Author: Blazingcatfur

Church attendance report pulled after YouGov finds ‘fraudulent’ responses

A report claiming the number of young people attending church in England and Wales had skyrocketed has been retracted, after the underlying data was found to be flawed.

The Bible Society’s “Quiet Revival” report had been widely reported on since its publication last year and became an accepted part of discourse among many Christians.

Now YouGov, which carried out the research, has told the Bible Society that an internal review of the data found that some of the respondents who completed its survey were “fraudulent”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inReligion

Canada meets NATO defence target, but opposition says it’s ‘creative accounting’

OTTAWA — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization confirmed on Thursday that Canada’s defence spending has reached the target of two per cent of gross domestic product, a commitment that has been 20 years in the making.

“We control our destiny,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Halifax. “I am pleased to announce today that we have kept that ambitious promise.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

West African nation famous for selling fellow Africans into slavery demands reparations for slavery after UN vote

Ghana was famous for raiding and selling off rival tribes!

And it exists to this day …

Slavery in Ghana

They are slavery’s littlest victims: children on fishing boats and at gold mines. Free the Slaves works to foster a climate where child rights are respected and enforced—and kids are protected from harm.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGhana, Slavery and Reparations

The energy crisis has only just begun

For every day the war in the Middle East drags on, the crisis in energy markets deepens. The price of everything from gas and oil to jet fuel and plastics is rising sharply.

That crisis is set to get dramatically worse over the next week or two.

Energy shipments stopped in their tracks on February 28 when the war began and Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. But plenty of ships made it out to sea in those final days before the conflict began. The last of them should arrive in Japanese and Korean ports sometime over the next 8-10 days.

After that, there’s nothing coming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Iran ‘may have hired useful idiots’ for Jewish ambulance attack

Police say the instigators could have mimicked a Russian model of attack which involves paying recruits with cryptocurrency

Police investigating the arson attack on Jewish ambulances in north London are examining whether it may have been directed by Iran using proxy operatives recruited online, sources said.

Investigators believe that those behind the attack may have followed a model used by Russia, recruiting so-called “useful idiots” through online criminal networks and paying them in cryptocurrency.

Iran has made use of proxies to launch attacks across Europe, including by Chechen and Turkish gangsters, and is also suspected of deploying Iranian expatriates to conduct surveillance on dissidents in the UK.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

US prosecutors argue Maduro ‘plundered’ Venezuelan wealth in court battle over legal fees

A judge appeared sympathetic on Thursday to legal arguments that ex-Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cillia Flores should be allowed to use Venezuelan government money to fund their defence.

Maduro and Flores’s attorneys asked the judge to dismiss the narco-terrorism case against the pair because the US has denied them use of the funds due to sanctions in place against the Latin American country.

Prosecutors argued Maduro “plundered” Venezuela’s wealth and should not be able to use its money for legal fees.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

A visit with Occam’s Razor

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Trump scorches NATO for failing Iran loyalty test, debates bailing on alliance

President Trump blasted NATO on Thursday for its unwillingness to help with the Iran war and implied the US may no longer “be there” for its allies.

Before the Feb. 28 US-Israeli military attacks, Trump said, “we’re always gonna be there” for NATO allies.

“At least we were. I don’t know anymore, to be honest with you,” Trump said Thursday at a cabinet meeting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", NATO, USA

Chief tells senators Kamloops residential school ‘graves’ scam search could take decades

Sacred fake graves money dance

A search for alleged unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site could take decades before yielding answers, the chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation told a Senate committee, while acknowledging no remains have yet been recovered nearly five years after the initial claim.

I am sick of these scammers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Prepare Properly for Domestic Drone Terror, Says Think Tank

National drone defences are underprepared for the threat of domestic extremism, according to a new policy briefing.

The number of potentially violent plots making use of UAVs has increased sharply over the past five years. Researchers James Paterson and Lydia Khalil for Australia’s Lowy Institute claim that

Domestic extremist actors are incorporating drone technology into operational capabilities and attack plots, taking inspiration from the battlefield.

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