Author: Blazingcatfur

Tow No! The Ford F-150 Lightning Struggled in Our Towing Test

Before you hitch an Airstream to your electric truck and set out to circumnavigate the country, you need to understand this: With the largest available battery pack, a fully charged 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck has less energy onboard than a regular F-150 with four gallons of gas in its tank.

Consider how far a combustion-powered F-150 would tow at max capacity on four gallons of regular unleaded. Thirty five miles? Maybe 40 if you drive slowly?

The video below was the first to let the world know of the very limited capacity of the Lightning as a daily driver work truck.

h/t Mauser

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

Man with knife kills 6 people at kindergarten in China

BEIJING (AP) — A man with a knife killed six people and wounded one Monday at a kindergarten in southeastern China, police and a news report said Monday.

A 25-year-old man was arrested following the 7:40 a.m. attack in Lianjiang, a city in Guangdong province, a police statement said. Employees who answered at the Lianjiang police headquarters declined to give more details.

A news outlet, Dafeng News, cited an unidentified witness as saying the attacker’s child had been struck earlier by the car of one of the people who was killed at the school. It said one of the people killed was a teacher at the kindergarten.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

Canada’s billions to Stellantis and Volkswagen make for a bad joke

There’s an old joke about corporatocracy that goes something like this: “Canada is a handful of companies in a trench coat.” If that one doesn’t have you howling in your seat, there’s an addendum: “That we subsidize.” Is it funny yet?

The latest iteration of the joke pertains to multinational automakers Volkswagen and Stellantis. In recent weeks, the latter threatened to pack up shop on its EV battery plant in Windsor, Ont. – and halted construction to drive home the point. That after the federal government and Ontario promised more than $13-billion in capital and tax credits to Volkswagen for a larger factory. As a result, both levels of government scrambled to strike a deal with Stellantis, which was revealed last week to be worth $15-billion.

We are lead by grifters & morons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Scorn of Liberal Movie Critics Fails to Deter Audiences from Turning ‘Sound of Freedom’ into Summer’s Surprise Hit

Critics in the liberal media hate it. Hollywood is stunned. Audiences, however, can’t seem to get enough of this summer’s most unlikely box office hit, “Sound of Freedom.”

The film stars Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ,” as a former federal agent, Tim Ballard, on a quest to save children from sex traffickers. The tale, based on a true story, takes Mr. Ballard into the seamier corners of Latin America, where he declares, “God’s children are not for sale.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood, Human Trafficking

‘Shovels in the ground faster’: Frustrated by long delays, Doug Ford plans to push other premiers to support better co-ordination with Ottawa for big infrastructure projects

Ottawa needs to work with provinces so that big infrastructure projects can get going faster, says Premier Doug Ford in what will be his main push as he heads to the annual summer meeting of provincial and territorial leaders.

Frustrated in particular by the decade-plus of delays to the Ring of Fire critical mineral project in northern Ontario — as well as slowdowns on others in dealing with two levels of government — Ford is hoping to get the country’s 12 other provincial and territorial leaders on side at the Council of the Federation, which runs Monday to Wednesday in Winnipeg.

Before a shovel can be picked up 10 years of consultation and environmental assessment are required to build one reactor on land adjacent to existing reactors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

U.S. leaders insist war with Russia must end before Ukraine joins NATO

Ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Lithuania, U.S. leaders are insisting that the war with Russia must end before Ukraine is invited to join the powerful military alliance.

President Biden said during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that aired Sunday that he doesn’t believe there will be “unanimity” on the issue of Ukraine’s membership while the nation remains “in the middle of a war.”

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

Chowtown police identify 3 suspects wanted in fatal daytime shooting in Leslieville

The first is described as a tall and 25 to 30 years old with a medium build, cornrows, and potential head injuries. He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt with a black stripe from sleeve to sleeve, blue jeans, and white shoes.

The second suspect is described 18 to 25 years old with a slim build, average height, and long hair in a ponytail. He was last seen wearing a black baseball hat, a black North Face hoodie, dark coloured jeans, and white shoes, while the third is tall and 18 to 25 years old with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, dark pants, and shoes.

We need Gangsta Healing Lodges so victims of oppression may be released quickly.

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

Welcome to the Islamic Republic of France – or is it Faraz?

There will not be a wave of adherence to Islam, but more simply the religious minority will impose its rules by becoming the majority.

These are the twenty most popular names among newborns, boys and girls. In Algeria? Tunisia? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Iraq? Yemen? No, in the sixth largest department of France, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Muhammad, Adams, Ibrahim, Isaac, Rayan, Mousse, Imran, Amir, Ismaël, Aylan, Lina, Nour, Inaya, Aya, Fatima, Aicha, Mariam, Maryam, Fateumata, Sarah.

Already today hundreds of territories are beyond the control of the Republic. The violence of recent days has proved it.

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

Environmentalism is austerity on steroids

There are countless contradictions on what passes for the left these days. We’re against sexism, they cry, and then they’ll while away entire days hounding every uppity broad who dares to question the trans ideology. We’re anti-racist, they say, even as they yell ‘Uncle Tom’ at any person of colour who deviates from their white liberal orthodoxies. Be kind, they tweet, in between their venomous crusades against TERFs, gammon, boomers, deplorables, ‘semi-fascists’, you name it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters, the blame game begins

With Ukraine’s counteroffensive progressing more slowly than hoped, a change in the relationship between Kyiv and its Western backers may lie in store. In an interview with CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed the West for the faltering operation, saying that slow weapons deliveries to Ukraine thwarted plans to begin sooner. 

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

Dutch farmers’ party prepares for power as gov’t of WEF favorite Mark Rutte collapses

After 18 months in power, the coalition government of the Netherlands, led by World Economic Forum (WEF) favorite Mark Rutte, has collapsed.

With agreement impossible to reach between the four ruling parties over the vexed question of immigration policy, the country faces calls for new elections.

Whilst this development appears to favor the anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, another party is likely to make a major impact.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized