Author: Blazingcatfur

Counter-terror police investigate Iran link to suspected RAF base bomb plot

Counter-terror police investigate Iran link to suspected RAF base bomb plot

Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran was behind a suspected bomb plot targeting an RAF base used by US forces.

Five men have been arrested under the Explosives Act and on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act after three suspicious vans were spotted travelling towards RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire in the early hours of Sunday.

Police received a call at around 12.45am reporting three suspicious vehicles apparently heading towards the air base, prompting armed officers to respond. The five men were arrested in the nearby Whelford area.

BBC has a live stream

h/t Lenny S

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

Canadians were spying for U.S. in Cuba at time of alleged sonic attacks: source

Canadians were spying for U.S. in Cuba at time of alleged sonic attacks: source

A Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana and Canadians were using satellite equipment brought into Cuba by the United States when officials from both countries began experiencing debilitating symptoms caused by alleged sonic attacks linked to Russia, The Globe and Mail has learned.

Two sources tell The Globe that Canada and the United States were working closely together between 2016 and 2018 when diplomats and American intelligence operatives began reporting symptoms including nosebleeds, dizziness, headaches, blurred vision and memory loss.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Cuba, USA

Eleven charged with murder aggravated by speech against ‘white race’ in France

Eleven charged with murder aggravated by speech against ‘white race’ in France

Eleven defendants will face trial in France after being accused of killing a 16-year-old in 2023 while engaging in speech “against the white race and the French nation,” according to a judicial order seen by POLITICO.

The death of Thomas Perotto in the village of Cr´epol quickly became a political flashpoint, with far-right figures like Eric Zemmour framing the incident as an example of the threat posed by immigrants.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France

The end of the Harold Ballard curse? Home of controversial ex-Maple Leafs owner is demolished in Etobicoke

The end of the Harold Ballard curse? Home of controversial ex-Maple Leafs owner is demolished in Etobicoke

As the Toronto Maple Leafs take to the ice for their 110th season this week, a landmark of one of the most controversial — and never dull — owners in their storied history has just been razed in Etobicoke.

Heavy machinery, which came on the heels of workers in haz-mat suits, has demolished the longtime home of former Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, who died in 1990. The house at Montgomery Road and Bloor Street in The Kingsway played a key role in sending Ballard to prison for fraud and theft more than 50 years ago, not long after the Leafs last won the Stanley Cup.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

The tiny island where Chinese mothers travel to give birth to American babies

The tiny island where Chinese mothers travel to give birth to American babies

On a sticky summer’s day in July, a blue-and-white handbag stuffed with cash was shoved into Melanie’s* hands.

It had been given to her by a 36-year-old Chinese woman as she was rushed into surgery for a C-section.

Melanie had been called to the main hospital on the remote island of Saipan to translate for the woman, who had travelled alone from China to give birth in the US territory, automatically giving her baby US citizenship.

Back in WWII

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Opinion: UN taxes should be a step too far for Canadians

Opinion: UN taxes should be a step too far for Canadians

Two UN agencies — the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) — plan to tax global shipping and flights on their greenhouse gas emissions . If implemented, the UN levies will raise global shipping and international flying costs, adding to global inflation. They would also be an important precedent, increasing the power and expanding the budgets of unelected institutions.

This fall the IMO holds a final vote on its carbon tax . ICAO’s requirement to purchase carbon offsets for emissions from international flights becomes mandatory in January.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, United Nations

London schoolgirl who recruited Shamima Begum for Isis is found alive and may face death penalty over Berlin terror attack

London schoolgirl who recruited Shamima Begum for Isis is found alive and may face death penalty over Berlin terror attack

The British jihadi bride who recruited Shamima Begum into ISIS has been arrested in Syria after being linked to a terror attack in Germany, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sharmeena Begum, now 27, who left her east London home for Syria as a schoolgirl in December 2014, was traced after German police investigating July’s Berlin Pride attack found she had exchanged messages with knife-man Abdul Ballout.

He is understood to have sent Sharmeena – no relation to her former schoolmate Shamima – a video of himself swearing his oath of allegiance to ISIS, which she was allegedly meant to pass to the group’s propaganda chief for release online after the attack.

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

Federal Court orders ISPs to block anti-Israel websites targeting Indigo

Federal Court orders ISPs to block anti-Israel websites targeting Indigo

Canada’s largest internet providers have been ordered to block websites operated by anonymous anti-Israel activists targeting Indigo Books & Music Inc. for the next two years, according to a Federal Court ruling.

Justice Janet Fuhrer granted the long-term blocking order after Indigo spent years pursuing activists behind websites that copied the bookseller’s branding and accused the company and CEO Heather Reisman of complicity in Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Kyiv has become a frontline city – and winter is on the way

Kyiv has become a frontline city – and winter is on the way

It felt like the last day of summer. On a Sunday afternoon in late September, people in Kyiv strolled through the city’s botanical gardens, admiring the late-flowering dahlias. Later, the terraces in the Podil area – a neighbourhood full of bars, patisseries and bookshops – filled up with customers in search of a cocktail.

The idyll was an illusion. As the day darkened, the air defence began its rumble and boom. When a projectile fell with an explosive smack on a bar table, the drinkers flinched and then laughed. It was only a conker from the chestnut tree overhead. Nursing a glass of rosé, writer Myroslav Laiuk talked about the picnic he and his wife had had the previous evening, in a park in the Obolon district – prosecco in proper glasses, cheese and charcuterie. Then a drone was shot down above their heads. Very pretty, he said, with a smile. Shooting stars. Time to make a wish.

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

Islamic Finance: What “Interest-Free” Banking Really Means

Islamic Finance: What “Interest-Free” Banking Really Means

Islamic finance is usually presented to Western audiences in reassuring terms. Muslims, we are told, are forbidden to pay or receive interest. Conventional mortgages therefore exclude observant Muslims from home ownership. Islamic finance provides an ethical alternative based on shared risk, responsible investment and interest-free banking. But is this true, and is it right?

Islamic finance is not simply ordinary banking with the interest removed. It is finance intended to comply with Sharia and presented as Sharia-compliant, requiring Islamic authorities to determine what is permitted, how transactions must be structured, which businesses may receive investment, and whether individual financial products meet Islamic requirements. Whether the resulting products actually conform to those principles is another question.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Scott Stinson: Doug Ford’s love affair with corporate subsidies shows no sign of waning

Scott Stinson: Doug Ford’s love affair with corporate subsidies shows no sign of waning

Ministers with the Ontario government lined up on Friday to declare that an announcement from a Volkswagen subsidiary that it was delaying the opening of an EV battery plant in St. Thomas by two years was, in fact, good news. Great news, even.

“To me, it’s a great news story,” said Vic Fedeli, the minister for Economic Development, citing the fact that PowerCo now has a contract to begin building the facility, supported by at least $10 billion in subsidies from all levels of government, that it hopes will be ready by 2029.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

The Lindsay Clancy Case Shows Why Civilization Must Reject Feminine “Ethics”

The Lindsay Clancy Case Shows Why Civilization Must Reject Feminine “Ethics”

It’s difficult to assess the prevalence of the Clancy phenomenon, in which a female-dominated consensus, sentimental and vicious, formed swiftly around the alleged suffering and humanity of a woman who killed her three children in a premeditated act.

A YouGov poll from early in September showed that the difference between men’s and women’s reactions to the trial was not as stark as one might have expected from the public furor (women were more likely by about 10 points to support a verdict of not guilty).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Feminists