X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws

One of the world’s most popular social networks, X, has gone offline in Brazil – the country with the fifth largest digital population – after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws meant it was blocked by the supreme court.

Millions of Brazilian X users found themselves unable to access the network on Saturday morning as internet providers and mobile phone companies began to enforce the ban.

When the Guardian tried to access the network on its computer and mobile phone, it received a message reading: “Seems like you lost connectivity. We’ll keep retrying.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Brother

Alister Campbell: What Pierre Poilievre can learn from Mike Harris’ Common Sense Revolution

“We were raised on the faith
The center’s holding
And can’t be broken
And now that it’s started
It might not stop”

“The Garden” by Dinosaur Jr.

Maybe only a few Hub readers listen to Dinosaur Jr. (a grunge-era band led by guitar god J. Mascis), but I suspect many more share their worry about the degree of polarization in the political discourse of the Western world these days.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

TDS afflicted Mark Cuban burned by own poll

Mark Cuban sends poll to parents asking if Trump or Kamala is a better role model for their kids – and is shocked by the result

Mark Cuban was curious whether his followers on X think that Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is a better role model for children.

Despite the billionaire’s vocal opposition to Trump over the years, the former president overwhelmingly won the informal social media poll.

‘Who’s persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have,’ Cuban posed to his 8.8 million followers with the options being the 2024 Republican and Democratic candidates.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

A conservative case for not dismantling the CBC: ‘It’s just going to make things worse’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and CBC CEO Catherine Tait are trading barbs about the continued relevance of the CBC. Among its fans, and even some foes, there’s much hand-wringing about Poilievre’s threat to shut down the English-language arm of the public broadcaster.

“I think the Conservative party has a lot of very valid criticisms of the CBC as it now stands,” nods the soft-spoken media stalwart Kenneth Whyte in a recent conversation. “And there are many more criticisms that you could make of the CBC beyond Pierre Poilievre’s concerns, which are mostly ideological.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC

Vaping, assaults, culture wars: How the school washroom has become a battleground where many students fear to tread

Washroom Expert

A couple of weeks into September, Dara was driving her son home from his new middle school, happy he seemed to be settling into Grade 7, when the 13-year-old made a startling confession: He was petrified of using the school washroom.

“There are bullies in there; there are kids vaping,” the Mississauga mom recalls him telling her in the car last fall. The teen had already witnessed several fights. He described damaged toilets and sinks, deliberately clogged and overflowing.

I wonder how our diverse youth will react to the cell phone ban.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The grave of the wonderful world of the West

Three years ago, on August 21, 2021, the Western adventure in Afghanistan ended. Nothing remains of twenty years of our presence. Like the website of the University of Kabul, where we offered Afghans courses in “Gender and Woman Studies” since 2015.

It has aged badly, like the CNN article that announced it. Like UNICEF, which said it was “fairly optimistic” that the Taliban would respect women’s right to education while they took back power; like Twitter (as it was called before Elon Musk bought it) which declared that the Taliban could continue to use the social network “as long as they respect the rules”; like a Canadian minister (female) who called the Taliban “our brothers” and the famous French association Osez le féminisme! which expressed “sisterhood with Afghan women in the face of misogyny”.

Ah, misogyny…

The west has to learn to fight Islam as they fought Hitler and Japan in WW II.

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

Trump’s Vision Transcends the Party

Like the greatest leaders in history, Trump is articulating a vision that now resonates beyond political party lines.

The greatest leaders of free societies transcended partisanship.

Not because they were absent of principle. To the contrary, they were driven by deep conviction in what they did, and they did so in relation to and in coordination with others. Rather, they were aware of the fundamental challenge of living in a polis — how to take a principled stand (whose rightness is not dependent on popular opinion, but because of the truth of the stand itself) united with others (without corrupting or compromising that stand).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Will Alberta Replace the Mounties With Its Own Provincial Police Force?

Along with pulling out of the Canada Pension Plan, Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, has in the past floated the idea of replacing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a provincial police force.

Like every province except Ontario and Quebec, which have provincial forces, Alberta has contracted out rural policing to the Mounties for over 90 years, and several of its cities also outsource policing to the federal force.

And like every province that relies on the Mounties, grumbling about the cost and quality of the service the R.C.M.P. provides ebbs and flows in Alberta.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, RCMP

‘Head Separated from Body’: The Persecution of Christians, July 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo: According to a July 28 report:

“Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed, in four statements published on July 25-27, 2024, that on July 24 its fighters attacked six villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) northeastern provinces, beheading more than 57 Christian villagers. In the two largest attacks that day, 54 villagers were beheaded, 30 and 24 respectively.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islamization of the West

Liberal immigration pivot forces Canada to reckon with approach to labour shortages

OTTAWA – The Liberal government’s decision to reel in the temporary foreign worker program after loosening the rules to help businesses find workers after the pandemic is sparking a contentious debate about whether governments should even try to address labour shortages.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that his government is bringing back stricter rules to stem the flow of low-wage temporary foreign workers, and he urged businesses to hire and train Canadian workers.

There was never a “labour shortage” there was a slave shortage and our Captain’s of Industry had Trudeau fix that for them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Keir Stasi? UK government wants to prosecute ‘non-crime hate speech’

In the United Kingdom’s escalating war on the freedom of expression, the U.K. Home Secretary is seeking to reinstate the prosecution of “non-crime hate speech,” overturning a 2021 court ruling which described the measure as a move towards a police state in Britain.

According to an August 28 report in the U.K. Times, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “faces a legal battle” to reinstate measures to interrogate, monitor, and even prosecute members of the public for a range of “non-criminal” remarks.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"