Author: Blazingcatfur

Boeing abandoning crime-ridden Chicago

Last October, Boeing’s headquarters in Chicago was described as looking like a ghost town, with few people showing up to work at the company’s corporate offices. And that was largely after the city began reopening following the pandemic lockdowns. Many employees may still have been working from home out of caution over COVID, but others simply didn’t want to brave the streets of the Windy City for fear of being carjacked or otherwise harmed by the criminals who seemed to be running the streets.

Related: 23 Shot, 5 Fatally, During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot‘s Chicago 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Chinese-style drone surveillance is coming to America

Law enforcement is already using tech to extend the reach of policing

The leading edge in authoritarian tech usually comes dressed as exciting developments in artificial intelligence. Its typical face is Chinese: last week, researchers at Zheihang University released footage that showed a swarm of ten drones successfully navigating a forest without human control. Fascinating in the abstract — but the research, published in the digital magazine Science Robotics last week, also discusses the challenges that need addressing for the drones to ‘catch up with’ a human ‘target’.

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

Liberal MP “Attends” House Of Commons From Shitter

The Conservatives are alleging “contempt of the House” after a Liberal MP appeared to be participating in House of Commons proceedings virtually from a washroom stall on Friday.

Divershitty: Harbinger of things to come

Rising on a question of privilege on Monday morning, Conservative House Leader John Brassard said it didn’t bring him any pleasure to do so, but he felt the need to raise the “occurrence of misconduct,” as House administration indicated the incident had occurred, but there had been no follow up.

The alleged incident took place on Friday afternoon in the House of Commons. During a debate on a private members’ bill, Conservative MP Laila Goodridge rose on a point of order, flagging to Assistant Deputy Speaker Alexandra Mendes that it appeared the Liberal MP for Brampton Centre MP Shafqat Ali was participating from “a washroom.”

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

‘Paranoid dictator’: Russian journalists fill pro-Kremlin site with anti-war articles

Articles published on Lenta.ru on Victory Day accuse Putin of waging ‘bloodiest war of 21st century’

Two Russian journalists working for a popular pro-Kremlin website filled it with anti-war articles on Monday morning in a rare act of dissent as the country celebrated the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.

The articles on Lenta.ru called President Vladimir Putin a “pitiful paranoid dictator” and accused him of waging “the bloodiest war of the 21st century”.

“We had to do it today. We wanted to remind everyone what our grandfathers really fought for on this beautiful Victory Day – for peace,” said 30-year-old Egor Polyakov, one of the two journalists.

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

China Accelerates Nuclear Buildup, Military Modernization; Biden Speeding U.S. to Defeat

When the Pentagon assessed China’s nuclear arsenal in its annual report to Congress on China’s military power in November 2020, it projected that China’s nuclear warhead stockpile, which the Pentagon then estimated to be in the low 200s, would “at least double in size” over the next decade. The Pentagon also estimated that China was “pursuing” a “nuclear triad”, meaning a combination of land-, sea- and air-based nuclear capabilities.

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

John Ivison: Sorry Canada. You’re still unlikely to snag cheap child care, no matter governments’ promises

As a columnist for 30 years, I’ve always tried to remember Bertrand Russell’s maxim not to expect people to take as much interest in me as I do myself.

In any case, I appear to have entered my anecdotage — not much happens in my tiny world worth relaying to the rest of the universe.

An exception was the response to one recent tweet on Canada’s promised low-cost, high-quality child-care system, which did spur some interest beyond my immediate family.

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

‘We will win’, defiant Zelenskiy tells Russia on World War Two anniversary

KYIV, May 9 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv would defeat Russia’s invasionand not give up a single piece of land,as he marked victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

Zelenskiy, in a powerful video address, commemorated the deaths of more than eight million Ukrainians in World War Two and said that Kyiv would not allow Moscow to appropriate the victory over Nazism for itself.

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

Azov Battalion steel plant defenders lash out at Ukraine government

An intelligence officer holed up in Mariupol’s massive Azovstal steel factory has blasted the Ukraine government for leaving the citizens and soldiers on their own.

“We got zero support — no air support, no artillery or ground support. We were left on our own,” Ilya Samoilenko said, yet added that they are continuing to fight.

“We are basically here, dead men. Most of us know this and it’s why we fight so fearlessly,” he said.

Is this an expedient end to their problematic existence?

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

Germany braces for pro-Russian Victory Day rallies

Berlin and other cities across Germany increased police patrols on Monday ahead of expected pro-Russia protests.

The demonstrations are happening to mark Victory Day on May 9, a holiday commemorating the Soviet military’s victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

Tensions are running high this year over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with authorities in Berlin banning both Russian and Ukrainian flags at memorial sites.

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

Ukraine war: ‘When the shelling stops, the traitors will be punished’

A clash of loyalties is dividing opinion among residents in Bakhmut – a town on the front line in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Sometimes it slips out as a whisper. More often, it is hidden behind euphemisms and shrugs – and carefully ambivalent replies. And then, once in a while, a fiercely pro-Russian sentiment is simply blurted out, like the crack of a gunshot, here in the rolling green hills of the Donbas.

“This is Russian territory. Ukraine is the occupier here,” said a man in overalls, standing with a group of council workers. They had been clearing weeds in Bakhmut – a Ukrainian town currently within easy earshot of Russian artillery.

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

Elon Musk says he may die ‘under mysterious circumstances’ in cryptic tweet

Elon Musk suggested he might die “under mysterious circumstances” in a cryptic tweet that appeared to be referring to a threat by the chief of Russia’s space agency.

“If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” Musk said in a tweet Sunday night.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted the foreboding tweet shortly after he shared a message from Dmitry Rogozin, who accused him of being “involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?