Police arrest Louvre heist suspects, Paris prosecutor says

Suspects have been arrested in the Louvre museum heist, the Paris prosecutor said Sunday, a week after thieves broke into the Paris museum and stole thousands of jewels and diamonds estimated to be worth over $100 million.

Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not disclose the number of people arrested or identify the suspects. The arrests were made Saturday evening local time, Beccuau said in a statement, adding that one of the men arrested was preparing to leave the country from Roissy Airport.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

BARBER: New Japanese PM spells further isolation for Canada

At the beginning of the month, multiple news sources hailed the 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi as the soon-to-be first female prime minister of Japan. She is the president of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP has dominated Japanese national politics since the 1950s. This unprecedented run, with only two brief exceptions, was not always based on a parliamentary majority. The LDP often formed a coalition with the Komeito Party, a socially conservative-centrist party, which is associated with the Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. At the last minute, this long-standing LDP-Komeito coalition fell apart, and it appeared that Sanae Takaichi would not become prime minister. However, the LDP formed a new alliance with the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP). This party is considered centre-right and more conservative than Komeito. Following the new alliance, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office on October 21.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Japan, USA

“New Tech Launch” sounds so much nicer than “Surveillance State Citizen Criminalization Cameras”

WRPS hosting public info sessions ahead of new tech launch

In an effort to remain transparent, Waterloo Region Police Service (WRPS) will be hosting several public information sessions ahead of the installation of new closed-circuit television (CCTV) and automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.

WRPS plan to use new CCTV equipped with ALPR systems to help prevent and investigate crime.

Every day the screw tightens until it’s too late …

h/t Patti Jo and Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Timing has worked wildly in Mark Carney’s favour before, but now he has a problem

So much of Mark Carney’s short, hectic political career has been about time and timing. Yes, all any of us on this Earth have is time, but I promise we’re headed somewhere other than Obvioustown, so stay with me.

First, there was the unbelievably lucky timing of Mr. Carney’s moment to run for the Liberal leadership. It arrived just as Donald Trump was holding a knife to the throat of Canada’s economy, making a calm, crisis-handling economist look pretty appealing to voters.

TDS Ahead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Prince Andrew faces humiliation at historic Commons debate

Prince Andrew faces a pincer movement from parliament and Buckingham Palace to strip him of his dukedom and banish him from his 30-room mansion in Windsor.

MPs are set to discuss Andrew’s future, defying years of convention that usually prevents politicians from ­criticising the royal family.

The Liberal Democrats have ­signalled that they intend to use their next Opposition Day debate to allow members to consider officially removing Andrew’s Duke of York title and discuss his continued use of Royal Lodge. Although such debates are rarely binding, it will allow the Commons to “express its will” and heap pressure on the ­government and the King to act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Carney tries to reassure Canadians after Trump threatens 10% tariff hike

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he stands ready to resume trade negotiations with the U.S. and tried to reassure Canadians that he is taking steps to shore up the country’s economy after U.S.

President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs by another 10 per cent.

Mr. Trump said this weekend he’s hiking tariffs on Canadian imports after an Ontario government TV ad critical of his protectionist levies ran during the first game of the World Series.

History shows that “Favourable Trade Deals” are by design consistently selective of those they favour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Islam and the Bible are fuelling France’s ‘baptism boom’

You have probably heard that something extraordinary is happening in the Catholic Church in France. The French bishops’ conference announced in April that more than 10,000 adults were due to be baptised in 2025 – a 45 per cent increase on the year before.

It’s not just adult baptisms that are booming. A record 19,000 people, many young, attended this year’s Paris to Chartres pilgrimage. An unprecedented 13,500 high school students took part in the 2025 Lourdes FRAT pilgrimage, a major annual youth event.

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

‘Frustration’ With Canada Led to Trump Scrapping Talks, Not Just Ontario’s Ad: US Official

While U.S. President Donald Trump has singled out the Ontario government’s TV commercial as a reason to cancel trade talks with Canada, a senior White House official says it’s because there’s been growing frustration with Ottawa.

U.S. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett spoke to reporters on Oct. 24 following Trump’s decision to terminate trade talks with Canada the previous day, saying that Canadians have been “very difficult to negotiate with.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The Blackwashing of Britain

Minority status only appears to be a problem when non-whites are afflicted by it.

Of all the famous ‘conspiracy theories,’ the Great Replacement (that white populations in Western countries are being systematically replaced by non-white immigrants) is arguably the most well-known. I have always been reluctant to entertain it, partly on the grounds that conspiracies are usually oversimplifications of more complex issues, partly because political incompetence gets you to your destination just as quickly as conspiracy, and partly because the policy of Replacement Migration as “a solution to declining and ageing populations” was just about believable (no matter how moronic it might have been). Nonetheless, the fact that Le Grand Remplacement is playing out before our very eyes, conspiracy or not, is significant; a point far better elucidated by the term’s progenitor, Renaud Camus …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism"

FUSS: Carney’s economic strategy signalling strikeouts, not home runs

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Carney delivered a lengthy speech spelling out his economic and fiscal strategy in advance of his government’s federal budget scheduled for Nov. 4. In front of an audience of university students, the prime minister made his pitch for “swinging for the fences” and “playing to win” through more government involvement in the economy and “generational investments” financed by large deficits.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adventure tourists love Afghanistan. Are they a gift for the Taliban?

Boyle family – remember these idiots?

The country has become an unlikely destination for travel influencers — including women. But some have been accused of whitewashing the oppressive regime

Walking through central Kabul one afternoon, Julie Bold was stopped by the Taliban morality police. Her male friend, who she had met at the Afghan border with Tajikistan, was a few steps behind. Not realising Bond was from Wales, and a tourist, the Taliban surrounded her and began shouting at her for not wearing a facemask. When her friend caught up, the police realised she was a tourist and relented. “I can’t imagine how bad it would have been if I were a local woman,” Bold said.

Morons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, WTF?

Almost one million Canadians have serious climate anxiety, study suggests

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has spoken about how at age 11, she was so depressed about climate change she stopped talking and eating and lost 10 kilograms in two months.

Here in Canada, a mother of two children in Salmon Arm, B.C., says her anxiety about the climate her kids will experience “becomes so heavy it’s suffocating.” A Calgary student says she started obsessing about food to cope with her anxiety about the state of our planet, and sometimes was “so overwhelmed with what food choices were best for the planet, I hardly ate at all.”

She’s not sick she’s an idiot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", WTF?

‘I am not done’ – Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again

Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.

In her first UK interview, Harris said she would “possibly” be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.

Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats’ pick for the next election.

Go for it girl!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", WTF?