Author: Blazingcatfur

Chief Electoral Officer acknowledges he lacks authority to properly investigate foreign interference allegations

Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault says he doesn’t have the authority to investigate whether some donors were encouraged to provide campaign contributions in the 2021 election to candidates favoured by China – donations for which they allegedly received a tax credit from the federal government.

Lawyers for the public inquiry into foreign interference pressed Mr. Perrault Thursday on a report by The Globe and Mail in February, 2023 that outlined a funding scheme to help elect politicians who would be uncritical of China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Nigerian influencer faces jail after damning online review of tinned tomato puree

A pregnant Nigerian businesswoman is facing up to seven years in prison after she shared a negative review of a tin of tomato puree.

Chioma Okali, 39, was arrested and held in a police cell after she told her 18,000 Facebook followers there was too much sugar in Nagiko Tomato Mix.

The brand’s manufacturer, Erisco Foods Limited, accused her of making the claim to “maliciously kill the product and run us out of the market”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

France assesses Paris Olympics terrorist threat in light of Moscow attack

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has met intelligence services to assess the terrorist threat to the country, after the Moscow concert hall attack claimed by Islamic State raised fresh security fears over the Paris Olympics.

One of the biggest security challenges facing the organisers of the Games in the French capital is to protect the opening ceremony on 26 July. It is planned to be an unprecedented, open-air extravaganza, which for the first time in Olympic history will not take place within the confines of a stadium, but instead involve a flotilla of 94 boats carrying thousands of waving athletes down a 6km (3.7-mile) stretch of the Seine, followed by a further 80 boats carrying media and security, while an estimated 222,000 people gather along the river’s edge and 200,000 more watch from buildings.

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

Flying in Canada is miserable – and airlines are fighting to keep it that way

I understand that some people enjoy the experience of being confined to tight quarters and treated like cattle, and will even pay great sums of money for the experience. But this is not a column about the unique kinks of consenting adults. It’s about the bottom-of-the-barrel standards that constitute the status quo when it comes to flying in this country, which is exorbitantly expensive and frequently unreliable, complete with a process that is itself hideously undignified.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The numbers of dead in Gaza don’t add up – and there is no easy explanation

A disproportionate number of male UNRWA workers have died, raising difficult questions about the conduct of the war and its death toll

Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war that started on October 7, the number of casualties in Gaza has been a subject of heated debate.

According to the Hamas-run health ministry, the number now stands at more than 30,000 dead, with no distinction made between civilian and combatant casualties.

In previous rounds of fighting in the Strip, the total number of deaths reported by the Gazan authorities have been found to be broadly accurate, not differing significantly from estimates produced by the UN or IDF. There have, however, always been disputes over the civilian/combatant split.

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

Over 300,000 public sector workers earn more than $100K; OPG CEO tops list

TORONTO — The five top paid public employees in the province are all at Ontario Power Generation, with the CEO earning $1.9 million last year.

The so-called sunshine list was released today, the disclosure of public sector workers who were paid more than $100,000, and the list for 2023 had more than 300,000 names.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class, WTF?

Trump’s VP Options

Rich and Co., on today’s edition of The Editors, discuss a (nearly) comprehensive list of potential Trump VP picks and consider the pros and cons of each. They also touch on what Trump might be looking for in a VP.

Maddy thinks he’ll be focused on loyalty. “If you look at his logic in 2016,” she says, “. . . I think Trump obviously was trying to do the typical thing that you do, which is you find a candidate who can balance you in some way. So Mike Pence is steady, he’s religious, he’s Midwestern. And that was very appealing for pro-lifers for whom Trump was an unknown quantity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Washington Post’s Lead Liar Waves Away Mountain Of Evidence To Claim Biden Corruption Proof Is ‘Scant’

The Washington Post’s lead fake fact-checker Glenn Kessler accused House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of offering “scant” evidence of Biden family corruption but failed to dispute any of the oodles of evidence the Republican outlined in a recent interview.

In a conversation with Fox News’s Jimmy Failla on Monday, Comer gave a rundown of the evidence including the fact that nearly a dozen Biden family members received payments first shuffled through several Biden-linked bank accounts. The money was sourced from various business deals with foreign oligarchs who had a vested interest in making friends with a high-level U.S. official like a vice president. Those payments were also at the center of the IRS’s tax investigation against Hunter Biden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

A ‘Dictatorship’ of Deception

On the drive into Budapest from the airport, travelers can see billboards erected by the Hungarian political opposition, featuring a photo of Prime Minister Viktor Orban with the slogan “God? Homeland? Pedophilia!” It’s a reference to the recent scandal involving a presidential pardon of a politically connected man who had been convicted of aiding in a pedophilia cover-up. The scandal cost the ruling Fidesz party its top two female politicians: President Katalin Novak and former Justice Minister Judit Varga.

Associating the prime minister, who apparently did not know about the pardon until the media reported it, and who quickly called for resignations of these top allies, is a low blow. But that’s how it goes in Hungary. Fidesz is not above similar tactics. If you expect Magyar politics to be a tea party, you are going to be disappointed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Tolerance"

The return of the Irish Right

“The transformation of Ireland over the last 60 years has sometimes felt as if a new world had landed from outer space on top of an old one,” wrote Fintan O’Toole, a commentator who is generally approving of this new status quo, in 2021. But the past weeks and months have proven that the “old” country has very different ideas about this extra-terrestrial political order. After Ireland rejected two liberal amendments to the constitution, tabled and sponsored by their government, civic disturbances on a scale not seen for generations continue. They even wear the aesthetic of an older Ireland, with youths on horseback leading a recent protest against a new asylum centre in Dublin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Ireland