Internal memo flags the promise and pitfalls of expanding CSIS’s foreign spy role

Internal memo flags the promise and pitfalls of expanding CSIS’s foreign spy role

OTTAWA – An internal Canadian Security Intelligence Service memo says allowing the spy agency to collect foreign intelligence overseas would capitalize on its “existing footprint and expertise,” but might also invite a host of problems.

The memo says giving CSIS the capabilities of a foreign human intelligence service — like the American CIA or Britain’s MI6 — could create governance, accountability and privacy concerns about what constitutes a threat, and about the prospect of targeting Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCSIS

The West’s fifth column

The West’s fifth column

At around 2 a.m. on the last day of Passover in Israel, weary Israelis once again hauled themselves from their beds into air-raid shelters and safe rooms as the sirens started to wail.

Iran had fired yet more barrages of missiles at Israel and the Gulf states. That was its reaction to the announcement that had just been made by U.S. President Donald Trump that Tehran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire. The regime’s response was immediately to break it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Western Standard retains counsel to fight multiple human rights complaints filed by transgender activist Jessica Simpson

Western Standard retains counsel to fight multiple human rights complaints filed by transgender activist Jessica Simpson

The Western Standard is preparing to defend itself before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after multiple complaints were filed by transgender activist and repeat litigant Jessica Simpson, formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv, alleging discrimination in a series of published articles, commentary, and media posts.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

A close shave …

A close shave …

Rival Turkish barber shop workers who swung scissors and spanners in huge ‘turf war’ brawl over plans to open up new shop in the town are spared jail

Rival Turkish barber shop workers who swung scissors and spanners at each other in a huge ‘turf war’ brawl on a busy high street in Wales have been spared jail.

Witnesses described a ‘very violent gang fight’ after workers from the Kurds Barbers in Newbridge, Caerphilly, travelled to nearby Blackwood to confront workers at the town’s Marmaris Turkish barbers on February 13.

Marmaris barber Omed Pirot, 31, was planning to open another shop in Newbridge which was ‘not well received’ by staff at Kurds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Unhappy Conservatives shouldn’t defect to Carney’s Liberals — they should replace Poilievre

Unhappy Conservatives shouldn’t defect to Carney’s Liberals — they should replace Poilievre

It’s like déjà vu all over again.

Yet another Conservative MP, uncomfortable with the direction of the party or doubtful about its electoral prospects, has decamped to the Liberals. The fourth floor crossing from the CPC in six months — with more MPs reportedly considering the move.

Although the first three departures smacked of opportunism with a side of dissatisfaction at the culture of the party under Pierre Poilievre, the most recent defection speaks to a more concerning issue: the abandonment not only of the leader, but of conservative ideology itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran

Nine months and six days before a Tomahawk missile tore through the gaily decorated classrooms of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, ripping apart the bodies of schoolchildren, teachers, and parents, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal pastor delivered a sermon at the Pentagon.

“There’s a temptation to think that you’re actually in control and responsible for final outcomes, especially for those who issue the commands and do the aiming and the shooting,” preached Brooks Potteiger, Hegseth’s closest spiritual adviser, at the first of what have become monthly Christian worship services at the Department of Defense. “But you are not ultimately in charge of the world.”

Citing a verse from Matthew 10, Potteiger told the gathered leaders of the US military: “If our Lord is sovereign even over the sparrow’s fallings, you can be assured that he is sovereign over everything else that falls in this world, including Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles …

“Jesus has the final say over all of it.”

All I got to say is thank goodness Iran is a secular state able to curtail an expansionist US Christian Nationalism!

Gilead is real!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", WTF?

University of Winnipeg professor defends course content linking race and IQ scores, cites ‘academic freedom’

University of Winnipeg professor defends course content linking race and IQ scores, cites ‘academic freedom’

A tenured professor at the University of Winnipeg, who has become the focus of a dispute over course material that draws connections between race, IQ scores, and the likelihood of committing murder, insists his claims are factual and shielded by academic freedom.

According to a Manitoba Labour Board decision document from October 2024, a student lodged a complaint against the professor, who teaches in the university’s psychology department, over claims made during class.

The complaint alleges that the professor “has explicitly said that Black individuals’ IQ scores may be lower because of genetics,” adding that he has also “presented data showing that Black people are 4.5x more likely to commit murder than White people.”

“Academic freedom” only applies when White people are villainized.

Grab some popcorn there’s going to be a witch burning!

Here’s why we no longer talk honestly about police race-based data h/t NeoCon

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIQ controversy

‘Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup’ by Drew Thomas Allen: The Declassified Blueprint That Finally Exposes the Russian Memos and the Real Coup

‘Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup’ by Drew Thomas Allen: The Declassified Blueprint That Finally Exposes the Russian Memos and the Real Coup

Drew Thomas Allen’s Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup: The Declassified Story of the Trump–Russia Delusion is the book that previous authors on the scandal could only dream of writing. Published in 2026, it arrives with the full weight of Tulsi Gabbard’s declassifications as Director of National Intelligence, the Durham report, the Horowitz IG findings, and—most crucially—the long-buried Russian intelligence memos that the FBI received as early as January 2016 but chose to sideline.

While earlier works like Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax, Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion, and Lee Smith’s The Plot Against the President laid important groundwork, they were constrained by classified material. Allen’s book removes those constraints and delivers the complete, unvarnished picture.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

Jamie Sarkonak: How Marilyn Gladu awkwardly fits into the Liberal party

Jamie Sarkonak: How Marilyn Gladu awkwardly fits into the Liberal party

What started out as a small scrape is turning into a long bleed. On Wednesday, 11-year Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu left caucus and joined the Liberals after denouncing floor crossers. You can actually make it make sense if you really squint, but for Pierre Poilievre, that doesn’t help much.

Gladu should repulse the Liberals: she’s dined with Freedom Convoyers; stood up for an alleged constituent whose bank account was frozen for buying a convoy T-shirt; spoken at the National March for Life; praised Donald Trump before he was president.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

The Interest in 1990s Nostalgia Should Shock Not Delight

The Interest in 1990s Nostalgia Should Shock Not Delight

When did you realise it was all over? For me, it was a couple of days ago when my son found me sobbing on the kitchen table. I had in my hands HMRC’s letter ordering me to buy some software and do my tax return five times a year. He (17) was insouciant: “What’s the problem, it’s just another laptop thing, why are you so het up about it?”

I replied with gut wrenching sadness that the world I grew up in is over. He and his brothers will never know it. It’s gone. And he can’t even appreciate what he is missing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDecline & Fall

Toronto mans: The strange, multicultural slang of Toronto’s teenagers

Toronto mans: The strange, multicultural slang of Toronto’s teenagers

“That’s my crodie,” the teenage girl squawks loudly, slapping her male friend on the chest as she lets the final word of her sentence roll on: “-deeeeeeeeeeeee”. Passers-by in Jane Finch, a shopping centre in a downtrodden Toronto suburb, do not recoil at this strange pronunciation. They push past the pair into McDonald’s, where, slumped across seats, schoolchildren roll large spliffs. Their sentences are similarly strange, flecked with terms like “gerbert” and “two-twos”. Asked about Shoreham, a nearby estate, an aggrieved teenager exclaims “oppblock”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Fatigue", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy"

Regulating the Sex Robot Revolution

Regulating the Sex Robot Revolution

In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy in Florida named Sewell Setzer shot himself after months of deepening emotional entanglement with a chatbot on Character.AI. He had named the bot after Daenerys Targaryen, a Game of Thrones character, and the conversations had turned romantic, then sexual, then dark. In his final exchange, Setzer told the chatbot he wanted to die. It told him to “come home” to it. A year later, a second teenager’s parents sued OpenAI after their 16-year-old son used ChatGPT as what they called his “suicide coach,” confiding suicidal plans that the bot never flagged and his parents never saw. A third suit followed: it involved a 13-year-old honor roll student, an artist who once rescued a friend from bullies but was found dead after months of confiding in a Character.AI bot named Hero.

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