Hollywood Hubris, and Hostility to President Trump, Undermine Tinseltown’s Plea for Protection Against AI

The entertainment industry is asking President Trump to protect its intellectual property. Yet don’t expect this to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. While the letter about Mr. Trump’s AI Action Plan has over 460 signatures, it avoids mentioning the man Hollywood wants to ride to its rescue.

The letter, referring only to “the current U.S. administration,” takes issue with “a recommendation by OpenAI & Google … to remove all legal protections and existing guardrails surrounding copyright law protections for the training of Artificial Intelligence.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Hollywood

Should Canada ease its 100% tariff on electric vehicles from China amid trade war with U.S.?

Canada’s trade war with the United States has some economists pondering whether the federal government should ease or lift its 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, a move some say could spur EV purchases and deliver a blow to Elon Musk’s Tesla.

Automakers, however, say the tariffs are critical to protecting this country’s nascent EV industry.

Canada followed the U.S. in slapping the tariffs on Chinese EVs last fall, while also putting a 25 per cent surtax on imports of steel and aluminum products from China.

Tell me Brookfield and Canada’s China class aren’t salivating.

“The upside is a likely invasion by the USA.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Does Trump have the answers to Britain’s immigration emergency?

Our streets would surely be safer and workers would no longer be undercut

Like it or not, a debate about mass deportations is now underway in Britain. Hardly surprising, since research estimated there were as many as 1.2 million illegal immigrants living in Britain by 2017, which will have increased since.

The concept of mass deportations still seems controversial, but so are the implications of the alternatives. Mass illegal immigration means the industrial scale breakdown of the rule of law. It is now undeniable that this gravely endangers the safety of the British people, especially women. To be an illegal immigrant means the first interaction you have had with our country is criminality. It is also unfair to those who make the effort to migrate here legally, and exposes the illegal immigrants themselves to ruthless traffickers, drug gangs, prostitution and risky work in the black market. There is no clear alternative to the deportation of large numbers of people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, UK

Mark Carney looking to Europe to boost Canada’s security in shift away from reliance on U.S., sources say

OTTAWA — In an effort to pivot away from Canada’s overreliance on the U.S., Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to Europe to build new security alliances and a new defence industrial strategy that could see European-designed fighter jets built in this country.

But two Canadian sources told the Star that prospect is only a possible implication of what Carney has set in motion after he ordered a review of the F-35 purchase plan, and travelled to Paris and London after discussing with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen his goal to see Canada be a player in the new drive to “rearm Europe.”

EU shuts Britain out of €150bn rearmament fund

A defense commitment to Brussels seems to be the price of admission. 

This sounds like the first move in preparation of the end of NATO and US participation in Europe’s defense?

The thing is Canada doesn’t have much by way of armed forces. No European country does, collectively they could be a reasonably formidable force assuming the will to fight exists.

But it makes no sense for a lightweight like Canada to be signing up to defend Brussels absent the protection of the US umbrella.

I bet Brookfield is scoping opportunities however.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Europe, European Union

Would you betray a neighbour for £100k? China wants to know

Melbourne residents have been sent a letter in the style of a police appeal as Beijing hunts for Kevin Lam, a pro-democracy Hong Kong lawyer who fled to the city

Kevin Yam was wanted on suspicion of “a range of national security-related offences”, the anonymous letter read.

The letter in the style of a police appeal was sent to residents in the suburbs of Melbourne, seeking the whereabouts of a dissident Hong Kong lawyer living in their midst.

“A reward of one million Hong Kong dollars is being offered by Hong Kong Police to any member of the public who can provide information on this wanted person and the related crime,” it added.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Australia, Hong Kong

Canadian researchers incensed that Trump will no longer fund the racist, anti-human and anti-American crap they push

Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers

Researchers working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda.

So the US should keep giving them funds to push anti-human, racist and anti-USA crap. Got it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Greenpeace must pay pipeline company nearly $667 million over Standing Rock protests, jury says

(Reuters) – Greenpeace must pay a Texas-based pipeline company nearly $667 million in damages for the environmental advocacy group’s role in 2016-2017 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, a jury said Wednesday.

The verdict in North Dakota state court came after two days of deliberations in a trial where pipeline company Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace of paying protesters to disrupt construction of the pipeline unlawfully and spreading falsehoods about the controversial project, located near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites

Smith says changes to Alberta infrastructure defence law will prevent any ‘interference from Ottawa’

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fired a shot across the bow of new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday, vowing to beef up a provincial law shielding oil and gas production from federal meddling.

Smith said at a press conference that new amendments to Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act would put a firewall around Alberta’s energy sector by declaring oil and gas production sites and facilities housing emissions data and records as essential infrastructure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

India raids offices of George Soros founded Open Society

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out searches at eight locations in Bengaluru in connection with a foreign exchange violation probe against American billionaire George Soros founded Open Society Foundations and its impact investment arm Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), people familiar with the development said.

The searches, for potential violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act or FEMA, were carried out at NGOs and other firms funded by OSF and SEDF, and at Aspada Investments Private Limited, which is the holding company of SEDF. ED said Aspada is the investment advisor/fund manager of SEDF in India and is wholly owned subsidiary of a Mauritius-based entity.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Soros, India

SIEBERT: Nothing about the Carney Liberals looks good — or different

‘A Liberal win might be the wake-up call necessary to drive Alberta — followed by Saskatchewan — towards greater sovereignty.’

So, out with the old and in with the new as a replacement figurehead is installed on the old rotten ship, the HMCS Liberal Party. With such changes afoot it may be worth a closer examination of the track record left by the outgoing prime minister, as well as at his shiny new replacement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Carney will ask Governor General to dissolve Parliament Sunday and call election, sources say

Prime Minister Mark Carney will ask the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election this Sunday, Radio-Canada has learned.

The election campaign will kick off barely a week after Carney was sworn in as prime minister and appointed his cabinet.

Carney’s trip to Rideau Hall to speak to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will come a day before MPs were scheduled to return after Parliament was prorogued on Jan. 6.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Michael Higgins: The great lengths being taken to uphold the residential school narrative

The Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) has responded to a libel suit brought by one of its own lawyers, in a case involving claims that “bodies” were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS), by implying that he has committed that most pernicious of crimes: denialism.

The LSBC doesn’t outright accuse James Heller of denialism, but it certainly points the finger of suspicion his way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"