Iranian Matchmaking Platform Lets Parents Sign Up Girls as Young as 13 for Marriage

A 13-year-old girl in the Islamic Republic of Iran is getting a bit long in the tooth for getting married, and now there is an app for that. Iran International reported last Sunday that “an investigation by the reformist daily Shargh found that a licensed Iranian matchmaking platform lets parents sign up children as young as 13 for marriage, with no age filters or meaningful safeguards in place.” Those who are familiar with the life of Muhammad as he is depicted in traditional Islamic sources, and with Islamic law, will find it odd that the matchmaking site sets the age that high.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta’s gun-grab resistance is part of a bigger Canadian tradition

 

Once upon a time, there was a provincial justice minister who abhorred a new, far-more-expensive-than-originally-quoted federal gun program that infringed upon the lives of private citizens. So, he decided not to enforce any of it.

I’m not referring to Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery and his move against federal gun seizures on Wednesday, which signalled to all provincial entities that they should not participate in the buyback program. This is about a group of justice ministers in the early 2000s who refused to play ball when it came to the federal long-gun registry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Crying woman begged ‘I have said no, please stop’ to asylum seeker living in migrant hotel ‘as he raped her’,

A young woman was heard begging ‘please stop’ to an asylum seeker in a secret recording as he ‘raped her’, a jury has heard.

Distressing audio clips which were secretly recorded by the alleged victim were played to the jury in a rape trial.

Chret Callender, 28, drunkenly forced himself onto the young woman after he turned up at her home following a night out on June 14, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK, WTF?

When Biological Reality Becomes a Crime: Swiss Man Imprisoned Over Facebook Post

A Swiss wind instrument repairman is serving a ten-day jail sentence after refusing to pay a fine imposed for a comment he made on Facebook about biological sex. Emanuel Brünisholz, from Burgdorf in the canton of Bern, responded to a December 2022 post by Swiss National Councillor Andreas Glarner, writing: “If you excavate LGBTQI people after 200 years, you will only find men and women among the skeletons; everything else is a mental illness that was fostered by the curriculum!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

AUBUT: How Canada broke its own economy

Economically, how did Canada get to where it is, where investors either sit on what money they have left or have fled to friendlier countries, leaving behind a stagnant economy and an ever more expensive welfare state? The answer lies in the long arc of Canada’s political economy from Confederation to the present. It is a story that began with nation builders who understood the link between sovereignty, growth, and disciplined ambition, then shifted toward a governing class that mistook ideology for insight and lost sight of the limits of its own knowledge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Did Mark Carney give away the Liberals’ advantage on climate change?

Whether he intended to or not, Prime Minister Mark Carney cast aside a tenet of the Liberals’ brand last Thursday when he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alberta that jeopardizes the Grits’ work addressing climate change.

For more than two decades, the Liberal Party of Canada told voters that it was the party that not only cared about climate change but was best able to address it. Election after election, from Jean Chrétien’s climate pivot in 2002 with the ratifying of the Kyoto accord, to Stéphane Dion’s “Green Shift,” to Justin Trudeau’s pan-Canadian framework on “Clean Growth and Climate Change,” to Carney’s platform, which mentioned the threat of climate change 27 times, the Liberal party told Canadians that the future of the planet depended on strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it pledged to do that while strengthening the economy through clean energy investments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr.’s face unmasked for first time

Accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr.’s face was revealed for the first time since he was busted for allegedly planting explosive devices outside the Republican and Democratic National Committees ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Cole’s mother shared the smiling picture of him in a blue dress shirt and tie on Instagram for National Son’s Day in September 2024 — more than three years after the alleged attempted bombing.

h/t HallsOfMacadamia

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Terrorism - Domestic, USA

Adam Pankratz: UNDRIP is strangling Canada’s economy

The Edmonton-Ottawa memorandum of understanding will be meaningless if First Nations are given a veto, even in areas they don’t legally control

If there is one takeaway from the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal and Alberta governments on a potential new oil pipeline to the West Coast, it’s that Canada needs to abandon the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and return to our own framework for reconciliation: Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Liberals nervously await the effects of Steven Guilbeault’s resignation on the party’s Quebec fortunes

The Montreal riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie is ground zero for Quebec’s media elites and the beating heart of the province’s cultural industries. Not surprisingly, it skews progressive and has reliably sent left-leaning MPs to Ottawa for more than three decades.

Last week’s resignation of local MP Steven Guilbeault from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet generated a minor earthquake in Laurier—Sainte-Marie whose aftershocks are being nervously monitored in federal Liberal circles in Quebec.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

The sinister rise of facial-recognition Britain

Britain has long been one of the most surveilled democracies in the world. But under Starmer’s government, things are about to take a more sinister turn. It seems we are all going to be watched by facial recognition cameras as well.

According to a Home Office consultation launched on Thursday, the government is developing a new legal framework to expand the use of facial recognition technology. Rarely seen outside of China, live facial recognition cameras – which constantly scan live CCTV footage – could be installed in every town centre up and down the country. It used to be that only hardened criminals would end up on a police line-up. Soon, every member of the general public will feature on its digital equivalent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Meet the ‘Cougars for Luigi Mangione’ — and new fans of the alleged killer

‘Mangionistas’ are queuing for days for a glimpse of their idol after the death of the healthcare boss Brian Thompson. They are not without their critics

They had been waiting in sub-zero temperatures since Saturday afternoon, their tents snaking around barricades at the Manhattan Supreme Court.

The throng of mostly young women — and some older, self-styled “cougars” — had queued for their chance to see Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, in the flesh.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Waymo has its sights set on Toronto for driverless cars. The city’s history with Big Tech suggests that’s cause for alarm

Waymo vehicles proved to be excellent fireballs when summoned by LA’s rioters.

The question of how to deal with an incoming wave of advanced robots might seem like a sci-fi hypothetical from a far-flung future, but, for Toronto city hall, the future isn’t so far away.

Last month saw a notable debut on the city’s lobbyist registry: Waymo, operator of fleets of autonomous taxis in several cities in the United States. The Silicon Valley company is owned by
Alphabet, making it a corporate sibling to tech giant Google. They’re one of the premier players in the burgeoning self-driving car market, offering a real service where people ride in taxis with no human driver present.

And now it appears they are looking at driving their driverless cars north of the border.

So some bad actor in theory could order dozens of Waymo vehicles to wherever the mohammedans are desecrating public space with their cult rituals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?