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Big Tech On Covid & Climate Article Demonitization Binge

This Is Getting So Ridiculous. Check Out What the Big Tech Goons Are up to Now.

It’s so ridiculous that it would be funny if it weren’t so deadly serious. We thought censorship by Facebook and other social-media companies was bad, but that was only the tip of the iceberg.

Every week now I get an email showing which articles have been demonetized by Big Tech. If an article is demonetized, it means we can’t run ads on it. We still have to pay our writers for their work, but because we can’t run ads, we have to take a loss on it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", WTF?

Uproar Follows Video Of Ex-Iranian Minister In Canada

A former Iranian minister has been spotted in Montreal, leading to uproar about Canada’s loose immigration controls in allowing entry to regime’s officials.

The footage circulating on social media captured Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, the former Health Minister in President Hassan Rouhani’s administration, strolling through the streets of Montreal, accompanied by his family. The video is part of promotional materials for Quebec’s tourism industry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran, WTF?

‘I shot the b**** dead’ – Virginia first-grader, 6, bragged about shooting his teacher Abigail Zwerner to school officials

A six-year-old boasted ‘I shot that b**** dead,’ after firing at his first-grade teacher inside a Virginia elementary school in January, recently unsealed redacted search warrants revealed.

Documents obtained by WTKR show that the unnamed boy told a school official how he brought his mother’s gun into the Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, on January 6 and shot his teacher Abigail Zwerner, 25. She survived the shooting that drew national headlines.

The docs also reveal the same boy nearly choked his kindergarten teacher a year before ‘until she couldn’t breathe’ and had to be removed from the classroom.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Ottawa police identify 15 suspects in storming of Senegalese Embassy

Ottawa police are asking for help identifying 15 people accused of storming the Embassy of Senegal.

In a statement, they say a protest was happening just before noon on Aug. 1 and that a group forced its way inside the embassy.

The Senegalese Embassy said in a statement that people violently took over the premises, causing serious damage to the consular section and hurting staff and visitors.

Wow! Soon we’ll be just like those sophisticated Euros!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Killing Babies Part Of Quebec’s Core Values Says Habitant Lunatic

Religious group sues Quebec government for blocking event over abortion concerns

A Christian group announced Wednesday it is suing the Quebec government after the tourism minister cancelled a religious gathering last June at a publicly owned convention centre because she assumed the event would promote anti-abortion views.

British Columbia-based Harvest Ministries International filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court against Minister Caroline Proulx, the convention centre and Quebec’s attorney general.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Most Canadians Still Couldn’t Buy A Home In Their City—It’s Not Even Close

Canadian housing is getting more affordable, but it’s still way out of reach for most. National Bank of Canada (NBF) released its Q2 2023 Housing Affordability Monitor (HAM) showing improvements in most markets. Despite rising financing costs, home prices fell enough to improve affordability. It was the third quarter to show affordability improvements, but it’s a long way from correcting 8 years of sharp erosion. Most of Canada’s households aren’t even close to being able to purchase a home at today’s prices.

More … Canada Lost 45K Construction Jobs In July — And Yes, That Spells Grim Things For Housing

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?

Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline in 2022 cost almost $9 billion, almost double the estimate of $5.3 billion, a Global News analysis has discovered.

The expenditure for the Crown corporation expansion, found through a detailed reading of filings that included corporate plan summaries and projections, is one of several line items that reveal how a project purchased by Ottawa exceeded its original cost estimate by a factor of six, from $5.4 billion to $30.9 billion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

After Separating From His Wife, Trudeau Searches for a New Image

In 2005, Justin Trudeau, the son of a legendary Canadian prime minister, and Sophie Grégoire, a well-known television journalist, married inside a stone church in Montreal’s wealthy, French-speaking enclave of Outremont.

“I’m the luckiest woman in the world,’’ the bride said to a crowd of onlookers as she entered the church. Under a sunny sky, the couple drove away in a Mercedes roadster that belonged to Mr. Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, producing an iconic wedding photo.

Katie paid extra for this.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Average price of a new car tops $66,000 as drivers wrestle with ‘a very surprising reality’

Brace yourself. The average price of a new vehicle hit a record high in Canada in June – $66,288 – up 21 per cent in one year and 47 per cent over four years, according to AutoTrader.ca’s price index report.

That, combined with higher lease and finance rates, has accelerated auto loan delinquencies, prompting one industry expert to predict that drivers will be forced to downgrade their cars and extend the terms of their loans or leases to keep their payments manageable.

That is insane.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

The FBI and ‘Radical’ Catholics

New evidence suggests the bureau probe was wider than director Christopher Wray said.

Remember the tempest this year when the Federal Bureau of Investigation was found to be targeting some Catholics as “extremists?” The bureau cast it as the work of a single rogue field office. Well, it looks like the effort was more widespread than our G-men admitted to the public.

That’s the news from a less-redacted internal FBI document released Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Jim Jordan wants more information from the FBI on how broad this investigation really was.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, FBI, USA, WTF?

Billion Dollar Liberal Party Propaganda Outlet Warns Profligate Conservatives Have Launched “MASSIVE” Ad Campaign

 

The Conservative Party of Canada is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that depicts its leader, Pierre Poilievre, as a family man who wants to fix the country — all while his party is soaring in the polls and his main rival is going through a public split with his spouse.

“This is not a branding campaign. This is an amplification of who Pierre is and always has been,” said Regan Watts, a former senior adviser to the Conservative foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon.

“He’s warm, he’s kind, he’s empathetic and he listens… It’s important for people to delineate between Parliament Hill and the rest of the country, engaging with Canadians one-on-one. “

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

World Scout Jamboree: How troubles plagued South Korea’s operation

In the old days Scouts could be found preparing to kill Japs and Nazis.

In just a matter of days, the 25th World Scout Jamboree in South Korea was crippled by a heatwave, looming typhoon, Covid outbreak and misconduct allegations.

Complaints were followed by accusations of lack of preparation by the organisers.

Described as the world’s largest youth camp, the jamboree – or festival – gathers young Scouts from around the world every four years.

About 43,000 participants – mainly scouts aged 14-18 – gathered on 1 August for the 12-day event on South Korea’s western coast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Networks Heap 335 Minutes on Third Trump Indictment, 71 Times More Than Biden Mentions

Between the Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning flagship news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, the 331 minutes and 56 seconds number ticked up slightly to nearly 335 minutes (344:40) on the third Trump indictment.

This new numbers is 71 times larger than the time these same networks have spent in the same time period (the evening of August 1 through the morning of August 9) on any and all Biden scandals, which remained unchanged at four minutes and 50 seconds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?