>good morning Ralph. this damn clock is best thing about yesterday. no zombies reported in canuckistan yet.
kek. That's good news!
>voting is rigged. What if no one really voted for it.
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Canada spies found China interfered in last two elections, probe hears
By David Ljunggren
April 8, 20245:09 PM EDTUpdated 15 hours ago
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OTTAWA, April 8 (Reuters) - Canada's domestic spy agency concluded that China interfered in the last two elections, an official probe heard on Monday, the firmest evidence so far of suspected Chinese meddling in Canadian politics.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party won both the elections, held in 2019 and 2021. Under pressure from opposition legislators unhappy about media reports on China's possible role, Trudeau set up a commission into foreign interference.
The commission was shown a slide on Monday containing an extract of a February 2023 briefing from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
"We know that the PRC (Peoples' Republic of China) clandestinely and deceptively interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 elections," it said.
"In both cases, these FI (foreign interference) activities were pragmatic in nature and focused primarily on supporting those viewed to be either 'pro-PRC' or 'neutral' on issues of interest to the PRC government."
The existence of the assessment had previously been reported by Global News. China denies it interferes in Canadian politics.
Erin O'Toole, who led the Conservatives during the 2021 campaign, estimated Chinese interference cost his party up to nine seats but added it had not changed the course of the election.
"State actors are able to conduct foreign interference successfully in Canada because there are few legal or political consequences. FI is therefore low-risk and high-reward," said the CSIS assessment.
Intelligence analysts and the Conservatives say Trudeau's government has not done enough to combat Chinese interference. Trudeau is due to testify to the commission on Wednesday.
The Conservatives, who generally take a harder line on China than the Liberals, campaigned in 2021 on a platform that condemned Beijing's treatment of its Uyghur minority and vowed to ban Chinese mobile giant Huawei from the 5G network.
A legislator for the left-leaning minority New Democrats told the inquiry that once she started criticizing Beijing's Hong Kong policy, invitations to events held by the politically influential ethnic Chinese community started to dry up.
According to the official 2021 census, Canada is home to around 1.7 million people of Chinese descent, just under 5% of the total population.
The Chinese embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the CSIS statement.
Last year, Canada said a Conservative legislator with family in Hong Kong had been targeted in an online disinformation operation, and kicked out a senior Chinese diplomat.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-spies-found-china-interfered-last-two-elections-probe-hears-2024-04-08/
>and whether they have supported Q'Anon
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They broke in during the fire.
Distraction.
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Why Was Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen's Office Raided by the FBI?
Published Apr 09, 2018 at 5:00 PM EDT
Updated Apr 09, 2018 at 6:01 PM EDT
Federal authorities have raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer who paid hush money to adult actress Stormy Daniels.
The raid took place in Manhattan on Monday, The New York Times first reported. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, made a referral for the search warrant, according to the report.
"Today the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen and his clients," Stephen Ryan, Cohen's lawyer, said in a statement. "I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller."
In the statement, Ryan called the search "completely inappropriate and unnecessary" and said authorities had seized "protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients." He added that Cohen had previously cooperated with government investigations, including in Congress.
Besides raiding Cohen's office, the FBI also went to a hotel room at the Regency in New York City where Cohen had been staying, according to Vanity Fair.
McClatchy reported last week that Mueller was looking into Cohen and the Trump Organization. Cohen was involved in overseas business deals, the report said.
Cohen has also been of interest to congressional committees investigating Russian meddling. He appeared last year before the House and Senate intelligence committees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has requested communications related to him. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic ranking member on the latter committee, requested he appear before the panel.
But in recent weeks, Cohen has also been involved in allegations around Trump and Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. The lawyer admitted to paying $130,000 to the adult actress, who has claimed she had an affair with Trump. On Sunday, a lawyer for the actress filed a motion in federal court in California seeking depositions of Trump and Cohen. On April 5, Trump told reporters that he did not know about Cohen's $130,000 payment.
The FBI is interested in Cohen's payments to Stormy Daniels, among other topics, and Monday's raid resulted in seizures of emails, tax documents, business records and communications with Trump, according to the Times.
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is Geoffrey Berman, a Trump appointee. Prior to his entering the role, legal analysts had speculated about whether the top prosecutor there would end up having to investigate Trump, given that the Trump Organization has its headquarters in Manhattan.
>They broke in during the fire.
>Distraction.
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>Why Was Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen's Office Raided by the FBI?
