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In a chilling echo of Nazi Germany, how the British State rounded up and incarcerated 50,000 vulnerable young ‘undesirables’ in a drive for the ‘perfect race’

David Barron was barely into his teens when he arrived at the Mid-Yorkshire Institution for the Mentally Defective in the late 1930s. He had been taken there by local council officials, having been rescued from a foster home where he was cruelly treated.

‘Goodbye, lad. We hope you’ll soon settle in,’ they said. He was shown into a huge dining room, filled with around 500 people.

It was not the noise that day that would stay in his memory, but the sight of the bars on the windows. The sense that he was in prison, closed in, with the clanging of keys locking and unlocking each room and corridor.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, WTF?

Still Not Dead: Canadian students hunger-strike for college to divest from Israel-linked firms

A group of students at McGill University have spent more than three weeks on hunger strike in an effort to force the Canadian college to divest from “companies supporting the Israeli military”.

The move follows months of protests and sit-ins at McGill and at universities around the world, as students and faculty members have protested against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Documents on McGill’s website show that it held investments in companies including Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor which has sold fighter jets to Israel, and Safran, a French air and defense company.

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

The Nazi hunter, the IRA and the man who met the Queen

A Nazi hunter with ties to Israeli intelligence was given access to some of the IRA’s most sensitive secrets just when the group believed it was about the drive Britain out of Northern Ireland.

An upcoming BBC documentary follows the story of Zwy Aldouby.

Right at the bloodiest point of the Northern Ireland Troubles, he filmed bombers unmasked and met most of the IRA’s underground leadership.

The film disappeared for almost 50 years and former IRA members have now told the BBC it was a huge mistake to allow Aldouby such unprecedented access.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

OMG! NOT A REBUKE!! MPs looking to have ArriveCan contractor rebuked by Speaker of the House of Commons

MPs are looking to bring an ArriveCan contractor before the House of Commons to be formally rebuked by Speaker Greg Fergus.

On Friday, Fergus found there was a prima facie breach of MPs’ privilege when GC Strategies’ Kristian Firth declined to answer certain questions during a committee appearance earlier this month.

Following Fergus’ ruling, Conservative MP Michael Barrett moved a motion calling on MPs to order that Firth appear before the bar of the House to be publicly admonished.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

GUNTER: Federal bureaucracy a seven-layer dip of management

With respect to the adage “No one can serve two masters,” that’s unfortunate because Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux calculates that the average federal frontline worker has seven managers.

We may finally have discovered why the current federal government is incapable of getting anything done. There are so many layers of management piled one on top of another that very little gets done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Trudeau Government to Investigate ‘How Climate Change Interacts With Democratic Decline’

Self-described “basic Chinese dictatorship” admirer — I don’t need to play the clip here, right? We’ve all seen it by now — and effeminate Xi Jinping boy-toy Justin Trudeau has big new plans for the money his government farms from the serfs.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

A national school food framework is on Chrystia Freeland’s desk. Will Ottawa say yes?

A framework for a national school food program has landed on the desk of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and with the federal budget just weeks away advocates hope the proposal will get the green light.

The proposed plan comes as food prices continue to cause political headaches for governments across the country, said Tyler Meredith, a policy thinker and former economic adviser to Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“A proposal has now been put forward to Minister Freeland, and it’s now for us to watch whether it’ll be funded in the budget,” said Meredith. “I’m cautiously optimistic.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

FBI tells passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost a panel they might be crime victims

The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime.

“I’m contacting you because we have identified you as a possible victim of a crime,” a victim specialist from the federal agency’s Seattle office wrote in the letters, which passengers received this week. “This case is currently under investigation by the FBI.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Inside the Taliban’s sportswashing plan for cricket ‘world power’

A little over a year before Afghanistan’s triumphs at the Cricket World Cup in India, the team was summoned to the interior ministry in Kabul for a photo call with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of a terrorist network responsible for some of the worst suicide attacks during two decades of conflict.

Now the all-powerful interior minister, Haqqani, who led the most radical Taliban faction with ties to al-Qaeda dating back to the 1980s, smiled benevolently as he was joined by a team on the cusp of a remarkable rise towards the top tier of cricket.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, WTF?

Cancelled for joking about Hamas: why ‘hate speech’ zealots are killing comedy

When the Herald newspaper published its report on March 19, advising that “Police Scotland’s officers are being told they should target actors and comedians under Scotland’s new hate crime laws”, the comedian Al Murray delivered a pithy, pretty unprintable response on X: “F___ this”. Later he elaborated: “I normally suck my teeth at the ‘haven’t you got anything better to do copper?’ reflex, but for this I make the exception…” He added: “It’ll mean the law looking daft.”

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

Stellantis lays off about 400 salaried workers to handle uncertainty in EV transition

DETROIT — Jeep maker Stellantis is laying off about 400 white-collar workers in the U.S. as it deals with the transition from combustion engines to electric vehicles.

The company formed in the 2021 merger between PSA Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler said the workers are mainly in engineering, technology and software at the headquarters and technical center in Auburn Hills, Michigan, north of Detroit. Affected workers were being notified starting Friday morning.

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