Salted Ducks, Supercars, and State Access: How FBI Agents Say Beijing Bought Influence in the Heart of New York Government

NEW YORK — The upcoming trial of Linda Sun — also known as Wen Sun — may prove to be the most sophisticated and high-level political infiltration operation in the United States publicly tied to Beijing’s United Front system. A youthful, naturalized immigrant from China, Sun rose through New York State’s bureaucracy to become a senior diversity official. Now, she stands accused of secretly manipulating two Democratic governors — effectively scripting Andrew Cuomo’s praise of Chinese pandemic mask shipments, while blocking Governor Kathy Hochul from meeting Taiwanese officials and ensuring her silence on the Chinese Communist Party’s mass detention of Uyghurs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada, USA

My Son Was Scowled At for Singing “God Bless America”

I was heading home on the 4 train with my son after a Yankees game. It had been a picture-perfect New York day—sunshine, baseball, hot dogs, and family. During the seventh-inning stretch, the crowd stood and sang “God Bless America.” My son, who has become increasingly interested in what it means to be American—especially after recent visits to the Liberty Bell and the Statue of Liberty—sang it with pride.

On the train home, still riding the high from the game, he broke into the song again. It wasn’t loud or disruptive. It was joyful, spontaneous, and sincere—a child expressing genuine love for his country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trudeau’s vile regime pushed many to brink of political violence new data shows

Threats of political violence rose rapidly through the Trudeau years, new data shows

Catherine McKenna noticed the first serious wave of threats aimed at her in 2018, on the same day the Trudeau government’s carbon-tax-and-rebate policy went into effect.

She was then the environment minister in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet and became the lightning rod for opponents of the policy.

“Pretty quickly, things got really weird,” McKenna, who left politics after the 2019 election, said in a recent interview.

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

What if?

Why did Barack Obama feel America needed change? and how was that supposed to come about?

Many of us can recall when Barak Obama eagerly proclaimed on the eve of his election “we are five days away from transforming the United States of America” to thundering cheers of adoration back in 2008. Very few failed to ask why America, a Constitutional Republic, with self-governance as its cornerstone, needed a transformation; and what would America be transformed into?

What if , said the conspiracy theorists, Barak Obama was a fraud, a Communist Muslim plant ensconced into the highest echelons of our government by the U.N. and the World Economic Forum to advance a totalitarian Marxist/Islamic New World Order under the auspices of today’s new ruling class of billionaires (oligarchy) akin to the old Feudal System of yesterday? America, a superpower would need to be destroyed from within for their mission to succeed. What steps would need to occur for their mission to become reality?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inObama, Obama - Are You Absolutely Sure He Isn't A Muslim?

Lab-Grown Meat Goes Upscale With Faux Foie Gras

Can lab-grown foie gras find a niche in the luxury food market?

Makers of lab-grown aka cell-cultured meat have pitched the product as a fix for our food chain’s environmental and humanitarian issues. But it comes with its own baggage—it is expensive to produce, it can’t nail the protein’s texture and it starts “life” as sludge.

This technology has run up against the same kind of problems that have stymied all kinds of alternative meats, whether made in a lab or created from vegetables. After bursting onto the market in the late 2010s, plant-based stars such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat had a momentary rise but have since struggled, as high costs, texture issues and consumer skepticism stalled widespread adoption.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Yorkdale shooting victim was rapper with ties to Montreal gangs: Report

The man who was shot dead early Thursday in the parking lot of Yorkdale Shopping Centre is reportedly a rapper linked to Montreal gangs.

Montreal’s La Presse reported that the victim is a rapper known as Lil Bentley, whose real name is Kashif Jamal Bentley-Jean.

When we were kids we used to head to Yorkdale just to hang around, get into some minor hijinks and head home, we were kids 10,11, 12. 

Toronto is now a city of vibrant and diverse crime scenes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine by chain necklace

A man has died after suffering a medical episode when he was “drawn into” an MRI machine by a large chain around his neck, police said Friday.

The 61-year-old was at Nassau Open MRI on Wednesday when he entered an unauthorized MRI room while a scan was in progress, Nassau County Police on New York’s Long Island said in a statement. The man has not been identified by authorities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Singh Transport … Again

Speeding transport driver nabbed with $4.4 million in contraband tobacco along Hwy. 401 in Kingston

… Inside, OPP and MTO officers discovered the trailer was filled with over 17,820 kilograms of contraband; fine-cut tobacco with an estimated value was $4.4 million.

