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>>23042679 Canada #77
The Clocks are awesome
What is it about them that bothers your masters the most?
I realize you aren't smart enough to understand the Clocks but maybe you have hint what is so distrubing
BTW: Your shit is old
Canada #76
“We Don’t Need Lessons in Democracy”: New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz SLAMS JD Vance – As German Government ARRESTS 6 Right-Wing Activists and Prevents their Travel
by Collin McMahon May. 16, 2025 7:30 am
The new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has again slammed the Trump administration for “interference” in German democracy on the same day 6 right-wing German activists were arrested for wrong-think and prevented from traveling to a conference in Milano, Italy.
Speaking to leftist newspaper “Die Zeit“, Merz criticized Vice-President JD Vance’s courageous pro-freedom speech at the Munich Security Conference and recent posts from Vance and SecState Marco Rubio accusing Germany of “tyranny in disguise” for using the secret political police against the largest opposition party, the AfD.
"Of course, we are not heading toward "tyranny," as we hear from the USA", Merz said. "Such statements must be firmly rejected. Germany was liberated from tyranny by the USA, and today Germany is stable, liberal, and democratic. We don’t need any lessons in democracy (from the USA). That’s why JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was perceived by many, including myself, as interference."
On May 9, the parting Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) had used a trumped-up "dossier" containing no evidence of illegal activity to slander the largest opposition party in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "confirmed far-right", leading the push to ban the party, fire its members from government jobs and deny it basic parliamentary rights.
10 million Germans voted for the AfD in February. Under pressure from an AfD lawsuit and US Senate Intelligence Committee chair Sen. Tom Cotton, the German secret police had to retract the label and remove the press release from its website.
On the same day Merz claimed not to need "any lessons in democracy" from the Trump administration, 6 right-wing activists belonging to the Generation Identity movement were apprehended by German police at Munich airport and taken into custody to prevent them from traveling to a "Remigration Summit" in Milano, Italy taking place on Saturday. Two of the activists were even taken off a plane they had already boarded, indicating the orders came urgently at the request of the "Conservative" Christian Democrat government in the State of Bavaria.
Austrian GI co-chair Martin Sellner explained what happened:
The German police explained that the attendence of the patriotic activists at the "Remigration Summit" would potentially "damage the reputation of the Germany state" and banned them from leaving the country – just like during the Iron Curtain.
The GI activists have since been released, under the stipulation they do not travel to Austria, Switzerland or Italy until Sunday. They have assured the Gateway Pundit they are alright.
Generation Identity is a patriotic right-wing youth movement founded in France 2012 to oppose mass migration and the loss of European cultural identity. It has been ruthlessly pursued by European authorities, the French leaders imprisoned and the Greek Lamba symbol even banned as "terrorist" in Austria (which is used in the movie "300" and the video game "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey", for example). GI leader Martin Sellner has been banned from holding book readings in Switzerland and Germany.
The German authorities didn't seem aware that arresting and restraining young people from traveling based on their politics could also "damage the reputation of the German state" – no matter what you think of "Generation Identity" and the "Remigration Summit".
It sounds like you do "need some lessons in democracy", Mr. Merz.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/we-dont-need-lessons-democracy-new-german-chancellor/
Any Planefags around?
Canada #77
Denver International Suffers Air Traffic Control Outage as Airport Tech Woes Continue
By Simon Kent 16 May 2025
Denver International Airport lost communication with pilots accessing its air traffic control system for almost 90 seconds on Monday. Equipment failures were blamed for a fault that could have led to catastrophic outcomes.
The incident came just days after Newark Liberty International Airport reported delays due to ongoing tech issues like radar screens blanking out in front of harried air traffic controllers, as Breitbart News reported.
The Denver Post reports its own local air traffic tech failure came as a consequence of the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center losing communication with pilots for just under two minutes at 1:50 p.m. on Monday when transmitters that cover a segment of airspace went down.
The center, in Longmont, is one of 22 across the United States and covers 285,000 miles of airspace over nine states, including portions of Wyoming, Kansas, Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota and Arizona, the outlet detailed.
The outage impacted a primary and main backup frequency but not radar operations, FAA’s head of air traffic control Frank McIntosh said during a U.S. House of Representatives hearing Thursday, as confirmed by AP.
The Denver Post report added context to its story by listing other recent similar events, stating:
The outage occurred as the FAA is under increased scrutiny following recent plane crashes and other mishaps, including a deadly midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter in January that killed 67 people in Washington, D.C.
In recent weeks, a Philadelphia facility that directs planes in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey reported two radar and communication failures.
FAA officials have said the problems are caused in part by staff shortages and aging equipment.
Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration announced a multibillion-dollar plan to overhaul the country’s air traffic control system.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/05/16/denver-international-suffers-air-traffic-control-outage-as-airport-tech-woes-continue/
Canada #76
Joe Rogan’s guest just exposed one of the most sinister psychological experiments ever unleashed by Big Tech—and there’s a good chance that you were part of it.
May 15, 2025
This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it actually happened.
And it should terrify everyone.
What Facebook conducted nearly 13 years ago makes government censorship look tame by comparison.
Joe Rogan’s conversation with Harvard professor and mind control expert Rebecca Lemov quickly zeroed in on one of his favorite topics: government interference in digital life.
Rogan opened the door with a warning that’s become all too familiar.
“Well, there’s so many different kinds of mind control.”
He continued:
“You know, one of the things we’ve talked about a lot on this podcast is, that an enormous percentage of what you’re seeing on social media in terms of interactions and debate is not real. It’s not organic.”
“It’s state run and state funded, and it’s whether it’s foreign governments or our government or even corporations, you’re getting inorganic discourse that’s designed to form a narrative and which is a form of mind control.”
Lemov jumped in and took it one step further—explaining that even when we know it’s fake, our minds still react like it’s real.
“Yeah. I mean, I think even on a basic level, people, it’s known and studies have shown that we respond as if it were organic and real.”
“Even when somebody likes a post of yours, the response is the same as, like, in-person interaction.”
It’s not just governments pulling strings.
The platforms themselves are wired to exploit how we feel.
“I think at the root, there is a kind of way that, on an emotional level, it’s not just manipulation of ideas, but there’s a kind of emotional engineering that’s built into the platforms and doesn’t even demand, you know, at first, government involvement.”
Lemov peeled back the curtain on DARPA—the government’s controversial defense research agency—and its role in shaping the digital world we now live in.
DARPA, she revealed, wasn’t just involved in building the internet. It may have laid the groundwork for emotional manipulation on a global scale.
“DARPA was involved in the development of the internet and of things like pattern recognition,” she said.
“The government has funded many, many studies.”
What worries Lemov isn’t just the tech itself—but how it’s being used.
“What I got interested in, in social media and how I connect it with the episodes of brainwashing—it creates states of emotional contagion that aren’t really about convincing people of a different way to think,” she explained.
She continued: “But more about how you feel about what you think.”
That emotional shift, she added, is straight out of the cult playbook.
“It’s not that it changed my thoughts,” she said.
“It’s how I felt about those thoughts.”
That’s when Lemov exposed one of the darkest secrets in Big Tech history—a sinister Facebook experiment that quietly tampered with the emotions of 700,000 users.
And they never even knew it.
“There’s a famous Facebook experiment I read about that took place in 2012 and was published in 2014, where they announce that they’ve achieved, mass emotional contagion at scale,” Lemov told Rogan.
She explained how Facebook altered users’ feeds without their consent.
“Whenever you go on the platform, you agree to be tested or AB testing. So this experiment exposed a group to a more—their newsfeed was altered in a negative direction emotionally, as measured by word counting software.”
And the results were disturbing.
“And they discovered that that group that had a negative exposure also responded in a more negative way, as judged through their posts and likes and responses.”
“The group that was exposed to a more positive newsfeed by altering the algorithm then had also a measurably statistically significant effect of more positive emotional response—and the control group was unaltered by this.”
In short, Facebook wasn’t just observing emotion—they were engineering it.
And nobody got a heads-up.
The full scope of the experiment only became public two years later, when researchers finally admitted what they had done.
Facebook’s data scientists had manipulated the feeds of 689,003 people—removing either all the positive posts or all the negative ones to measure the emotional fallout.
If your feed in January 2012 felt unusually bleak or suspiciously upbeat, you may have unknowingly been part of the study.
The team behind it, led by data scientist Adam Kramer, published their findings in a scientific journal and laid out the results in cold detail:
“When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred,” the paper said.
It was hard proof that emotions are contagious—and social media could be weaponized to control mood at scale.
The study ran for just one week, but for those caught in the algorithmic crossfire, the emotional effects may have lasted much longer.
But here’s where it gets truly disturbing.
Lemov revealed that when the experiment finally came to light, the backlash was swift—and in some cases, tragic.
