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The Russians had money. The Canadian had far-right influencers. The U.S. Department of Justice says it has a criminal case

If it were a movie, it might feel a little too cliched: Russia funnelling money through a maze of shell accounts, a ploy to push stories favourable to a foreign power, and a supergroup of telegenic stars of the right wing media-sphere.

At least, that’s if the allegations laid out in an explosive 32-page American indictment are proven true. The claim is this: that a fledgling Tennessee-based media company took $10 million (U.S.) — provided by Russians who they all claimed was a fictional European businessman — in order to recruit a gaggle of high-profile YouTubers and post videos that, at best, inflamed existing American social divides and in some cases pushed untrue version of news events designed to paint the Kremlin in an advantageous light.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, USA

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage

Into the frozen fray they went, the explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, sailing from England in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage. And there, in the unforgiving expanse of the Canadian Arctic, they perished. No one knows exactly what happened.

Now, with the help of a sophisticated DNA-matching method, researchers have identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, the expedition’s third-highest-ranking officer, who died sometime in 1848 as he and other crew members tried to escape the ice.

Fitzjames is the second person to be identified from the expedition. And he is the first member of the crew definitively known to have been the victim of cannibalism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, history

Barbara Kay: October 7 erupted an antisemitism volcano that’s still spewing hate

One year on, Jews in the West have had time to process the primary shock of Hamas’s pogrom in southern Israel and the secondary shock of hateful blowback against Israel and Jews worldwide. We learned in a span of hours that where lethal antisemitism is concerned, “never again” was for us a mere objective, not a guarantee against those consumed by a mission of “again and again and again.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Collin May: The lessons we should have learned from October 7

On the first anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, it’s worth looking back at the lessons we learned, or should have learned, over the past year.

First, it’s always appropriate to remember what happened a year ago. In a surprise attack, Hamas terrorists stormed across the Gaza-Israel border, torturing, raping and killing over 1,200 Israeli citizens and foreign nationals. Hamas also took 251 hostages — some have returned, some have been killed and many remain captive.

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

Jesse Kline: How woke progressivism drove a surge in antisemitism in the West

The Hibachi Vagina Nazi Remains A Fave Among the Pantheon Of Crazies

Hamas’s October 7 massacre was shocking, not just due to its barbarity, but the reaction it elicited on the streets of liberal democracies, with masses of westerners actively cheering on the slaughter of innocent civilians and siding with a genocidal terrorist organization. As the first anniversary of that horrific day approaches, a new book sheds light on the morally bankrupt ideology that has caused many of our elites to turn their backs on liberal values and forge an unholy alliance with religious extremists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

LILLEY: Terror supporters show their true colours in Toronto

As most Canadians went quietly about their Saturday afternoon, thousands of their fellow citizens took over the streets of Toronto in support of terrorists. The chants, the flags, the signs were all to mark the start of several days of commemoration of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks one year ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Thousands of the usual suspects march in pro-Palestinian protest to mark a year of war in the Middle East

A sea of red, black, white and green filled Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday, as thousands of people wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags gathered to mark one year since the Oct 7. attacks that sparked the biggest war in the Middle East in a generation.

“We will not be pushed aside. We stand with Gaza side by side,” they chanted in Toronto as marches took place across Canada and around the world in Paris, Manila, Cape Town and other major cities amid reports of new Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, which have killed 1,400 people in less than two weeks.

Why aren’t the criminals who invited a death cult to settle here in shackles?

Bullshit crowd estimate.

Oh cripes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Former editor testifies Chinese media in Canada ‘controlled by Communist Party’

A retired editor from one of Canada’s leading Chinese-language newspapers has raised alarms about the dominance of Chinese Communist Party influence over local ethnic media.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Victor Ho, who served as the Vancouver editor of Sing Tao Daily for 13 years, testified before the Commission on Foreign Interference, warning that Chinese media in Canada, especially those targeting recent immigrants, have long been under the sway of Beijing’s agenda.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Amy Hamm: I’ll take political apathy over shilling for terrorism, thanks

The most civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada has been over the last year. Sounds lovely, right? It sounds suggestive of a much-needed renaissance within Canadian civil society. But alas, it was not.

Sadly, the civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada over the past year has been enacted by shills for terrorist organizations, organized street mobs braying for genocide, while falsely accusing Israel of the same, and by Canadians celebrating October 7 and (we can only assume) the killing, raping, or burning of victims — some babies — and the kidnapping of hostages that occurred on that terrible day one year ago. In our capital, Canadians shouted “Long live October 7!” Useful idiots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Survey finds Canadians resigned to foreign money influencing federal elections

A majority of Canadians believe illegal foreign money is influencing federal elections, according to in-house research by Elections Canada.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the agency’s study found that more than two-thirds of voters suspect such interference is commonplace, with concerns particularly high among immigrants and British Columbians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada

Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents

A professor is taking the Department of National Defence to court in an effort to force it to release records about the Canadian military’s program to target members of the public in various propaganda schemes.

The application for a judicial review was filed in federal court Sept. 27 in Vancouver on behalf of Emma Briant, an associate professor at Monash University in Australia and an expert in military propaganda.

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Federal government plans to warn foreign ambassadors not to interfere in next election

The federal government plans to convene a meeting of foreign ambassadors next month to warn them not to interfere in the next election.

Testifying before the inquiry into foreign interference in Canada, David Morrison, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, said his department is preparing for the next federal election and wants to make sure that diplomats from other countries know where Canada draws the line between attempts to influence and attempts to interfere.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, WTF?

I bet it changed ya …

h/t Ms. Trixie and WS

Bonus corruption …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islamization of the West, WTF?