Shooter named as Shane Tamura: Gunman who killed 5 including police officer in NYC died by self inflicted wound, NFL offices may have been target

UPDATE: Rifle-toting NYC shooter Shane Tamura kills 5 —including NYPD officer — injures six before turning gun on himself at Blackstone, NFL HQ

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An gunman with an assault rifle killed one police officer and injured at least six others after he opened fire in broad daylight in the heart of New York City before he apparently took his own life.

Security camera photos posted online showed the gunman wearing a sport coat and button-down shirt while carrying the large rifle near a midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone asset management and the NFL on Monday.

SHANE TEMURA – ON X

H/T Patti Jo and XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Dems, Media Richly Deserve Their Dismal Ratings

Both endure their lowest standing with the public since the last century.

Anyone old enough to have watched the original Star Wars film on the big screen will clearly remember the scene in which Obi-Wan Kenobi advises Luke Skywalker that the Mos Eisley settlement is “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.” According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, this is very much the way most voters view the Democratic Party. Specifically, the survey found that 63 percent of voters hold an unfavorable view of “the Party of Jefferson and Jackson.” Considering the absurd antics to which voters have been subjected by these people, it’s remarkable that their numbers aren’t worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump’s Mental-Health Executive Order Targets Urban Chaos

Says she’s non-binary, a sure sign of healthy mental hygeine

In Thinking About Crime, social scientist James Q. Wilson cautioned against focusing on the “root causes” of disorder. Public policy, Wilson argued, should not try to remake society but instead concern itself with what’s practical and possible: incapacitating chronic offenders, creating clear incentives, and providing structure for those who can’t control themselves.

The root-cause mindset has long driven ineffective mental-health policy. The belief that addressing adverse social conditions would prevent mental illness has put mental-health professionals at the center of social reform, with a broad mandate of addressing crime, dependency, and other complex problems. It hasn’t worked.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bad Law"

Unprosecuted: Canada Drops Narcotics Precursor Import Case Against Chinese Scientist Tied to United Front Political Networks

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

OTTAWA / LOS ANGELES — In this discussion with Chris Meyer of Widefountain, we dig deeper into my findings on an explosive narcotics precursor case quietly dropped by Canadian prosecutors—and what it reveals about Canada’s growing vulnerabilities to foreign infiltration.

We unpack the story of a Chinese chemist, known here as Dr. X, who was charged with importing more than 100 kilograms of PMK ethyl glycidate—a key chemical used in the production of MDMA (ecstasy). Court records show Dr. X had direct ties to a bio-pharmaceutical firm affiliated with the University of British Columbia, and was reportedly recruited under Beijing’s “Thousand Talents Plan”—a program U.S. intelligence agencies warn is used to facilitate espionage and the transfer of dual-use technologies.

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

Hamas’s Dream: Turning Palestinians Into a ‘Nation of Martyrs’

On October 24, 2023, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad threatened that his Iran-backed terror group would carry out more massacres against Israelis — time and again until Israel was annihilated. Referring to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel that resulted in the murder of more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, Hamad said:

“The Al-Aqsa Flood [the name Hamas uses to describe its October 7 slaughter] is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth…. Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”

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

Joe Oliver: And suddenly, climate change hysteria is gone

Only 4% of Canadians think climate change is our top problem. But many of them are hard-core activists ready to block projects

Over the past several months, public concern about climate change has declined dramatically, replaced by newfound enthusiasm for the development of Canada’s vast oil and gas reserves. The federal government is now under mounting political pressure to expedite the construction of pipelines to tidewater that will bring economic growth, employment, energy security and funding for social programs or tax relief.

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

The AI Era: CEOs Trumpet Smaller Workforces as a Sign of Corporate Health

Big companies are getting smaller—and their CEOs want everyone to know it.

The careful, coded corporate language executives once used in describing staff cuts is giving way to blunt boasts about ever-shrinking workforces. Gone are the days when trimming head count signaled retrenchment or trouble. Bosses are showing off to Wall Street that they are embracing artificial intelligence and serious about becoming lean.

After all, it is no easy feat to cut head count for 20 consecutive quarters, an accomplishment Wells Fargo’s chief executive officer touted this month. The bank is using attrition “as our friend,” Charlie Scharf said on the bank’s quarterly earnings call as he told investors that its head count had fallen every quarter over the past five years—by a total of 23% over the period.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Catholics a poor third in Hate Crime Derby

In 2024, of the 1,343 reported hate crimes that were classified as motivated by religion, those targeting the Jewish community accounted for 920, or roughly 68 per cent.

The next largest number of religiously motivated hate crimes were those targeting Muslim Canadians, with 229 reports in 2024, up slightly from 220 incidents in 2023 and 109 in 2022.

For Catholics, 61 hate crimes were reported in 2024, compared to 49 in 2023 and 52 in 2022.

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Nolte: Disgraced ‘Fact Checker‘ Glenn Kessler out at Washington Post

During his first term in office, Barry Obama did not visit Israel. He didn’t. Obama jetted all over the Middle East, but never bothered to visit Israel. That’s a fact. And so, during the 2012 presidential election, Obama’s Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, ran a campaign ad pointing out Obama did not visit Israel during his first term, and Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler still called Romney a liar.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists"

Delta Air Lines co-pilot arrested by Homeland Security on charges of child sexual abuse material

A Delta Air Lines co-pilot was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents on charges of child sexual abuse material, a senior federal source confirmed to Fox News.

The dramatic arrest happened at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday night, according to reporting by The San Francisco Chronicle.

The outlet reported that the flight from Minneapolis landed around 9:35 p.m. after being delayed on approach twice due to heavy fog.

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h/t Hermes

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

From killings to rape, the heinous crimes that could get you less jail time than a Freedom Convoy organizer

Last week, Crown prosecutors announced they were seeking jail sentences of up to eight years for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two organizers of the Freedom Convoy protest.

Both were convicted of mischief, but the Crown is seeking a minimum sentence of seven years in jail for Lich, and eight for Barber, who was also found guilty of counselling others to disobey a court order.

The Crown has argued that the disruptiveness of the Freedom Convoy blockades warrants the harsh sentence, but in a statement this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said courts are throwing the book at Barber and Lich while simultaneously giving free reign to “rampant violent offenders” and “antisemitic rioters.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"