Orwell’s Old Magazine Acquired by Islam Channel Owner

George Orwell

Tribune, a historically significant magazine for Britain’s Labour movement which famously employed George Orwell as its literary editor, has been taken over by the Tunisian founder of a Muslim television channel.

The magazine this week said it was “pleased” with the acquisition by Mohamed Ali Harrath, owner of the Islam Channel, which was fined £40,000 (€47,500) by Ofcom in 2023 for content the broadcasting regulator described as “antisemitic.” Harrath is also the founder of the Tunisian Islamic Front. He was granted refugee status by the UK in 2000 after fleeing his country of birth.

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

Occam’s Razor Gardening, Cooking & Canning – No Knead Dutch Oven Bread

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inA Slice Of Life

Christine Van Geyn: Do police have the right to peer at you in your car with a drone?

Can police use a drone with a zoom lens to peer into the interior of vehicles stopped at red lights? Can police enter a home’s private driveway and look in the windows of vehicles? Can the government track the cellphone location data of millions of Canadians to track their movements? And can a private foreign company scour the internet collecting photos of Canadians for use in facial recognition technology that is sold to police?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology

A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs when it uncovered a shocking truth: At least one of those theories had been fueled by the Pentagon itself.

The congressionally ordered probe took investigators back to the 1980s, when an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51, a top-secret site in the Nevada desert. He gave the owner photos of what might be flying saucers. The photos went up on the walls, and into the local lore went the idea that the U.S. military was secretly testing recovered alien technology.

But the colonel was on a mission—of disinformation. The photos were doctored, the now-retired officer confessed to the Pentagon investigators in 2023. The whole exercise was a ruse to protect what was really going on at Area 51: The Air Force was using the site to develop top-secret stealth fighters, viewed as a critical edge against the Soviet Union. Military leaders were worried that the programs might get exposed if locals somehow glimpsed a test flight of, say, the F-117 stealth fighter, an aircraft that truly did look out of this world. Better that they believe it came from Andromeda.

Case specifics aside the disinformation campaign was not “unknown”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

White British children are now minority in one in four schools

White British pupils are now the minority in one in four schools in England, official data reveal.

Analysis of school census data, collected from more than 21,500 primaries and secondaries in January, shows that in a quarter of them, the majority of the cohort is recorded as ethnic minority or white non-British.

In 72 schools, no white British pupils are recorded, and in 454, they make up less than 2 per cent of the student body.

The TDSB has long been minority white. But remember The Great Replacement is just a conspiracy theory. Got that?

This report dates from 2011 and indicates white children made up 31% of students.

TDSB Portraits White

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Great Replacement

Commons passes bill to shield dairy quotas in future trade deals

MPs in the House of Commons have unanimously passed a Bloc Québécois bill that would block any future trade agreements from altering Canada’s dairy, egg and poultry quotas, reigniting debate over the limits of supply management protections in international negotiations.

Bill C-202 prohibits the federal government from making trade commitments that would affect supply-managed sectors.

That is one powerful cartel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Governments’ poor fiscal management raising Canadians’ tax burden

The cost of living and affordability remain top of mind for Canadians, so it’s critical to understand how taxes affect our household finances.

Canadians pay many different taxes (income taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, etc.) so it can be hard to know how much you pay in total each year. While some of these taxes are visible – -for instance, you can check your income tax return to see how much you pay in personal income taxes – -many taxes are hidden or less visible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Why Gen Z Is Giving Up on Sex, Love, and Each Other

Forget polyamory. The new normal is solitude, anxiety, and performative healing.

In a new report that should unsettle anyone still clinging to the illusion that our species is thriving, nearly 20 percent of Gen Z respondents say they no longer believe monogamy is realistic. At first glance, this might conjure images of polyamory, open relationships, and fluid arrangements between confident, liberated adults unshackled from centuries of ideals.

But the reality is very different, and in many ways, much more disturbing. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Kelly McParland: Poilievre needs to earn an extension as leader

Canada’s federal Conservatives are stuck with a dilemma as they consider whether to do anything different in the next two years than they did in the last two.

At the centre of the dilemma are a host of riddles. As in, did they actually lose the last election? Sure, they didn’t win, but did they lose lose? Like, did Canadians actually reject them, or did something else happen that got in the way of the victory they anticipated?

Carney = Trudeau. Wait.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Canada’s PM faces backlash for inviting India’s Narendra Modi for G7 summit

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite the conclusion of Canada’s federal police’s that the murder of a prominent Sikh activist in British Columbia was orchestrated by the “highest levels” of the Indian government.

Carney declined to answer reporters’ questions over whether he believed Modi had a role in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar – a killing on Canadian soil that shattered relations between the two countries.

“There is a legal process that is literally under way and quite advanced in Canada, and it’s never appropriate to make comments with respect to those legal processes,” he said on Friday. Four Indian nationals living in Canada have been charged with Nijjar’s murder.

China, India, Palestine there is no slimy entity Carney won’t chat up if it means a profit.

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

Colombian presidential candidate shot in Bogota

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe has been shot at an event in Bogota, according to Colombian national police.

Colombia’s government has issued a statement condemning the Saturday attack on Uribe.

The mayor of Bogota, Carlos Galán, said Uribe was receiving emergency care after being attacked in the Fontibon district and that the “entire hospital network” of the Colombian capital was on alert in case he needed to be transferred.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inColombia

‘I had 30 Lamborghinis’: Pablo Escobar’s top cocaine pilot gives first interview

A man who eventually became Pablo Escobar’s go-to cocaine pilot has revealed that he first turned down an employment offer from the notorious Colombian drug lord because he was content with the $4m a month he was earning while flying for a competitor.

But, in a new podcast containing what is believed to be his first interview since authorities arrested him at his Florida mansion in 1988, Tirso “TJ” Dominguez recounted how he changed his mind about working for Escobar when the so-called Patron – or boss – offered him a salary that was five times higher: $20m monthly.

“I had 30 Lamborghinis, and I dressed well,” Dominguez says of his ensuing lifestyle during the eight-part documentary podcast titled Cocaine Air, a copy of which was provided to the Guardian. “They brought me the car that matched the shirt that I decided to wear that day.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime