That’s how they roll…

Crook teacher banned over terrorist funding

… It told the Teaching Regulation Authority that some of the payments were made to people who had been investigated or arrested for suspected terrorism related offences.

The misconduct panel report said Ms Sebbagh believed violent jihad was the correct interpretation of Islamic teaching but lied about her beliefs and actions.

She claimed not to know ISIS was a terrorist organisation and not to know a video she sent to one person promoted jihad, it said.

She also claimed not to have known another individual was involved in encouraging hate against the West when she sent him money when in fact she shared his views.

Imagine that, the teacher doesn’t know nuffin.

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

America is controlled by secrecy – Threat inflation has become a tool of political repression

What does it mean when President Biden declares an event in which four people died, all of them Trump supporters and only one by violence, the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” and The New York Times marks the anniversary by proclaiming that “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now”? The implication is politics as permanent crisis, which sounds strikingly like a definition of war.

This obvious threat inflation, which should be familiar after September 11, is used by governments and private corporations alike to award themselves more unaccountable power. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Big Lie"

Five dead, 20 missing after rock face collapse at Brazilian waterfall

BRASILIA, Jan 8 (Reuters) – At least five people died and nine were seriously injured when a wall of rock collapsed on top of motor boats below a waterfall in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, the local fire department said.

A tower of rocks suddenly broke away from the canyon wall and came crashing down on several leisure boats, sending out a huge wave over the lake at Capitolio, in Minas Gerais state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

Rex Murphy: Last year’s hope fades into perpetual COVID nightmare

I’m very fond of vaccines, very fond. But I must say, these COVID-19 vaccines have been a bit of a letdown.

A year ago, the vaccines offered hope, a light at the end of the long tunnel of plague. Yet here we are, one year later, after the vast majority of Canadians dutifully rolled up their sleeves to get the jab, and the light seems even further afield.

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

How Testing Enthusiasts Are Hurting Children

Last week, a friend phoned to tell me that her child would be unable to make a playdate with my 8-year-old scheduled for the following day. Her son had tested negative for COVID that evening, yet she planned to take him for another PCR test the next morning “out of an abundance of caution.” Days earlier, a neighborhood mom was so distraught that her daughter had shared the same bus with a classmate who was later discovered to have had COVID that she insisted on stocking up on at-home testing kits for use every day that week. Despite displaying no symptoms and being fully vaccinated, the child and her siblings were subjected to daily nasal swabs.

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

Open Letter to President Biden: Nuclear Deal with Iran Will Be a Disaster

The Biden administration’s Iran policy appears to be quite simple: keep negotiating with the ruling mullahs and offering concessions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and eliminate the Iranian regime’s threat.

The nuclear deal reached in 2015, however, had already proved that it did not eliminate the Iranian regime’s threats. After the agreement, access to the considerable funds freed up by the deal had the reverse effect: it allowed Tehran to pour ever greater sums into the coffers of groups such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis. Nations such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were largely ignored by the Western powers, despite their clear concerns over the direct threat that enriching these groups presented.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Kazakhstan’s internet shutdown takes out 18% of global Bitcoin production and value of cryptocurrency plummets by 8% as Russia deploys troops to crush protests

The price of Bitcoin has slumped to lows not seen since September amid rolling internet blackouts in crisis-hit Kazakhstan – the second biggest country for Bitcoin mining.

The world’s most used cryptocurrency lost as much as eight per cent in value and tumbled to under $41,000 (£30,100), as investors dumped their crypto coins, partly spurred on by ongoing events in the Central Asian nation.

It comes as dozens have died and public buildings across Kazakhstan have been ransacked and torched in the worst violence experienced by the former Soviet republic in 30 years of independence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inKazakhstan, WTF?

Justices Sonia Sotomayor And Stephen Breyer Read Obscenely False COVID-19 Misinformation Into Court Record

Diversity hire.

The liberal justices of the Supreme Court made repeated false claims during oral arguments on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate Friday.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer in particular made a number of false statements, ranging from claims about the nature of the Omicron variant to basic facts and statistics about the state of the pandemic in the United States.

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