Author: Blazingcatfur

Davos Elites See Potential Return of Trump as Threat to Global Order

A major news item from across the Atlantic stole the spotlight at this year’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, where the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people gathered to address global challenges.

Former President Donald Trump’s record-setting victory in Iowa on Jan. 15 became the talk of the town at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Alpine ski village. According to some observers, the question of his potential return to the White House dominated conversations at dinners and parties throughout the summit, overshadowing even the most pressing global issues.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Trudeau announces ‘Team Canada’ approach to U.S. election

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that he has assigned two cabinet ministers to lead a new “Team Canada” engagement to ensure Canada and his government are prepared for all possible outcomes from this fall’s United States presidential election.

“Canada-U.S. relations are fundamental for the prosperity and well-being of Canadians,” Trudeau told reporters in Montreal, where he is wrapping up two days of meetings with his cabinet.

No one pays serious attention to Trudeau at home or abroad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Mississauga man charged in pro-Palestinian protest that blocked off Gardiner Expressway

Police have charged a 26-year-old Mississauga man for allegedly blocking off the Gardiner Expressway to stage a pro-Palestinian protest in November.

Police accuse the man of being one of several drivers who jumped out of their cars to “engage in unlawful assembly on the highway.” They blocked all lanes of traffic westbound on the Gardiner Expressway at Spadina Avenue.

Police say the demonstrators fled when they arrived.

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

Trudeau admits he’ll spend your money like a drunken Trudeau to buy next election

Justin Trudeau fends off dire warnings, says he won’t slash federal spending

MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn’t believe in slashing federal spending to please business groups or opposition Conservatives, raising questions about how his Liberal government would meet its own goal to cap annual budget deficits in the coming years.

Speaking to reporters on the final day of the Liberal cabinet retreat ahead of the winter sitting of Parliament, Trudeau brushed aside a recent statement from a prominent corporate lobby group that concludes meeting the goal could require $12 billion in annual spending cuts or increased taxes — far more than the reduction of $15.4 billion the Liberals have pledged to make over the next five years.

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

Unpredictable consequences of improved healthcare

More psychopaths survive into adulthood

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberals put all their bets on campaigning against … Donald Trump

It’s retreat week for two of Canada’s top three political parties. The Liberal cabinet is hunkered down in Montreal, talking housing, cost of living, and Donald Trump. The NDP caucus is assembled in Edmonton, strategizing on how to squeeze their priorities into the Liberals’ upcoming spring budget.

And the Conservatives? They’re just sitting pretty at the top of the polls, to the consternation of their rivals, who are staring down the barrel of a 2025 election with very few options for turning the tide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Nuclear-armed Israel’s war in Gaza keeps world on edge of doomsday – Doomsday Clock

Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their “Doomsday Clock” set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia’s actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel’s Gaza war and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as they did last year, set the clock at 90 seconds to midnight – the theoretical point of annihilation. Scientists set the clock based on “existential” risks to Earth and its people: nuclear threat, climate change, and disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and new biotechnology.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Armageddon"

When does hate become criminal?: Christine Van Geyn for Inside Policy

Disturbing, antisemitic protests are on the rise in Canada. Do we let the terror flags fly?

One of the greatest challenges in liberal democracies is the tension between curbing hatred and protecting free speech. The 1977 case of a planned Nazi rally in Skokie, Illinois, is one of the most famous examples.

Skokie was a nearly half Jewish town and home to hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The Nazis planned to appear with banners and in uniforms with swastika armbands. Skokie officials tried to block the demonstration, and this led to a series of lawsuits. Famously, the American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) took up the free speech rights of the Nazis, who were represented by Jewish lawyer David Goldberger. The case tested the ACLU’s commitment to the value of free speech in the face of abhorrent and hateful conduct by a small group of repugnant bigots.

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

National Review Isolates WashPost’s Awful Record on Israel-Hamas War

Zach Kessel and Ari Blaff offered a big write-up at National Review titled “How the Washington Post Abandoned Basic Journalistic Standards Covering the Israel–Hamas War.”

Some of it recounts the general tendency to rely on Hamas: “A review by NR of the Post’s coverage since 10/7 revealed no fewer than 148 individual articles that cite the ministry’s casualty statistics. Some of the articles refer to the Gaza Health Ministry as ‘Hamas-run’ while others lack any modifier that would inform a naïve reader who might view the Gaza Health Ministry as a neutral agency.”

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

Wanted: Palestinian Leaders Who Will Condemn Terrorism

More than three months have passed since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, during which hundreds of Israelis were murdered, beheaded, raped, mutilated, and kidnapped — and it is still hard to find any senior Palestinian Authority official who is prepared to condemn the atrocities.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has held a number of meetings over the past few weeks with senior US administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has refrained from publicly denouncing the Iran-backed Hamas terror group for its barbaric attacks on Israelis.

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

Huge data leak dubbed the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ sees 26 BILLION records leaked from sites including Twitter, Linkedin, and Dropbox

Your personal information may have been leaked in the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ (MOAB), cybersecurity researchers have warned.

Over 26 billion personal records have been exposed, in what researchers believe to be the biggest-ever data leak.

Sensitive information from several sites including Twitter, Dropbox, and Linkedin was discovered on an unsecured page.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCybercrime