Author: Blazingcatfur

Prevent accused of treating Islamic terrorism like a mental illness rather than a threat in official report

Islamic extremists are being treated as victims rather than the public being protected from the threat they pose, an official review into the Government’s anti-radicalisation programme will warn.

The report into Prevent, due to be published on Wednesday, is expected to find that officials have been too focused on addressing the “personal vulnerabilities” of extremists, with terrorism treated as a mental illness.

William Shawcross, the review author and former chairman of the Charity Commission, is set to say this “mischaracterisation” of radicalisation has meant officials have failed to tackle the ideological beliefs behind Islamist extremism with “potentially serious consequences”.

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

Woke Disney sparks outrage with new kids cartoon that claims America was ‘built on slavery’ – as it pushes reparations and says Lincoln had no desire to liberate the enslaved

Disney has been slammed for going woke yet again after a new cartoon series features black children rapping about reparations – saying ‘slaves built this country’.

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder has sparked outrage by showing the characters discovering that their town was built by slaves and then giving a presentation to their school.

As part of the rap, which as been branded ‘blatant anti-white propaganda’, a white character is seen standing on a stage with a poster that says ‘still not atoned’.

h/t Sweetpea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", #BlackLivesMatter

Germany: Train and Station Knife Attacks More Than Doubled in 2022

The number of criminal offenses, including violent knife attacks and sexual assaults, rose considerably on trains and at train stations in Germany over the past year. Official government figures reveal that incidents involving knife attacks more than doubled compared to the previous year.

While the federal police registered 398,848 criminal offenses on trains and at train stations in 2022, an uptick of roughly 12% compared to the previous year, 336 knife attacks—82 on trains and 254 at train stations—were recorded, representing an increase of 102% year over year, the Hamburg-based newspaper Der Spiegel reports.

According to the statistics collected by the federal police last year, 71 suspects were investigated for violent crimes involving the use of knives on trains, 36 of whom were classified as “non-Germans”—just over 50%. In the previous year, that figure was six of 25, or 24%.

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

Lions of the Jordan Valley: Israeli mixed-gender unit kills Hamas militants in raid

At least five Palestinian militants have been killed in a dawn raid by the recently-founded Lions of the Jordan Valley, an Israeli light-infantry unit with a high proportion of female soldiers.

According to the Israeli army, the raid was part of a continuing operation to locate a Hamas cell that had tried to carry out an attack on restaurant in Vered Yericho, an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley near Jericho, last week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

The toxic women of gym TikTok

Too many ladies are filming in the weights room for clout

The hashtag “gym creep” now has over 37.3 million views on TikTok. Honestly, I’ve watched hundreds of these videos and the only weird behavior I can spot in any of the clips are from the women recording the unsuspecting men while they work out. “Watch this creep,” the lady will say as a confused male just happens to glance at the camera that’s been shoved in front of him. Scandalous!

This makes me shake my head.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Pair Is Charged With Plotting to ‘Destroy Baltimore’ by Attacking Electrical Grid

WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials have arrested two people accused of conspiring to “completely destroy Baltimore” in what they described on Monday as a racist plot to demolish the power grid in a predominantly Black city.

Sarah Clendaniel, 27, of Catonsville, Md., and Brandon Russell, 34, of Orlando, Fla., planned to inflict “maximum harm” by targeting facilities operated by Baltimore Gas and Electric, which serves 1.2 million customers in central Maryland, according to a complaint filed in federal court

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTerrorism - Domestic

Adam Pankratz: Maybe B.C.’s drug addicts should have to face shame and stigma

VANCOUVER — B.C. has decriminalized drug possession of 2.5 grams of cocaine, MDMA, meth and opioids, including heroin. Those in favour hail it as a victory against stigma, while opponents worry it will have unintended consequences. We will leave the public policy debate to others, but will ask another very pertinent question: what’s wrong with stigma?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drug Legalization, Drugs

Canada’s push to decriminalize drugs will be a disaster

Overdose deaths continue to rise in Vancouver, the epicenter of Canada’s addiction crisis, as barriers to drug use are demolished. After British Columbia’s decriminalization experiment came into effect, the province’s center-right Liberal Party pledged that, should they be elected, they will invest $1.5 billion into Portuguese-inspired rehabilitation-oriented treatment. This would be a significant improvement over British Columbia’s current farce. Earlier this week, the Canadian province of British Columbia decriminalized the possession of small amounts of hard drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Drug Legalization, Drugs

The Chinese Spy Balloon Over My House

Last week, when Montanans looked up at the sky—the fabled “big sky” that gives our state its nickname and remains clear and blue and well worth gazing at—they saw something odd. Some people reported the distant silver sphere to the authorities, it being a tradition in a state that was pacified by vigilantes back in the days of the frontier mining camps to keep an eye peeled for signs of brewing trouble.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

The Grammys: The Glamor of Evil, Sam Smith Edition

Satan’s, aka Sam Smith’s, unholy singing at the Grammy’s.

My sincere hope for the future involves the abolition of all-star games and awards shows. They feel like lame relics from the 20th Century. I missed the NFL Pro Bowl, to the extent it still exists, but I watched part of the Grammys on Sunday just to affirm my alienation from a culture on which I do keep tabs.

I am underwhelmed by the insipidness of evil.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Where the Grass Is Grayer

In New York and elsewhere, the illegal pot market is crowding out the legal one

In December 2022, the first licensed sellers of marijuana in New York State opened their doors. That might surprise New Yorkers who saw, to their delight or dismay, hundreds of smoke shops begin selling weed out of neighborhood storefronts last year. These unlicensed, “gray-market” operations may strangle the Empire State’s legal marijuana industry in its crib, thwarting politicians’ ambitions of advancing racial equity via drug legalization.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana

‘Google killer’ ChatGPT sparks AI chatbot race

It has been two months since the public launch of AI chatbot ChatGPT by the firm OpenAI – and it did not take long for people to start noticing what a game-changer this really is.

Whether you have asked it to write you a song in the style of your favourite musician, sneaked in a homework question (500 words on the end of World War Two? no problem), tasked it to write copy for your company website, write a speech or even churn out specific program code, ChatGPT has proved that it can deliver – and in a convincing way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

‘Rust’ cast and crew could be called to testify against Alec Baldwin

Several members of the ‘Rust’ cast and crew may be called to testify against Alec Baldwin as he faces involuntary manslaughter charges.

Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged last week for the death of Halyna Hutchins on the low-budget Western’s New Mexico set in October 2021.

Prosecutors allege Baldwin shot the gun that killed Hutchins while Gutierrez-Reed didn’t check the gun given to the hot shot actor before it was handed to him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood