Author: Blazingcatfur

Russia suspended from human rights council after UN general assembly vote

Russia has been suspended from the United Nations’s human rights council after its invasion of Ukraine provoked revulsion and outrage around the world.

At a meeting of the UN general assembly on Thursday, 93 members voted in favour of Russia’s suspension, while 24 were against and 58 abstained.

This met the required threshold of a two-thirds majority of the assembly members that vote yes or no, with abstentions not counting in the calculation.

Good propaganda.

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

Two men arrested after targeting Secret Service agents in influence operation

US officials have arrested two men who had spent thousands of dollars seeking to influence Secret Service agents.

An affidavit filed with a US district court accused Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36 of posing as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees.

FBI officials said the men had used the guise to get closer to four agents – one of whom served on first lady Jill Biden’s protection detail.

No motive????

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", USA, WTF?

Ontario likely seeing 100K to 120K new COVID-19 cases each day, head of science table says

“Mask up. We are not through this yet. This wave will go high. It doesn’t mean we will see the same amount of hospitalizations necessarily, at least not if we have the same level of infection but remember we are still going up and we are already at the peak we were at last time,” Jüni warned on Wednesday.

UHN infectious diseases specialist Dr. Abdu Sharkawy said masking should be reinstated in the province.

“I think that removing the mask mandate was a mistake to begin with, because really, not only was it a very visible symbol for everybody to recognize and remind themselves that we were still in the throes of a pandemic. But it really was the simplest tool that was widely accessible to everyone really, regardless of their means or privilege to help protect themselves and those around them from transmitting this virus,” he said.

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

RCMP to launch national investigation into allegations of war crimes in Ukraine

OTTAWA — The RCMP is launching a national investigation into allegations of war crimes in Ukraine, the Star has learned.

Beginning this week, the RCMP will begin seeking information from Ukrainians arriving in Canada who may have experienced or witnessed war crimes or crimes against humanity since Russia invaded in February, but also as far back as Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014.

The investigation is being launched in the wake of reports of hundreds of what appear to be civilians being indiscriminately killed in the city of Bucha over the weekend.

On top of global revulsion, the videos and stories emerging from the town have sparked global calls for tougher sanctions on Russia, the end of diplomatic relations, and potentially Russia’s removal from the UN’s most senior human rights body, all as Russia vehemently denies it is targeting civilians.

HMA

‘It’s Fake,’ ‘It’s Horrible’: Mixed Reaction In Russia To Alleged War Crimes In Bucha

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

Britain, Canada and Australia decline so far to expel Russian diplomats

Britain, Canada and Australia have all so far declined to expel Russian diplomats, putting themselves at odds with 15 EU nations that have now evicted more than 200 in response to the pictures of war crimes committed in Ukraine.

A further 100 Russian diplomats had been expelled in the preceding two months.

The British reticence to act came despite an effective warning from the UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, that the west’s relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia were over.

Meanwhile the Trudeau Government starts sucking up to Russia’s biggest Ally – Communist China

Canada’s and China’s frigid relationship shows slight sign of thaw with first call between foreign ministers since 2020

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

Liberals to unveil 2022 federal budget, announce billions in new spending

The federal Liberals are set to unveil their latest spending plan today that aims to balance promises made to voters in last year’s election campaign, in the pact with the NDP, and recently to Canada’s global defence allies.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is scheduled to table the budget in the House of Commons this afternoon.

The economy has fared better than anticipated over the past few months, which along with higher prices for oil is expected to pad the government’s bottom line and help offset any new spending to be announced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

John Durham has proof Hillary’s lawyer lied to the FBI

There’s an old saying that the mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. It is a reminder that, sometimes, long-delayed justice does eventually arrive. In this case, it’s beginning to appear that Special Counsel John Durham’s efforts to investigate the origins of the Russia hoax are beginning to center on Hillary Clinton and her team. The latest sign that Durham is on the march is an in limine motion he filed with the Court seeking to have admitted into evidence a text message that one of Hillary’s campaign attorneys, Michael Sussmann, sent to the FBI.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHillary Clinton

North Korea Is Surviving the Pandemic Off Stolen Cryptocurrency

North Korea’s self-imposed isolation during the pandemic has made it increasingly difficult for the regime to acquire the hard currency needed to fund its weapons programs and trade deficit. Exports have withered to only tens of millions a year, while the smuggling that the regime previously used to evade United Nations (UN) sanctions has also declined. In this unfriendly environment, Kim Jong-un’s regime has increasingly turned to the theft of cryptocurrency to cover its need for “hard currency”—an issue that will require greater attention from governments and international regulators as cryptocurrency investments become more popular around the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNorth Korea

Ukraine Is Neither a Redoubt of Wokeness nor a Nazi Dystopia

Over the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the latter has received an outpouring of support from Western nations. Many in the (mostly terminally online) contrarian class, those individuals who are either openly pro-Russia or are anti-anti-Russia have responded to this newfound support for Ukraine in two ways. They have either derided Ukraine as a woke Western satellite led by equally woke puppet comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, or peculiarly, have made the opposite argument: Ukraine is plagued by neo-Nazis. Both dramatically misunderstand the situation, in terms of both how woke Ukraine truly is and why Ukraine is receiving support.

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

Revealed: Secret letters sent from Prince Charles to Jimmy Savile begging paedophile DJ to ‘use his straightforward common sense’ to help royals with PR

Prince Charles wrote to depraved child rapist Jimmy Savile to ask him to help with the Royal Family’s ailing image – and boosting his own profile – after a series of PR disasters, newly released letters written by the heir to the throne over 20 years revealed today.

The Prince of Wales lavished praise on the predatory paedophile’s ‘straightforward common sense’ and asked him for advice on improving speeches and helping him with public visits to charities. Charles also asked Savile to advise his sister in law Sarah, the Duchess of York and her gaffe-prone husband Prince Andrew.

The TV star, later revealed to be one of Britain’s worst child abusers who also bragged about performing sex acts on corpses in hospital morgues and stealing glass eyes from the dead for jewellery, even drew up a media relations handbook for Charles, according to the royal’s letters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

American Extremists in Search of ‘Combat Experience’ Head to Fight in Ukraine

Neo-Nazis and white supremacists from the United States and Europe have traveled to Ukraine to fight on both sides of the war with Russia, providing these extremists with valuable battlefield experience as they seek to increase their violent operations domestically, according to a report from a watchdog group monitoring the situation.

Foreign fighters from at least 35 neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and ultranationalist groups based in the United States, Canada, and Europe “have members fighting on both sides in [the] Russia-Ukraine conflict,” according to an analysis from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which has been tracking the flow of extremist groups into the region.

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

Patrisse Cullors blasts ‘despicable’ coverage of BLM’s $6 million mansion

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors railed against a “despicable” report from a liberal magazine that exposed her charity had purchased a $6 million Los Angeles mansion with donor cash.

“Yesterday’s article in New York Magazine is a despicable abuse of a platform that’s intended to provide truthful information to the public,” Cullors said in a statement Tuesday on her Instagram page. “Journalism is supposed to mitigate harm and inform our communities.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter