Sam Bankman-Fried’s New Home: A Run-Down Prison That Once Housed Al Capone

Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next stage of his career as a federal inmate.

Earlier this week, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange was brought to the low-security prison at Terminal Island in Los Angeles. The 33-year-old former billionaire could spend years at the portside facility, which largely holds nonviolent offenders or those without a recent history of violence. He is set for release in December 2044, the Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Michael Higgins: Carney’s new Project Fear is to scare Canadians into voting for him

All the scrutiny and questions may be getting a bit too much for Mark Carney as he suspends his campaign for a third time.

Carney has clearly been irritated and put his “elbows up” after being questioned about a number of controversies swirling around him. Among the recent issues that have put Carney under a glaring spotlight have been: why Brookfield Asset Management used a Bermud a bike shop as a tax haven while he was an executive at the firm; whether his previous jobs create a conflict-of-interest for him and whether he met a pro-Beijing lobbying group in Toronto, as reported in the Globe and Mail on Thursday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Have Germany’s insult laws gone too far?

The list of penalties for insulting people in Germany reads like a classic Mastercard advert. Displaying your middle finger to a fellow motorist: €600 to €4,000. Using the informal version of the word “you” to a police officer: €600. Calling someone a “wanker”: €1,000.

To all this, a growing number of Germans are inclined to add that upholding freedom of expression is priceless.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Saskatchewan beats Alberta and Quebec in wanting to leave Canada if Carney wins: poll

Saskatchewan is the province that wants to leave Canada the most if Liberals win the upcoming election in Canada, a new poll finds.

Around 33 per cent of residents from the central prairie province “say they would vote to leave federation, whether to form their own country or to join the United States,” if Liberals form the next government, according to the survey by nonprofit Angus Reid Institute.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Saskatchewan

If ‘white privilege’ is real, answer me this

Something very, very odd seems to have come over our police. On Thursday we learnt that West Yorkshire Police had temporarily blocked job applications from white British candidates “in an attempt to boost diversity”. And then yesterday, we learnt that officers at Thames Valley Police are being given “equity training” – during which they’re taught that they have “white privilege”.

Extraordinary. Imagine if Dixon of Dock Green were to be made nowadays.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "White Guilt", White Privilege

Toronto’s tent encampments are up 20% — expanding into areas they’ve never been found in before

You never used to find tents in Scarborough’s Collingwood Park.

The tiny oasis of greenspace tucked near Sheppard Avenue East and Kennedy Road is usually home to little more than grassy expanses, winding paths, a narrow creek and play equipment. But this spring, as outdoor homelessness has continued to surge across Toronto, 11 campsites were set up throughout the park.

Last spring, there was only one; in the three springs before, none at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

RFK Jr. says FDA has become a ‘sock puppet’ in meeting with staff

The Food and Drug Administration has become a “sock puppet” of the industries it regulates, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday, telling workers at the beleaguered agency that those industries have exerted too much influence on regulatory decisions for too long.

In a roughly 27-minute speech, Kennedy — the nation’s top health official — also said the “deep state is real,” according to transcripts of his speech and a recording obtained by The Washington Post. He urged employees to blow the whistle on their bosses if they believe superiors are approving “something that shouldn’t be approved.” And he urged employees to “break away from the bureaucracy.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Mark Carney, the Liberal Party, and Canada’s Residential Schools Controversy

On July 19, 2022, the Canadian government set up the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools, Missing Children and Unmarked Burials to investigate the alleged abuse and murder of Indian children by Christian missionaries and school teachers between 1880 and 1996. National fury erupted in 2015 with the claim that 215 burial sites had been discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School by ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scans. The monostory of indigenous suffering and “settler” guilt had to be fixed in technical readouts and funerary stone. Predictably, the allegation proved to be false.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Columbia Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation OK’d

A US judge has ruled the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained last month over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.

Mr Khalil, a permanent legal US resident, has not been charged with a crime. In a letter written from the facility, he has said his “arrest was a direct consequence” of speaking out for Palestinian rights.

The government has cited a Cold War-era immigration law, declaring that his presence in the US was adverse to American foreign policy interests.

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

Brookfield registered entities to Grand Cayman address Obama called ‘largest tax scam in the world’

Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s former firm Brookfield has registered more than a dozen business entities to an infamous address in the Cayman Islands that former U.S. president Barack Obama once described as either “the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.”

CTV News reviewed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings between 2015 and 2024 that show the global investment firm registered limited companies and limited partnerships to a five-storey building in the capital of the self-governing British Overseas Territory.

That building is known as Ugland House, and is home to at least 18,000 corporate entities. The Cayman Islands charges no income or corporate taxes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Coachella descends into ‘CHAOS’ as attendees brand it ‘worst in history’ and demand refunds before gates open

Coachella appears to have already descended into ‘chaos’ with dozens of attendees already branding it ‘the worst in history’ and comparing it to the disastrous Fyre Festival – despite doors not even officially being open.

The iconic music festival held in California, which runs across two weekends every year, will open its gates later today to a sea of A-list celebrities and ticketholders.

But car campers have taken to social media in their droves this morning to relay the carnage in the car parks.

This and Burning Man seem to have lost their cache.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How immigration is concealing Canada’s economic crisis

As Canadians flex their patriotic muscles and hold “elbows up” in response to punishing U.S. tariffs, many might be surprised that another economic crisis has been percolating here for years — from inside the country.

It effectively dropped Canada into recession months ago, has left us as poor as the residents of Alabama and is so dire, the usually circumspect Bank of Canada warned it’s time to “break the glass” and sound the emergency.

For this at least, U.S President Donald Trump can’t be blamed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Mass immigration has resuscitated hatred of women across Britain

Even many feminists don’t want to confront the reality of the racist and sexist attitudes that have been imported into Britain

Quite how the Government expected to hold “more than five” independent inquiries into grooming gangs for £5 million when the Telford inquiry alone cost £8 million is anyone’s guess.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper now insists Labour hasn’t watered down its pledge to “deliver the meaningful change victims deserve” with the announcement of a “more flexible approach” involving the setting up of “victim-led panels”. Yet handing a pittance to the very local councils who seemingly turned a blind eye to these vile crimes for them to mark their own homework isn’t justice.

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