Turkey’s Airstrikes in Syria, Iraq

Since the Taliban’s violent takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, Turkey has increased its expansionist military activities in the Middle East in a way that is significantly impacting the lives of minorities.

Turkey appears to be maneuvering to expand an Islamic state in Syria and Iraq.

Turkey has so far been using its fight against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) as an excuse to justify its military aggression, destruction and casualties of persecuted minorities. Among those communities affected by Turkish military actions in Iraq and Syria are Yazidis, Assyrians and Kurds — communities previously targeted by ISIS and al-Qaeda.

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

China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers

Across China’s public parks and squares, in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon, the grannies gather.

The gangs, made up mostly of middle-aged and older women who went through the Cultural Revolution, take to a corner of a local park or sporting ground and dance in unison to Chinese music. Loud music.

The tradition has led to alarming standoffs, with the blaring music frequently blamed for disturbing the peace in often high-density residential areas. But many are too scared to confront the women.

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

Geena Davis’s new role: Training AI bots to scrub movie scripts of anything un-PC

Actress Geena Davis’s latest role is getting artificial intelligence bots to monitor movie scripts to make sure Hollywood remains politically correct.

The Thelma and Louise star’s eponymous institute is expanding its partnership with NBCUniversal to uncover unconscious bias against black people, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders in film scripts using its artificial intelligence tool called “Spellcheck for Bias.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, Hollywood, WTF?

Free menstrual products coming to Ontario schools, Education Minister Stephen Lecce announces

Some six million menstrual products will be provided free of charge each year to Ontario schools as part of a three-year program announced Friday by Education Minister Stephen Lecce following pressure from youth leaders and boards.

The move — which some school boards have already implemented, as early as 2019 — addresses growing awareness about “period poverty,” where girls don’t have access to, or can’t afford, pads and tampons, and that interferes with their ability to take part in sports and activities or even attend school.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

America’s largest police departments see increase in departures in 2021: report

A new study exclusively obtained by Fox News found an alarming increase in retirements and resignations across 10 police departments in the U.S. over the past year following protests.

Research from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) analyzed active police memberships and activity from June 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, and compared it to the same period a year prior – meaning the study analyzed the numbers before and after the murder of George Floyd, which prompted national and global protests that demanded police reform to the tune of “Defund the Police.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

“Toronto rapper” Hassan Ali arrested in Los Angeles, faces first-degree murder charge

A Toronto man wanted in connection with a shooting murder that happened in North York nearly 10 months ago was arrested on Thursday in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested Hassan Ali, 22, in California while acting on a Provisional American Arrest Warrant, according to Toronto police.

Ali, a resident of Toronto, is facing one count of first-degree murder and three counts of fail to comply, for the shooting death of 20-year-old Hashim Omar Hashi. Hashi was shot multiple times on the evening of Jan. 31 as he was driving into his apartment garage on 40 Falstaff Ave. He died at the scene, and was the city’s fifth homicide of the year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", Crime

UK’s Cambridge University: Increase Meat Prices to Tackle Climate Change!

meat and guns

 

A report produced by Cambridge University academics has called for foods with so-called high carbon footprints, such as dairy and meat, to be made more expensive in order to save the planet.

The Cambridge University-led study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says that “education” alone on changing diets towards more plant-based habits and abandoning car ownership is not enough.

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

Federal Vaccine Mandates Implicate, Infringe on Canadians’ Charter Rights: Legal Experts

The vaccine mandate that requires federal employees from core public services to be fully immunized against COVID-19 has constitutional issues that implicate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, an Ontario lawyer says.

“There are several sections of the Charter of Rights that are implicated by mandating vaccines, generally speaking,” said Ryan O’Connor, a Toronto-based litigator who specializes in areas such as employment and appeals, and also advises clients on matters involving federal and provincial legislation.

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

Jihadists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations

Groups affiliated with Islamic State and al Qaeda are killing and kidnapping elder statesmen and their families in villages across Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. The violence mimics their tactics in other parts of the world where they have seized control.

Scrawled onto a cement gravestone in the village of Tchombangou is the date when the calm of the remote community in southwest Niger was shattered: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019.

Before dawn that day, gunmen approached on motorbikes across the surrounding scrubland. Their target: Boubacar Lawey, the 95-year-old village chief who walked with a cane and for 55 years had settled local disputes, collected taxes and registered births and deaths.

While residents slept, the men led Lawey a short way from the village and shot him dead.

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

China orders coalmines to raise production to address power crunch

 

Chinese officials have ordered more than 70 mines in Inner Mongolia to increase coal production by almost 100m tonnes, with the country battling its worst power crunch and coal shortages in years.

The move is the latest attempt by Chinese authorities to boost coal supply amid record high prices and shortages of electricity that have led to power rationing across the country, crippling industrial output.

The proposed increase would make up almost 3% of China’s total thermal coal consumption. In an urgent notice dated 7 October, the Inner Mongolia regional energy department asked the cities of Wuhai, Ordos and Hulunbuir, as well as Xilingol League, to notify 72 mines that they may operate at stipulated higher capacities immediately, provided they ensure safe production.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Be Careful What You Search: How Government and Big Tech are Covertly Spying on You

Big brother is watching. Granted, there are multiple ways government can track us. It’s no secret. Besides a super-secret FISA court that’s granted spy warrants on innocent Americans in recent years, you might want to be careful what you search for on Google. The search engine is working secretly with the government on “keyword warrants.” It’s essentially spying. The Feds have ordered them to track and disclose data on persons who search certain terms.

Ever seen Conspiracy Theory? When Mel Gibson checks out Catcher In The Rye?

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBig Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, Google, Google is Evil, spying, Surveillance

Critics call to cancel Dave Chappelle, Netflix for ‘ridiculing trans people’

Cancel culture is threatening to shut down Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer.”

The always outspoken standup comic is pushing the public’s buttons again — and a swelling wave of culture critics and activist organizations are calling for his brand-new Netflix special to be yanked from the streaming giant’s catalog.

The special — the sixth and final in the Emmy winner’s big-bucks deal with Netflix — premiered Tuesday, and immediately stoked the flames of controversy with incendiary jokes about transgender women.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

South China Sea: US submarine collides with unknown object

A US nuclear submarine hit an “unknown object” while submerged in waters in the Asia-Pacific region, injuring a number of sailors, US officials say.

It was not clear what caused the incident on Saturday, they said. The submarine remained “fully operational”.

Unnamed officials told US media the collision happened in international waters in the South China Sea, and that 11 sailors had been injured.

The incident happened amid rising tensions in the region.

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

Google moves to demonetize and ban ads on climate denial content

Google is taking action to stop climate change deniers from spreading misinformation or making money by blocking digital ads promoting false climate change claims from appearing alongside content on its platforms.

The company said Thursday in a blog post that it was rolling out a new policy for YouTube video creators. advertisers and publishers.

The new rules “will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” the blog post said.

This is Totalitarianism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil

Ontario reports 573 new Covid cases … and LTC homes a no go for seniors surveyed

Ontario reports 573 new COVID-19 cases; 10 additional deaths

Ontario reported 573 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday along with 10 additional deaths, as the province’s hospital burden continued a slow decline and active cases fell to a fresh multi-month low.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases continues to drop, now standing at 551, down from 565 yesterday and 597 one week ago.

Alarmed by COVID-19, Ontario seniors want to live in their homes as long as possible: poll

Nearly 90 per cent of Ontarians aged 55+ say they want to stay in their own home and remain out of the province’s retirement and long-term care system as long as possible, especially because of what COVID-19 has wrought on those facilities, a new poll finds.

The poll conducted in late September found 89 per cent of respondents plan to stay in their own home or apartment for as long as possible, while four per cent planned to move in to a retirement residence or with a family member.

Who can blame them, LTC homes and hospitals were death traps.

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