Author: Blazingcatfur

TikTok Must be Banned in US and Free World

The United States recently banned TikTok from all federal government devices over growing security concerns. That is a good start.

TikTok, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned at the beginning of December, is controlled by the Chinese government, which is a national security concern.

TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has, according to TikTok’s own estimates, 1 billion users worldwide. In 2021, TikTok had approximately 87 million users in the US, according to Statista. Disturbingly, a recent study found that 10% of US adults get their news from the Chinese app, up from 3% in 2020.

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

‘Apparent Heart Attack‘ — American Idol Contestant CJ Harris Dies at 31

American Idol contestant CJ Harris died on Sunday. He was 31.

According to TMZ, the singer is reported to have suffered a heart attack and was rushed by ambulance to the Walker Baptist Medical Center in his hometown of Jasper, Alabama.

Shortly after arriving in the emergency room the artist – whose full name is Curtis ‘CJ’ Harris – was pronounced dead, according to the outlet citing family members as source.

Another?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Los Angeles Descends Into Insanity

Oh, what a blessing it is to be retired from the Los Angeles Police Department.

I am proud of the career I had with the LAPD, which spanned more than 30 years, beginning in the early 1980s. It was an era when, though there were many times we asked ourselves, “Who are these morons we’re working for?” was not yet marked by the genuine insanity that afflicts so many currently serving in city government and the upper ranks of the department.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Law and Order", WTF?

Ontario union OPSEU sues former executives, claims they ‘unlawfully transferred’ millions of dollars, gave union cars to family members

OPSEU, one of the province’s largest unions, is suing three former leaders — including long-time president Warren “Smokey” Thomas — for millions of dollars, alleging they withdrew $670,000 in cash from a strike fund without explanation, received “significant compensation” atop their salaries and had union-purchased vehicles transferred to themselves and their families.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

REVEALED: 55% of trans women who have ‘bottom surgery’ are in so much pain they need medical care years later, according to study – and up to a third struggle to use the toilet or have sex

More than half of trans women who have ‘bottom’ surgery are in so much pain years later they need medical attention, a study suggests.

Up to a third of patients also struggled to use the toilet or suffered sexual issues 12 months after the operation, which sees patients transitioning from male to female given a surgically constructed vagina.

Researchers from the Women’s College Hospital (WCH) in Ontario, Canada, analyzed the medical records of 80 patients who sought care from the clinic between three months and five years after having the operation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

U.S. Builds Enhanced Combat Training for Ukraine Forces in Germany

Enhanced training of Ukraine combat elements by U.S. forces in Germany has begun, with the aim of having a battalion ready to field against the Russians within five weeks, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced Sunday.

AP reports Milley plans to visit the Grafenwoehr training area on Monday to get a first-hand look at the program being delivered by the 7th Army Training Command.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Shot in the act: How an explosion in surveillance video is transforming the justice system

Highway cameras track an accused killer in an SUV travelling across Toronto before and after a double murder. A neighbour’s street-facing home security camera captures a man slashing his estranged wife to death with a machete in a driveway across the street.

These are just two examples from recent murder trials at the downtown Superior Court, where judges and juries routinely gaze for hours at computer monitors showing video footage and other digital evidence.

Fifteen years ago it was rare for a killing to be caught on video.

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

Bank Of Canada Happy To Report Public Lives In Fear

Recession fears, high rates to slow spending for businesses, consumers: BoC survey

Businesses and consumers alike are trimming their spending plans ahead of a possible recession, according to new surveys from the Bank of Canada.

The central bank’s fourth-quarter surveys of business and consumer sentiments, published Monday, showed an overall dour outlook for 2023, with the majority of both polled cohorts indicating they expect a recession in the next 12 months.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

As elites arrive in Davos, conspiracy theories thrive online

NEW YORK (AP) — When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems.

But an entirely different narrative played out on the internet, where social media users claimed leaders wanted to force the population to eat insects instead of meat in the name of saving the environment.

The annual event in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, which opens Monday, has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit. Experts say what was once a conspiracy theory found in the internet’s underbelly has now hit the mainstream.

More… Economic woes, war, climate change on tap for Davos meeting

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWorld Economic Forum

Protestors and activists clash at Calgary all-ages drag brunch

There was a noisy protest with a heavy police presence at an all-ages drag event in Calgary on Sunday morning.

Protesters who were against the event were met by LGBTQ2S+ supporters. The two groups were face-to-face outside the Rec Room where the event was set to be held at 10:30 a.m.
Some came with signs saying: Save the Children. Others placards read: We Are Your Children.

It is amazing that the media chooses to advance this perversion, must be a condition of placement on Trudeau’s payroll .

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", WTF?

Have we reached ‘peak meat’? Asks The Guardian.

Meat, guns and liquor

Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since a court ruling in 2019 which found the Dutch were breaking European environmental law, her farm of 100 cows in north Holland has been illegal.

Like the other 2,500-plus farmers whose environmental permission was suddenly invalid, she wants a future where she can earn a living and farm legally again.

The Netherlands is first to face questions scientists believe will soon come to all intensively farmed areas: how can we balance the needs of the environment with the way we farm and grow? Have we reached “peak meat”, like peak oil: so much livestock, so much local pollution, that the only sustainable future is in reduction? They’re questions the US, the world’s largest producer of beef, will also soon have to answer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Eat Government Bugs", "Environmentalists", WTF?

Disturbing Video Shows Last Moments of Patient’s Life After Mask Dispute at Toronto Hospital

A disturbing video of an altercation between two hospital security guards and Stephanie Warriner—a patient who lost consciousness and never woke up after the interaction over her mask being pulled down under her chin—has been published by various media outlets.

On Jan. 12, CTV News Toronto released new video footage showing 43-year Warriner being confronted by guards Amanda Rojas-Silva, 42, and Shane Hutley, 35, at Toronto General Hospital on May 11, 2020. The two guards were later charged with manslaughter and “criminal negligence by unlawful confinement/restraint causing death.”

More … Outrageous but unsurprising: Canadian judge tosses case against guards who killed a woman for not wearing a mask

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, WTF?

German defence minister resigns after blunders

Germany’s Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned following a series of blunders and PR disasters.

It comes as Berlin comes under rising pressure to allow the delivery of German-built battle tanks to Ukraine.

Ms Lambrecht was mocked for her announcement that Germany was supporting Ukraine by sending 5,000 military helmets.

She was also widely criticised for failing to improve Germany’s notoriously ill-equipped armed forces.

This was despite the provision of €100bn (£88bn) for that task following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Germany, WTF?

Iran spying: Canadian firm’s axed 2019 deal raises questions about working with regime

Don’t believe a thing this lying punk says.

A small Canadian telecom service firm is taking issue with a tech watchdog’s report that it discussed working with an alleged front company to help Iranian officials spy on civilians.

Citizen Lab, the Toronto-based digital and human rights organization, alleged in a Monday report that Port Coquitlam, B.C.-based PortaOne was involved in 2019 discussions to help set up a new mobile phone service in the Islamic Republic, which is now facing a massive wave of upheaval.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran

Afghan asylum seeker who lied he was a minor is charged with beating man to death – blames Taliban

Claimed he was 16

An Afghan asylum seeker accused of murdering a reveller during a row over an e-scooter broke down in tears today as he claimed his parents were killed by the Taliban and detailed the alleged torture he endured.

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, was charged with the murder of aspiring Royal Marine Thomas Roberts, 21, outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth on March 12 last year, having allegedly stabbed him twice in the chest with a ’10cm blade’.

Giving evidence for the first time today at Salisbury Crown Court, Abdulrahimzai sobbed as he described the abuse he claims he endured at the hands of the Taliban and how the insurgents killed his parents after ‘bombing’ his home.

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