Author: Blazingcatfur

Electric Vehicle Battery Size Should be Cut by One Third Due to Acute Lithium Shortage, Say U.K.’s Top Engineers

Range-challenged electric vehicles could face further sales disincentives with a proposal from Britain’s top engineers that battery sizes be reduced by one third. In a just-published report on the supply of critical materials for Net Zero projects, the U.K.-based National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) points to an obvious fact – there isn’t anything like the amount of raw materials available to transition to Net Zero and most of the extraction processes required are an ecological disaster. The report sets out in terrifying black and white what is coming down the future political rationing track. The lack of resources to replace cheap and plentiful hydrocarbons is also noted in a new McKinsey report, which states that critical minerals face a supply shortage “as demand soars for raw materials to fuel [the] clean energy drive”. Current mineral supply could be as low as 10% of projected 2050 requirements, McKinsey suggests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

China has compromised government networks, stealing valuable info: Canadian cyber spies

Threat agents sponsored by China have “compromised” government networks over the past five years, collecting valuable information, according to a new report from Canada’s cyber spy agency.

The Communications Security Establishment, responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security, released its updated national cyber threat assessment on Wednesday, which flags what the agency sees as the most pressing cyber threats facing individuals and organizations in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

STIRLING: The Big Green Lie

Recently the US House Judiciary Committee identified the existence of what they call the ‘climate cartel.’

And at the heart of it — a Canadian banker…

“The climate cartel has declared war on the American way of life. The climate cartel is waging “a Global World War” for net zero against disfavored American companies, including those in the fossil fuel, aviation, and farming industries that allow Americans to drive, fly, and eat.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Michael Taube: In the battle of imperfect presidential candidates, Donald Trump is the best choice

Yes, Donald Trump.

For all his flaws (and there are many), the businessman, reality TV star, former U.S. president and current Republican presidential candidate is a far better option over Vice-President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival, in the Nov. 5 election. By a long shot, in fact.

“Ah-ha!” some of you are thinking. “You’re a Trump supporter! We knew it all along!”

The Strongest Trump We’ve Ever Seen

After everything, he’s gained ground from his previous runs.

With six days to go, Donald Trump has never been in a better position in a general election.

That doesn’t mean he’s inevitably going to win (it’s a margin-of-error race), or that it was a good idea for Republicans to nominate him; presumably, another candidate without his baggage and taste for needless controversy would be doing better.

Which Polls Are the Outliers in Michigan? (Update: Herding)

CNN released some new polls of the blue wall states today and the results look like good news for Kamala Harris.

The polls are close that’s all we know.

Some say they have adapted to Trump’s traditional poor polling but we can only know come election day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Geoff Russ: Pierre Poilievre — the darling of the global right

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is already reshaping conservatism in the English-speaking world.

In the past month alone, Poilievre has been held up as an example for British Conservatives to follow in articles published in the Times and the Telegraph, two influential right-leaning British newspapers.

In an interview with the Times, British Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick called Poilievre the “most apt lodestar” for his party in 2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Singh saves pension and Trudeau’s sorry ass again

Trudeau looks safe for now after key Canadian party refuses to topple him

OTTAWA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked to have secured his immediate political future on Wednesday when the leader of a smaller party dismissed efforts to bring down the minority Liberal government.

The Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois, the two largest opposition parties, aim to topple the unpopular Trudeau after nine years in power. To succeed, they need the support of the New Democrats, whose leader Jagmeet Singh said he had no interest in the idea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Great Britain Is Neither Great Nor Free, and Might Not Even Be Britain for Long

Benjamin Franklin, an Englishman born in the colonial town of Boston in 1706 but who chose to separate himself from the rule of a tyrannical British government as one of our American Founding Fathers, once wrote that “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”

Franklin understood well the depth of the depravity that the government of his ancestors was capable of. Very little about its current manifestation would surprise him.

But the British tyranny of Franklin’s time was at least intended to serve the interests of the British people, however that might be interpreted. It’s far more difficult to make a case that this is still true.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Journalism Dies in Lockstep

The media world is in a fury: the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times recently announced that they would not endorse a presidential candidate. Editors and columnists at both papers have resigned in protest; readers have cancelled their subscriptions en masse. Why the outrage? Because everyone knew that those papers would have endorsed Kamala Harris. Why the certainty? Because the papers’ coverage of Donald Trump has been so unrelentingly negative. (The decision not to endorse was made by the papers’ owners: Jeff Bezos, in the case of the Post, and medical entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, in the case of the Times.)

Acknowledgment of that one-sidedness has been unapologetically frank.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration, a ‘Ceasefire’ and a Palestinian State

The Biden-Harris administration appears still obsessed with a supposed ceasefire and a Palestinian state.

President William Clinton, and, after him, President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry also tried to create a Palestinian state. Now President Joe Biden with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan seem to be trying to do it again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

No Laughing Matter: 98% of ‘Comedy’ Show Campaign Jokes Target Trump

During the fall presidential campaign, a Media Research Center study found that hosts of the late-night “comedy” shows told a total of 1,463 jokes about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris — but 1,428 of them were about Trump, and only 35 were about Harris. That’s a whopping 40:1 ratio or almost 98 percent to 2 percent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Hollywood, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Former envoy to Israel tells MPs Canada should recognize Palestinian state now

Canada’s former ambassador to Israel says Canada should recognize the existence of a Palestinian state now as a way to forge a path to peace in the region.

“Recognition of a Palestinian state is not about peace in the region today, or even tomorrow. Few people in Israel or Palestine can focus on two states right now,” said Jon Allen.

“Recognizing a Palestinian state now is about sending a message of hope and commitment to Palestinians and sending a clear message to Israel and others that simply managing the conflict, Israel’s policy for the last 17 years, is not an option and never was.”

Hasn’t that not worked yet?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada