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Inside FTX’s wild spending: All-expense trips, packages by private jets and free massages

FTX executives spent wildly and showered workers with lavish perks such as free food and massages, and Amazon deliveries by private jet in the months before the cryptocurrency site’s catastrophic collapse, according to former employees.

FTX’s headquarters in the Bahamas featured daily catering “in addition to the free groceries, barbershop pop-up and bi-weekly massages,” a former worker told the Financial Times.

Workers also enjoyed a “full suite of cars and gas covered for all employees [and] unlimited, full expense covered trips to any office globally,” the ex-employee added.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

‘Zombie virus’ discovered after being trapped in Siberian permafrost for nearly 50,000 years

Scientists have revived a number of “zombie viruses” which have been trapped in Siberian permafrost for thousands of years – including one which is nearly 50,000 years old.

The 13 new viruses were identified by scientists who looked at samples of permafrost collected from the Russian province.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022November 30, 2022•0•WTF?

San Francisco becomes first US city to allow police robots to kill suspects

Police in San Francisco will be allowed to kill suspects using remote controlled robots, in a landmark ruling which campaign groups say sets a dangerous precedent.

The Golden Gate city will become the first in America to legally authorise the use of robots to administer deadly force after an emotionally charged debate and vote by city supervisors.

The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns, but could deploy remote controlled machines equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, according to spokesperson Allison Maxie.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022November 30, 2022•0•The Future, WTF?

Nolte: How Woke Hollywood Killed the ‘Oscar Movie‘

There was a time when Oscar heat meant big bucks at the box office, when Oscar talk would boost a movie no one was paying attention to into profitability and beyond. Again and again, what was known as the “Oscar effect” would kick in, and cash registers would clang.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022November 30, 2022•0•Hollywood

No, Jesus was not trans

A Cambridge academic reckons the son of God had a ‘transgender body’.

Joshua Heath is a junior research fellow at the country’s leading bullshit factory, formerly known as Cambridge University. And one of the fellows he has been researching is Jesus, formerly the country’s divinity of choice and the son of God. Last Sunday during evensong, Heath delivered a sermon at Trinity College chapel, into which he slipped some of his research findings – that artistic depictions of the side wound delivered to Jesus by a Roman soldier look a bit like a vagina. He also suggested that paintings showing Jesus’s penis ‘urge a welcoming rather than hostile response towards the raised voices of trans people’.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2022November 30, 2022•0•WTF?

How we appeased China’s Zero-Covid regime

Western liberals cheered on Xi’s authoritarian measures

In the streets of China, people are rising up to reassert their human dignity in the face of the most dehumanising machine of social control in the world today: the Chinese Communist Party’s Zero-Covid terror-state.

For three years, the Chinese government has maintained its policy of draconian city-wide lockdowns, endless daily mass testing, and digital Covid-passes. It has set up vast camps to house those dragged into quarantine for weeks at a time, and, more recently, “closed-loop” factories.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", "The China Class"

UN Head Says The Israeli ‘Occupation Must End’ During Pro-Palestine Event

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke of the Israeli-Palestine conflict on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, saying “the occupation must end,” according to the Times of Israel.

The annual event, held on Nov. 29, was sponsored by the U.N. General Assembly Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and was attended by representatives of countries wishing to express support for Palestine and its freedom from Israeli influence…

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•Israeli - Islam Conflict

Some Coutts protesters wanted to alter Canada’s political system, court documents say

Protesters involved in the Coutts border blockade discussed “altering Canada’s political, justice and medical systems,” information uncovered during an RCMP investigation says.

In a sworn Information To Obtain (ITO) affidavit in support of an application for a warrant to seize remand phone records of four named accused, Const. Trevor Checkley outlined where the Mounties’ investigation was as of May 4.

If that means a desire to tar and feather Junior then 2/3 of the country is on the same page.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•Canada

‘I didn’t try to commit fraud’: Visibly nervous FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried speaks publicly for 1st time since $32B bankruptcy

… In response to allegations that he had run a ‘massive Ponzi scheme, he said: ‘I was CEO of FTX and that means whatever happened I had a duty to our stakeholders … to do right by them.’

‘I didn’t do a good job of that, I made a lot of mistakes,’ he added. ‘I did not try to commit fraud on anyone.’

Liar.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime

Trudeau says he’s ‘not looking for a fight’ over Alberta Sovereignty Act

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s “not looking for a fight” after the Alberta government tabled controversial legislation Premier Danielle Smith said would tell Ottawa to “butt out” of the province’s jurisdiction.

The Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act — tabled Tuesday in the Alberta legislature — was a centrepiece of Smith’s campaign for the leadership of the governing United Conservative Party this fall.

The bill describes how the Alberta government plans to refuse to enforce federal legislation, policies or programs it decides are “harmful” to Alberta’s interests or infringe on the division of powers in the Constitution.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•Canada

WTF?

Ewwww!

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•WTF?

Expanded Liberal gun ban could cost taxpayers ‘another billion dollars,’ says criminologist

Public Safety Canada was unable to provide updated estimates for the significantly expanded expropriation, but criminologist Gary Mauser estimates the cost could add another $1 billion to the $756 million estimated cost the Parliamentary Budget Officer released last year.

“That is another billion dollars — because so many popular long guns will be caught by it,” said Mauser, a Simon Fraser University professor.

The amendment to Bill C-21, introduced by Liberal MP Paul Chiang on Nov. 22, alters the definition of “prohibited weapon” to include “a firearm that is a rifle or shotgun, that is capable of discharging centre-fire ammunition in a semi-automatic manner and that is designed to accept a detachable cartridge magazine with a capacity greater than five cartridges of the type for which the firearm was originally designed.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

WTF?

#Philadelphia

GRAPHIC CONTENT:

Video surfaces of the shooting of PPA Officer on 11/25/22 pic.twitter.com/s6q3YZZYEn

— PhillyCrimeUpdate (@PhillyCrimeUpd) November 29, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•WTF?

An altered state – There is no such thing as a multicultural society

The findings of the 2021 census for England and Wales reveal a country that is becoming unrecognisable before our very eyes.

Britain’s two largest cities, London and Birmingham, are now minority white British. Since the last census ten years ago, the white British population of Birmingham has fallen from 52 per cent to 43 per cent. In London, the number has fallen from 45 per cent to 37 per cent.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"Diversity", "Multiculturalism"

China, Prisoner of Its Mistakes

The popular uprisings over Xi Jinping’s Zero Covid policy illustrate the limits common to all authoritarian regimes.

The popular uprisings taking place all over China, which are spontaneous and without leadership or definite ideology (even democratic), are in no way specifically Chinese; rather, they illustrate the limits of all authoritarian regimes in all civilizations. We can classify these limits according to a few universal principles that can now be applied to China, as they were to past fascist regimes and to the Soviet Union.

China 🇨🇳

What a brave girl. A real freedom fighter. Shame on the Chinese lockdown authoritarianism that caused this. But unlike our media, let’s not forget that scenes like this also occurred in many other countries around the world. #ChinaProtests pic.twitter.com/Gx03ID6Ed6

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) November 30, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"