Europe faces Robocop-style dystopia by 2035, EU police claim

From rioting ‘displaced workers’ to hacked social-care machines, Europol sketches risks that come with automation

Angry mobs of unemployed citizens riot in the streets against the hordes of service robots that have stolen their jobs. Police officers armed with “robo freezer guns” and “nano net grenades” shoot down swarms of drones deployed by terrorists to attack electricity and water supplies.

This is not the plot of a new Robocop sci-fi film but what may await Europe in the next 10 years, according to a report from the EU’s police agency.

The 48-page Europol document details how law enforcement will need to tackle robots and unmanned systems (drones, satellites and remote-controlled boats) in a dystopian vision of the future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

House Leader says ‘there are others’ after second Conservative MP crosses floor

Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon says there are other Conservative MPs who are frustrated with Pierre Poilievre’s leadership, beyond the two who have already crossed the floor to the Liberals.

Mr. MacKinnon, who also serves as the Minister of Transport, made the comments Friday morning after the surprise announcement the night before that Ontario MP Michael Ma was leaving the Conservatives to join the Liberals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

‘Can I just not feed at all?’: Texts indicate couple in Ontario murder trial withheld food from boys

Despite Brandy Cooney’s claim she and her wife never punished two boys in their care by withholding food, text messages between the two women tell a different story, the Crown argued Wednesday during the couple’s Milton, Ont., murder trial.

For a third day, Cooney answered questions about how she and Becky Hamber treated the brothers they were trying to adopt leading up to the older boy’s death on Dec. 21, 2022.

The 12-year-old was found emaciated and unresponsive on the floor of his basement bedroom that night and later died in hospital. He weighed the same as when he was six years old and had stopped growing, the court has heard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Trump expands Venezuela sanctions as Maduro decries new ‘era of piracy’

Donald Trump has exerted more pressure on Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, expanding sanctions and issuing fresh threats to strike land targets in Venezuela, as the South American dictator accused the US president of ushering in a new “era of criminal naval piracy” in the Caribbean.

Late on Thursday, the US imposed curbs on three nephews of Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, as well as six crude oil supertankers and the shipping companies linked to them. The treasury department alleged the vessels “engaged in deceptive and unsafe shipping practices and continue to provide financial resources that fuel Maduro’s corrupt narco-terrorist regime”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Carney’s popularity takes a hit and Liberals and Conservatives in dead heat, poll suggests

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney’s personal popularity took its first major hit in Abacus Data’s most recent polling, while the overall numbers still show a neck-and-neck race between the Liberals and Conservatives.

The polling done exclusively for the Toronto Star shows the Liberals and the Conservatives tied at 41 per cent, with the NDP a distant third place with nine per cent of decided voters and the Greens at two per cent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Common sense hasn’t won on climate file yet

Ten years ago, then-governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney gave a speech at Lloyd’s of London titled “Breaking the tragedy of the horizon.” It outlined his plan for the global financial system to internalize the “catastrophic impacts of climate change.” It was the first time Carney had publicly identified climate change as a threat to the stability of global financial markets — one that governments and regulators had to combat. Carney called on banks, insurance companies, public pension plans and other institutional investors to align their financing with their climate commitments by restricting oil and gas companies’ access to capital and investing instead in companies that would help the transition to the “net-zero world of the future.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Audit finds half of New York’s commercial trucking licenses went to illegal alien drivers

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Friday to yank $73 million in federal highway funding meant for New York after an audit found more than half of the Empire State’s commercial trucking licenses were issued to foreign-born drivers in the US illegally.

Duffy issued the warning after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration reviewed all non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) issued by the New York Department of Motor Vehicles and found a 53% failure rate.

Anyone injured in a truck crash will or should be suing if the driver is proven to be an illegal alien.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

The secret pro-Palestine message in Disney’s Christmas advert

The streaming platform Disney+ has been accused of politicising its Christmas publicity campaign by including a pro-Palestine symbol in its adverts.

A sticker featuring a watermelon – which has for decades been used as a proxy for the Palestinian flag – is shown prominently on a laptop being used by a teenage girl in the advert.

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

Canadian military intelligence member charged with espionage, says DND

A non-commissioned member of the Canadian military intelligence branch has been charged with passing classified information to a “foreign entity,” the Department of National Defence revealed late Thursday.

Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar was arrested Wednesday by military police and faces eight charges under the National Defence Act.

He’s accused of — among other things — communicating “special operational information” and breach of trust, according to a statement issued by the Defence Department.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

How Trump’s Maga allies are cultivating a European ‘resistance’

Drinks parties with the Russians and scathing criticism of centrist governments could morph into Cold War-esque interference across the Continent

On the remote shoulders of a mountain 50 miles east of Rome, the Trisulti charterhouse stands as a monument to the difficulty of establishing a European version of the Make America Great Again movement.

It was in this 700-year-old Carthusian monastery on Monte Rotonaria that Steve Bannon, the America First ideologue and former chief strategist to President Trump, attempted to set up a “gladiator school” for national-conservative culture warriors from across Europe.

The Academy for the Judeo-Christian West, as it was known, soon got bogged down in legal action and an eviction attempt by the Italian culture ministry.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA