Colby Cosh: UBC covers for bad science in homeless cash transfer study

You ever hear of a guy named Daryl Bem? Bem is a social psychologist from Cornell University, now retired at age 85. In the ‘90s, after a long conventional career as an experimenter, he took up the cause of establishing evidence for human extrasensory precognition, and did some studies that seemed to confirm it exists. This set off a war in psychology as critics descended on Bem to nitpick the flaws in his studies and citations of psychic phenomena.

Wow even crappier than first thought.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Toronto church Revivaltime Tabernacle says it will no longer shelter asylum claimants

Revivaltime Tabernacle, a church that took in several hundred recent asylum claimants over the past few months in response to Toronto’s shelter space crisis, says it will no longer be open as a shelter.

Pastor Judith James says that recent asylum seekers to Canada are no longer sheltered at the church as of Thursday and that previously postponed church services will resume.

They should not be here.

 

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

Trump Is Top Choice for Nearly 60% of GOP Voters, WSJ Poll Shows

Donald Trump has expanded his dominating lead for the Republican presidential nomination, a new Wall Street Journal poll shows, as GOP primary voters overwhelmingly see his four criminal prosecutions as lacking merit and about half say the indictments fuel their support for him.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

The lies driving Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ

The London mayor is torturing ‘the science’ to ram through his punishing car tax.

London mayor Sadiq Khan’s planned expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to outer London has been met with an incredible amount of resistance. The objections to the £12.50 per day car tax are legion. It punishes the poorest who can’t afford a new low-emission car or van. It hurts the disabled and the elderly who have difficulty using public transport. And all of this pain is amplified in outer London, where train, bus and Tube links are sorely lacking.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Why the US will decide Ukraine’s fate

As Ukraine marked its 32nd national holiday since independence, news from the front lines and the wider world appeared better than perhaps in any week since the recapture of Kherson in November.

In Zaporizhzhia, the hard-fought front lines moved a few miles forward. In Crimea, a missile strike took out a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft complex and a team of Ukrainian commandos briefly raised their yellow-and-blue flag on the peninsula for the first time since Russia’s 2014 annexation. A Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot defected to Ukraine with a load of jet engine parts. Near-nightly waves of drone strikes deep inside Russia blew up two Tu-22M long-range bombers, four Il-78 transport aircraft and repeatedly struck central Moscow.

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Proud Boy yells ‘Trump won’ after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for Capitol attack

Dominic Pezzola, the Proud Boy who used a police shield to smash his way into the US Capitol, yelled “Trump won” as he was jailed for 10 years by a federal judge in Washington on Friday.

Proud Boy leader, Ethan Nordean, 33, was also sentenced to 18 years in prison, after being convicted of seditious conspiracies and serious felonies in May. The sentence is the longest punishment in the case so far.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Exposing the Hoax Numbers Behind California’s Racial Reparations

When California’s reparations task force released its report recommending $1.2 million in total lifetime payments to every black person, it made headlines around the world.

California was not a slave state so what was the $1.2 million payout even based on? Even though the task force conveniently proposed limiting payments to the descendants of slaves (despite the lack of slaves in the state) it was mostly based on calculating the differences in life expectancy between black people and white people.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Slavery and Reparations

Soros Network Eyes Poland After Dismissing Rumours of European Withdrawal

News of Open Society’s European demise appears to have been greatly exaggerated as Alexander Soros, the newly anointed heir to the civic society network, affirmed his commitment to the continent and outlined his wish to redouble efforts in Poland and Ukraine in a column with the pro-Atlanticist Politico publication this week.

The brainchild of the Hungarian-born financier George Soros, the Open Society’s NGO network has earned international notoriety for aggressively pushing progressive policies around migration and social policy, and was ejected from Hungary in 2018 for what the Fidesz government described as subversive activities.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Soros

Hurricane Idalia Aftermath: Saltwater Exposure Causes ‘Thermal Runaway’ In Flooded Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles flooded by a storm surge produced by Hurricane Idalia have spontaneously ignited in the Big Bend area. This underscores a lesser-known safety concern for the thousands of Americans who recently purchased EVs and reside in coastal regions vulnerable to flooding.

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Who Could Be the Uninvited Guest at Your Outdoor Labor Day Party in New York City?

The New York Police Department is rolling out its air force of drones this Labor Day weekend, raising the usual ruckus from civil libertarians. Kaz Daughtry, NYPD Assistant Commissioner, responded to critics, saying, “I understand there may be concerns, but these drones are not going into the backyards to look for the secret sauce that mom, dad, or grandma’s making.”

 

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

Melissa Mbarki: Trudeau’s net-zero policy violates UNDRIP, poverty reduction strategy

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s action plan for implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was released in June 2023. It acknowledges that to protect self-determination, self-government and recognition of treaties, ”Indigenous governments, like any order of government, (should) have access to ongoing, long-term and stable fiscal mechanisms and revenues to fulfil their roles and responsibilities as governments, and ensure their citizens’ well-being and ability to thrive.”

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Billionaire Bill Gates declares war on Cows believes that plant-based meat is the ‘future’.

The climate impact of meat is hidden, Bill Gates has warned – but the billionaire believes that plant-based meat is the ‘future’.

Fertiliser and cows are a hidden cause of climate change, Bill Gates has claimed – but plant-based meat is “the future.”

Most people still don’t know how agriculture contributes to climate change, the billionaire claims – specifically the methane emissions from livestock and fertilisers.

“Of all the climate areas, the one that people are probably least aware of is all the fertiliser and cows, and that’s a challenge,” Gates recently said on the latest episode of his podcast, “Unconfuse Me.”

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Dystopia At Last", "Eat Government Bugs", "Eating Bugs", "Elites vs. Populists"

A new CSIS ad campaign is using Soviet-style imagery to warn Canadians about disinformation

Canada’s spy agency is leaning on Soviet imagery to help prime the public against disinformation, but experts say Moscow is more likely to use images that make readers think the messaging is coming from North American sources.

Last month, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) started posting on social media about its efforts to counteract deliberately misleading information online.

The posts feature a font that resembles the Cyrillic alphabet, featuring stars instead of dots and the letter N appearing backwards.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government