Russian-Canadian man arrested, awaiting U.S. extradition for alleged global ransomware crimes

A Russian-Canadian man from Ontario is in police custody and awaiting extradition to the United States for his alleged participation in a global ransomware campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Mikhail Vasiliev, a 33-year-old dual Russian and Canadian national from Bradford, Ont., is charged with conspiracy to intentionally damage protected computers and to transmit ransom demands in connection with his alleged role in the LockBit global ransomware scheme, the department said in a press release.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCybercrime

What Surprise?

There was no October Surprise. This should have been obvious. The big surprise was that there was no surprise. Given that a corrupt and cognitively impaired Joe Biden could be elected, it followed that John Fetterman would win his congressional race. The template had already been put in place. Katie Hobbs refused to debate Kari Lake in Arizona and virtually disappeared from the scene. The only reason for such anomalous behavior could only have been that she was already assured of a strong performance in advance, obviating the need to risk facing the public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

2.9 Million Canadians on Wait List for Surgery, Scans, and Specialists

At least 2.9 million Canadians are waiting for surgery, diagnostic scans, or specialist appointments, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests obtained by SecondStreet.org, a think tank. Not all provinces had data available, leading SecondStreet.org to suggest that the true total could be close to 4 million people on waiting lists.
Waiting lists are at historic highs, according to the Fraser Institute’s 2021 report, Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada. The report said that the median wait time in 2021 was the longest recorded in the survey’s history. 
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

Lockdown’s Toll: Tory warns of ‘massive’ tax hike, service cuts if province, Ottawa don’t bail out Toronto

Mayor John Tory, re-elected last month promising to keep a lid on taxes, is now warning of big tax hikes and deep service cuts unless Queen’s Park and Ottawa rescue Toronto’s pandemic-ravaged finances.

Tory on Thursday released a letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland saying, after months of discussions, he needs commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars in bailout funds by Nov. 30.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Rupa Subramanya: Liberals open the immigration floodgates, but will Canada and the newcomers benefit?

The boost to the economy that Immigration Minister Sean Fraser hopes will result from an influx of new immigrants is unlikely to materialize until quite a few years after they arrive, if that

On Nov. 1, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser revealed that Canada would begin admitting a record 500,000 new immigrants a year starting in 2025. It’s a bold plan, but it seems to have been done without giving much thought about how the new immigrants will fare once they get here, and whether high levels of immigration will benefit the Canadian economy, especially if we’re heading into a recession.

The corporate class want slaves. Junior is happy to provide them because he’s stupid.

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

A Vatican Auditor Says He Dug Up Too Much Dirt, and Was Buried

ROME — On June 19, 2017, the Vatican gendarmes entered the offices of the church’s chief auditor. They confiscated his phone and iPad, threw his papers on the floor and ordered the fire brigade to smash open a locked metal filing cabinet, from which they extracted a document that they said proved he was abusing resources to spy on top Vatican cardinals.

“Now you have to confess,” they demanded, according to the auditor, Libero Milone. Faced, he said, with being thrown in a Vatican jail, Mr. Milone signed resignation papers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

338Canada: Trudeau, Poilievre and a standstill battle for momentum

MONTREAL, Que. — We are stalled in the status quo, somehow.

The re-energized Conservatives have a new leader at the helm while the Liberals are being blamed for the cost of living and rising interest rates against a stream of headlines from the Emergencies Act inquiry.

Even so, two new polls find the Liberals and Conservatives deadlocked.

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

What the Palestinians Need Now

Under the kleptocratic Palestinian Authority (PA) and the theocratic Hamas regimes, Palestinians have no freedom of speech and no independent or free media.

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip live under two regimes that crack down on critics, and imprison and intimidate journalists, human rights activists and political opponents. Those who dare to criticize the Palestinian Authority or Hamas often face various forms of punishment, including torture and incarceration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPalestine and Palestinians

Syrian refugee gets 17 years in Pittsburgh church bomb plot case

Mustafa Mousab Alowemer – Muslim terrorist and High School Grad

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Syrian refugee has been sentenced to more than 17 years in what authorities said was a plot to plot to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh.

Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 24, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on a guilty plea last year to a federal charge of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic Stage group, a militant extremist organization.

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

Musk tells Twitter staff remote working will end

Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that remote working will end and “difficult times” lie ahead, according to reports.

In an email to staff, the owner of the social media firm said workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week, Bloomberg reported.

Mr Musk added that there was “no way to sugar coat the message” that the slowing global economy was going to hit Twitter’s advertising revenues.

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“New Jersey Teen”

Teen arrested for threat against New Jersey synagogues

An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly making broad threats against New Jersey synagogues earlier this month, warning online that he planned to act on his “hatred toward Jews,” federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Omar Alkattoul, 18, has been charged with sharing “a manifesto containing threats to attack a synagogue and Jewish people” on social media, the Department of Justice said.

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