Author: Blazingcatfur

Revealed: China’s new weapon that can cut any undersea cable

Chinese researchers have developed a compact, deep-sea device capable of severing even the most fortified underwater cables.

The development raises concerns that Beijing could target critical communication and power lines, especially in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

The tool can slice armoured cables at depths of up to 4,000 metres (13,123 feet), which is twice the maximum operational range of existing subsea communication infrastructure, according to an academic paper seen by the South China Morning Post.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", WTF?

BC Court Voids India ‘Cult’ Marriage

Dera Sacha Sauda Cult Leader With Cult Chick

A British Columbia judge has annulled the marriage of a woman to a fellow member of an India-based “cult group,” saying she didn’t “truly consent” to the 2023 wedding.

The B.C. Supreme Court ruling issued this week says the woman claimed she was manipulated and overwhelmed by a “barrage” of overtures from the man and his family that began in October 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

WTF?

h/t Patti Jo

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Rich Democrats scramble to open Swiss bank accounts over Trump fears

America’s elite are racing to open Swiss bank accounts and move hundreds of millions of dollars out of the country as they fear being targeted by Donald Trump.

Fears of potential restrictions on moving money overseas mean ultra-wealthy Democrat families are moving huge chunks of cash out of the country as an insurance policy against the Republican administration.

Robert Paul, co-head of private clients at wealth management firm London and Capital, said: “These are big chunks of money. We’ve had five cases in the last three or four weeks, and the sums have been $40m, $30m, $30m, $100m and $50m.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Toronto looks to maintain reputation for voting stupid by favouring multi-passported foreign carpetbagger

CityNews-Leger poll shows strong support for Carney-led Liberal party among Torontonians

Torontonians strongly favour a Liberal government under Mark Carney, according to a CityNews-Leger poll.

That is likely not good news for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, as experts say Toronto ridings will be crucial for any path to victory for both the Liberals and Conservatives in this election.

You can’t expect much from the city that elected Chairman Chow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Croydon to get UK’s first permanent facial recognition cameras

Facial recognition cameras that scan for wanted criminals are being installed permanently on UK high streets for the first time, The Times can reveal.

The Metropolitan Police will permanently put up live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon, south London, as part of a pilot project that may see the scheme extended across the capital.

The cameras, set to go live in June or July, will monitor the faces of people on the high street and match their image to a database of alleged criminals, including rapists, burglars and robbers.

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

Data Dive with Nik Nanos: The Conservatives were running away in the polls. But the federal election has become a horserace

By the end of 2024, the next Canadian federal election was shaping up to be a car crash for the Liberals. The party, which has been in power since 2015, seemed destined for political exile. Despite weathering U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, the pandemic, the SNC-Lavalin affair and the WE charity controversy – or probably because of these things – Justin Trudeau had become a polarizing figure, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was probably measuring the drapes in the Prime Minister’s Office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Migrant avoids deportation because he lost his phone

An illegal Iraqi migrant who fled his country over his part in an alleged exam fraud has avoided deportation after claiming a people smuggler threw away his ID and phone.

The man fled Iraq after being threatened with arrest for an alleged exam fraud when he was caught on CCTV delivering test papers to an address a day before students were due to sit for the qualification.

He claimed that an “agent” who facilitated his passage to the UK had not only thrown away his ID documents but also made him get rid of his phone, on which he had his family’s numbers.

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Will Doug Ford join the federal campaign? Trump’s trade war may pull him into the fight

Fresh off his third straight election win, Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems content to watch the fight to form the next federal government from the sidelines — but it’s a battle experts say he may not be able to stay out of even if he tries.

Ford swept back to power nearly a month ago after calling a snap vote in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war. The premier has built up political capital on the file as a vocal opponent of the imposed fees from south of the border, which helped him cement his re-elected majority government.

But while the tariff battle and Trump appear set to become a major ballot box question federally, the Progressive Conservative premier has signalled he’s planning to stay out of that battle — something his office confirmed to CBC News.

He’ll join the Liberal Party campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Danish Officials React Coolly as Second Lady Usha Vance and Trump Officials Announce Plans To Visit Greenland

Second lady Usha Vance will travel to Greenland this week on a cultural mission with her son and American officials, the vice president’s office announced on Sunday. As the administration pushes for some kind of deal to annex the Danish territory, Ms. Vance plans to attend its annual national dogsled competition.

The second lady and her delegation will depart for Greenland on Thursday, where they will visit historical sites and learn more about Greenlandic heritage. “Ms. Vance and the delegation are excited to witness this monumental race and celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity. They will return to the United States on Saturday, March 29, 2025,” the vice president’s office said in a statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

To Fix Canada’s Housing Crisis, Fix Canada’s Immigration Policy

On all sides of the aisle, Canada’s political class has started to acknowledge that immigration plays a role in this country’s housing woes.

While this admission is a good initial starting point, restoring housing affordability will only begin in earnest when we grapple with how unsustainable Canada’s immigration levels have been of late. When you dig into the numbers, it becomes clear that major immigration reform is needed that goes beyond the measures already put in place by the federal government.

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

SLOBODIAN: The end of Trudeau, but not necessarily the Trudeau era

“We got you.” So said a teary-eyed Justin Trudeau on March 6 in his final speech as prime minister. Canadians wept too — jubilant tears over his departure.

The deservedly loathed one, who belittled, betrayed and weakened Canada, moulding it into a socialist shell of its former proud democratic self, offered a wild fairytale account of his decade as PM.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Think USAID was bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Have you heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)? If not, that’s unsurprising. It is a 230-employee agency that supposedly mediates disputes between unions and businesses, but that mediation is “voluntary.” Its headquarters is a nine-story building on K Street in DC, which houses—wait for it—60 employees. Where are the other 270? It’s yet another agency that thought it was independent. It wasn’t. Most FMCS employees “worked” from home. I put “worked” in quotes because if you thought the USAID or other federal agencies thus far exposed by DOGE were corrupt, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Wow.

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

How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins

Five years ago today, based on a highly misleading ‘model’ forecast from one academic, Neil Ferguson, the British government ditched its pandemic plan and locked the entire country down. This decision had disastrous and – as Sweden proves – unnecessary consequences.

It was the first of many dreadful mistakes made by the government during the Covid pandemic: shutting schools at the behest of unions, assuming the virus was not airborne, vaccinating children, overclaiming for vaccines and masks. The government thought it knew best and it let us down.

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JFK files expose family secrets: Their relatives were CIA assets

Growing up, John Smith knew his grandfather as a serious academic — a bespectacled professor at the University of Maryland who wrote books on pre-Civil War presidents. He also knew E.B. Smith had traveled the world in his younger years.

What he didn’t know until this week is that his grandfather had once been a U.S. government asset, feeding Soviet-era intelligence to the CIA.

The Trump administration’s release of more than 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has thus far shed little new light on the killing. But the unmasking of many previously redacted names has revealed the identities of people who worked with the clandestine services, roles that in many cases were hidden for decades even from close family members.

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