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Poilievre backs banning trans women from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms "Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont. The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters. "A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said. "But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-ban-trans-women-sports-bathrooms-1.7120972#:~:text=Facebook-,Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans,Poilievre said in Kitchener%2C Ont. Conservative government would compel porn websites to verify age of users: Poilievre A future Conservative government would change the law to require that porn websites verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the content, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre signalled on Wednesday. When asked whether his government would require that porn websites verify the age of users, Poilievre gave a one-word answer: "Yes." He didn't offer further explanation and his office quickly followed up with a statement asserting that the Tories don't believe in the imposition of a digital ID. The company that owns ****hub recently told The Canadian Press that blocking access to Canadians is among the options it would consider if the Senate bill passes. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-age-verification-*****graphy-1.7121219#:~:text=Politics-,Conservative government would compel porn websites to verify age of,Pierre Poilievre signalled on Wednesday. Welp. The next Canadian election is going to be ugly.

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The Nikkei bottomed out at around 7000 (or more than 80% from its previous record high) first in early 2003 and again in late 2008/early 2009: https://www.ft.com/content/8b982ad2-8923-4f48-adc6-946c10964657 To put into perspective, the last time the Nikkei hit a record high in December 1989, Taylor Swift was born and "Another Day in Paradise" was #1 on the Hot 100. Also, the over 34 years between record highs is more than 9 years longer than the US stock market took to set a new record high following the Great Depression. [All eyes are now on Italy's FTSE MIB, which last set a record of over 50,000 in early 2000. It is currently trading at around 32,000, which is still over 35% below its record high from 24 years ago.]

Is he just having another senior moment or is he just admitting the truth for once 🤷

To no one's surprise, the stories about Hunter Biden's laptop and Biden's "corruption" in Ukraine, which have been pushed for years by the GOP and the far-left, are a russian intelligence ploy.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/14/russia-is-preparing-to-launch-nuclear-weapon-into-space/ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-plans-brief-lawmakers-house-chairman-warns/story?id=107232293

(Translation of excerpts taken from this article): "Almost 6 out of 10 Argentinians are poor [...]. The number skyrocketed after President Javier Milei began his presidency: the rate went from 49.5% in December, to 57.4% in January, with over 3.5 million new poor people (data provided by UCA). These represent the worst numbers since the "corralito" crisis in 2002, far above those from the first semester of 2023 when the poverty rate was 40.1%. In total, there are about 27 million poor people in a country with a population of 46 million inhabitants." "The reason for the current deterioration is simple: Income is growing at a much slower rate than that of inflation, and the breach expands exponentially. In 2023, prices went up by 211.4% and salaries went up by 152.7%. In January, the monthly inflation was 20.6%, and the year-on-year inflation was 254.2%, the highest in the world." "The situation is especially difficult when it comes to the groceries. Food prices went up by 300% over the last 12 months [...]." The article goes on to describe the current situation that millions of people face and the rise in destitution rates (up to 15% now). Milei himself has already said that it'll continue to get worse (!) but denies having any responsibility, blaming past governments for the current situation.

EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500mn penalty over music streaming Financial Times / Javier Espinoza / February 18, 2024

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and DALL·E/Bing Image Models, announced their first text-to-video model named Sora! Examples below: