Author: Blazingcatfur

Uber walked…

The backup driver in the 1st death by a fully autonomous car pleads guilty to endangerment

… Defense attorney Albert Jaynes Morrison told Garbarino that Uber should share some blame for the collision as he asked the judge to sentence Vasquez to six months of unsupervised probation.

“There were steps that Uber failed to take,” he said. By putting Vasquez in the vehicle without a second employee, he said. “It was not a question of if but when it was going to happen.”

Prosecutors previously declined to file criminal charges against Uber, as a corporation. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded Vasquez’s failure to monitor the road was the main cause of the crash.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Danielle Smith calls on ‘reasonable’ ministers to counter Guilbeault’s influence in cabinet

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the fact that Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault continues to spearhead the federal government’s climate agenda means the ministers around him will have to work harder to achieve a “balanced approach.”

“The fact that we have five cabinet ministers that we’re dealing with — four of them are reasonable, one of them is not,” Smith told host Catherine Cullen in an interview on CBC’s The House airing Saturday.

“I’m hoping that the four reasonable ones are able to carry the day because we can have a deal with the federal government that is good for industry, good for the environment, good for consumers, good for the planet, good for our trade partners.

Guilbeault is developing a Rasputin like prescence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Parents’ efforts to suppress Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto would be unprecedented if granted: expert

The efforts of parents and Nashville community members to stop the release of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale’s writings, if successful, would be an unprecedented move that could have bigger implications going forward, an open-government expert told The Post.

Tennessee’s victims’ rights statute does not give individuals a “carte blanche” to veto other laws, such as the one that allows people the right to public records, said Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Olivia Chow asks Toronto residents to open homes to refugees

Toronto is asking residents to open up their homes and offer available rental units to asylum seekers as more than 200 people remain temporarily sheltered at two North York churches.

The city added 250 additional shelter spaces within the last week, through hotels and an existing emergency shelter, but these spaces are already full.

One of the first things predicted to happen after Chow was elected was the escalation of the homeless crisis and the commencement of unending demands for more and more funding that somehow never solves the “crisis.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations

… The malware, one congressional official said, was essentially “a ticking time bomb” that could give China the power to interrupt or slow American military deployments or resupply operations by cutting off power, water and communications to U.S. military bases. But its impact could be far broader, because that same infrastructure often supplies the houses and businesses of ordinary Americans, according to U.S. officials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Cyber War, USA

How carbon colossus China dwarfs Britain’s net zero push

The world’s biggest polluter is pumping out CO2 at levels 33 times higher than Britain

As an early leader in the industrial revolution and worker of miracles with coal power, Britain churned out more CO2 emissions than China until the 1950s, and was comprehensively overtaken in the 1970s.

Taking on the mantle of the workshop of the world in the 1990s and 2000s, China turned out six-times more CO2 than the UK in 2000, according to Our World In Data, rising to more than 16-times Britain’s in 2010, and 33-times by 2021.

Net Zero is virtue signaling at its most vile jeapordizing the livelihoods of millions for the sake of cirle jerking preening twits like Trudeau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Green-Scam

Convoy organizers try to quash $300 million lawsuit

The people facing a $300 million class-action lawsuit for organizing the 2022 convoy protests in Ottawa are attempting to have the case quashed altogether, or moved out of Canada’s capital.

Lawyers representing convoy organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber and 10 other parties are preparing to argue the lawsuit should be dismissed because the legal action against them unduly limits their freedom of expression in a matter of public interest.

The lawyer representing Pat King, another convoy organizer, in the proceedings is intending on supporting the motion to have the case tossed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Why E-Bikes, EVs and Laptops Are Catching Fire

Deadly incidents raise safety concerns about batteries used to power electric cars and cellphones

… The Dutch coast guard is investigating whether a deadly fire aboard a car carrier Tuesday originated in one of the electric vehicles onboard. In June, four people died from a fire caused by lithium-ion batteries at an e-bike repair store in New York City, part of a growing trend. There were 74 lithium battery incidents on flights last year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and that number rose every year but three during the preceding decade.

Here’s how the batteries work, and how they can malfunction …

So how easy would it be to sabotage an EV battery?

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

Anita Anand ousted as Defence Minister because proposed policy update too costly, say sources

A reworking of the Liberal government’s defence policy update is underway after the document proposed by National Defence and Anita Anand was deemed to be unrealistic, according to multiple defence sources.

The Prime Minister’s Office is taking more of a hand in reworking the defence policy update, the sources noted. Defence Minister Anand tried at least twice to get the update approved but the document was rejected as unrealistic and too costly.

Anand had pushed the Canadian military’s position of a significant rearmament and reequipment plan at a time when the Liberal government is trying to get spending under control and finance major initiatives such as affordable housing and a national dental care program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

UBC professor advocates exposing “little children” to adult genitalia to prepare them for transsexuals in their locker rooms

Riley Gaines is an American former competitive swimmer from Gallatin, Tennessee, who competed for the University of Kentucky NCAA swim team and was the 2022 Southeastern Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She is also an activist calling for female-only spaces after being forced to change with—and compete against—a biological male named Lia Thomas. This has turned her into the primary target of LGBT activists who have deluged her with mockery, contempt, and vile smears.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, Big Tranny

Muslim nations call for boycott of Swedish products

The diplomatic fallout over the burning of the Quran outside a mosque in Sweden is threatening to escalate into a trade war after calls from Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa came to boycott Swedish products.

Last month, a 37-year-old Iraqi refugee who wants the book banned tore out pages from the Quran and set them alight outside of Stockholm’s central mosque. A key point of contention is the fact that the protest was given the go-ahead by a Swedish court.

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

Ukraine Launches Rare Missile Strikes in Russia, Moscow Says

Moscow said it shot down two Ukrainian missiles over southwestern Russia on Friday, including one that fell and exploded in a city center — apparently rare instances of Ukraine using such powerful weapons to attack targets inside Russia.

Coming as Ukraine, within its own borders, steps up its counteroffensive against the Russian invaders, the missile attacks could signal a more aggressive effort to expand a war that until now has brought death and destruction almost exclusively to Ukrainian territory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"