Cyber Attacks, War & Terrorism
The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.
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Read MoreLiberal leadership candidate Mark Carney yesterday promised to hike the defence budget at least 44 percent in four years without cutting any social spending or raising taxes. Carney’s campaign did not explain where it would find the extra billions.
“We have our own priorities,” Carney told reporters. “We will move forward.”
The Department of National Defence last year spent $33.4 billion according to Public Accounts. Meeting a NATO target of spending two percent of GDP on military preparedness would cost $48 billion at current figures. a 44 percent increase.
Carney did not account for the difference. He also proposed a “middle class tax cut,” elimination of cabinet’s deferred $17.4 billion capital gains tax hike and full funding for Liberal social programs
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Read MoreThe United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides funds to 90 percent of Ukrainian news outlets, according to a new report from the Columbia Journalism Review and Reporters Without Borders.
While much focus has been on USAID and other federal entities subscribing to news outlets such as Politico, a broader issue may be taxpayers paying for news coverage in foreign countries.
Working off data from Reporters Without Borders, the Columbia Journalism Review reported that “USAID had boasted of supporting more than six thousand journalists, around seven hundred independent newsrooms, and nearly three hundred media-focused civil society groups in thirty or so countries.”
The Trump administration reportedly froze $268 million for these endeavors.
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Read MoreConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks in Vancouver after announcing he would impose life sentences for those convicted of trafficking over 40mg of fentanyl.
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Read MoreDemocrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a teenager, hosted a seminar for Somalis residing in the U.S. illegally.The event advised illegal Somali migrants on how to withhold information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
She told attendees, “If ICE attempts to question you, you’re not obliged to answer their questions. Disclosure of
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Read MoreFentanyl “super labs” are popping up across British Columbia as organized crime groups seek to take advantage of the opioid crisis, warns the RCMP.
Historically Canada has been overlooked when it comes to the production and trafficking of fentanyl but with U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for the Canadian government to clamp down on the deadly drug, the issue is receiving more attention.
Although China and Mexico remain the primary sources of fenta
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Read MoreUkraine would need a million-man army, including contingents of soldiers from allied nations, a nuclear deterrent, and batteries of advanced missiles to deter future Russian aggression if it isn’t allowed to join NATO, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Ukraine gave up its Cold War-legacy nuclear arsenal in the 1990s “for nothing” and would seek to acquire nuclear bombs again if it wasn’t able to quickly join NATO in the aftermath of the present war or a ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
The Ukrainian president told British broadcaster Piers Morgan in an interview published on Tuesday night that, from his perspective, le
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Read MoreGoogle has recently updated its ethical guidelines for AI, removing previous commitments not to apply artificial intelligence technology to weapons or surveillance.
The Washington Post reports that in a significant shift from its earlier stance, Google has revised its AI principles, eliminating a section that outlined four “Applications we will not pursue.” Until recently, this list included weapons, surveillance, technologies likely to cause overall harm, and use cases that violate international law and human rights principles. The company declined to comment specifically on the changes t
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Read MoreThe radical left and members of the establishment media grew extremely angry after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would take over Gaza.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said Tuesday night. “We’ll love it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous bombs and other weapons on the site … and get rid of the destroyed buildings [and] create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing.”
The announcement came as a surprise alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, evidently also catching some people off guard and causing them to become enraged.
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Read MorePolice force data has shown that nearly half of all murders in the United Kingdom were committed with a knife or other sharp weapon over the past three years.
While the UK has instituted strict gun control laws, the streets of Britain are still plagued by violence, particularly from knife crime.
According to figures from 38 police forces throughout the UK obtained by the Metro newspaper under Freedom of Information Requests (FOI), 49 per cent of all murders were committed with a knife or other
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