Author: Blazingcatfur

Facebook owner Meta hits out at ‘flawed and unjustified’ fine after it’s ordered to pay record $1.3billion and ordered to stop transferring European data to America

Facebook owner Meta has hit out against a ‘flawed and unjustified’ fine after it was ordered to pay a record $1.3billion and stop transferring European data to America.

The European Union handed Meta the privacy fine on Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic by October, the latest chapter in a decade-long case sparked by US cyber snooping fears.

The penalty fine from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a three-year probe into the social media giant is the biggest since the EU’s strict data privacy regime took effect five years ago, surpassing Amazon’s $807million penalty in 2021 for data protection violations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted infacebook, facebook is evil

Canada’s got a drinking problem — and one senator says Ottawa needs to step up

The federal government pitched a sizeable increase to the alcohol excise tax earlier this year — only to walk back that commitment in response to backlash from some MPs, lobby groups and cost-conscious Canadian drinkers.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget kept the annual tax increase much lower than inflation — it’ll grow by just 2 per cent this year — after a well-organized letter-writing campaign convinced the government that the political repercussions of such a hike weren’t worth the relatively modest revenue bump.

There was similar blowback when the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) recently issued new drinking guidelines that claimed no amount of alcohol is safe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Hizbollah stages show of strength as stark warning to Israel

The militia welcomed its VIPs and journalists with a fanfare from its band.

But the atmosphere quickly changed when their fighters started jumping through hoops of fire, shooting off the back of motorbikes and roundhouse-kicking terracotta pots to pieces.

On the hillside backdrop, Israeli flags were blown up and explosions boomed across the mountain filling the air with dust and smoke, as they simulated storming a settlement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHezbollah, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Report: Disney‘s ‘The Little Mermaid‘ Posts Dismal Ticket Pre-Sale in China

… The live-action remake’s titular character is played by R&B singer and actress Halle Bailey. Casting a black actress as Ariel may have potentially alienated the Chinese Communist Party, a genocidal tyranny notorious for anti-black racism, from banning black people from restaurants and hotels in 2020 in response to the Wuhan coronavirus to producing racist “viral” social media videos of African children unknowingly insulting themselves in Mandarin.

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

Joel Kotkin: Women have won the ‘war between the sexes,’ but at what cost?

Crazy feminist attacks prolife advocates

The war between the sexes has ended, and rather than a co-operative future that could benefit all, it has turned out to be more like a lopsided win for the female side. After millennia of power struggles based on such things as biology and social function, the role of women in advanced societies has expanded dramatically, which is generally a good thing but has some rarely cited downsides.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Equality"

How Peaceful Sweden Became Europe’s Gun-Murder Capital

Scandinavia’s answer to Pablo Escobar orchestrates much of the growing violence from Turkey

STOCKHOLM—One evening in early March, Swedish police asked the country’s version of “America’s Most Wanted” to broadcast photos of two young men wanted for a shooting on a rival drug gang in Uppsala, north of Stockholm.

Three hours later, unknown gunmen knocked on the door of Serdar Sarihan, the father of one of the suspects. They shot him dead while his wife and their other children were upstairs.

The killing, which Swedish authorities say they believe was a revenge shooting, opened a new chapter of brutality in a wave of gang violence that has turned Sweden, usually known as a peaceful welfare state, into a gun-homicide hot spot in Europe.

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

How we got here: China’s unrelenting influence campaign, the Liberals’ mishandling and the questions that remain

Looking back, we should have known. No, strike that, we knew; everybody knew. However much China might have liberalized its economy, whatever material gains it might have made, it was always clear that the Communist Party of China was the same brutal gang of thugs it always was. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 because Mikhail Gorbachev would not approve shooting the protesters. That same year, at Tiananmen Square, China went in another direction.

Looking back we should have known that the unholy alliance of the corporate and political class were all too willing to sell Canada to the ChiComs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Three terrorists dead in gun battle with IDF

IDF and Border Police forces operating in Samaria overnight eliminated three terrorists after a gun battle broke out during an Israeli security sweep.

The Palestinian Authority’s health bureau reported early Monday morning that three people were killed in a gun battle with IDF soldiers in the Balata refugee camp in Shechem (Nablus).

According to the reports, four people were injured in the exchange of fire, two of them in serious condition and two in moderate condition.

I wonder if an Israeli strike on Iran would advance the internal revolt against the Mullahs?

The barbaric slaughter of innocents in Iran

In a heart-wrenching display of callousness and disregard for human life, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has once again stained the lands of Iran with the blood of the innocent. Today, we mourn the unjust execution of three more innocent souls, Saeed Yaghoubi, Majid Khazemi, and Saleh Mirhashemi. These tragic victims met their undeserved fate at the hands of a regime that thrives on terror, propagates religious extremism, and perpetuates a reign of darkness upon a once peaceful nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Olivia Chow has ‘untouchable’ lead in final weeks of Toronto’s mayoral campaign, new poll finds

Former NDP MP Olivia Chow is entering the final weeks of Toronto’s mayoral campaign the undisputed front-runner, according to a Forum Research poll for the Toronto Star.

“Chow’s lead remains untouchable,” after seven weeks of the 12-week campaign, said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff. “Other candidates have yet to connect strongly with voters.”

Despite her two per cent dip from a Forum poll a week earlier, support for Chow remains nearly triple that of her nearest rivals, according to the new poll.

Bear in mind that the last go round Chow’s “unassailable” lead crashed and burned as Toronto woke up to the communist horror the city faced.

The Star touted polls that had George Smitherman, perhaps the most vile candidate ever, running neck and neck with Rob Ford who won by a huge margin.

Still this is not a good sign, the right simply is not going to get behind Saunder’s just because he is Doug Ford’s choice. He was colourless as Police Chief and remains unknowable and face it the right has grown suspicious of Doug Ford.

I fully expect Toronto to be worse off in all things should Chow be elected, communism doesn’t work, never has.

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

Bud Light is ready to buy back unsold cases of expired beer that sat on shelves

Anheuser Busch has offered to buy back cases of unsold Bud Light that went unsold after the brewer’s disastrous partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Bud Light sales have plunged 26 percent compared to this time last year amid backlash from its customers over the woke marketing pitch.

Now it’s been revealed by The Wall Street Journal that the brewer has told its wholesalers that it will buy back unsold cases of beer that have gone past their expiration date.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

Hamilton will explore plan to have residents sign on to host homeless people

The city will explore a voluntary registry for Hamilton residents — and councillors — who want to host people who are homeless.

“I’m trying to find compassionate solutions for folks,” Coun. Matt Francis said after a long discussion about encampments Wednesday at city hall. “I’m not suggesting this is going to solve the problem.”

But it could add “another tool in our tool belt. That’s as simple as that.”

H/T Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Council workers to get lessons on how to turn off the lights

A council has said its staff will receive “training” after the lights in one of its buildings were left on during the night.

Cornwall Council apologised after a member of the public complained that one of its buildings was lit up “like a Christmas tree” during an energy crisis.

On Saturday, a dog walker discovered a fully illuminated Chy Trevail building in Bodmin, which accommodates more than 600 staff.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?