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Cynical NY Times Whines GOP ‘Ready to Pounce’ on Biden Migrant Policy

The New York Times front page on Saturday reported that “Biden Is Facing New Pressures Over Migrants.” So far so good.

But the Times painted the Biden-encouraged rush to America’s southern border, where the number of apprehensions have hit record levels, as less an actual crisis and more of a worrisome political issue for Democrats, with the threat of Republicans (yes) “seizing” on it and hurting Biden and Democrats in the 2022 congressional elections. They also downplayed Biden’s campaign promises that helped fuel the border crisis.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Is Western Europe Really Turning to the Right?

A large-scale and widely-noted survey, “The Conversion of Europeans to the Values of the Right,” suggests that Western Europe is trending conservative. But a close look at the survey data finds that not to be the case.

La Fondation pour l’innovation politique (or the Fondapol Foundation), which calls itself a “liberal, progressive, and European think tank,” surveyed 7,603 respondents in Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy between January 20 and February 10, 2021. In striking contrast to historic trends, it found the young to be more conservative than the old, suggesting a move toward conservativism.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Europe

Robot that can ‘read emotions’ keeps getting fired from jobs

… Scottish grocery chain Margiotta installed a Pepper in their flagship Edinburgh store, but was fired after continually telling customers to look “in the alcohol section” when they asked where things were.

A lot of people would consider that a feature.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•WTF?

Norway’s beach handball team REFUSES to wear bikini bottoms and faces a fine after competing in non-regulation shorts instead

Norway’s beach handball team is facing a fine after the players refused to wear bikini bottoms in a match, instead competing in non-regulation shorts.

The Norwegian handball federation said Monday it was ready to pay the possible fine after the women’s team defied official regulations.

The Scandinavians wore shorts instead of the bikini required by the International Handball Federation’s (IHF) rules in their bronze medal match against Spain at the European Beach Handball Championship in Varna, Bulgaria, on Sunday.

I’m concerned their new uniform may reduce competitiveness by restricting mobility.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•WTF?

Chicago shootings: 56 shot, 11 fatally, in weekend violence across city

CHICAGO — Eleven people have been killed and 45 others wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend, police said.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown announced Monday that he creating a special team of 50 officers to target gun trafficking and gun crimes.

Superintendent Brown said the new team would work with the ATF and the CPD firearms investigations unit on mid-level and upper-level gun trafficking investigations.

Well that’s 11 more votes for the Democrats.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Crime

Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport in 2016

In an effort to identify potential deportees, the federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions of unsuspecting travellers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2016.

The six-month initiative, meant to pick out people the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) suspected might try to enter the country using fake identification, is detailed in a document obtained by The Globe and Mail through a freedom of information request. The project is the largest known government deployment of the technology in Canada to date.

The Genie never goes back in the bottle.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•"Surveillance Society"

Mary Simon’s lack of French prompts investigation after 400 complaints: watchdog

Canada’s official languages watchdog is opening an investigation after receiving more than 400 complaints in nearly two weeks about the appointment of prominent Inuk leader Mary Simon as governor general.

Simon does not speak French, which is enshrined in the Official Languages Act as one of Canada’s two official languages. She has said she is committed to learning French on the job but was denied the chance to do so while attending a federal day school in her youth.

So there are 400 cranks who “care” about this.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Canada, WTF?

Melissa Mbarki: Trudeau’s virtue signalling to First Nations is meaningless

A historic moment happened earlier this month, when the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced it had reached an agreement with the federal and provincial governments to take control of its child welfare system and receive support and funding from both levels of government over the next two years.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues

Canada to welcome fully-vaccinated U.S. tourists in August

Canada will start allowing fully-vaccinated U.S. visitors into the country on Aug. 9 for non-essential travel as the threat from the COVID-19 pandemic fades, Ottawa said on Monday.

Visitors from countries other than the United States who have been inoculated will be permitted to enter on Sept 7. The relaxation depends on Canada’s COVID-19 epidemiology remaining favourable, the government said in a statement.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

China Preparing to Expropriate Foreign-Held Tech Shares

“What do investors need to understand, for those investors that are thinking maybe I want to dip my toe in investing in Chinese companies?” asked Maria Bartiromo on July 14, during her Fox Business show, “Mornings with Maria.”

The answer is that Beijing is on the road to expropriating the shares held by foreigners in China’s tech companies. The complicated financial structures these companies have used to attract foreign investment are questionable under Chinese law and give Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, an excuse now to begin a confiscation campaign.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Cuban exiles warn: U.S. leftists threaten freedom and work to destabilize nation

The beginning for the end of freedom in Cuba seemingly happened without warning to those who living on the island nation. It’s not that they didn’t see it coming. They just didn’t want to believe it.

Cuban exiles, including those in my family, remember the years leading up to the revolution. They understand that liberty is fragile because they watched it slip from their grasp and their lives were upended. They warn that in some ways, the United States is on a similar path.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Cuba

Arrest made in Cambridge mosque vandalism, police say no evidence of Hate Crime

Waterloo Regional Police have charged a man after a mosque was ransacked and vandalized in Cambridge on July 14.

Police said the evidence does not support the inference that the crime was motivated by racial or religious hatred.

The Perp hasn’t been named that I have found. Was it just an incident triggered by mental illness?

Note that this is an Ahmadiyya Mosque, a despised minority sect considered heretics by many Muslims.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

MALCOLM: The Tk’emplus Band has more facts to offer — will anyone pay attention?

Two remarkable events happened at roughly the same time on Thursday afternoon.

In British Columbia, the Tk’emplus Band presented its preliminary findings on the discovery of unmarked graves, and in Manitoba, the government introduced its new Minister of Indigenous Affairs.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues

Katie Hopkins fined by NSW police and deported from Australia after visa cancelled

The Australian government has cancelled Katie Hopkins’ visa and deported the far-right commentator after she boasted about breaching hotel quarantine conditions.

The cancellation was announced by the home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, on Monday and followed a decision by Endemol Shine Australia to cancel her contract to appear on Seven Network’s Big Brother VIP. Hopkins was then deported from the country on a Monday afternoon flight.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Large cross at the top of mountain near Duncan removed

It’s not known if police even give a crap.

A large cross that for decades stood atop a popular lookout in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island was mysteriously removed this week.

The cross, which is at the summit of Mount Tzouhalem, about four kilometres east of Duncan, disappeared at some point in the last few days, cut from its base, according to Duncan Mayor Al Siebring.

Link fixed

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2021July 19, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues