Author: Blazingcatfur

Joe Biden’s new China tariffs puts Canada in a bind on electric vehicles

Earlier this week, the Biden Administration announced a sweeping set of new tariffs on Chinese imports. The tariffs target strategic sectors from steel and aluminum to green tech. Headline-grabbing among those were the 100-per-cent levies on Chinese electric vehicles. The tariffs are partly political posturing during an election year, as a prior 27.5-per-cent levy and an exclusion from national tax credits have largely kept Chinese EVs off U.S. roads. More important than the tariffs’ immediate impact, though, are the long-term strategic policy considerations underpinning them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

MRC’s Bozell Warns of Soros-Funded ‘Fascistic’ Plot Amid 2024 Election

Leftist billionaire George Soros is “behind an all-out effort to shut down” free speech in the United States, MRC President Brent Bozell declared on Thursday.

Bozell’s scorching remarks came in response to an MRC report that exposed Soros as one of the financiers of an anti-free speech cartel beseeching Big Tech platforms to censor Americans ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Soros

Diddy done

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canadian Intelligence Flags 2 Canada-Based Media as Being Close to the CCP

Two Ontario-based Chinese media outlets that had published information aimed at former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu weeks before the 2021 federal election have been identified in the foreign interference inquiry report as having “close links” to the Beijing regime.

“Canadian intelligence holdings identify both 105.9 Yes My Radio and CGCTV as having close links to the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government or PRC state-media,” stated the interim report published by the foreign interference commission on May 3.

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

Israel accuses South Africa of false claims at ICJ

International Court Of Justice – ICJ

Israel has accused South Africa of distorting reality in its attempt to get the UN’s top court to force it to stop its military campaign in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began two days of hearings on Thursday, when South Africa told the court that Israel intended to “wipe [the Palestinians] off the face of the Earth”, calling Rafah “the final stand”.

Lawyers for Israel presented their response to the court on Friday.

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

Ordinary working Canadians are not buying into transgender identity politics

Wall of Transgender Heroines

A couple of weeks ago, I made the mistake of turning on the news on my car radio. It was the CBC, and a panel was discussing Canada’s housing crisis. According to the experts brought on by the CBC, this crisis was accompanied by a shortage in tradesmen, and this shortage was in part due to the fact that construction sites were hostile environments for women and “non-binary people.” This, the panel opined, was a huge problem that needed to be fixed. It reminded me that the salaries of Canadian tradesmen are garnished to pay for this garbage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"

China develops revolutionary electric car battery that can charge in 10 minutes

Justin Trudeau crying on cue.

China has developed a revolutionary car battery that can charge in just 10 minutes and power a car for hundreds of miles before it needs to be plugged in.

A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has hailed “remarkable” developments in chemistry that have allowed China to develop new batteries that pack far more energy than existing technologies.

The IEA highlighted EV batteries capable of travelling 250 miles without a recharge. Newer versions announced since the report was written can manage 600 miles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza turns global sympathy to increasing isolation, even among allies

In the Gaza Strip, Israel clearly has the upper hand in its military campaign against Hamas. But in the wider arena of international opinion, that putative victory is increasingly starting to resemble a defeat.

It’s a startling reversal for Israel, which had near-universal support in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. Analysts say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has squandered nearly all of that goodwill – and aggravated key allies, including the United States – by refusing to lay out a postwar plan for the governance of Gaza, which most of the international community believes should be made part of a future Palestinian state.

Israel can only ignore the outside world.

h/t Mauser

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

Is the move to electric cars running out of power?

Buoyant electric car sales are a must if we’re to hit our climate targets. But EV sales in the West are down and if governments want them to recover it may have to be at the expense of their own economies.

The numbers

Any motorway driver will know the feeling: you’re cruising along, miles of open road seemingly ahead and then from nowhere, a slowdown.

Something similar has hit the electric vehicle market in 2024. After years of soaring sales, growth appears to be stalling.

Replacing fossil-fuel-powered cars with EVs is central to the UK government’s plan to meet its climate goals – road transport accounting for 12% of planetary emissions.

The question is whether this is a blip that will soon disappear into the rear-view mirror, or is this going to prove more enduring? And if it lasts, will governments have the stomach to do what it takes to keep the net zero show on the road?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

A 60% interest rate wasn’t enuff???

Harold the Mortgage Closer accused of charging ‘vulnerable’ people interest rates up to 76 per cent

Ontario is moving — again — to shut down Harold the Mortgage Closer, alleging he has for years carried out a scheme that charged “vulnerable” people up to 76 per cent interest on mortgages.

Enforcement action by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario comes on the heels of a Toronto Star investigation into a mortgage deal that Harold Gerstel and his companies had with the late Judy Allen, a senior who eventually lost her North York bungalow to Gerstel.

The regulator says it has now looked more deeply into Gerstel’s activities and found five other cases. Among them, situations in which, the regulator alleges, Gerstel’s effective interest rate was as high as 76 per cent. Canada’s Criminal Code has set 60 per cent as the highest legal interest rate allowed.

60% interest wasn’t enuff???

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

French police kill man who tried to set fire to synagogue

French police shot and killed an armed individual who reportedly intended to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday.

“National police in Rouen neutralized early this morning an armed individual who clearly wanted to set fire to the city’s synagogue,” Darmanin said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Fdesouche ID’s the perp.

According to a source close to the case, the suspect in the synagogue fire, shot dead by the police officers whom he then threatened, was a 29-year-old Algerian national, under an OQTF (obligation to leave the French territory) “ for less than a year. But this was not enforceable because he had initiated an appeal before the administrative courts .”

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

Chris Alexander: I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues

In March, the Globe and Mail reported that Canada’s population had grown by 1.3 million in 2023—the largest annual increase on record.

This surge was driven by higher numbers of immigrants, international students, temporary foreign workers, and asylum claimants.

Given that the 2021 census showed that 8.3 million Canadians, or 23 percent of our population, had an immigrant background, this latest increase means that, in a Canada of over 40 million people, one in four of us is a temporary or permanent resident, or was born abroad. This proportion of newcomers is the highest since Confederation, beating the previous record of 22.3 percent set in 1921. By comparison, the immigrant share of the U.S. population is today about 14 percent.

More … Immigration to Canada surges in April, worsening outlook for housing affordability

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