Russia moves troops to Belarus for joint exercises near Ukraine border

Russia has begun moving troops to Ukraine’s northern neighbour Belarus for joint military exercises, in a move likely to increase fears in the west that Moscow is preparing for an invasion.

The joint military exercises, named United Resolve, are to take place as Russia also musters forces along Ukraine’s eastern border, threatening a potential invasion that could unleash the largest conflict in Europe for decades.

Social media videos from Belarus appeared to show artillery and other military vehicles arriving on flatbed carriages owned by the Russian state railway company, and Alexander Volfovich, the head of Belarus’s security council, said in a briefing that troops were already arriving before exercises scheduled for February.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, Ukraine

Barbara Kay: What we don’t know about unmarked graves at residential schools

Over the past month, three noteworthy events have presented as provocative grist to the groaning mill of Indigenous-“settler” relations.

First, acclaimed Cree playwright/novelist Tomson Highway’s memoir , Permanent Astonishment, was published by Penguin-Random House. Highway’s experiences at a residential school did not embitter him. On the contrary, he credited that nine-year stint for the foundational skills that led to creative self-realization. But saying so publicly, once permissible, has become a form of blasphemy in the chattering classes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Cracking the case of the ‘woke’ prosecutor

One of the most puzzling conundrums about “progressive” prosecutors — who favor de-prosecution and de-carceration — is to ascertain their motivations.

What are these elected chief prosecutors thinking when they unilaterally decide not to enforce the law? And why, even as murders increase in the big cities they police, do they continue to support these policies without shame?

Let’s consider the options…

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

The remarkable lengths taken to whitewash Bill Clinton’s cosy links to pervert Jeffrey Epstein when Hillary ran for President

The email came out of the blue one day in 2016. Almost a decade had passed since Miles and Cathy Alexander had left their jobs as residential managers of Little St James, Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

Since then, Epstein had been jailed — briefly — for paedophile offences and the couple had retired to their native South Africa.

But now Darren Indyke, the disgraced tycoon’s attorney, was back in touch. The lawyer wanted the Alexanders to do something that would be of particular benefit to Hillary Clinton and her campaign to become the first female President of the United States, later that year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Clintons"

Revenge is Sweet! ChiComs Say Canada Infected Beijing With Omicron Tainted Mail!

Did Omicron arrive in China’s capital Beijing by mail from Canada?

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus could have entered the Chinese capital Beijing via contaminated mail from Canada, the city’s centre for disease control said on Monday.

Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, said the city’s first Covid-19 patient to be diagnosed with the variant had received a letter mailed from Canada on January 7.

“We do not rule out the possibility that the person was infected through contacting an object from overseas,” she said.

h/t FD

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Destroying Taiwan

America can save Taiwan from Chinese invasion by promising to destroy it, or at least its chipmaking capability, argues an article in Parameters, the U.S. Army War College’s quarterly. In “Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan,” Air University’s Jared McKinney and Colorado State University’s Peter Harris say that Taipei and Washington should make the island “unwantable.”

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

FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’

Something is very rotten at the FBI.

The FBI has finally admitted the Texas synagogue siege was an anti-Semitic terror attack after initially claiming it was not directly targeting Jews.

Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn in the UK, held four people hostage, including a rabbi, for ten hours at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Saturday night.

Speaking Saturday after the attack, which ended with the death of Akram in a hail of bullets, FBI Special Agent Matt DeSarno said: ‘We do believe from our engaging with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community. But we’re continuing to work to find motive.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", FBI, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?

Why Canada’s hospital capacity was so easily overwhelmed by the COVID pandemic

Canada has fewer intensive care beds than almost anyone else in the developed world

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international body roughly comprising all the world’s developed liberal democracies. When ranked against its OECD contemporaries, Canada currently comes fourth last in terms of intensive care beds available per capita (only Chile, Sweden and Colombia ranked lower). Canada had just 1.97 ICU beds for every 100,000 residents. The top-ranked country, Japan, had 7.74 beds per 100,000.

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

Canada’s shift to net-zero emissions likely to drive higher inflation

Solar-powered homes, electric tractors and hydrogen-cell trucking fleets: Canada has big net-zero ambitions, but getting there will require trillions of dollars in investment and will likely fuel hotter inflation for years to come, economists said.

One way or another, he’s going to wreck the economy.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Green Energy", "Peak Virtue Signalling", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Climate Change, Economy, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Scams, Green-Scam

Schneider Transport to shutter Canadian operations … and Trucker vaccination policy will harm food chain

Schneider Transport has put its Guelph, Ont., property for sale and informed associates it is closing its Canada-based operations.

“Today, Jan. 14, 2022, we are announcing a change in the company’s approach to Canadian-based operations,” the company told Trucknews.com in a written statement, responding to questions about its Canadian operations.

Company says its decision is unrelated to Covid policy but I wonder.

Trucker vaccination policy will harm food chain

The federal government’s plan to require all truckers entering from the United States to show proof of vaccination creates some serious problems.

Vaccines are the most effective way to reduce risks associated with COVID-19, stop the spread of the virus and save lives. No doubt. But the situation affecting the trucking industry could be challenging and impact food access for Canadians.

h/t J

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Ontario reports many many new Covid cases … and Hundreds of air passengers flouted in-flight mask rules in 2021

Ontario reports many many new Covid cases … and Hundreds of air passengers flouted in-flight mask rules in 2021

Ontario reports 23 new COVID-19 deaths; hospitalizations may be at plateau

Ontario reported 23 new deaths on Monday as new hospital admissions and transfers to intensive care appeared to show early signs they were levelling off.

The Ministry of Health said there were 3,887 people in hospital with COVID-19, with 578 people in intensive care.

Monday’s occupancy level is relatively similar to Sunday’s with the caveat that some hospitals do not report COVID-related occupancy on weekends.

Hundreds of air passengers flouted in-flight mask rules in 2021

More than 1,700 passengers refused to wear masks during flights on Canadian air carriers last year — a problem the union representing many of Canada’s flight attendants says is getting worse.

Figures collected by Transport Canada show that 959 of those cases resulted in enforcement action, ranging from warning letters to fines.

Airlines like Air Canada and WestJet say the vast majority of their passengers respect the rules.

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Poll Reveals Astonishing Percentage Of Democrats Support Unparalleled Covid Tyranny For Unvaccinated

A  shocking percentage of Democrats support the enactment of tyrannical Covid-19 measures on unvaccinated people, according to a Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday.

Well, maybe “shocking” isn’t the correct term given that we’re dealing with hypochondriac, authoritarian leftists drunk with power. Still, when nearly half the members of the ruling political party literally want to see unvaccinated people digitally tracked and forced into “designated facilities,” it’s definitely cause for concern.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Batshit crazy lefties, Totalitarianism, Tyranny!, vaccine controversy

Truckers across Canada are organizing a “Convoy to End Mandates”.

On January 23rd, they will begin a “slow roll”, from as many border points as possible, to slow down major road transportation routes across the Country. Truckers, and all others, are invited to join the convoy, to send a message to the Government, that forced vaccinations will not be tolerated.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Protest, vaccine controversy