Author: Blazingcatfur

Police report reveals assault allegations against Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Not if, but when: Foreign Affairs Committee keys in on question of Palestinian statehood

MPs who’ve been looking into Canada’s role in fostering peace in the Middle East will have their work cut out for them as they prepare a final report after a contentious study that saw witnesses shunned and disinvited.

The committee, which is chaired by Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi (Willowdale, Ont.), held four meetings in October and November to look at the ways Canada can advance recognition of a State of Palestine as part of a two-state solution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Doug Ford and Olivia Chow have the means to end encampments. One thing is stopping them

A chill wind is blowing across Ontario.

As winter looms, homeless people are hunkering down in tent encampments. With the ground hardening under them in public parks, rival political camps are digging in for a fight.

So politicized is this issue that we cannot even agree on how to describe the people or decide on a policy. Activists insist that people in need are not the homeless but the unhoused, or “people experiencing homelessness” — a phoney war preoccupied with terminology over policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Biden Desperately Tries to Save His Legacy

President Joe Biden’s allies have repeatedly claimed that his presidency is a historic success in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff, said that Biden has “delivered the largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt.” Similarly, presidential historian Robert S. McElvaine said that Biden’s record “stacks up well against the very high bars set by FDR and LBJ.”

Is everyone connected to Biden suffering dementia?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Fake News in the 21st Century: The egregious, unethical sin of omission

We have heard a great deal about Fake News over the decades. But we have not discussed the fake news that is the result of the egregious unethical omission of facts.

I am old enough to remember Donald Rumsfeld when he wrote about the known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Many laughed. I didn’t. I realized that he could be talking about the failure of MSM – the failure to report ALL the facts:The unknown unknowns. Sadly, once Fake News is shared online, it is there forever. Far too few people fact check. They just blindly believe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFake News

GUNTER: Seeing red over Libs’ green slush fund

It’s been said that “Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” By that standard, the Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), more commonly known as the green slush fund), is a failure. No one in the Liberal government or the federal bureaucracy even admits to knowing about the widespread misspending of taxpayer dollars – nearly $1 billion – nor the handing out of rich contracts to friends of the fund’s directors and the directors themselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, Uncategorized

China Puts Trump, Trade, and Foreign Business in the Crosshairs

“The attempt to block economic cooperation under all sorts of pretexts and break up the interdependence of the world is nothing but backpedaling,” declared China’s President Xi Jinping at the just concluded APEC summit in Peru.

“Stand up to protectionism and unilateralism,” said Ren Hongbin, a former Commerce Ministry official and now chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, also at APEC. “There is the rhetoric of the decoupling and derisking,” he warned. “The artificial severance of the global supply chain is detrimental for everyone”

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

Ford government announces tough new rules for ‘bad actor’ immigration consultants

New provincial legislation will target “bad-actor” immigration consultants who prey on newcomers with fines and lifetime bans as punishment.

Announced Wednesday in Brampton by David Piccini, minister of labour, immigration, training and skills development, the measures will set out new, tougher rules for immigration representatives that could require them to issue written contracts, show proof of their licence, and give applicants the right to see their files.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.

With temperatures dropping, nights growing longer and decorations starting to appear in store windows, the holidays are on their way. One of the season’s stalwarts, however, is feeling a little less cozy for some people: Coca-Cola, known for its nostalgia-filled holiday commercials, is facing backlash for creating this year’s ads with generative artificial intelligence.

The three commercials, which pay tribute to the company’s beloved “Holidays Are Coming” campaign from 1995, feature cherry-red Coca-Cola trucks driving through sleepy towns on snowy roads at night. The ads depict squirrels and rabbits peeking out to watch the passing caravans and a man being handed an ice-cold bottle of cola by Santa Claus.

The AI Genie is not going back in the bottle.

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

Rob Reiner Returns to X/Twitter After Kamala‘s Defeat, Says Left Must Create ‘Information Distribution System‘ to Combat ‘Disinformation‘

He’s back.

Rob Reiner has posted his first message to X / Twitter following Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago. In his brief message, he urged the left to build a “competitive information distribution system” to combat “disinformation” — a baffling suggestion since the left already controls the vast majority of the corporate news media and nearly all online search engines.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, Trump Derangement Syndrome

EV Battery Manufacturer Northvolt files for bankruptcy -Taxpayers out hundreds of millions

Northvolt, a Swedish battery maker, has filed for bankruptcy.

The company received millions from Quebec taxpayers and was promised billions from the Liberals. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau referred to the company’s Canadian activity as a “win–win–win.”

Based on photos and artist renderings found online, the company didn’t build much on its site southeast of Montreal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"