Author: Blazingcatfur

In ‘very abnormal’ development, longtime sponsors bail on San Francisco Pride

Several longtime corporate sponsors of San Francisco’s Pride celebrations are pulling their funding for the festivities, leaving Pride organizers searching for another way to raise $300,000.

In the past four weeks, multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration, that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In an interview with SFGATE, San Francisco Pride’s executive director, Suzanne Ford, said she was “really disappointed” by the developments.

Same thing happened in Toronto and of course they Blamed Trump but I suspect Trans advocacy triggered the about face.

Or maybe it’s just that Pride is regarded as an anachronism?

I had forgot about my “banned on YouTube” Pride vids. Here’s a blast from the past saved on Vimeo. Pride 2010 to be exact.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Ontario’s provincial police force could be using Israeli spyware, report finds

Researchers have uncovered “possible links” between Ontario’s provincial police force and an Israel-based military-grade spyware maker called Paragon Solutions, raising questions about the extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyber weapons.

The new findings were published by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, which tracks and identifies digital threats against civil society, and come three years after a parliamentary committee in Canada called for Ottawa to update the country’s privacy laws in the wake of press reports that the national police force was using spyware to hack mobile phone devices. No laws were ever passed to address the controversy.

The Citizen Lab, in a report published on Wednesday, found a possible technical link between Paragon, which sells a spyware known as Graphite to government clients, and entities based in Ontario, Canada, including one that used the address of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).

This stuff always ends up used well beyond the original intent.

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

Trudeau collecting two pensions worth $8.4 million

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on party leaders to put an end to a second taxpayer-funded pension for prime ministers, arguing it’s an unnecessary burden on Canadians.

“Taxpayers can’t afford to keep covering Ottawa’s perks, and scrapping the prime minister’s second pension would be a good place to start saving money,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF

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

Mike Coates: Free trade is dead. The coming election will be about who can navigate this change

As we ready ourselves for a truly consequential election, most pundits are predicting that the ballot question will be about who is best able to negotiate with U.S. President Donald Trump. In reality, our trading system is changing so radically that the real question is: who can best adapt to change? I’d argue it’s Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative party.

Poilievre and the Conservative party have demonstrated that they get it. Putting Canadian interests first by building pipelines, quickly developing mines, cutting taxes, investing in skilled trades, equipping and recruiting for our Armed Forces, breaking down internal trade barriers and diversifying our international trade are all policies that the Conservatives have been talking about consistently since the Harper years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Tesla’s Cybertruck has become the world’s most hated car – Maga loves it

New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festival celebrates weirdness, but among the costumes, masks and bacchanalian partying, one newcomer at this year’s festivities was not welcome.

During one parade, five Tesla Cybertrucks transporting the event’s marshals were incessantly booed, surrounded and pelted with beer cans, rubbish and a barrage of Mardi Gras necklace beads.

Despite their tough reputation, two of the vehicles’ windows were cracked.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Every Carnival Has Its Carney

Canada’s newly installed, unelected prime minister Mark Carney, until recently the shadowy advisor to the hapless Justin Trudeau, is now openly showing his hand as the masterful manipulator and economic scourge he has always been. Trudeau was never the political player we thought he was but a mere hologram in a suit, a digital optic projected by Carney.

h/t Auntie Polly

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

The Liberals’ $200 billion climate boondoggle

Since coming to power in 2015 the federal Liberals have earmarked more than $200 billion for 150 programs presided over by 13 government departments, ostensibly to address climate change.

The total comes to 202 if you include joint agreements with Canada’s provinces and territories.

The results have been a massive failure.

I sure as hell do not want to be governed by Carney and his wife.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Islamic Revolution Sweeping US Prisons

Islamic conversion rates are on the rise in American prisons and the West should be concerned.

A quiet yet seismic shift is occurring in America’s prison cells. Fewer inmates are reading the Bible behind bars, while more are reading the Quran.

That’s right.

Islam is quickly becoming the dominant faith in America’s prison system. According to a recent CBS report, tens of thousands of inmates convert to Islam each year. In some prisons, Muslim prisoners make up as much as 20 percent of the population. The conversion rate is astonishing. It goes beyond a mere religious choice.

It represents a complete transformation of identity, loyalty, and ideology.

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

Andrew Tate, Supermasculine Menial

The crisis of manhood cannot be solved by a digital pimp.

The Right has waged a long-running debate about the crisis of masculinity. The basic critique is that the feminist capture of our institutions has created a pervasive cultural hostility toward men, undermining traditional models of masculinity and leaving young men adrift. Unfortunately, opportunists and charlatans have rushed in to fill the void.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Amy Hamm: The Liberal party is rotten. Mark Carney is the new core

There is a Persian adage that, roughly translated from Farsi, reads: “Tell death to be content with a fever.” It is used as a rejoinder when one is appalled by another’s attempt to placate them, by offering some lesser evil than the evil they had previously imposed (or threatened to impose). It perfectly exemplifies what our new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is doing to Canada.

Carney, like the Liberal Party itself are habitual liars.

The LPC spent the last decade running Canada into the ditch and now they expect us to believe they’re Super-Patriots.

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

Germany: Toward a New Domination of Europe?

In the opera Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner, the Rhine Gold is a magical treasure guarded by the Rhine Maidens (Rheinmädchen). This gold can be forged into a ring that gives its holder unlimited power. By arrogating to himself the power to put Germany into debt in a way that no chancellor has done since 1945, Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, will be taking on an unrivalled power: that of dominating Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Why is the naval destroyer program wrapped in secrecy? The F-35 saga offers insights

The Canadian shipyard building the navy’s new destroyers and the British defence contractor responsible for the basic design recently signed a collaboration contract, marking the next step forward in the multibillion-dollar program that the federal government has largely wrapped in secrecy.

Much of the program’s plans and costs remain shrouded in mystery and obfuscation — including precisely how much each of the first three warships will cost.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCN", Canada