Author: Blazingcatfur

The Great Illusion of 2023

Has traditionally sober-minded Singapore gone a bit soft on China?

The statesmen of Singapore in the tradition of Lee Kuan Yew are known for their foreign-policy realism, and they know Asia much better than do Westerners. We should assess their geopolitical advice with that perspective in mind. Bilahari Kausikan, a former top official in Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has written an essay in Foreign Affairs that for all of its eloquence and obeisance to history is nevertheless reminiscent of Norman Angell’s 1910 work The Great Illusion, which argued that the economic interdependence of great powers would lessen the chances of a major war — three years before the outbreak of World War I.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Singapore

China’s Stateside ‘Rent-A-Womb’ Industry Poses Yet Another National Security Nightmare

American policymakers need to get serious about countering the threat from communist China. While the House China Select Committee has announced it will be investigating Chinese investment in U.S. research and academia, farmland, entertainment, social media, and defense contracts, it should also examine the Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry in America.

Increasingly, Chinese nationals are using American surrogates to bear their children. Thanks to in vitro fertilization, they don’t even need to leave China.

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

Why San Francisco is in the grip of an apocalyptic DEATH LOOP

People complain that Americans are insincere with their friendly greetings, but the coffee barista who’d just served me a £4.50 latte sounded like he meant it when he thanked me for being a ‘loyal customer’.

After all, apart from him, his two under-employed colleagues, and a solitary couple poring over a laptop in a distant corner of one of San Francisco’s largest and smartest coffee shops, we were entirely alone.

At this hour, the establishment — Joe & The Juice on Market Street, the city’s busiest pedestrian thoroughfare — would once have been heaving with thrusting young technology workers stocking up on pricey coffee and ‘cold-pressed’ fruit juice before heading off into their gleaming offices to spearhead the digital revolution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Biden Is Emboldening China to Invade Taiwan

China just substantially reduced a three-day no-fly zone it had declared northeast of Taiwan. The zone, originally scheduled to run from the 16th to the 18th of this month, was scaled back to just 27 minutes on the 16th.

China’s Maritime Safety Administration said the closure was due to “aerospace activities.” Apparently, the initial stage of a Chinese space launch vehicle will be falling back to earth at that time.

Taiwan said it had objected to the duration of the Chinese zone as initially announced. Others, including aviation authorities, complained to Beijing as well.

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

Canada to pay $800m to settle land dispute with five First Nations

Canada has agreed to pay C$800m to settle a land claims dispute with five First Nations, an acknowledgement it failed to honour a treaty signed more than a century ago – and the latest in a string of deals reshaping the relationship between government and Indigenous communities

Over the weekend, officials with both the federal and British Columbia governments admitted successive administrations had broken their promises to the Blueberry River First Nations, the Doig River First Nation, the Halfway River First Nation, the Saulteau First Nations and the West Moberly First Nations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

AOC Concealed Thousands In Campaign Spending, Ethics Complaint Alleges

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez concealed thousands of dollars in campaign spending, an ethics complaint exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint cites more than $9,600 in reported campaign credit card expenditures that lacked information on the purpose of the charges. Dan Backer filed the complaint on behalf of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, a nonprofit organization that’s levied similar complaints.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Federal public servants to strike Wednesday if no deal reached, union says

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) leadership says all workers in a legal strike position will strike Wednesday if they don’t reach an agreement by 9 p.m. ET Tuesday.

Its bargaining groups — one of about 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers, the other of about 120,000 staff spread across more than 20 departments and agencies — each moved into legal strike positions last week after strike votes.

Behold the kleptocracy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Trudeau urges caution to ensure foreign influence registry doesn’t target his foreign donors

Trudeau urges caution to ensure foreign influence registry doesn’t target diasporas

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging caution in the face of growing calls for Canada to adopt a registry to track foreign influence efforts.

The prime minister says the government needs to find better ways to protect Canadians from foreign interference.

A good start would be to toss Junior in Jail.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

U.S. charges two with setting up Chinese ‘secret police station’ in New York

NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said in a statement on Monday.

Liu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of conspiring to act as an agent of China’s government without informing U.S. authorities and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said. They are expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn federal court later on Monday.

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

Trudeau upset his government funded propaganda outlet CBC is labelled ‘government funded media’ by Twitter

Trudeau says Poilievre ‘has to run to American billionaires’ to attack CBC

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Monday for urging Twitter to label CBC as “government-funded media,” the morning after the social media platform added the tag to CBC’s account.

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

Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation

The winner of a major photography award has refused his prize after revealing his work was in fact an AI creation.

German artist Boris Eldagsen’s entry, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, won the creative open category at last week’s Sony World Photography Award.

Google’s CEO says they don’t “fully understand” their own AI system after it figured out how to do things on its own

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

Military cemeteries need more funding to keep them from falling into disrepair

An internal report by Veterans Affairs Canada is raising red flags over the country’s military graves and cemeteries, warning that more permanent funding is needed to keep them from falling into disrepair.

The report is the result of an internal audit following up on a similar review six years ago. At that time, nearly 45,000 out of the estimated 207,000 graves of Canada’s veterans were in a state of disrepair because of a lack of resources.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada