The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?
This is the wildest World Cup story yet. If someone in Toronto sells a ticket above face value they get fined $25,000 yet the city of Toronto bought 3,500 World Cup tickets early and then sold them to taxpayers at a markup as a “revenue generation strategy.” What the hell man.
Mr. Beast proved that they don't want institutions or a foundational system on which to build civilization. He dug simple wells in water starved areas. The locals then proceeded to blame him personally because he wasn't coming back to maintain them.
There’s still a lot of CDN’s who just don’t believe that the gov could be this stupid but seriously how after 11 years of doing stupid shit can you have any doubts when it comes to the @liberal_party gov doing stupid self harming shit.
Go against the RCAF recommendations, no problem, go against the Fighter Jet replacement competition board which was composed of experts from Indy Canada, Procurement Canada & DND who unanimously recommended the F35, go against the Trudeau gov appointed team of bureaucrats who negotiated with Lockheed Martin for almost an additional year & then signed a contract to purchase 88 F35A’s.
Ignore the additional costs & strains on the RCAF associated with operating 2 types of fighters, after 44 years of only operating 1 type.
Ignore the costs associated with not fulfilling the contract with LM, ignore the loss of the industrial benefits that have generated more than $3 billion in revenue for hundreds of CDN companies for the promise of potential benefits despite the history of Saabs failure to deliver on the thousands of jobs promised to Brazilians.
Ignore the potential trade ramifications by ditching a contract with a US company during the CUSMA negotiations with an admin who makes no secret of their willingness to punish countries economically.
This makes absolutely no strategic, tactical or industrial sense but it makes perfect political sense.
During election campaign 1993, Chrétien promised to cancel the EH101 helicopter contract. He said the EH101 was a Cadillac but the CAF only needed a Chevy. He won, he cancelled the contract & paid $1 billion dollars in compensation, wasted another $500 million that the CAF had already spent preparing for the delivery of the EH101 helicopters, lost the industrial benefits (BC was where the manufacturer would establish its global engine repair facility that would service & rebuild the global fleet’s engines) & forced RCAF pilots & aircrew to operate already long in the tooth & dangerous Sea King for another decade +
In the end few CDN’s noticed that a stripped down version of the EH101 was eventually selected to replace half the helicopter fleet at a higher cost, with less capability & no industrial benefits.
20 years later the RCAF is now operating 2 helicopters & neither is as capable as the original EH101 & is now looking for 1 helicopter to replace these 2, but Chretien won 3 majority gov’s so who cares right?
In this case the F35 purchase has turned into an anti-Trump stance & that is politically popular. Ignore all those those other sole source contacts with US arms manufacturers that are equally reliant on US manufacturing, access to software updates & access to US military satellites to operate effectively & that add up to almost the same amount of money as the F35 purchase.
We’ve seen this dumb assed show before & it’s why the CAF despite tons of money being poured into it still struggles greatly to fulfill its missions & to be seen as a serious combat capable ally within NORAD & NATO.
Every purchase, every decision isn’t focused on how to make the CAF more lethal or combat effective, it’s how will it play politically & that’s just wrong!
This shit pisses me off:
“Because of their young age, police aren’t releasing their names.”
If you’re old enough to attempt grand theft auto with a fucking gun, you’re old enough to be treated like an adult.
23 year old Sudanese migrant Abubaker Mohamad Awad, stabbed 19 year old Tommie Lindhn to death in his own apartment in Härnösand, Sweden after Lindhn tried to stop Awad from raping a Swedish girl at knife point.
After killing Tommie, Awad continued to rape the young girl next to Tommies dead body.
The Sudanese migrant had already previously been convicted of several crimes, including sexual harassment, drug offences & shoplifting.
Had he been deported, Tommie would still be alive.
The media painted Tommie as Far Right, implied he was racist & that his life didn’t matter.
Tommie’s life DID Matter, all White Lives Matter.
Tommie Lindhn was a HERO
R.I.P Tommie 🤍🕊️
There is no justice without completely overhauling the broken system in the West & without Remigration.
Locking up violent foreign criminals AFTER they kill does not stop the next innocent person from losing their life.
No justice, no peace.
It so funny that people are crying that Ranked 3.0 is putting them at a low rank and not giving them enough elo. Spoiler alert you asked for this, ranked SHOULD be hard.
This is still not as bad as 1.0 where you would get stuck gaining 5 and losing 10 elo after 100 games.
❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.
Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.
Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.
To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.
Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.
Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.
Zelensky is blackmailing Brookfield SILENT PARTNER Mark Carney to obtain $billions from Gov of Canada? Zelensky threatening to provide proof Brookfield's Westinghouse & Global Transition Fund founder Mark Carney are involved in Ukraine's nuclear energy bribery scandal. #cdnpoli
people were begging for Ranked 3.0 and now when they realise they can't get the top ranks simply from 5 placement games and +20 mmr they are crashing out 😭😭
womp womp time to lock in, Diamond should be a prestigious rank, let alone champion