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Ontario reports a generous helping of new Covid cases … and “Experts” say online conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory!!!

Ont. reports 92 net new deaths linked to COVID-19 today

Ontario has added more than 90 net new deaths to its overall COVID-19 death toll today as the number of patients in hospital with the virus dips to just over 4,000.

Provincial health officials confirmed another 92 virus-related deaths today, fatalities that occurred within the past month. This appears to be the highest number of deaths reported by the province on a single day since the start of the pandemic. On Jan. 15, 2021, 100 deaths were confirmed but that total included more than 40 historical deaths that hadn’t been included in previous tallies.

608 people are in ICU with #COVID19. 83% of patients admitted to the ICU were admitted for COVID-19 and 17% were admitted for other reasons but have tested positive for COVID-19.

There are 5,368 new cases of COVID-19.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 26, 2022

‘So many angry people’: Experts say online conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory

As a growing group of truckers and supporters make their way to Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates, experts say the rhetoric online concerning the convoy is getting increasingly worrisome.

The group of truckers and concerned citizens began a cross-country trip to Ottawa over the weekend, in protest of vaccine mandates in the country. The groups expect to arrive in Ottawa this Saturday.

Canada has detected BA.2 cases. What we know about this Omicron subvariant

With signs of the COVID-19 Omicron wave having peaked in parts of the world, including Canada, scientists are keeping a close eye on a subvariant that is rapidly spreading in some countries.

The BA.2 sub-lineage of Omicron, which was first detected in November last year, was designated as a variant under investigation by the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2022January 26, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Now the UN is ‘helping’ rejected migrants recover ‘repressed memories’ to get asylum status

Todd Bensman, who’s doing yeoman’s work on the international rackets enabling big migrant surges at the U.S. border, has found the United Nations at the nexus of the matter, aiding and abetting illegal immigration into the U.S., and not for the first time.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", United Nations

San Francisco’s Village of Pain

The city is operating an illegal drug-consumption site.

Locals sometimes call San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood “Hamsterdam.” The name comes from the third season of HBO’s The Wire, in which a Baltimore police commander unilaterally designates an area of his district where his officers would turn a blind eye to the selling and using of drugs. The fictional depiction of Hamsterdam is horrifying—“a village of pain,” one character calls it. For Tenderloin residents, that portrayal is a reality. And now it’s not just happening on the streets: San Francisco is operating a rogue and unlawful drug-consumption site. In January 2021, the Third Circuit ruled that such supervised consumption rooms are illegal under federal law, as per the Controlled Substances Act.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Progressive Paradise"

‘Pope Francis’ – A Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing?

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano sheds a disturbing light on the “Deep Church.”

“A non-Catholic Pope”? It sounds like a contradiction in terms. But those are the words used to describe Pope Francis by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. In fact, he rarely uses the term “Pope Francis.” He refers to him instead as “Bergoglio” and to his pontificate as the “Bergoglian papacy.”

Vigano has a following in some Catholic circles but it’s likely that the vast majority of Catholics have never heard of him. Yet the questions he raises about Pope Francis are of great consequence, not just for Catholics but for non-Catholics as well.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2022January 25, 2022•0•Catholic Church, Pope Francis

Trump’s Last Year Towers Over Biden’s First

White House spokesman Jen Psaki began her briefing on January 20 with “happy anniversary.” Of the many people thinking to themselves, “Do we really have three more years of this?” chief among them were those who worry about America’s position in a dangerous world.

Today, Russia dominates world news at the expense of feckless Joe Biden, but the full story of the last year is one of far more comprehensive national decline on the world stage.

by Blazingcatfur•January 26, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Sportswashing has backfired spectacularly

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have accidentally broadcast their sins to the entire world.

Like many fans of other football clubs (Liverpool here), I’ve long had a soft spot for Newcastle. David Ginola, young Gazza, Keegan’s ‘I will love it’ meltdown, the iconic striped shirt, Viz magazine, big Les Ferdinand, that wonderful lilting accent, Newkie Brown, Shearer’s amusingly utilitarian ‘one hand in the air’ goal celebration, Jimmy Nail… what’s not to love about the Toon, like?

So when Newcastle United was bought by the Public Investment Fund – essentially, the nation state of Saudi Arabia – I was, like most, disappointed to say the least.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Peak F*cked Up"

Inside the surreal Dutch lockdown – You can visit a brothel but not a bar

Sitting respectfully in our ‘pews’, we put our hands together… and clap. This is not a service but a comedy night. And Amsterdam’s newest ‘church’ is really a theatre for debate and cultural centre in disguise. Incensed by the illogical nature of the current Dutch coronavirus restrictions, Yoeri Albrecht, director of De Balie, last week changed the statutes of his organisation and registered it with the chamber of commerce as a faith-based movement: overnight, The Philosophical Society; the Community of Reason was born.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Rapidly-eroding support among Democrats driving Biden approval ratings to new lows: Poll

President Biden‘s handling of the pandemic and the economy is costing him support even among his base, according to a survey released Tuesday by Pew Research Center.

The president’s job approval rating of 41% is down 3% overall since September, but support among Democrats and Democratic Party-leaning voters is falling even faster: Mr. Biden is down 7% among that group over the same period.

The report found that 68% of Democrats still give the president high marks, but that is down from 75% in September and 88% in July.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

The Worst Ally

Germany, the laggard of NATO with a deep conflict of interest regarding Russia, is the weak link.

President Joe Biden’s press conference last week was atrocious, but one of his worst missteps amounted to telling the truth about Germany, if not by name.

Biden said there’d be divisions within NATO over a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine. This is true enough, and the chief cause would be a Germany that is staking a strong claim to being our worst European ally.

Well well well. NATO member will withdraw troops in event of war with Russia – president

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic blamed the US for escalating the crisis and said his country would stay out of a conflict

Putin is winning by not invading. What a guy.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•Germany, Russia, Ukraine

Afghan evacuee convicted of sexual contact with toddler at military base

An Afghan evacuee was convicted of having sexual contact with a toddler while they resided on a U.S. military base that was providing temporary housing for those who departed Afghanistan at the end of the war.

Mohammad Tariq, 24, was convicted on charges of abusive sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl on Monday, and he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. He will be sentenced on April 26.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•Afghanistan

B.C. First Nation discovers 93 “potential” graves at former residential school

I’m convinced. Let’s burn some churches.

A British Columbia First Nation has announced the grim discovery of 93 potential burial sites on the grounds of a former residential school.

According to the Williams Lake First Nation, a recent geophysical survey, which included ground-penetrating radar, revealed the existence of the potential graves.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•WTF?

WTF?

Student records teacher bullying him over a mask. The teacher then punches the phone out of the student’s hands.
These people have really lost their minds and all common sense pic.twitter.com/N0QFcsJFhU

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•WTF?

Far-right groups hope trucker protest will be Canada’s ‘January 6th’

Canadian far-right and white nationalist groups see the so-called “Freedom Convoy” as an opportunity, with some hoping the protests will be Canada’s version of last year’s Jan. 6 riot in Washington.

Hundreds of truckers and their supporters are making their way from B.C. to Ottawa for a planned protest outside Parliament on Saturday.

The inevitable hit piece. Smells like Katie Telford.

Update- Organizer of anti-vaccine mandate convoy says it won’t tolerate extremists or violence

A key player behind a convoy travelling to Ottawa to protest a vaccine mandate for truckers is warning that those planning to use the event for acts of violence or vandalism won’t be tolerated.

Addressing her Facebook followers in a video posted on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Facebook page, Tamara Lich said the convoy is expected to arrive at Parliament Hill in Ottawa over the weekend to protest what she calls infringements of personal liberty caused by public health orders.

“If you see participants along the way that are misbehaving, acting aggressively in any way or inciting any type of violence or hatred, please take down the truck number and their licence plate number so that we can forward that to the police,” she said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?

WTF?

We have a serious mental health crisis pic.twitter.com/mN7gCnvFik

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 25, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•WTF?

William Watson: For an even less popular CBC, yes, eliminate ads

Should the CBC run ads? It depends on a number of facts, most of which are not firmly established.

Is topping-up the CBC’s budget so as to free it from the necessity of selling $250 million of ads per year really the best use of public money? It’s hard to believe it is. Making CBC ad-free, as cultural nationalists have long demanded, seems a marginal sort of expenditure whose only saving grace is that many of the other things this government would do with the money are even lesser-value spending. Could we not buy the front end of an ice-breaker instead? Or a few guns for our soldiers? Or cut tax rates by a decimal point or two? Of course, in our system the government gets to decide and if no other party opposes it, and none seems ready to, ad-free will probably go through.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•CBC