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We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran. Experts say it’s powerful propaganda

We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran. Experts say it’s powerful propaganda

At first glance they look like they could be scenes out of a Lego movie, although more vivid and fast-paced.

But these viral AI videos inspired by the instantly recognisable Lego aesthetic feature dying children, fighter jets and US President Donald Trump – and are in fact pro-Iran propaganda.

For our new BBC podcast, Top Comment, we spoke to a representative of Explosive Media, one of the key accounts generating these clips. He wanted us to refer to him as Mr Explosive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts", "US Israel Iran War", WTF?

Guardian explains violent mass looting spree in Clapham as just young people wanting to come together in meet ups

Guardian explains violent mass looting spree in Clapham as just young people wanting to come together in meet ups

It started with a flyer sent around on Snapchat. Teenagers were invited to gather at a south London basketball court to celebrate the start of the Easter holidays. They were told to bring their own weed and laughing gas because it was going to be a late one.

What followed in the hours after was chaos. Hundreds of young people came to the “link-up” last Saturday, and then gathered on Clapham High Street.

Shops in the area were overwhelmed, including a Marks & Spencer where videos appear to show teenagers fighting in the aisles. Some shopkeepers reportedly locked their doors, and fireworks were let off on Clapham Common.

Kids just wanting to met up … and loot

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts", WTF?

WHISSELL: No extremism in Canada’s military is left unchecked, right?

The problem with pretending violent extremism has just one ideological root.

As the Canadian military aims to overcome its recruitment crisis, past scandals, and rising extremism, ideological influence presents a significant threat to their efforts. If it remains unchecked, ideological influence can adversely affect the presence of extremism among ranks, as well as the ability to detect it.

Because of a stunning discovery by a Canadian journalist, discussed herein, I now believe the ability to detect and address extremism in Canada’s military is more limited than previously thought.

Let me explain why.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Experts", "extremists", "Far Left Extremist", "far right"

CBC – We found more Nazis …

Niagara rally by masked members of men’s ‘nationalist club’ raises fears of growing extremism

A Labour Day weekend rally in Ontario’s Niagara region by a self-described “Canadian men’s nationalist” group is prompting concern about rising anti-immigrant sentiment and recruitment efforts of extremist groups.

Researchers who study extremism have compared Second Sons to white supremacist and neo-Nazi active clubs. Such clubs bring members together for fitness workouts, and some experts say it’s related to training for what members believe to be an upcoming race war.

The real goal of the CBC and its fellow left wing extremist “experts” is not to expose NAZIS but to conflate White people, patriotism and dissent with Nazism.

CBC and the rest of the government bought media have been employing this smear technique for years.

CBC especially has been promoting this slander to prop up a Liberal government guilty of destroying the social contract via its societally destructive mass immigration scam.

A scam that has seen our cities become dumping grounds for incompatible migrant cultures creating acute shortages in everything from housing to healthcare.

And we’re expected to shut up and accept our ruin or risk being labeled a Nazi by the far-left extremists of the CBC for simply standing up for ourselves. 

It has reached the point where I have decided to behave in as tribal a manner as our government and media approved victim groups do.

So I’ll support these so called Nazis not because I agree with their ideas but simply because they are part of my Tribe, just like BLM supports criminals or Pallies support terrorists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts", "extremists", "Far Left Extremist", "far right"

Zyklon B heiress to participate in next Gaza flotilla

A heiress from the German industrial dynasty that profited from producing Zyklon B, the gas used in Nazi death camps, will participate in the next pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, activist groups announced last week.

Marlene Engelhorn explained in an Instagram post, “I decided to join the flotilla because I wanted to support the effort to end this genocide.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts", "Oct 7 2023"

The Failure of the Expert Class…Again

This past week, The Atlantic ran an excellent, helpful, and important piece by David Zweig, excerpted from his forthcoming book An Abundance of Caution, which is, at least superficially, about the coronavirus pandemic and the school closures it prompted. Zweig denies that it is about the pandemic specifically, saying that it is, rather, about “the failure of the expert class.” Whatever the case, Zweig is unsparing in his criticism …

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

Canadians are stupid and masochistic according to Globe

Carney and Freeland are perfect foils for Poilievre’s populism

There is probably no one in Canada today more qualified for the job of prime minister than Mark Carney. At 59, his life up to now has been one of awe-inspiring achievement fuelled by the pursuit of excellence in his field of specialization, central banking. His stellar reputation and real-world experience in the roller coaster global financial sector precede him.

