration is so concerned about disinformation, it may want to take a closer look at its own “czar.”

Nina Jankowicz, who was recently tapped to head the Department of Homeland Security’s nascent Disinformation Governance Board, had no qualms about pushing the since-debunked claim in 2016 that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had a tie to Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank — allegations that were raised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and are now a focus of special counsel John Durham’s investigation.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Disinformation", WTF?

Russian troops ill-prepared for Ukraine war, says ex-Kremlin mercenary

NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France, May 10 (Reuters) – The Russian military’s failure to seize the Ukrainian capital was inevitable because in the preceding years they had never directly faced a powerful enemy, according to a former mercenary with the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group who fought alongside the Russian army.

Marat Gabidullin took part in Wagner Group missions on the Kremlin’s behalf in Syria and in a previous conflict in Ukraine, before deciding to go public about his experience inside the secretive private military company.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Extinction Rebellion is way more radical than you think

… The media and many in the environmentalist movement like to portray Extinction Rebellion like they’re just another green group: A slightly more flamboyant version of the World Wildlife Fund or the Natural Resources Defence Council.

But I’m afraid that’s very wrong. First, as the name suggests, Extinction Rebellion believes that if humanity doesn’t take radical action on climate change, it will lead to mass extinction.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

This New Post-Supreme Court Leak Poll Should Terrify Democrats

A new CNN poll should have Democrats quaking in their boots as they contemplate their strategy for the 2022 midterms. The poll, conducted after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion showing a majority of justices favoring rolling back Roe v. Wade, suggests that the overwrought responses from Democrats may not move the needle on Election Day as they’d hoped it would.

by Blazingcatfur•May 10, 2022May 10, 2022•0•Abortion debate

Will NATO Fight?

Great Britain is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s public enemy number one. In March the Kremlin branded UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson the most active anti-Russian leader. A few days ago on television, Putin’s propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov fancifully suggested Russia should drown Britain in a radioactive tsunami created by Poseidon nuclear torpedos that would leave survivors in “a radioactive desert, unfit for anything for a very long time”.

Putin is upset about Britain’s stance over Ukraine, leading Europe and much of the world in aggressive sanctions against Russia; and pouring in financial and military aid plus decisive secret intelligence to help keep Kiev in the fight.