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Kurds in ‘mountain prison’ cower as Turkey fights PKK with drones in Iraq

It took 10 days to find Muhsin Speri’s body. The 64-year-old had left his town in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan along with friends Hassan Sadiq and Safar Sini on a dry, windy day in December last year to fish and forage for wild honey and mushrooms.

Life in the Amedi region of the Zagros mountains is hard and physical, but the area has been home to Kurdish and Assyrian communities in sync with the rhythms of the mountains for thousands of years. Many locals like to roam and camp for several days at a time, but after Speri’s family failed to reach him by phone for more than a week, a search party was launched.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Turkey

Rochdale grooming ringleader shops in town where he abused children SIX YEARS after he was supposed to be deported

A CONVICTED grooming gang ringleader goes shopping in the town where he abused kids — despite being told he was going to be deported six years ago.

Qari Abdul Rauf was warned he would be kicked out of Britain after being jailed for his part in the Rochdale scandal, in which dozens of girls as young as 13 were assaulted or raped.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Ghislaine Maxwell faces 80 years in jail over new sex trafficking charges involving 14-year-old girl

GHISLAINE Maxwell is facing up to 80 years behind bars after US prosecutors accused her of new sex trafficking charges involving a 14-year-old girl.

Maxwell will die in prison if a jury in New York finds her guilty when she goes on trial in the summer.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•Crime

U.S. and Its Allies Must Focus on Access Denial Against China’s Military

Beijing may be deterred if it is clear that moving its naval and air force assets to attack Taiwan puts them at risk of humiliating losses.

If China is going to start a war, they are going to do it on their terms. All of our wonderful stuff won’t get there in time. You need to get your stuff there on Day Zero of the fight,” Adm. James “Sandy” Winnefeld, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told me last fall.

China has escalated “gray-zone” attacks against Taiwan in recent months. “Gray-zone” activity advances a state’s objectives outside the realm of accepted diplomacy, but below full military conflict. This can include disinformation campaigns, political or economic coercion, cyberattacks, or using proxies.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Holy Roller vandalized

After being defaced with graffiti, London’s Holy Roller is once again sporting it’s iconic green colour in full.

On Saturday morning, Grant MacDonald said he was on his regular walk when he spotted blue, anti-war graffiti that read ‘F–k war’ on the city’s best-known military monument.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"

Cause of death at issue in Chauvin trial as prosecution questions medical examiner’s findings

Prosecutors trying the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in George Floyd’s death appeared to distance themselves last week from the medical findings on his cause of death, issued by the only doctor who performed an autopsy.

Special Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell told jurors last Monday that while Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker ruled Floyd’s cause of death cardiac arrest, prosecutors would prove he died of asphyxia, or, lack of oxygen, while Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes.

“This was … not a fatal heart event,” Blackwell said in his opening statement. “He died one breath at a time over an extended period of time.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•#BlackLivesMatter

‘Get out!’: Crowd chants health inspectors out of B.C. restaurant breaking COVID-19 health order

The owner of a Vancouver restaurant is vowing to continue defying a provincial health order banning indoor dining for three weeks, despite being served with an individual order to close.

Vancouver police said a liquor coordinator and provincial health officers attended Corduroy Restaurant on Cornwall Avenue, Saturday and issued a full closure order.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Canadians warming to prisoner swap with China, split on balancing budget: Nanos survey

TORONTO — New polling data from Nanos Research, commissioned by CTV News, reveals Canadians’ thoughts on the upcoming federal budget, carbon pricing and the idea of returning Meng Wanzhou to China in exchange for the freedom of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

On the latter point, Nanos found that far more Canadians are in favour of the prisoner swap than they were when that idea was floated last June.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

WTF?

Wait for it

Was he eaten?

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•WTF?

Woke Battle Brews At PBS: Why Does One White, Male Filmmaker Get All The Support?

Is it time to cancel Ken Burns at PBS? It’s not easy being a white, male, cisgender filmmaker these days over at the taxpayer-funded public television network. Burns has achieved immense success for his documentaries made for PBS and has been generously rewarded for his work there. A group of nearly 140 filmmakers and other professionals is blasting PBS for a lack of diversity behind the scenes. Their complaint says there is just too much Ken Burns.

If I recall correctly Burns was pressured to include the “Black experience” in his WW II documentary. That production was such a dud they should probably ask that those segments be cut. The sound track alone turned me off and I have never been able to watch the whole thing.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

An Avalanche of Misdirection

The World Health Organization’s report on Covid-19’s origins dances around the likely timing of the first outbreak.

The World Health Organization released its joint report on the origins of Covid-19 on Tuesday, but historians of science will study it for decades—if for no other reason than the obvious discomfort of its 34-author team. Even before the report’s publication, the origins of the virus were a matter of dispute among current and former political and public health figures. In time, these controversies will be lost to history. What will remain is the truth: the original Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan occurred well before the disease rose to international awareness and lockdowns began—most likely in October 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Joe Biden, Hunter’s laptop & media lapdogs

On a corner of my desk, there is a small pile of newspaper clips, notes and documents. They date back to last October and are part of the scandalous information contained on a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden.

Normally I would have thrown the papers away or stored them by now. But I kept them handy because I knew the day would come when they would be needed again.

Friday was that day.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

LEVY: Toronto Police stats show crime surged after Roehampton shelter opened

In the three months after the Roehampton hotel shelter opened in July 2020, crime in the surrounding neighbourhood skyrocketed by 30% compared to the summer before, an FOI obtained by the Toronto Sun shows.

The Yonge-Eglinton and Mt. Pleasant East neighbourhoods — the two neighbourhoods most drastically impacted by the hotel shelter — saw increases in all the major crime indicators, except assaults, compared to the summer of 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Facebook Data on 533 Million Users Reemerges Online for Free

The personal data of more than half a billion Facebook Inc. users reemerged online for free on Saturday, a reminder of the company’s ability to collect mountains of information and its struggles to protect these sensitive assets.

The leak includes personal information on 533 million Facebook users, such as phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, bios and in some cases email addresses, Business Insider reported.

“This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019,” a Facebook spokesperson wrote in an email statement. “We found and fixed this issue in August 2019.”

That is an asinine response by FB. It’s like saying we rebuilt the dam after the break so everything is A-OK as before!

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•facebook, facebook is evil

The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon, Countries Report Increased Cases After Using Vaccine

The Hong Kong government recently rolled out a large-scale vaccination plan against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as COVID-19, but it’s been mired by frequent reports of serious adverse reactions. In just one month, 13 people died in Hong Kong after being inoculated, 11 of whom had been injected with the Sinovac vaccine, a Chinese domestically made vaccine.

The CCP has not reported a single case of serious side effects or death after it announced the administering of 100 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine in China on March 28.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"