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Motorbike collection worth $40m seized from Olympian turned ‘drug kingpin’

Mexican police have seized a $40m (£30m) motorcycle collection believed to be owned by the former Olympian and alleged drug kingpin Ryan James Wedding.

Wedding, a snowboarder who represented his native Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is responsible for trafficking 60,000 kg of cocaine every year, according to the FBI.

The US department of justice has described the 44-year-old as the “largest distributor of cocaine in Canada” and on a par with the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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British taxpayers fund Kenyan sex chatbot

A “pleasure-oriented” sex chatbot for Kenyan teenagers was developed using aid money from British taxpayers, The Telegraph can disclose.

The app was built as part of a £41m UK aid programme which aims to invest in “radical technology solutions” to issues in the developing world.

h/t Patti Jo

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Federal Investigators Discover Minnesota’s Somali Daycare Fraud Dates Back a Decade

A federal fraud investigation into Minnesota daycare centers has uncovered a troubling discovery — the scheme may have been operating undetected for more than a decade.

The discovery was unearthed from evidence in a 2018 fraud case out of Hennepin County against multiple daycare centers for allegedly swindling the government out of more than $1 million. A video of a 2015 Fox 9 KMSP report alleged that low-income parents would sign up their children for daycare services, which would then claim reimbursement for those services that were never provided.

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

Toronto hate crime suspect denied refugee status in 2018

Osman Azizov Muslim Sex Predator

One of the Toronto men recently charged with alleged hate and extremism-motivated crimes targeting women and Jews was denied refugee status more than seven years ago, according to court records.

Government records obtained by Global News show that Osman Azizov is an Azerbaijani citizen who, accompanied by his parents, crossed into Canada between official border points near Lacolle, Que., in 2017.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Firefighters Could Have Prevented the L.A. Wildfires, but California Rules Made Them Save Plants Instead

One year ago, just after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a small brush fire broke out in Topanga State Park above the Pacific Palisades outside Los Angeles. Within hours, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) arrived on scene and began digging handlines to stop its spread. The eight-acre fire—ignited by a 29-year-old former Palisades resident, who has since been charged with arson—was quickly brought under control. By 4:46 a.m., the department declared it “fully contained,” with “no further updates anticipated.”

But the fire was never fully extinguished. A week later, on January 7, it reignited and burned more than 23,000 acres, destroyed 6,800 structures, and killed 12 people in what became L.A.’s worst urban wildfire catastrophe.

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Green Party settles with commission over exclusion from federal leaders’ debate

The federal Leaders’ Debates Commission says it has settled with the Green Party after the party vowed to challenge its removal from the spring election debates.

In April, the commission, which is tasked with organizing the French and English debates, rescinded an invitation for Jonathan Pedneault, then co-leader of the Greens, to appear at a pair of leaders’ debates in Montreal.

What a waste of time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada, WTF?

ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing, ABC hasn’t touched the story outside of a single offhand mention on December 3.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", USA, WTF?