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Squid Game: the hellish horror show taking the whole world by storm

What if winning playground games could make you rich? That’s the basis of Squid Game – the South Korean show currently at number one on Netflix around the world – where debt-ridden players sign up to compete in six games for a cash prize of 45.6 billion won (around £28m). The small print: if you lose, you get killed. In the first episode, a game of Grandma’s Footsteps (known as Red Light, Green Light in South Korea) leaves bodies piled high as the shell-shocked winners proceed to round two. It’s blood-splattered child’s play – a kind of Takeshi’s Castle with fatalities, or Saw with stylish shell suits.

It was late, I couldn’t sleep and nothing caught me eye so I clicked on Squid Game.

Binge watched, it is good in that late night time waster way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"adult" content

Russell Brand: It’s ‘beyond disappointing’ that Hillary was behind this collusion claim

“Truth is complicated but lies are obvious and Russia-gate was a lie,” left-wing comedian/actor Russell Brand says in this new clip. Just to put that in perspective, Brand is coming from the far left. He says so himself in this clip. Later he talks about his idea of democracy which sounds a lot like Democratic Socialism to me, i.e. the kind of democracy where workers get to vote on every decision made in the workplace, etc. He is not a right-wing guy, though he sort of sounds like one here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

The Return of Empty Shelves and Panic Buying

Supply chain issues are leaving supermarket shelves empty. Shoppers might yet make things worse.

Walk around a supermarket in the U.S. or Europe and you will see some empty shelves once more. This isn’t due to people panic-buying toilet paper, as they did early on in the pandemic; rather it’s because supply chains are clogged at almost every stage between Asian factories and grocery stock rooms.

But rising prices and patchy availability mean it’s only a matter of time before shoppers start purchasing in bulk again — this time to avoid future sticker shock.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

In Sworn Testimony, Generals Accuse Biden of Lying About Afghan Pullout

The commander of the U.S. Central Command, General Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, and the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, told Congress that they had recommended to Joe Biden that the military maintain a presence of at least 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. Biden said in an August 19 interview with George Stephanopoulos that he couldn’t recall anyone recommending that troops remain in Afghanistan after the August 31 deadline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Afghanistan

More than 17,000 Quebec health-care workers face suspension for refusing COVID-19 vaccine

More than 17,000 health-care workers in Quebec will be suspended next month for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and now provincial officials are scrambling to fill in the gaps.

A spokesperson for Health Minister Christian Dubé told CBC on Monday that a total of 17,642 employees within Quebec’s health-care network still haven’t had their first dose.

Nearly half of those unvaccinated employees are front-line workers who are in direct contact with patients, the spokesperson said.

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

Canada Faces ‘Difficult Call’ on New Submarine Fleet: Report

Canada is in critical need of a new submarine fleet and it can’t go about acquiring one the way it did in the past, according to a new report.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute research report “Deadline 2036: Assessing the requirements and options for Canada’s future submarine force” analyzes Canada’s history of and use for submarines and examines the purchasing considerations for a future fleet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Barbara Kay: MMA chokehold highlights the problem with porn

It don’t get more fecked up than this.

On Sept. 10, at the Combate Global prelims in Miami, female-identifying MMA fighter Alana McLaughlin — formerly Ryan McLaughlin, a member of the United States Army Special Forces — won her debut competition, after six months of training, against competitor Celine Provost, who had been training for a decade. McLaughlin’s “rear-naked choke” of Provost 32 seconds into the second round ended it decisively.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

France makes ‘drastic’ decision to cull visas for Maghreb nationals over region’s refusal to ‘take back people that we don’t want’

The French government has said it is slashing the number of visas available for people from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, complaining that those countries are not taking back the migrants that France does not want to keep.

On Tuesday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal told French Europe 1 radio that Paris was taking action against its former North African colonies as they were refusing to take back illegal migrants sent home by the French authorities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France

Palestinian Leaders: No to Solving Economic Crisis

Palestinian leaders have again proved that they are continually and cynically putting their own interests before the best interests of their people.

On September 13, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid presented a plan for improving the conditions of the two million Palestinians living in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Addressing a conference of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University in Herzliya, Lapid called his plan — dubbed “Economy for Security” — a “more realistic approach towards reconstruction [of the Gaza Strip] in exchange for disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPalestinian terrorism

US majority ‘not confident’ Afghan refugees properly vetted: poll

The majority of Americans are “not confident” that the Biden administration is properly vetting the thousands of Afghan refugees being brought to the US following the chaotic military withdrawal of Afghanistan, according to a new poll.

Twenty-seven percent say they are “not too confident” and 28 percent say they are “not at all confident” that the government is adequately screening the refugees, the latest Pew Research Center survey showed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan