Author: Blazingcatfur

Why Germany has gone into protest mode

The former German chancellor Angela Merkel had a reputation as being a steady hand at the wheel. In her 16 years in office, she was famous for sitting things out rather than taking action. Her pledge to voters was that their lives would continue in peace and affluence and that they had nothing to worry about.

That has turned out to be a fallacy, but past expectations live on.

Berlin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Hertz, Tesla and the Perils of CEO Groupthink

Hertz announced to much fanfare on Oct. 25, 2021, that it planned to buy 100,000 Teslas. “Electric vehicles are now mainstream, and we’ve only just begun to see rising global demand and interest,” then-CEO Mark Fields said. The share prices of both companies popped, and Tesla’s market capitalization surged past $1 trillion, exceeding the valuations of nearly all traditional automakers combined.

C-suite executives praised the announcement. “Kudos to Mark Fields and the Hertz team for steering a great American brand into the electric and connected future,” Ford CEO Jim Farley tweeted. Hertz had emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy only a few months earlier. It was betting on electric vehicles to power its revival.

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

Hit Men Are Easy to Find in the Movies. Real Life Is Another Story.

It’s a scene as old as celluloid: a shadowy figure named Luca Brasi or John Wick or Barry Berkman lurking in the darkness, outfitted with sinister intent and nifty weapons, effortlessly committing a murder for cash, animus or cold political calculations.

Whether they’re called hit men, contract killers or assassins, figures who kill for a living are a staple of Hollywood thrillers — and, by extension, the public imagination.

But experts in law enforcement and international espionage say that murders-for-hire are notoriously difficult to successfully arrange, let alone get away with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

STIRLING: When magical thinking meets a polar vortex cold, hard reality follows

Ryan Maue is a US weather and climate guy. From early last week he was forecasting the incoming polar vortex would bring abysmal cold to virtually all of North America. Unlike climate activists, he’s not an alarmist except when as he jokingly put it, the real ‘climate emergency’ that would unfold would be temperature in the minus 40s — which is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit — and colder!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

CHARLEBOIS: Heard of price fixing? Say hello to discount fixing

 

With rising food prices, consumers seeking deals can benefit from food rescuing.

According to a recent survey conducted by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, nearly 20% of consumers now regularly purchase “last day of sale” deals at grocery stores, often referred to more broadly as “enjoy tonight” deals. Some of these discounts can be significant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Study discovers biggest cause of ‘alarming surge’ of excess deaths in UK

Last year was the most deadly non-pandemic year for excess deaths – those above the five year average – since the Second World War.

Research published tomorrow (Sunday) by scientists at Oxford University shows that while cancer and dementia deaths have fallen, deaths from heart and circulatory problems are spiralling.

This includes deaths from heart disease, heart attacks, strokes and lung clots.

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

Israel Hating MP’s On Hate Junket To West Bank

Liberal, NDP MPs to travel to West Bank to connect with Palestinians

Five Canadian MPs are set to begin a week-long visit to Jordan and the West Bank today to meet with Palestinian refugees and progressive Israeli groups.

The group of MPs landing in Amman, Jordan’s capital, includes Liberal MPs Salma Zahid and Shafqat Ali and New Democrat MPs Heather McPherson (the party’s foreign affairs critic), Matthew Green and Lindsay Mathyssen.

“What we have seen in the last three months is that it is a humanitarian crisis, and the situation also in the West Bank has been worsening,” Zahid, chair of the Canada–Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group, told CBC News prior to the MPs’ departure.

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

How pro-Hamas rhetoric infected US high schools

“He alone who owns the youth, gains the future.” (Adolph Hitler, 1935)

We are witness today to anti-Israel and antisemitic protests on college campuses, sometimes violent, always repulsive.

Their rants are passionate, intense, and filled with hate … and misinformation.

Questions are being asked: “How did we get to this point?” “Did it start in college?” Shockingly, the answer is no. The indoctrination begins far earlier … in high schools.

h/t SweetPea

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

‘It is for him to decide’: Former PM Chretien on whether Trudeau should run again

Former prime minister Jean Chretien says deciding when it’s time to step down and leave politics is simple, but “very personal.”

Chretien sat down with CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos for a wide-ranging exclusive interview airing Sunday to discuss how Canada has changed, when it’s time to leave politics and how to work with political opponents.

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

100 days since Hamas attacked Israel, triggering war in Gaza

One hundred days ago, the previously unthinkable happened in Israel. A state, born out of adversity and war only 75 years ago, woke up to what some have since described as a threat to its very existence.

On Saturday night, in Tel Aviv, the events of 7 October were commemorated by thousands of people. Uppermost on the minds of everyone were the around 130 hostages abducted by Hamas and still being held in Gaza, although some of them may not still be alive.

Just after dawn 100 days ago, thousands of heavily armed Hamas fighters stormed through and over the Gaza border fence in several different places.

They attacked kibbutzim, military bases and border towns, accustomed to rocket attacks from Gaza but overwhelmed by the scale of the Hamas incursion.

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

Fun is forbidden in Chowtown!

‘No fun’: Toronto bans tobogganing at 45 hills across city, says councillor unhappy with move

Toronto has banned tobogganing at 45 hills across the city due to safety concerns and one councillor says he’s not happy with the move because there are more important issues that should be drawing the attention of city staff.

Coun. Brad Bradford, who represents Beaches-East York, said on Friday that residents can manage the physical risk of tobogganing. He said the ban shows that Toronto is becoming a “no fun city” that doesn’t respond to the needs of families.

Micro-tyranny. One more sign it’s time to leave this town.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Hamas supporters chant ‘f–k Joe Biden,’ damage fence outside White House

A swarm of Pro-Palestinian supporters shouted “f–k Joe Biden” slogans as they nearly ripped down a reinforced fence outside the White House during a charged protest Saturday night.

Non-essential personnel were evacuated from the area as a precaution as the aggressive demonstration ramped up, the Secret Service confirmed.

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

‘A system that has gotten out of control’: Immigration minister to consider cap on international students in Canada

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says in the next few months he’ll be looking at the possibility of putting a cap on the number of international students living in Canada, but he wouldn’t say how great a reduction the government is planning on making.

In an interview airing Sunday, the minister told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos this is a conversation the federal government will need to have with provincial governments “to make sure that the provinces that have not been doing their jobs actually rein in those numbers on a pure volume basis.”

“That volume is disconcerting,” Miller said, in reference to the number of international students in Canada. “It’s really a system that has gotten out of control.”

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