Author: Blazingcatfur

Silicon Valley’s Elite Get Dragged Into Musk-Twitter Trial

More than 100 subpoenas have been issued to techies like Jack Dorsey and Marc Andreessen as Twitter tries to force Elon Musk to complete a $44 billion deal. Law firms are stoked.

Jack Dorsey, a founder of Twitter, got a subpoena. So did Marc Andreessen, a prominent venture capitalist. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman, and the investors David Sacks and Joe Lonsdale received them, too.

They were all summoned to share what they know about the rancorous, knock-down, drag-out tech spectacle of the year: the fight between Twitter and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil

Why Kherson Is Key to Vladimir Putin’s War as Counter-Offensive Begins

Kherson was the first major city to fall to Russia after Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now it has become the focus of a reported counteroffensive by Kyiv’s forces to take it back.

Ukrainian claims of new attacks on Russian positions around the strategic southern port city at the mouth of the Dnieper River’s exit into the Black Sea have spurred speculation that the long-awaited attempt to seize back the region and its capital was under way.

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

Michael Taube: Canadian Heritage Should Get Its Own House in Order Before Controlling Canadians’ Free Speech

Not a suspect?

Canada’s Liberal government has been focused for some time now on finding ways to regulate the internet. The Department of Canadian Heritage, in particular, has targeted online content and what it believes should be classified as hate speech.

Based on the recent controversy surrounding the hiring of an anti-racist consultant who turned out to be anything but, maybe Ottawa should clean its own house first.

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

LPC Thuggery: RCMP “investigating” harassment of Chrystia Freeland in Alberta

The RCMP says it is investigating the verbal harassment of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland that occurred in Alberta on Aug. 26, saying it “takes threats against public officials seriously.”

“The RCMP, or local police of jurisdiction, review all incidents to determine the appropriate course of action,” said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Caroline Duval in a statement to CTV News. “Physical action and statements made in person or online can have a significant impact and can be against the law.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Cover Up Of Canada’s Role Alleged: Jihadi Shamima Begum ‘was smuggled into Syria by a “Canadian” SPY

Shamima Begum and her two teenage friends were smuggled into Syria by a spy working for Canada –  Justin Trudeau’s nation then conspired with the UK to cover up its role, a new book claims.

The so-called Jihadi Bride was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after she fled Britain four years earlier to join the Islamic State (IS).

Fresh revelations claim the now-23-year-old was trafficked into the Middle East by a double agent, on the payroll of both IS and Canadian intelligence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Teenage Hindu girl is burned alive ‘by Muslim stalker in India

A teenage Hindu girl has been burned alive by her alleged Muslim stalker who poured petrol over her and set her alight as she slept at her home in India.

Ankita Singh, 19, succumbed to her severe burn injuries and died on Sunday at a hospital in the city of Ranchi, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, five days after Shahrukh Hussain allegedly set her on fire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", India, Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

The liberal arts are worth defending against ‘multiculturalists’

As the kids head back to school, it’s time to think about what they’re actually learning

It’s the end of August — which means the kids are heading back to school. Time, then, to think about the quality and content of the education most young Americans are receiving. What to ponder? Well, we award more bachelor’s degrees in “parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies” than in English. And what students learn in their liberal arts courses is less the intellectual and civilizational inheritance of the West than a cruel mimicry that preferences “multiculturalism” and “critical thinking.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Multiculturalism"

Mikhail Gorbachev, last president of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who oversaw detente with the West, the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died in a Moscow hospital at the age of 91.

Gorbachev’s policy of “glasnost” towards the West, underpinned by summits with US President Ronald Reagan to curb the nuclear arms race, paved the way for the end of the Cold War, made him one of the most influential figures of the late 20th century. At home, however, his move to decentralise the Soviet economy, a strategy know as “perestroika”, precipitated an economic collapse that hastened the end of the Soviet Union.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia

China Threatens to Destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink

Chinese military researchers recently called for the destruction of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, an extraordinary threat for a state to make against a private foreign enterprise.

In December 2021, China filed a complaint with the United Nations, claiming that two of Musk’s Starlink satellites had nearly collided with the Tianhe module of its Tiangong Space Station — in April and October of 2021– and that Chinese astronauts had been forced to maneuver the module of the station to avoid the collision. Starlink is part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the satellites are part of a plan to make internet coverage from the satellites available worldwide, with the goal of launching nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.

I dunno. Elon and the Communist Chinese seem to understand one another.

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

Use of facial recognition as security tool on Parliament Hill would pose risks: study

OTTAWA — The use of facial recognition technology as a security tool on Parliament Hill would pose substantial legal, privacy and human rights risks — and might even be unlawful, says a study prepared for the parliamentary security unit.

It warns the technology could be used to surveil, track, identify or misidentify a person, and might lead to decisions that result in them being stopped, questioned, detained or arbitrarily prevented from entering the parliamentary precinct.

That won’t stop Justin he wants a social credit system.

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

FBI agent accused of political bias, suppressing Hunter Biden laptop leaves the bureau

An FBI agent who was accused of bias in handling the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop has resigned.

FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault is no longer with the bureau, Fox News has learned. Thibault retired over the weekend, according to a source familiar with the matter. He was walked out of the building on Friday, which is standard procedure, per the source.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

David Staples: Canada is broken so don’t be surprised if Alberta conservatives elect Danielle Smith

As I see it, the United Conservative race comes down to two leaders, Danielle Smith and Travis Toews. They are polar opposites within conservative politics on how Alberta should best proceed on fixing, building and protecting Alberta’s energy economy.

Toews, a rancher, an accountant and a small businessman, leads an incrementalist camp. He is a steady-as-she-goes type who wants to keep working with the energy industry and First Nations on new oil and gas projects, while pushing hard against any obstructionism from the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa, but doing so mainly as its always been done, through negotiation and court action.

Seems a prudent approach given the Lunatics in Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

Philip Cross: In the war on cars, the suburbs strike back

Only the very naïve think we will soon end our dependence on autos

Canadian drivers are experiencing a double dose of frustration this summer: record gas prices combined with a return to the pre-COVID traffic congestion that for years now has been making it so hard to get around our major cities. When green governments aren’t cavalierly dismissing the exasperating inconvenience to drivers they’re actually embracing it as a strategy for getting people to switch to mass transit. Trouble is, businesses bear the brunt of congestion costs. Estimates are that up to 40 per cent of traffic consists of commercial vehicles. Businesses count on timely deliveries to keep their factories supplied and shelves stocked and to satisfy burgeoning consumer demand for home delivery. For most firms, mass transit is simply not an option. When traffic chronically snarls their only alternative is to move everything but delivery out of city centres.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam