Somali actor in film warning of revenge killings shot dead in family feud

“No man avenged has ever risen from the grave” is the haunting tagline of a film that has shocked Somalis to the core in a case of life imitating art.

Called Aano Qabiil, meaning “Clan Vengeance”, the short film sought to highlight the futility of vendettas between rival clans that sometimes go back generations and lead to senseless killings – often of young men who are targeted just because of their lineage.

It was a poetic warning, a cry – a story intended not just to entertain, but to educate a wounded nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

GOLDSTEIN: How mercy to the guilty became cruelty to the innocent in Canada

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election promise to use the constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give judges the option of imposing consecutive life sentences on those who commit multiple murders has prompted predictable outrage from Canada’s chattering classes.

Ditto his promise of a “three-strikes-and-you’re-out law,” which would deny criminals convicted of three serious offences bail, probation, parole or house arrest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", "Law and Order", Conservative Party, Election 2025

Anti-duck town scraps plans for ‘ludicrous’ giant bird statue

For five long years, Swaffham has been a town at war.

Faced with an invasion of ducks, residents have attempted to lure them away with an artificial island, hired professional cleaners to dispose of droppings outside shops and even discussed a cull.

So plans for a 5ft duck statue – part of a sculpture trail branded “Swaffham goes Quackers” – were always likely to trigger deep division.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

At a Time of Crisis, Canadians Rush to Vote

When I traveled around Canada during the 2021 election campaign, the prevailing mood among voters I spoke with was one of ennui. Even some of those involved in many of the campaigns weren’t obviously excited about the election.

That’s certainly not the case this year. Advance polls opened on Friday. At the one near my house in Ottawa, there was an hourlong wait during the morning, and poll workers arranged chairs outside the community center hosting the voting to ease the wait. In Montreal that morning, I saw people going into a Chinese community center to cast ballots just after it had opened for voting.

New record set as 2 million vote on first day of advance polls: Elections Canada

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Canada PM Mark Carney ramps up anti-US rhetoric: ‘We must react with crushing force’

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has amped up the anti-US rhetoric since swooping in to replace Justin Trudeau at the helm of the Liberal Party, saying this week the Great White North doesn’t need the US.

Carney said he’s looking to diversify trade partnerships with like-minded countries and that Canada stands to gain “far more than Donald Trump can ever take away” — a change in tone from Trudeau, who tried to get Trump to back off on tariffs by calling it “a very dumb thing to do.”

“We must react with a crushing force,” Carney said during a leaders debate in Montreal Wednesday, repeatedly calling the trade war “the most important crisis of our lives.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Survey finds parties reject call for Canadian nuclear weapons

No major federal party supports developing Canadian nuclear weapons, according to a Ukrainian Canadian Congress survey.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the group had proposed building an independent nuclear deterrent as a safeguard against threats from Russia and future instability in the United States.

“Russia presents a serious and growing threat to Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic and to our NATO allies in Europe,” the UCC Survey Of Party Leaders stated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

‘Relentless’: The combative Pierre Poilievre finds himself in the fight of his life

OTTAWA – It’s a Monday evening in an industrial building just south of Edmonton. Pierre Poilievre is on stage, surrounded by a massive crowd of supporters.

He’s been talking for nearly an hour and his speech is hitting some of his biggest applause lines.

“What binds us together is the Canadian promise that anyone from anywhere can achieve anything, that if you work hard, you can have a great life in a beautiful home on a safe street under our proud flag. That is the promise that I hold out as hope to those who are on the brink of giving up,” he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

‘You Could Prosecute Thousands’: Peter Thiel Explains How DOGE Is Exposing ‘Left-Wing NGOs’

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel detailed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exposed rampant federal spending tied to certain left-leaning NGOs, which he described as potential fronts for “borderline criminal activity.”

Thiel, founding partner of the venture capital firm Founders Fund, made the explosive claims during an interview with his Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

“I think there were scams. I think the nonprofit stuff is out of control. It’s sort of like virtue signaling is a sign that you’re doing something evil,” Thiel told Lonsdale on his American Optimist podcast. “So much of this left-wing philanthropy nonprofit world was just a cover for borderline criminal activity.”

NGO’s are a scam, always ask why they need “CEO’s and why are they paid so well.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

John Ivison: Mark Carney’s platform relies on fiscal alchemy and hopeful assumptions

WHITBY, ONT. — On this week’s Ivison video , regular guest Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison would call The Great Deception.”

Lang, an experienced Liberal operative, was talking about the tendency of governments to promise to simultaneously reduce taxes, increase spending and balance budgets.

“This kind of thing has never been achieved by any federal government,” he said. “It’s probably not advisable in any context, especially not the current context, where the prospects are that the Canadian economy is probably going to go into a recession, where the tax revenues will go down and automatic stabilizer expenditures on things like employment insurance are destined to go up.”

Yet, that’s exactly what the Liberal policy platform promises to do.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

The Failure of the Expert Class…Again

This past week, The Atlantic ran an excellent, helpful, and important piece by David Zweig, excerpted from his forthcoming book An Abundance of Caution, which is, at least superficially, about the coronavirus pandemic and the school closures it prompted. Zweig denies that it is about the pandemic specifically, saying that it is, rather, about “the failure of the expert class.” Whatever the case, Zweig is unsparing in his criticism …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Experts"

The plight of Nigeria’s Christians

The persecution of Nigeria’s Christians is medieval in its horror. Villages are surrounded in the dead of night by bandits who rape and kill the inhabitants. No one is spared: women and children are among those butchered.

The Makurdi Diocese, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Benue state, has been hit badly by this savage violence. In 2024, 549 locals in this diocese alone were murdered and dozens more kidnapped. Over 3,700 people in Makurdi have been killed since 2015. Villages have been effectively wiped off the map. Over a million Nigerians, terrified of what might await them, have chosen instead to live in Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Nigeria

Jack Mintz: Ontario is the ‘sick man’ of North America. Its premier should stay out of the federal election

Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to be a happy camper these days. After donning his Captain Canada cape to fight Donald Trump on tariffs, in February he won a third straight majority victory. And now he and his campaign manager have been lecturing federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on how to run his election campaign, arguing he should focus more on Trump, less on the economy.

(Open link above in incognito mode.)

Dougie doesn’t disappoint we knew he was a Liberal all along.

More … As productivity plunges, Ontario and Alabama now have the same per capita GDP

Canada’s economic productivity has trailed the U.S. for decades. This isn’t news and has numerous possible causes. What is particularly troubling for all Canadians, though, is that the gap is getting wider.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere, Ontario's Corrupt Liberal Government

Convert or get hurt: How Islamist gangs are terrorising staff in high-security prisons and forcing non-Muslim inmates to join their ranks for ‘protection’ as the authorities lose control

For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is worrying.

A drug-dealing murderer, on being jailed in 2016 he converted to Islam and ever since has been a thoroughly disruptive presence wherever he has been locked up.

From battering inmates who don’t share his beliefs, to smuggling in mobile phones to disseminate ‘graphic and grotesque’ Islamic State material, the 32-year-old is described as an ‘extremist enforcer’ who ‘influences and incites’ other Muslim prisoners wherever he goes.

England is on the verge of collapse.

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

Defeat Begins Not on the Battlefield, but Within

When the adversary denies borders, morality, and the value of human life itself, refusal to resist is not a path to peace. It is a path to erasure.

Imagine: war has broken out again in Europe. But instead of mobilization, we see debates. Instead of heroes—hashtags. Instead of resistance—philosophical arguments about the nature of evil.

Today’s Europe is not ready to defend itself—neither institutionally nor morally. And even if new Churchills and de Gaulles were to appear tomorrow, they would likely be powerless to change anything. Because there would simply be no one left to stand behind them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDecline & Fall