Author: Blazingcatfur

Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy

Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and private security researchers.

The unusually aggressive and sophisticated attacks include access to at least two major providers with millions of customers as well as to several smaller providers, people familiar with the separate campaigns said.

“It is business as usual now for China, but that is dramatically stepped up from where it used to be. It is an order of magnitude worse,” said Brandon Wales, who until earlier this month was executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Cyber War, USA

German City Becomes Reluctant Symbol of a Nation’s Migration Battles

After a stabbing attack that prosecutors say was committed by a Syrian who was rejected for asylum, the city of Solingen finds itself at the center of a longstanding debate.

Two days after a deadly knife attack in the German city of Solingen, the youth wing of the far-right AfD party put out a call for supporters to stage a protest demanding the government do more to deport migrants denied asylum.

The authorities had identified the suspect in the stabbing spree that killed three people and wounded eight others as a Syrian man who was in the country despite having been denied asylum and who prosecutors suspected had joined the Islamic State. The attack tore at the fabric of the ethnically diverse, working-class city in the country’s west.

The NYTimes is so full of shit pretending hordes of Islamist asylum seekers are a “good thing”.

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

Barbarians at the Gate

A long time ago, Charles Martel, uncrowned ruler of the Franks, led his Christian army to victory over the forces of Arab commander Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours (October 10, 732 C.E.).

The defeat of the Muslim invaders, especially dreaded for their heavy cavalry, marked a turning point in the long-standing war against the Umayyad Caliphate. After crushing the Visigoths at the Battle of Guadalete (July 19, 711 C.E.), they had earned a reputation for being invincible as they expanded their dominion toward the north of the Iberian Peninsula, founding the province of al-Andalus. At one point, it seemed inevitable that they would march on Paris. It is stated by historians, however, that the Frankish infantry finally succeeded in stemming the Islamization of Western Europe. At least for the time being.

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

Ballard predicted the collapse of the middle class – The future will be neo-feudal

…Cheap holidays, over-priced housing, educations that no longer buy security…

…[The middle classes] are the new proletariat, like factory workers a hundred years ago…

…Anyone earning less than £300,000 a year scarcely counts. You’re just a prole in a three-button suit…”

These lines from J.G. Ballard’s 2003 novel Millennium People were thought-provoking, yet not wholly convincing 21 years ago. They have, however, become more and more plausible with the passing of time. In a development whose causes and significance have been obscured by the reign of identity politics, the middle classes have been struggling to resist downward mobility and proletarianisation. It’s felt especially by the young as graduates have found themselves saddled with increasingly oppressive debt burdens while education and housing costs are soaring. Meanwhile, offshoring and automation have meant that middle-income jobs have become scarcer — resulting in something referred to online as “the overproduction of elites”. It’s a trend in which, according to a 2019 OECD report, “the middle class looks increasingly like a boat in rocky waters”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bread and Circuses"

Survey Shows Majority of Muslim College Students Hate Jews

65% of Muslim students either hate Jews or Israel.

Campus antisemitism is a problem, but reports focus on the experiences of Jewish students rather than the identity of the perpetrators. Media reports hesitate to name anyone. Jewish organizations zero in on campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, but that only tells us so much about why antisemitism has become so widespread at certain universities.

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

Behind closed doors, Justin Trudeau ponders the road ahead — as one of his former advisers says the PM faces a massive challenge

HALIFAX—There was one unusually candid moment as a parade of Liberal ministers went before cameras at a cabinet retreat in a soulless downtown conference centre.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller, a friend of the prime minister’s, knew he’d be asked about the party’s prospects under Justin Trudeau and whether the Liberals had learned any lessons from a summer of talking to cranky voters or from the fluid presidential race south of the border.

Miller’s blunt answer: Sure. But it’s not for public discussion.

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

FILDEBRANDT: Crackhoppers… two addicts in less than an hour tried to get me to run them over… Why?

In the span of less than a single hour on August 26 — two different addicts in two different parts of Calgary — jumped in front of my motorcycle and intentionally tried to get run over.

One addict in Calgary’s increasingly dystopian downtown I can write off as a death wish. But a second — roughly 50 minutes later? I fear something more sinister could be afoot.

Here’s the story in short.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Liberals confident sleazy Jagmeet’s lust for a pension will keep them in power

Liberals confident deal with NDP to keep them in power will hold until June

Government House Leader Karina Gould said Tuesday she’s confident the NDP supply-and-confidence agreement that keeps the Liberal government in power will hold until its expected end date in June 2025.

That agreement, first signed in March 2022, allows the government to carry on without fear of falling on a confidence vote. If the two parties abide by the deal, there would be no federal election until next summer at the earliest.

Canada’s fixed-date election law dictates that a vote will happen in October of next year — but the prime minister could call one earlier than that if he wanted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP, WTF?

Tasha Kheiriddin: Trudeau doesn’t want you to own a home — he wants to be your landlord

Everyone agrees that Canada faces a housing shortage. But it’s not a shortage of homes: it’s a shortage of homes people can afford. In Toronto, for example, there is currently a glut of condos on the market. Prices have fallen as investors offload properties: high interest rates mean their mortgage payments exceed the rents they can get.

Homes have become unaffordable because of the disconnect between wages and prices. Why? Because there’s a disconnect between wages and prices. The average price-to-earnings ratio in Canada more than doubled from 3.2 in 1980 to 6.7 in 2020. Vancouver currently has the highest price to earnings ratio , at 12.3, followed by Toronto at 9.3. To put that in perspective, to buy an average house in those cities in July 2024, you need a household income of $208,000 and $226,000 , respectively. Not exactly middle-class.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

“RFK, Jr. Murders Whale with Chainsaw!”

The alliance between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump is many things. But first it’s an all-clear signal to a large class of less-than-fully brain-damaged Americans that it’s okay to quit being insane. As you know, this election is no longer a battle between the political Left and Right. It’s an epic struggle-session between the sane and the insane.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome