Author: Blazingcatfur

Beware the WEF’s new misinformation panic

AI-powered lies and manipulation constitute the gravest threat to humanity. At least this is the dystopian scenario espoused by the collective wisdom of 1,500 experts surveyed in the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risks Report last week.

Unfortunately, such outbreaks of “elite panic” are a recurring phenomenon. Whenever the public sphere is expanded through new communications technology, the traditional gatekeepers fret about the dangers of allowing the general public — too fickle and unlearned — unmediated access to information. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", World Economic Forum

Canada to ban funding for research linked to foreign universities, labs that pose risk to national security

OTTAWA — Canada will ban federal funding for research in “sensitive areas” done in affiliation with more than 100 entities the government deems pose a risk to national security, including foreign universities and institutions.

Canadian researchers will no longer be eligible to receive federal funding for technological research that is done in affiliation with, or with funding from, any of the newly listed entities.

I feel Justin will allow the China class to strip mine Canadian research.

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

Finnish Prosecutor Takes MP to Supreme Court for Tweeting Bible Verses

Despite having been acquitted of hate speech twice, Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen may still have to face another day in court on the same charges.

The Finnish public prosecutor has appealed the case to the country’s supreme court.

Räsänen, who has been a member of parliament since 1995 and also served as minister of the interior from 2011 to 2015, was formally charged with “agitation against a minority group” in 2021 under a section of the Finnish criminal code titled “war crimes and crimes against humanity”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted infreedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, WTF?

Ukrainian officials say year-long delay in delivery of air defence promised by Canada has come with a high price

Too many Ukrainians have died in the year since Canada announced the “high-priority donation” of an advanced air-defence system to Ukraine that has yet to be delivered, the secretary of country’s National Security and Defence Council said Tuesday.

Oleksiy Danilov told The Globe and Mail that his own nephew, killed near the front line on Jan. 8, was among those who had died in the 53 weeks since Canada promised to purchase a US$406-million National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS, on Ukraine’s behalf. While the reasons for the delay may make sense in Ottawa, the wait for the U.S.-made equipment is harder to understand for those facing daily Russian missile attacks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?

Mexican woman arrested in wedding dress over alleged extortion of chicken farmers

A Mexican bride appeared for a police mugshot in her wedding dress after being arrested for alleged extortion of chicken farmers in along with her new husband.

Pictures of the bride, named as Nancy N, showed her handcuffed and flanked by machine gun-toting officers, having been detained during her nuptials amid a major police operation late last month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

WARMINGTON: Paramount Foods CEO Mohamad Fakih in hot seat after X post

Paramount Foods was in damage control following reaction Monday to a now-deleted tweet from founder Mohamad Fakih, suggesting he doesn’t “need” money from someone who “supports baby killers.”

The member of the Order of Canada and CEO of Paramount, which operates dozens of restaurants and has an arena in Mississauga named after the company, made the controversial comments in X posts. He was responding to a poster named Eugene who wrote, “I’ll never set foot in Paramount Foods ever again” and “terrorist sympathizers don’t deserve my business.”

h/t Sweetpea

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

‘Shakedown’: Toronto MP slams city’s threat of a 16.5% property tax increase if Ottawa doesn’t boost support

A Toronto MP is lashing out against the City of Toronto’s proposal to tack on an extra six per cent property tax increase to a base proposal of 10.5 per cent more if the federal government doesn’t provide the city with additional funding to support refugees and asylum-seekers.

The proposed 2024 city budget released last week — the first of Mayor Olivia Chow’s tenure — includes a nine per cent property tax increase, as well as a 1.5 per cent hike to the city building fund.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Inside California’s secret sterilisation programme – and its antivax legacy

Hundreds, if not thousands, of inmates were sterilised against their will. The impact on lives and trust in medicine has been devastating

As soon as Moonlight Pulido awoke from her operation, she knew something wasn’t right. Every inch of her body was covered in sweat, while a deep scar – red and raw – stretched across her lower abdomen.

An inmate at California’s Valley State Prison, Moonlight had agreed to undergo a procedure in which two growths in her ovaries would be removed, due to the risk they could turn cancerous. Instead, she was given a full abdominal hysterectomy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The heroes who helped bring down the Rochdale grooming gangs

These are the three heroes that played a crucial role in bringing down the Rochdale grooming gangs who targeted, abused and raped dozens of young girls.

Nazir Afzal, Maggie Oliver and Sara Rowbotham battled police and council bosses in order to seek justice after gangs of mainly Asian men destroyed the lives of a number of children in the Greater Manchester town between 2004 and 2012.

A new report published yesterday revealed the plight faced by the girls who were the subject of this abuse and the struggle they faced to be believed, as well as the harassment when they gave evidence against their abusers.

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

It’s time for an American Jewish rethink

We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck.

This is a tough time for American Jews. Antisemitism has erupted to an unprecedented extent. We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck.

A few months ago, following the Oct. 7 massacre, a friend who is a major donor to Jewish, Israeli and American organizations said to me that Jews might have to leave America, just as we have left—willingly or unwillingly—many countries in the past. Another friend told me that he and all of his liberal friends are being forced to rethink what it means to be a liberal Jew in America.

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

Muslim hordes display warlike dominance across Europe under the pretense of ‘prayer’

… Like a dog marks his territory with urination, so do the new-to-Europe third world Muslim invaders with “prayer.” Ostensibly, they came as asylum seekers and refugees, displaced and downtrodden, ready to adapt and contribute to the West. Now that there’s enough of them, they can throw off the shackles of subterfuge and openly act in accordance with what they planned from the very beginning… in a particularly warlike way.

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

More than half of US’s 25,000 cities are predicted to become ghost towns by 2100…

Half of the nearly 25,000 cities in the US could become ghost towns by 2100, a study suggests.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that in a modest scenario, around half of cities could lose up to a quarter of their resident populations by the end of the century.

If fertility rates continue to decline and the exodus from cities gets worse, as many as two-third of cities could see their populations shrink significantly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography