Author: Blazingcatfur
Austria: Jihadist Knife Attacker Gets Life Sentence
An Austrian court has sentenced a 24-year-old Syrian Kurd refugee to life in prison for a knife attack that killed a teenage boy and injured five other people in southern Austria. The court found him guilty of murder, five counts of attempted murder, and terrorist offences following the incident in Villach on February 15th, 2025.
Is Katy Perry Safe?
Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.
Watch live views: https://t.co/tm2wZQmAVD pic.twitter.com/PmbgQC6Qmq
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) May 29, 2026
Minnesota pair bilked $21 million in state funds meant for autism services: feds
Two Minnesota fraudsters allegedly swindled more than $21 million in funding earmarked for autism services through two bogus companies and then spent it lavishly on overseas property, officials said.
Shamso Ahmed Hassan, 55, and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, 25, whose mugshots were released on Wednesday, made off like bandits by submitting millions of dollars in fake claims to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Development and Behavioral Intervention Program [EIDBI] between May 2020 and December 2024, authorities said.
MACLEOD: From Canada’s cash cow to energy king
Alberta sits on some of the world’s largest energy reserves, yet we’re landlocked and constantly hamstrung by Ottawa’s web of regulations, policies, and environmental vetoes. Federal rules don’t just slow projects down — they kill them outright and drive billions in investment south of the border. The result? We subsidize the rest of Canada while our core industry gets throttled.
(Incognito)
US and Iran reach tentative deal to extend ceasefire, US officials say
Negotiators for the US and Iran have agreed a framework of a deal that would extend their ceasefire for 60 days and launch negotiations on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, US officials say.
The agreement is yet to be approved by President Donald Trump or the leadership in Iran, the officials told the BBC.
But there were conflicting reports from Tehran, with Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoting a source close to talks who said it had not been finalised or confirmed.
We’ll see.
A Reagan Republican’s Son, Xi Jinping’s Speechwriter, and a New Map of China’s Espionage and Information Wars
WASHINGTON — In 2017, as Donald Trump launched a campaign to decouple the United States from a system of economic entanglement with China that a generation of American officials had come to see as quietly corroding the nation’s security and wealth, the son of a Texas Republican was living in Beijing under a borrowed name — and, that year, was introduced to a man who, he came to understand, communicated frequently with Xi Jinping himself.
WTF?
Avi Lewis says the separatist movement in Alberta has no comparison to Quebec’s separatist movement.
Calls them MAGA aligned.
For the record, the NDP, since the 2005 Sherbrooke Declaration, has advocated for 50% +1 for Quebec to separate.— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) May 28, 2026
WTF?
Brampton, Ontario. pic.twitter.com/xTIFypWGcY
— SweetMarie (@Oceanbreeze473) May 28, 2026
h/t Mauser
Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada
Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.
Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.
Hmmmmm someone make Xi angry!
IQ, Crime, Nobel Prizes, And Immigration: The Diversity That Is Destroying Western Civilization
Sometimes data or information that seems completely disconnected can tell a story when taken together. I experienced that recently. Over the course of a few days I saw a number of posts on X that caught my attention. First was a post stating that “Whites make up only 8% of the world’s population… so in fact, we are the minority.” That 8% is down from a peak of approximately 25% in the 19th century.
Babies for sale – why surrogacy is little better than slavery
LAST week a Florida judge reignited a debate that much of the modern West has tried desperately to avoid: what exactly is surrogacy?
For years, surrogacy has been wrapped in the language of compassion, empowerment and ‘family creation’. Celebrities celebrate it. Corporations market it. Politicians avoid scrutinising it too closely. Critics are dismissed as extremists, religious conservatives or people standing in the way of happiness.
AOC Rises to 3rd Place in 2028 Dem Presidential Primary
Presidential primary polling this far out can best be taken with a few small salt hills, but it’s not completely meaningless this far out and the Emerson numbers are interesting in that they show the two likeliest candidates, Newsom and Kamala, failing to make much headway.
I declare I’m Team AOC!
The small-boats grooming gang
Seven Afghan men – five of whom entered the UK on a small boat – have been charged with 40 offences after an investigation into a grooming gang in Norwich. Of the remaining two, one came to the UK concealed on a lorry and another arrived through ‘a port’, according to the BBC. All arrived illegally, none speaks English and all are classified as ‘refugees’. The charges relate to two girls, aged in their early to mid-teens at the time of the alleged offences, which police say occurred between August 2023 and May 2025.
Shocka!
Oh, FFS. @fancypants_s https://t.co/DKh50eUZyn
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) May 28, 2026
h/t Patti Jo