Author: Blazingcatfur

The Paranoid Style in Progressive Politics

triggered TDS Trump Derangement

Its attempts to pathologize every instance of Republican opposition to the Democratic program say much about the Left’s own anxieties.

The other day I found myself staring at this headline in the New York Times: “GOP Focuses on Polarizing Cultural Issues in Drive to Regain Power.” For a moment, I thought the article would, in a commonsense way, explore how Republicans were confronting the polarizing cultural issues that had been created by liberals. That is to say, I thought the article would be about the hardball nature of American politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Theories COVID-19 created in lab ‘remain viable’ says group of 18 leading scientists

 

A group of prominent scientists have agreed not to rule out the possibility that the coronavirus was man-made in a laboratory, pending additional information needed.

Until there is proof that signals otherwise, the theory that COVID-19 got created in a Chinese laboratory and it somehow leaked onto the rest of the world is something to take into serious consideration, the scientists say, Reuters reported.

In its earliest development, the virus was first reported to be in China in 2019, however, like Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease at the University of Cambridge, said: “More investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

US officials confirm 130 incidents of mysterious Havana syndrome brain injury

There have been more than 130 incidents of unexplained brain injury known as Havana syndrome among US diplomats, spies and defence officials, some of them within the past few weeks, it has been reported.

The New York Times said three CIA officers had reported serious symptoms since December, following overseas assignments, requiring outpatient treatment at the Walter Reed military hospital in Washington. One episode was within the past two weeks.

The reported number of cases is about 70 more than had previously been acknowledged.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEspionage, USA

The Realignment: In the Middle East, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.

The Realignment: In the Middle East, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.

…The Realignment rests on, to put it mildly, a hollow theory. It misstates the nature of the Islamic Republic and the scope of its ambitions. A regime that has led “Death to America” chants for the last 40 years is an inveterately revisionist regime. The Islamic Republic sees itself as a global power, the leader of the Muslim world, and it covets hegemony over the Persian Gulf—indeed, the entire Middle East. But the only instrument it has ever had to achieve its objectives is regional subversion.

Longish read making the case for what we all knew or suspected. As under Obama the OK is being given to Mullah hegemony by Biden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMiddle East

ISIS used chemical weapons on Iraqi prisoners, U.N. investigators find

The Islamic State used Iraqi prisoners as human test subjects in experiments with chemical and possibly biological weapons, United Nations investigators conclude in a report that sheds new light on the terrorist group’s forays into making a weapon of mass destruction.

The previously unknown experiments happened sometime after 2014, when the Islamic State seized control of Mosul and commandeered the city’s main university as a research center for new kinds of weapons, according to the report by a panel appointed by the U.N. Security Council to investigate war crimes by the extremist group. At least some of the prisoners died, the report said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Germany classifies UK coronavirus risk region due to rise of Indian Variant

The UK has one of the fastest vaccine rollouts in the world. But the emergence of a highly infectious variant first discovered in India has caused concern.

UK – Indian variant: Second jabs could be brought forward to tackle rise

Second vaccine doses could be brought forward and local restrictions introduced to help tackle the Indian variant in the worst-affected areas, the UK government has said.

Minister Nadhim Zahawi said steps could also include vaccinating younger people in multi-generational households.

Meanwhile, a top scientist has warned lifting restrictions on 21 June is in doubt because of the Indian variant.

Cases in the UK have more than doubled to 1,313, Public Health England said.

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

In many countries, including Canada, dissatisfaction with governments’ COVID-19 pandemic response is growing, study finds

A global study involving more than 540,000 people shows that vaccine hesitancy and concerns about safety have declined steadily over the past year, but people in many countries, including Canada, have become more unhappy with how their governments have handled the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers at Imperial College London have been tracking people in 29 countries since April, 2020, to gauge how the public has responded to the virus. The latest findings, released Friday, showed polling results from 14 countries, including Canada, that have been surveyed most regularly.

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

Partially vaccinated Canadians can socialize outdoors this summer, Tam says

Canadians who have been vaccinated with one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can socialize with close family and friends outdoors over the summer months, Canada’s chief public health officer said today.

With the vaccine supply ramping up, virtually all Canadians will have access to at least one vaccine dose by June. Dr. Theresa Tam said that extra layer of protection will allow some of the more stringent social distancing measures to be relaxed — but Canadians must continue to avoid indoor gatherings altogether until more people are fully vaccinated.

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

‘Beavers are just being beavers’: friction grows between Canadians and animals

OMG! That beaver is giving the Hitler salute!

At first, the theft of wooden fence posts seemed like a crime of opportunity – amid soaring lumber costs, stacks of wood have gone missing from construction sites across North America.

But officers in the Canadian prairie community of Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan, soon identified the culprit: local beavers had stolen the posts to build their dam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘Extremists Recruit Openly Without Resistance’: Swedish Researcher Warns of Growth in Islamism

Despite Daesh’s* self-proclaimed “caliphate” having fallen, the threat of Islamism is far from over, Sweden’s leading terrorism researcher Magnus Ranstorp of the National Defence College has warned.

Furthermore, the security threat against Sweden has increased and is expected to further spike in the next few years, national broadcaster SVT reported.

According to Ranstorp, the current situation, where “extremists recruit openly without resistance”, is largely a product of the authorities’ ham-handed approach and lack of timely measures.

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

How To Assure Repetition of Hamas Rocket Attacks

There is one sure-fire way of guaranteeing that Hamas will continue to employ terrorism against Israel and that other terrorist groups will increase the use of terrorism against civilians around the world. That sure-fire way is to reward the terrorists who employ this tactic and to punish their intended victims who try to fight back. This is one of the most important lessons to be learned from the recent events in Gaza, but it is not a new lesson. In 2002, in a book entitled Why Terrorism Works, I made a point that is even more relevant today than it was then:

“The real root cause of terrorism is that it is successful — terrorists have consistently benefited from their terrorist acts. Terrorism will persist as long as it continues to work for those who use it, as long as the international community rewards it, as it has been doing for the past thirty-five years.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Philadelphia incinerated remains of police bombing victims without telling families

The public outcry over the handling of human remains retrieved from the ashes of the deadly 1985 bombing of a Black liberation organization in Philadelphia dramatically escalated on Thursday, with the revelation that the bones of an undisclosed number of Move victims were incinerated and dumped by the city without the knowledge or permission of living relatives.

In a bombshell disclosure, the mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney, announced that he had fired the city’s health commissioner, Thomas Farley. The mayor said that Farley had told him earlier this week that several years ago he had become aware that remains of victims of the Move bombing – in which 11 people died – were still in the possession of the city’s medical examiner’s office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Six Palestinians said shot dead by IDF troops in West Bank clashes

Six Palestinians were reported killed and over 150 were injured on Friday in clashes with the IDF in the West Bank.

The Palestinians were killed in clashes with the IDF during protests throughout the West Bank. Thousands of Palestinians participated in the demonstrations, held in solidarity with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Another Palestinian was killed after he tried stabbing an Israeli soldier near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The soldier shot the attacker.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Two MLAs kicked out of Alberta UCP caucus hours after call for Premier Jason Kenney to resign

EDMONTON — Hours after Todd Loewen, a northern Alberta United Conservative, called on Premier Jason Kenney to resign, his colleagues ejected him from the caucus, along with Drew Barnes, another maverick MLA, from Medicine Hat.

The drama began in the early hours Thursday, when Loewen, a veteran backbencher, posted a letter to Facebook that argued “many Albertans, including myself, no longer have confidence in your (Kenney’s) leadership.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta