Author: Blazingcatfur

Musk abruptly cancels ‘The Don Lemon Show’ on X after he sits for the program’s first interview

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode.

Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and frequently proclaims himself a “free speech absolutist.” In a post on X, the San Francisco-based company said only that after careful consideration, it “decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show.” It added that Lemon’s show “is welcome to publish its content on X, without censorship, as we believe in providing a platform for creators to scale their work and connect with new communities.”

Who the hell wants to see Don Lemon anyway?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canadian law endorsed by Trudeau government could imprison people for life for advocating genocide

A Canadian law that aims to make social media platforms safer is getting flak for what some decry as government overreach.

Introduced late last month, the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they advocate for genocide.

The law would also allow a provincial judge to impose house arrest and a fine if there were reasonable grounds to believe a defendant “will commit” an offense – a provision Wall Street Journal columnist Michael Taube likened to the 2002 film, The Minority Report.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", WTF?

Trump launched CIA covert influence operation against China

WASHINGTON, March 14 – Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation.

Three former officials told Reuters that the CIA created a small team of operatives who used bogus internet identities to spread negative narratives about Xi Jinping’s government while leaking disparaging intelligence to overseas news outlets. The effort, which began in 2019, has not been previously reported.

You can see why Xi Jinping prefers the Biden crime family.

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

Opinion: New CRA reporting rules for trusts are a disaster

A reader familiar with these matters has recommended I do this post as the new CRA rules for Bare Trusts are confusing.

Have you added your name to the legal title of your daughter’s new home to help her obtain a mortgage? Or opened an “in trust” bank or brokerage account for your grandson to help fund his education down the road? If so, you have a problem, and these are just two examples of many.

Under new tax reporting rules that apply to years ending after Dec. 30, 2023, you could be liable to a penalty of up to five per cent of the fair value of the home or “in trust” account if you don’t report the arrangement, even if there isn’t a penny of tax owing. The purpose of these rules is to counter tax evasion, money laundering and other criminal activities. Their likely effect will be to put thousands of innocent Canadians on the wrong side of the law.

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Seniors and their families caught up in botched CRA attempt to crack down on tax evasion

The inept launch of new tax-filing rules by the Canada Revenue Agency started with good intentions.

The CRA wants to reduce tax evasion and money laundering. As part of this effort, it’s asking taxpayers this year, for the first time, to provide information on a variety of assets where one person is a beneficiary and another is a trustee who manages things. This could include people who are joint holders of bank or investment accounts with their parents, and were added to help run the accounts.

Can you file a tax return for a bare trust on your own?

Canadians subject to Ottawa’s new trust-reporting rules who don’t already have an accountant or can’t afford professional tax advice face an urgent question: Can regular people, with enough research, fill out the paperwork on their own?

Federal rules aimed at increasing transparency around trusts have introduced new filing and disclosure obligations, including for what’s known as “bare trusts,” which often aren’t documented in writing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Michael Higgins: CBC won’t let poor performance stop $15 million in bonuses

The CBC is axing hundreds of jobs, reducing programming and can’t even put on a New Year’s Eve show. But it has still found the money to pay executives almost $15 million in “performance” pay.

With that kind of dismal performance, and splashing around that kind of bonus money, it’s no wonder that defunding the CBC is an increasingly popular topic of conversation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

West Point’s Mission Statement Change Sparks Fury

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point’s recent changes to its mission statement, which dropped the words “Duty, Honor, Country,” have angered many people who criticized the decision as “woke” and said it betrayed veterans and soldiers who have graduated from the prestigious college.

In a statement released on Tuesday, West Point’s 61st superintendent, Lieutenant General Steven Gilland, said that “Duty, Honor, Country” is “foundational to the United States Military Academy’s culture and will always remain our motto.”

The three words previously contained in the mission statement, which he described as “hallowed,” are being replaced as a result of an assessment by leaders across West Point and external stakeholders with “Army Values.“

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

John Ivison: Trudeau’s not for turning, even as the carbon tax precipice approaches

Justin Trudeau had a message for anyone expecting a U-turn on the carbon tax at his press conference in Calgary: “You turn if you want to, this Liberal’s not for turning.”

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

Trans woman neighbour from hell who terrorised couple

She looks so normal.

A transgender neighbour from hell who terrorised the couple next door by yelling and threatening to ‘punch women’s face in’ is jailed for 41 weeks.

The victims have lived in their upstairs flat in Newcastle for around 30 years without issue until Andrew Fleming, who, a court heard, now identifies as Susan Hope, moved in in February last year. The woman helped her new neighbour initially, letting them charge a phone and making them a cup of tea when their electricity was off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Trudeau’s girlfriend pledges help for alleged Palestinian sex-crime victims, angering Israeli envoy

Canada pledges help for Palestinian sex-crime victims, angering Israeli envoy

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has announced funding for Palestinian women who have survived sexual violence, drawing an immediate rebuke from a senior Israeli official.

Joly pledged $1 million for women from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip whom her office described as “survivors of sexual violence, no matter the circumstance.”

Joly’s office would not say whether Canada believes Israeli forces are perpetrating sexual violence on women in Gaza, nor if the funding pertains to domestic abuse in the Palestinian territories.

Now Junior is sending his GF out to whore for Hamas votes.

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

Nuclear fusion for the grid is coming much sooner than you think

Commercial nuclear fusion has gone from science fiction to science fact in less than a decade. Even well-informed members of the West’s political class are mostly unaware of the quantum leap in superconductors, lasers, and advanced materials suddenly changing the economics of fusion power.

Britain’s First Light Fusion announced last week that it had broken the world record for pressure at the Sandia National Laboratories in the US, pushing the boundary to 1.85 terapascal, five times the pressure at the core of the Earth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters"

The RCMP Fails Canadians—Again

I like this painting as I’m certain it offends.

The RCMP’s official motto is “Maintiens le Droit” or “Maintain the Right.” However, the common belief was that it was “We Will Get Our Man.” At least that was the slogan that was used in countless newspaper articles, novels, and movies that enchanted us all in an earlier time. The “Mounties” were incredibly popular not only in Canada, but throughout the Western world. Movies, such as the 1936 classic “Rose Marie” starring Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald, captured the imagination of millions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRCMP

Russian ‘mole’ a catastrophe, says German spy chief

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has suffered “grave reputational damage” and lost the trust of some western partners after one of its senior officers was outed as an alleged Russian spy, the organisation’s chief has said.

The Federal Intelligence Service (BND), which loosely speaking combines the roles of MI6 and GCHQ in the UK, has been dragged into a Berlin court to address one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in its 70-year history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Espionage, Germany, Russia

Privately and publicly, Doug Ford warns Justin Trudeau’s Liberals they’ll be ‘annihilated’ if they raise the carbon price

Premier Doug Ford is appealing — not just publicly but also privately — to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to not increase the carbon levy April 1, warning the Liberals risk being “annihilated.”

“I do not understand for the life of me what the federal government is thinking,” the Progressive Conservative premier told reporters Wednesday in Pickering.

“If they don’t start … putting money back into people’s pockets instead of filling their pockets, guess what, they’re going to get annihilated,” he said of an election expected next year.

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