“But, so this is why there was an ethical debate when the experiment was published in 2014,” she said.
One user, Lemov recalled, had a chilling reaction.
“And on the Facebook page of the research group that that did the experiment, at least one user wrote in saying, could I ever find out if I was in that experiment.”
“Because I was in the emergency room at that time with, you know, threatening to commit suicide, and I want to know if my feed was altered and maybe that pushed me over, you know, into that that state.”
There was no way to know.
“Of course, they could never know and it can’t be traced backwards. And other people had a similar response.”
The scandal sparked an investigation by the British government, which considered sanctions over the international scope of the experiment.
More:
https://breaking-news.ca/joe-rogans-guest-just-exposed-one-of-the-most-sinister-psychological-experiments-ever-unleashed-by-big-tech-and-theres-a-good-chance-that-you-were-part-of-it/
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Canada #77
Hostile takeover erupts as Strathcona targets MEG Energy to create oil sands heavyweight
by Shaun Polczer Published on: 16 May 2025
In a rare and dramatic shakeup of Calgary’s oil patch, Strathcona Resources Ltd. has launched an unsolicited takeover bid — aka a hostile takeover — for MEG Energy Corp., setting the stage for one of the largest and most closely watched battles for corporate control in recent memory.
The proposed acquisition, valued at approximately $6 billion, would unite two of the country’s largest heavy oil producers into what would become Canada’s fifth-largest oil company by output. The offer comes after MEG rebuffed a friendly merger proposal from Strathcona in April.
Strathcona, controlled by prominent Calgary financier Adam Waterous, announced Thursday it intends to formally table a cash-and-stock bid of $23.27 per MEG share, representing a 9.3% premium over MEG’s May 15 closing price.
The news immediately jolted markets. MEG shares surged more than 22% in early trading Friday, rising well above the implied bid value — a signal that investors are anticipating a potential bidding war or a higher revised offer.
Strathcona shares, meanwhile, edged slightly lower.
MEG’s board responded on Friday, urging shareholders to take no action, stating that it had not yet received a formal bid. The company has retained BMO Capital Markets and Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP as financial and legal advisors.
The two companies are roughly equal in value when adjusted for currency differences, with MEG trading at a $5.4 billion market cap and Strathcona valued at $6.6 billion. Strathcona already owns 9.2% of MEG following quiet share purchases over recent months.
The takeover is being viewed as a rare hostile move in Calgary’s traditionally tight-knit oil community, where mergers are often negotiated behind closed doors.
The deal would not only reshape Canada’s oil sector but also significantly advance Strathcona’s ambition to become a dominant player in heavy oil following its $2.84 billion divestiture of Montney gas assets this week.
The company also recently acquired the Hardisty crude-by-rail terminal in Alberta for $45 million, giving it strategic control over export logistics.
Adam Waterous, whose Waterous Energy Fund is the architect behind Strathcona’s meteoric rise, is a well-known figure in Canadian finance with ties to the federal Conservative movement.
His fund has signalled confidence in the bid, committing to subscribe for an additional 21.4 million Strathcona shares via a new investment round.
A successful merger would create a heavy oil giant with production exceeding 300,000 barrels per day, making it the fourth-largest steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) producer in Canada.
Strathcona claims the combined company could unlock $175 million in annual synergies, including $50 million in overhead cost reductions.
Importantly, MEG is also a member of the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canadian oil producers proposing one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world.
Any change in ownership could influence both MEG’s role in the alliance and the broader trajectory of Alberta’s emissions reduction strategy.
In a statement, Strathcona said it would support a "strategic alternatives" process by MEG’s board to explore “superior” offers — provided it is not subject to a standstill agreement.
The company is also prepared to sign a mutual confidentiality agreement to exchange non-public information and facilitate what it calls “constructive” negotiations.
If successful, the takeover would mark a bold consolidation of Alberta’s oil sands sector, just as industry leaders brace for growing geopolitical tensions, regulatory uncertainty, and energy transition pressures.
Whether MEG will accept the deal — or find a white knight — remains the central question in what has become Calgary’s most compelling corporate drama of 2025.
https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/hostile-takeover-erupts-as-strathcona-targets-meg-energy-to-create-oil-sands-heavyweight/64846
Wasn't there one like two years ago?
What was that about a abuses and usurpations?
Sweet, give the Libyans a common enemy so they can stop fighting each other
I'd rather ask Rev Bem about the Divine