How a Harvard Professor Became the World’s Leading Alien Hunter

On Oct. 19, 2017, a telescope in Maui detected something that had entered our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. Astronomers named it Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “scout” or “messenger,” because it was the first interstellar object they had ever recorded — the only known traveler to have crossed the vast distance between another star system and our own. Where it came from was only part of its mystery. Oumuamua fit none of the well-understood astronomical categories. If it was a rock — an asteroid — it was an extremely strange one. Researchers estimated that it was at least the length of a football field; its shape was hard to determine, but it seemed to be long and thin, like a cigar. “No known objects in the Solar System have such extreme dimensions,” wrote the group of astronomers who discovered the object.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Governor general spent $3 million in travel during first full year in office

Transportation costs for the Governor General during her first full year in office cost nearly $3 million.

Data from government documents put the cost of flying Governor General Mary Simon to four overseas engagements and 17 domestic trips across Canada last year at $2.78 million, spread across a number of government departments and ministries.

That number may still climb, as receipts from 2022 are still being tallied.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Political Class

Liberals believe time is on their side. Is it?

A politician—or anyone in politics—will never admit a poll means much. You’ve heard it dozens of times already: “the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day.”

But cabinet ministers are worried. Part of the retreat they just attended in P.E.I. was about relaying back to the prime minister and his staff what their constituents told them over the summer. What they heard very much depended on the part of the country they represented—but in key electoral regions for the Liberals, and on the key issue of affordability, ministers heard their government was falling short.

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

Christine Van Geyn: Jordan Peterson losing free expression case puts us all at risk

The result is in for Dr. Jordan Peterson in his legal battle against the Ontario College of Psychologists, and the result is a disappointing one for freedom of expression that should ​concern ​all members of regulated professions. The Ontario Divisional ​C​​ourt dismissed Dr​.​ Peterson’s judicial review and upheld the College of Psychologists order that Dr. Peterson take training in professionalism in communication in public statements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJordan Peterson

Poll: two thirds of public back death penalty for Letby

Lucy Letby this week became only the third woman alive to be handed a whole-life jail term after being sentenced for murdering seven babies and trying to kill another six. But for an outraged British public it seems that sentence is not enough. A new poll for The Spectator by Redfield & Wilton show that 66 per cent of them favour the death penalty as just punishment. Polling of 1,500 people was conducted on Wednesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCapital Punishment, Crime

Putin Breaks Silence on Prigozhin’s Plane Crash

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first comments about Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s presumed death in a plane crash.

“I’ve known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 1990s. He was a man with no easy fate. He made some serious mistakes in his life, but he also achieved the needed results—both for himself and, when I asked him, for the common cause,” Putin said during a televised meeting, according to the Kremlin-controlled news agency Tass.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Protesters try to bypass RCMP wildfire blockade amid rising tensions in B.C.’s Shuswap region

Protesters have tried to bypass an RCMP blockade on the Trans-Canada Highway in British Columbia’s Shuswap region, amid tensions over the refusal of some residents to obey wildfire evacuation orders.

Live social media videos of the incident posted Wednesday evening show about 20 protesters confronting a blockade of police cars near the lakeside community of Sorrento.

They tell officers they do not believe politicians have the right to prevent them using the road, and that it is illegal for the RCMP to block it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Why Sam Bankman-Fried likely won’t get Adderall while locked up in Brooklyn jail

Jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will likely have to survive without access to Adderall while behind bars at the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, according to federal prison guidelines.

As The Post reported earlier this week, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers whined at a hearing that he hasn’t been given his prescribed Adderall to treat his ADHD in the 11 days since he was tossed in jail to await trial in October.

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

The Washington Post’s ‘Good’ Terrorists

On August 21, the Palestinian terror group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder of Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old Jewish mother of three who taught pre-school. The woman was gunned down by two terrorists near the West Bank city of Hebron.

Shortly after the attack, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority President — and Fatah chairman — Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement in which it took credit for the attack. The group said it will continue to “adhere to the option of the rifle as a strategic choice.” The “option of the rifle,” as is evident, refers to terrorist attacks against Jewish civilians and soldiers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Can Canada build 2.2M rental units within a decade?

Shack for rent

Building 2.2 million purpose-built rental units in under a decade sounds like an impossible task.

Despite the obvious challenge, a roundtable of housing experts from the private and non-profit sectors is providing the government of Canada with 10 recommendations on how to achieve this goal.

Canada will have to build 5.8 million homes over the next seven years to restore affordability, with 2.2 million of that being dedicated to purpose-built rental, according to an Aug. 15 report by housing experts brought together by the Real Property Association of Canada (REALPAC) and Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness.

“It’s an enormous mountain to climb, given that we’ve only built 570,000 units of rental housing in the last 30 years. We are talking about tripling – almost quadrupling – in seven years what we’ve built in the last 30 years,” said Michael Brooks, CEO of REALPAC, an association of executives in Canadian commercial real estate.

If these numbers are true we are well and truly fecked.

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