Author: Blazingcatfur

Bitcoin drops below $20,000 as crypto selloff quickens

LONDON (AP) — The price of bitcoin fell below $20,000 for the first time since late 2020 on Saturday, in a fresh sign that the selloff in cryptocurrencies is deepening.

Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, fell below the psychologically important threshold, dropping as much as 9% to less than $19,000, according to CoinDesk.

The last time bitcoin was at this level was November 2020, when it was on its way up to its all-time high of nearly $69,000.

Bitcoin has now lost more than 70 percent of its value since reaching that peak.

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

Russia’s far-right divided on Ukraine war

Their views are popular but government repression and internal strife have stunted the influence of Russia’s far right — while some fight alongside Kremlin’s troops in Donbas others reject the war as fratricide.

A few dozen small groups make up Russia’s right-wing nationalist scene. They call themselves “Nationalist Movement,” “Conservative Russia,” or simply, “The Conservatives.” Some support President Vladimir Putin and are fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, others reject the Kremlin outright.

A glimpse of just how splintered Russia’s right-wing scene is was evidenced by the varying positions they took in 2014 in reaction to the pro-European Maidan movement and the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia

Roe Fear Mongering: Salon Says Prisons will Overflow

Oh look, more lefty fear-mongering over the imminent demise of Roe v. Wade. Jessica Corbett sure knows how to whip panic into liberals in her June 17 Salon piece.

The recent draft leak has spurred a knee-jerk reaction from the pro-abortion crowd, with clinics supposedly expecting a massive inflow of patients seeking to murder their babies soon, according to an NPR interview Lisa Wayne, the executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate

Nolte: Disney‘s Big, Gay ‘Lightyear’ Is the Latest Woke Box Office Flop

Groomers in Space

Lightyear, the latest piece of child grooming media from the predators at the Walt Disney Co., is looking like a box office catastrophe, which is only a surprise to those who don’t live in the real world.

Gee, what do you think will happen when you add some high-profile homosexuality to a kiddie movie?

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

Feds pay contractors nearly $40 million to censor documents

The feds spent nearly $40 million in the last two years hiring outside contractors to censor documents that have been requested under the Access to Information Act, says Blacklock’s Reporter.

Records show a handful of companies were awarded millions in contracts to process paperwork.

“Each file is different based on the complexity and the volume of pages,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons.

h/t Mauser

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

Residents say China used health tracker to prevent freedom of movement

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their cellphone.

Chinese residents are required to have the health app, which displays a code indicating their health status, including possible exposure to COVID-19. A green code is required to use public transportation and to enter locations such as offices, restaurants and malls. But some depositors at the banks in central Henan province said their codes were turned red to stop them.

The incident has started a national debate on how a tool designed for public health was appropriated by political forces to tamp down controversy.

The future is scary.

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

Surveillance footage shows moment unarmed black 13-year-old boy with his hands up is shot in the back by Chicago cops

Newly released surveillance footage shows the moment a 13-year old black teenager in Chicago was shot in the back by police when his hands were raised, prompting the family to file a lawsuit.

The teen, identified as A.G. by his family, is seen running into a gas station parking lot while pursued by police officers at about 10.30pm on May 18.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

‘Nothing Will Be As It Used To Be’: Putin Defends Invasion Of Ukraine, Lashes Out At West In Combative Speech

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of colonial arrogance and said its sanctions “blitzkrieg” against his country has failed in his latest tirade against the United States and Europe.

Addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 17 — a showcase event being held this year with almost no Western participation — Putin defended his country’s invasion of Ukraine, which many in the United States and Europe say is akin to the colonization wars of past centuries.

Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on being Russia’s target No 2: ‘When you see their crimes, maybe they really are capable of anything’

In the early hours of 24 February, Olena Zelenska became aware of the sound of muffled booms somewhere in the distance. As she drifted towards wakefulness, she realised the sounds she was registering could not be fireworks. Her eyes snapped open; she discovered she was alone in the bed. She jumped up and hurried to the next room, where she found her husband, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, already dressed for work in a suit and tie.

“What’s going on?” she asked him.

“It’s started,” he told her.

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

Over 53K Illegal Aliens Given DACA Despite Arrest Records Including for Murder, Rape, Kidnapping

Ten years ago, in 2012, former President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program via executive order that has allowed nearly 800,000 illegal aliens to evade arrest and deportation.

Standards for the Obama program were set so low that tens of thousands of illegal aliens with prior arrest records for crimes like murder, rape, and kidnapping were able to secure DACA status

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Why Are Thousands of Flights Being Canceled at America’s Airports?

The summer travel season is off to a rocky start for America’s largest air carriers. Over the five-day Memorial Day weekend, more than 2,800 flights were canceled for one reason or another, with severe weather playing only a small part.

Meanwhile in Canada… Airport authorities didn’t expect ‘pent up demand for air travel’ this early

OTTAWA – Flying the friendly skies could bring more frowns than smiles this summer, as volumes are expected to increase while many bottlenecks still remain and the airline industry struggles to staff up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Two Uvalde officers had chance to shoot gunman, sheriff’s deputy says

Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb elementary school before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told the New York Times.

That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop Salvador Ramos before the 24 May attack inside the school that killed 19 children and two teachers. Officials said that a school district police drove past Ramos without seeing him in the school parking lot.

The unidentified officers, one of whom was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, said they feared hitting children playing in the line of fire outside the school, Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios of nearby Zavalla county told the newspaper.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Economists say to tame inflation, we need cheap oil

Rising interest rates will increase borrowing costs and slow the economy. But they won’t address one of the biggest drivers of inflation: fossil fuel costs.

The chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, took the dramatic step of increasing borrowing costs by 0.75 per cent, a move Canada is expected to follow. He said the move will slow demand and help get the jobs market balance out.

“But there are many things we can’t affect,” Powell told reporters this week in Washington.

Justin’s legacy will be cemented by his decision to make Canadians suffer for his vanity.

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

Woman set on fire on TTC bus in ‘random attack’; suspect arrested

One person is in custody after a woman was set on fire while on a TTC bus Friday afternoon in what police are calling a “random attack.”

Police say they were originally called to Kipling Station, near Kipling Avenue and Dundas Street, around 12:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a man assaulting a woman nearby.

“The man was then alleged to have poured some type of liquid substance or an accelerant on this woman and then ignited that substance, causing a fire and causing the female victim to burn,” Toronto police Const. Alex Li said.

Nothing but rumours about the perp and motive or lack of it so far.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?