Author: Blazingcatfur

Will Apple be the last US tech giant left in China?

There was a time when the US tech giants were all in China – even Facebook. Today, Apple’s huge presence in the country looks increasingly conspicuous.

Last week Microsoft, which still operates in China, announced it was to shut down its social network, LinkedIn, there.

The company said having to comply with the Chinese state had become increasingly challenging – so it pulled the plug.

Apple has its own censorship problems in the country.

The BBC reported last week that two popular religious apps had been removed from Apple’s App Store.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

The 1 percent lecture about climate change while making it worse

Just west of the Pacific Coast Highway in the Paradise Cove area of Malibu, a major construction project is underway. Every day, at least 20 pickup trucks full of workers, earthmovers and multiple cranes belching black smoke crowd onto the lot, power up and get to work building Laurene Powell Jobs’ dream beach compound.

To date, Steve Jobs’ widow has spent more than $80 million on three oceanfront lots — tearing down the existing houses and, according to one person in the know, now building a “massive 20,000-square-foot home for her and her two grown daughters and two smaller ‘cottages’ that are around 4,000 square feet a piece for guests.” 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off the sidelines and take the millions of jobs that employers were desperate to fill.

Yet three months after half the states began ending that federal payment, there’s been no significant influx of job seekers.

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

Google Strong-Arms Smaller Competitor With Data Demands

Lawmakers call the moves anti-competitive behavior

In a move that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called anti-competitive, Google has announced it will remove its YouTube apps from TV streaming app Roku if Roku does not provide Google with special privileges.

At issue are demands made by Google that would change how Roku operates. The demands include a dedicated section of search results for YouTube—something no other Roku partner receives. Roku tells users searching for a movie where to watch it based on their streaming subscriptions; Google is pushing for some searches to route directly to YouTube, even if it means consumers would pay more. And Google wants Roku to provide the valuable search data it receives from users, a demand Roku calls a fundamental threat to business.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil

Erdogan orders removal of 10 ambassadors, including those from Canada, U.S.

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that he had ordered 10 foreign ambassadors who called for the release of a jailed philanthropist to be declared persona non grata.

The envoys, including the U.S., French and German representatives in Ankara, issued a statement earlier this week calling for a resolution to the case of Osman Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist held in prison since 2017 despite not having been convicted of a crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inErdogan, Turkey

Migrant caravan breaks through Mexican police as Biden blasted for claiming he hasn’t had time to visit border

A migrant caravan made up of thousands has broken through Mexican security forces attempting to stop them from making it to the US border on the heels of US President Joe Biden saying he lacks the time to actually go there.

Thousands of migrants gathered in Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, and are now making their way to Mexico City and eventually the US border. Among them are people fleeing Haiti, Venezuela, and multiple other Latin American countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

REVEALED: Loudoun Schools Superintendent who denied having record of female student, 15, being raped by 15-year-old cross dresser male reported the assault to the board on the day of the attack

Scott Ziegler – Child rape enabler

A Virginia school board superintendent who denied having ‘any record’ of a female student being raped by a 15-year-old ‘boy in a skirt,’ reported the assault to the school board the day of the attack, a newly disclosed email reveals.

Loudoun Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler had initially told parents during a June school board meeting he had no report of the sexual assault on the 15-year-old girl that took place at Stone Bridge High School on May 28.

However, in an email dated the same day as the assault, Ziegler wrote to the school board: ‘This afternoon a female student alleged that a male student sexually assaulted her in the restroom. The LCSO is investigating the matter.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "They really do want your children", Big Tranny

A JetBlue Jihadist? The Great Press Cover-up

A JetBlue Jihadist? The Great Press Cover-up

If a radical Islamist hijacked an airplane, we might never know it was an act of terrorism. That is, if we rely only on the mainstream media.

Case in point: On September 22, Khalil El Dahr, a passenger on JetBlue Flight 261 from Boston to Puerto Rico, suddenly rushed to the front of the aircraft, choked and kicked a flight attendant, tried to break into the flight deck, and urged crew members to shoot him. It took a half-dozen flight attendants to restrain El Dahr, tying him down with flex cuffs, seat belt extenders and a necktie. On landing in Puerto Rico, El Dahr was arrested and charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants, a federal crime.

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

Ooops…

Social media users have mocked Ohio after its launch of a number plate to mark the first motorised flight by the Wright brothers in 1903 crash landed.

The US state’s new design, unveiled by Governor Mike DeWine, sported a banner attached to the plane that boasted Ohio was the “Birthplace of Aviation”.

But the banner, which should have been trailing behind the plane, was actually attached to its front.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Green policies have denied opportunities to First Nations, without any benefit to the planet

Everyone’s attention is turning to the energy crisis in Europe and Asia and the increasing cost of petroleum products, with record-high natural gas prices and oil at $80 a barrel and rising. As a Tsimshian from northwest British Columbia, when I look at what’s happening in the markets, I wonder how much better off our communities would be if all the cancelled pipeline projects had gone ahead and B.C. was exporting LNG at these record prices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Canada’s food inflation figures are wrong, critics say — mainly because just three grocers supply the data

… Poor data collection on food prices means Canadians may be finding it much harder to put food on the table than the federal government is acknowledging, after all.

Take the federal agency’s own findings, Morrison said. In September 2019, Canadians paid an average of $2.82 for 500 grams of peanut butter, according to Statistics Canada.

In September 2020, that price had dropped to $2.69. And by September 2021, it was back at $2.82.

“I don’t see this in my data,” said Morrison. “We see a range from $3.39 to $5.59 in the current price. And at the highest, we see up to $9.99.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Canadian scooped in Cuba’s July anti-regime protests held in ‘horrific’ prison is being denied consular visits

Yvis Abadin says it was on July 12 — the day after unprecedented anti-government demonstrations exploded across Cuba — that her 19-year-old son Michael Carey Abadin was taken.

There were still scattered acts of protest popping up around their neighbourhood in Old Havana, where police and pro-government vigilantes called Rapid Response Brigades had a heavy presence.

“Michael went down to the street and sat on the sidewalk talking with a friend,” Yvis Abadin told CBC News. “Some people from another building about half a block away threw some rocks and broke the windshield of a police car.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJustin Trudeau - Pissant

Why WAS a gun on Alec Baldwin movie set loaded with live ammo?

The deadly chain of events on set that led to Alec Baldwin being handed a gun with live ammunition and accidentally shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have become clearer after it emerged last night the actor fired a live round, believing it to be a blank.

The tragic accident came days after Baldwin’s stunt double also fired off bullets on the production’s set on Saturday after being told the gun was ‘cold’, a phrase used to signal to cast and crew the gun is not loaded with live or blank ammunition and is safe to fire for the scene.

New details of safety issues on set emerged as the production’s armorer was named by a search warrant released on Friday as 24-year-old Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the daughter of legendary Hollywood armorer and firearms consultant Thell Reed, and revealed she was leading firearms on a film set for only the second time.

He still pointed a gun at the victims. He alone pulled the trigger.

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