Author: Blazingcatfur

The Cult of George Floyd

It’s time to let George Floyd rest in peace.

News broke last week that a George Floyd biopic is under production, and that Floyd’s now 10-year-old daughter and her mother will serve as executive producers.

“George Floyd: Daddy Changed the World” is set to be a collaboration between multiple studios, including Radar Pictures, 8 Queens Film & Media, and Night Fox Entertainment.

The involvement of little Gianna, who was only 6 years old when her father died, is a touching gesture from a family that doubtless still grieves his loss.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

The “Energy Transition” Won’t Happen

The laptop class has rediscovered a basic truth: foundational innovation, once adoption proceeds at scale, is followed by an epic increase in energy consumption. It’s an iron law of our universe.

To illustrate that law, consider three recent examples, all vectors leading to the “shocking” discovery of radical increases in expected electricity demand, now occupying headlines today. First, there’s the electric car, which, if there were one in every garage, as enthusiasts hope, would roughly double residential neighborhood electricity demands. Next, there’s the idea of repatriating manufacturing, especially for semiconductors. This is arguably a “foundational innovation,” since policymakers are suddenly showing concern over the decades-long exit of such industries from the U.S. Restoring American manufacturing to, say, the global market share of just two decades ago would see industrial electricity demand soar by 50 percent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters"

Conrad Black: Call for Canada to Recognize Palestinian Statehood Is Both Ridiculous and Wrongheaded

The stampede in many Western countries to champion the Palestinian cause has been a thoroughly nauseating spectacle of misdirected righteousness, faddishness, and racist bigotry.

This past week, following the announcement that Ireland, Norway, and Spain proposed to recognize a yet-to-exist Palestinian state, Canada’s New Democratic Party proposed that this country do the same. This was just reflexive political opportunism by the NDP. It is a new variant on the cowardly Western practice of purporting to support both sides in a war of life and death that only one side can win.

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

Guess Which ‘Moderate’ Palestinian Terrorist Group Participated In the October 7 Massacre

The war in the Gaza Strip, which erupted after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, is not limited to Israel and the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group. Other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip are involved in the fighting against Israeli troops. Those groups also participated in the October 7 massacre. They include Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) — and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction headed by none other than the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas.

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

CSIS and Trudeau’s adviser clashed on foreign interference threat in 2021: report

Intelligence regarding foreign interference sometimes didn’t make it to the prime minister’s desk in 2021 because Canada’s spy agency and the prime minister’s national security adviser didn’t always see eye to eye on the nature of the threat, according to a recent report from one of Canada’s intelligence watchdogs.

The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) released a report on Monday evening pointing to several schisms in the flow of information between Canada’s intelligence agencies and the federal government during the last two federal elections.

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

MSNBC’s Primal Scream: Those Darn Voters Don’t Understand How Dangerous Trump Is!

Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend was one, long primal scream of frustration over the failure of voters to understand – and be duly stampeded into supporting Biden – by how dangerous Donald Trump supposedly was.

Much attention was paid to a video that was briefly reposted to Trump’s social media feed that included, in blurry letters, a mention of a “united Reich,” which was taken by the panel to reflect Trump’s plan to replicate in America something akin to Nazi Germany.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Ottawa Detective Tells Hearing Probe of COVID Vaccines, Infant Deaths Was ‘Duty as a Police Officer’

OTTAWA—An Ottawa Police Service detective accused of discreditable conduct after probing into the COVID-19 vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants testified at her hearing that she was upholding her oath as an officer when conducting the investigations.

“My duty as a police officer is to preserve life and property, to preserve the peace. And if I see any one of those situations arising where I need to step in and preserve life, I will do something. And that’s what I did, in good faith, as a police officer,” Constable Helen Grus testified at the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) building in Stittsville on May 27.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent"

Electric cars are about to get a lot more expensive

In California, you may soon have to pay for every mile you drive. Texas has already brought in an extra registration fee. New South Wales is planning a form of road pricing, while tariffs imposed in the US and soon the EU as well are expected to massively increase the sticker price of every car.

Add it all up, and one point is clear. Electric vehicles are about to get a lot more expensive. But hold on. Even by the standards of industrial policy, this is taking things too far.

The same governments which have been heavily subsidising battery-powered cars as part of the drive towards a net zero economy are now imposing punitive taxes on them. Surely it is time they made their minds up – or just left it to the market to decide.

Toyota shuns electric cars with new generation of combustion engines

Toyota is to develop a new generation of petrol-fuelled internal combustion engines, in the carmaker’s latest bet against electric vehicles.

In a joint press conference with Mazda and Subaru, the Japanese company on Tuesday unveiled prototype engines that it said would be smaller, more efficient and capable of burning eco-friendly fuels such as hydrogen.

It said the engine is designed to be used in tandem with a battery-powered electric motor and is expected to be deployed in future hybrid and plug-in cars.

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

The latest unintended, inevitable consequence of Liberal immigration policy

Canada has always been an outlier on immigration. That was true long before the Trudeau government. Compared to other rich countries, we had a relatively wide and open door. But around the door were walls, which were also higher than those in Europe or the United States.

Canadians were always concerned about controlling the border, yet very welcoming of immigrants. That sounds like a contradiction. It isn’t. Walls don’t block a door, they support it. No walls? No door.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Joe Oliver: The Trudeau Liberals have eroded all five pillars of prosperity

Canada’s standard of living is in decline, both in absolute terms and compared to our southern neighbour and other wealthy countries. A Fraser Institute analysis shows that real GDP per capita was lower during the pre-recession period 2016-19 than in any similar period since 1985. As of the last quarter of 2023 it was below its value for 2019:Q2. It’s no surprise that 44 per cent of Canadians now say money is their leading source of stress.

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

Canada’s ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emission targets are ‘wishful thinking’: Report

The Trudeau government’s pledge to achieve “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 is impractical and unrealistic, and its 2030 target of cutting emissions up to 45% below 2005 levels could cause significant damage to the Canadian economy, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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