According to the officer, that equates to a total federal and provincial tack loss of approximately $9.1 million.

The driver, 60-year-old Joga Singh Dhillon of Puslinch Township near Cambridge, has been charged with trafficking contraband tobacco.

h/t DS

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Crime, WTF?

We Now Have the Smoking Gun Proving Biden House Pressured DOJ To Target Parents

The revelations unveiled by America First Legal mark a seismic moment in the ongoing debate over the weaponization of the Department of Justice under the Biden administration. For years, concerned parents who spoke up at school board meetings found themselves caught in the crosshairs of a federal government wielding its power not to protect free speech, but to stifle dissent. Now, explosive new documents obtained by America First Legal leave no room for doubt: the infamous memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland—which painted parents as potential “domestic terrorists,” for speaking out against COVID mandates, critical race theory, and gender ideology—was not a matter of law or public safety but was motivated by pure, unvarnished politics, and was the result of pressure from the White House.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze", USA

Canada’s borders dangerously vulnerable to spies and agents of Iranian regime, Vancouver lawyer says

A Leger opinion poll in June found 43 per cent of Canadians don’t favour accepting more migrants from besieged Iran. Twenty-seven per cent were in favor. The rest were undecided.

The war-torn theocratic nation of Iran has become the second highest source country of refugee claims to Canada (after India).

Last year, more than 6,600 people from the Persian Gulf country submitted asylum requests.

The volume of applicants from the Islamic Republic of Iran, also known as Persia, is a red flag to human-rights activists who worry Canada might inadvertently take in some applicants with close ties to the country’s brutally repressive regime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran

Vance Boelter’s Life Before the Minnesota Shootings

The sudden change in the teenager was dramatic and unsettling, as if some internal switch had been thrown. Those who knew him could only wonder: What’s come over Vance Boelter?

One moment he was an affable college freshman, pursuing a family passion by trying out for the baseball team. The next, he was giving up the game and shedding his belongings — even his cherished baseball bat — as if to put away childish things.

Suddenly, he was telling dorm mates they were going to hell, denouncing a guest speaker on campus as “Satan’s worker” and announcing he was now “all in for Jesus.” It was a lifelong commitment he would just as suddenly violate 40 years later, prosecutors say, with an act of political assassination that would stun the nation and send his home state of Minnesota into communal mourning.

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

‘It’s a paperweight now’: Why the Mounties’ ban of popular rifle led to so much pushback

When it comes to Canada’s often tense debate around gun laws, most Canadians likely will not have heard of an RCMP database called the Firearms Reference Table, or FRT.

But to people like Melody Philistin, unexpected updates to this database have a personal impact.

“Yeah. It really sucks,” she said.

Philistin is a competitive shooter who recently represented Canada at an international event in the Czech Republic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Colbert Cancellation Exposes the Perilous State of Late-Night TV

CBS’s decision to end its long-running ‘Late Show’ franchise touched off a firestorm—and is a grim sign for a challenged television format

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was profitable as recently as a few years ago.

Now, it loses about $40 million a year, according to a person familiar with its budget. On Thursday, CBS pulled the plug on the show and an entire franchise launched in 1993, making it the biggest casualty yet among late-night talk shows contending with cord-cutting, changing tastes among younger viewers and declining ad revenue.

The budget for the show, filmed in New York City’s Ed Sullivan Theater, includes a live band, a staff the host said numbered 200 people, and an annual salary of $20 million for Colbert, according to a person familiar with the show’s operations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

James Moore: Three Trudeau-era policies Prime Minister Mark Carney should reverse

Since his election as Canada’s 24th prime minister, Mark Carney has enjoyed sustained strong approval ratings from Canadians, according to public opinion research. Among the reasons for this has been his willingness to reverse course on Trudeau-era policies that he either disagreed with, the public had demonstrated a clear dislike for, or policies that have been objectively proven to be failing.

This is a refreshing change, and it has earned the prime minister the admiration of many Canadians who hope to be governed by leaders who are prepared to shelve partisan entrenchment and take the risk of triggering the internal disloyalty of colleagues who have overcommitted to bad ideas by being willing to change course.

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