Apr 9, 2018
FBI raids office, hotel room of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
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Michael Cohen, center, following a meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty
The FBI raided the office and hotel room of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday and took records and payments relating to Stormy Daniels' case as well as communications between Trump and Cohen, per the New York Times.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan reportedly received the search warrant after obtaining a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The search appears to not be directly linked to Mueller, but it's likely he shared relevant information he had uncovered in his own probe with prosecutors, according to the Times.
“Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients. I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”
— Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said Monday
Ryan went on to add that the raid was “inappropriate and unnecessary,” and said Cohen has “cooperated completely with all government entities, including providing thousands of non-privileged documents to Congress and sitting for depositions under oath." He also said the communications between Cohen and Trump are protected under attorney client privilege.
The backdrop: Cohen was drawn into Mueller's Russia investigation last year for his contacts with Russians during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.He's also been at the center of the Stormy Daniels scandal, and admitted to paying the porn actress $130,000 during the campaign.
Trump's take: The president blasted the raid at a meeting with senior military leadership Monday night, calling it a "disgraceful situation" and an "attack on our country in a true sense … an attack on what we all stand for."
Update: The Washington Post reports that Cohen "is under federal federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations," citing three people with knowledge of the case.
https://www.axios.com/2018/04/09/fbi-raids-michael-cohens-office
>6 year delta
Fire at Trump Tower leaves man dead and 6 firefighters injured
By Amir Vera and Gabriela Milian, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 12:30 PM EDT, Mon April 9, 2018
New York CNN —
A fire broke out at Trump Tower on Saturday, leaving one man dead and six firefighters injured, the New York City Fire Department said.
Police identified the man killed as Todd Brassner,67, a resident of the building’s 50th floor. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition but later died, said spokeswoman Angelica Conroy of the Fire Department.
Brassner was unconscious and unresponsive when firefighters pulled him out, the New York Police Department said. The medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death.
The fire was contained to the 50th floor of the tower, located on Fifth Avenue in New York. It was ruled under control around 9 p.m., two hours after it was originally reported, the FDNY tweeted.
Six firefighters suffered injuries that are not life threatening, Conroy said.
No members of the Trump family were at the tower during the fire, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.
Before news of the death, President Donald Trump congratulated firefighters and tweeted that the fire was out and “very confined” in the “well built building.”
The upper-level residential floors are not equipped with fire sprinklers, according to Nigro. When asked to comment on the President’s tweet, Nigro said the building “sure stood up quite well.”
His son, Eric Trump, also congratulated the firefighters before news of the death, saying “the @FDNY and @NYPD are truly some of the most incredible people anywhere!”
Brassner’s apartment was valued at $2.5 million, according to bankruptcy documents from 2015. Brassner had an extensive collection of prized works of art, including a portrait of himself by Andy Warhol, as well as hundreds of guitars and ukeleles, according to the bankruptcy documents.
The fire at Trump Tower comes three months after a minor fire broke out in a cooling tower on the roof of the building, according to CNN affiliate WCBS-TV. Two people were injured in the fire, which officials said may have been caused by electrical heaters inside the cooling tower.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/07/us/trump-tower-fire/index.html
> Fire at Trump Tower leaves man dead and 6 firefighters injured
Four-alarm Trump Tower fire caused by overloaded power strips, says FDNY
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FDNY fire marshals have determined that the fatal April 7 fire was an accident
By Ameena Walker Apr 17, 2018, 9:15am EDT 5
The four-alarm fire that broke out on April 7 on the 50th floor of Midtown’s Trump Tower, killing one resident and injuring six firefighters, was caused by overloaded power strips, reports the New York Daily News.
The city’s Fire Department confirmed on Twitter that the cause of the fire was an accident, citing “electrical- sequenced power strips powering multiple components” as the cause. It was also noted that a smoke alarm was not present in the apartment where the fire broke out.
Todd Brassner, a 67-year-old art collector and dealer, lived on the 50th floor of Trump Tower and was killed in the Saturday evening blaze.
In the wake of the fire, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet acknowledging the accident and its containment, which he chalked up to Trump Tower being a “well built building”; he also thanked the “firemen (and women)” that worked to put out the blaze.
Trump’s reaction drew criticism from those who recalled a time when Trump lobbied against a law in the 1990s that would have required older residential buildings in New York City to be retrofitted with sprinkler systems.
Fatal Trump Tower fire caused by electrical overload, FDNY says [New York Daily News]