Author: Blazingcatfur

Ontario couple says new electric vehicle’s charge capacity ‘nowhere near’ what was advertised … Woodland elves blamed for discrepancy by manufacturer

An Ontario couple says they’ve been hit with unexpected costs after their new electric vehicle’s ability to sustain a charge is ‘nowhere near’ what was advertised.

“My wife took a job up in Barrie, Ont., and she has to commute 100 kilometers each way and we were paying over $1,000 in gas,” Jack Fleming, of Etobicoke, Ont., told CTV News Toronto Monday.

Fleming said before buying an all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge, he checked the vehicle’s range, which was advertised as 364 km on a full charge.

This is a very common introduction to EV’s for unfortunate buyers. Volvo replies with the standard set of excuses blaming a host of factors but never the technology for clients being shortchanged on advertised performance, the weather, driver habits, woodland elves etc.

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

China’s domination of European ports a security threat, warns Nato official

Beijing’s ownership of communications networks, harbours and shipping is being viewed with increasing alarm by western security services in their assessment of the threat posed by China and Russia to Europe’s critical infrastructure, a Nato official has warned.

In the aftermath of the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline last autumn, Nato has set up a special military unit to investigate the security of critical undersea infrastructure.

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

Defence firm paid Ukrainian broker to secure $92M, sole-sourced contract with Ottawa, lawsuit says

OTTAWA — Canadian defence company Roshel allegedly committed “illegal acts” and broke anti-corruption laws to secure a sole-sourced, $92-million contract with the federal government for armoured vehicles destined for Ukraine, according to a former executive’s lawsuit.

Disgruntled ex-employee? Or a cost of doing business?

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

Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties in Bakhmut, U.S. says

The United States estimates Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties in Bakhmut since December, including more than 20,000 killed in action, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on a call with reporters Monday.

Roughly half of those killed were working with the Wagner mercenary group, Kirby said, often ex-convicts who had been recruited from prison. The figure is based on “some information and intelligence that we were able to corroborate over a period of some time,” Kirby said. He declined to discuss Ukrainian casualties. “That’s up to them to speak to,” he said.

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

Polls suggest public has begun to suspect Trudeau is a deceitful ChiCom co-conspirator

John Ivison: Interference news has Liberals looking soft on a country intent on undermining our democracy

Polls suggest voters are skeptical, not only of the Trudeau government’s relationship with China, but also about the PM’s ability to tell voters the truth

OTTAWA — The serenity shown by one senior Liberal official in late March over the Chinese foreign interference saga was at odds with the fever that was gripping Ottawa.

At the time, it seemed the government was in real trouble. There was compelling testimony that suggested the Liberal party was warned by the security services that some of its candidates were helped by the Chinese government in successive elections.

The Michael Chong revelations leave little doubt that the Trudeau and his Liberal Party are criminally negligent for failing to notify Chong of the threat to his family from the Communist Chinese.

It was not an oversight. It is collusion, it is treason.

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

Peter Menzies: With Bill C-11 Now Law, What to Watch Out for to Fight Online Censorship

As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees.

It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking that will include Jordan Peterson’s shows) is of “high standard.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Russia hunts for spies and traitors — at home

If there were a silver lining in her son being convicted of high treason, it was that Yelena Gordon would have a rare chance to see him.

But when she tried to enter the courtroom, she was told it was already full. But those packed in weren’t press or his supporters, since the hearing was closed.

“I recognized just one face there, the rest were all strangers,” she later recounted, exasperated, outside the Moscow City Court. “I felt like I had woken up in a Kafka novel.”

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

Jesse Kline: Trudeau Liberals buy labour peace with other people’s money

It should have been clear from the outset that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were never going to let the government workers strike drag on for weeks, especially when the problem could be solved using their preferred solution — spending other people’s money.

After 12 days of job action that saw federal services grind to an even more sluggish pace than usual, around 120,000 civil servants returned to work on Monday following a tentative agreement reached between the Canadian government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) over the weekend, which covers four bargaining units under the Treasury Board’s purview.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Drug-taking Prince Harry’s US visa questioned

An American think tank is to sue the US government for access to Prince Harry’s immigration files to confirm whether he admitted past illegal drug use on his visa application.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing organisation based in Washington, has demanded to know whether the Duke of Sussex, 38, confessed to taking drugs when he moved to California in 2020. In his recent memoir, Spare, the duke, who is at odds with the royal family, admitted using marijuana, magic mushrooms and cocaine.

The US should deny him entry on his return from the coronation. Too many now believe themselves above the law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Is Right-Wing Media Giving Kamala Harris a ‘Bad Rap’? The Word-Salad Transcripts Speak for Themselves

Kamala Harris’s World-Famous Word Salad

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson claimed last week that Vice President Kamala Harris “gets a bad rap.”

“The first duty of the job is to avoid upstaging the president, which means surrendering any political autonomy and never being out in front of the West Wing on any issue,” he wrote in defense of Harris last week after President Biden formally announced the pair’s reelection bid.

He added that Harris had been assigned the unenviable task of being in charge of the border “at a time when there was absolutely no possibility of getting Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that might reduce the flow of would-be migrants.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

15-Minute Cities Are ‘Complete Impoverishment and Enslavement of All the People’: EU Lawmaker

Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament, believes that COVID passports and QR codes that became widespread during the pandemic were only test runs for implementing “15-minute cities” aimed at tightening government control over people.

A 15-minute city is a neighborhood where a resident can reach everything they need, like a grocery store, doctor, and so forth within a 15-minute walk. According to Anderson, such cities are the beginning of tighter government control of people. The administration can exert control by deciding “you are no longer allowed to leave your 15-minute immediate area. They don’t have to fence it in or anything. It will be done via digital ID,” she said in an interview with Jan Jekielek’s “American Thought Leaders” program published on April 25.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset"

‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.

On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT.

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

Shattering a Society Leads to an Upsurge in Violence

The Left shredded the bonds that tie a nation together.

There are two ways society can reduce crime and violence.

1. Maintain a strong sense of moral values and mutual trust. Create and socially enforce codes of conduct. Quickly suppress any groups that dissent from maintaining these standards. Give people the confidence to believe that they will be treated decently and fairly. And that there will be consequences for those who don’t.

2. Lots of police and prisons

If you don’t have the former, you’ll have to settle for the latter. That’s what we see in crime statistics in rural vs urban areas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime