Author: Blazingcatfur

Biden’s DOJ raids home of Area 51 researcher, holds girlfriend at gunpoint: report

Joe Biden’s Department of Justice sent agents to raid the homes of Joerg Arnu, a Rachel, Nevada man who runs a website dedicated to information about Area 51. Arnu described the raids as “humiliating” and that the feds “held his girlfriend at gunpoint.”

Local news reporter George Knapp broke the story Thursday on Twitter and wrote, “FBI agents came down hard on the operator of a popular website devoted to all things Area 51-its programs, lore, and legacy. More than a dozen agents served a no-knock warrant on the Rachel, NV home of Joerg Arnu, owner of dreamlandresort.com

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Bank of Canada is warning Canadians to brace for a rough winter

For years now, central banks around the world have helped consumers and businesses weather economic storms. In crisis after crisis, they cut interest rates to help people get through. They printed money and bought bonds to prop up markets.

This time, those same banks are actively making life more difficult.

“I’m sure some of this does feel a bit counterintuitive,” said Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem.

I get the impression Tiff really enjoys his work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Predatory Unions planned insurrection to counter Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause

Unions planned nationwide protests to counter Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause

Before Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced he would rescind his use of the notwithstanding clause to ban an education union from striking, labour leaders discussed a potential nationwide protest that would have temporarily shut down not just the province’s auto plants, but the country’s ports and even the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island.

In the end, the full-scale show of force never happened. It was called off last Monday after Mr. Ford and his Education Minister, Stephen Lecce, decided they would back down.

Sounds like an insurrection to me.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Amazon, Canada’s largest user of low wage foreign labour, employs new ‘Sparrow’ robot to take warehouse worker jobs

Amazon’s new ‘Sparrow’ robot threatens to take warehouse worker jobs

Amazon unveiled its new ‘Sparrow’ sorting robot that could soon replace some human workers in its warehouses.

The robot is designed to identify and sort specific products along Amazon’s fulfillment line, a task that previously could only be done by humans.

“Sparrow is the first robotic system in our warehouses that can detect, select, and handle individual products in our inventory,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement alongside the product’s debut during Amazon’s Delivering The Future conference near Boston on Thursday.

Canada Has Become A Hotbed For Low-Wage Foreign Labour Under Trudeau … Amazon Biggest User

… But since Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals have come to power, the country has doubled down on its use of foreign labour. At the end of 2021, more than 775,000 people from abroad had temporary work permits, an increase of 92 per cent from 2015, and 600 per cent from 2000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAmazon is Evil, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, The Future

Behind-the-scenes moments are being revealed at the Emergencies Act inquiry. Will they add up to a story Canadians can support?

… So how much closer are Canadians to an answer to the big question: was the federal government justified in invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time?

The answer is, they’re not close to an answer. Or maybe not yet.

“Damage Control”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Arctic power play: High north and high stakes

On a cloudy day in September, Commander Nicole Robichaud looked ahead to the deep, blue water of the Arctic Ocean from the bridge of a brand new ship. Whitecaps and floating sea ice dotted the horizon.

The sixty-five crew members and sailors with the Royal Canadian Navy, were on board HMCS Margaret Brooke, one of six new icebreaker ships in Canada’s Arctic fleet. They travelled through some of the earth’s most unforgiving waters at the northernmost edge of North America.

The stark effects of the climate crisis and changing geopolitical landscape have created new threats in the Arctic. As the sea ice melts, previously impassable routes through the region and access to long-hidden natural resources are opening up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Alec Baldwin sues to ‘clear his name’ in movie set killing

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico.

Baldwin filed a cross-complaint in Superior Court in Los Angeles alleging negligence against some of the people sued by a script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell. Among other things, it seeks a share of any damages that Mitchell may win from the people Baldwin names and asks that they pay for any damages assessed against him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Belgium terror stabbing suspect was on list as potential Islamic extremist

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities said Friday that the lone assailant who killed one police officer and wounded another in a stabbing attack had been on a counterterrorism list of potential extremists.

The Belgian suspect, who had served six years in prison for common-law crimes, had gone to a police station early Thursday to express hatred for them, but couldn’t be arrested before he launched his stabbing attack on two police officers that evening.

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

‘Ghost gun’, firearm parts and 3D printers seized in Woodstock bust

Two people are facing numerous charges after OPP found prohibited devices used to manufacture “ghost guns” at a Woodstock address.

“Ghost guns” have no serial numbers and are untraceable. They can be purchased online and assembled at home.

Provincial police said the Canada Border Services Agency intercepted and seized prohibited devices during routine courier inspections in October.

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

Mexico uses footage of homeless people and drug addicts from PHILADELPHIA in ads to scare young people away from substance abuse

The Mexican government is using video of homeless people and open-air drug users in Philadelphia’s troubled Kensington neighborhood in a national ad campaign to try to scare young people away from drugs.

Jesús Ramírez, the spokesman for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, proudly presented the ad series Tuesday, saying the campaign ‘seeks to inform young people of the damage caused to health by the consumption of chemical drugs.’

Ramírez did not respond to repeated requests for comment as to where the government got the Philadelphia videos or why they used them in ads aimed at a Mexican audience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, USA, WTF?

Trudeau Feared an ‘Armed Insurrection,’ Said Freedom Convoy Wouldn’t Be Resolved by ‘Talking’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said early during the trucker-led Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa that talking would not resolve it and he feared an “armed insurrection,” according to handwritten notes from his deputy chief of staff.

“PM: No. No to changing government policy. Their goal is to disrupt and undermine govt institutions,” read the notes of Brian Clow entered as evidence at the Emergencies Act inquiry on Nov. 10.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Musk Warns of Twitter Bankruptcy as Senior Executives Quit

Twitter Inc’s new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. privacy regulator and the exit of the company’s trust and safety leader.

The billionaire on his first mass call with employees said that he could not rule out bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported, two weeks after buying it for $44 billion—a deal that credit experts say has left Twitter’s finances in a precarious position.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil

Euthanasia for babies? Canada finds itself sliding down a slippery slope on MAID

Back in 2015, the Supreme Court justices who unanimously struck down the Criminal Code provision against medical assistance in dying (MAID) couldn’t foresee how Canada’s assisted dying program might evolve to the point it is today. I don’t mean that figuratively – in their written decision, they implied that they simply couldn’t see it happening.

People fought and died in WW II to extinguish the Mengeles of the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide