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Border left ‘wide open’ after red states pull National Guard and police

MCALLEN, Texas — The swarm of National Guard soldiers and state police that governors sent to guard the Texas-Mexico border earlier this summer are gone, leaving the border effectively unmanned with just 6% of the reinforcements left behind.

“We used to have a National Guard posted there,” Border Patrol agent Chris Cabrera told the Washington Examiner while driving along a dirt road that runs parallel with the border near the Hidalgo port of entry late one evening recently. “There was another one right over here, but they took that guy, too.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

FUREY: Was anyone really asking for public health to tell them how to celebrate the holidays?!

It’s quite something that New Brunswick has attempted to flat-out ban Thanksgiving gatherings this year and in Alberta their policy is that you can’t invite the non-vaccinated over. Thankfully the tone is milder here in Ontario, but that hasn’t stopped officials from still trying to inject their wisdom into family celebrations.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

One killed, 14 injured after ‘hellish’ shootout in bar in Saint Paul, Minnesota

One woman is dead and 14 people are injured after a gunfight broke out in a bar in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Police are looking for “several shooters,” and no arrests have yet been made.

Police were called to a bar in downtown Saint Paul in the early hours of Sunday morning, and came upon a “hellish situation,” spokesman Steve Linders told reporters. Gunshot victims stumbled onto the sidewalk outside the bar, while others lay wounded inside.

*Trigger Warning* Video shared by bystanders shows Shooting Inside W. 7th #TruckPark Bar Kills 1, Injures Multiple in #SaintPaul #Minnesota https://t.co/f4rAb4nd26 pic.twitter.com/uiTFTYncoF

— Motivation To Hustle (@MthFresh) October 10, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•"Mass Shooting"

‘Woke’ psychiatrists have lost sight of the biological causes of mental illness

“… Yet, too many of my peers want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. To be “woke” today is to acknowledge the factors that intersect with mental illness, but to ignore the illness itself. It is almost taboo to suggest that social inequities are not the sole cause for the development of mental illness. That angers me because this isn’t a matter of opinion.

It’s suppressing a hard truth.”

(Go incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

Tories Face New Rivals, Liberal Fortunes Could Shift Amid Changing Times Post-Election

The Conservative Party’s infighting and ascendent rivals in the People’s Party and Maverick Party could be seen as a repeat of the 1990s when the Liberals ruled Canada over a divided political right. But some political scientists say there are additional factors that over time will influence the outcome this time around.

I don’t see the CPC abandoning its leftward course and they really should consider dropping conservative from the party name. The PPC is not a rival to the CPC, the LPC is.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•Conservative Party

Prime Minister Grave Markers To Be Reworded With Atrocity Apologies Open To Highest Bidder

Federal officials rethink wording of markers at gravesites of past prime ministers

OTTAWA — It was in late January that vandals so badly scratched out the face of Mackenzie King on an awareness panel by the former prime minister’s final resting place in Toronto that a federal agency decided the panel had to be replaced.

For more than two decades, the commemorative panel didn’t receive a revamp, just like others at prime ministerial gravesites overseen by federal officials.

Those officials, however, are rethinking what the panels should say and reflect how the country views its past, specifically in light of historical mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•Canada, WTF?

Father Of Islamic Nuclear Bomb: Abdul Qadeer Khan Greatest Nuclear Proliferator Of All Time Dies

Abdul Qadeer Khan: ‘Father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb’ dies

… Coming shortly after similar tests by India, Dr Khan’s work helped seal Pakistan’s place as the world’s seventh nuclear power and sparked national jubilation.

But he was arrested in 2004 for illegally sharing nuclear technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea.

The revelations that he had passed on nuclear secrets to other countries shocked Pakistan.

In a televised address, Dr Khan offered his “deepest regrets and unqualified apologies”.

Dr Khan was pardoned by Pakistan’s then-president, Pervez Musharraf, but he was held under house arrest until 2009.

