Author: Blazingcatfur

Russia suspected of targeting thousands of British holiday flights in ‘extremely dangerous’ electronic attacks jamming systems including GPS

Russia is suspected of launching ‘extremely dangerous’ electronic attacks against thousands of British holiday flights, aviation sources have claimed.

The planes appear to be suffering from GPS jamming and spoofing, which interferes with wireless communication systems and uses fake signals to trick pilots into believing the aircraft is in a different location than where they actually are.

The European Aviation Safety Agency in January warned that authorities had seen a ‘sharp rise’ in jamming and spoofing ‘attacks’, but did not say who was behind them.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Freedom to Hate

In 2006, at the University of Toronto, my late friend and the brilliant writer and orator Christopher Hitchens gave a speech whose eloquence I could never pretend to emulate, defending the argument that the freedom of speech includes the freedom to hate. At the time, he was castigating the Canadian Government for its legislation regarding hate speech.

Alas, once again the Government has introduced legislation to curb free speech in the name of safety, but this time in even more insidious ways. Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, purports to keep Canadians safe online, but does so by regulating speech that “foments hatred” via civil penalties within a human rights framework that invites abuse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pro-terror rhetoric rises as anti-Israel activists think they’re winning – analysis

The mask has fallen for the same reason it momentarily slipped on October 7 itself: The anti-Israel activists are confident, comfortable, and believe they are winning as they support terrorism.

The Columbia University encampment protests have seen a startling escalation in violent and pro-terrorist rhetoric since the anti-Israel activists occupied the campus on Wednesday.

Videos of demonstrators promising to carry out more massacres similar to the one on October 7 have flooded social media, many of them posted by pro-Palestinian groups and activists themselves.

They have not only praised Hamas, calling on them to kill more IDF soldiers, shoot rockets, and burn down Tel Aviv, but they have also identified with the terrorist group, with one woman saying, “We’re all Hamas.”

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

Who likes loud cars? Ontario study suggests they skew young, male and score high on psychopathy and sadism

I trust Russ Meyer …

There’s a clandestine car scene in Canada that most people often don’t see, but they can sure hear it — usually at night and often from a bedroom window left open in the summer with the hope of catching a cool overnight breeze.

The noise is often hard to place in terms of distance, but definitely distinct: young gearheads who gather at unsanctioned car rallies in empty parking lots, or guerrilla drag races at desolate city intersections.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Do you hate Britain, I asked my pupils. Thirty raised their hands

After Katharine Birbalsingh had her prayer ban upheld, the head accused schools of failing to back UK values. One teacher, writing anonymously, reveals the troubling views of children as young as 11

‘The Taliban do let girls go to school,” boasted the teenage boy. “But they stop them when they turn 11, which is very fair.”

In an after-school detention, a handful of pupils were doing their best to convince me, their teacher, that Afghanistan was much nicer now the Taliban were in control. Nothing I said would convince them. It turned out these children not only supported gender inequality but were fans of executing all manner of criminals too.

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

Daniel Dorman: When courts believe anyone can be a woman, justice is in jeopardy

In March, a decision from the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) used the words “a person with a vagina” to refer to a sexual assault victim instead of simply writing “a woman.” It was reminiscent of the infamous United States Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022, during which she couldn’t define the term “woman.” It also harked back to a 2023 decision by the SCC, in which the court stated that the terminology around gender identity continues to evolve beyond the “binary of ‘male’ or ‘female.’”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

The greenwashing tactic that gives jetsetting celebrities a ‘licence to pollute’

Voluntary carbon credits are a multibillion-dollar market. But are they helping to save the planet, or just a load of hot air?

It’s fair to say the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas knows how to handle a few private jets, but it was certainly put through its paces over Super Bowl weekend in February. Driving past the terminals on the way to the Allegiant Stadium, vast flocks of PJs (as their passengers rather annoyingly tend to call them) could be seen parked wingtip-to-wingtip.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Former Toronto Metropolitan University Students Cleared to Sue School Over COVID Vaccination Policy

A lawsuit launched more than two years ago by a group of former Toronto Metropolitan University students over the school’s COVID vaccination policy has been given clearance to proceed.

Ryan O’Connor has been representing 18 students from the university, which was formerly known as Ryerson, since they launched their lawsuit in 2022. Despite the long delay, a judge has now decided that enough evidence exists to move the case to discovery, he told The Epoch Times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

How much is too much? Analyzing the U.S. and Canada’s government debt problem

Nearly two decades ago, David Walker went on tour across the United States. Not as a rock star or a travelling preacher, though he did have a sermon to spread. Instead, Mr. Walker was the country’s chief bean-counter, and his message for his fellow Americans was grim: The U.S. was suffering from “a fiscal cancer,” the then comptroller-general told the public on what he called his Fiscal Wakeup Tour. Spiralling deficits and debt would have “catastrophic consequences” if left untreated.

His pleas were ignored.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

How Met has faced growing criticism over policing of protests

Britain’s streets have become another frontier in the war between Israel and Hamas and often the police are being caught in the crossfire.

A series of flashpoints between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian supporters has seen police forces plunged into complex scenarios and at times drawn criticism for its handling of them.

Since October 7, on average there has been a pro-Palestinian protest in London every two weekends in what has been the biggest continuing drain on police resources since before the 2012 Olympic Games, costing tens of millions of pounds.

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

The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection

Unless they can serve a broad cultural and geographic cross section of the nation, NPR and PBS don’t merit taxpayer support.

Concern about media bias — specifically politically liberal bias — has moved center stage thanks to the cri de coeur by National Public Radio’s Uri Berliner in the Free Press. The network’s business editor, who resigned in the aftermath of his speaking truth to power, wrote that “politics intruded” on a wide variety of coverage, from Covid to “Russiagate,” connecting what he regards as the network’s movement to the Left to the fact that he could identify exactly zero registered Republicans in its D.C. newsroom.

The same can be said of our CBC. Most of what they produce seems to be for CBC staff and their transgender, social justice friends.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

From Chamberlain to Biden, Lessons in Appeasement

Chamberlain Je Suis Czechoslovakia

Our present-day appeasers have exhibited all the delusory smugness of Neville Chamberlain.

To recognize appeasement, it’s best to learn from a master.

One must not mistake Neville Chamberlain for a Nazi. He wasn’t. His antisemitism was that of T. S. Eliot — an offended sensibility, a mild disgust at there always being some untidy trouble attending them. He was a prim Englishman who dressed the part of the aristocracy, but who was more of an accountant than a man of leisure and noblesse oblige. He was secretive and manipulative when in power; he was easily threatened by brilliance and outspokenness, separately, and doubly threatened when both qualities were combined, to excess, in Winston Churchill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Armageddon"

Embrace Pluralism over Racialism

Jews feel less safe in America than they did a generation ago, and for good reason. As my colleagues have documented, we are living through a disturbing surge in anti-Semitic violence. The reason, I suspect, is a change in the ideological climate, one that represents a grave threat to the American experiment.

Other nations, throughout their histories, have scorned the Jewish people. But it was George Washington who asked that “the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.” Since then, America has welcomed the Jewish people. In return, it has reaped enormous rewards, as the extraordinary achievements of Jewish scientists, doctors, lawyers, artists, businesspeople, and statesmen have helped make America the most dynamic, productive, and creative nation in the world.

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

AI and the Erosion of Human Worth

The release of Google’s Gemini A.I. image-generator a few weeks ago raised quite a bit of both amusement and disgust. Among other things, in obedience to its woke creators, it dutifully remade Western history as the creation of non-white people. While it’s tempting to go down the rabbit trail of remaking George Washington as a black man — while simultaneously excoriating him as an evil, patriarchal slave-oppressor — plenty of other people have already had fun along those lines. My concern with this latest non-consensual experiment performed on humanity is different. I worry what it will do to us. I worry what it will leave for us to do.

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