Author: Blazingcatfur

Russia missile strike on Ukraine base close to Polish border kills 35, governor says

Russia has escalated its war in Ukraine with a strike on a major military base close to the Polish border killing at least 35 people and injuring 134 more, according to the governor of the Lviv region.

The attack happened hours after the Kremlin had warned that western supply lines into the embattled country were “legitimate targets”.

There were large explosions on Sunday at the base in Yavoriv, a garrison city less than 10 miles from the Polish border. The rocket attack took place at 5.45am.

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

Ontario reports sorta 1,691 new Covid cases… and the commute resumes

Ontario reports sorta 1,691 new Covid cases… and the commute resumes

Ont. reports 9 more virus-related deaths; 228 COVID-19 patients now in ICU

Ontario is reporting nine more virus-related deaths as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care continues a slow but steady decline.

Provincial health officials did not disclose today how many COVID-19 patients are currently receiving treatment in Ontario hospitals but the province said there are now 228 COVID-19 patients in intensive care in the province, down from 247 seven days ago.

Friction over the return to work is settling on a hated aspect of office life: getting there

When Michele Finney thinks about her life before the pandemic, she doesn’t know how she got everything done. The Oshawa mother has a lot on her plate. In addition to her administrative job at a Big Five bank, she has a three-year old son and two dogs that keep her busy.

For the past two years, juggling everything has been a little easier because she’s been working from home. She can use her lunch break to pick up groceries or put a load of laundry in the machine. Getting dinner ready on time isn’t a problem, and she has time after work to be with her son. “The quality of life is so much better,” she said.

That’s about to change.

HMA

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

Liberal US cities change course, now clearing homeless camps

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Makeshift shelters abut busy roadways, tent cities line sidewalks, tarps cover broken-down cars, and sleeping bags are tucked in storefront doorways. The reality of the homelessness crisis in Oregon’s largest city can’t be denied.

“I would be an idiot to sit here and tell you that things are better today than they were five years ago with regard to homelessness,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said recently. “People in this city aren’t stupid. They can open their eyes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Ukraine reveals ‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself!’ postage stamp

Ukraine has chosen the image for a new postage stamp called “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!” as the besieged country continues to try to keep morale high and win the PR battle against invading Russian forces.

The country’s first deputy foreign minister, Emine Dzheppar, announced the stamp commemorating the Snake Island incident, in which 13 border guards stationed on a roughly 16-hectare (40-acre) rocky island about 186 miles (300km) west of Crimea reportedly replied, when asked to surrender: “Russian warship, go fuck yourself.” They were then attacked, and thought killed.

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

The Trans Movement Is Failing Where the Gay-Rights Movement Succeeded

The transgender and gay-rights movements are often lumped together — including in the very acronym LGBT — so many observers assume that the transgender cause will follow a similar trajectory. But there’s a reason why transgender activists won’t experience the level of rapid success that gay-rights activists enjoyed over the past several decades.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

The Costs of Foreign Volunteers Fighting in Ukraine

While much attention is being paid to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, less analysis has focused on how foreign volunteers are flocking to join the conflict. Ukraine’s appeal to foreign fighters is not unusual; such invitations from sovereign states have occurred many times throughout history, and volunteers routinely have fought and risked their lives for countries other than their own.

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

Jussie Smollett plays the race card… again: Says he was treated ‘more harshly’ and sentenced to 150 days in jail ‘because he is black’

Empire actor Jussie Smollett says he was handed a heftier jail sentence because he is black and that he made sure to mention he is not suicidal in court in order to avoid getting ‘Jeffrey Epstein’d’

On Thursday Smollett – once a darling of the music and TV world for his success on the show Empire – was sentenced to 150 days in jail.

The star was convicted last year of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police repeatedly when he claimed he was the victim of a race hate attack in January and February 2019.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHate crime hoax

Is Russia going to lose?

One way to answer the question in the headline is “It already has.” Even to a rank amateur like me, it was clear by *day three* that Putin was facing a strategic debacle. He misjudged Ukraine’s desire and ability to resist, he misjudged the strength of his military, and he misjudged the west’s willingness to paralyze Russia’s economy with sanctions. 

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

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Iranian woman, 21, ‘lures man she met on dating site Plenty of Fish to Vegas hotel, blindfolds him and STABS him in the neck in retaliation for drone strike that killed General Qasem Soleimani

Las Vegas police arrested a woman who allegedly stabbed her date she met online in retaliation for the US drone strike that killed an Iranian military leader in 2020.

Henderson Police Department charged 21-year-old Nika Nikoubin with attempted murder last Saturday after she allegedly lured a man she met on the dating site Plenty of Fish in bed only to attack him with a knife, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

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

Why won’t Pope Francis condemn Russia?

The Catholic leader has been criticized for being too soft on the Ukraine invasion

On February 25, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine, Pope Francis met with Aleksandr Avdeyev, Russia’s ambassador to the Holy See. Yet rather than summoning Mr. Avdeyev to the Vatican, Francis called at the Russian embassy, just two blocks from the Castel Sant’Angelo.

The visit was a violation of diplomatic protocol. Heads of state don’t just pop ‘round to the local embassy.

Over the next couple of days, it became clear that Francis wouldn’t be paying the same honor to Ukraine’s ambassador. Even more strikingly, Francis refused to condemn Russia for the attack. Vatican-watchers fumed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Pope Francis

Russia warns US military shipments to Ukraine are ‘legitimate targets’, prompting fears other nations could get drawn into war

Russia has made dire threats to the West that any military shipments to Ukraine will be seen as ‘legitimate targets’, prompting fears there could be an escalation of conflict that could suck in other countries.

Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov warned the US ‘that pumping weapons from a number of countries it orchestrates isn’t just a dangerous move, it’s an action that makes those convoys legitimate targets’.

The warnings came after Joe Biden personally intervened to stop a shipment of Polish MiG fighter jets to Kyiv, fearing the move could lead to ‘World War Three’.

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

Canadians fighting proposed condo development at Juno Beach D-Day site

Le Weasel tres ungrateful

A group of Canadians is organizing to stop a proposed condo development at Juno Beach in France, the site of the D-Day landing that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Canadian soldiers.

“It was a remarkable battle and the examples of fearlessness and courage and bravery just were outstanding,” said Cindy Clegg, a spokesperson for the group Save Juno Beach.

“And now to think that there are condos going up right next to [the beach], where people can go on holidays and hoot and holler and play their radios loud on this battlefield just made me sick to my stomach.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

‘We’re effectively a border state with Russia’: Defending Canada’s far-north called key to protecting sovereignty

Canada needs to look north if it is to make serious efforts to defend its sovereignty, say analysts.

Observers are praising comments made Thursday by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre, who made clear his plans to bolster Canada’s presence in the arctic.

“The far-north is a key area of concern,” Eyre said during Thursday’s keynote talk at the 90th Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence — explaining Canada’s northern flanks are also NATO’s northern flanks.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada