US boat strike kills 4 alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ off Venezuela, Pete Hegseth says

WASHINGTON — The US military killed four alleged “narco-terrorists” in the latest strike on a boat deemed to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday.

The operation targeted a “vessel affiliated with designated terrorist organizations,” killing four men who were “transporting substantial amounts of narcotics headed to America to poison our people,” Hegseth wrote on X.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Violations of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program cost employers more than $6.8 million in penalties

The federal government issued more than $6.8 million in penalties to employers violating the rules of the temporary foreign worker program from January to September 2025, already surpassing the total from 2024’s record-setting year of fines, according to data from Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada.

That is about a 65 per cent increase from the $4.1 million in penalties handed out last year.

From January to the end of September this year, Ottawa levied 214 fines against non-compliant companies, averaging $31,971 per decision, according to the Star’s analysis of the data. That’s up from 155 fines last year, which averaged $26,776 — nearly double the 2023 average of $13,860.

Star propaganda on behalf of the Liberal Party and their corporate cronies. 

The fines are small and treated as the cost of doing business. They are not a deterrent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

OpenAI’s Video Generation App Sora 2 Is ‘Hollywood’s Most Terrifying Nightmare’ — Here’s Everything We Know

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence-generated video maker called “Sora 2” has launched and it is throwing Hollywood and the entertainment industry into full-blown panic with “nightmare” predictions of the looming end of the showbiz industry as we know it.

OMG.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Get your wife beater on …

‘Offensive’ phrase still used for tank tops on Amazon, even though it violates Canada’s advertising code

Several ads for men’s tank tops remain on Amazon’s Canadian website, despite an Ad Standards Council ruling that the phrase used to describe them — “wife beater” — is offensive, trivializes domestic violence and violates Canada’s advertising code.

The slang term refers to a certain style of tight-fitting tank tops introduced in the 1930s as a men’s undershirt. The shirt entered into popular culture in 1951, when Marlon Brando wore one while playing the hard-edged, violent Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

What next for Nato — the inside account of its fight to survive

Last year, as Nato prepared to mark its 75th anniversary, its defence college in Rome published an anthology of science fiction stories imagining what the alliance might look like in 2099, another three quarters of a century in the future. One of the authors envisaged a Chinese artificial superintelligence going rogue and killing 450 million people before it was imprisoned on the Moon. Another imagined a utopia in which Nato would dedicate its energies to nature conservation and schlep cadets across the North Pole in “Thunberg-class” transport ships.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO

Indigenous Peoples grapple with the fact people aren’t buying that fake graves crap anymore

Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools

OTTAWA – As Indigenous Peoples marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, they also had to confront a persistent problem: public figures claiming the history of residential schools has been exaggerated or falsified.

It’s a problem community leaders say poses a real challenge to reconciliation efforts across the country.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, mandated out of a legal settlement between the federal government and survivors of residential schools, concluded the goal of the schools was to erase Indigenous cultures.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Shock in Gaza as Trump appears to welcome Hamas response to US peace plan

People in Gaza have reacted with shock after US President Donald Trump appeared to welcome Hamas’s response to his peace plan for the territory.

Hundreds of Palestinians flooded my social media accounts and messaging apps with questions like: “Has the war ended?” and “Is this a dream or reality?”

The pace of developments overnight has left many struggling to grasp what comes next.

The movement’s carefully crafted statement – thought to have been drafted with the help of mediators – stopped short of outright rejection and instead offered a qualified “yes”

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

Trans who attempted to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh gets off light with just over 8 years in prison

The California man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following the leak of an opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was sentenced to eight years and one month in federal prison Friday, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release.

The sentence imposed upon Nicholas Roske — who now identifies as a trans woman named “Sophie” — by Biden-appointed federal judge Deborah Boardman, amounted to a defeat for federal prosecutors, who had requested that Roske be sentenced to 30 years to life. Roske’s defense team had asked for an eight-year sentence and 25 years of supervised release.

They are all loons. h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, WTF?

China’s Reach in Canada: Former RCMP National Director Calls for Urgent Action

Despite years of Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in Canada, the country has yet to fully recognize or counter the threat the communist regime poses to its future, according to a former RCMP officer.

Garry Clement, former national director for the RCMP’s Proceeds of Crime program, has been investigating transnational crime for decades. He describes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the “biggest transnational organized crime group in the world,” and says that despite growing evidence of its operatives, many in positions of authority in Canada appear unwilling to acknowledge the threat or take action.

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

Activists on Gaza aid flotilla to be held in notorious Israeli jail

The Foreign Office said it was “very concerned” for the welfare of more than 400 activists including a former RAF pilot set to be taken to a desert prison by Israel after they attempted to deliver aid to Gaza on Greta Thunberg’s flotilla.

Dozens of activists taken off a flotilla of yachts in international waters by Israeli commandos on Wednesday night and Thursday morning will be incarcerated at the notorious Ketziot prison in the Negev desert where guards have been accused of violent treatment towards Palestinian inmates.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?