Author: Blazingcatfur

How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance

For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in the name of journalism.) I wasn’t hiding the camera, but I was wearing it, and no one noticed.

I was testing the recently released $300 Ray-Ban Meta glasses that Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking empire made in collaboration with the iconic eyewear maker. The high-tech glasses include a camera for shooting photos and videos, and an array of speakers and microphones for listening to music and talking on the phone.

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

Only Donald Trump can save the free world now

With the West in a desperate search for leadership, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House next year might be just the fillip it needs.

US president Joe Biden’s three-year tenure in the White House has largely been characterised by his penchant for capitulation, from overseeing the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to his constant dithering over the Ukraine conflict. His failure to provide Kyiv with the military kit it requires to make a decisive breakthrough in the conflict, informed, in part, by his fear of provoking the Kremlin, has been a key factor in creating the current stalemate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Donations to Harry and Meghan’s charity Archewell fall by $11 million

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Foundation suffered an $11 million drop in donations last year, meaning the organisation made a loss, tax filings reveal.

A public disclosure form filed with the American tax authorities shows Harry and Meghan’s foundation recorded a deficit of $674,485 due to a sharp plunge in donations.

The foundation received $13 million in 2021, including $10 million from a single donor, but that figure dropped to $2 million last year, the filing shows. The donations from last year were from two individual donors who each gave $1 million, though their identities are not revealed.

This marriage is toast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Trudeau’s Liberals gain support at expense of Poilievre’s Conservatives, poll suggests

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tried to boost his MPs’ morale with bags of fast food during a marathon voting session he forced over the weekend, but during that same session, public opinion was souring on him, a new poll suggests.

The latest Abacus Data survey — provided exclusively to the Star — reveals a five percentage point drop in support for Poilievre’s Conservatives, an increase in those who have a negative opinion of Poilievre and a move away from him among those who think it’s time for a change in government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

‘Nothing will stop us’ – Netanyahu says war against Hamas will continue despite global pressure

Israel will continue its war on Hamas even if it loses international support, the Israeli prime minister has said.

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would “go all the way” in its war in Gaza, during a visit to a military base in southern Israel.

“We’re going all the way, there’s no question about it,” he told troops. “I say this despite the huge pain, but also despite international pressures. Nothing will stop us, we’re going all the way, until we’re victorious, and nothing less.”

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

IBM ‘dealt directly with Holocaust organisers’ and now discriminates against White people and Asians

IBM and the Holocaust

IBM hates you.

IBM ‘dealt directly with Holocaust organisers’

… When the Nazis invaded Poland, Black wrote in the Jerusalem Post, “IBM New York established a special new subsidiary called Watson Business Machines,” after its then- president, Thomas Watson. “IBM’s new Polish company’s sole purpose was to service the Nazi occupation during the rape of Poland.” Watson Business Machines even operated a punch-card printing shop over the street from the Warsaw Ghetto, the paperback claims.

h/t Patti Jo and Sweetpea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", WTF?

John Ivison: Canada’s UN ceasefire vote reveals what we’ve become — undependable, unprincipled and foolish

Bob Rae was caught on a hot microphone, just after he joined in calls for a ceasefire in Gaza late Tuesday.

“We’ll see how that flies,” Canada’s ambassador at the United Nations said, off camera, after telling the UN general assembly that Canada supports the “humanitarian ceasefire” proposed in a resolution that was supported by 153 countries and opposed by just 10.

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

Is America Becoming France of 1940?

Decades of emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion over combat readiness have taken their toll.

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany’s crushing victory over Poland and several other powers considered to be second rate by most military observers. The disastrous rout of the French army along with its British allies came as a devastating surprise to the free world. Although there is no consensus about a single factor underlying the French failure, most historians seem to agree that there were several contributing causes. Unfortunately, all of them seem to be present in American society and its military today. As Mark Twain supposedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA