Author: Blazingcatfur

Liberals’ proposed online harms bill slammed in ‘secret’ submissions from tech companies, telecoms

Responses to the Liberal government’s proposed online harms bill from companies including Microsoft, Twitter and Canadian telecoms are among the hundreds of submissions Canadian Heritage refused to release.

Previously withheld feedback includes a document from Twitter that warned the proposed framework involving proactive monitoring of content “sacrifices freedom of expression to the creation of a government run system of surveillance of anyone who uses Twitter.”

I hope Musk buys Twitter and tells Junior to shove it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Mobilizing to Win – Ukrainian civil society pitches in for the war effort.

It’s a huge, hangar-like building, disused and decrepit, on the outskirts of Lviv. But for Mykola Piddubnyi and his colleague Irina Gavrilova, the local entrepreneur’s gift was a godsend, allowing them to move their expanding wartime supply operation out of Gavrilova’s tiny apartment. The day I visited, there were dozens of wooden pallets spread out across the big space: one cluster—maybe 40 cardboard boxes—for baked goods, another for large plastic buckets filled with dumplings, still other areas for canned food and toiletries, even a pallet piled high with crutches and wheelchairs.

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

France says Russian mercenaries staged ‘French atrocity’ in Mali

The French army says it has filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies near a Malian military base to falsely accuse France’s departing forces of leaving behind mass graves.

The video, filmed with a drone and seen by AFP on Thursday, shows what appear to be white soldiers covering bodies with sand near the Gossi base in northern Mali.

The claim came after a Twitter account using the name Dia Diarra, who describes himself as a “former soldier” and “Malian patriot”, posted pixelated images of corpses buried in sand and accused France of atrocities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Mali, Russia

Coca-Cola Hosts Earth Day Event With Democrat Who Says Jews Control Weather

Coca-Cola Consolidated and Giant Food held an Earth Day environmental cleanup event with a Democratic Washington, D.C., councilman who has accused Jews of controlling the climate.

Ward 8 councilman Trayon White Sr., who is challenging incumbent mayor Muriel Bowser in the Democratic mayoral primary, teamed up with the Coke-bottling company and grocery chain last week to host the cleanup day for Oxon Run, a stream located in White’s ward.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Green-Scam, WTF?

‘We Found Nothing’: Thousands Of Islamic State’s Victims Are Still Missing

BEIRUT (AP) — For journalist Amer Matar, a decade-long search for his younger brother has defined him and changed the course of his life, now dedicated to researching and documenting crimes committed by the Islamic State group in Syria.

His brother, Mohammed Nour Matar, vanished in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa in 2013 while reporting on an explosion that hit the headquarters of an insurgent group. His burnt camera was found at the scene of the blast, and his family soon after got word he was in an IS prison. But there has been no other sign of him since.

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

Canada still not on track to meet electric vehicle sales target despite popularity

Electric vehicle sales grew almost 60 per cent last year but they need to pick up the pace even more to hit the new federal sales mandates expected by the end of this year.

Statistics Canada released the latest quarterly data on new vehicle registrations Thursday, showing in the fourth quarter of 2021, plug-in cars and SUVs made up more than six per cent of new vehicle registrations for the first time.

Maybe solid state batteries are the future? Toyota plans solid-state battery by 2025, but it won’t be for an EV

But where is all the hydro coming from?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Douglas Todd: War pushes Ukrainian men and women into traditional roles

Much of the world has been stirred by the courage and determination of the Ukrainian people as they fight the Russian oppressor.

Marvin Westwood, an emeritus professor of counselling psychology at UBC, has spent three decades working with veterans, expresses compassion for the men of Ukraine and elsewhere. They are confronted with horrible options.

“War is a setback for gender equality. There’s still this bias around the world. It’s socialized in almost every country that guys are supposed to be the ones who fight. The highest value is that men don’t need protection; they protect everybody else. But many men don’t necessarily want to fight.”

Do what Canada does and make the armed forces viable for transgenders only.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canada sending four pieces, count ’em four pieces of field artillery to Ukraine as it braces for renewed Russian attack

Canada is expected to send four of its relatively new M-777 howitzers to Ukraine to help it face down a renewed Russian offensive from the east, CBC News has learned.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the plan to ship “heavy artillery” earlier this week, but offered no details on what the Canadian military would be donating.

“Their most recent ask was exactly for that, for heavy artillery, for reasons of operational security,” Trudeau said on Wednesday. “I can’t go into the details at this point on how and what we’re getting to them exactly.”

Eye opener – The shipment is expected to include an unspecified amount of ammunition, including precision-guided Excalibur rounds left over from the Afghan war, said a third source. The GPS-guided shells are worth about $112,000 US per round.

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

China or the USA?

Two recent reports highlight a disturbing trend in the global power dynamic. They are not receiving much attention because of the ongoing war in Ukraine, but China is exploiting this out-of-the-spotlight moment to work smartly at increasing its influence within the Muslim world. Meanwhile, the US is squandering this moment by trying to negotiate a renewed Iran nuclear deal with Russia’s assistance.

At a recent meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was a special invitee. It was the first time that a Chinese government official had ever been invited to be present at an OIC meeting. The OIC has 57 member countries, making it the world’s second-largest international organization.

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

Maybe Elon Musk should give up on Twitter — and let it destroy the woke

Maybe we’re better off if Elon Musk’s attempt to take over Twitter fails. No, wait, hear me out.

I’ve been rooting for the Tesla CEO in his battle with Twitter’s sad board of directors, whose members seem eager to protect their power and position. And it’s been fun to watch all the establishment pundits, academics and regulators circle the wagons against a man whose unpardonable sin is a desire to let people speak freely. He might even stop them from abusing their power to affect elections (always on behalf of Democrats, of course), which is intolerable.

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

Geoff Russ: EKOS boss Frank Graves’ ill advised threat to keep Pierre Poilievre from winning

Frank Graves Professional Asshole

Frank Graves, President and founder of EKOS Research Associates, went on the attack against Pierre Poilievre’s populist-tinged bid to become leader of the Conservative party. Unquestionably, Graves has the right to express his opinions, but his online onslaught, as head of a prominent political polling firm, only dumped fuel on the populist fire he loathes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

The Ivy League-educated, homicidal maniac who founded Earth Day

Today is Earth Day. It is a holiday created by environmentalists in the 1970s to help protect the environment and save the planet. Like many things in this country’s history, the annual celebration has its roots in Philadelphia. Earth Day’s founder, Ira Einhorn, was born there, and the first Earth Day event occurred in the city’s famous Fairmount Park in 1970. But while Einhorn magnanimously wanted to save the planet, he showed no such virtue to his girlfriend Holly Maddux, whom he murdered in cold blood.

While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Einhorn was in a relationship with Maddux, a graduate of nearby Bryn Mawr College. After dating for five years, Maddux ended the relationship in 1977. Afterward, Einhorn descended into a jealous rage and killed her.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

I was misunderstood says race baiting Trudeau lickspittle

Stephen Maher: How the racial makeup of Poilievre rallies could be used against him

Last week, when Pierre Poilievre held a huge rally in a show-jumping facility on Calgary’s southern edge, I observed on Twitter that the enthusiastic crowd seemed to be mostly made up of white people, which might pose a problem for Poilievre.

This tweet — part of a long, not very interesting thread about Poilievre’s event — struck some people the wrong way, and I have since then been denounced hundreds of times, most recently in the National Post earlier this week by columnist Rupa Subramanya, who implied my comment constitutes a racist attack on Poilievre and his supporters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media