Author: Blazingcatfur

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asks court to let him use assets acquired with stolen funds to pay for his criminal defense

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asks court to let him access his Robinhood shares worth $465M to pay for his criminal defense

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has asked a federal judge to allow him access to some $465 million worth of shares in Robinhood, saying he needs cash to pay his legal fees.

Attorneys for Bankman-Fried made the request in a motion filed on Thursday night with the judge overseeing FTX’s bankruptcy, arguing that the 56.3 million shares of Robinhood are owned by an entity that is not party to the proceedings.

Bankman-Fried, whose net worth was once estimated at $15.6 billion, has said that he has about $100,000 in cash reserves remaining after his cryptocurrency exchange collapsed and he was charged with fraud.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

German MP: Unregulated Mass Migration & Failed Integration to Blame for NYE Riots

He urged lawmakers to seriously consider why New Year’s Eve ‘celebrations’ have become increasingly violent over the years, in the same places with the same participants.

Following an outbreak of riots across multiple cities on New Year’s Eve which saw, among other things, cars set alight as well as police and firefighters attacked, a top politician from Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party blamed the government’s failure to integrate the exceptionally large number of migrants and asylum seekers who have come to the country in recent years.

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

The little-known weapon knocking down Iranian drones over Kyiv

Ukraine is swatting away as many Iranian-made drones as Russia can throw at its infrastructure sites, knocking down as many as 80 air vehicles over Kyiv during Russia’s surprise New Year’s Eve blitz alone, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week.

So how did they do it? According to Ukrainian officials and advisers to Kyiv who spoke to POLITICO, much of it is thanks to the German-made Gepard system, a vehicle that can send dual streams of 35mm rounds ripping into the sky to hit the drones. Berlin has sent 30 Gepard vehicles to Ukraine over the past year, with seven more on the way this year.

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

San Diego Christian Church Vandalized: ‘Queers Bash Back, Trans Rights, BLM’ Graffiti

A Christian church in San Diego, Calif., that was hosting a New Year’s Eve concert with popular singer-evangelist Sean Feucht, was vandalized on Dec. 30. A window was broken and numerous messages were spray-painted on the church’s walls and property, exclaiming, “Queers Bash Back,” “F*** Sean Feucht!” “BLM,” and “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.”

The police are investigating the incident at City View Church as a potential hate crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Old Nazi map sparks treasure hunt in the Netherlands

OMMEREN, the Netherlands, Jan 6 (Reuters) – An old map believed to mark the spot where German soldiers hid treasure worth millions of euros during World War Two sparked the imagination of amateur treasure hunters in the Netherlands this week.

Armed with metal detectors and shovels, groups wandered through the fields surrounding rural Ommeren in the east of the country after the map was made public by the Dutch National Archive on Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW II History

A ‘hate castle’ or welcome neighbor? VDare divides a West Virginia town.

In Berkeley Springs, the purchase of an iconic castle by VDare, which some consider a hate group, has led to angst and ugliness

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — The little town was sparkling.

White lights gleamed from the garlands and wreaths adorning the gazebo in Berkeley Springs State Park. A large Christmas tree was lit next to the courthouse. Even the parking meters downtown were decorated for the holiday, transformed into snowmen, garden gnomes and the Grinch.

And looming above it all: the Berkeley Castle, a 19th-century structure that has become as much a symbol of this tourist town two hours northwest of Washington as the flowing hot springs that gave this Appalachian community its name.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Hate crime hoax, hate crimes, Hate Groups, Hate Speech

‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word.

The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.

Hod Lipson, a mechanical engineer who directs the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, has shaped most of his career around what some people in his industry have called the c-word.

On a sunny morning this past October, the Israeli-born roboticist sat behind a table in his lab and explained himself. “This topic was taboo,” he said, a grin exposing a slight gap between his front teeth. “We were almost forbidden from talking about it — ‘Don’t talk about the c-word; you won’t get tenure’ — so in the beginning I had to disguise it, like it was something else.”

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

The Game of Life has a run-in with leftism and is quickly diminished to a heap of communistic rubble

Game of Life – featuring dangerous looking white people in what may be an intact family unit.

Leftists and their preposterous ideas about reality are why we can’t have nice things.

America used to lead in education, until the Democrats got their federal Department of Education. America used to strive for Judeo-Christian morality, but now the culture has been hijacked by self-indulgent groomers and sexual predators. America used to be the home for free speech and the marketplace place of ideas, and now it’s daily doses of the Twitter Files showing tyranny and censorship pervade both the public and private sector. What a legacy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Prince Harry’s book Spare: War hero takes aim at duke over kill claims

Senior military figures have condemned the Duke of Sussex after he said in his memoir that he killed 25 people while serving as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.

A distinguished British army colonel accused Prince Harry of “betraying” the military, while a former assistant chief of the defence staff said his remarks broke “an unwritten code”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

‘Superdiversity’ in Malmö

The Swedish city that’s the canary in Europe’s coal mine.

With a population of roughly 350,000, Malmö, which is located on the other side of the Örebro Bridge from Copenhagen, is, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden’s third largest city. It has the country’s highest unemployment rate and one of its youngest populations – both of which can be explained by the fact that in Sweden, which is perhaps Western Europe’s most heavily Islamized nation, Malmö is perhaps the most heavily Islamized city. Its high Muslim population is also the reason why Malmö has been known for years as the rape capital of Sweden – which, in turn, has been known for years as the rape capital of Europe.

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

David Sacks: the tech reset has only just begun

The PayPal co-founder predicts that Elon Musk has started a great reckoning

As the cheap money era draws to a close, perhaps no industry has been worse affected than the tech sector. Last year, there were nearly 100,000 job cuts — an astonishing 649% increase from the nearly 13,000 tech jobs that were cut in 2021. And this year the picture doesn’t look much rosier: from Apple to Amazon (which cut a further 18,000 employees this week), job cuts are happening across the board.

So where does this leave Twitter’s new chief, Elon Musk? Like other tech CEOs, the entrepreneur has announced a significant reduction to his new workforce, with reports suggesting that as much as 75% of employees are leaving. But astonishing as this figure may seem, Twitter has actually grown in activity and downloads under its new leadership. What could explain this?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly"

Residents Of Chicago’s Woodlawn Neighborhood Protest Shelter For Migrants

“While I’ll love to help immigrants and everybody else, I’ll like to help my own first,” said longtime Woodlawn resident Jean Clark.

Residents of a Chicago neighborhood protested preparations to establish a migrant shelter inside a closed-down elementary school, allegedly without the locals’ permission.

A group of Woodlawn residents gathered Thursday morning to insist the community provide resources for locals rather than the migrants, the Chicago Tribune reported. The city reportedly plans to convert Wadsworth Elementary School into housing for migrants relocated to the city.

Wow! Is that ever racist!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

Billie Eilish: Climate Anxiety ‘Makes Me Want to Barf‘ but I Won‘t Stop Selling Merch, Traveling

Pop singer and climate change alarmist Billie Eilish claims that her fear of global warming makes her feel ill — but admits she won’t stop selling merchandise or traveling the world via jet airplanes.

The 21-year-old Eilish recently told Vogue that she constantly suffers “climate anxiety” and feels the world is not doing enough to put off the crisis that, every ten years, leftists predict is only ten years away.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots

It’s not racist or xenophobic to question our immigration policy

Canada is experiencing a population boom.

Figures released recently by the federal government are quite staggering: the country grew by 437,000 new residents in 2022 and projections from Ottawa indicate that roughly 1.45 million more will join them over the next three years. According to a recent story in The Globe and Mail, since 2016, Canada has grown at nearly double the average rate of its G7 peers.

In most cases, however, it isn’t newborns enhancing our population growth but adults coming to Canada through our immigration and refugee program – a fact that has consequences far and wide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class