Mr. Carney’s long-time friend, and now likely principal rival for the federal Liberal Party leadership, is similarly a woman of singular accomplishment. Chrystia Freeland rode a groundbreaking career in journalism covering the fall of the Soviet Union and rise of Vladimir Putin to insinuate herself among the upper echelons of the global financial establishment before charting a meteoric political career as Canada’s first female finance minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", "Experts", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Sometimes conspiracy theorists get things sort of right

Spend too much time arguing on the internet, and you’re bound to come across an increasingly common phrase: “Yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s truth.”

I’ve seen that phrase written in comments sections and on X; under news articles noting that Greek government mismanagement may have been partially responsible for wildfires there last year; and by, in one case, Piers Corbyn, the older brother of former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who uttered the phrase to a ravenous crowd protesting lockdowns and other aligned evils: masks, social distancing, vaccines, 5G mobile networks, and a non-binding UN sustainability resolution that some conspiracy theorists believe is a harbinger of a totalitarian one-world government imposed on mankind. Most recently, I saw it in response to a claim that Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek purposely broke the water main in order to impose tyrannical water restrictions on the populace.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Experts", "Journalists"

Extremism experts think Joe Rogan is more dangerous than Hamas

Lecturers on a civil-service counter-terror course in London were more concerned about provocative podcasters than murderous Islamists.

A former civil servant has written about her experience of a civil-service counter-terrorism course at King’s College London. It makes for disturbing reading.

Writing in Fathom earlier this month, Anna Stanley recalls an academic expert on extremism telling attendees that author and journalist Douglas Murray and comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan were examples of ‘far right’ extremists. The lecturer then told attendees that society needed to find ‘ways to suppress’ such figures. He complained that just de-platforming them ‘would cause issues’, because ‘they have millions of followers’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Experts", "extremists", "far right"

Cult of self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Canada’ threatens Sask. village with public executions

An extremist cult leader and her followers have set up camp in a small Saskatchewan village, 83 kilometres northwest of Maple Creek, near the Alberta border. The group has called for public execution of elected officials and other members in and around the community.

Romana Didulo is known as a far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist. She has declared herself the “Queen of Canada,” among other titles including the national Indigenous leader.

She has amassed thousands of followers by pushing conspiracy theories and what she calls decrees through social media, particularly Telegram — a messaging app that has grown in popularity with the far right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts", "extremists", "far right"

Sabrina Maddeaux: Light rail failures in Toronto and Ottawa need real consequences

Every government screws up from time to time. Politicians and public service workers are only human, and mistakes will inevitably be made.

However, particularly egregious screwups have become the rule in many Canadians jurisdictions rather than the exception. Each news cycle seems to surface another mind-boggling instance of ineptitude or indifference — sometimes both.

The current fiasco in Ottawa is a perfect example of this. On Canada Day, Pimisi Station, the closest light-rail transit (LRT) station to the city’s celebrations, was closed for public safety reasons. After much public outrage, it emerged that this was because Pimisi Station isn’t designed to handle “substantial crowds” and has a dearth of emergency escape routes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts"

Sounds like the most awful neighborhood in Toronto …

Agents of change

A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country?

On a snow-flecked Sunday afternoon in mid-December, Paul Dowsett gathered a group of neighbours in his backyard for a toast.

Although the event featured mulled wine and a crackling bonfire, this was no holiday party. Rather, it was an event to celebrate homeowners in the Pocket — an east Toronto neighbourhood — who have committed to an energy retrofit to reduce their carbon footprint.

A Pocket resident since 1997, Dowsett is an architect by trade and a local sage on matters of sustainability. Dressed in a striking green lumber jacket, the 61-year-old extolled his neighbours’ climate consciousness, and after a breezy explainer on the environmental harms of natural gas, related some breaking news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Dystopia At Last", "Eat Government Bugs", "Environmentalists", "Experts", WTF?

In defence of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse

Why shouldn’t we question ‘the science’?

British writer Graham Hancock has riled the archaeology community with his Netflix documentary, Ancient Apocalypse. The series follows Hancock to ancient sites around the world in pursuit of proof that an advanced human civilisation existed thousands of years before the first cities of Mesopotamia. Hancock, a former Economist correspondent, argues that most archaeologists are too stubborn to admit even the possibility of such a civilisation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Experts"