The leniency of his treatment angered many in the West, where he has been dubbed “the greatest nuclear proliferator of all time”.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Ontario reports 535 new Covid cases … and Jab confidence remains high

Ontario reports 535 new COVID-19 cases today, 2 more virus-related deaths

Ontario is reporting more than 500 new COVID-19 cases today amid a continued drop in the average daily case count in the province.

Provincial health officials logged 535 new COVID-19 infections today, down from 654 on Saturday and 580 one week ago.

Confidence in COVID-19 vaccines among Ontarians remains stable: science group

In a brief released late Friday, the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table says confidence in COVID-19 vaccines has remained within the range of 72 per cent to 76 per cent.

The group says survey data from 28,660 Ontarians revealed that people with lower confidence in COVID-19 vaccines tend to have a lower household income, are more likely to be unable to work from home and self-identify as racialized.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Kamala Harris gets ‘repackaged’ and now looks cringier than ever

Two weeks ago, Kamala Harris hired a “crisis communications expert,” to create a new image for her. She needed a “rebranding” it seems, to paper over her failures. Her stints as border surge czar and voting czar weren’t going over well with the public. Her staff flight and toxic work environment continued her downward trajectory. The taxpayers would pay, of course, for this bid to get her poll numbers up, but who was counting?

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 9, 2021•0•WTF?

At the Heart of Our Divisions: Socialism is immoral—and it makes us hate one another.

We didn’t need a new poll from The University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire to tell us that many Democrats see fascists when they look at Republicans and many Republicans see Communists when they look at Democrats. Forty-one percent of Biden voters and 52 percent of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that the time has come to split the country into red and blue states. There is a widespread feeling on both sides that we are not friends but enemies. All this, we could have guessed.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 9, 2021•0•Communism, Communists

ISIS-K is Forcing the Taliban to Choose Between Iran and Jihad

There’s a sense of history coming full circle in the ISIS-K suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan.

ISIS, the original one, started out as Al Qaeda in Iraq. But it broke from Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan\Pakistan by unrelentingly targeting Shiites in Iraq over and above even the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 9, 2021•0•Afghanistan

Critical Race Theory’s new disguise

A rebranded campaign for ‘equity’ is just as divisive

Does “critical race theory” (CRT) really exist? Not according to Ralph Northam, the Governor of Virginia. CRT, he recently told The New York Times, “is a dog whistle that the Republicans are using to frighten people. What I’m interested in is equity.”

But rather than convince anyone about the non-existence of CRT, his comments merely confirmed something else: namely, CRT’s remarkable ability to shape-shift into whatever form its advocates choose. For Northam, CRT might not exist — but that’s only because it has undergone a rebranding.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2021October 9, 2021•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

Do women not have rights on campus? Bristol University Students’ Union has banned our women-only society.

A month into my PhD at the University of Bristol, the students’ union voted for a blanket ban on ‘TERF’ speakers – that is, ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminists’ – on campus. The chilling effect of this was soon felt by myself and other feminists on campus. I never said I was a radical feminist, but that didn’t matter. What mattered to the wannabe despots at Bristol was that people like me were stepping out of line.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2021October 9, 2021•0•"TERF Wars", Big Tranny

Australian cop quits after bombshell interview, claims most colleagues ‘suffering’ & don’t want to enforce tough Covid-19 rules

A female officer with Victoria Police, who served for 16 years, has resigned in protest against the use of police to enforce Covid-19 rules, saying in an interview that a “great majority” of her colleagues shared her sentiments.

Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell has appeared on The Discernible Interviews channel on YouTube on Friday, wearing her dark-blue uniform and revealing that she had been “troubled” by how police resources have been applied during the pandemic by state authorities.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2021October 9, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Supreme Court to consider Boston Marathon bomber’s fate

The Biden administration will try to convince the nation’s highest court next week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arguing a jury doesn’t need to examine evidence the feds relied on during an earlier phase of the case.

Tsarnaev’s guilt in the horrific attack near the finish line of the 2013 marathon, which killed three and injured 260 people, won’t be at issue when justices for the US Supreme Court hear the case Wednesday. The only question before the justices is whether the 28-year-old should be sentenced to life in prison, or death.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2021October 9, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA