Author: Blazingcatfur

There’s Total Media Silence As Hamas Admits they Inflated the Alleged Palestinian Death Toll

It’s wild when you think about it: news organizations were taking Hamas propaganda as if it were verified and accurate information. No one learned from the Gaza hospital fiasco, the first wall the media crashed into when they erroneously said that an Israeli airstrike hit this facility. The reality was it was the terrorists’ own rocket salvo, fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The New York Times had to print a retraction, but the damage was done. Now, Hamas has openly admitted they inflated the death toll in Gaza, and the media is AWOL

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

CSIS director testifies Trudeau government was warned repeatedly about Chinese foreign interference

OTTAWA – CSIS director David Vigneault told an inquiry Friday that he’s been warning the Liberal government for years that Canada has been slow to respond to foreign interference and is ill-equipped to combat it.

He also confirmed that had not verbally discussed the contents of three important briefing documents directly with the prime minister and his senior staff, although he had shared similar information with them on previous occassions.

I get the feeling that Trudeau and Vigneault are scamming us.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Titanic’ film crew drugged in 1996, Halifax police told to release more details

We may soon learn more about what happened when dozens of crew members from the movie “Titanic” were fed soup laced with a hallucinogenic drug while filming in Nova Scotia.

A new report(opens in a new tab) from the province’s information and privacy commissioner is telling Halifax Regional Police (HRP) to disclose more details about the August 1996 incident, which sent around 80 “Titanic” crew members to hospital in Dartmouth, N.S., including director James Cameron.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

An Ontario renter’s ‘scary’ situation with homelessness after landlords sell property

When looking back on how the last few years have gone, Robert Quinn, 61, says he is full of gratitude and proudly pulls out his keychain.

You would not think a keychain could have so much significance, but for Quinn, it’s a constant reminder of how far he has come.

Quinn is quick to show off the tags he has collected, one for each of the agencies that helped him find housing — his ‘badges of gratitude,’ as he calls them and most importantly, two keys.

This is Trudeau’s Canada.

h/t Patti Jo

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

After Jagmeet Singh raises doubts, NDP says it still supports a consumer carbon levy

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he sympathizes with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh but no longer understands his party’s position on climate change after Singh appeared to waver on his support for the consumer carbon tax.

“I feel for the NDP and for Jagmeet. This is a hard moment. There are political headwinds,” Trudeau told reporters Friday at a press conference in Vaughan, Ont.

“There’s a lot of political pressure. I’m certainly feeling it, everyone should be feeling it, by folks out there who are worried about affordability, who are worried about climate change.”

Possibly Jaggy was read the riot act by his caucus or it’s just fake to buy Jaggy some goodwill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Strikes and Balls: The Israeli Dilemma

Gaza – one can only imagine the hardship.

In “How to Do Things with Words,” philosopher J.L. Austin makes a useful distinction between two kinds of speech acts, the referential and the constative. The referential delineates an actual state of affairs; the constative establishes not a quality but a social function. Austin offers an analogy from baseball: the ball may travel knee-high across the center of the plate, a perfect strike, but if the umpire calls “ball,” that’s how it registers on the scoreboard and operates in the game.

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

Fact-Checking AI: Are Republicans Racist?

Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is taking over the internet. Content creators use it to generate images, videos, and text, programmers use it to generate code, and writers use it to generate illustrations. But AI is trained on woke, left-leaning content (like the New York Times). That may not impact computer scientists, but it does matter for those of us in the business of ideas.

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

Will Biden support Ukraine’s attacks on Russia?

This time last year, Volodymyr Zelensky was touring western capitals, calling for weapons and money to launch a decisive summer offensive. NATO eventually provided Leopard and Challenger tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, M777 howitzers, Himars rocket artillery and Patriot air defenses — but too little, too late. The much-vaunted offensive went nowhere, despite a mutiny by the Wagner Group and widespread disarray in the Russian army. Instead, Soledar, Bakhmut and Avdiivka were seized. Today, Russian missile assaults are intensifying, not receding. In March, Russia hit Ukraine with 264 missiles and 515 drones. A relentless bombardment of Kharkiv is making Ukraine’s second city uninhabitable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

City of Brotherly Love needs tough love — not ‘safe’ drug use — to free it from scourge of tranq

Last week I described how easy it is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York.

And how “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts.

Such sites are fought over. Do they help addicts use safely? Or do they normalize lethal behavior?

I went to the streets of another East Coast city to find out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

‘Democracy’ Has a Peculiar Aftertaste

The American system of government is a federation of sovereign states that retain inherent powers not specifically delegated to the national government. It is a republic that separates discrete powers among coequal and competing branches of government — namely the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. It is a representative democracy that empowers the people to vote into office those who presumably will best serve their interests. Most importantly, it is a constitutional system that severely limits government’s authority and proscribes government agents from infringing upon freedoms retained by the people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Hostin: O.J.’s Acquittal Was Fine Because Cops Kill More Than He Did

Following the death of former football player and murderer O.J. Simpson, the dumb and racially charged hot takes from the cast of ABC’s The View were inevitable. Of course, it was staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) who dredged up the unfounded racial aspects of the case applied by race-hustlers. She even argued that Simpson’s acquittal was fine since, collectively, cops have killed more people than he did.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism"

CSIS chief defends his spies’ work after PM casts doubt on reliability of agency’s reports

The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service appeared before the foreign interference inquiry Friday to defend his agency’s work, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested he sometimes doubts the reliability of CSIS reports.

‘”There’s been a lot of comments made about the intelligence in the media and in commission,” CSIS Director David Vigneault told the inquiry Friday morning.

“Intelligence is a little like a puzzle. Sometimes we have a very clear picture of the puzzle. Sometimes, through the use of raw intelligence and assessed intelligence, we are building that picture, but what is important to remember is that this is done by professional, trained intelligence analysts and professionals that are bringing this together.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government