Author: Blazingcatfur

Ties And Timing: Bankman-Fried, Biden Officials, & Activists Had Secret Chat Channel

Beyond the seemingly ready-made crypto-strangling legislation that Senator Liz Warren (D-MA) and other Constitution-flouters pushed within days of the Nov. 11 FTX bankruptcy announcement, one of the most curious and disturbing facets of the Ukraine-tied, media-adored, and now-collapsed crypto-currency exchange has just come to light.

On December 22, Politico’s Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade, and Eugene Daniels reported that a close ally and adviser to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”) was part of a direct backchannel communications portal with leftist activists and…the White House.

And, curiously, the members of that FTX-White-House-Leftist-Activist portal appear to have shut it down the day after FTX filed for bankruptcy.

Makes sense given Mommy’s links to the DNC.

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

Cops believe ‘someone has info’ on slayings of University of Idaho students

Amid criticism for not finding a suspect in the brutal slaying of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks after the murders, the Moscow Police Department said Tuesday they believe someone is withholding information.

The department said in an update that detectives believe that person may have a crucial detail “that adds context to what occurred on the night of the murders.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Erdogan’s Syrian Gambit

The northernmost region of Syria, which has a 910-kilometer border with Turkey, offers one of the world’s most complex war theaters. That is so not only because of the countless number of state and non-state actors operating in this third-world land with limited hydrocarbons, but also because of shifting alliances, conflicts with conventional and asymmetrical warfare tactics, and the surreal bedfellows that these factors often create.

The actors include countless radical jihadist groups and their 3.5 million civilian supporters; not-as-radical jihadist groups supported by Turkey, as well as Turkish, American, Russian and Syrian forces, and of course Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inErdogan

Professor catches student cheating with ChatGPT: ‘I feel abject terror’

Welcome to the new age of academic dishonesty.

A college professor in South Carolina is sounding the alarm after catching a student using ChatGPT — a new artificial intelligence chat bot that can quickly digest and spit out written information about a vast array of subjects — to write an essay for his philosophy class.

The weeks-old technology, released by OpenAI and readily available to the public, comes as yet another blow to higher learning, already plagued by rampant cheating.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Future

Elon Musk claims ex-Twitter employees ran ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack channel

New Twitter boss Elon Musk revealed that former employees of the social media company managed a fawning Slack channel titled “Fauci Fan Club” — a reference to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.

Musk tweeted the claim in a thread that was highly critical of Fauci, who was accused by the mogul of lying about so-called “gain-of-function” research that some suggest may have played a role in the spread of the coronavirus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, WTF?

‘Names have to be named’ in 2003 World Juniors sexual assault allegations, activist says

Six months after Halifax police opened an investigation into an alleged group sexual assault after the 2003 World Juniors hockey tournament in Halifax, a victims’ rights activist says well-paid current and retired NHL players are being protected — and she wants that to stop.

“I think that names have to be named,” said Judy Haiven, a retired professor, social activist and founder of Equity Watch, a non-profit organization set up to fight discrimination.

“Those young men who were in the 2003 juniors, most of them, probably all but one that I know of, went on to play in the NHL.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Catholic policeman wins £44,000 harassment case over anti-Pope mug

A Catholic firearms officer has won almost £44,000 in a religious harassment case after “f*** the Pope” was written on his work coffee mug.

Paul McCue, a police sergeant, discovered the message on the underside of his Celtic Football Club mug and was so upset that he had to go home from work.

The officer had previously been “harassed” by colleagues writing comments about the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group, an employment tribunal in Glasgow was told.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

U.S. Scrambles to Stop Iran From Providing Drones for Russia

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has launched a broad effort to halt Iran’s ability to produce and deliver drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, an endeavor that has echoes of its yearslong program to cut off Tehran’s access to nuclear technology.

In interviews in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, a range of intelligence, military and national security officials have described an expanding U.S. program that aims to choke off Iran’s ability to manufacture the drones, make it harder for the Russians to launch the unmanned “kamikaze” aircraft and — if all else fails — to provide the Ukrainians with the defenses necessary to shoot them out of the sky.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Urban Dystopia"

Paris Riots: Migration and Mistrust

Recent events in France remind us of the plot of the recently released French film Athena, which tells the story of how the murder of a young Algerian-French boy by the police sparks a civil war in France. Our discussion begins with a devastating spoiler—I highly recommend, therefore, that anyone who has not watched Athena do so before proceeding, as it is, in my estimation, one of the best films to come out in recent memory.

This is not a review, however, and the spoiler I am leading up to—revealed in the very last scene—is key to the present discussion: For after the violence and tragedy of the plot have run their course, we learn that it was not police officers who murdered the lad, but some criminals belonging to a far-right group disguised as police, precisely in order to coax immigrant communities into rioting against security forces and so initiate a civil war.

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

Canada’s first new nuclear power reactor in 30 years has embarked on a crucial review. Can it pass quickly?

On the shores of Lake Ontario, about 70 kilometres east of Toronto, something is happening that hasn’t happened in Canada in well over a generation: Workers are breaking ground for a new nuclear reactor.

Ontario Power Generation plans to construct a GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 at its Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Clarington. To do that it needs permission from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC).

Does it matter? Getting beyond the bureaucracy is one thing, the article does not mention the to be expected reaction from the Eco-Luddites.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "Environmentalists"

28 Percent of Gun Owners Hunt for Food, 31 Percent Inherited Firearm: Government Research

Twenty-eight percent of Canadian firearm owners hunt for food, while another 39 percent target shoot as a hobby, according to research by the federal Public Safety department that paints a picture of typical gun owners in the country.

Half of gun owners own just one firearm, and 44 percent said they have owned their firearms for more than five years. Eight percent of firearm owners have owned their guns for less than a year. The majority have purchased their firearms legitimately from official retailers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights