Two bombings rocked apartment buildings in Stockholm, Sweden, in the morning hours of Monday, January 2nd. Public broadcasting station SVT reports:
“On Monday morning an explosion happened in an apartment building in Vällingby, in western Stockholm. According to SVT sources, a well-known rap artist is among the four arrested for the bombing. Another explosion happened early in the morning in Bagarmossen in southern Stockholm. In all, five people have been arrested.”
Accused cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried entered a not-guilty plea at his arraignment in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.
Judge Lewis Kaplan set a tentative trial date of Oct. 2, 2023, for the 30-year-old fallen wunderkind.
It was Bankman-Fried’s second appearance in Manhattan federal court since his extradition from the Bahamas.
He’s got about 10 months to ponder his non-existent defense.
Federal Sentencing Guidelines Spell Deep Trouble for Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to be arraigned in a federal district court in lower Manhattan today, on the indictment obtained by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York in December.
SBF is in deep, deep trouble. The main reason for that, besides what appears to be weighty evidence against him — including the prospective testimony of two close (alleged) accomplices who are cooperating with SDNY prosecutors — is found in the federal sentencing guidelines.
Canada sets immigration record in 2022 with 430,000 new permanent residents
The federal government settled 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022, blowing past the previous all-time record set in 2021.
It’s one signal that the federal government appears on track to carry out its immigration plan. Next year, the government hopes to bring in another 485,000 new permanent residents.
“Newcomers play an essential role in filling labour shortages, bringing new perspectives and talents to our communities, and enriching our society as a whole,” said Sean Fraser, the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, in a news release Tuesday.
BULLSHIT. Unless of course you happen to like virulent anti-Semitism, honor killings and Sikh-Hindu sectarian violence spilling out on our streets or the poison of identity politics.
The Bank of Canada loves it too, they told the Corporate class to keep wages down as it was their intent to fight inflation on the backs of working people.
Immigration policy in Canada is designed to meet the needs of the corporate class, it should be designed to benefit citizens FULL STOP.
Now tell me again that Canada is not a Banana Republic.
United States Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George was fired by Gov. Albert Bryan (D) just days after announcing a lawsuit that accused banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase of turning “a blind eye” to evidence of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking operation.
h/t Mauser
Jamie Sarkonak: Trudeau Liberals are filtering out dissent to their ‘anti-hate’ agenda
Internal emails show a question was added to a survey to weed out those critical of the government’s plans after too much negative feedback
Back in April, Canadian Heritage ran online consultations for a future “National Action Plan on Combatting Hate” that could introduce anti-hate laws and curb freedom of expression. While the department publicly encouraged “every person in Canada” to participate in a survey about what this plan should include, email records show that people were screened out if they believed that an anti-hate plan wasn’t needed at all.
This is a government deserving of your hatred.
A homeless woman in Portland revealed how easy the Oregon city makes it to subsist in that lifestyle.
A woman identified only as Wendy told an interviewer from the nonprofit We Heart Seattle, “It’s a piece of cake, really; that’s probably why you’ve got so many out here.”
She mentioned that certain organizations will provide free food to the city’s homeless residents, letting the homeless do what they want in between those meals.
Bored of its reputation as inclusive, open-minded and accepting, Canada opted for an authoritarian rebrand last year.
That, at least, seems to have been the intention of prime minister Justin Trudeau. Over the past year, he has led the way towards making authoritarianism great again, forcing thousands of Canadians to live as second-class citizens, while vilifying those who remain fond of their rights as dangerous bigots who should be cut off from society.
The US government has accused the former marine pilot Daniel Duggan of receiving more than $100,000 to teach Chinese aviators how to land on aircraft carriers.
An unsealed indictment, filed in the US District of Colombia, alleges the naturalised Australian received 12 payments of either $9,900 or $9,500, with receipts often citing “personal development training”.
It says the payments were made by an unnamed China-based business that, according to the US government, “acquired military equipment and technical data for the PRC government and military”.
Anyone hoping for a break on sky-high grocery bills should brace themselves for a shock in 2023, as the typical family’s food bill for the year is predicted to go up by more than $1,000.
That’s one of the main takeaways of the 2023 Food Price Report, an annual publication by Canadian researchers that looks at factors across the supply chain to attempt to predict what the cost of putting food on the table will be.
Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken arrest of a Georgia man on a fugitive warrant, an attorney said in a case that renews attention to racial disparities in the use of the digital tool.
Randall Reid, 28, was jailed on November 25 in DeKalb County, Georgia, after authorities misidentified him as a purse theft in Jefferson Parish and Baton Rouge.
One witness said he heard an “inhuman” cry from inside the house. When police arrived, they discovered why.
A 26-year-old man had been stabbed to death, the victim of what the medical examiner later deemed to be a homicide.
But police announced Monday that no charges are being considered in the incident three days ago in Halifax, saying the dead man was one of two attempting to invade the blue clapboard house.
You break-in to my home I will kill you. That should be all the law needed.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is set to be officially declared a terrorist group after 10 plots to kidnap or murder people in the UK last year, The Telegraph can reveal.
Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, and Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, both support the move, which is expected to be announced within weeks.
Officials have been building the case against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), with the security services understood to have shared intelligence.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in internal polling considered whether to make publicly available a blacklist of individuals who cheat on their taxes, according to a report.
“More than 1 in 3 Canadians, 35 percent, strongly agree the Canada Revenue Agency should publish a list of people found guilty of tax offences,” said a report titled “2022 CRA Annual Corporate Research Quantitative Phase” and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The report did not detail why the agency polled the question.
The Church of England’s first non-binary priest has said that God “guided” their epiphany regarding gender identity.
Rev Bingo Allison, 36, who is gender-queer, grew up in a “strongly religious” Christian household in West Yorkshire and was raised to believe that being gay was “sinful”.
It get’s worse… ‘It was difficult for my wife… she married what she thought was a straight guy’
One of Canada’s leading experts on drug addiction says British Columbia’s provincial government asked him to delete a crucial database in an attempt to censor criticism of the province’s homeless policies. The incident appears to fit within a larger, nationwide campaign to silence experts who believe that, when it comes to homelessness and drugs, Canadian policy-makers are on the wrong track.
