Starmer rallies international support to take on Musk

Ministers are rallying international support for a crackdown on Elon Musk’s social media site X amid outrage over its use to create fake photos of naked women and children.
Downing Street has held talks with like-minded governments about a coordinated response to the controversy, which threatens to erupt into a diplomatic row with the White House.
Australia and Canada are both said to share Sir Keir Starmer’s concerns over the use of Grok, X’s artificial intelligence tool, to generate explicit “deepfake” images.

If it’s stupid Carney is in.

Update: Canada may have come to its senses

h/t Mauser

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

The Former ‘Minister of Everything’ Quits Office Amid One Last Political Storm

In 2013 Chrystia Freeland quit journalism and ran for Parliament as a Liberal in what was then seen as a significant endorsement of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s takeover of the party’s leadership. Once he was in power, Ms. Freeland became what Mr. Trudeau called his “minister of everything.” Then just over a year ago, she began the end of Mr. Trudeau’s career in politics with a resignation letter as finance minister that contained a stinging rebuke of his policies.

On Friday, Ms. Freeland’s political career came to its slow end as she officially stepped down from the House of Commons to take on an unpaid, part-time role as an adviser to Ukraine on economic development.

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

Is it time to get alarmed about how Trump is kicking off 2026?

It has been an alarming start to 2026, thanks to Donald Trump.

In just seven days, Trump’s America has plucked a leader out of Venezuela and hauled him to the U.S. to face justice and seriously revved up its intents to acquire Greenland. At home, Trump’s decision to install federal immigration agents in U.S. cities has escalated into violence — deadly in one case — in Minnesota and Portland, Oregon.

If that wasn’t enough, Trump’s White House has also withdrawn support for more than 60 international organizations, agencies and commissions.

Who thinks they’re on the right side of history supporting a murderous narco state dictator’s imaginary protections under “international law”?

Or cries over the deportation of illegal alien invaders many of whom are vicious murderers?

And why is it a bad thing for a government to protect tax payers by cutting off rent seekers like the Star?

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

‘I feel free’: Australia’s social media ban, one month on

For the first time in years, Amy feels free.

One month since Australia’s teen social media ban kicked in, she says she is “disconnected from my phone” and her daily routine has changed.

The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in the days after the ban started.

“I knew that I was still unable to access Snapchat – however, from instinct, I still reached to open the app in the morning,” she wrote on day two of the ban in a diary she kept for the first week afterwards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted insocial media

What comes after EVs?

Why are EV mandates and incentives falling by the wayside?

Lost amid all the recent news of governments backing away from once-sacrosanct demands that all cars be battery-electric is precisely why they are backing away. After all, the (still-reigning) Liberals are the very architects of Canada’s EV mandate and Quebec has long been the strongest proponent of a total ban of internal combustion in our federation, so why have both cancelled, paused and/or reduced their mandates and subsidies? More importantly, because both their decisions are so politically charged, what did they see amongst their constituents — that should be read “voters” — that told them it was time to ditch EV mandates and subsidies?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Trump: We’ll make Greenland deal ‘the easy way or the hard way’

President Trump said the US would “do something with Greenland whether they like it or not”, following reports his administration was considering offering lump-sum payments of up to $100,000 to its citizens to persuade them to join the United States.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory, which he claims is “needed” by the US for national security purposes and to prevent China or Russia from taking it.

The White House has declined to rule out the use of military force to acquire Greenland, but Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has insisted the president’s “first option” remains a diplomatic alternative.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Can we fix Toronto’s homelessness crisis? This is what it could cost to build a home for every person living in our parks and streets

Patrick Couperthwait was hunkered down inside a makeshift shelter made of tarps, plywood and metal scraps, waiting for outreach workers to come back.

It was freezing cold this early December day, with temperatures dipping below -10 C the night before. His bare fingers were red and cracked, but Couperthwait couldn’t risk leaving to warm up indoors. He needed to stay here — on a roadside patch of grass near Riverdale Park where he’s camped for two years — because outreach workers told him yesterday there might be housing for him. As midday hit, Couperthwait was getting nervous.

The Islamo-Chow Regime does not want to solve the “Homeless crisis” as it raises money funneled to their socialist scams.

“Housing first” is a failed policy that assumes a hard core drug addict or the mentally ill will be able to maintain a residence.

Life doesn’t work that way. I am curious to see if Saskatchewan’s mandatory treatment policy is a success.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Secret dossier reveals police ‘covered up’ threat to Maccabi players

A police force has been accused of a cover-up after downplaying threats against Maccabi Tel Aviv football players from “Asian youths looking for a fight”.

A heavily redacted report from West Midlands Police obtained by The Telegraph reveals that Israeli football players were stalked by Birmingham locals in the days and hours before their Europa League away match against Aston Villa.

The Silver Command log lists sightings of “masked-up” groups of males, with “Asian youths looking to fight” and heading in the direction of the stadium.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Former Canadian politician emerges as key cheerleader for new Iranian revolution

Millions of Iranian citizens have taken to the streets since Dec. 28 in an unprecedented, widespread revolt against the Islamic Republic’s regime.

Watching events closely from Canada is Iranian-born Goldie Ghamari, who was just a year old when her family fled for Canada in 1986 – seven years after another revolution deposed the Shah of Iran and installed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran protesters tell of brutal police response as regime lashes out

Demonstrators have continued to take to the streets of Iran, defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing protest movement.

An internet shutdown imposed by the authorities on Thursday has largely cut the protesters off from the rest of the world, but videos that trickled out of the country showed thousands of people demonstrating in Tehran overnight into Saturday morning. They chanted: “Death to Khamenei,” in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and: “Long live the shah.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran

BURTON: Why people are leaving Canada — a country testing the limits of decline

Canadians are leaving — not in small numbers, not quietly, and not for trivial reasons. They are leaving because Canada is becoming economically uncompetitive, socially fractured, politically coercive, and increasingly intolerant of dissent. This is not a matter of pessimism or ideology; it is a rational response to a country that is steadily eroding the conditions that once made it attractive to live, work, raise a family, and invest.

For decades, Canada enjoyed a reputation as a stable, rules-based democracy with opportunity, fairness, and freedom at its core. That reputation is now under serious threat. People are voting with their feet, and the message they are sending is unmistakable: Canada is losing its way.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Decline & Fall