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UPS plane explodes after takeoff in Kentucky, sending huge fireball into the sky and leaving multiple injured

Terrifying video shows the moment a massive UPS plane exploded as it took off from a Louisville, Kentucky airport on Tuesday, leaving multiple people injured and sending a massive plume of smoke spreading across the city as fires blazed for nearly a mile.

The MD-11 plane exploded around 5.15pm as it departed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, heading toward Daniel K Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, the Federal Aviation Authority announced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Report: Half of Migrant Households Get Welfare Via US-Born Children

According to a report, nearly half of non-citizens’ homes with children rely on some form of welfare — especially Food Stamps and WIC — despite claims by liberals that migrants don’t use government assistance programs.

The report by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that 47 percent of non-citizen homes with children under six years of age are on Food Stamps and WIC assistance programs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

The Supreme Court used a far-fetched hypothetical to axe minimum sentences for child pornography

The members of Canada’s Supreme Court have such wonderful imaginations. They are able to look at the facts of a case – or a couple, as recently brought before them regarding prison sentences for accessing and possessing child pornography – and invent an entirely unrelated and far-fetched scenario in order to strike down a mandatory minimum sentence as unconstitutional. It’s an impressive exercise: one that risks undermining the legitimacy of the Court in the eyes of the public (or further undermining that legitimacy, depending on one’s perspective) with just one creative-writing assignment. Because if the Supreme Court can simply fabricate any scenario it wants, no matter how tenuously related to the actual case before it, and use that invented case to strike down law, then no law could possibly survive a Supreme Court challenge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", WTF?

Huntingdon suspect ‘linked to four knife crimes before attack’

Police are investigating whether the suspect in the Huntingdon train stabbings was involved in four knife-related incidents in the hours before the attack.

Anthony Williams appeared in court on Monday charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on an LNER train from Doncaster to London on Saturday evening. He was remanded into custody until Dec 1.

There have been calls for an urgent investigation into the police’s handling of the case amid claims there were a string of missed opportunities to apprehend the 32-year-old before the incident.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Two Tiered Policing", WTF?

Cloned meat is quietly getting closer to being sold in Canada — but people may not know they’re buying it

Cloned meat could be coming to a grocery store near you. Whether you’re receptive to the technology or not, you may be none the wiser from looking at the package. Health Canada has made moves to lift restrictions on meat from cloned cattle and pigs, no longer considering it a “novel food,” meaning it could be commercialized without notification or labelling.

h/t Patti Jo

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Germany’s Migrant Crime Problem Is Out of Control

In a sane country, it would be unthinkable that the murder of a two-year-old boy would go effectively unpunished. And yet this is exactly what is happening in Germany. In January this year, a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker—Enamullah Omarzai—launched a brutal attack on a group of toddlers on a daycare outing, at a park in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. With a large kitchen knife, he began stabbing two of the children—a two-year-old Moroccan boy and a two-year-old Syrian girl. One of the female teachers, as well as two male passersby, attempted to intervene, allowing the remaining teacher and children to escape. In the struggle, one teacher had her hand broken, while the two men were stabbed. The little boy and a 41-year-old man both died from their injuries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

BBC faked Trump’s Jan 6 speech

‘The BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph.

A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, “completely misled” viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Hex appeal: the rise of middle-class witches

Make up and costume test for actress Gale Sondergaard for the Wizard of Oz.

In King James VI of Scotland’s Daemonologie, written in 1597, he vigorously encourages witch-hunting and, in particular, the tossing of witches into the sea. Only the innocent would sink. As a way of identifying witches, it was clear and presumably efficient.

These days, we have no such clarity. But witches walk among us. I’m not talking about women in black pointy hats, but something far scarier: the middle-class witch. In the past, she might have been called a depressive, a spinster or a divorcée. Now, she’s probably a middle-aged woman in the Home Counties with a TikTok account, a litany of spells and deep trauma.

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Canada will start dispute resolution process over Stellantis jobs lost to U.S., Joly says

Canada is starting a dispute resolution process against Stellantis after the automaker said last month that it’s moving jobs to the U.S.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told a parliamentary committee Monday that Ottawa wants to recover some of the billions it has committed to Stellantis.

Joly said Stellantis moving production of the Jeep Compass from Brampton, Ont., to Illinois is a violation of a contract.

Kinda ironic the Nexstar Battery Plant isn’t going to make EV Batteries for the foreseeable future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", WTF?