Germany: Magdeburg market attacker charged with murder

German prosecutors have pressed murder charges against the man who drove a car into a Christmas Market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg in December.

Taleb A.* is accused of six counts of murder and 338 counts of attempted murder, among other charges. Prosecutors said in their statement they would seek the German legal equivalent of a first-degree murder conviction.

Five women aged 45 to 75 and one nine-year-old boy were killed in the attack on December 20, 2024, which left over 300 others injured.

The suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor who was arrested at the scene, was described by German authorities as an anti-Islam activist.

Mass Murder is now anti-Islamist, who knew?

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

Conan O’Brien: ‘Late-Night Television Going to Disappear,‘ But Stephen Colbert ‘Too Essential to Go Away‘

Remember when Conan O’Brien went slumming in Haiti because Trump badmouthed the shithole state?

Former late-night TV host Conan O’Brien is saying that his former genre is dead, but he is also sure that canceled CBS host Stephen Colbert is “too essential to go away” permanently.

You mean non-stop woke whining and insulting half of America every night wasn’t a rating success?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strike

A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants, both the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced Tuesday.

CUPE, which represents more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, said that after nine hours of talks with the assistance of the chief mediator appointed by the federal government, the deal struck will be presented to its membership, who will have an opportunity to ratify it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trump rules out putting ‘American boots on the ground’ in Ukraine

President Trump ruled out sending US military forces to Ukraine as part of any US security guarantees to the war-torn nation, but suggested he would provide some form of air protection.

Trump insisted that the American public has “my assurance” when pressed in an interview on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning that there “won’t be American boots on the ground defending that border” in Ukraine.

“Well, you have my assurance,” the president replied. “I’m president and I’m just trying to stop people from being killed.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Ont. truckers used secret compartment to smuggle cocaine for fugitive Ryan Wedding

Two truckers have agreed to plead guilty in connection with a scheme to smuggle loads of cocaine from California to Ontario on behalf of fugitive Ryan Wedding’s criminal enterprise, CBC News has learned.

Iqbal Singh Virk and Ranjit Singh Rowal from the Toronto area are the first Canadians to sign plea deals with U.S. prosecutors following the FBI’s sprawling investigation revealed last fall, dubbed “Operation Giant Slalom.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Hamas source says group agrees to latest Gaza ceasefire proposal

Hamas has agreed to the latest proposal from regional mediators for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel, a source in the Palestinian armed group has told the BBC.

The proposal from Egypt and Qatar is said to be based on a framework put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff in June.

It would see Hamas free around half of the 50 remaining Israeli hostages – 20 of whom are believed to be alive – in two batches during an initial 60-day truce. There would also be negotiations on a permanent ceasefire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

The Americans making millions buying shares like top politicians

US politicians seem to know something about the stock market that ordinary Americans don’t.

Since April 2020, the value of the S&P 500 has surged by a heady 165pc. But over the same period, the stocks most purchased by members of Congress or their families have registered paper gains of no less than 465pc.

That’s according to a trading strategy designed by a start-up called Quiver Quantitative. American lawmakers are so consistently successful that a flurry of new platforms and apps now compile filing data from US politicians as a key input in strategies for retail investors and even hedge funds.

Same happens in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA, WTF?

Carney government planning to complete gun buyback program by end of next year

OTTAWA—Canada’s gun buyback scheme is in the “final stages” of design and will be completed “no later” than the end of 2026, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Monday, as he warned hesitant provinces and law enforcement agencies it’s their obligation to implement the law.

In an interview with the Star, Anandasangaree confirmed an October 2025 amnesty deadline will have to be pushed back, but reiterated the Carney government plans to move forward with the plan to buy back thousands of “assault-style” weapons it has banned since 2020.

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

Maine reserve police officer agrees to leave US voluntarily after ICE arrest for immigration violations

A Maine reserve police officer arrested by ICE for allegedly trying to buy a firearm illegally has agreed to leave the country, the agency said.

Jon Luke Evans, a reserve officer with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department, and a Jamaican national, was arrested on July 25 with help from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

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

Amy Hamm: B.C. judge goes to great lengths to protect hospital that fired unvaccinated doctor

Earlier this month, the B.C. Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision of British Columbia’s Hospital Appeal Board that resulted in Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak being suspended, and effectively fired, for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

Szezepaniak argued that she should not have been disciplined for refusing to follow Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry’s October 2021 public health order (PHO), which required all doctors and nurses working in hospitals to be vaccinated.

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

RUBENSTEIN: Parks Canada drops ‘genocide’ but keeps the narrative

In an August 12 media advisory, the government agency Parks Canada announced a plaque unveiling ceremony scheduled for August 14 to commemorate the “historic significance” of Manitoba’s former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School (Portage IRS).

According to the advisory, the long-shuttered Portage IRS was built in 1914-1915 as part of a system “whereby the federal government and certain churches and religious organizations worked together to assimilate Indigenous children as part of a broad set of efforts to destroy Indigenous cultures and identities and suppress Indigenous histories.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Zelensky leaves White House unscathed as he buys more time

The optics could not have been more different this time.

Unlike the shockingly ill-tempered previous meeting in February, US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky seemed determined not to look confrontational – despite their remaining differences.

Zelensky wore a collared suit (although not of the classical variety), and Trump complimented his attire. The Ukrainian president also repeatedly said “thank you”, which must have pleased his host, too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

John Carpay: Who Guards Our Freedoms Better, Judges or Politicians?

In whom do you have more faith, judges or politicians? For many Canadians, this question is about which group they trust the least, and not about which group they trust the most. A person’s answer to this question will largely determine whether she or he likes or dislikes Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly known as the “notwithstanding clause.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada