Author: Blazingcatfur

Iran has chosen its protest scapegoats. Now they face execution

The phone calls, when they came, lasted three minutes.

In those minutes, a young woman told her mother she was alive. A son told his parents he was exhausted, and said that if the security forces wanted to execute him, they should, for at least then he’d be free.

It has been nearly a month since Venus Hossein-Nejad, 28, and Peyvand Naeimi, 30, were marched out of their workplaces by Iranian agents and held prisoner as part of the regime’s crackdown against the widespread protests threatening the Islamic Republic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Imam is guilty of raping women and girls as young as 12 after convincing them he had magical powers when they met at mosque

An imam has been found guilty of raping women and girls as young as 12 after using his position as a faith leader at his east London mosque to convince them he had magical powers.

Abdul Halim Khan, 54, has been found guilty of twenty one counts of rape and sexual assault as well as child sexual offences against seven women and girls at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

The offences took place between 2004 and 2015, and three of his victims were young teenage girls at the time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Would Zelensky win an election? It depends if he’s won a peace deal

The president, whose ratings have plummeted, may soon announce elections. He could triumph, writes a Ukrainian pollster, but only if war with Russia grinds on

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, my country’s politics followed a simple formula. The public was gripped by a spirit of exalted optimism before each presidential election, only to be followed soon afterwards by the crash of deep disappointment. Nearly every holder of that office followed that path, beginning with a high credit of trust and ending with humiliatingly low figures.

Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to be walking the same road. He was elected in 2019 with net trust ratings of 71 per cent. Yet after almost three years in power those ratings have plummeted to minus 15 per cent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Canadian Security Intelligence Service refuses to reveal areas targeted by foreign agents in last election

Canada’s top intelligence agency refused to disclose how many federal ridings in the 2025 election were direct targets of foreign agents, including those potentially from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the campaign.

Asked recently before the House of Commons affairs committee about the foreign agents, Vanessa Lloyd, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) election monitor, said, “I am not able to tell you the numbers.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference"

007 has to be a white man, says Bond girl

A former Bond girl has said that 007 has to be a white man.

Maryam d’Abo, 65, who played a cello smuggling Bond girl in the The Living Daylights in 1987, has given her verdict on who Daniel Craig’s successor should be.

Asked if she thought a black actor could be cast, she said: “Then don’t call it Bond. Call it something else. You can have a wonderful black hero, but then don’t call him James Bond.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation"

Freeland Violated Election Act in Press Conference Comments: Elections Canada

Former Liberal MP and cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland violated Elections Act by commenting on a 2024 Toronto byelection in favour of her party during official government press conferences, Canada’s elections commissioner says.

Caroline Simard, commissioner of Elections Canada, said in a report released on Feb. 13 that Freeland’s comments amounted to “unlawful contributions” to a political entity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

BURNEY: The climate apocalypse that never came — why net zero will destroy Western civilization

How the UN’s $275 trillion climate agenda threatens global prosperity while ignoring real science.

Paul MacRae’s book “Through the Looking Glass: A Citizen’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Climate Science” is a meticulous repudiation of the pseudo-science that has driven the debate, nationally and internationally, on climate change or global warming for decades. The fact that apocalyptic prophesies by “experts” like Al Gore and Greta Thunberg have not materialized should be proof enough, but MacRae digs deeper to expose the fallacies versus the facts. His views command new currency as many countries focus on more pressing and practical priorities for public funds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Why Europe’s elites have embraced sneering anti-Americanism

In recent months, anti-Americanism has emerged yet again as a respectable prejudice in Europe. It is widely promoted through the mainstream media and enthusiastically endorsed by the continent’s cultural elites. There are now even numerous campaigns to boycott American goods – most respondents to a survey in France said they would support a boycott of US brands like Tesla, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. As a piece in Euractiv put it, anti-Americanism is ‘in vogue across Europe’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, Trump Derangement Syndrome

“Unprecedented Crime Convergence” in Canada: 668 Organized Crime Groups Networked Into 48 Nations, Potentially “Hundreds of Billions” Laundered Each Year, Washington Institute Finds

WASHINGTON — A former senior U.S. intelligence official has concluded that an “unprecedented crime convergence” is underway across Canada, involving nearly 700 organized crime groups operating in strategic cooperation and networked into 48 countries—amid virtually no coordinated national response from Ottawa—resulting in potentially hundreds of billions of dollars laundered in the country each year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada