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New Adaptation of Animal Farm Blames Capitalism

A Hollywood animation of Animal Farm has sparked outrage for turning George Orwell’s classic story into a critique of capitalism and corporate corruption with a billionaire villain and a happy ending.

Here’s the Telegraph Link – Outrage as Animal Farm film blames capitalism… and has a happy ending

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2 dead at Rob Reiner’s LA home, LAPD’s robbery-homicide division responds

LOS ANGELES — Two people have been found dead inside the Brentwood home of director Rob Reiner, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to The Post.

Officers were called to the home Sunday afternoon. It’s currently unclear who the victims are, but a spokesperson for the department noted that detectives from LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division were also at the scene.

The Los Angeles Fire Department told NBC Los Angeles that a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman were found dead inside the home.

Update: Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son 

h/t Canuknucklehead

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Meghan has no plans to see her father Thomas Markle again

The Duchess of Sussex has no plans to see her father, who is recovering in hospital from a leg amputation, and has given up hope of ever reconciling with him.

On Wednesday, Meghan, 44, who has not seen Thomas Markle for many years, “reached out” to the 81-year-old with a letter hand-delivered to him in a hospital in the Philippines, where he now lives.

She has not attempted to ring him at the hospital, fearing a phone call could be overheard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, WTF?

Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin named as Brown University shooter

Benjamin Erickson and sibling

The person of interest in the deadly mass shooting at Brown University has been ID’d as a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin with possible long-standing mental-health issues, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Benjamin Erickson was nabbed at a local hotel room after a gunman opened fire at the Ivy League institution’s Providence, RI, campus during a final-exam study session Saturday.

h/t NeoCon

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Bondi Beach terrorists were father and son who legally owned 6 guns — despite tough firearms laws

The two gunmen who opened fire on Australia’s Bondi Beach where thousands of Jews were celebrating Hanukkah are believed to be a father-son duo who had a trove of legally-owned guns.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old accomplice are believed to be father and son, authorities said on Monday.

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

Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy

The controversial Victims of Communism memorial in downtown Ottawa will no longer feature the names of specific individuals after federal officials determined a significant number could be linked to the Nazis.

The memorial, located near the corner of Wellington and Bay streets, was intended to honour those who suffered under communism.

But concerns have been raised over the years by Jewish organizations and historians that names of eastern Europeans who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust have been put forward in an attempt to whitewash their past.

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Report Raises Concerns About Canadian Universities, Others Collaborating With Beijing-Backed AI Labs

A new report warns that prominent Western universities, including Canadian institutions, have collaborated with Chinese artificial-intelligence labs on research that could advance Beijing’s mass-surveillance apparatus and other tools tied to human rights abuses.

The Dec. 8 report, authored by the New York-based business intelligence firm Strategy Risks in partnership with the non-profit Human Rights Foundation, outlines how leading Western institutions in countries such as the United States, Canada, and others in Europe have collaborated with Chinese AI labs that are part of, or closely connected to, Beijing’s surveillance and security apparatus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Donald Trump’s erratic, kleptocratic authoritarianism is a threat to our very existence. This is what Canada must do to survive.

We would like to begin, if we could, with a question of scale. Think for a moment of the sheer vastness of this land. Try to picture it all. The impossible greatness: from the Pacific forests, dense with unspeakable trees, to the grey greens of the Newfoundland coast.

Now look at a map. Think of what you see: A country so large it can at times seem more geological than political, like a fact written into the earth. Let the natural thought come then: Nothing this large could ever go away. And yet, we know now that it could, all of it, at any time.

Two-thousand twenty five was the year the inevitable died in Canada. Thanks to Donald Trump, we know that nothing about our country is guaranteed anymore, not our sovereignty, our democracy, our prosperity.

It seems the folks who most benefited when their “free trade” deals off-shored our jobs, fattened themselves on tax payer funded Net-Zero subsidies, imported cheap labour to feather their nests, and shamelessly discriminated against us because we were white are traumatized Trump has upset their apple cart. I could not care less for the fate of their Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?