Author: Blazingcatfur

Talking to an Investigative Reporter Who Exposed Chinese Influence in Canada

… Cooper and other experts (including U.S. national security officials interviewed by ProPublica) say Canadian political leaders have ignored or minimized the extent of the threat from China. Cooper has received criticism from pro-Beijing figures in the Chinese-Canadian community and is fighting two defamation lawsuits from subjects of his coverage. But his reporting has drawn praise from national security officials, dissidents of Chinese origin and academics in Canada, the United States and elsewhere. It helped spur a governmental inquiry known as the Cullen Commission, which recently concluded that organized crime had laundered billions of dollars in the province of British Columbia. And the latest revelations of Chinese interference are having a potentially dramatic impact on the political debate in Canada.

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

What will Harry do next?

Royal interviews have a long pedigree, but not necessarily a good one. “When you look at history, any time that a senior royal has sat down for an interview, ultimately it has always backfired,” said Katie Nicholl, author of The New Royals, and Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent, who has been writing about the Windsors for nearly two decades.

ITV will expect huge ratings for its interview with the Duke of Sussex on Sunday night, but Harry may pay the price in the long run.

Prince Andrew’s “car-crash” Panorama interview with Emily Maitlis fuelled a lawsuit that led to a £12m out of court settlement last year, but before that were Harry’s parents: the then Prince of Wales admitted his infidelity in an interview with Jonathan Dimbleby, and Diana, Princess of Wales, cemented their divorce by detailing her unhappiness and Charles’s relationship with Camilla in a controversial interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir.

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

Conrad Black: Defamatory charges against Jordan Peterson should be ‘thrown out like a dead mouse’

The latest of a dismal sequence of outrages and oppressive acts officiously imposed upon the very distinguished and widely admired academic, clinical psychologist and public intellectual, Jordan Peterson, is an intervention by the College of Psychologists of Ontario purporting to require Peterson to undergo a lengthy course of “media training,” in order that he might conduct his online communications “more appropriately.” This is a stupefying insolence from a professional body intent on pettifogging and harassing an extraordinarily successful colleague. Jordan Peterson has had an impeccable professional reputation throughout his 20 years as a research psychologist at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He has immense clinical experience and his pioneering work in bringing psychology to a vast worldwide internet audience, including 15-million people all over the world who follow him on three different social media platforms, has made serious psychology much more accessible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Prince Harry ‘has been written out of King Charles’s Coronation’

Prince Harry has been written out of King Charles’ Coronation script, it was claimed today, as royal insiders said Prince William is ‘burning with anger’ amid the bombshell revelations in the Duke of Sussex’s memoirs.

In his new tell-all autobiography Spare, Harry made a series of sensational claims about his brother and father, describing the Prince of Wales as his ‘arch-nemisis’ and accusing the King of being worried he would be ‘overshadowed’ by Meghan’s Hollywood star power.

The Royal Family has thus far remained silent on the matter, refusing to respond to the Duke’s incendiary anecdotes, but the Sunday Times today said a royal source claimed Harry has been omitted from the proceedings of King Charles’ upcoming Coronation in May.

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

More than a decade ago, the army had a plan to rebuild. It went nowhere

Ottawa is a city of plans. Many plans. Sometimes you find there are plans to have a plan. But as the old Scottish poem says, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men often go awry.”

More than a decade ago, as Canada’s war in Afghanistan was grinding to its conclusion, a plan was drawn up to rebuild, refresh and re-equip the army for the future.

It withered and died over several years — a victim of changing defence fashions, budgets, inter-service and inter-departmental bureaucratic warfare and political indifference.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Cops ‘puzzled’ by 8-hour window before Idaho murder victims’ roommates called 911

Cops are still “puzzled” about why a surviving roommate in the University of Idaho quadruple murder waited eight hours after the slaughter to call police, an Idaho law enforcement source told The Post.

Dylan Mortensen, 21, opened her bedroom door to see an unknown “figure clad in black clothing and a mask” walking past her, towards the home’s back exit, just after 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, she told investigators.

Yet neither she nor the other spared roommate, Bethany Funke, 21, called police until noon.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

How the dream of the single-family starter home vanished

Fuck Trudeau starter home.

When she and her husband moved here in 2002, Liz Scanlon immediately wanted to break into Toronto’s real estate market.

At 28 years old, she’d been renting in Ottawa after finishing school. But when they decided to put down roots in Scanlon’s hometown, buying a house was top of mind.

So it wasn’t an unreasonable goal, with a combined salary from her work in non-profits and his as an early-career lawyer.

A couple of thousand words and not a mention of the outsized demand created by mass immigration, foreign investors, low interest rates and legislation that limited new construction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

U.S. Trustee Files Objection to FTX’s Planned Asset Sales

(Reuters) – A U.S. Trustee filed an objection on Saturday to plans by bankrupt crypto exchange FTX to sell its digital currency futures and clearinghouse LedgerX, as well as units in Japan and Europe, according to a court filing.

FTX filed for bankruptcy protection in November and said last month it planned to sell its LedgerX, Embed, FTX Japan and FTX Europe businesses. On Tuesday, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that he cheated investors and caused billions of dollars in losses, in what prosecutors have called an “epic” fraud.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Canada ‘committed to remaining competitive’ despite U.S. EV subsidies

Canada’s ambassador to the United States says the federal government should be watching American investments in electric vehicle manufacturing, but wouldn’t give specifics on how it plans to compete with the subsidies offered in the Inflation Reduction Act enacted south of the border.

Kirsten Hillman told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday, it’s important Canada remain competitive in the electric vehicle market, an arena in which it already has several advantages, including the workforce, expertise, and critical minerals resources. She said experts are working to ensure Canada is ahead of the curve and encouraging investment in the electric vehicles sector, but she didn’t specify how.

I’m old enough to remember when all the EV hurdles were solved between the US and Canada!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Green-Scam, USA

Why is Britain falling behind Europe on excess deaths?

Responding to an emergency bleep during yet another hectic night shift last month, Jade Walker, an anaesthetist, arrived at a patient’s bedside to find his heart had stopped.

“He had been in the waiting room for eight hours before collapsing. If the waiting time had been less, and he’d been seen a few hours sooner, he’d probably have survived. I’ve been worried someone would die in A&E for months.”

Walker, 34, is one of many NHS staff up and down the country who are seeing the reality of a winter crisis worse than any that has come before. “I feel like the NHS is collapsing and the government is ignoring it,” she said. “People are dying because of delays. It’s not acceptable. I’m scared that it’ll be one of my relatives stuck waiting for an ambulance and unable to get the help they need.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Photo of Russian Soldier Using Bow and Arrow in Ukraine Sparks Ridicule

A photo of a Russian soldier using a bow and arrow in Ukraine has brought ridicule online.

The images, which first began circulating on Telegram in November, were shared on Twitter Tuesday by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs.

“A photo of a Russian soldier from Bashkiriya at war in Ukraine is shared by Russian Telegram channels. He is armed with bow and arrows. He also has a rifle just in case. Is there a cavalry riding somewhere?” Gerashchenko tweeted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

No matter how many turbines we build, no wind means no power

IF A situation contains two opposite facts that seem impossible, that is a paradox. Climate change produced an unexpected example last month when the polar vortex hit the US and Canada. There is a ‘paradox between warming climate and intense snowstorms’, Canadian scientists said, ‘what climate modellers are finding is that climate change involves more frequent extremes.’

What we, the general public, are finding is that whatever weather we suffer will inevitably be blamed on climate change.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Buried News: Obama muscled Zuckerberg to censor Trump — and made an example of him

Has Barack Obama gone from ex-president to Democrat party crime boss?

It sure looks like it, based on a new report about his treatment of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Investigative reporter Lee Smith has got a stunning report that ran this week in Tablet, comparable in impact to that report by Molly Ball at Time who wrote about how elites conspired to “fortify democracy” by rigging the election against President Trump in 2020 and afterwards thought it was a smart thing to crow about.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inObama