Female Afghan judges hunted by the murderers they convicted

Throughout her career as a judge, Masooma has convicted hundreds of men for violence against women, including rape, murder and torture.

But just days after the Taliban took control of her city and thousands of convicted criminals were released from prison, the death threats began.

Text messages, voice notes and unknown numbers began bombarding her phone.

“It was midnight when we heard the Taliban had freed all the prisoners from jail,” says Masooma.

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Only 1 in 10 Canadians happy with outcome of federal election: poll

Canadians may not be thrilled with the outcome of last week’s federal election but a new poll suggests few are angry that it produced an almost identical result to the 2019 nation-wide vote.

Just 10 per cent of respondents to the Leger survey said they’re happy with the outcome, which produced another Liberal minority government led by Justin Trudeau and only minor changes to the seat counts of all the parties.

That many?

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Portpass vaccine passport app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users’ personal data

Private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass exposed personal information, including the driver’s licences, of what could be as many as hundreds of thousands of users by leaving its website unsecured.

On Monday evening, CBC News received a tip that the user profiles on the app’s website could be accessed by members of the public.

The information was not encrypted and could be viewed in plain text.

Earlier in the day, the Calgary-based company’s CEO Zakir Hussein had denied the app had verification or security issues and accused those who raised concerns about it of breaking the law.

h/t Sweetpea

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“We believe something has exploded that is not of natural causes,”

At least 25 injured after explosion at block of flats in Gothenburg

Police are investigating whether an explosive device was left in an apartment building after four people were seriously hurt in an explosion and fire in the Swedish city of Gothenburg.

About 25 people were taken to hospital after the blast on Tuesday morning set ablaze the building in a central residential area. Firefighters pulled people from the building while others used tied sheets to lower themselves from balconies as grey smoke billowed out of stairwells and windows.

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No Racism? No Problem! College Racial Hoaxes Are Back

Don’t you just hate it when there is so little racism that you have to fake it?

The latest bogus racism looks a lot like all the other fake racism: anti-black graffiti, swastikas, and perhaps a noose, followed by local outrage and lots of virtue signaling. The culprit is arrested and liberals try to hide the vandal’s identity because… awww shucks, you know why.

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US Marine who criticized Afghanistan withdrawal in viral video sent to the brig & awaiting trial

A US serviceman who asked for “accountability” for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan on social media has been locked up in a pre-trial detention center, the Marine Corps has confirmed.

“Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is currently in pre-trial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary hearing,” the Marine Corps Training and Education Command spokesperson Captain Sam Stephenson said in a statement to news website Task & Purpose.

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Rex Murphy: How COVID-19 taught the public to distrust the authorities

Early on during the pandemic, it was easy to accept that the politicians, guided by their selected cadre of experts, knew what they were doing. And there was likewise in the public mind a considerable reservoir of trust in their pronouncements, which was not diminished if — in the very early days — a caution or a recommendation put out one week was altered, revised, or even contradicted by a caution or recommendation the week following.

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WHO staff sexually exploited women in DR Congo

World Health Organization (WHO) staff were among 83 aid workers who sexually abused women and girls while tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report finds.

The abuses, which included nine allegations of rape, were committed by both national and international workers between 2018 and 2020.

The report comes after more than 50 local women reported sexual abuse.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was “inexcusable”.

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Orban: Mass Migration Part of ‘Global Plan‘ to Create a ‘New Proletariat‘

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes the mass migration agenda is part of a “global plan” to create a “new proletariat” in the West, advanced by people who care nothing for culture and national identity and consider only economics.


He speaks the truth.

“That’s where Century Initiative comes in. We advocate for policies to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. And we support the long-term thinking and planning required to manage this growth well – ensuring a high quality of life and standard of living for all Canadians.”

The Century initiative is complete bullshit of course. Mass immigration means a smaller piece of the pie for the average Joe who can expect depressed wages and high costs due to contrived shortages. They don’t care where the bodies come from, people are simply a commodity to these monsters.

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What happens when you find a business on anti-vaccination passport website?

… Owner Jenna Graham said in an interview Friday the restaurant is not enforcing proof-of-vaccination, and compared the vaccine passports to racial segregation.

“We’re not going to backpedal to a time where being racist was a thing,” she said. “[Unvaccinated people] are being enslaved, they’re being forced now not to be allowed to go out of their homes to go eat … we’re being owned by the government.”

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Dutch police arrest politician who quit Geert Wilders party and converted to Islam over suspected plot to murder PM

Dutch police have arrested a politician in the Hague on suspicion of involvement in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

The prime minister’s security service said Arnoud van Doorn, the leader of the Hague Unity Party, was arrested on Sunday.

He “displayed suspicious behaviour” as he walked through the same area of the city as Mr Rutte, the service said.

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Afghanistan: US General Mark Milley to face questions

The top US general and the secretary of defence are to be questioned in Congress over the military withdrawal from Afghanistan last month.

US troops had to accelerate their withdrawal – originally due to be completed by 31 August – after Kabul fell to the Taliban on the 15th.

There were chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as foreign powers sought to get their citizens home and thousands of desperate Afghans begged for rescue.

A suicide attack killed 182 people.

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Diane Francis: Trudeau has neglected defence — and our enemies will take advantage

Canada’s Liberal government has abrogated its defence obligations. Our military capability has been reduced through neglect and defunding, and Canada, with more coastline than any other country on earth, has a peanut-size navy and virtually no presence in the increasingly important Arctic. Canada’s allies, and its enemies, have taken notice, which will only serve to diminish our influence over international defence policy and participation in western alliances — areas Canada has historically played an outsized role in.

 

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GOLDSTEIN: Ontario’s economy crashed from 2000 to 2019, report says

Once considered the engine of the Canadian economy, Ontario’s economic performance over the last two decades has been among the weakest in the country, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

“The decline of Ontario’s manufacturing sector in the 2000s, the 2008/09 recession and a tepid recovery have combined to create an extended period of economic weakness for the province,” said Ben Eisen, co-author of An assessment of Recent Economic Performance and Business Investment Growth in Ontario.

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