Is Sunny Hostin Lying About Being Holdout Juror? The Truth May Surprise You

Is Sunny Hostin Lying About Being Holdout Juror? The Truth May Surprise You

ABC’s Sunny Hostin made headlines and set the internet ablaze earlier this week when she made the claim that she was the holdout juror in the murder trial against Daniel Rakowitz, aka The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park, and convinced her fellow jurors to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. The View co-host was quickly accused of lying as some conflicting contemporary reports from New York City newspapers pointed to a male juror as the holdout. NewsBusters has investigated and has found the truth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

More than two in three Canadians back EU associate membership: poll

More than two in three Canadians back EU associate membership: poll

OTTAWA — Canadians overwhelmingly support Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union, a new poll suggests — even though the details of that arrangement haven’t been finalized.

The online poll by Leger, conducted between Sept. 19 and Sept. 21, suggests 70 per cent of Canadians support the idea, 18 per cent are unsure and 13 per cent oppose it.

But the poll suggests Canadians draw the line at changing some laws in order to align with Europe.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

NYC’s Electric Bus Love Affair Is Out for Gas

NYC’s Electric Bus Love Affair Is Out for Gas

It’s sad when some dreams crumble. I mean, it tugs at your heartstrings, seeing little crumpled faces from crushed hopes.

I don’t have that problem when Green grifting fever dreams crash and burn, though I do get a little sick to my stomach thinking of all the wasted time, money, and heartburn they caused people when failure was inevitable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

The French book scene is in uproar after a Canadian-Haitian author billed as a sensation was accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to write his first novel.

Thélyson Orélien, 38, has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac – the first of the literary season’s prizes – for C’était ça ou mourir (It was either that or die).

He is also a finalist for the most prestigious annual French language awards, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, set to be issued soon.

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

Three more people emerge from New York manhole, as UN general assembly ongoing

Three more people emerge from New York manhole, as UN general assembly ongoing

Three unidentified people were seen emerging from a manhole in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood early Wednesday before fleeing the area, police said, in an incident that comes as many world leaders have gathered in the city for the United Nations general assembly.

The incident is the latest in a series of similar cases involving people entering or emerging from New York City’s sewer network in recent months that have gone viral online.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Muslim woman punched in the face while exiting TTC bus may have been targeted because of her faith or it could just be an act of random violence on the TTC’s Mobile Asylum Service

Muslim woman punched in the face while exiting TTC bus may have been targeted because of her faith or it could just be an act of random violence on the TTC’s Mobile Asylum Service

The North American Muslim Foundation (NAMF) says a woman who was punched in the face while exiting a TTC bus in Scarborough, Ont., on Wednesday may have been targeted due to her faith.

At a news conference Thursday, a spokesperson for the group said the victim was getting off a bus near Finch Avenue East and Midland Avenue at approximately 8:15 a.m. when she was struck by an unknown male who was entering the vehicle.

“(The victim), who is visibly Muslim and wears the hijab, was taken to hospital, where she was informed that she had had a concussion,” Emad Ali told reporters.

Not a shred of evidence this was a hate crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Veteran’s alleged role in Belleville synagogue attack could tarnish military, former top soldier fears

Veteran’s alleged role in Belleville synagogue attack could tarnish military, former top soldier fears

Canada’s former top soldier said he is appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., saying the alleged involvement of a veteran could risk tarring the reputation of the military.

Retired general Wayne Eyre led the military when suspect Sean Ward was released in 2022 from the Canadian Armed Forces after serving five years.

“I was horrified to hear of the events,” he said in an interview. “I was disappointed to learn of the perpetrator’s military affiliation.”

I think the CAF’s “reputation” is long past the point of salvage and most of that damage was self-inflicted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada’s Chinese EV imports pose ‘weaponized’ security and industrial threat: Taiwanese think tank

Canada’s Chinese EV imports pose ‘weaponized’ security and industrial threat: Taiwanese think tank

TAIPEI, TAIWAN—The Canadian federal government and Canadian consumers should be wary of continuing to import Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in its trade deal with China, says the head of a Taiwanese think tank focusing on Taiwanese government policy and relations with China.

“You do not want your land vehicles to be controlled by [China] and weaponized by them,” I-Chung Lai—The Prospect Foundation president and the former director general of both international affairs and China affairs—told The Hub during a foreign press tour event at the think tank’s headquarters in Taipei. “That threat needs to be taken very seriously.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

OpenAI agent ‘infiltrated’ Australian government website, PM says

OpenAI agent ‘infiltrated’ Australian government website, PM says

An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.

The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.

He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for taking “too long” to tell them about the breach, believed to be one of the world’s first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website.

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

Assemby chief renews call to criminalize residential school denialism

Assemby chief renews call to criminalize residential school denialism

OTTAWA — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak renewed her call Tuesday for Canada to criminalize residential school denialism as a form of hate speech.

Woodhouse Nepinak identified the proposal as an AFN priority for Parliament’s fall sitting, three months after the Senate rejected an attempt to add a residential school denialism offence to the federal government’s hate-crime legislation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Germany sets out plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2045

Germany sets out plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2045

Germany has presented a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels by 2045.

Germany’s Environment Minister Carsten Schneider told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the plan “combines independence, affordability, and climate protection.”

Europe’s largest economy is now the third country to have provided a solid plan for the phaseout — to which nearly 200 countries committed at the 2023 COP28 climate conference in Dubai — following France and the Netherlands

Germany phased out nuclear power and is currently edging toward economic collapse due to energy shortages so it makes sense to formalize national suicide.

No wonder the AfD is gaining on all fronts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Germany

Man invokes Chinese territory and law while threatening lethal force against Falun Gong protester outside Toronto consulate

Man invokes Chinese territory and law while threatening lethal force against Falun Gong protester outside Toronto consulate

OTTAWA — Toronto police are investigating a September 22 confrontation outside China’s Toronto consulate in which a man wearing a black jacket with a red People’s Republic of China insignia damaged Falun Gong protest displays and threatened a female practitioner with lethal violence, invoking Chinese law, accusing protesters of making trouble and threatening to have her shot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Judge orders Trump White House to restore access to CNN, MS Now and Politico

Judge orders Trump White House to restore access to CNN, MS Now and Politico

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore ⁠White House ⁠access ​to journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico, ⁠saying his ban on the three media outlets was ⁠likely unconstitutional.

US district judge Tim Kelly issued his order in a lawsuit that the news organizations filed ‌contesting the ban that the president announced ​on 18 September.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA