Author: Blazingcatfur

How red tape sent California’s cannabis industry up in smoke

The ‘green rush’ expected after legalisation in 2018 has failed to materialise because of chaotic regulations, while a black market thrives

A stretch of shops and a gas station lie empty on the main street in Garberville, a town in the heart of northern California’s cannabis country.

In the Woodrose Café, eggs with fried potatoes are served to a handful of diners. A sign above the bar shouts “JOY” to a row of empty stools.

“Our more remote parts of the county are being vacated,” said Natalynne DeLapp, executive director of the Humboldt County Growers Alliance. “Five years ago, Garberville was bustling. Restaurants, boutiques, lots of people walking around. Now, you know, it’s summer time. When you drove through there, it was probably pretty quiet.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Marijuana

Why US-Mexico border crossings are at a record low

President Joe Biden imposed asylum restrictions one month ago to “gain control of the border” ahead of the November elections. Migrant encounters subsequently crashed by 40%, with the White House boasting this week that they’d hit a record low.

Anecdotal stories from the Mexican side of the border suggest many migrants and the smugglers are taking a wait-and-see approach with the new executive order, which restricts asylum claims after encounters reach 2,500 between ports of entry. As a result, shelters along stretches of border regions have run out of space as asylum seekers are returned to Mexico. Other migrants have preferred to try their luck with an application known as CBP One, which allows them to request appointments for entering at ports of entry and presenting asylum claims.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

‘Nine Months in Hamas Hell’: Hundreds rally in Toronto demanding release of Israeli hostages

Hundreds of Jewish community members and supporters held a rally in downtown Toronto on Sunday afternoon to commemorate the nine months Israeli hostages have been held in captivity by Hamas.

They were to be joined by several organizations demonstrating outside Roy Thomson Hall, including the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of Greater Toronto, Stand with Us Canada and the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF).

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

Why won’t anyone in the establishment be honest about the threat posed by Islamic sectarianism?

Jess Phillips reveals the moral cowardice of the elites

A rabbi rounded on by a mob and denounced as a ‘snake’. An election candidate hounded off the streets by people calling him a ‘Zionist devil’. Young female leafleteers harassed by older men bellowing ‘genocide’ in their faces. Voters told they will face the wrath of God if they make the wrong decision in the polling station. Tyres slashed, campaign offices daubed with the deathly slur, ‘Zionist child killer’, in blood-red paint. Where did these sectarian obscenities occur? Iran, perhaps? Turkey? Actually, it was right here, in Britain, in 2024, during the General Election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Diagnosis is In, and Joe’s Not Going to Get Well

Many moons ago, while conservative pundits were blaming Sleepy Joe’s odd behavior on his brain aneurysm surgeries, I said, “No.” All we can clearly see is a narcissistic sociopath with a mixed pattern dementia in the early stages. Prefrontal dementia seemed to explain his hair sniffing and bursts of anger. Since I have not examined the Occupant of 1600 and am a real doctor, not one who plays a doctor on TV, I declined to go further. Calls for more videos fell on deaf ears.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Philip Cross: Canada’s ‘energy blindness’ must end

In its monthly update on energy trends, Statistics Canada reported this week that this year, for the first time ever, Canada has become a net importer of electricity. The switchover in our electricity trade balance reveals the shortcomings of an energy strategy that now emphasizes decarbonization over energy security, leaving customers vulnerable to supply shortfalls and higher prices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta’s Brian Jean on the Trudeau government’s losing ‘radical environmental agenda’

Somewhere in Ottawa, the soon retiring NDP MP Charlie Angus must be rubbing his hands in glee. Thanks to his mischief, the oil and gas sector’s biggest players have been squelched. Mission accomplished!

Not only has Angus figured out how to hijack parliamentary committees, routinely hauling energy company CEOs into Ottawa for public scoldings, his successful push for a new “greenwashing” rule in omnibus Bill C-59 has achieved his desired effect. Several blue-chip companies, including the Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies, have scrubbed all content from websites and social media.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How The Muslim Vote’s sectarian insurgency over Gaza shocked Britain

When the circus finally arrived, it offered the usual attractions. The old rituals were a comfort. John Curtice, the swing-o-meter, Laura Kuenssberg and Jeremy Vine performed the familiar motions, not to mention the irrepressible Count Binface.

But while the Labour celebrations and the Tory misery felt routine – even after we had grown used to them in opposite roles – under cover of darkness, a shocking new act crept into the tent.

An insurgent force has entered British politics. The Muslim Vote had no rosette and advanced no meaningful manifesto beyond a set of deeply sectarian principles. It stood candidates tactically, and owed their allegiances purely to religious and ethnic interests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Why the Democrats are freaking out

They are afraid that what they did unto him, he will do unto them. That’s the crux of it all.

Up ahead, should Trump become president again, the Democrats foresee judgment days…karma well deserved. They know that they have, unjustly, tormented him every single day for eight years, and got away with it all that time because the Establishment was in their hands. They could not foresee their cruelties coming back to haunt them, until now.

Now they are afraid that payback is coming, and the reason they are so terrified is that they know that they have wronged him, and the nation. They know that they are guilty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome