Author: Blazingcatfur

Conservatives walking fine line in attacking Liberals on foreign interference

One of Pierre Poilievre’s interventions during Wednesday’s question period neatly summed up the balance Conservatives are trying to strike in attacking the Liberal government on foreign interference.

“This is actually not about one member of Parliament,” Poilievre said, referencing allegations that China’s security services targeted MP Michael Chong’s family. “This is about millions of patriotic Canadians of Chinese descent who face this kind of abuse and harassment every single day,”

Sounds like Katie Telford dictated this “Won’t someone think of the Chinese” effort.

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

Their plane went down – how this WW2 Canada crew survived

For as long as Janet Reilley can remember, the first day of May has been one of remembrance for her family – of lives lost and saved in combat.

Her father “Mac” Reilley would pick up the phone to his friend “Buddy” MacCallum, to remember the events of 1943 that shaped their young lives – and their futures.

Few of “the greatest generation” who fought during World War Two remain to bear witness. Now, it’s up to their descendants to keep their memory alive, so that others might understand the bravery, sacrifice and trauma of one of the 20th Century’s defining conflicts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WW II, WW II History

The Next Fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s Killer Robots Become the Military’s Tools

U.S. national security officials are warning about the potential for the new technology to upend war, cyber conflict and — in the most extreme case — the use of nuclear weapons.

When President Biden announced sharp restrictions in October on selling the most advanced computer chips to China, he sold it in part as a way of giving American industry a chance to restore its competitiveness.

But at the Pentagon and the National Security Council, there was a second agenda: arms control.

If the Chinese military cannot get the chips, the theory goes, it may slow its effort to develop weapons driven by artificial intelligence. That would give the White House, and the world, time to figure out some rules for the use of artificial intelligence in sensors, missiles and cyberweapons, and ultimately to guard against some of the nightmares conjured by Hollywood — autonomous killer robots and computers that lock out their human creators.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Diversity for Thee—But Not for Me

White progressives vote one way with their ballots, another way with their feet.

White progressives in America, as in Britain, avoid diverse neighborhoods and are more likely to leave diverse places than white conservatives. In effect, they don’t practice what they preach. These are the findings from large-scale quantitative research in the United States and Britain, recently published in my academic article, “White flight from immigration?: Attitudes to diversity and white residential choice.”

Diversity is a core value for white progressives in America and other Western countries. Over 60 percent of them support increasing immigration. As the Manhattan Institute’s Zach Goldberg shows, they are the only major part of the population to feel warmer toward other racial groups than toward their own: they rate whites as more lazy and violent, and less intelligent, than blacks. Among white progressives, 87 percent say that having an “increasing number of people of many different races, ethnic groups and nationalities” makes the U.S. a better place to live, while virtually none says that it makes the country worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Equity"

Shooter killed At Allen Texas Premium Outlet Mall

Update: Eight – including children – are killed in Texas mall massacre: Cops shoot dead gunman dressed as SWAT, wearing tactical vest, armor and multiple magazines for assault weapon

Twitter – Texas Outlet Mall

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h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

George Soros in talks to buy out Vice Media from the brink of bankruptcy for $400 million – down from $5.7 billion valuation in 2017

Vice Media could be saved from bankruptcy by a consortium of investors that includes George Soros’s fund and Fortress – already a significant shareholder.

The deal would value Vice at $400 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday – a far cry from the $5.7 billion valuation of 2017.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Soros

Twitter admits to ‘security incident’ involving Circles tweets

A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of stonewalling reports.

The site’s Circles feature allows users to set an exclusive list of friends and post tweets that only they can read. Similar to Instagram’s Close Friends setting, it allows users to share private thoughts, explicit images or unprofessional statements without risking sharing them with their wider network.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCybercrime, Twitter

Hollywood A-Listers Join Forces with LGBTQ Mega Groups for ‘Drag Isn’t Dangerous’ Telethon

“We are sick of it. These bans are not just about trans people or drag performers,” PEG co-founder Jacob Slane told Entertainment Weekly. “It is a systematic subjugation of LGBTQ people. Through the Drag Isn’t Dangerous campaign, we want to show that drag performers are not dangerous groomers, sexual deviants, criminals or whatever is the latest evangelical slur du jour.

Hollywood is dying. I’m not sorry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, Big Tranny, Celebrity Idiots, Hollywood

Are Swiss banks still hoarding Nazi gold?

In a storage room in Buenos Aires, an Argentinian investigator made a discovery that would reverberate through a boardroom more than 7,000 miles away.

Pedro Filipuzzi unearthed what researchers claimed were files that revealed the names of 12,000 undercover Nazis who lived in the Latin American country during the 1940s and had bank accounts at a Swiss lender: Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, later to be renamed Credit Suisse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW II, WW II History

‘We only got errors’: migrants struggle with asylum claim app at US-Mexico border

When they arrived in Ciudad Juárez on 17 March, across the US-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, Nestor Quintero and his family were penniless, hungry and homeless. But their primary concern was getting their hands on a smartphone.

The 35-year-old Venezuelan migrant had found out in Tapachula, a city close to the Mexico-Guatemala border, that people hoping to enter the US to ask for asylum needed to secure an appointment through a recently introduced mobile phone app known as CBP One.

They have an APP?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Will Powerful New Tools Finally Let Us Hear Alien Civilizations?

The most potent effort yet to find extraterrestrial life is searching for beings that may not want to be found

What could motivate extraterrestrial civilizations to beam electromagnetic signals into space? They might be using them for navigation or entertainment, or as a way of pinging our solar system to see if anyone’s home. Whatever the case, detecting such transmissions would be the easiest way for humankind to prove that someone else is out there, and astronomers have made intermittent attempts to eavesdrop on alien broadcasts for six decades.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"